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- DirectorMartin RittStarsRichard BurtonOskar WernerClaire BloomInstead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsDenholm ElliottJoss AcklandGlenda JacksonTaken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at Carne School, a boy's school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master's wife brutualy murdered, with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed-knit society of Carne, and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsGary OldmanColin FirthTom HardyIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
- DirectorBilly RayStarsChris CooperRyan PhillippeDennis HaysbertFBI 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.
- DirectorChristian CarionStarsGuillaume CanetEmir KusturicaAlexandra Maria LaraThe French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsHelen MirrenSam WorthingtonTom WilkinsonIn 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
- DirectorAssaf BernsteinStarsGila AlmagorNeta GartyEdgar SelgeIn 1965, Rachel Brener is one of 3 young Mossad agents who caught "The Surgeon of Birkenau" - a Nazi monster who was never brought to trial in Israel and is presumed dead, when in reality he has managed to escape after a botched kidnapping. 35 years later, a small article appears in a local paper in a Kyiv, Ukraine, revealing that the the Surgeon is alive. The 3 older Mossad agents have to decide whether to complete the old assignment and eliminate their target or let the truth come out (and their reputation be destroyed).
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsLeonardo DiCaprioRussell CroweMark StrongA CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsFranka PotenteMatt DamonChris CooperA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonFranka PotenteJoan AllenWhen Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonEdgar RamírezJoan AllenJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
- DirectorTony GilroyStarsJeremy RennerRachel WeiszEdward NortonAn expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsTom CruiseJon VoightEmmanuelle BéartAn American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsTom CruiseDougray ScottThandiwe NewtonIMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".
- DirectorJ.J. AbramsStarsTom CruiseMichelle MonaghanVing RhamesIMF agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancée in response.
- DirectorBrad BirdStarsTom CruiseJeremy RennerSimon PeggThe IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.
- DirectorJeffrey NachmanoffStarsDon CheadleGuy PearceArchie PanjabiWhen straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
- DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsSam RockwellDrew BarrymoreGeorge ClooneyAn adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.
- DirectorTony ScottStarsRobert RedfordBrad PittCatherine McCormackRetiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
- DirectorMichael BrandtStarsRichard GereTopher GraceMartin SheenA retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsBrad PittFrances McDormandGeorge ClooneyA disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
- DirectorPierre MorelStarsJohn TravoltaJonathan Rhys MeyersKasia SmutniakIn Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsPeter StormareLena OlinMark HamillA nuclear armed SS20 will be smuggled from Russia via Finland to Sweden unless Swedish agent Hamilton +5 stop them with "no loose ends". What about the other stolen SS20?
- DirectorTobias FalkStarsMikael PersbrandtSaba MubarakFrida HallgrenSpecial agent Carl Hamilton is forced to play by his own rules when his goddaughter is kidnapped by terrorists, as he learns that he will get no help from the Swedish secret services.
- DirectorKathrine WindfeldStarsMikael PersbrandtSaba MubarakPernilla AugustSwedish agent Hamilton tracks 200 stolen grenades to Russians at the Uzbek/Afghan border. Some men kill both dealers and buyers and steal the grenades. Who are they and what do they want with the grenades?
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsEric BanaDaniel CraigMarie-Josée CrozeAfter the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsDolph LundgrenMaruschka DetmersAssumpta SernaA CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsMichael CainePierce BrosnanNed BeattyJohn Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
- DirectorSimon LangtonStarsMichael CaineJames FoxNigel HaversA war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems to be impenetrable.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsCliff RobertsonDina MerrillLuther AdlerAn American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsMichael CaineNigel GreenGuy DolemanIn London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineOscar HomolkaPaul HubschmidSent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsMichael CaineKarl MaldenEd BegleyBritish spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
- DirectorLindsay ShonteffStarsMichael PetrovitchPhilip LathamDon FellowsA British spy is framed, so he must evade the KGB, the CIA and the British Intelligence to reach the the heart of the conspiracy in Arctic.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsAnatoly KulbitskyShaughan SeymourMichael CaineRetired British spy Harry Palmer is called back into service to prevent North Korea from getting its hands on a deadly virus called "The Red Death".
