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10 Best Movies Like The Spy

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

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#1
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#2
The Scar

The Scar

1976★ 6.5

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

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the loc...

#3
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#4
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

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