10 Movies To Watch If You Like The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

In 2015, film director Guy Ritchie brought the classic spy television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. to the big screen with some serious swagger. The movie starred Henry Cavill (Superman) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger) as a CIA agent and a KGB operative who reluctantly team up to steal research from a supposed Nazi scientist.

What resulted was a movie that just oozed coolness, with great performances all around and some spectacular set pieces, although some critics claimed the story was uneven. However, its style helped overshadow that fact. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ended up as a box office flop but gained a cult following since its release.

10 Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

While most comic book movies focused on superheroes saving the world, Kingsman: The Secret Service told a different kind of story. Based on the comics by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons and directed by Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class), this was a story of a super-secret British spy organization that saved the world without anyone knowing they exist.

It plays out as an almost uber-violent and stylized James Bond world where anything can and does happen. A Kingsman sequel arrived in 2017, with a third movie hitting theaters in 2021.

9 Atomic Blonde (2017)

Some critical labeled Atomic Blonde a female version of John Wick, but it shares more in common with spy movies than hitmen movies. Charlize Theron plays Lorraine Broughton, a top-level MI6 spy sent out to find a list of double agents around the world.

The film takes place on the night before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The comparison to John Wick is based on the vibrant look and the ultra-violent fights.

8 Snatch (2000)

Fans of Guy Ritchie’s filmmaking should check out one of his early masterpieces. Snatch came out in 2000 and featured a cast of names that could topline any movie today. Brad Pitt is the big name here, but he hilariously speaks in a cockney dialect that is impossible to understand.

Snatch is set in the London criminal underworld and has two intertwined plots, one involving a stolen diamond and the other concerning a boxing promoter working under a ruthless gangster.

7 Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)

Henry Cavill was incredible in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and he took on another fantastic role in the franchise hit Mission Impossible: Fallout. This movie, the sixth in the series, ended up as the biggest box office hit of them all, grossing $791 million worldwide.

Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt and is sent on a new mission, but this time around, he has to take a CIA assassin named Walker (Cavill). The action in this Mission: Impossible movie surpasses everything that came before, and director Christopher McQuarrie and Cruise have proven to be a perfect match.

6 The A-Team (2010)

In 2010, Joe Carnahan brought The A-Team back as he adapted the classic television series with some significant stars involved. Liam Neeson is Hannibal, the leader of a group of special forces soldiers imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit.

They escaped and now help those in need while trying to clear their names. The rest of the team includes Bradley Cooper as Face, Sharlto Copley as Howling Mad Murdock, and Rampage Jackson as B.A. Baracus.

5 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Robert Downey Jr. became a monster star thanks to his role as Iron Man in the MCU movies. However, that isn’t his only franchise, as he also took on the part of Sherlock Holmes in the films directed by Guy Ritchie.

The second movie, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, has Holmes and Watson (Jude Law) traveling across Europe trying to solve and stop an intricate plot by Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty, meant to start a war.

4 Ant-Man (2015)

The MCU has several films that show superheroes trying to save the planet from world-threatening events, whether it be alien invasions or other superhuman threats. However, a few of the movies feature more grounded stories, and one of these is Ant-Man, which plays out like a heist movie.

Scott Lang gets out of prison after using his skills s a burglar to steal money from a corporation and return it to the people the company was stealing from. However, he can’t get a job due to his criminal record, so he agrees to one last job, which sees him steal the Ant-Man suit. The first Ant-Man then recruits Scott for a new job — saving his company from a ruthless businessman.

3 Jack Reacher (2012)

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise have developed a winning record with the Mission: Impossible franchise, but they also had another small franchise that they released two movies for.

This was Jack Reacher, based on the novels by Lee Child. Cruise is Reacher, a former military man who now travels the world and only stops when he needs to help people in need. In the first movie, based on the novel One Shot, Reacher returns to help a friend framed for murder.

2 Get Smart (2008)

Another movie based on a classic spy television series hit in 2008 is Get Smart. While this TV series shared many similarities to The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the main difference was that Get Smart was a Mel Brooks’ spoof, poking fun at the James Bond franchise.

Steve Carell starred as Maxwell Smart, an analyst for CONTROL who wants to be a field agent. He ends up getting the chance but is bumbling and clueless, often needing to be saved by Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). Dwayne Johnson also has an early movie role as Agent 23.

1 Red (2010)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is full of pretty young faces and a very cool and exciting look full of action. However, for a look at what these people will look like in a few decades, check out the movie Red.

Based on the graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, Red tells the story of former CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis). Moses finds himself the target of an assassin hired by the U.S. Government to eliminate all retired, extremely dangerous former operatives.

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