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10 Best Movies Like The Catcher Was a Spy

If you loved The Catcher Was a Spy, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Attack of the Beast Creatures

Attack of the Beast Creatures

1985★ 4.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Catcher Was a Spy for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. ...

#2
100 Days of Loneliness

100 Days of Loneliness

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Catcher Was a Spy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An extraordinary and touching tale about a man alone in the nature....

#3
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

1948★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Catcher Was a Spy for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War....

#4
Bushwhacked

Bushwhacked

1995★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Catcher Was a Spy for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike...

#5
The Grey Zone

The Grey Zone

2001★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Catcher Was a Spy for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assi...

#6
The War Below

The War Below

2021★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Catcher Was a Spy for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate o...