Movies like Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
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Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
spy, espionage, kgb, cold war, special agents, undercover, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, agent, cia, fbi, betrayal, alcoholic, cia agent, fbi agent, traitor, loyalty, jaguar, nagging wife, arrest, soviet spy, counter intelligence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ussr, russia, langley virginia, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about undercover, spy, dishonesty, espionage, state affairs, government agency and secret agents mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within: Jack Strong (2014), Farewell (2009), The Executioner (1970), Safe House (1998), Avenger (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A spy thriller telling a historically based story of a man who alone dares to challenge Soviets being in the middle of the communistic system himself. Planning the maneuvers of Warsaw Pact forces he discovers that the American plans of nuclear ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min.
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Drama. TV Movie.
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serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
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Place:
england, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret ...
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political, mind bending, exciting, realistic, psychological ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard ...
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manhunt, special agents, undercover, justice, working undercover, save the day, race against time, track down, rivalry, government agency, state affairs, dishonesty ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies ...
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29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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 ...
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usa, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
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serious, realistic, enigmatic, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
434
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
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The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, ...
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Infiltrator is an American film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany circa the early 1990's and uncovers a story about a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction, who are intent to bring Nazism back to the ...
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 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.
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26%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
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26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB ...
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
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25%
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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