If You Liked Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Watch These Next
Finished Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, most of them are action, drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Sum of All Fears(2002)
6.4ThrillerActionDramaAlso thriller and action
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear…
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2.Clear and Present Danger(1994)
6.6ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to…
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3.The Amateur(2025)
6.9ThrillerActionAlso thriller and action
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
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4.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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5.The Bourne Ultimatum(2007)
7.4ActionDramaMysteryAlso action and drama
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best…
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6.The Hunt for Red October(1990)
7.4ActionThrillerAlso action and 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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7.The Bourne Supremacy(2004)
7.3ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again…
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8.Breach(2007)
6.6DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and thriller
Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned senior agent with 25 years in the FBI. However, he soon learns the reason for his promotion is to…
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9.You Only Live Twice(1967)
6.6ActionThrillerAdventureAlso action and thriller
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
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10.Live and Let Die(1973)
6.5AdventureActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
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11.The Falcon and the Snowman(1985)
6.4ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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12.Bridge of Spies(2015)
7.2ThrillerDramaAlso 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 CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young…
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13.Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol(2011)
7.1ActionThrillerAdventureAlso action and thriller
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated…
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15.Mission: Impossible III(2006)
6.8AdventureActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman…
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16.Conspiracy Theory(1997)
6.6ActionDramaMysteryAlso action and drama
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
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17.Murder at the Embassy(2025)
6.0MysteryThrillerActionAlso thriller and action
1934. Private detective Miranda Green investigates a murder perpetrated in the British Embassy in Cairo, where a top secret document was stolen, risking to jeopardize both Buckingham Palace and the peace of the world. All those present in this closed place are suspected: the American photographer, the English…
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18.Mission: Impossible(1996)
7.0AdventureActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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19.The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)
7.4ThrillerMysteryDramaAlso thriller and drama
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
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20.Blacklight(2022)
6.1ActionThrillerAdventureAlso action and thriller
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.
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