Movies Like Opium Poppy

If you liked Opium Poppy (1955), a movie directed by Congmei Yuan, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
From Paris with Love (2010)
★ 6.5/10
James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an…
2
The Shadow's Edge (2025)
★ 8.4/10
Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.
3
Freelance (2023)
★ 6.4/10
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle…
4
Che: Part One (2008)
★ 6.8/10
Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.
5
Che: Part Two (2008)
★ 6.6/10
Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.
6
Mile 22 (2018)
★ 6.3/10
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an…
7
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
★ 6.5/10
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as…
8
Apocalypse Now (1979)
★ 8.3/10
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret…
9
Cleaner (2025)
★ 6.6/10
When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building must save those trapped…
10
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
★ 6.8/10
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as…
11
Heart of Stone (2023)
★ 6.7/10
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
12
Enter the Dragon (1973)
★ 7.4/10
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
13
North Sea Hijack (1980)
★ 6.3/10
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
14
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
★ 7.2/10
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's…
15
Breach (2007)
★ 6.6/10
Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned…
16
The Internship (2026)
★ 6.4/10
A CIA-trained assassin recruits other graduates from her secret childhood program, The Internship, to violently destroy the organization. The CIA fights back with deadly force.
17
Serpico (1973)
★ 7.5/10
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
18
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
★ 7.3/10
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
19
Skyfall (2012)
★ 7.3/10
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of…
20
The Interpreter (2005)
★ 6.3/10
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.