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A Call to Spy (2019)
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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 form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Style:
rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, islamic
Plot:
world war two, british intelligence, espionage, gestapo, female spy, strong female character, female secret agent, nazi, prisoner, lie, female protagonist, secret, british soldier, disguise, reconnaissance, women, world war, war, lesbian, intelligence agency, experiment, nazism, dictator, female agent, real life ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
germany, paris france, france, london, scotland, europe, vichy
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Most similar movies to A Call to Spy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about cigarette smoking, world war two, war, world war, murder, nazi and photograph mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like A Call to Spy: Alone in Berlin (2016), The 12th Man (2017), Red Joan (2018), Mr. Jones (2019), Operation Finale (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, death of son, suicide, nazi, wartime, world war, holocaust, shoah, murder, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, serious, dark, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, lone hero, ss, coping, survival, wilderness, winter, world war, nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, scotland
Similarity:
100%
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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, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
propaganda, woman, female spy, atomic bomb, closeted homosexual, politics, world war two, soviet spy, female secret agent, espionage, war crime, love ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1946, year 1941, year 2019, 1940s ...
Place:
soviet union, canada, russia, hiroshima japan, montreal ...
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: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, holocaust, nazi, mission, world war, israeli, chase, manhunt, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, year 1939, year 1954, year 1945 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style:
erotic, psychological, tense, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, espionage, nazi, spy, nazism, resistance, female spy, occupation, gestapo, german soldier, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1956, 1950s, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place:
netherlands, israel, holland, germany, belgium ...
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%
273K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
bad ending, factual, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, nazism, nazi germany, conspiracy, war, hitler, german soldier, resistance, politics, wehrmacht, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, munich germany, tunisia ...
Similarity:
100%
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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%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, nazi officer, gestapo, german soldier, nazi occupation, royalty, espionage, conspiracy, german army, love, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hitler, nazi germany, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, battered woman, bolshevik, nazi, hitler youth, assassination attempt, anti fascist, third reich ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, holocaust, undercover, survival, forbidden love, genocide, german army, gestapo, anti semitism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
germany, switzerland, hungary, europe
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 ...
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 ...
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36%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, emotional, costume drama, political thriller ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, defiant, anti semitism, ss, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, confined, world war, spy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, year 1957, year 1939, year 1962 ...
Place:
europe, hungary, berlin germany, switzerland, budapest ...
Similarity:
34%
64K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
espionage, surveillance, investigation, spy, double agent, cia, betrayal, working undercover, fbi, manipulation, suspicion, mission ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr, washington d.c.
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, war, french resistance, nazi, holocaust, world war two, wartime life, women, resistance, wartime, secret agent, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 2001, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
france, london, paris france, europe, scotland ...
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
Style:
factual, brutal, intense, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, wartime, war, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, terrorist, courage, manhunt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
scotland, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, finland ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style:
harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
Similarity:
32%
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 ...
Similarity:
32%
171K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style:
political thriller, inspirational, period piece, political, factual ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
journalism, truth, expose, whistleblower, newspaper office, newspaper, journalist, cover up, lie, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1965, 90s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, vietnam
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Plot:
world war two, radio station, third reich, fencing, nazi, false evidence, world war, task force, fight, commando, torture, mission ...
Time:
year 1939, pre world war two, year 1938, 1930s
Place:
munich germany, poland, berlin germany, prague, germany ...
Similarity:
32%
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58K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, psychological thriller, intense, tense ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, manipulation, ethical dilemma, ethics, character study, moral ambiguity, evil, world war two, courtroom, courtroom drama, obsession, interrogation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, post world war two, year 1946, year 1945
Place:
germany, austria, washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an ...
Style:
clever, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, spy, adopted daughter, disorder, life turned upside down, uncover truth, secret movement, confined, betrayal, war, world war, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, pre world war two
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
31%
616
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, anti semitism, deportation, immigrant, idealism, heroic mission, against humanity, hopes ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
europe, belgrade, vienna, harvard university, chicago ...
Similarity:
30%
16K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style:
sincere, political, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, politics, pope, christian, ss, conscience, nazi, nazism, priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, rome italy, italy, austria ...
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style:
disturbing, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, boxing, ss, prison, boxer, prison escape, fight, nazi, biopic, shoah, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
middle east, poland, europe, greece
Similarity:
30%
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