- DirectorDouglas JacksonStarsMichael CaineJason ConneryYuri LimontySpy-turned-detective Harry Palmer is tasked with recovering a consignment of stolen plutonium in Saint Petersburg.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRobert VaughnLuciana PaluzziPat CrowleyThe pilot for the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," re-edited and released to theaters as a feature.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsRobert VaughnSenta BergerDavid McCallumU.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to the Swiss Alps to find a secret nuclear weapon design but T.H.R.U.S.H. agents kidnap Solo and replace him with a look-alike double.
- 19831h 36mTV-PG6.4 (751)TV MovieDirectorRay AustinStarsRobert VaughnDavid McCallumPatrick MacneeWhen THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsRod TaylorTrevor HowardJill St. JohnColonel Mostyn of the British Intelligence Service suspects there is a leak in his department and hires an American expatriate to eliminate various targets working for the Soviets.
- DirectorLindsay ShonteffStarsTom AdamsKarel StepanekPeter BullDauntless British agent Charles Vine is called upon to escort to London the famed Swedish scientist Henrik Jacobs to negotiate the sale of a secret formula. However, sinister forces gambling for enormous stakes are already at work. With the aid of the most fantastic gadgets, Vine manages to extricate his charges from the most diabolical traps until the final battle in a mile-a-second showdown fought along the Thames dockside and culminating to a wild and unexpected climax.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames MasonMaximilian SchellSimone SignoretA British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsPaul NewmanJulie AndrewsLila KedrovaAn American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsRobert VaughnElke SommerFelicia FarrFormer CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge SegalAlec GuinnessMax von SydowIn the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.
- DirectorSeth HoltStarsRichard JohnsonCarol LynleyBarbara BouchetDuring the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.
- DirectorBarry ShearStarsRobert VaughnDavid McCallumJoan CrawfordU.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin battle T.H.R.U.S.H. spies to seize Dr. True's secret chemical formula used in extracting gold from sea water.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsDean MartinElke SommerSharon TateGold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini. The US government sends Matt Helm, one of its top agents, to investigate and recover the gold.
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsGene BarryJoan CollinsRichard ToddA C.I.A. man goes to London to assist British Intelligence uncover a mole and destroy a foreign spy ring.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFrederick StaffordDany RobinJohn VernonA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPierce BrosnanGeoffrey RushJamie Lee CurtisA tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British Agent.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsYul BrynnerHenry FondaDirk BogardeA Soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West.
- DirectorMarijan David VajdaStarsSimon DuttonGünther Maria HalmerArielle DombasleSimon Templar's Berlin weekend with a girlfriend includes a spy, a terrorist and missiles for sale.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsAndrew ScottRomola GaraiCharlie CoxSet in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past.
- DirectorLawrence SchillerStarsWilliam HurtMary-Louise ParkerDavid StrathairnTrue story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 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.
- DirectorDavid HareStarsBill NighyRachel WeiszTom HughesJohnny 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.
- DirectorEdward HallStarsMichelle DockeryMichael Peter WillisCharlotte RamplingA young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsSean ConneryMichelle PfeifferRoy ScheiderA 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.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanRachel McAdamsDaniel BrühlA Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsChristopher JonesPia DegermarkRalph RichardsonFrom the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
- DirectorLudwig CremerStarsHans SchweikartPeter StriebeckA young Anglican clergyman gets on the night express to London at Edinburgh station and joins an elderly gentleman in the compartment. Gradually, the journey gets under way, during which it turns out that both are apparently secret agents.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsDiane KeatonYorgo VoyagisKlaus KinskiAn American actress with a penchant for lying is forcibly recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsAngelina JolieLiev SchreiberChiwetel EjioforA CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
- DirectorFrédéric SchoendoerfferStarsVincent CasselMonica BellucciAndré DussollierMoles threaten to foil a team of secret agents' plan.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsMichael CaineLaurence OlivierSusan GeorgeAn MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsWilliam HurtLee MarvinBrian DennehyA Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
- DirectorRyoo Seung-wanStarsHa Jung-wooHan Suk-kyuRyu Seung-beomJong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.
