20 movies like Topaz, ordered by similarity : Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011), Spider in the Web(2019), Torn Curtain(1966), Mission: Impossible -- Fallout(2018), The Bourne Legacy(2012), The Departed(2006), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold(1966), Fair Game(2010), Atomic Blonde(2017), Our Kind of Traitor(2016), The Ipcress File(1965), The Sum of All Fears(2002) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1969
125 Minutes
Frédérick Stafford John Forsythe Dany Robin John Vernon Karin Dor Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Claude Jade Michel Subor Roscoe Lee Browne
cia agent spy kgb agent wife journalist suspenseful intense moscow copenhagen new york city harlem, n.y. cuba espionage nuclear weapons cold war mystery pursuit 1960s
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
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
Israel|Belgium|UK|Netherlands|Portugal
2019
114 Minutes
Ben Kingsley Monica Bellucci Itay Tiran Makram J. Khoury Stilian Keli Truus De Boer Marcel Hensema Luk Wyns Yakup Uzun Abbas Shirafkan Filip Peeters
spy agent enemy target friend informant bleak gripping intense thrilling suspenseful belgium betrayal lie spying going undercover government agents unintended consequences escape pursuit
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent, whose behavior has come into question.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
128 Minutes
Paul Newman Julie Andrews Lila Kedrova Hansjoerg Felmy Tamara Toumanova Ludwig Donath Wolfgang Kieling Günter Strack Gisela Fischer Mort Mills Carolyn Conwell
spy physicist friend communist fiancé fiancée suspenseful tense thrilling east germany copenhagen cold war nuclear weapons espionage defection romance escape love 1960s
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
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.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Japan
2012
135 Minutes
Jeremy Renner Rachel Weisz Edward Norton Stacy Keach Dennis Boutsikaris Oscar Isaac Joan Allen Albert Finney David Strathairn Scott Glenn Donna Murphy
cia agent spy scientist cia director doctor assassin crafty tense thrilling intense suspenseful cia office city philippines united states new york city alaska espionage assassination on the run
An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|Hong Kong
2006
152 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Jack Nicholson Mark Wahlberg Martin Sheen Ray Winstone Vera Farmiga Alec Baldwin James Badge Dale David O'Hara Mark Rolston
mobster criminal cop informant girlfriend wife dark intense gritty tense suspenseful frightening boston police station bar vehicle city apartment secret hideout crime mafia
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
1966
112 Minutes
Richard Burton Claire Bloom Oskar Werner Peter Van Eyck George Voskovec Sam Wanamaker Cyril Cusack Michael Hordern Bernard Lee
spy drunk intelligence officer interrogator jew communist bleak brooding gritty suspenseful tense london east berlin courtroom betrayal espionage cold war drinking sacrifice underdog
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2010
107 Minutes
Naomi Watts Sean Penn Sam Shepard Ty Burrell David Andrews Brooke Smith Noah Emmerich Bruce McGill Michael Kelly Liraz Charchi Khaled Nabawy
cia agent wife husband writer diplomat government official thrilling tense suspenseful washington, d.c. new york city government offices city home secret identity journalism corruption leaked information chase betrayal
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Gay & Lesbian, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Sweden|Hungary
2017
115 Minutes
Charlize Theron James McAvoy Eddie Marsan John Goodman Toby Jones James Faulkner Roland Møller Sofia Boutella Bill Skarsgård Sam Hargrave Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
spy partner secret agent police officer double agent cool dark intense spectacular sultry suspenseful berlin city government building espionage gunfight secret mission sex appeal discovery pursuit
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
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, 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, Action
USA|Germany|Canada
2002
118 Minutes
Ben Affleck Morgan Freeman James Cromwell Liev Schreiber Bridget Moynahan Alan Bates Ciarán Hinds Philip Baker Hall Ron Rifkin Bruce McGill Colm Feore
cia agent president scientist partner secret agent cia analyst thrilling suspenseful gripping intense washington, d.c. baltimore white house government building cia office big city espionage war terrorism nuclear attack
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1971
104 Minutes
Gene Hackman Fernando Rey Roy Scheider Tony Lo Bianco Marcel Bozzuffi Frédéric de Pasquale Bill Hickman Ann Rebbot Harold Gary Arlene Farber Eddie Egan
detective cop drug dealer drug smuggler engaging tense suspenseful new york city brooklyn, n.y. car showdown crime dangerous assignment drugs quest pursuit mystery 1970s
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1970
107 Minutes
George Peppard Joan Collins Judy Geeson Oscar Homolka Charles Gray Nigel Patrick Keith Michell George Baker Alexander Scourby Peter Bull Ernest Clark
spy secretary double agent wife scientist kgb agent suspenseful gritty london athens, greece istanbul espionage betrayal cold war love triangle defection mystery quest 1970s
A British Intelligence Agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
USA|Germany
2000
123 Minutes
Tom Cruise Dougray Scott Thandie Newton Ving Rhames Richard Roxburgh John Polson Brendan Gleeson Rade Serbedzija William Mapother Dominic Purcell Anthony Hopkins
agent scientist thief nemesis spy special agent thrilling suspenseful tense spectacular beach car mountain spain united states vehicle love virus disaster crash
IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
107 Minutes
Alec Guinness Burl Ives Maureen O'Hara Ernie Kovacs Noel Coward Ralph Richardson Jo Morrow Paul Rogers Gregoire Aslan Jose Prieto Duncan Macrae
expatriate secret agent double agent director secretary salesman cool amusing suspenseful havana, cuba london city apartment government offices store city espionage communism father/daughter relationship patriotism deception
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
South Africa|USA|Japan
2012
115 Minutes
Denzel Washington Ryan Reynolds Vera Farmiga Brendan Gleeson Sam Shepard Ruben Blades Nora Arnezeder Robert Patrick Liam Cunningham Joel Kinnaman Fares Fares
cia agent rogue agent boss mercenary british intelligence agent girlfriend thrilling suspenseful tense intense cape town, south africa safe house pentagon embassy shantytown cape town espionage car chase betrayal on the run
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
Crime, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|Portugal|West Germany
1966
89 Minutes
Antonio Vilar Letícia Román Peter Van Eyck Américo Coimbra Mikaela Artur Semedo Klausjürgen Wussow Corny Collins Ricardo Rubinstein José Cardoso Ricardo Valle
professor inventor kidnapper gangster agent secret agent engaging gripping suspenseful thrilling intense lisbon, portugal kidnapping secret secret formula fighting dangerous mission adventure rivalry pursuit
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1934
75 Minutes
Leslie Banks Peter Lorre Edna Best Frank Vosper Hugh Wakefield Nova Pilbeam Pierre Fresnay Cicely Oates D.A. Clarke-Smith George Curzon Henry Oscar
mother father daughter spy assassin tense suspenseful thrilling st. moritz england hotel london albert hall government secrets espionage kidnapping family murder adventure pursuit
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
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.