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1. NCIS (2003– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Follows the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), as they get to the bottom of criminal cases connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
Stars: David McCallum, Sean Murray, Mark Harmon, Brian Dietzen
Votes: 163,367
2. Killing Eve (2018–2022)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a series of events, the lives of a security operative and an assassin become inextricably linked.
Stars: Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia
Votes: 135,917
3. 24 (2001–2010)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert
Votes: 197,164
4. MI-5 (2002–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.
Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones
Votes: 18,442
5. Lord of War (2005)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama
An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan
Votes: 337,280 | Gross: $24.15M
6. Salt (2010)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Thriller
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski
Votes: 330,316 | Gross: $118.31M
7. Professionals (2020–2022)
48 min | Action, Adventure
After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, and his fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Graciela "Grace" Davila, turn to a hardened former counterintelligence officer.
Stars: Tom Welling, Elena Anaya, Brendan Fraser, Ken Duken
Votes: 2,060
8. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2005)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Crime
The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.
Stars: Shirô Saitô, Atsuko Tanaka, Osamu Saka, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Votes: 20,968
9. The Border (2008–2010)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The cases of the Canadian Immigration and Customs Security Squad.
Stars: James McGowan, Graham Abbey, Jonas Chernick, Mark Wilson
Votes: 996
10. HyperNormalisation (2016)
166 min | Documentary
Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum
Votes: 7,386
11. 5 Fingers (1952)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Votes: 5,479
12. The Front Line (2011)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, Ryu Seung-su, Ko Chang-seok
Votes: 7,109 | Gross: $0.01M
13. The Salamander (1981)
Not Rated | 103 min | Thriller
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect... See full summary »
Director: Peter Zinner | Stars: Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning
Votes: 1,094
14. Jack Strong (2014)
Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov
Votes: 5,363
15. The Assets (2014)
60 min | Thriller
CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes works to save Soviet intelligence officers from being exposed by a mole inside her organization.
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Paul Rhys, Harriet Walter, Ralph Brown
Votes: 2,361
16. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
R | 106 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Brian Keith Allen, Moazzam Begg, Christopher Beiring
Votes: 16,812 | Gross: $0.27M
17. Sergeant Ryker (1968)
85 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Peter Graves, Vera Miles, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 451
18. Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page, Ingrid Thulin, Frédéric O'Brady
Votes: 1,453
19. Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Open | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Charlie visits a wealthy country home in England. Suspects in the murder range from a housekeeper, to a stableman, to a lawyer.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie
Votes: 2,172
20. Spies (1928)
Not Rated | 90 min | Romance, Thriller
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Lien Deyers
Votes: 3,949
21. Berlin Affair (1970 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Thriller
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Darren McGavin, Fritz Weaver, Brian Kelly, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 65
22. Dark Journey (1937)
Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 1,457
23. Inside the Mossad (2017)
60 min | Documentary
For years the Mossad, Israel's legendary foreign intelligence agency, has been sealed off to the media. Now, for the first time since its founding, a dozen of Mossad's former spies give us ... See full summary »
Stars: Aylam Orian, Ram Ben Barak, Gad Shimron, Yossi Alpher
Votes: 1,138
24. Coup 53 (2019)
120 min | Documentary, History
Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
Director: Taghi Amirani | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Walter Murch, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Votes: 691
25. Mirage Men (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
For over 60 years, the US Air Force and US intelligence services exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits as part of their counter-intelligence programs. Now some of those behind these operations speak out.
Directors: John Lundberg, Roland Denning, Kypros Kyprianou | Stars: Robert J. Durant, Richard Doty, Tracy Tormé, Peter Gersten
Votes: 858
26. Ring of Treason (1964)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff
Votes: 474
27. Espion, lève-toi (1982)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
Sébastien Grenier, a secret agent, eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson
Votes: 1,061
28. The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
122 min | Drama, History, War
Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron
Votes: 985
29. Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Fact-based story about a 1990s espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in U.S. history. Aldrich Ames (Timothy Hutton) was a middle class C.I.A. Agent, whose ... See full summary »
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Joan Plowright, Elizabeth Peña, C. David Johnson
Votes: 367
30. Bitva za Moskvu (1985)
358 min | Drama, History, War
The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.
Stars: Helmut Hellstorff, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Artyom Karapetyan, Yakov Tripolsky
Votes: 472
31. V avguste 44-go (2001)
109 min | Action, Mystery, Drama
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
Director: Mikhail Ptashuk | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Vladislav Galkin, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksey Petrenko
Votes: 1,841
32. The Secret War (1977–1978)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
The secret World War II role that scientists and engineers played on each side in various rivalries of military technical innovations and countermeasures.
