Movies like Breach
If Breach's mix of undercover, spy and fbi stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Breach's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Conversation
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: spy, surveillance · Also crime and drama
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Heart of Stone
2023 · Directed by Tom Harper · 122 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: undercover, spy · Also crime and thriller
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
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Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 141 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: fbi · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (2000s)
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
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All the President's Men
1976 · Directed by Alan J. Pakula · 138 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: fbi · Also drama and thriller
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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Argo
2012 · Directed by Ben Affleck · 120 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: political thriller · Also drama and thriller
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
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Bridge of Spies
2015 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 141 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: spy · Also thriller and drama
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a…
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Official Secrets
2019 · Directed by Gavin Hood · 112 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 2000s · Also thriller and history
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security…
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The Truman Show
1998 · Directed by Peter Weir · 103 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Laura Linney · Shares: suspicion
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
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Snowden
2016 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 135 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: political thriller · Also drama and history
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · Directed by Martin Ritt · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: spy · Also drama and thriller
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
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The Courier
2020 · Directed by Dominic Cooke · 112 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: undercover · Also thriller and history
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Ministry of Fear
1944 · Directed by Fritz Lang · 86 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: spy · Also crime and thriller
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and…