The Spook Who Sat by the Door

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Their first mistake was letting him in. Their biggest mistake was letting him out!

1973•1h 42m•6.3/10

ActionDramaCrimeWar

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.3/10(32)

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Bokari

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Lawrence Cook

Lawrence Cook

Dan Freeman

Janet League

Janet League

Joy

Paula Kelly

Paula Kelly

Dahomey Queen

J.A. Preston

J.A. Preston

Dawson

Paul Butler

Paul Butler

Do-Daddy Dean

Don Blakely

Don Blakely

Stud Davis

David Lemieux

David Lemieux

Pretty Willie

Anthony Ray

Anthony Ray

Shorty

Colostine Boatwright

Dancer

Byron Morrow

Byron Morrow

Jack Aaron

Joseph Mascolo

Joseph Mascolo

Elaine Aiken

Elaine Aiken

Beverly Gill

Martin Golar

Tom Alderman

Stephen Ferry

Johnny Williams

Johnny Williams

Doug Johnson

Harold Harris

Recommended

Weird Science

Weird Science

Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.

Weird Science

1985

6.5

Demon City

Demon City

Framed for his family's murder and left for dead, an ex-hitman will stop at nothing to exact revenge on the masked "demons" who have taken over his city.

Demon City

2025

6.9

Faces Places

Faces Places

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Faces Places

2017

7.6

Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

Werckmeister Harmonies

2001

7.8

Girlfriends

Girlfriends

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

Girlfriends

1978

6.7

Joker

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Joker

2019

8.1

Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Oppenheimer

2023

8.0

Titanic

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Titanic

1997

7.9

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Pulp Fiction

1994

8.5

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

7.4

Inside Out

Inside Out

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

Inside Out

2015

7.9

Ex Machina

Ex Machina

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Ex Machina

2015

7.6

Similar Movies

Five

Five

The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.

Five

1951

6.6

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

1990

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

X-Men: First Class

2011

7.3

Das gläserne Haus

Das gläserne Haus

A dream becomes a nightmare: Shortly after the Iranian doctor Murath Tehrani and his German wife Claudia moved into a chic villa on the outskirts of Leipzig, threatening couple flutter into the house and Claudia is harassed by anonymous callers with xenophobic slogans. First, the woman tries to hide the threat from her husband. But not even the police can help her. Suddenly, every stranger approaching the house appears as a threat. Psychological pressure is also increasing the pressure on the harmonious marriage of the young couple. But Murath and Claudia are unwilling to be driven out of their homes by aggressive racists.

Das gläserne Haus

1994

2.0

A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

A Patch of Blue

1965

7.5

Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964

7.1

White Lightnin'

White Lightnin'

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.

White Lightnin'

2009

6.9

Blitz

Blitz

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

Blitz

2024

6.0

Token

Token

A student named Kemi O has to understand the hardship being the only black student.

Token

2017

6.0

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955

6.0

Willie Dynamite

Willie Dynamite

Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.

Willie Dynamite

1974

6.2

Game of Death

Game of Death

CIA agent Marcus is sent undercover to Detroit to take out an arms dealer and the head of the hedge fund that is financing him. His CIA backup has other plans and turns on him, and it's a fight to survive in a hospital and into the hedge fund vault.

Game of Death

2011

5.0