Movies Like The Naked Runner

If you liked The Naked Runner (1967), a drama and thriller movie directed by Sidney J. Furie, 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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   North by Northwest (1959)

   ★ 8/10Also thriller

   Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

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   Topaz (1969)

   ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

   Copenhagen, 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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   13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

   ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

   Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles…

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   Foreign Correspondent (1940)

   ★ 7/10Also thriller

   American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a…

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   Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)

   ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

   In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.

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   The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

   ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and drama

   An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

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   Seven Days in May (1964)

   ★ 7.4/10Also drama and thriller

   A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

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   The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

   ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and drama

   After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

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   WarGames (1983)

   ★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller

   High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and…

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    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

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    The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller

    On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of…

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    The Deadly Affair (1967)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama

    Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have…

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    Pickup on South Street (1953)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller

    In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…

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    Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and thriller

    The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

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    Ice Station Zebra (1968)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the…

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    Operation Mincemeat (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning…

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    Red Joan (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the…

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    The Mechanic (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and…

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    Battleground (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…

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    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.