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1	The Lives of Others (2007) more movies like this directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck featuring Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme A man who has devoted his life to ferreting out "dangerous" characters is thrown into a quandary when he investigates a man who poses no threat in this drama, the first feature from German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It's 1984, and Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) is an agent of the Stasi, the East German Secret Police. Weisler ... see all copies from £2.47! new only from £10.00!
2	Three Days of the Condor (1975) more movies like this directed by Sydney Pollack featuring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman "His code name is Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him." As the ads ominously announced, a low-level spook confronts the unfathomable in Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller, adapted from the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor. CIA researcher Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find the ... see all copies from £3.21! new only from £4.96!
3	Spy Game (2001) more movies like this directed by Tony Scott featuring Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage thriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has gone rogue and been taken prisoner after attempting ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £3.03!
4	Syriana (2005) more movies like this directed by Stephen Gaghan featuring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former CIA case officer Robert Baer, Syriana combines ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £3.50!
5	The Sum of All Fears (2002) more movies like this directed by Phil Alden Robinson featuring Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical warfare. Ben Affleck takes the reins from Harrison ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £4.09!
6	The Pelican Brief (1993) more movies like this directed by Alan J. Pakula featuring Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), served as Callahan's mentor. When Callahan shares ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £2.33!
7	Absolute Power (1997) more movies like this directed by Clint Eastwood featuring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from a novel by David Baldacci and featuring a powerful all-star cast, the story works at different levels, not only as a straight-forward thriller but ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £4.42!
8	JFK (1991) more movies like this directed by Oliver Stone featuring Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been unable to find much fault with the conclusions his ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £3.92!
9	The Hunt for Red October (1990) more movies like this directed by John McTiernan featuring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £2.91!
10	The Sentinel (2006) more movies like this directed by Clark Johnson featuring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in this thriller. Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career helping protect the president of the United States. David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) is a fellow Secret ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £2.75!
11 view cover	Shooter (2007) more movies like this directed by Antoine Fuqua featuring Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas A top Marine sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. There was a time when Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) was the ... see all copies from £3.53! new only from £7.00!
12 view cover	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) more movies like this directed by John Frankenheimer featuring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War paranoia, the film seemed nearly as timely when it was ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £3.55!
13 view cover	Enemy of the State (1998) more movies like this directed by Tony Scott featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Sydney Pollack's ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £2.33!
14 view cover	No Way Out (1987) more movies like this directed by Roger Donaldson featuring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in 1993's Hot Shots! Part Deux). Several months pass ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £4.37!
15 view cover	Thirteen Days (2000) more movies like this directed by Roger Donaldson featuring Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after their 1987 pairing, No Way Out), only this time with a film based on the actual events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, taking place during the titular thirteen days wherein the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly engaged in full-scale nuclear ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £3.97!
16 view cover	The Day of the Jackal (1973) more movies like this directed by Fred Zinnemann featuring Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox). The police learn of the plot from an ... see all copies from £3.80! new only from £5.19!
17 view cover	The Crying Game (1992) more movies like this directed by Neil Jordan featuring Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA "volunteer" who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker), stationed in Northern Ireland. The ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £3.47!
18 view cover	The Boys From Brazil (1978) more movies like this directed by Franklin J. Schaffner featuring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot, traces the trail of evidence to Paraguay. Here he ... see all copies from £2.89! new only from £3.71!
19 view cover	Murder at 1600 (1997) more movies like this directed by Dwight H. Little featuring Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda A police detective finds that looking into a murder is anything but routine when one of the suspects is the President of the United States. When the nude and bloodied corpse of an attractive woman is found in a bathroom at the White House, Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), a top detective with the Washington D.C. police force, is assigned to ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £2.33!
20 view cover	Mississippi Burning (1988) more movies like this directed by Alan Parker featuring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself, Hackman charms and cajoles his way through the ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £4.37!
21 view cover	The Constant Gardener (2005) more movies like this directed by Fernando Meirelles featuring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite A man discovers a deadly secret when he tries to find out who killed the woman he loves in this suspense drama based on a novel by John Le Carré. Justin Quale (Ralph Fiennes) is a low-level British diplomat who has been given a new assignment in Kenya. Justin's wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), is an activist with a keen interest in issues of poverty ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £3.21!
22 view cover	Munich (2005) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful drama about the human costs of international terrorism ... see all copies from £2.89! new only from £4.65!
23 view cover	The Quiet American (2002) more movies like this directed by Phillip Noyce featuring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija Graham Greene's allegorical novel about America's role in the Vietnam conflict, and how it was perceived by the rest of the world, is brought to the screen for the second time in this adaptation directed by Phillip Noyce. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) is a British journalist who in 1952 is covering the early stages of the war in Indo-China for the ... see all copies from £2.33! new only from £7.11!
24 view cover	In the Line of Fire (1993) more movies like this directed by Wolfgang Petersen featuring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £2.83!
25 view cover	The Art of War (2000) more movies like this directed by Christian Duguay featuring Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Donald Sutherland, Michael Biehn A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn't exist now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the assassination of Wu (James Hong), China's ambassador to the United Nations, in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to ferret out the killer by ... see all copies from £1.17! new only from £4.60!

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