20 movies like Highly Dangerous, ordered by similarity : Kahaani(2012), Drum(2004), Postmark for Danger(1955), The Ghost Camera(1933), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011), The Bourne Identity(2002), May God Save Us(2015), The Guilty(2018), Rendezvous(1935), Spy Game(2001), Containment(2015), The 49th Man(1953) ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1951
88 Minutes
Margaret Lockwood Dane Clark Marius Goring Wilfrid Hyde-White Olaf Pooley Eric Pohlmann
researcher government agent reporter chief of police government official entomologist engaging tense melodramatic england laboratory communist country police station government offices espionage iron curtain scientific experiments journalism undercover operations police work
A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
Mystery & Thriller
India
2012
122 Minutes
Vidya Balan Parambrata Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Saswata Chatterjee Indraneil Sengupta
young man young woman pregnant woman missing person police officer assassin gripping intense engaging india calcutta, india apartment police station lodge office mystery mission search missing link husband/wife relationship
A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met him.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2004
102 Minutes
journalist investigator south african man photographer nelson mandela lover melodramatic emotional suspenseful engaging fascinating intense south africa apartheid racial tension racism attraction investigative journalism undercover operations adventure
In 1950s Johannesburg, black South African reporter Henry Nxumalo (Taye Diggs) uncovers an explosive story.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA
1955
84 Minutes
Terry Moore Robert Beatty William Sylvester Geoffrey Keen Josephine Griffin Allan Cuthbertson Henry Oscar William Lucas
actress artist diamond smugglers blackmailer murder suspect killer melodramatic brooding tense suspenseful engaging intense england murder blackmail crime syndicate alibi diamond smuggling father/daughter relationship discovery
A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Henry Kendall Ida Lupino John Mills Victor Stanley George Merritt Felix Aylmer
chemist amateur sleuth young woman detective coroner maid suspenseful chilling gripping engaging tense melodramatic england seaside murder investigation amateur detectives photograph search jewelry theft missing persons
As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK|France|Germany
2011
127 Minutes
Gary Oldman Kathy Burke Benedict Cumberbatch David Dencik Colin Firth Stephen Graham Tom Hardy Ciarán Hinds John Hurt Toby Jones Konstantin Khabensky
spy agent chief researcher deputy mole brooding intricate tense london istanbul budapest, hungary safe house office government building espionage infidelity cold war investigation homosexuality
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Czech Republic|France
2002
113 Minutes
Matt Damon Franka Potente Chris Cooper Clive Owen Brian Cox Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Gabriel Mick Walton Goggins Josh Hamilton Julia Stiles Orso Maria Guerrini
jason bourne girlfriend assassin government official killer amnesiac gripping thrilling intricate intense europe bank car government offices italy on the run identity memory loss pursuit government agents
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2015
127 Minutes
Antonio de la Torre Roberto Álamo Javier Pereira Luis Zahera Raúl Prieto Mónica López Alfonso Bassave
serial killer pope religious person detective investigator government official engaging thrilling suspenseful intense dark madrid spain police station street crime scene big city investigation murder mysterious deaths
Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they'd never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Denmark
2018
85 Minutes
Jakob Cedergren Jessica Dinnage Omar Shargawi Johan Olsen Jacob Hauberg Lohmann Katinka Evers-Jahnsen Jeanette Lindbæk Larsen Simon Bennebjerg Laura Bro
police officer ex-cop woman kidnapper villain suspect suspenseful thrilling engaging gripping intense emotional denmark police station kidnapping emergencies investigation murder danger fear
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1935
91 Minutes
William Powell Rosalind Russell Binnie Barnes Lionel Atwill Cesar Romero Samuel S. Hinds Henry Stephenson Frank Reicher Charley Grapewin Leonard Mudie Howard C. Hickman
reporter officer socialite spy girlfriend lieutenant melodramatic tense gripping hotel ocean military base restaurant espionage naval warfare deception secret codes jealousy romance quest
In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Japan|France|UK
2001
127 Minutes
Robert Redford Brad Pitt Catherine McCormack Stephen Dillane Larry Bryggman Michael Paul Chan Marianne Jean-Baptiste Ken Leung David Hemmings Matthew Marsh Todd Boyce
