Movies Like Confidential Agent (1945)

Confidential Agent is a 1945 drama, thriller film from Herman Shumlin with a MovieMagicScore of 5.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Confessions of a Nazi Spy and North by Northwest.

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

6.0

MagicScore

North by Northwest

1959

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

8.0

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Shanghai

2010

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

6.1

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Red Ghost

2021

December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.

5.9

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Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist

2023

An in-depth interview with José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA.

7.0

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Torrente 3: The Protector

2005

A popular and beautiful politician plans to expose the evil-doings of a multinational corporation. Hoping to silence her, the corporation's top executives decide to hire the most incompetent detective they can find to act as her bodyguard.

5.4

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Wrath of Silence

2018

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has mysteriously disappeared while shepherding his small flock.

7.1

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Kill Your Darlings

2013

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

7.0

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The Last Supper

1995

A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.

6.5

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#10

The Molly Maguires

1970

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.

6.3

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#11

Mine 9

2019

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

5.6

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#12

V for Vendetta

2006

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

7.9

MagicScore

#13

Difficult Years

1948

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

7.7

MagicScore

#14

The Usual Suspects

1995

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

8.2

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#15

Matewan

1987

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

7.4

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#16

How Green Was My Valley

1941

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

7.3

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#17

Coal Miner's Daughter

1980

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

7.2

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#18

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

7.1

MagicScore

#19

Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

2012

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

7.1

MagicScore

#20

Captain Phillips

2013

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

7.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Confidential Agent?

The top films similar to Confidential Agent by MovieMagicScore are Confessions of a Nazi Spy (6.0), North by Northwest (8.0), Shanghai (6.1). Each shares drama/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Confidential Agent worth watching?

Confidential Agent holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.5/10 from 26 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Confidential Agent?

Confidential Agent (1945) is a drama, thriller film directed by Herman Shumlin, starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Victor Francen.

Where can I find more recommendations like Confidential Agent?

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About movies like Confidential Agent

This ranked list pairs Confidential Agent (1945), a drama and thriller film from Herman Shumlin, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Charles Boyer take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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