If You Liked Argo, Watch These Next
Finished Argo (2012) 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 Argo, most of them are drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Salt(2010)
6.4ActionMysteryThrillerAlso thriller
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. She goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead…
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2.The November Man(2014)
6.1CrimeActionThrillerAlso thriller
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
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3.Canary Black(2024)
6.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
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5.All the Old Knives(2022)
6.0ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
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6.The Gray Man(2022)
6.9ActionThrillerAlso thriller
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
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7.Not Without My Daughter(1991)
6.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
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8.Nothing But the Truth(2008)
6.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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9.The Report(2019)
7.0DramaAlso drama
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
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10.American Assassin(2017)
6.4ActionAdventureThrillerAlso thriller
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
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11.The Operative(2019)
5.8DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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.
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13.Septembers of Shiraz(2015)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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15.Spy Game(2001)
6.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso thriller
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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16.The Equalizer 2(2018)
6.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.
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17.Adulterers(2016)
6.2ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to learn how far a jealous husband will go.
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18.The Recruit(2003)
6.4ActionThrillerAlso thriller
A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
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19.Patriot Games(1992)
6.7DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and thriller
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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20.The Sentinel(2006)
6.1ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators…
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