Movies Like Make Your Bets Ladies

If you liked Make Your Bets Ladies (1965), a comedy and thriller movie directed by Marcel Ophüls, 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
Spycies (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Vladimir and Hector, two secret agents opposed in every way, are trying to recover a top secret material stolen by unknown intruders.
2
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological…
3
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the…
4
Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
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…
5
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
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.
6
Canary Black (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the…
7
The Fix (2026)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
Disillusioned by the end of the war in Afghanistan, a group of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operatives set out to Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
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My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
9
The 355 (2022)
★ 6/10Also thriller
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
10
The Last Mercenary (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.
11
Charlie's Angels (2000)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back! When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels, aided by their loyal…
12
Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
After 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…
13
The Gray Man (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
14
Nikita (1990)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
15
Shadow Force (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on…
16
The Amateur (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller
After 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.
17
North by Northwest (1959)
★ 8/10Also thriller
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
18
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international…
19
True Lies (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into…
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo…