20 movies like Ice Station Zebra, ordered by similarity : Hunter Killer(2018), Crimson Tide(1995), Avalanche Express(1979), Our Kind of Traitor(2016), The Jigsaw Man(1984), Funeral in Berlin(1967), Kahaani(2012), The Ipcress File(1965), Fail Safe(2000), Sicario: Day of the Soldado(2018), Mission: Impossible -- Fallout(2018), 400 Days(2015) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1968
148 Minutes
Rock Hudson Ernest Borgnine Patrick McGoohan Jim Brown Tony Bill Lloyd Nolan Alf Kjellin Gerald S. O'Loughlin Ted Hartley Murray Rose Ron Masak
commander admiral spy russian intelligence officer colonel confident crafty gripping arctic submarine espionage mission international conflict search adventure quest rivalry discovery cold war
USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|China|France|USA
2018
121 Minutes
Gerard Butler Gary Oldman Common Michael Nyqvist Linda Cardellini Zane Holtz Caroline Goodall Alexander Diachenko Michael Gor Yuri Kolokolnikov Toby Stephens
submarine officer soldier navy seal russian minister tense suspenseful thrilling submarine pentagon white house office base camp ship political coup submarine navy mission war quest
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1995
115 Minutes
Denzel Washington Gene Hackman George Dzundza Viggo Mortensen James Gandolfini Matt Craven Lillo Brancato Jr. Rocky Carroll Danny Nucci Steve Zahn Rick Schroder
captain lieutenant commander officer sailor executive officer submarine officer tense thrilling gripping submarine russia washington, d.c. command center government offices nuclear weapons seafaring mutiny leadership war anger
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Ireland|USA
1979
88 Minutes
Robert Shaw Lee Marvin Linda Evans Maximilian Schell Joe Namath Horst Buchholz Michael Connors Claudio Cassinelli Kristina Nel David Hess Günter Meisner
russian russian general cia agent agent spy kgb agent thrilling engaging suspenseful gripping milan milan, italy train swiss alps plot disaster dangerous mission spying natural disasters terror
Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|France|USA
2016
108 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Stellan Skarsgård Damian Lewis Naomie Harris Jeremy Northam Khalid Abdalla Mark Gatiss Saskia Reeves Alicia von Rittberg Alec Utgoff Mark Stanley
money lender spy love interest russian mobster traitor british intelligence agent tense suspenseful thrilling morocco russia united kingdom london england cia office money laundering espionage spying russian mob treason
A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1984
91 Minutes
Michael Caine Laurence Olivier Susan George Robert Powell Charles Gray Michael Medwin Sabine Sun David Kelly Peter Burton
former secret agent soviet soldier spy russian spy undercover agent gory suspenseful thrilling brooding intense russia england operating room cia office plastic surgery secret documents spying mission identity adventure
An MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1967
102 Minutes
Michael Caine Oscar Homolka Eva Renzi Paul Hubschmid Guy Doleman Rachel Gurney Hugh Burden Thomas Holtzmann Günter Meisner Heinz Schubert Marthe Keller
secret agent colonel intelligence officer spy love interest criminal bleak dark dense disheartening melodramatic suspenseful berlin germany east germany east berlin london spying relationships international chase
A British Agent is sent to East Berlin to receive a Communist defector, but the true situation turns out to be rather more complicated.
