Industrial espionage movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant industrial espionage movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with industrial espionage, spy, espionage, rivalry, dishonesty, murder, corporation, danger, deception and helicopter plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as industrial espionage: Chain Reaction (1996), Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993), Blood & Oil (2015), Michael Clayton (2007), Incorporated (2016), Replikator (1994), The East (2013), Paranoia (2013), Bugs (1995), Them who? (2015).

List of industrial espionage movies

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 5.6
 56K
Chain Reaction (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, frame up, on the run, chase, conspiracy theory, fbi, disaster, murder, hacking, cia, secrets, laboratory ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, usa, wisconsin, langley virginia, virginia
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Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, on the run, robot, artificial intelligence, sex with a robot, androids and robots, corporation, assassination plot, androids, hitman, rivalry ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.6
 4K
Blood & Oil (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Billy and Cody LeFever dream of a new life and move to "The Bakken" in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history. They’re soon pitted against a ruthless tycoon who forces them to put everything on the ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
Plot: oil industry, oil field, love triangle, business competition, oil, ambition, husband wife relationship, business deal, blackmail, industrialist, police investigation, murder ...
Place: north dakota
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 7.2
 173K
Michael Clayton (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Plot: lawyer, business, legal, conspiracy, guilt, mental illness, law firm, twists and turns, divorce, courtroom, trial, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, wisconsin, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city
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 7.2
 6K
Incorporated (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
Style: captivating, tense, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: climate change, secret past, megacorporation, paranoia, corporate greed, business, corporation, global warming, dystopian future, corporate world, fighting the system, corporate conspiracy ...
Time: future
Place: milwaukee wisconsin
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 2.9
 272
Replikator (1994)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two rival corporations are developing replication technology which would enable the cloning of human tissue. The technology falls into a criminal group. Ludo Ludovic and Kathy Moskow with the help of a cop try to stop the criminals.
Style: tech noir, independent film, serious, futuristic, bleak ...
Plot: cloning, dystopia, post apocalypse, terminator, industrial espionage, virtual reality, lookalikes, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, technology gone awry, computers and web, time travel ...
Time: future
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 6.8
 52K
The East (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, political, intense, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terrorism, fighting the system, environmentalism, spy, anarchist, espionage, fbi, environmental issue, revenge, anti capitalism, radical, undercover ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 5.6
 39K
Paranoia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot: workplace, surveillance, betrayal, danger, spy, uninhibited rivalry, conspiracy, revenge, boss and employee, workplace intrigue, power relations, internet ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 7.0
 578
Bugs (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who ...
Style: detective
Plot: spy, future war, monster, industrial espionage, timebomb, mission, terrorism, villain, teamwork, terrorist, good versus evil, government agent ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, london
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 6.4
 2K
Them who? (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: David's life is changed forever after his meeting with Marcello, a clever con man.
Style: feel good, light, enigmatic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: book editor, disguise, carabinieri, mayor, robbery, industrial espionage, writers, revenge, cons and scams, con artists, opportunist, escapades ...
Place: italy, europe
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 6.7
 32K
Cypher (2002)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style: suspenseful, tense, stylized, enigmatic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, espionage, twists and turns, spy, distopia, brainwashing, dystopian future, uncover truth, hidden identity, power relations, double agent ...
Time: future, year 2002
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Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Based by the life of ISRO Scientist Nambi Narayanan who was falsely accused of being a spy and arrested in 1994. Though free, he is still fighting for justice, with those police officials alleged to have falsely implicated him, still free.
Style: tense, disturbing, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: spy, angry, espionage, rocket, police, space probe, injustice, framed for a crime, industrial espionage, accusation, scientist, fight for justice ...
Time: 2020s
Place: russia
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 4.9
 402
Butterfly Kiss (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Potseluy babochki (Russian: Поцелуй бабочки, meaning Butterfly Kiss) is a 2006 Russian film directed by Anton Sivers. The world premiere of the film was held July 21, 2006. He (Nikolai Orlanov) is the genius of industrial espionage. ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: love interest, espionage, industrial espionage, love story, spy, love affair, relationships, fall in love, lifestyle change, male female relationship, master criminal, in love ...
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 6.1
 52K
Duplicity (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Two romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.
Style: clever, sexy, suspense, romantic, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: twists and turns, manipulation, investigation, espionage, rivalry, justice, cia, intrigue, caper, love affair, uninhibited rivalry, battle of the sexes ...
Time: year 2009, year 2013, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, london, miami, new york ...
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 5.8
 33K
Good Burger (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two hapless youths lead their burger joint in a fight against the giant fast-food chain across the street.
