20 movies like Two Lives, ordered by similarity : Funeral in Berlin(1967), Callan(1974), The Holcroft Covenant(1985), The Quiller Memorandum(1966), The Invisibles(2017), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Bridge of Spies(2015), Legacy of Lies(2020), A Most Wanted Man(2014), The Debt(2010), The Man Between(1953), Confessions of a Nazi Spy(1939) ...
Mystery & Thriller
Germany|Norway
2012
95 Minutes
Juliane Köhler Liv Ullmann Dennis Storhøi Sven Nordin Julia Bache-Wiig Ken Duken Rainer Bock Thomas Lawincky
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As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."
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
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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, Drama
UK
1974
106 Minutes
Edward Woodward Eric Porter Carl Mohner Catherine Schell Peter Egan Russell Hunter
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David Callan top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1985
112 Minutes
Michael Caine Anthony Andrews Victoria Tennant Lilli Palmer Mario Adorf Michael Lonsdale Bernard Hepton Richard Münch Carl Rigg André Penvern Andy Bradford
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The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1966
105 Minutes
George Segal Alec Guinness Max von Sydow Senta Berger George Sanders Robert Helpmann Robert Flemyng Peter Carsten Ernst Walder Edith Schneider
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In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
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While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
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It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|Germany|India
2015
141 Minutes
Tom Hanks Mark Rylance Alan Alda Amy Ryan Eve Hewson Peter McRobbie Billy Magnussen Austin Stowell Domenick Lombardozzi Michael Gaston Sebastian Koch
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During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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
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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, 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
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A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK|Hungary|Israel
2010
112 Minutes
Helen Mirren Sam Worthington Tom Wilkinson Ciarán Hinds Jessica Chastain Marton Csokas Jesper Christensen Romi Aboulafia
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In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1953
101 Minutes
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In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West-Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet-sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Francis Lederer George Sanders Paul Lukas Henry O'Neill Lya Lys Grace Stafford James Stephenson Sig Ruman Frederic Tozere Dorothy Tree
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FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
1987
112 Minutes
Günter Meisner David Sust Marisa Paredes Gisela Echevarria Imma Colomer David Cuspinera
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A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
Mystery & Thriller, War
USA
1955
117 Minutes
John Wayne Lana Turner David Farrar Lyle Bettger Tab Hunter James Arness Wilton Graff Richard Davalos John Qualen Paul Fix Luis Van Rooten
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As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|West Germany
1974
128 Minutes
Jon Voight Maximilian Schell Maria Schell Mary Tamm Derek Jacobi Peter Jeffrey Klaus Löwitsch Kurt Meisel Hannes Messemer Garfield Morgan Shmuel Rodensky
journalist nazi ss officer vigilante bleak chilling dark gripping thrilling uneasy west germany secret society fugitives nazi hunting quest pursuit mystery underdog 20th century
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Mystery & Thriller
France
2008
97 Minutes
Vahina Giocante Nicolas Duvauchelle Simon Abkarian Gérard Lanvin Mehdi Nebbou Rachida Brakni Aurélien Wiik Katia Lewkowicz Kamel Belghazi Djemel Barek Carim Messalti
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In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
2014
90 Minutes
Maria Bello Olympia Dukakis Joan Jett Will Harris Ann Dowd Jennifer Kydd Juanita Peters Mary Colin Chisholm
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Her mind shattered, a novelist (Maria Bello) seeks revenge on the man who brutally assaulted her on a desolate New England road.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
103 Minutes
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains Louis Calhern Leopoldine Konstantin Reinhold Schünzel Moroni Olsen
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A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Mystery & Thriller
UK
2008
86 Minutes
Riz Ahmed Daniel Mays Jason Flemyng Nitin Ganatra Jay Simpson Dannielle Brent Francesca Annis Kate Groombridge Jason Maza Jordan Long Rory Jennings
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Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2017
94 Minutes
Denis Menochet Léa Drucker Thomas Gioria Mathilde Auneveux Mathieu Saïkaly Florence Janas Saadia Bentaïeb Sophie Pincemaille Émilie Incerti-Formentini Jérome Care-Aulanier Coralie Russier
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A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.