Defector movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant defector movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, realistic and cult classic films and TV shows about / with defector, spy, murder, danger, race against time, escape, cold war, soldier, heroes and espionage plots mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as defector: The Turncoat (2020), White Nights (1985), Cold War (2018), Snowden (2016), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Jonestown Haunting (2020), No Time To Die (2021), Captive (2008), Smiley's People (1982), Foxbat (1977).

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 6.8
 2K
The Turncoat (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: Directed by Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger from Sigefried Lenz's international bestseller, "Der Überläufer" is set in the summer of 1944. German soldier Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: world war two, partisan, german soldier, nazi germany, pow, eastern front, defector, border crossing, brother brother relationship, loyalty, abuse, jail ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, year 1956, post world war two, year 1944
Place: berlin germany, east berlin, germany, hamburg germany
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 6.6
 8K
White Nights (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, retro, colorful, serious ...
Plot: ballet, cold war, dance, dancing, defector, culture clash, escape, kgb, airplane crash, vietnam war, tap dance, cold war era ...
Time: year 1985
Place: russia, soviet union, siberia
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 7.5
 62K
Cold War (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style: black and white, romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: cold war, musician, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore, defector ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: poland, paris france, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
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 7.3
 162K
Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style: realistic, factual, political thriller, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: espionage, journalism, whistleblower, fighting the system, hacking, moral dilemma, internet, surveillance, technology, cia, spying, idealism ...
Time: year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2012 ...
Place: hong kong, geneva switzerland, japan, russia, america ...
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, political thriller, political ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, cold war, spy, navy, espionage, nuclear threat, cia, politics, underwater, nuclear submarine, u.s. navy, sea ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place: russia, washington d.c., usa, maine, soviet union ...
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The Jonestown Haunting (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, mysterious, mystical
Plot: mass suicide, defector, preacher, therapist, female protagonist, survivor, flashback sequence, religion, murder, mass murder, mysticism, unsettling ...
Time: 70s
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 7.3
 441K
No Time To Die (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story: James Bond is retired and living a peaceful life, but after a visit from Felix Leiter, Bond must follow the trail of a dangerous new villain with never before seen technology.
Style: exciting, epic, suspense, thrilling, saga ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: james bond, spy, agent, espionage, 007, cia, cia agent, secret service, british intelligence, master criminal, british secret service, infection ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: jamaica, london, havana cuba, italy, england ...
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 5.8
 388
Captive (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Russia, Bulgaria
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, crying
Plot: kidnapper kidnapped relationship, caucasian, wartime, homosexual subtext, captive, pow, defector, soldier, captivity, abduction, kidnapping, conflict ...
Place: chechnya
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Smiley's People (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, british intelligence, spy, investigation, working undercover, secret mission, politics, traitor, intelligence, mysticism, spy thriller ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, hamburg germany, berlin germany
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 5.1
 182
Foxbat (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Plot: spy, explosions, woman with a gun, defector, kgb, evil man, top secret, agent, violence, cold war
Place: hong kong, tokyo
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of their rival frat, the Alphas, if they want to maintain their self-respect -- and, of course, if ...
Style: humorous, sex comedy, sexual, cult classic, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, beach, teenager, sex, island, revenge, defector, frame up, athlete, party, fraternity, love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In this reboot of the '80s series, a magic sword transforms an orphan girl into warrior She-Ra, who unites a rebellion to fight against evil.
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, anime, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: heroic mission, betrayal, planet, danger, rebellion, good versus evil, female warrior, journey, princess, best friend, save the world, magic ...
Time: 2010s
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 6.6
 93K
Anna (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Style: suspense, action thriller, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: spy, female assassin, female protagonist, female spy, one woman army, female agent, cia agent, murder, double agent, assassin, model, russian spy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1985 ...
Place: paris france, moscow russia, russia, milan italy, bahamas ...
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Georgia, Georgia (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The great Diana Sands stars as a African American pop star with few political ideas, and no need for black-activist war deserters who want her voice for their cause--much to the dismay of the quietly seething white-hating Minnie Gentry. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, black, blaxploitation, love, interracial, defector, veteran, interracial relations, impotence, singer, airport, strangulation ...
