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The Bureau (2015)
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Original name: Le Bureau des légendes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 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 mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
Style:
political thriller, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, intelligent, powerful, complex, french noir, interesting ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, undercover agent, terrorism, danger, investigation, national security, secret service, twists and turns, secret identity, mission, characters in danger, military, pow, uncover truth, cia, middle east conflict, intelligence, homecoming, obsession, isis, cia agent, covert operation, intelligence agency, false identity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
syria, paris france, middle east, france, russia, israel, iran
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Most similar movies to The Bureau
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about spy, espionage, covert operation, investigation, twists and turns, conspiracy and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Bureau: Berlin Station (2016), Homeland (2011), Fauda (2015), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Lioness (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, action adventure, mind blowing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
secret service, spy, undercover, cia, whistleblower, espionage, terrorist, partner, government official, terrorism, partners against crime, strong female lead ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, spy, cia, national security, war on terror, treason, secret service, investigation, terrorist, danger, top secret ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, langley virginia, usa, iraq, america ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, espionage, war on terror, terrorist, mossad, covert operation, israeli, assassination, terror, murder, danger, government agency ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 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, contemplative ...
Plot:
cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, double agent, book, investigation, betrayal, kgb, mole, spy thriller, british intelligence ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, tense, spy action, serious ...
Plot:
terrorist, espionage, female protagonist, sex scene, bisexual, spy, undercover agent, female nudity, bisexual woman, mission, cia, handgun ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Style:
political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mossad, espionage, undercover, terrorism, secret agent, intrigue, politics, terrorist, state affairs, danger, dishonesty, double agent ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, beirut lebanon, lebanon, england, germany ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Claire lost her husband Gabriel during the tsunami in 2004. His body was never found. 15 years later, Claire has a new life with Lukas and her son Zack. After a decade of mourning and professional purgatory, she has just landed a dream job in Abu ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, secret service, terrorism, mission, ex couple relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, danger, uncover truth, changing lives, ex husband, confronting the past ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of her and her family and order her to kill the PM.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
family relations, political conspiracy, treason, twists and turns, moral dilemma, danger, confined, dishonesty, parents and children, kidnapping, abduction, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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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:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, moral dilemma, betrayal, double agent, parents and children, who to trust, family relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, manipulation, secret agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious, political ...
Plot:
uncover truth, espionage, analyst, conspiracy, twists and turns, undercover, surveillance, paranoia, boss, prodigy, government facility, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a ...
Style:
serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cia, espionage, conspiracy, terrorist, terrorism, twists and turns, investigation, agent, intelligence, danger, spy, shooting ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, langley virginia, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, funny, dark comedy ...
Plot:
espionage, team, reconnaissance, secret agent, cia agent, crime investigation, british intelligence, misfit, prospector, spy thriller, agent, spy ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
united kingdom, england, london, britain
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, counter intelligence, cold war, secret agent, government agent, spy mission, secret mission, betrayal, spy thriller, special agent, mission ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
conspiracy, military, uncover truth, twists and turns, corporate crime, violent content, dishonesty, left to die, political conspiracy, spy, family relations, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, tense, realistic, political
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, cold war era, cia, secret agent, communism, double agent, investigation, state affairs, government agency, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 1880s
Place:
usa, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, detective, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, government agency, espionage, secret identity, undercover, spy, special agent, state affairs, betrayal, fbi, dishonesty, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, intelligence agency, spy, cia, terrorism, undercover, profanity, code breaking, police, heroes, double agent, renegade ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, lebanon, europe, britain ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An FSB officer fall in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
espionage, fall in love, secret mission, love and romance, dishonesty, financial crisis, one night stand, cia, 007, secret agent, cia agent, covert operation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
cote d'azur, europe, monaco, moscow russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, melancholic, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parallel universe, espionage, parallel world, secret service, twists and turns, doppelganger, time travel, time, deception, betrayal, murder, blackmail ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
spy, fbi, cia, cia agent, female agent, fighting crime, terrorist, criminal, police investigation, partner, die hard, spy mission ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
spy, terrorism, secret service, rogue agent, black ops, double agent, disguise, government agent, secret agent, terrorist, investigation, conspiracy ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In this spy thriller, Marie and her husband Victor return from exile to Czechoslovakia on the cusp of the Velvet Revolution — but when the couple gets in a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma to find her husband mysteriously gone.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
spy, propaganda, investigation, secret police, female nudity, female protagonist, covert operation, hitman, espionage, car, spy thriller, russophobia ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
prague, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, british intelligence, investigation, cold war era, assassination attempt, covert operation, working undercover, spy thriller, defector, prospector ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, hamburg germany ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
TJFF presents the pilot episode of the award-winning Israeli series that inspired the American hit, Homeland. Set in 2008, this first episode focuses on two Israeli soldiers being released after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. It powerfully ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorism, mossad, torture, pow, investigation, homecoming, soldier, haunted by the past, twists and turns, held captive, spy, government agency ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, disturbing, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intelligence agency, british secret service, cia, terrorist, spy, tough guy, conspiracy, father son relationship, estranged son, special agent, revenge, danger ...
Place:
middle east, washington d.c., africa, london, iran
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, captivating, clever ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
fbi, investigation, unlikely partners, master criminal, law enforcement, danger, intrigue, secret, terrorism, mind game, outsmarting, murder investigation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, washington d.c.
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cia, government conspiracy, spy, analyst, twists and turns, murder, investigation, computer hacker, danger, terrorist, dialogue, fight scenes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, tense, clever, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
espionage, cold war, undercover, twists and turns, spy, conspiracy, government agency, intelligence, conservative, spy thriller, cold war era, covert operation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, soviet union, ussr, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
A team of talented Australian and American intelligence analysts work together to ensure global stability in one of the world's most important and secretive joint intelligence facilities... Pine Gap. But the relationship between the Australian ...
Style:
political, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
intelligence agency, cia, politics, satellite, agent, television, danger, rivalry, intelligence, covert operation, heist, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
missing child, disappearance, kidnapping, conspiracy, investigation, parents and children, spy, family relations, heroes, danger, twists and turns, missing person ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
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