Movies like Spider in the Web (2019)
The best movies like Spider in the Web (2019) are A Most Wanted Man (2014), Damascus Cover (2017) and All the Old Knives (2022). If Spider in the Web hooked you with its thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Most Wanted Man (2014)6.5/10 from 1,554 votes
- NewestNeighborhood Watch (2025)Released 2025
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDamascus Cover (2017)
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll the Old Knives (2022)
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTranspecos (2016)
For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll Souls (2023)
A young confidential informant is sent on a dangerous undercover operation. It's a no-holds-barred look at the vulnerable foot soldiers of the War on Drugs, young criminals who are pressured to work for the police.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNewcomer (2015)
When a rookie operative's mistake costs the lives of his entire team, he's forced on the run and must piece together the truth by re-creating the events of the ill-fated mission with only the audio recording to guide him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Reach (2014)
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDriven (2019)
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDrone (2017)
Ideologies collide with fatal results when a military drone contractor meets an enigmatic Pakistani businessman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Woods (2019)
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisReclaim (2014)
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance and the dangerous secret behind the adoption agency they trusted. Risking their own lives, they will discover just what being a parent means and how far they will go to get their child back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGemini (2017)
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDying of the Light (2014)
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNeighborhood Watch (2025)
When a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next door neighbor – a bitter, retired security guard – to help him find the missing woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLegacy of Lies (2020)
An ex-MI6 agent is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes to uncover the shocking truth about operations conducted by unknown secret services.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAgent Game (2022)
Harris, a CIA interrogator at an Agency black site, finds himself the target of a rendition operation after being scapegoated for an interrogation gone horribly wrong. As the team tasked to bring Harris in begins to question their orders -- and each other --Olsen, a senior intelligence officer, and his subordinate, Visser, raise the stakes. Now, it's up to Harris and some newfound allies to uncover the truth and turn the tables.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Bag (2025)
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFair Game (2010)
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Operative (2019)
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChappaquiddick (2018)
Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Moment of Clarity (2020)
After his girlfriend Georgia is murdered by European mobsters, Sam flees to Paris to hide out. Years later, he sees a woman in a Hollywood film who he's certain is Georgia. In L.A. to investigate, he encounters Kat who impulsively decides to help him on his quest. But when Sam meets the mystery actress face to face his life spins out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bricklayer (2023)
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDespite the Falling Snow (2016)
New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLegacy (2013)
A KGB plot to attack the UK has plunged Britain into a state of emergency. Charles, a young MI6 spy, is asked to revive an old friendship with Russian diplomat Viktor. But Viktor has his own agenda.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Nigerian Prince (2018)
After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an internet scammer in order to return to the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Telefon (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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChief of Station (2024)
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Angel (2018)
True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Spider in the Web?
The closest matches to Spider in the Web are A Most Wanted Man (2014), Damascus Cover (2017) and All the Old Knives (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Spider in the Web?
People who watched Spider in the Web most often go on to A Most Wanted Man (2014), Damascus Cover (2017) and All the Old Knives (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Spider in the Web?
A Most Wanted Man (2014), rated 6.5/10 by 1,554 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Spider in the Web?
Neighborhood Watch (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Spider in the Web?
Yes: A Most Wanted Man (2014), Damascus Cover (2017) and All the Old Knives (2022).
How are movies similar to Spider in the Web chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Spider in the Web, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.