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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:
cold war, espionage, cia, kgb, american history, national security, undercover, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, special agent, spy, agent, fbi, betrayal, alcoholic, cia agent, fbi agent, traitor, loyalty, jaguar, nagging wife, arrest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, langley virginia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about undercover, dishonesty, espionage, spy, state affairs, secret agent and government agency mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within: Jack Strong (2014), Safe House (1998), Agent provocateur (1998), Little Nikita (1988), Farewell (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
spy, martial law, state affairs, undercover, politics, government agency, political unrest, dishonesty, iron curtain, cold war, chase, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, europe, soviet union, warsaw poland, ussr
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Drama. TV Movie.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
espionage, spy, undercover, stripper, videotaped sex, cold war, fbi, fbi agent, double agent, secret agent, rise and fall, government agency ...
Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
Style:
political, mind bending, exciting, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
spy, alzheimer's disease, political conspiracy, home invasion, covert operation, world war three, world war, dementia, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, special agent, secret agent ...
Time:
90s
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100%
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.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
north korea, korea, asia, south korea
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100%
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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, ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, fbi, teenager, teenage boy, investigation, death, fbi agent, high school, killer, fbi investigation, covert operation, cold war era ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san diego california, soviet union ...
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36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, iron curtain, undercover, double agent, danger, betrayal, state affairs, dishonesty, working undercover, kgb, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, france, russia, ussr
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, kgb, spy, espionage, assassination, undercover, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, government agency ...
Time:
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Place:
east germany, germany, east berlin, paris france, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sincere, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, politics, injustice, undercover, betrayal, uncover truth, state affairs, racism, spy, dishonesty, life is a bitch, fighting the system ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1983, 60s
Place:
usa, new york, asia, vietnam, soviet union
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, betrayal, secret agent, cuban missile crisis, undercover, surveillance, conspiracy, politics, kgb, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1962, year 1969
Place:
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Similarity:
32%
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.
Style:
talky, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, assassination, revenge, flashback, cold war era, covert operation, assassin, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, greece
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 113 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 ...
Style:
political thriller, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, undercover, secret agent, kgb, double agent, cold war era, agent, undercover agent, violence, paranoid, international relations ...
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Place:
france, russia, europe, paris france, london ...
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30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, danger, society, vengeance, terrorism, state affairs, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
28%
501
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:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, britain, europe, soviet union ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, rebellion, head of state, undercover, state affairs, heroes, dishonesty, cia, intrigue, diplomacy, true crime ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, russia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
skinhead, world war two, neo nazi, neo nazism, spy, nazi, judaism, undercover, journalism, racism, immigrant, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Malta
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
espionage, treason, undercover, cold war, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, love affair, working undercover, secret agent, journalism, race against time ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political thriller
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
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:
espionage, cold war, undercover, treason, cold war era, double agent, drug, political conspiracy, dishonesty, buddies, society, hitman ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, soviet union, mexico city, mexico ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
special agent, danger, state affairs, mute or deaf, mad scientist, undercover, chases and races, hidden identity, government agency, rivalry, experiment gone awry, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pentagon
Similarity:
25%
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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:
24%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Ben investigates the mysterious death of his sister, he is unaware that he is opening up a web of political intrigue. Ed Murphy, the White House Chief of Staff, becomes embroiled in a struggle to save the President from a humiliating scandal.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
president, u.s. president, murder, special agent, espionage, politics, undercover, dishonesty, government agency, heroes, state affairs, infidelity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, cerebral, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, terrorism, undercover, working undercover, government agency, state affairs, national security, cia, terrorist, conspiracy, covert operation, intelligence ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, iron curtain, espionage, renegade, secret agent, conspiracy, hitman, race against time, danger, state affairs, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, ...
Style:
political, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
cold war, politics, spy, president, diplomacy, political intrigue, un, race against time, nuclear, cold war era, conspiracy, cuban missile crisis ...
Time:
y2k, year 2000, 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
cuba, ussr, north america, the philippines, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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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:
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