If You Liked A Call to Spy, Watch These Next
Finished A Call to Spy (2020) 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 A Call to Spy, most of them are history, crime, drama.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.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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2.The Boy in the Woods(2023)
6.9DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and history
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
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3.Shattered Glass(2003)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a…
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4.Winged Creatures(2009)
5.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A…
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6.The Zone of Interest(2023)
7.0DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
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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7.Kid Galahad(1962)
6.2DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
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9.Cry of the City(1948)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism.…
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10.Victoria & Abdul(2017)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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11.The Quiller Memorandum(1966)
5.9ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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12.The Best of Enemies(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible…
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13.The Courier(2020)
7.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso history 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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15.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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16.The Outsiders(1983)
7.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
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17.Belfast(2021)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
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