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Top 100 Spooks Type Films/Shows

by muybueno16 • Created 6 years ago • Modified 9 months ago
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  • Idris Elba in The Take (2016)

    1. The Take

    20161h 32mR48Metascore
    6.3 (54K)
    A young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France.
    DirectorJames WatkinsStarsIdris ElbaRichard MaddenCharlotte Le Bon
  • Jamie Bamber, Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown, Alin Sumarwata, and Varada Sethu in Strike Back (2010)

    2. Strike Back

    2010–202077 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.1 (35K)
    Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.
    StarsPhilip WinchesterSullivan StapletonMichelle Lukes
  • Berlin Station (2016)

    3. Berlin Station

    2016–201929 epsTV-MATV Series
    7.6 (11K)
    Follows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.
    CreatorOlen SteinhauerStarsLeland OrserMichelle ForbesMina Tander
  • Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub in 24: Live Another Day (2014)

    4. 24: Live Another Day

    201412 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    8.3 (48K)
    Four years after Jack Bauer went on the run, the CIA agents in London manage to capture Bauer; one of their agents called Kate Morgan suspects he is up to something, and President Heller's condition is sparking worries with his staff.
    CreatorsRobert CochranJoel SurnowStarsKiefer SutherlandYvonne StrahovskiTate Donovan
  • Pierce Brosnan and Milla Jovovich in Survivor (2015)

    5. Survivor

    20151h 36mPG-1328Metascore
    5.7 (37K)
    A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York City, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
    DirectorJames McTeigueStarsMilla JovovichPierce BrosnanDylan McDermott
  • Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Naomie Harris, and Damian Lewis in Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

    6. Our Kind of Traitor

    20161h 48mR57Metascore
    6.3 (25K)
    A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.
    DirectorSusanna WhiteStarsCarlos AcostaRadivoje BukvicStellan Skarsgård
  • Willem Dafoe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, and Rachel McAdams in A Most Wanted Man (2014)

    7. A Most Wanted Man

    20142h 2mR73Metascore
    6.7 (83K)
    A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
    DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanRachel McAdamsDaniel Brühl
  • Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, Orlando Bloom, and Noomi Rapace in Unlocked (2017)

    8. Unlocked

    20171h 38mR46Metascore
    6.3 (40K)
    A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack.
    DirectorMichael AptedStarsNoomi RapaceOrlando BloomToni Collette
  • Walton Goggins and Joe Dempsie in Deep State (2018)

    9. Deep State

    2018–201916 epsTV-MATV Series
    7.1 (7.6K)
    What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
    CreatorsMatthew ParkhillSimon MaxwellStarsJoe DempsieKarima McAdamsAnastasia Griffith
  • Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden in Bodyguard (2018)

    10. Bodyguard

    20186 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.0 (163K)
    War veteran David Budd finds work as a police sergeant in the Royalty and Specialist Protection branch. He is assigned to protect the home secretary, the Rt. Hon. Julia Montague MP, a controversial and ambitious politician.
    CreatorJed MercurioStarsRichard MaddenSophie RundleVincent Franklin
  • Sean Bean in Cleanskin (2012)

    11. Cleanskin

    20121h 48mNot Rated
    6.2 (21K)
    A British secret service agent is faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a British-born suicide bomber and his terrorist cell.
    DirectorHadi HajaigStarsSean BeanCharlotte RamplingAbhin Galeya
  • Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, and Ron Silver in Red Mercury (2005)

    12. Red Mercury

    20051h 49mR
    5.0 (375)
    Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The Police have been alerted and they are under suspicion. Asif (Navin Chowdhry), Shahid (San Shella), and Mushtaq (Alex Caan) grab suitcases, the computer, and a cardboard box containing bomb-making equipment and bolt out the door. Shahid's getaway car is clamped, so the three are forced to escape on foot from the pursuing Police. Cornered, they dive into a restaurant on a busy city street. It is the Olympus Grill and dinner is being served to its well-heeled clientele. With the Police outside, Asif, Shahid, and Mushtaq have nowhere to go. Mushtaq, thinking quickly, declares that they will hold the restaurant goers hostage. The diners are forced to get up from their tables. They are lined up against a wall. Electra (Amanda Ryan), the young waitress, is also forced to stand in line. Her mother, who is the restaurant owner, comes out from the kitchen brandishing a rolling pin to find out what is going on. She is Penelope (Stockard Channing), and a rather formidable woman. Penelope at first thinks the three boys want to steal money until they reveal their true intentions. Outside, a sophisticated Police/MI5 operation is underway to release the hostages. Leading the operation is Sofia Warburton (Juliet Stevenson), a forty-five-year-old woman with a strong character, who has sacrificed domestic harmony for her career in the security services. Sofia begins to assemble data gleaned by the Police and information from voice samples and fingerprints to create a profile of the hostage takers. She discovers that Shahid, from a single-parent family, grew up in a rough working class Birmingham council estate, and was a bad boy until he found religion. Asif got a double first in Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He was brought up by his widower father who was prone to beating his kids. Asif works at his father's wine warehouse and was a good taster until he took up Islam, and Mushtaq is the natural leader of the three and has a PhD in physics. The big fear is learning that the terrorists are in possession of red mercury, which can be used to make a dirty bomb with the potential of unleashing untold damage and horror. The three youths have the knowledge and skills to make the bomb. Sofia checks the physics with her estranged husband Lindsey (Nigel Terry), who confirms that it is possible. Time is of the essence. Meanwhile, inside the restaurant, tension mounts as the hostages remain under threat of death from the three gun-wielding terrorists. The hostages are: Sidney (Ron Silver), a middle-aged American management consultant, Amanda (Jacqueline Defferary), a thirty-four-year-old physiotherapist, Neil Ashton (David Bradley), a children's author and his wife Gerry (Stella Gonet), his daughter Jemma (Jessica Brooks), who is a nurse and his adopted mixed-race son Timothy; John (Clive Wood), forty-five, head of a large chemical company and his mistress Janet (Simone Lahbib). And strangely, as days go by and nerves are frayed, the barriers between the hostages and their captors begin to come down. Behind the blank face of terror is scared, confused, and misled youth.
    DirectorRoy BattersbyStarsRachel BellDavid BradleyJessica Brooks
  • Sean Penn in The Gunman (2015)

