Movies Like Farewell
If you liked Farewell (2009), a thriller and drama movie directed by Christian Carion, 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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The Serpent (1973)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerVlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also…
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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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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and dramaWhen the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a…
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Spy, Stand Up (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and dramaSebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how…
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Army of Shadows (1969)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and thrillerBetrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant…
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thrillerBourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a…
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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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Two Prosecutors (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thrillerIn 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.
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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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Red Joan (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerLondon, 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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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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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
★ 7.4/10Also thrillerA new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst…
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerA CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who…
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Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10Also thrillerIn 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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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…
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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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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also thrillerWhen 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.
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Ice Station Zebra (1968)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA 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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North by Northwest (1959)
★ 8/10Also thrillerAdvertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.