20 best movies like Bridge of Spies (2015)

List of the best movies like Bridge of Spies (2015): The Fifth Estate, Zero Dark Thirty, Truth, Detroit, True Story, Torn Curtain, The Chamber, Lincoln, The Ides of March, Miss Sloane.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA, India, Belgium
Duration02:08

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:37

    A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration02:06

    A behind-the-scenes look at news anchor Dan Rather during his final days at C.B.S. News when he broadcast a damaging report about how President Bush relied on privilege and family connections to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, India
    Duration02:30

    A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:30

      An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Malta
      Duration02:28

      In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, western, crime, history
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:51

      It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
      Duration02:21

      Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:14

      London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryCzech Republic, USA

      The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Israel, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:02

      A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, history, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
      Duration01:38

      The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, history
      CountryDenmark, Canada, USA
      Duration01:47

      An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grizzly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
      CountryUSA

      Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

        The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:51

        A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary, Israel
        Duration01:53

          Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrethriller, drama, biography
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:54

          Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian,” the film follows the true story of Picard (Del Toro), a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainable symptoms shortly thereafter. He travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he meets Devereux (Amalric), thus beginning a professional and personal friendship guided by compassion and understanding of Native American culture.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:48

          In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrethriller, drama, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:33

          November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
          CountryUSA

          A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
          Duration01:37

          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 Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, history, sport
          CountryPoland, USA

          During 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, military, history
          CountryFrance, Germany, United Kingdom, USA

          Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:23

          A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

          A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:30

          This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.

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