Stars: William Woollard, Albert Speer, R.V. Jones, Constance Babington Smith
Votes: 39
33. Novye priklyucheniya neulovimykh (1968)
82 min | Action, Adventure
Young heroes hunt for a secret map behind enemy lines. The second part of the film cycle, filmed at the request of the audience
Director: Edmond Keosayan | Stars: Mikhail Metyolkin, Vasiliy Vasilev, Viktor Kosykh, Valentina Kurdyukova
Votes: 1,194
34. The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
This special report by Bill Moyers illustrates and evidences about the contradictions revolving U.S. government when it comes to actually follow and obey the Constitution and its rulings. ... See full summary »
Stars: Scott Armstrong, Richard Bissell, Jackson Browne, Carl Channel
Votes: 39
35. Theoretically, an even much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Challenged by phone by the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, The Boss travels to the year 2121, where the USSR won the Cold War. Caught spying, The Boss undergoes a subtle questioning technique that tortures him and his interrogator.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 6
36. Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva (1970)
377 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the civil war Captain Pavel Koltsov, a Red Army secret agent, is sent on a mission to the White Army headquarters.
Stars: Yuriy Solomin, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vladimir Kozel, Tatyana Ivanitskaya
Votes: 297
37. 638 Ways to Kill Castro (2006 TV Movie)
78 min | Documentary, History
Dollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics.
Director: Dollan Cannell | Stars: Wayne Smith, Enrique Encinosa, Enrique Ovares, Fabian Escalante
Votes: 449
38. The 39 Steps (I)
Thriller | Announced
A remake of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
Director: Robert Towne
39. Mandrake the Magician (1954 TV Movie)
26 min | Fantasy
Mandrake and Lothar battle enemy agents who have kidnapped the beautiful Princess Narda to force the magician to assist them locate a counter-intelligence agent who possess vital information.
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Coe Norton, Woody Strode, Lisa Howard, Robert Ellenstein
Votes: 31
40. Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna (1986)
127 min | Drama
In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Gabriel Barylli, Nicolas Brieger, Claudia Messner, Karlheinz Hackl
Votes: 186
41. Stasi East Germany's Secret Police (2007 Video)
59 min | Documentary
Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Gierke | Stars: Christian Schult, Jeff Matzka, James Spencer, Uwe Hillmer
Votes: 65
42. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick
Votes: 24
43. Fooling Hitler (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | History, War
The true story of the greatest deception of WW2: one which helped change the course of the war itself.
Director: Philip Smith | Stars: Jason Durr, Howard Attfield, Grant Burgin, Dorian Healy
Votes: 35
44. Ten' vraga (2017)
89 min | War
1943 year. At the very height of the war, Soviet intelligence services are preparing an especially secret operation in the territory occupied by German troops. The situation at the front is... See full summary »
Director: Igor Senkov | Stars: Igor Senkov, Pavel Savelev, Igor Denisov, Evgeniy Ivkovich
Votes: 8
45. Prípad mrtvého muze (1975)
93 min | Crime, Drama
The year is 1955. An agent in a balloon trespasses the West frontier, immediately afterwards shoots dead the driver of a lorry awaiting him in the woods, and takes to flight. The body ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Klein | Stars: Július Vasek, Jaroslav Moucka, Václav Mares, Josef Somr
Votes: 37
46. Lektor (2011– )
Action, Drama, Romance
Car explosion in the centre of Moscow. The double agent in the Russian secret services. The international dealer the weapon «under a cap» at the British investigation. The dissident ... See full summary »
Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Ekaterina Guseva, Andrey Ilin
Votes: 87
47. Retaliation (2006)
Not Rated | 53 min | Drama
Awaiting beheading, terrorist captured news reporter learns of the true reason behind the Coalition Forces infiltration into Iraq. Can he survive long enough to reveal the truth?
Director: Carl Miller | Stars: Michael Otis, Yasmine Delawari, Qaid Al-Nomani, Fred Toma
Votes: 15
48. On the Line (2007)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean
Votes: 35
49. Varjoja Kannaksella (1943)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directors: Theodor Luts, Erkki Uotila | Stars: Matti Lehtelä, Dolly von Alfthan, Ensio Jouko, Aarno Kivistö
Votes: 35
50. Complot internacional antilatinoamericano 2K (2021)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Narrator shares with us how, by phone, a Latin American Sociologist explained a military-funded study on the feasibility of a coup d'état to the Intelligence Officer, visited by a Special Operations Officer after that.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 5