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, Action
UK
1965
109 Minutes
Michael Caine Nigel Green Guy Doleman Sue Lloyd Gordon Jackson Aubrey Richards Frank Gatliff Thomas Baptiste Oliver MacGreevy Barry Raymond Pauline Winter
spy scientist intelligence officer guard love interest thrilling intense gripping london office apartment train warehouse investigation espionage kidnapping brainwashing corruption deception mystery
In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
Mystery & Thriller
2000
97 Minutes
George Clooney Noah Wyle Richard Dreyfuss Hank Azaria Brian Dennehy Harvey Keitel Don Cheadle James Cromwell Sam Elliott John Diehl Norman Lloyd
general colonel president translator pilot gripping tense omaha, neb. arctic moscow pentagon white house nuclear war cold war difficult decision international conflict military rivalry rescue 1960s
An Air Force bomber pilot (George Clooney) receives erroneous orders to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA|Mexico
2018
122 Minutes
Benicio Del Toro Josh Brolin Isabela Moner Jeffrey Donovan Catherine Keener Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Matthew Modine Shea Whigham Elijah Rodriguez Howard Ferguson Jr. David Castañeda
attorney father hostage drug enforcement agent drug trafficker fbi agent brash gutsy gripping gritty unrestrained mexican-american border mexico office house car truck drug cartel drug trade revenge
The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
USA|China|France|Norway|UK
2018
147 Minutes
Tom Cruise Henry Cavill Ving Rhames Simon Pegg Rebecca Ferguson Sean Harris Angela Bassett Michelle Monaghan Alec Baldwin Vanessa Kirby Wes Bentley
cia agent assassin secret agent spy arms dealer terrorist thrilling suspenseful tense gripping helicopter truck cliff basement base camp italy weapons terrorism undercover operations secret mission
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2015
91 Minutes
Brandon Routh Caity Lotz Ben Feldman Dane Cook Tom Cavanagh Grant Bowler Dominic Bogart Fernanda Romero
astronaut commander crew member man woman frightening confident disturbing spectacular fascinating suspenseful space spaceship simulated reality research station space travel mission reality experiments research
With their 400-day mission simulation nearing completion, 4 astronauts begin to feel something's amiss.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Netherlands|UK|Poland|Ukraine|USA
2020
101 Minutes
Scott Adkins Honor Kneafsey Andrea Vasiliou Martin McDougall Matt Mitler Yuliia Sobol Sami Karim Tom Ashley Victor Solé
secret service agent spy british intelligence agent russian spy gritty melodramatic confident nightclub street car espionage secret service discovery pursuit escape 2020s
An ex-MI6 agent is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes to uncover the shocking truth about operations conducted by unknown secret services.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1954
93 Minutes
Gregory Peck Broderick Crawford Anita Björk Rita Gam Walter Abel Buddy Ebsen Casey Adams Jill Esmond
colonel ex-lover elderly person father spy suspenseful thrilling west berlin military hospital kidnapping espionage conspiracy communism bureaucracy nazis quest rescue discovery cold war
During the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.
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|Hong Kong
2018
102 Minutes
Dwayne Johnson Neve Campbell Chin Han Roland Møller Noah Taylor Byron Mann Pablo Schreiber McKenna Roberts Noah Cottrell Hannah Quinlivan Adrian Holmes
fbi agent hostage veteran wife child criminal thrilling suspenseful confident tense gripping skyscraper office basement elevator apartment frame-up fire rescue family
A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family is trapped inside by criminals.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
UK|Russia|USA
2014
115 Minutes
Jude Law Scoot McNairy Ben Mendelsohn David Threlfall Konstantin Khabensky Michael Smiley Jodie Whittaker Sergey Puskepalis Grigoriy Dobrygin Sergey Veksler Sergey Kolesnikov
sea captain sailor crew member british man russian rival brutal dark tense ocean submarine great britain russia underwater treasure greed cultural differences sailing violence adventure
In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA|UK
2018
106 Minutes
Jamie Lee Curtis Judy Greer Andi Matichak Will Patton Virginia Gardner Nick Castle Haluk Bilginer James Jude Courtney Miles Robbins Dylan Arnold Drew Scheid
victim serial killer murderer rival psychopath creepy uneasy tense gory gripping thrilling haddonfield, ill. house forest mental institution suburb bus murder escape revenge
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2019
109 Minutes
John Goodman Ashton Sanders Jonathan Majors Vera Farmiga Kevin Dunn James Ransone Alan Ruck Madeline Brewer Machine Gun Kelly Kevin J. O'Connor Ben Daniels
rebel alien insurgent leader villain uneasy intense brooding thrilling suspenseful washington, d.c. beach building office garage football field rebellion occupation alien invasion war
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extraterrestrial force, 'Captive State' explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|India|France
2013
106 Minutes
Liam Hemsworth Harrison Ford Gary Oldman Amber Heard Lucas Till Embeth Davidtz Julian McMahon Josh Holloway Richard Dreyfuss
business owner rival corporate spy engineer ceo confident tense office skyscraper city corporate culture espionage business scheme secrets adventure rivalry wretched excess 2010s
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.