Time: year 1972
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, stylized, predictable ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, president, martial arts, military, superhero, bodyguard, terrorism, gi joe, betrayal, revenge, comic book, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle, north korea, germany, big ben london ...
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 6.2
 19K
Topaz (1969)
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, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, betrayal, cuban missile crisis, surveillance, undercover, conspiracy, kgb, politics, government agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1962
Place: cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: cold war, jazz, immigrant, friendship, culture clash, circus, fall in love, american dream, kgb, refugee, freedom, shopping ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, usa, miami, miami beach ...
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The Living Daylights (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
Style: suspense, saga, exciting, spectacular, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: 007, espionage, cold war, soviet afghanistan war, betrayal, spy, secret service, cello, secret agent, agent, assassin, car chase ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, vienna, tangier morocco, england, morocco ...
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Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to ...
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, chase, betrayal, hotel, murder, intrigue, secret mission ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england ...
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, chase, betrayal, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
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Quick Before It Melts (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A magazine reporter and his photographer, on assignment in the Antarctic, attempt to fly in girls to make their chilly lives more enjoyable. Director Delbert Mann's 1964 comedy stars Robert Morse, George Maharis, Anjanette Comer, James Gregory, ...
Plot: penguins, photographer, reporter, defector, double wedding, animal actor, memory loss, dancing, infidelity, marriage proposal, flirting, airplane ...
Place: antarctica, new zealand, antarctic
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 6.6
 5K
Airwolf (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries, Michael Archangel, Project ...
Style: cult classic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: helicopter, spy, battles, police, aviation, military, co pilot, flying, super weapon, against the odds, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, libya, california, paris france
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The Naked Runner (1967)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, independent film ...
Plot: spy, assassination, espionage, iron curtain, cold war, on the run, intelligence, invention, holiday, secret agent, undercover, danger ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, copenhagen, london, east germany
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The next installment in the franchise and the conclusion of the “Star Wars“ sequel trilogy as well as the “Skywalker Saga“.
Style: entertaining, saga, action adventure, tense, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: space opera, star wars, spacecraft, evil, space battle, robot, space travel, hand to hand combat, shame, super weapon, space, person thought dead is alive ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019
Place: space western
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 6.7
 6K
Schizopolis (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.
Style: surreal, experimental, black comedy, psychedelic, confusing ...
Plot: doppelganger, satire, surrealism, nudist camp, dentist, existentialism, absurdism, lookalikes, workplace, exterminator, infidelity, philosophy ...
Time: 90s
Place: new mexico, rhode island, costa rica
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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The science of miniaturization has been unlocked, and the army has big plans. But when a scientist carrying the secret of the process is injured in a surprise attack, a life-threatening blood clot puts him into a coma. Now, a team of adventurers ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: submarine, double agent, space and aliens, rescue, military, medical, assassination attempt, chases and races, danger, shrinking, trippy, survival ...
Time: year 1966, 1900s, 20th century, 60s
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 5.7
 5K
Condorman (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her ...
Style: spoof, humorous, cult classic, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: espionage, spy, superhero, cold war, car chase, comic book, chase, villain, cartoonist, spying, mission, superpower ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: former yugoslavia, moscow russia, istanbul turkey, monte carlo, paris france
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Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, soldier, heroes, battles, danger, military life, mission gone awry, daring rescue, cliche, tough heroes, nuclear threat, timebomb ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, washington d.c., north korea
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Aurora: Operation Intercept (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russian descent, Francesca Zaborszin, the daughter of a slain Federal investigator, claims ...
Style: suspense, independent film, fast, serious, exciting ...
Plot: law enforcement, aviation, air disaster, race against time, terrorism, hostage, airplane accident, airplane crash, tough heroes, espionage, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
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Bionic Ever After? (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Days away from her wedding to Steve Austin, Jaime Sommers experiences a mysterious breakdown of her Bionic limbs. With her physical fate unknown, Jaime calls off the wedding. Her condition quickly deteriorates, and Dr. Rudy Wells races to find the ...
Plot: superhero, cyborgs, computer virus, defector, canceled wedding, arms dealer, spy, reunion, close up of eye
Time: 90s
Place: bahamas
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