Movies like Arabesque

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Arabesque (1966)
 6.4
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Arabesque (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Style: suspenseful, talky, witty, realistic, serious, stylized, political thriller, spy comedy, fast, technicolor ...
Plot: espionage, murder, political intrigue, gangster, spy, justice, assassination, twists and turns, professor, investigation, politics, intrigue, danger, dishonesty, chase, undercover, cold war, assassin, kidnapping, conspiracy, machine gun, police officer, undercover agent, secret agent, spy thriller ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century, 70s, 1960s
Place: england, london, oxford university, europe, middle east
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Arabesque

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and political thriller films with plots about undercover, espionage, spy, secret agent, dishonesty, state affairs and danger mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Arabesque: The Assassination Bureau (1969), Charade (1963), No Way Out (1987), The International (2009), The Quiller Memorandum (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the ...
Style: dark comedy, political thriller, black comedy, retro, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination, killer, spy, women, love story, conspiracy, female journalist, serial killer, professional, adventurer ...
Time: 1900s, year 1969, edwardian era, 1910s, 19th century
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 85K
Charade (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, humorous, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: murder, age difference, investigation, spy, funeral, espionage, love and romance, divorce, plot twist, deception, love story, heist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, europe, alps, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
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No Way Out (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: twists and turns, conspiracy, murder, espionage, cold war, investigation, love triangle, political corruption, sex scene, spy, plot twist, secretary of defense ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., pentagon, manila philippines, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The International (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, ...
Style: clever, exciting, suspenseful, sexy, enigmatic ...
Plot: conspiracy, interpol, murder, investigation, assassin, conspiracy theory, chase, hitman, lawyer, revenge, gunfight, police investigation ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, milan italy, berlin germany, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game ...
Style: neo noir, political thriller, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, neo nazi, british intelligence, undercover, secret agent, agent, secret mission, berlin wall, stasi, undercover agent ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
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Target (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Texan with a secret past (Gene Hackman) searches Europe with his son (Matt Dillon) after the KGB kidnaps his wife (Gayle Hunnicutt).
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, espionage, kidnapping, father son relationship, missing person, rescue, spy, daring rescue, parents and children, secret agent, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: europe, hamburg germany, paris france, usa, france ...
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26%
The Deadly Affair (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, spy, private detective, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, political corruption, infidelity, working undercover, office, love affair ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: britain, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Ipcress File (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, conspiracy, spy, double agent, brainwashing, politics, undercover, investigation, british, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Black Windmill (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Style: bloody, political thriller, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
Place: paris france, london, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style: political thriller, exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric ...
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Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.6
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Torn Curtain (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, stylized, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, iron curtain, political intrigue, politics, stasi, secrets, manipulation, police investigation, murder mystery ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Hidden Agenda (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
Style: independent film, exciting, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, agent, stasi, violent content, secret agent, estrangement, political intrigue, political conspiracy, amateur detective, espionage, chases and races ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Kremlin Letter (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Chairman (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: France, West Germany, Italy
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Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Enigma (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 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 ...
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Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
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The Double (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: assassination, spy, espionage, double agent, investigation, cia, plot twist, twists and turns, surveillance, special agent, hunt down, haunted by the past ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Spartan (2004)
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Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, rough, political thriller ...
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Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, london, harvard university, dubai
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Icon (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, espionage, uncover truth, race against time, presidential election, chases and races, heroes, fighting the system, danger, government agency, secret agent, state affairs ...
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Freefall (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story: New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stalking, wilderness, infidelity, martial arts, undercover, espionage, government agency, political intrigue, dishonesty, state affairs, fighting crime, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Adventurers (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story: The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put ...
Style: sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: heiress, revolution, politics, age-gap relationship, treasure hunt, protest, murder, fighting the system, older woman younger man relationship, decadence, revenge, corruption ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: latin america, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Parallax View (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political ...
Plot: politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, journalism, murder, assassin, media, senator, political conspiracy, paranoia ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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24: Redemption (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Style: intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist plot, politics, secret agent, kidnapping, tough heroes, brutality, violence, spy, chases and races, danger, political unrest, police corruption ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: africa, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 1K
Brass Target (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war two, conspiracy, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle, revolution, revolutionary, ss, secret mission, gold, gay interest, violent content ...
Time: year 1978, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style: clever, confusing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, investigation, british intelligence, mole, double agent, kgb, conspiracy, surveillance, intelligence ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, somalia, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 16K
Gorky Park (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a ...
Style: detective, political, suspense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, murder, conspiracy, police investigation, espionage, secret agent, murder investigation, kgb agent, murder mystery, politics, police corruption ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: moscow russia, russia, ussr, stockholm sweden, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Style: political thriller, psychotronic, suspense, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, computer, anti communism, spy thriller, railway, martial arts, revolt, woman with a gun, secret mission, machine gun ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland, england, texas, latvia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.8
 128
Able Danger (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, realistic, black and white ...
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, government agency, danger, politics, race against time, dishonesty, undercover, rebellion, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The November Man (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: cia, secret service, spy, espionage, conspiracy, hostage, brutality, secret agent, female agent, surveillance, assassin, violence ...
Time: year 2008, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: montenegro, belgrade serbia, switzerland, usa, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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