Topic: Spy Film

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North by Northwest

1959 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Martin Landau

Plot Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a...

8.3

68K votes

8.3

68K votes

Rear Window

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Grace Kelly · Thelma Ritter · Raymond Burr

Plot A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he...

8.2

75K votes

8.2

75K votes

Notorious

1946 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Claude Rains · Louis Calhern

Plot A beautiful woman with a tainted past (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted by American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work...

8.1

20K votes

8.1

20K votes

The Bureau (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 52 min. · France

Direction Eric Rochant · Hélier Cisterne · Antoine Chevrollier · Mathieu Demy

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Léa Drucker · Florence Loiret-Caille

Plot TV Series (2015-Today). "Malotru", a French intelligence officer, undercover in Syria for 6 years, is called back home. He will face the difficulty to forget his undercover identity, the disappearance...

8.0

1K votes

8.0

1K votes

The Lives of Others

2006 · Movie · 137 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Martina Gedeck · Sebastian Koch · Ulrich Tukur

Plot East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they...

8.0

74K votes

8.0

74K votes

Ivan's Childhood

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov

Plot The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving single-mindedly...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

Homeland (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Howard Gordon · Alex Gansa · Gideon Raff · Lesli Linka Glatter

Cast Claire Danes · Damian Lewis · Mandy Patinkin · Rupert Friend

Plot TV Series (2011-2020). 8 Seasons. 96 Episodes. Centers on Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes),...

7.6

42K votes

7.6

42K votes

5 Fingers

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast James Mason · Danielle Darrieux · Michael Rennie · Walter Hampden

Plot Based on a true story involving espionage in neutral WWII Turkey. The refined and impeccably spoken James Mason plays the traitorous Ulysses Diello, personal valet for the British ambassador to...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Spy x Family (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Plot TV Series (2022 - 2023). 2 Seasons. 25 Episodes. Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the...

7.5

685 votes

7.5

685 votes

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 350 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Irvin

Cast Alec Guinness · Ian Richardson · Michael Jayston · Ian Bannen

Plot George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is...

7.5

378 votes

7.5

378 votes

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Doris Day · Brenda De Banzie · Bernard Miles

Plot Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day...

7.5

17K votes

7.5

17K votes

Smiley’s People (TV Miniseries)

1982 · Series · 360 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Alec Guinness · Eileen Atkins · Bernard Hepton · Bill Paterson

Plot George Smiley is once again called out of innocent retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee. The shy and retiring master...

7.5

178 votes

7.5

178 votes

La flor. Parte II

2018 · Movie · 357 min. · Argentina

7.4

370 votes

7.4

370 votes

The Lady Vanishes

1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Redgrave · Dame May Whitty · Paul Lukas

Plot While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Max

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

La flor

2018 · Movie · 808 min. · Argentina

Direction Mariano Llinás

Cast Pilar Gamboa · Elisa Carricajo · Laura Paredes · Valeria Correa

Plot "La flor" is broken into six separate episodes, connected only by an on-screen appearance by Llinás explaining the film's structure. The first four episodes have the beginning of a story...

7.4

416 votes

7.4

416 votes

Iris (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 60 min. · South Korea

Direction Yang Yun-ho · Kim Kyoo-Tae · Kim Tae-hun · Pyo Min-soo

Cast Lee Byung-hun · Kim Tae-hee · Jeong Jun-ho · Kim Seung-woo

Plot The plot revolves around two friends from the 707th Special Mission Battalion recruited into a secret South Korean black ops agency known as the National Security Service. Of the pair,...

7.4

220 votes

7.4

220 votes

Spooks (MI-5) (TV Series)

2002 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Wolstencroft · Alrick Riley · Bharat Nalluri · Sam Miller

Cast Peter Firth · Hugh Simon · David Oyelowo · Keeley Hawes

Plot TV Series (2002-Today). They don’t exist. You will never know their names, where they come from, who they are. They’re all that stands between you and those with terror on...

7.3

235 votes

7.3

235 votes

Archer (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 23 min. · United States

Direction Adam Reed · Bryan Fordney

Plot Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), suave master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage, a domineering mother/boss, his agent ex-girlfriend, and a less-than-masculine code name - "Duchess".

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Spies

1928 · Movie · 144 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Gerda Maurus · Willy Fritsch · Lupu Pick

Plot 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.

7.3

695 votes

7.3

695 votes

The 39 Steps

1935 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Robert Donat · Madeleine Carroll · Lucie Mannheim · Godfrey Tearle

Plot A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.

Max

7.3

11K votes

7.3

11K votes