Spy thrillers featuring covert operations, double agents, and international espionage.
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Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
The Lives of Others
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
8
Drama, Thriller
Germany
137
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Notorious
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
7.7
Thriller, Romance, Mystery
United States of America
103
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in B...
Casino Royale
2006
Martin Campbell
7.6
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United Kingdom
144
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le ...
The Bourne Identity
2002
Doug Liman
7.5
Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
United States of America
119
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the comba...
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
Christopher McQuarrie
7.5
Action, Thriller, Adventure
United States of America
164
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race a...
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
Paul Greengrass
7.4
Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
United States of America
115
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodgin...
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
7.4
Thriller, Mystery
United States of America
120
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
The Lady Vanishes
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
7.4
Mystery, Thriller
United Kingdom
96
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other pas...
Skyfall
2012
Sam Mendes
7.3
Action, Adventure, Thriller
United Kingdom
143
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field age...
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Paul Greengrass
7.3
Action, Drama, Thriller
United States of America
108
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is for...
No Time to Die
2021
Cary Joji Fukunaga
7.3
Action, Thriller, Adventure
United Kingdom
163
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of ...
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Sydney Pollack
7.3
Thriller, Mystery
United States of America
117
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
Tenet
2020
Christopher Nolan
7.2
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
United Kingdom
150
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Bridge of Spies
2015
Steven Spielberg
7.2
Thriller, Drama
United States of America
141
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping...
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Christopher McQuarrie
7.2
Action, Thriller, Adventure
United States of America
170
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Ent...
From Russia with Love
1963
Terence Young
7.1
Action, Thriller, Adventure
United Kingdom
115
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willin...
Mission: Impossible
1996
Brian De Palma
7
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United States of America
111
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the proces...
Dr. No
1962
Terence Young
7
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United Kingdom
110
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
The Amateur
2025
James Hawes
7
Thriller, Action
United States of America
123
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
The Courier
2020
Dominic Cooke
7
Thriller, History, Drama
United Kingdom
112
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Spy Game
2001
Tony Scott
6.9
Action, Crime, Thriller
France
126
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Mission: Impossible III
2006
J.J. Abrams
6.8
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United States of America
126
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – i...
Allied
2016
Robert Zemeckis
6.8
Action, Drama, War, Romance, Thriller
China
124
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Lewis Gilbert
6.8
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United Kingdom
125
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
RED
2010
Robert Schwentke
6.7
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
United States of America
111
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow th...
The King's Man
2021
Matthew Vaughn
6.7
Action, Adventure, Thriller
United Kingdom
131
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Thunderball
1965
Terence Young
6.7
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United Kingdom
130
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Heart of Stone
2023
Tom Harper
6.7
Action, Crime, Thriller
United States of America
122
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
George Clooney
6.7
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, History
Germany
113
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Operation Finale
2018
Chris Weitz
6.7
Drama, History, Thriller
United States of America
124
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Spectre
2015
Sam Mendes
6.6
Action, Adventure, Thriller
United Kingdom
148
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Body of Lies
2008
Ridley Scott
6.6
Action, Drama, Thriller
United States of America
128
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is ...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
Tomas Alfredson
6.6
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Germany
127
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The San...
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
Peter R. Hunt
6.6
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United Kingdom
142
With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.
Clear and Present Danger
1994
Phillip Noyce
6.6
Action, Drama, Thriller
United States of America
141
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Cla...
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
Renny Harlin
6.6
Crime, Action, Mystery, Thriller
United States of America
121
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private in...
Red Sparrow
2018
Francis Lawrence
6.5
Thriller, Mystery
United States of America
140
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangero...
Live and Let Die
1973
Guy Hamilton
6.5
Adventure, Action, Thriller
United Kingdom
121
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
The Living Daylights
1987
John Glen
6.5
Action, Adventure, Thriller
United Kingdom
130
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
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