20 movies like The Berlin File, ordered by similarity : MI-5(2015), Avalanche Express(1979), Bobby Z(2007), The Kingdom(2007), Headlock(2019), Taken 2(2012), Mission: Impossible -- Fallout(2018), Argo(2012), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), The Bourne Ultimatum(2007), Maze(2017), The Fugitive(1993) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
2013
120 Minutes
Ha Jung-woo Suk-kyu Han Seung-beom Ryu Gianna Werner Daehn John Keogh Numan Acar Tayfun Bademsoy
diplomat agent wife thrilling berlin weapons plot investigation escape
Jong-seong (Jung-woo Ha), a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
UK
2015
104 Minutes
Kit Harington Peter Firth Jennifer Ehle Tim McInnerny Elyes Gabel Tuppence Middleton Eleanor Matsuura Lara Pulver David Harewood Michael Wildman
british intelligence agent terrorist wrongly accused secret agent teamwork gripping tense dark thrilling emotional london big city terrorism manhunt escape redemption conspiracy corruption escape pursuit
When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.
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, Crime, Drama, Action
USA|Germany
2007
97 Minutes
Paul Walker Laurence Fishburne Olivia Wilde Jason Lewis Chuck Liddell Keith Carradine Jason Flemyng M.C. Gainey Zoska Aleece
drug lord ex-convict dea agent ex-marine son thrilling california loss escape drugs identity theft escape
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA|Germany|United Arab Emirates
2007
110 Minutes
Jamie Foxx Chris Cooper Jennifer Garner Jason Bateman Ashraf Barhoum Ali Suliman Jeremy Piven Richard Jenkins Tim McGraw Kyle Chandler Frances Fisher
special agent fbi agent forensic expert technician reporter police officer tense frenetic thrilling intense emotional saudi arabia oil field washington, d.c. war zone foreign relations oil bombing investigation unlikely allies
A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|United Arab Emirates
2019
102 Minutes
Dianna Agron Mark Polish Justin Bartha Patrick Bauchau Andy Garcia James Frain Bar Paly Johnny Pemberton
cia agent wife former secret agent ex-cia agent doctor mother thrilling suspenseful intricate brooding gripping tense home cia office america truth inside job cia secret mission protection
A CIA agent is sent on a mission and ends up in a coma. CIA want to extract intel from his brain a lethal way but his wife says no. His comatose mind is active. She decides to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
France|USA|Turkey|UK
2012
92 Minutes
Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Famke Janssen Rade Serbedzija Leland Orser Jon Gries D.B. Sweeney Luke Grimes Kevork Malikyan Alain Figlarz Frank Alvarez
ex-cia agent father daughter ex-wife kidnapper gripping suspenseful thrilling istanbul city hideout past crimes family dysfunction abduction investigation revenge escape 2010s
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
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, Drama, History
USA|UK
2012
120 Minutes
Ben Affleck Bryan Cranston Alan Arkin John Goodman Victor Garber Tate Donovan Clea DuVall Scoot McNairy Rory Cochrane Christopher Denham Kerry Bishé
cia agent specialist hostage revolutionary ambassador wife brutal tense suspenseful thrilling tehran, iran cia office canada united states airplane protest iran hostage crisis on the run political intrigue schemes
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
prisoner prison guard bank robber wife detective escape artist amusing gutsy bleak suspenseful tense california san quentin penitentiary prison bank car escape bank heist life story prison
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Germany|France|Spain
2007
115 Minutes
Matt Damon Julia Stiles Joan Allen David Strathairn Scott Glenn Paddy Considine Edgar Ramírez Albert Finney Tom Gallop Corey Johnson Daniel Brühl
jason bourne reporter secret agent assassin government official thrilling creative intricate europe london tangiers, morocco memory loss government agents knowledge the past survival discovery escape mystery 2000s
Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2017
92 Minutes
Martin McCann Niamh McGrady Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Barry Ward Eileen Walsh Andy Kellegher David Coakley Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Aaron Monaghan James Browne Ross McKinney
prisoner freedom fighter terrorist ira agent fascinating gripping tense thrilling prison europe ireland northern ireland prison break prison escape adventure quest escape 1980s
Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA
1993
127 Minutes
Harrison Ford Tommy Lee Jones Sela Ward Julianne Moore Joe Pantoliano Jeroen Krabbé Andreas Katsulas Daniel Roebuck L. Scott Caldwell
surgeon marshal widower wife gripping thrilling suspenseful chicago train mystery conspiracy murder escape pursuit quest 1990s
Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|Kenya|France|USA|Switzerland
2005
128 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes Rachel Weisz Danny Huston Bill Nighy Pete Postlethwaite Richard McCabe Donald Sumpter Juliet Aubrey Hubert Koundé Archie Panjabi Gerard McSorley
diplomat activist husband wife doctor friend emotional intense suspenseful london kenya berlin canada espionage corruption conspiracy big business romance investigation quest
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
France
2010
84 Minutes
Gilles Lellouche Roschdy Zem Gérard Lanvin Elena Anaya Mireille Perrier Claire Perot Moussa Maaskri Pierre Benoist Valérie Dashwood Virgile Bramly Nicky Naude
student pregnant wife henchmen thrilling hospital on the run life criminals the police escape
Samuel, a male nurse, saves the life of a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's wife hostage and force him to spring their boss.
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.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2016
106 Minutes
Mario Casas José Coronado Bárbara Lennie Ana Wagener Francesc Orella Paco Tous David Selvas San Yélamos Iñigo Gastesi
businessman dead person murder suspect lawyer wife lover emotional engaging suspenseful thrilling intense apartment murder murder plot innocence relationships investigation suspicion adventure discovery
A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.
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, Action
UK
2017
95 Minutes
Dominic Cooper Connie Nielsen Gemma Chan Tyler Hoechlin Tom Felton Thomas Kretschmann Derek Jacobi Austin Stowell Igal Naor Jake Fairbrother Olegar Fedoro
man special agent secret agent murderer friend thrilling rousing raw powerful london iraq biological weapons mission adventure discovery revenge pursuit rescue escape 2010s
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.
Drama, Action, Biography, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
USA
2007
110 Minutes
Chris Cooper Ryan Phillippe Laura Linney Dennis Haysbert Gary Cole Bruce Davison Mary Jo Deschanel Clare Stone Jonathan Watton Catherine Burdon Aaron Abrams
spy fbi agent boss wife enemy suspenseful household office elevator washington, d.c. espionage computers investigation surveillance deception mystery fall 2000s
FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Action
USA
1997
115 Minutes
Nicolas Cage John Cusack John Malkovich Steve Buscemi Ving Rhames Colm Meaney Mykelti Williamson Rachel Ticotin Monica Potter Dave Chappelle M.C. Gainey
parolee convict serial killer pedophile wife federal agent campy frenetic spectacular outlandish thrilling gritty carson city, nev. las vegas sands hotel lerner airfield airplane swimming pool prison break flying
Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.