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Where the Spies Are (1966)

  • Comedy
  • 110 min
  • NR age guide
  • ★ 5.4/10 from 11 ratings

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

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  1. 01

    The Assassination Bureau

    Strong story similarity

    1969 · 112 min · Action · Adventure · Comedy · Crime · Thriller

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    In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  2. 03

    The Blonde from Peking

    Strong story similarity

    1967 · 84 min · Comedy · Thriller

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    Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: cold war and paris, france
    • substantial genre overlap
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  3. 04

    Day for Night

    Strong story similarity

    1973 · 116 min · Comedy · Drama

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    A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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  4. 05

    Otley

    Strong story similarity

    1969 · 91 min · Comedy · Thriller

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    A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 06

    The Door Slams

    Shared cast

    1960 · 90 min · Comedy

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    Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich English lord, André Costais, an intractable industrialist, is struggling to impose his authority on his family.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a principal cast member
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  6. 07

    The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

    Similar atmosphere

    1974 · 90 min · Comedy

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    Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared theme: paris, france
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  7. 08

    Arabesque

    Strong story similarity

    1966 · 105 min · Action · Comedy · Mystery · Thriller

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    When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  8. 09

    Agent 38-24-36

    Strong story similarity

    1964 · 105 min · Comedy · Romance

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    A Russian spy is assigned to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilisation. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted Soviet intelligence agent needs all the help he can get from his 'talented' partner Penelope Lightfeather as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendezvous while trying to avoid being caught by counterintelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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