Movies like The Imitation Game (2014)

Name: The Imitation Game
Released: 2014

10 films to watch after The Imitation Game, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

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The Courier (2020)

Fit 78%

Shares Thriller, History and Drama with The Imitation Game.

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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A Call to Spy (2019)

Fit 78%

Shares History and Drama with The Imitation Game.

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
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Snowden (2016)

Fit 77%

Shares Drama, History and Thriller with The Imitation Game.

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Richard Jewell (2019)

Fit 73%

Shares Drama and History with The Imitation Game.

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

Fit 71%

Shares Thriller, Drama, History and War with The Imitation Game.

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
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The Great Escape (1963)

Fit 70%

Shares Drama and War with The Imitation Game.

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Fit 65%

Shares Drama and War with The Imitation Game.

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Benediction (2021)

Fit 56%

Shares Drama, History and War with The Imitation Game.

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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Jobs (2013)

Fit 52%

Shares Drama and History with The Imitation Game.

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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WarGames (1983)

Fit 49%

Shares Drama and Thriller with The Imitation Game.

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.