Movies Like The Cape Town Affair

If you liked The Cape Town Affair (1967), a action and thriller movie directed by Robert D. Webb, 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
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…
2
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also action
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep…
3
Batman (1943)
★ 6.2/10Also action
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and…
4
Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Federal 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…
5
Men in Black 3 (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also action
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the…
6
Johnny English (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also action
A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the…
7
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
★ 6.6/10Also action and thriller
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
8
Get Smart (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also action and thriller
When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field…
9
Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
10
Our Man Flint (1966)
★ 6.4/10Also action
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
11
North by Northwest (1959)
★ 8/10Also thriller
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
12
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also action
Lincoln and the Louds are ecstatic to welcome their new Gran-Gran, Myrtle, into the family with a tropical wedding celebration; but the festivities are cut short when an old nemesis from Myrtle's secret agent past…
13
Airborne (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also action
Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to…
14
Battleground (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also action
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…
15
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
★ 8/10Also action
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
16
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also action
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
17
Hatari! (1962)
★ 6.8/10Also action
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
18
Double Threat (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also action
With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.
19
The Silencers (1966)
★ 6/10Also action
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
20
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also action
As the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps faces a battle with an ancient enemy, Hal Jordan prepares new recruit Arisia for the coming conflict by relating stories of the first Green Lantern and several of Hal's…