Movies like The Silent War

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The Silent War (2012)
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The Silent War (2012)
Original name: 听风者
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, tense, realistic, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, undercover, political unrest, blind man, misfit, espionage, disability, code breaking, dishonesty, state affairs, secret movement, secret agent, intelligence agency, stalking, female spy, revolutionary, political intrigue, spy mission, special agent, intrigue, undercover agent, assassination attempt, morse code, conspiracy, superior officer ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
Keyword: chinese

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Most similar movies to The Silent War

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, spy, undercover, espionage, state affairs, secret agent and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Silent War: The Message (2009), Legacy (2013), Infernal Affairs III (2003), Confession of Pain (2006), Infernal Affairs (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Message (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and ...
Style: suspense, captivating, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, japanese occupation, code breaking, resistance, assassination, undercover, wartime life, medieval, espionage, rivalry, danger, agent ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: china, asia
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95%
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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 ⇓
88%
Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, triad, police, mob boss, spy, gang war, working undercover, twists and turns, mole, police detective, police investigation, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Confession of Pain (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, haunted by the past, perfect crime, partner, police detective, investigation, corrupt law enforcer, partners against crime, dishonesty, private detective, asian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Infernal Affairs (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mole, police, triad, organized crime, gangster, undercover, betrayal, mob boss, mafia, double life, cop, corruption ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, year 2004, future, 2000s ...
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Game (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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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 ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spy, conspiracy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, twists and turns, state affairs, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, intelligence, post war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, political thriller ...
Plot: espionage, on the run, secret agent, undercover, head of state, state affairs, dishonesty, politics, 007, secrets, british politics, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: united kingdom, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China ...
Style: neo noir, visually stunning, political thriller, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, spy thriller, undercover agent, undercover, secret agent, manhunt, kremlin, paranoid, intrigue, secret mission ...
Time: 60s
Place: russia, china, moscow russia, soviet union, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Agent of Influence (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ...
Style: realistic, bleak, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Plot: espionage, head of state, undercover, rebellion, state affairs, dishonesty, heroes, cold war, cia, diplomacy, intrigue, spying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game ...
Style: neo noir, political thriller, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, neo nazi, british intelligence, undercover, secret agent, agent, secret mission, berlin wall, stasi, undercover agent ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
63%
The Deadly Affair (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, spy, private detective, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, political corruption, infidelity, working undercover, office, love affair ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: britain, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Blind Detective (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, blind character, police investigation, partner, twists and turns, dark humor, disability, blindness, danger, blind man, gambling, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Hidden Agenda (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
Style: independent film, exciting, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, agent, stasi, violent content, secret agent, estrangement, political intrigue, political conspiracy, amateur detective, espionage, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, eastern europe, berlin germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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 ⇓
62%
The Informant (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: intrigue, drug dealing, undercover, informant, border patrol, danger, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, rivalry, snitch, customs ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Great Magician (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the early 1920’s, on the streets of Beijing, the nation’s most talented performers have gathered to show off their most spectacular skills. One day, a challenge is set: 50 silver dollars to whoever can reproduce the incredible magic trick ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, scenic, stylized ...
Plot: magician, rivalry, revolution, politics, rescue, pretense, gang, couple relations, state affairs, dishonesty, magic, twists and turns ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
In the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, police investigation, fighting the system, political intrigue, police detective, political unrest, law enforcement, dishonesty, political conspiracy, cold war, secret service, working class ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Listening (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, on the run, manhunt, rivalry, secret agent, government agency, fighting the system, danger, dishonesty, undercover, rebellion, political conspiracy ...
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Protégé (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug dealing, mole, undercover, working undercover, drug abuse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, tragic hero, moral dilemma, organized crime, triad ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: politics, state affairs, society, dishonesty, political corruption, murder, political unrest, government, dictatorship, dictator, manipulation, multiple storylines ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: peru, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, treason, double agent, drug, political conspiracy, buddies, society, dishonesty, hitman, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: usa, california, soviet union, mexico city, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.3
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Hidden Blade (2023)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
Style: captivating, thrilling, tense, period drama
Plot: japanese occupation of china, undercover agent, special agent, spy mission, espionage, secret mission, mission, war, underground movement, soldier, agent, spy ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.8
 375
Hanbando (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 147 min.
Story: The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order ...
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: inter-korean relations, secret, political intrigue, intrigue, politics, conspiracy, war, political conspiracy, government conspiracy, political unrest
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Colour of the Truth (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, police corruption, snitch, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.2
 13K
Shadow Dancer (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: ira, moral dilemma, state affairs, betrayal, undercover, family relations, snitch, radical, siblings relations, political unrest, single parent, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 90s, year 1993, year 1973 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Fifth Patient (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory in tact. An officer of the local regime, Mugambe, accuses him of being an American spy.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: hospital, memory loss, political intrigue, undercover, espionage, dishonesty, rivalry, undercover agent, deception, interrogation, uncover truth, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
6th Commandment Cross (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Meet Leonard, a man who will help you die with a smile on your face. A young attorney meets his client for the first time, a serial killer known as the "Smiley Face Killer", whose victims all died with a smile on their faces.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, danger, euthanasia, mercy killing, lawyer, suicide, murder, rivalry, angel of death, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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