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Police Film, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
Former CIA analyst Jack Ryan now teaches history at the United States Naval Academy. In London with his wife Cathy and their young daughter Sally, Ryan witnesses and intervenes in a terrorist kidnapping attempt on Lord William Holmes, the …
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action comedy film
Susan Cooper is a desk-bound CIA employee who remotely assists her partner, field agent Bradley Fine, on his missions. Fine accidentally kills arms dealer Tihomir Boyanov before Boyanov can tell Fine where a suitcase nuke is hidden. Susan …
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After foiling an assassination attempt by an Islamic jihadist on President Reagan, Secret Service agents Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are assigned as counterfeiting investigators in the Los Angeles field office. Days away from retirement,…
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Political Drama, Political Satire, Satire, biographical film, drama film, political drama, spy film
In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson, an East Texas Democrat, is more interested in partying than legislating, frequently throwing huge galas and staffing his congressional office with attractive young women. His social life eventually brin…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, action film, spy film, thriller film
A gang of Ukrainian mobsters manages to steal a device known as "The Handle", estimated to be worth billions, from a secret military black site in Kyiv. In response, the British government hires Nathan Jasmine to retrieve the Handle before…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Dark Comedy, Secret Agent, action film, comedy film, crime thriller film, spy film
Former CIA black ops agent Frank Moses lives in the suburbs and frequently tears up his pension checks in order to call center employee Sarah Ross, with whom he has fallen in love over the phone. One day, an assassination squad attacks Fra…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, science fiction film
In 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralyzed by agents of Men in Black after they see an alien in their home. Molly helps the alien escape, avoiding neuralyzation herself. Twenty-three years later, rejected from go…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, treasure hunt film
In San Francisco, private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly. She claims to be looking for her missing sister, who ran off from their home in New York and came to the city with a man named Floyd …
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Crime, Parodie, Secret Agent, Splatstick, parody film, spy film
In 2002, from his lair behind the Hollywood Sign, Dr. Evil unveils to Number 2, Mini-Me, Frau Farbissina, and Scott Evil his plan for world domination: traveling back in time to 1975 and partnering with the Dutch, gold-obsessed Johan van d…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, flashback film, political thriller film, spy film
In 1991, the United States and China are close to a major trade agreement, with the President due to visit China to seal the deal. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learns that its asset Tom Bishop has been arrested at a People's Liber…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, spy film, thriller film
In modern-day Russia, famous ballerina Dominika Egorova supports her infirm mother. Her career abruptly ends after her dance partner injures her during a performance. After the Bolshoi cuts her off, Dominika's Uncle Ivan, the deputy direct…
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Parodie, Satire, Secret Agent, Splatstick, parody film, spy film
On his honeymoon in 1999, British spy Austin Powers discovers that his wife, Vanessa Kensington, is actually an android "fembot" controlled by Dr. Evil. After Vanessa self-destructs, Austin celebrates that he is single again.
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crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, romance film, spy film, war film
Hong Kong, 1938 During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a shy and inexperienced university student, Wong Chia Chi, travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong to begin studying at Lingnan University. Male student Kuang Yumin invites her to join his pa…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, spy film, thriller film
In November 1989, days before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin kills MI6 agent James Gascoigne and steals his watch, which contains a microfilm document with a list of the names of every intelligence agent active in …
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
In Aleppo, Syria, a team of US Navy SEALs, including Senior Chief Petty Officer John Kelly, rescue a CIA operative taken hostage by a suspected pro-Assad para-military group. The situation escalates as the SEALs discover that the captors a…
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Romantic Drama, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, romance film, thriller film, war film
In 1942, during World War II, Wing Commander Max Vatan, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot with intelligence duties, travels to Casablanca in Morocco to assassinate a German ambassador. To pose as a married couple, he is partnered with a Fre…
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Action, Crime, Heist, Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film
In 1969, student hackers and long-time friends Martin Brice and Cosmo use their skills to reallocate money from causes they consider evil to underfunded ones that help the world. When Martin steps out to get pizza, the police arrive and ar…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, ninja film, science fiction film
Weapons master James McCullen has created a nanotech-based weapon—nanobots that can rapidly devour any non-organic materials. His company M.A.R.S. sells four warheads to NATO, and American soldiers Duke and Ripcord are tasked to deliver th…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, drama film, science fiction film
Henry Brogan, a 51-year-old former Force Recon Marine Scout Sniper working as an operative of the Defense Clandestine Service of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is sent to assassinate a bioterrorist aboard a train in Belgium. Henry's spot…
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Action, Romance Film, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, crime thriller film, science fiction film, spy film, thriller film, time-travel film
In New Orleans, a ferry carrying U.S. Navy sailors and their families across the Mississippi River for Mardi Gras explodes, killing 543 people. ATF Special Agent Doug Carlin discovers evidence of a bomb planted by a domestic terrorist, and…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, heist film, spy film, thriller film
At a bistro in Montmartre, IRA operative Deirdre meets with two Americans, Sam and Larry, and a Frenchman, Vincent. She takes them to a warehouse where Englishman Spence and German Gregor are waiting. Conversations among the men reveal tha…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Animation, Military Film, Musical, Satire On War, action film, marionette film, romantic comedy film, satirical film, war film
Team America, an international organization dedicated to counterterrorism, defeats a group of Islamic terrorists in Paris, but are very reckless and destroy the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre in the process. The team include…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
A joint operation between the FBI and the MVD in Moscow leads to the demise of the younger brother of Azerbaijani mafia kingpin Terek Murad. Intending to retaliate, Murad hires an ex-KGB asset, an international hitman operating under the c…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller
Mitch Rapp and his girlfriend Katrina Harper are on vacation in Ibiza, Spain. Moments after Katrina accepts Mitch's proposal of marriage, a jihadist cell lands on the beach and begins to attack the civilians with rifles. Amid the carnage, …
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