If You Liked Eye of the Needle, Watch These Next
Finished Eye of the Needle (1981) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Eye of the Needle, most of them are drama, thriller.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.The Spy Who Loved Me(1977)
6.8AdventureActionThrillerAlso thriller
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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3.The Hunt for Red October(1990)
7.4ActionThrillerAlso thriller
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours…
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4.K-19: The Widowmaker(2002)
6.6HistoryThrillerWarAlso thriller
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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5.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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6.The Sea Chase(1955)
6.3WarActionDramaAlso drama
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered…
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7.The Guns of Navarone(1961)
7.3AdventureDramaWarAlso drama
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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8.The Book Thief(2013)
7.5DramaAlso drama
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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9.Ministry of Fear(1944)
6.9CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso 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 doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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10.Alone in Berlin(2016)
6.7WarThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they…
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12.Operation Pacific(1951)
6.1WarDramaActionAlso drama
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win…
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13.Valkyrie(2008)
7.0DramaThrillerWarAlso drama and thriller
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and…
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14.The House on Carroll Street(1988)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate,…
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15.Appointment with Death(1988)
6.1ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and drama
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found…
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16.Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin(2024)
6.7HistoryDramaWarAlso drama
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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17.The Courier(2020)
7.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso thriller and drama
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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18.The Caveman's Valentine(2001)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but…
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