Style: funny, humorous, stylized, black comedy, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: fast food restaurant, competition, black romance, friendship, food, buddies, childhood, stupidity, high school, teacher, african american protagonist, black ...
Time: 90s
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The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: twists and turns, con game, betrayal, heist, investigation, intrigue, business, caper, secrets, invention, conspiracy, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: venezuela, caribbean, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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 9.1
 9K
My Mister (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.
Style: dorama, thought provoking, sincere, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: hardship, healing, life is a bitch, relationships, social problems, supportive friend, employee employee relationship, workplace, loneliness, stealing money, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: east asia, thailand
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 5.2
 2K
Pursued (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A fast rising hi-tech executive must protect his career and family from the ruthless tactics of a homicidal corporate headhunter.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, mind game, undercover, rivalry, danger, stalking, prodigy, false identity, fight, blackmail, conspiracy, serial killer ...
Place: chicago, seattle
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Hassel 09 - Botgörarna (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.
Plot: industrial espionage, pretending to be someone else, night watchman, betrayal, ex-cop, family business, mole, pharmaceutical company, police procedural, lie, murder, missing person ...
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Assassination in Rome (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Cyd Charisse (Singin’in the Rain, Brigadoon) and Hugh O’Brian (Ten Little Indians, The Shootist) star in this classy international thriller about an American woman vacationing in Rome whose husband disappears under mysterious circumstances. To ...
Style: eurospy, microfilm
Plot: husband, couples, wife, industrial espionage, u.s. embassy, american tourist, newspaper man, journalist, torture, italian mafia, american abroad, missing husband ...
Place: rome italy, venice
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 6.7
 1K
Angel Dust (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to help the police solve an ongoing case of female-centric serial murder in the local subway system. Her investigation leads to her former mentor and lover, who becomes the prime suspect in the case.
Style: psychological, retro, dark, cult classic, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, brainwashing, sex crime, urban legend, murder, rivalry, manipulation, rottweiler, curse, religions or cults, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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The Very Very Big Company (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four friends - an oyster-farmer, an accountant's assistant, a restaurateur and a blue-collar worker - decide to take on a multi-national agro-chemical company with a turnover of EUR9bn and which has been polluting their region on a large scale. ...
Plot: lawyer, corporation, job interview, secret code, union, janitor, cleaning lady, female executive, surveillance camera, security guard, ceo, office ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france, paris france
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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student in the fictional Medfield College. A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. ...
Style: fast, feel good, humorous, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: laboratory, fraternity, experiment, super powers, science and technology, humour, rivalry, college, school, cow, overweight, arrest ...
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New Rose Hotel (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
Style: sexy, erotic, cyber, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, hotel, nudity, brothel, female nudity, woman on top, swimming pool, betrayal, prostitution, crime gone awry, gangster, erotica ...
Time: year 1998, future
Place: new york, asia, japan, usa
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) is a high-priced call girl, who is to be interviewed by Steve Sherman (Paul Newman), a journalist looking for ...
Style: retro, romantic comedy, freeze frame
Plot: fashion, journalist, fashion show, time travel, stewardess, newspaper man, male female relationship, urban setting, industrial espionage, beauty salon, maiden, alcoholism ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york, paris france, france
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 5.5
 2K
Caprice (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Doris Day stars as Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, when see sells a secret cosmetics formula to a competitor the troubles never stop.
Style: esoteric, semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, heist, intrigue, cold war, gay, female assassin, james bond spoof, battles, screwball, undercover, vengeance ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, switzerland
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 3.8
 6K
Best Defense (1984)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he ...
Style: melancholic, humorous, semi serious, tense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american soldier, happy ending, engineer, espionage, undercover, danger, heroic mission, save the day, fighting the system, witnessing a crime, heroes, secret agent ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: middle east
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 3.8
 273
Happy Hour (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A chemist experimenting with different formulas stumbles upon an ingredient that, when added to beer, makes it absolutely irresistible. Before he realizes it, an international spy is after him to try to get the formula for himself.
Style: independent film, exciting, not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: beer, babe scientist, silly humor, disorder, righting the wronged, cons and scams, on the run, dishonesty, rivalry, undercover, chases and races, bomb ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: san diego california, colorado, denver colorado, mexico
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Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this 1967 drama, resourceful British agent Bulldog Drummond, who appeared onscreen in a series of spy stories between 1929 and 1951, returned to duty in the wake of James Bond. Here, Drummond (Richard Johnson) is on the trail of Carl Petersen ...
Style: grindhouse, political thriller, psychedelic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond spoof, spy, bulldog drummond, chess, secret agent, private detective, undercover, cold war, women, woman with a gun, erotic scene, undercover agent ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, riviera
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