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
Direction Mariano Llinás
Cast Elisa Carricajo · Valeria Correa · Pilar Gamboa · Laura Paredes
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.
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.
7.3
11K votes
7.3
11K votes