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Red Joan (2018)
16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style:
suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic, factual, period piece, depressing, bleak, sad, emotional ...
Plot:
propaganda, woman, female spy, atomic bomb, closeted homosexual, politics, world war two, soviet spy, espionage, war crime, female secret agent, love, cold war, escapades, interrogation room, moral ambiguity, older man younger woman relationship, british secret service, secrets, biopic, suffering, secret, bare breasts, pub, russophobia ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1941, year 1946, year 2019, 2000s, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, canada, hiroshima japan, montreal, ussr, montreal quebec canada
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Most similar movies to Red Joan
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, political, realistic and serious films with plots about politics, death, biopic, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, photograph and betrayal mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Red Joan: Colonia (2015), The Courier (2020), The Good Shepherd (2006), Argo (2012), Flame & Citron (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, UK, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Style:
suspense, harsh, psychological, emotional, political ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
religious fanatic, religion, genocide, dictatorship, torture chamber, sect, abuse, kidnapping, escape, torture, prison, man punching a woman ...
Time:
70s, year 2015, year 1973
Place:
chile, peru, germany, south america, italy ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, powerful, action drama ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, russian spy, cuban missile crisis, counter intelligence, husband wife sex, cold war era, agent, prospector, spy hero, reconnaissance, politics ...
Time:
2020s, 1950s, 60s, year 1962, year 1964 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, cuba, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style:
tense, sexy, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, double agent, cia, politics, corruption, conspiracy, mentor, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, year 1961 ...
Place:
cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
100%
663K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style:
clever, tense, captivating, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
cia, secret agent, politics, rescue mission, revolution, u.s. embassy, secret mission, propaganda, danger, hostage, undercover, espionage ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1979, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place:
middle east, iran, tehran iran, los angeles, istanbul turkey ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style:
period piece, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gestapo, world war two, wartime, spy, nazi, nazism, terrorist, world war, double agent, ethnic conflict, organized crime, greed ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
denmark, germany, copenhagen, scandinavia, europe ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women ...
Style:
rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, islamic
Plot:
world war two, british intelligence, espionage, gestapo, female spy, strong female character, female secret agent, nazi, disguise, secret, female protagonist, lie ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
germany, london, paris france, europe, scotland ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
interracial marriage, politics, forbidden love, racism, royal family, interracial romance, marriage, interracial, equality, segregation, law student, marriage proposal ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 2016, year 1947, 50s
Place:
africa, england, south africa, indiana, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, India, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Style:
costume drama, sincere, disturbing, factual, touching ...
Plot:
british raj, independence, palace, servant, earl, ethnic conflict, british empire, democracy, economics, promise, governor, celebration ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1933, year 1947
Place:
india, delhi, pakistan, london, new delhi ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Style:
period piece, cult classic, informative, sinister, period drama
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalist, cannibalism, hunger, communism, genocide, journalism, anti communist, stalinism, reporter, writers, spy, kidnapping ...
Time:
1930s, year 2019, year 1957, 20th century, year 1933 ...
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged ...
Style:
realistic, political, period piece, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, older man younger woman relationship, journalism, cia, love triangle, moral ambiguity, tragedy, complex characters, communism, reporter, cold war, dishonesty ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, indochina, asia, hong kong ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style:
suspense, historical drama, dramatic, period piece, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cold war, espionage, lawyer, spy, cia, agent, soviet spy, courtroom, politics, berlin wall, court, negotiation ...
Time:
year 1960, year 2015, 2010s, year 1957, 1950s ...
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, west germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – ...
Style:
tense, suspense, touching, suspenseful, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, cold war, politics, female spy, love, female secret agent, illicit affair, secret, danger, love and romance, sacrifice, desertion ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
Style:
sexy, polyamorous, eros, factual, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
polyamory, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian, lesbianism, bdsm, superheroine, sadomasochism, husband wife relationship, college professor, sexual fantasy, orgasm ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, year 1941, 2010s, 1930s ...
Place:
new york, france, connecticut, louisiana, ireland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and ...
Style:
political, factual, suspense, harsh, brutal ...
Plot:
dictatorship, dictator, doctor, polygamy, genocide, atrocity, corruption, politics, biopic, violence, israeli, violent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2006
Place:
africa, uganda, scotland, united kingdom, south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
poignant, captivating, serious, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
nobel prize, chemistry, scientist, radioactivity, scientific research, nuclear, radiation, physics, science, physicist, genius, nobel prize winner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, stockholm sweden, paris france, poland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style:
political, brutal, harsh, factual, intense ...
Plot:
politics, irish history, civil war, terrorism, revolution, biopic, ira, freedom, british empire, civil unrest, independence movement, fight ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place:
ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style:
costume drama, powerful
Plot:
french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, resistance, world war, nazi occupied france, shoah, love, secret, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, munich germany, geneva switzerland, france ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
victorian england, queen, british history, monarchy, monarch, politics, friendship, widow, british monarchy, skinny dipping, relationships, love story ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
england, scotland, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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252K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot:
poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place:
spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
179K
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style:
sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place:
london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspense, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, forbidden love, lesbian, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman younger man sex, lust, blackmail, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Style:
political, tense, period piece, factual, melancholic ...
Plot:
politics, media, television, mccarthyism, journalist, reporter, fighting the system, cold war, propaganda, terrorist, patriotism, communism ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 2005, 90s ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., california, usa, soviet union ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair.
Style:
captivating, suspense, touching, disturbing, meta ...
Plot:
nazism, world war two, nazi, ambition, love triangle, actress, mistress, intrigue, husband wife relationship, selfishness, dictator, filmmaking ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, year 1946, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany, czech republic, austria, czechoslovakia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style:
factual, intense, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, politics, military, scientific research, biopic, idealism, nuclear, moral dilemma, ego clash ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new mexico, bay area, germany, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
True story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, suspenseful, political ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, politics, nazism, nazi germany, death sentence, nazi, resistance, gestapo, justice, historical character, trial, lawyer ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, 2000s, year 2005 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, poland, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, political, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Plot:
childhood, chinese history, world war two, biopic, revolution, emperor, politics, prison, eunuch, drug addiction, communism, symbolism ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1900s ...
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, spy, politics, undercover, cold war, kgb, nuclear bomb, secret agent, conspiracy, closeted homosexual, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is ...
Style:
political, suspense, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, against humanity, british secret service, nazism, danger, reconnaissance, controversy, allies, ideology, courage, political unrest, world war ...
Time:
2020s, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, germany
Similarity:
100%
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