    13. The Gunman

    20151h 55mR39Metascore
    5.8 (44K)
    A sniper on a mercenary assassination team kills the minister of mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His kill shot forces him into hiding. After returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.
    DirectorPierre MorelStarsSean PennIdris ElbaJasmine Trinca
  • Clive Standen in Taken (2017)

    14. Taken

    2017–201826 epsTV-14TV Series
    6.6 (12K)
    As former CIA agent Bryan Mills deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world, he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge.
    CreatorsLuc BessonAlexander CaryStarsClive StandenJennifer BealsAdam Goldberg
  • Dolph Lundgren, Jerry Springer, Gerald Kyd, Thomas Lockyer, and Shakara Ledard in The Defender (2004)

    15. The Defender

    20041h 31mR
    4.8 (1.9K)
    Lance and his team are bodyguards for NSA's head, who is sent by the President to a secret meeting in an empty hotel outside Bucharest. During the meeting, the hotel is attacked. By whom? And why?
    DirectorDolph LundgrenStarsDolph LundgrenJerry SpringerShakara Ledard
  • Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Aaron Eckhart, and Gerard Butler in London Has Fallen (2016)

    16. London Has Fallen

    20161h 39mR28Metascore
    5.9 (177K)
    Whilst in London, England for the British Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a terrorist plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders in one strike.
    DirectorBabak NajafiStarsGerard ButlerAaron EckhartMorgan Freeman
  • Page Eight (2011)

    17. Page Eight

    20111h 39mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.8 (22K)
    Johnny works for MI5. His neighbor Nancy approaches him. When his best friend and boss suddenly dies, Johnny's left to sort out things about the PM, MI5 and US.
    DirectorDavid HareStarsBill NighyRachel WeiszTom Hughes
  • Winona Ryder and Bill Nighy in Turks & Caicos (2014)

    18. Turks & Caicos

    20141h 35mTV-PGTV Movie
    6.5 (7.5K)
    Worricker is a retired spy living in the Caribbean. He realizes he is in trouble when four "businessmen" show up. They look like mob bosses, but one actually works for the CIA. He gets help from two former MI5 colleagues back in London.
    DirectorDavid HareStarsWinona RyderChristopher WalkenBill Nighy
  • Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy in Salting the Battlefield (2014)

    19. Salting the Battlefield

    20141h 33mTV-PGTV Movie
    6.6 (4.8K)
    MI5 officer Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrell are on the run together across Europe. But Worricker knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront his nemesis, the prime minister.
    DirectorDavid HareStarsRalph FiennesShazad LatifFelicity Jones
  • Idris Elba, Julian Wadham, Eamonn Walker, and Monique Gabriela Curnen in Legacy (2010)

    20. Legacy

    20101h 33mR
    5.0 (1.4K)
    An AWOL Black Ops soldier mentally unravels when holed up in a Brooklyn motel room.
    DirectorEromoseStarsIdris ElbaWilliam HopeMonique Gabriela Curnen
  • Melissa George in Hunted (2012)

    21. Hunted

    20128 epsTV-MATV Series
    7.3 (9.6K)
    Meet Sam. A spy. A hunter. And herself hunted by an enemy more ruthless and determined than any she's ever known.
    CreatorFrank SpotnitzStarsMelissa GeorgeAdam RaynerPatrick Malahide
  • Peter Mullan, Tamzin Outhwaite, Jody Latham, and Andrew Buchan in The Fixer (2008)

    22. The Fixer

    2008–200912 epsTV Series
    7.3 (1.2K)
    Ex-special forces operative and convicted murderer John Mercer is awarded an early release from prison on the condition that he becomes an assassin for the government.
    CreatorsBen RichardsNeil CrossStarsAndrew BuchanJody LathamTamzin Outhwaite
  • Gabriel Byrne in Secret State (2012)

    23. Secret State

    20124 epsTV Mini Series
    7.5 (3.3K)
    Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
    StarsGabriel ByrneRalph InesonCharles Dance
  • Jackie Chan in The Foreigner (2017)

    24. The Foreigner

    20171h 53mR55Metascore
    7.0 (129K)
    A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
    DirectorMartin CampbellStarsKatie LeungJackie ChanRufus Jones
  • Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

    25. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

    20152h 11mPG-1375Metascore
    7.4 (435K)
    Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF.
    DirectorChristopher McQuarrieStarsTom CruiseRebecca FergusonJeremy Renner

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