Highest-Rated Movies about 'Secret Police', Sort by Popularity

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), The Death of Stalin (2017), Wanted (2008), Wanted (2008), Child 44 (2015), Lancer Spy (1937), Gabriel Over the White House (1933), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Secret Police movies.

#1. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Storyline: The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration, the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.

Plot Keywords: brother, prisoner, political activist, judge, secret police, student, disturbing ...

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#2. The Death of Stalin (2017)

Storyline: In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage. Inevitably, when his body is discovered the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic spreads like a virus among the senior members of the Council of Ministers as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power. But in the middle of a gut-wrenching roller-coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

Plot Keywords: joseph stalin, soviet soldier, general, secret police, cheeky, amusing, confident ...

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#3. Wanted (2008)

Storyline: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. After his estranged father is murdered, he meets Fox (Angelina Jolie), who recruits him into the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan (Morgan Freeman), the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley to tap into dormant powers. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.

Plot Keywords: assassin, father, killer, secret police, leader, coworker, brash ...

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#5. Child 44 (2015)

Storyline: Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. The plot is about an idealistic pro-Stalin security officer who decides to investigate a series of child murders in a country where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.

Plot Keywords: secret police, russian, wife, general, serial killer, psychopath, brooding ...

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#7. Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

Storyline: Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>

Plot Keywords: president, chief of staff, secret police, secretary of state, lover, gangster, creative ...

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#8. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

Storyline: Fighter navigator Chris Burnett wants out: he was looking for something more than the boring recon missions he's been flying. He finds himself flying the lone Christmas day mission over war-torn Bosnia. But when he talks pilot Stackhouse into flying slightly off-course to check out an interesting target, the two get shot down. Burnett is soon alone, trying to outrun a pursuing army, while commanding officer Reigert finds his rescue operation hamstrung by politics, forcing Burnett to run far out of his way.

Plot Keywords: naval officer, pilot, soldier, tracker, secret police, french officer, suspenseful ...

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#9. Manifesto (1988)

Storyline: In 1920, in Central Europe, the tyrannical king of an Empire is visiting the small town of Waldheim. While a group of revolutionaries plot to kill the despotic king, his oppressive secret service, leaded by Avanti, and the police force, leaded by Police Chief Hunt, organize his reception. Svetlana Vargas, a member of a bourgeois family and abused by her employee Emile, is in charge to organize the attempt against the king.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: king, secret police, seductress, rebel, postal worker, police chief, outlandish ...

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#10. Power Play (1978)

Storyline: A group of military officers, angered and frustrated by the corruption and repression of the current government, finally decide that for the good of the country they must overthrow the regime. However, the planned coup's leader, an infantry colonel, finds that in order to get the support he needs he must work with people he neither respects nor trusts, and soon comes to believe that their main opponent, the country's fearsome chief of the secret police, has planted a spy in their midst.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: military officer, secret police, thrilling, suspenseful, tense, unknown territory, reform ...

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#11. Bleeding Steel (2017)

Storyline: A special-force agent/police officer is assigned to protect a young woman involved in a science experiment of longevity, from a gangster with an army of advanced technology who desires to obtain her power, while also having connections with him.—desubluesss

Plot Keywords: scientist, secret agent, father, secret police, murderer, daughter, tender ...

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#12. From Beijing With Love (1994)

Storyline: It seems many members of our human family still regard Alaska as a chosen destination, one to be visited before all others. And perhaps, somewhat related to the same inscrutable system of values, Kansas is deemed the least-chosen destination to be visited before the end of time... at least in my experience. I have lived in both places and feel somewhat qualified to address the mystery contained within those disparate values. Having sailed the Inside Passage for over 5,000 miles, and now, having lived in tall grass country for over ten years, my footage speaks to the issues, and my narratives inform at least my observations. 'What are you doing in Kansas' is a question posed frequently. This piece is my response.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: detective, secret agent, secret police, madcap, beijing, love, secret service ...

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#13. The Confession (1970)

Storyline: In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, government minister Artur London (Yves Montand), a war veteran who has long been a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with wife, Lise (Simone Signoret). However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. He has no idea what his offense is, but agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for supposed crimes against the state.

Plot Keywords: government official, special agent, wife, secret police, dark, tense, disheartening ...

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