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Espionage Films

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  • Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies (2015)

    1. Bridge of Spies

    20152h 22mPG-1381Metascore
    7.6 (341K)
    During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMark RylanceAlan Alda
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

    2. The Manchurian Candidate

    19622h 6mPG-1394Metascore
    7.9 (84K)
    An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
    DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsFrank SinatraLaurence HarveyJanet Leigh
  • Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan in Eye of the Needle (1981)

    3. Eye of the Needle

    19811h 52mR61Metascore
    7.1 (14K)
    A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
    DirectorRichard MarquandStarsDonald SutherlandKate NelliganStephen MacKenna
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

    4. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

    19651h 52mApproved
    7.5 (20K)
    Instead of coming in from field work during the Cold War and taking a desk job, British intelligence agent Alec Leamas chooses to take on another assignment.
    DirectorMartin RittStarsRichard BurtonOskar WernerClaire Bloom
  • Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

    5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    20112h 7mR85Metascore
    7.0 (224K)
    In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
    DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsGary OldmanColin FirthTom Hardy
  • The Ipcress File (1965)

    6. The Ipcress File

    19651h 49mApproved66Metascore
    7.2 (19K)
    In London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.
    DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsMichael CaineNigel GreenGuy Doleman
  • Funeral in Berlin (1966)

    7. Funeral in Berlin

    19661h 42mNot Rated
    6.8 (8.4K)
    Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.
    DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineOscar HomolkaPaul Hubschmid
  • Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    8. Three Days of the Condor

    19751h 57mR63Metascore
    7.4 (69K)
    A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
    DirectorSydney PollackStarsRobert RedfordFaye DunawayCliff Robertson
  • Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, and Sean Young in No Way Out (1987)

    9. No Way Out

    19871h 54mR77Metascore
    7.1 (54K)
    The Secretary of Defense forces a Pentagon naval aide to lead a spy manhunt.
    DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsKevin CostnerGene HackmanSean Young
  • Ryan Phillippe and Chris Cooper in Breach (2007)

    10. Breach

    20071h 50mPG-1374Metascore
    7.0 (64K)
    FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
    DirectorBilly RayStarsChris CooperRyan PhillippeDennis Haysbert
  • Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976)

    11. Marathon Man

    19762h 5mR64Metascore
    7.4 (75K)
    After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
    DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanLaurence OlivierRoy Scheider
  • The Boys from Brazil (1978)

    12. The Boys from Brazil

    19782h 5mR40Metascore
    7.0 (33K)
    A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGregory PeckLaurence OlivierJames Mason
  • Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)

    13. Notorious

    19461h 42mApproved100Metascore
    7.9 (113K)
    The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantIngrid BergmanClaude Rains
  • Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

    14. Billion Dollar Brain

    19671h 51mApproved
    5.9 (6.5K)
    British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsMichael CaineKarl MaldenEd Begley
  • Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Mahoney, Roy Scheider, Klaus Maria Brandauer, and James Fox in The Russia House (1990)

    15. The Russia House

    19902h 3mR67Metascore
    6.1 (19K)
    A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.
    DirectorFred SchepisiStarsSean ConneryMichelle PfeifferRoy Scheider
  • Paul Newman, Diane Baker, and Elke Sommer in The Prize (1963)

    16. The Prize

    19632h 14mApproved
    6.8 (5.7K)
    As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.
    DirectorMark RobsonStarsPaul NewmanEdward G. RobinsonElke Sommer
  • James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor in 36 Hours (1964)

    17. 36 Hours

    19641h 55mApproved61Metascore
    7.4 (5.3K)
    Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
    DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsJames GarnerEva Marie SaintRod Taylor
  • The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    18. The Quiller Memorandum

    19661h 44mApproved
    6.3 (4.7K)
    In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.
    DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge SegalAlec GuinnessMax von Sydow
  • Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Rock Hudson, and Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra (1968)

    19. Ice Station Zebra

    19682h 28mG49Metascore
    6.6 (13K)
    USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsRock HudsonErnest BorgninePatrick McGoohan
  • Jon Voight and Mary Tamm in The Odessa File (1974)

    20. The Odessa File

    19742h 10mPG
    7.0 (13K)
    Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
    DirectorRonald NeameStarsJon VoightMaximilian SchellMaria Schell
  • Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, and Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (2006)

    21. The Lives of Others

    20062h 17mR89Metascore
    8.4 (439K)
    In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
    DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian Koch
  • Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint, and Philip Ober in North by Northwest (1959)

    22. North by Northwest

    19592h 16mApproved98Metascore
    8.3 (366K)
    A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames Mason
  • William Holden and Lilli Palmer in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

    23. The Counterfeit Traitor

    19622h 20mApproved
    7.4 (3.4K)
    Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
    DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsWilliam HoldenLilli PalmerHugh Griffith
  • Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda in The MacKintosh Man (1973)

    24. The MacKintosh Man

    19731h 38mPG
    6.3 (5.7K)
    A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
    DirectorJohn HustonStarsPaul NewmanDominique SandaJames Mason
  • Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Newman, and Julie Andrews in Torn Curtain (1966)

    25. Torn Curtain

    19662h 8mPG55Metascore
    6.6 (31K)
    An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to steal a formula before planning an escape back to the West.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsPaul NewmanJulie AndrewsLila Kedrova

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