If You Liked The Courier, Watch These Next
Finished The Courier (2020) 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 The Courier, most of them are thriller, history, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.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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2.Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit(2014)
6.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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3.The Sum of All Fears(2002)
6.4ThrillerActionDramaAlso thriller and drama
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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4.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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5.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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6.The Bourne Ultimatum(2007)
7.4ActionDramaMysteryAlso drama and thriller
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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7.Clear and Present Danger(1994)
6.6ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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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10.Operation Mincemeat(2022)
6.5WarHistoryDramaAlso history and drama
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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11.The Deadly Affair(1967)
6.3ThrillerMysteryDramaAlso thriller and drama
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector,…
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12.The Hunting Party(2007)
6.5ActionAdventureThrillerAlso thriller and drama
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
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13.A Call to Spy(2020)
6.7HistoryCrimeDramaAlso history and drama
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide…
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14.The Counterfeit Traitor(1962)
6.4WarThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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15.Richard Jewell(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryCrimeAlso drama and history
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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16.WarGames(1983)
7.1DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso drama and thriller
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius,…
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17.Patriots Day(2016)
7.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso drama and history
In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.
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18.The Bourne Supremacy(2004)
7.3ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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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20.Official Secrets(2019)
7.2ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso 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 Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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