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Movies Like Foreign Intrigue

If you liked Foreign Intrigue (1956), a thriller movie directed by Sheldon Reynolds, 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. 1Black Widow

    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…

  2. 2Deception

    Deception (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's…

  3. 3Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for…

  4. 4Fear Is the Key

    Fear Is the Key (1972)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.

  5. 5No Name on the Bullet

    No Name on the Bullet (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also 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.

  6. 6The Odessa File

    The Odessa File (1974)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of…

  7. 7The Man Who Cheated Himself

    The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

  8. 8The Quiller Memorandum

    The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    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.

  9. 9The House on Carroll Street

    The House on Carroll Street (1988)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…

  10. 10The Fifth Estate

    The Fifth Estate (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between…

  11. 11Anonymous

    Anonymous (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

  12. 12Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller

    A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

  13. 13The Deadly Affair

    The Deadly Affair (1967)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

    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…

  14. 14Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  15. 15Mad City

    Mad City (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

  16. 16The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes (1979)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow…

  17. 17The Independent

    The Independent (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made…

  18. 18Poker Night

    Poker Night (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.

  19. 19Cypher

    Cypher (2002)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

  20. 20Night Train to Lisbon

    Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for…

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