Movies like The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
The best movies like The Quiller Memorandum (1966) are The Helicopter Spies (1968), The Liquidator (1965) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996). If The Quiller Memorandum hooked you with its thriller and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)7.1/10 from 359 votes
- NewestIslands (2025)Released 2025
The Helicopter Spies (1968)
The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The Liquidator (1965)
Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983)
When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConspirator (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Serpent (1973)
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCasino Royale (1954)
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFuneral in Berlin (1966)
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBillion Dollar Brain (1967)
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
The Chairman (1969)
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Looking Glass War (1970)
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Ipcress File (1965)
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTo Trap a Spy (1965)
The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop the assassination of an African head of state with the help of a simple housewife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Venetian Affair (1966)
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Double Man (1967)
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a one of its own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Atomic City (1952)
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Enigma (1982)
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mind Benders (1963)
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The Black Windmill (1974)
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTelefon (1977)
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIslands (2025)
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband disappears, and the police suspect Tom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Parts You Lose (2019)
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Organization (1971)
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFootsteps in the Fog (1955)
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Quiller Memorandum?
The closest matches to The Quiller Memorandum are The Helicopter Spies (1968), The Liquidator (1965) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Quiller Memorandum?
People who watched The Quiller Memorandum most often go on to The Helicopter Spies (1968), The Liquidator (1965) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Quiller Memorandum?
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), rated 7.1/10 by 359 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Quiller Memorandum?
Islands (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Quiller Memorandum?
Yes: The Helicopter Spies (1968), The Liquidator (1965) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996).
How are movies similar to The Quiller Memorandum chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Quiller Memorandum, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.