Movies Like Hidden Enemy (1940)

Hidden Enemy is a 1940 action, adventure, drama film from Howard Bretherton with a MovieMagicScore of 5.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Palmetto and The House on 92nd Street.

Action Adventure Drama

Palmetto

1998

After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. Feeling like he were owed something for his loss of time, he proceeds to get himself involved in a simple kidnapping plot which turns out to be more complex than he imagined.

5.9

MagicScore

The House on 92nd Street

1945

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

6.5

MagicScore

Money Monster

2016

Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

6.4

MagicScore

The Warriors

1979

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

7.7

MagicScore

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

7.6

MagicScore

Only When I Laugh

1981

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

5.7

MagicScore

Superman

1978

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

7.2

MagicScore

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970

Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.

6.8

MagicScore

British Intelligence

1939

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

5.7

MagicScore

#10

Between the Lines

1977

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.

5.1

MagicScore

#11

The Bourne Ultimatum

2007

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

7.4

MagicScore

#12

Capricorn One

1977

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

6.8

MagicScore

#13

Animal

2023

The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

Outrage

2010

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Outrage Coda

2017

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

6.8

MagicScore

#16

Page One: Inside the New York Times

2011

Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.

6.9

MagicScore

#17

The Spy in Black

1939

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

6.4

MagicScore

#18

The Raven

2012

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

The Summit of the Gods

2021

A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

7.8

MagicScore

#20

Messenger of Death

1988

A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Hidden Enemy?

The top films similar to Hidden Enemy by MovieMagicScore are Palmetto (5.9), The House on 92nd Street (6.5), Money Monster (6.4). Each shares action/adventure/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Hidden Enemy worth watching?

Hidden Enemy holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.0/10 from 1 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Hidden Enemy?

Hidden Enemy (1940) is a action, adventure, drama film directed by Howard Bretherton, starring Warren Hull, Kay Linaker, Wilhelm von Brincken.

Where can I find more recommendations like Hidden Enemy?

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About movies like Hidden Enemy

This ranked list pairs Hidden Enemy (1940), a action and adventure and drama film from Howard Bretherton, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Warren Hull 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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