- DirectorRobert De NiroStarsMatt DamonAngelina JolieRobert De NiroThe tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBibi AnderssonRichard BooneNigel GreenDuring the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsMartin SheenSam NeillBrigitte FosseyA C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.
- DirectorChristopher HamptonStarsBob HoskinsPatricia ArquetteGérard DepardieuVerloc lives in London 1886 with a pretty wife and her retarded brother. He's an agent for the Russian embassy. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsTom SkerrittMax von SydowHelen MirrenThe C.I.A. hears of a K.G.B. scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner (Tom Skerritt), an agent retired for ten years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policymakers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna (Dame Helen Mirren), a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
- DirectorAnthony MannLaurence HarveyStarsLaurence HarveyTom CourtenayMia FarrowThe British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsIsabella RosselliniAnthony HopkinsCampbell ScottA British telecommunication expert comes to 1950s Berlin to help the Americans spy on the USSR. He meets a cute, mysterious local woman.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsRutger HauerJohn HurtCraig T. NelsonDuring the Cold War, a controversial television journalist is asked by the C.I.A. to persuade certain acquaintances, who are Soviet Agents of the Omega network, to defect.
- DirectorReg TravissStarsEd StoppardTom SchillingBernadette HeerwagenA teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.
- DirectorRobert CollectorErnst Ritter von TheumerStarsLinda BlairSylvia KristelSue KielAn American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with sadistic guards and in-mates. As she tries to survive in a world of deprivation and rape, her fiancée fights his own bureaucracy in an attempt to find her.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsIgor SergeevAleksey PoluyanMikhail VasserbaumDepiction of "troika" type of mass murder trials and it's influence on those who carried out plans to mass murder million of people. Somehow Russia was able to produce such movie, which easily could be documentary about actual events.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsTimothy HuttonSean PennPat HingleThe true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsPeter van EyckMacdonald CareyMarianne KochIn East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.
- DirectorNikolai RozantsevStarsYuri GusevNikolai TimofeyevNikolai GritsenkoA spy is detected and followed in Leningrad.
- DirectorDick ClementStarsKirk DouglasMarlène JobertTrevor HowardAndrej (Kirk Douglas), a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travellers to transport the contraband out of the country.
- DirectorVladimir GrigorevStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoPavel LuspekayevAlgimantas MasiulisA Russian biomedical scientist becomes involved in spy-games.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorSavva KulishStarsDonatas BanionisRolan BykovSergei KurilovSoviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal, Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development that he began during World War II, experimenting on POWs. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who, during the war, escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together, they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
- DirectorJoël ColburnStarsRobert MailletSean Cameron MichaelJemma DallenderA brave, young operative for a secret, Black Bag operation run by the CIA tires of killing for her superiors and goes into business for herself, exacting revenge on the parties responsible for the death of her fiancé.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMark RylanceAlan AldaDuring 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.
- DirectorShamim SarifStarsRebecca FergusonCharles DanceAnthony HeadIn Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsHenry CavillArmie HammerAlicia VikanderIn the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.
- DirectorSusanna WhiteStarsCarlos AcostaRadivoje BukvicStellan SkarsgårdA 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.
- It's the story of a former spy, his former lover - and the mysterious young woman sent to kill them both.
- DirectorRawson Marshall ThurberStarsDwayne JohnsonKevin HartDanielle NicoletAfter he reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryRobert ShawLotte LenyaJames Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre.
- DirectorGabriel SchmidtStarsJamie Lee CurtisJohn SavageKimberly RussellWhen a dormant spy, exposed by the Wikileaks controversy, is suddenly being hunted by assassins he seeks help from an emergency room nurse to remove an experimental chip implanted in his head years before.
- DirectorNadav SchirmanStarsMosab Hassan YousefGonen Ben YitzhakSheikh Hassan YousefThe son of a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, becomes a spy for the Israelis.
- DirectorJustin KerriganStarsRobert CarlyleArron FullerDavid BradleyA young boy suspects his dad might be working undercover for MI6.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryUrsula AndressBernard LeeA resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.