Movies Like The Catcher Was a Spy
If you liked The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), a drama and war movie directed by Ben Lewin, 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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J. Edgar (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyAs the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his…
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Apt Pupil (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerOne day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later…
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
★ 7.2/10Also war and dramaIn the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting…
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Decision Before Dawn (1951)
★ 6.8/10Also war and thrillerWWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…
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Panther (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyIn this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
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The Partisan (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also war and thrillerA Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive.
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The Beguiled (1971)
★ 7/10Also thriller and historyOffbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The…
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The Angel (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and historyTrue story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century…
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Driven (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and historyFBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
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Schindler's List (1993)
★ 8.6/10Also drama and historyThe true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerWhen the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerGeorge Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and…
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The Krays (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and historyTwins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…
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Goldeneye (1989)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and historyBritish writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.
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Oppenheimer (2023)
★ 8/10Also drama and historyThe story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and warAfter 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…
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also history and dramaA chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
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Live by Night (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and historyA group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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In Too Deep (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerDrug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an…
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12 Strong (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also war and historyA team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.