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The Game (2014)
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The Game (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: London 1972. When a defecting KGB officer, Arkady Malinov, reveals Operation Glass, a devastating Soviet plot that could change the course of the Cold War, Daddy, the head of MI5, assembles a secret team to investigate. As the Soviets awaken a list of sleeper agents all over Britain, Daddy's team must move swiftly to gain information about the plot.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, clever, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, period drama
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spy, conspiracy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, twists and turns, undercover, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, intelligence, post war, traitor, conservative, kgb, mi6, secret agents
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, england, ussr, london

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Most similar movies to The Game

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films and TV series with plots about spy, espionage, undercover, state affairs, dishonesty, secret agent and conspiracy mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Game: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), The Americans (2013), Turks & Caicos (2014), The Company (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style: clever, confusing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, investigation, british intelligence, mole, double agent, kgb, conspiracy, surveillance, intelligence ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, somalia, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
Style: talky, clever, serious, political thriller, realistic ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret service, double agent, book, traitor, betrayal, investigation, kgb, mole, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, london, europe, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
 110K
The Americans (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI ...
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, undercover, kgb, mole, double life, working undercover, investigation, double agent, fbi, top secret ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., soviet union, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Turks & Caicos (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and ...
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspense, political ...
Plot: cia, espionage, spy, secret agent, undercover, businessman, dishonesty, state affairs, head of state, on the run, caribbean sea, british prime minister ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.7
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The Company (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 286 min.
TV show
Story: Real-life figures from the Cold War era mix with a fictional story based on a group of CIA operatives and their counterparts in the KGB, MI6, and the Mossad.
Style: captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, cia, spy, mole, politics, intrigue, suspicion, double life, state affairs, betrayal, power relations, danger ...
Time: 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: germany, europe, cuba, hungary, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.7
 14K
The Bureau (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their ...
Style: tense, realistic, political thriller, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, espionage, undercover agent, terrorism, investigation, danger, national security, secret service, twists and turns, characters in danger, obsession, cia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, paris france, israel, iran, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cambridge Spies (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense ...
Plot: kgb, treason, espionage, politics, traitor, betrayal, university, spy, communist, cold war, secret agent, hidden identity ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, england, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 11K
Rubicon (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Rubicon is an American television series that centers on an intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City called the American Policy Institute, who discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: conspiracy, uncover truth, analyst, prodigy, undercover, surveillance, spy, boss, twists and turns, government facility, workplace, intelligence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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Deep State (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: british secret service, cia, intelligence agency, spy, tough guy, conspiracy, father son relationship, estranged son, espionage, special agent, revenge, danger ...
Place: london, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Gordin Cell (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, clever ...
Plot: betrayal, double agent, moral dilemma, espionage, workplace situations, parents and children, family relations, who to trust, secret agent, special agent, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 10K
London Spy (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A romance between an MI6 code genius and an ordinary man promises happiness. But tragedy strikes when the spy dies in suspicious circumstances, forcing his lover to pursue the truth behind his death.
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: gay, espionage, gay interest, conspiracy, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, lgbt, murder, love affair, lgbtq, undercover, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 15K
Deutschland 83 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: cold war, stasi, espionage, spy, secret police, double agent, political intrigue, undercover, state affairs, rivalry, german soldier, military ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 468
Legacy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, kgb, secret agent, government agency, betrayal, undercover, love and romance, political unrest, dishonesty, forbidden love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: england, london, britain, soviet union, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
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Page Eight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, realistic, political ...
Plot: spy, espionage, blackmail, secret service, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, state affairs, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, prime minister, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.4
 2K
The Assets (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, cia, secret agent, communism, double agent, political intrigue, investigation, cold war era, state affairs, treason ...
Time: 80s, 1880s
Place: usa, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Smiley's People (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, british intelligence, spy, investigation, working undercover, secret mission, politics, traitor, intelligence, mysticism, spy thriller ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, hamburg germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.4
 991
A Perfect Spy (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 374 min.
TV show
Story: This is the story of Magnus Pym, from his childhood to the end of his career in middle age. As a young man, there is little doubt that his father Rick was the most influential character in his life. Rick was a raconteur, con man, thief, black ...
Style: political, captivating, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, british spy, cons and scams, midlife crisis, state affairs, dishonesty, rivalry, introspection, government agency, undercover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, austria, usa, czech republic, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
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 3K
Secret State (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A four-part conspiracy theory drama inspired by Chris Mullen's novel "A Very British Coup". When a devastating industrial accident results in deaths and raises safety questions about the US petrochemical company involved, PM Tom ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, clever, political ...
Plot: political conspiracy, politics, conspiracy, investigation, twists and turns, political intrigue, life is a bitch, uncover truth, corporate crime, dishonesty, state affairs, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, iran, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 3K
The Agency (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, cerebral, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, cia, undercover, working undercover, state affairs, government agency, national security, conspiracy, intelligence, secret agent, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.1
 4K
Allegiance (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian ...
Style: bleak, tense, suspense, interesting
Plot: spy, cia, kgb, russian spy, intelligence, loyalty, secret agent, mind game, cold war, twists and turns, working undercover, investigation ...
Place: russia, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.9
 712
HaMidrasha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, israeli, spy, secret agent, government agency, undercover, state affairs, training, espionage, rivalry, terrorism, military training
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
 7K
Farewell (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: cold war, spy, iron curtain, double agent, undercover, dishonesty, danger, state affairs, betrayal, working undercover, kgb, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 1K
Hidden (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: When a mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, twists and turns, haunted by the past, who to trust, lawyers and clients, investigation, political conspiracy, murder, uncover truth, politics, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Ipcress File (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, conspiracy, spy, double agent, brainwashing, politics, undercover, investigation, british, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, albania, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Silent War (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, political unrest, undercover, blind man, disability, dishonesty, secret movement, misfit, espionage, state affairs, code breaking, secret agent ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: hong kong, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
 13K
Legends (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, espionage, spy, special agent, state affairs, betrayal, fbi, chases and races, dishonesty, on the run, government agency, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 2K
Enigma (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, kgb, espionage, assassination, politics, danger, dishonesty, government agency, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: east germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 790
Complicit (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Style: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terrorism, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, spy, counter terrorism, terrorist plot, special agent, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, war on terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Secret Agent (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to ...
Style: psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, betrayal, politics, bomb, secret agent, murder mystery, police inspector, conspiracy, sabotage, state affairs, undercover, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1880s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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