cia agent partner woman love interest mentor protégé intense suspenseful gripping china lebanon germany united states vietnam prison espionage capture government partnership unlikely allies
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
2015
73 Minutes
Lee Ross Sheila Reid Andrew Leung Gabriel Senior Louise Brealey Pippa Nixon Billy Postlethwaite
artist neighbor resident dark disturbing engaging intense suspenseful building london england europe apartment fear safety mystery health hazards strange happenings mysterious strangers rise
What happens when an epidemic breaks out, but you're kept in the dark? Anything can happen. Slowly the residents realize that they will all die unless they come together.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
73 Minutes
John Ireland Richard Denning Suzanne Dalbert Robert Foulk Michael Connors Richard Avonde
fbi agent chief jazz musician friend wife frenchman tense chilling los alamos, n.m. louisiana coney island submarine washington, d.c. marseilles, france atomic bomb investigation espionage government agents impersonation smuggling
During the Cold War, the Defense Department's War Games team smuggles 48 nuclear bomb parts into the USA to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack but an unexplained 49th bomb part mysteriously shows up.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Nina Foch William Wright Otto Kruger Konstantin Shayne Ivan Triesault Ernie S. Adams Mary Newton Ralph Dunn John Tyrrell Charles Jordan Noel Cravat
nurse government agent spy shop owner henchman stranger engaging tense san francisco hotel lobby repair shop bridge house espionage secret documents undercover operations world war ii post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares
During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Portugal
1956
90 Minutes
Ray Milland Maureen O'Hara Claude Rains Yvonne Furneaux Francis Lederer Percy Marmont Jay Novello Edward Chapman
femme fatale smuggler prisoner husband wife mysterious man tense witty thrilling melodramatic lisbon, portugal boat prison port smuggling murder plot inheritance iron curtain hidden agenda mission
High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. A smuggler is hired to kidnap the rich husband of an American woman who's just arrived in Lisbon, Portugal.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1956
120 Minutes
James Stewart Doris Day Brenda De Banzie Bernard Miles Ralph Truman Daniel Gélin Mogens Wieth Alan Mowbray Hillary Brooke Chris Olsen Reggie Nalder
kidnapper mother father son spy tense gripping melodramatic africa morocco london opera house murder espionage kidnapping family rescue pursuit adventure 1950s
A tale of innocent American tourists in Morocco whose son's kidnapping sets off a twisting plot of international intrigue.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA|Germany
2014
121 Minutes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Rachel McAdams Grigoriy Dobrygin Willem Dafoe Robin Wright Homayoun Ershadi Nina Hoss Franz Hartwig Daniel Brühl Kostja Ullmann Vicky Krieps
spy terrorist government official co-worker civilian muslim brooding emotional intense germany office street car apartment helicopter spying defection inheritance suspicion work
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1942
82 Minutes
Hugh Williams Carla Lehman James Mason Roland Culver Michael Wilding Herbert Lom Stewart Granger
agent resistance fighter partner bar owner officer captain confident tense engaging boat france normandy coast café forest espionage world war ii resistance deception betrayal nazis
Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
UK
2013
91 Minutes
Caity Lotz Toby Stephens Denis Lawson Lee Nicholas Harris Sam Hazeldine Helen Griffin Sule Rimi Jonathan Byrne Ben McGregor Jade Croot Pooneh Hajimohammadi
scientist soldier researcher cyborg android mother brutal disturbing patriotic suspenseful tense uneasy military base secret location underground office ocean laboratory cyborgs artificial intelligence
In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against China, UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA
2018
123 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Toby Kebbell Tatiana Maslany Sebastian Stan Scoot McNairy Bradley Whitford Toby Huss James Jordan Beau Knapp Jade Pettyjohn Shamier Anderson
police officer gang member gang leader criminal detective brash brutal bleak gripping intense california desert restaurant police station murder revenge police work undercover operations gangs pursuit
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Belgium|France
2016
113 Minutes
Adèle Haenel Jean-Pierre Dardenne Olivier Bonnaud Jérémie Renier Louka Minnella Christelle Cornil Nadège Ouedraogo Olivier Gourmet Pierre Sumkay Yves Larec Ben Hamidou
doctor intern mysterious girl murder victim detective family member brooding emotional intense belgium office france apartment police station car mystery guilt search intimidation determination
A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.