Movies Like The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
If you liked The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), a drama and thriller movie directed by Martin Ritt, 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.
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The Courier (2020)
★ 7/10Also thriller and dramaCold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Bridge of Spies (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and dramaDuring the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a…
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Topaz (1969)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerCopenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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The Amateur (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerAfter his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
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Breach (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerEric 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…
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thrillerA roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerAfter learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
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The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerA reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and dramaThe true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerJack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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Mank (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also drama1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Ministry of Fear (1944)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerStephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and…
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Trumbo (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Insomnia (2002)
★ 7/10Also thriller and dramaTwo Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAs the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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The Company You Keep (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerA former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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Snowden (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerCIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerFederal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerSmilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that…
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerNew CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.