Movies Like The Man From Chungking

If you liked The Man From Chungking (1943), a movie directed by Hiroyuki Yamamoto, 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
The Courier (2020)
★ 7/10
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
2
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…
3
Cypher (2002)
★ 6.6/10
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.
4
Sniper: No Nation (2026)
★ 6.8/10
Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero lead a rescue mission in Costa Verde when their friends are taken hostage.
5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
★ 7.5/10
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the…
6
Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding…
7
Telefon (1977)
★ 6.6/10
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their…
8
Invisible Agent (1942)
★ 5.8/10
Frank Raymond, grandson of the original Invisible Man, uses his family's secret chemical formula to become invisible and volunteer as an Allied spy following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He infiltrates Nazi Germany to…
9
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…
10
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.
11
Impostor (2001)
★ 6.1/10
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
12
Back in Action (2025)
★ 6.4/10
Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.
13
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
★ 7.2/10
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
14
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
★ 6.2/10
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
15
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
★ 7.3/10
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
16
Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
★ 6/10
During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on…
17
My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
18
Eraser (1996)
★ 6.1/10
Eraser, an elite federal marshal who "erases" the pasts of jeopardized informers and relocates them into safe anonymity, must protect a moving target who stands to uncover a conspiracy that could shift the balance of…
19
The Union (2024)
★ 6/10
A New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.
20
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
★ 6.6/10
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.