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The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).
Sep 2, 2023 · CNN — From James Bond to Jason Bourne, if there’s one thing our culture is obsessed with, it’s spies. Spy movies have long been a part of cinema — from early Alfred Hitchcock movies to modern...
Apr 5, 2024 · 10. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965) Everett. Based on the John le Carré novel, Martin Ritt ’s bleak spy thriller also features George Smiley (see No. 3 on this list), although the ...
1. The Bourne Identity (2002) PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller. 7.8. Rate. 68 Metascore. A 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. Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen.
- Dr No
- North by Northwest
- Three Days of The Condor
- True Lies
- The 39 Steps
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Argo
- The Imitation Game
- No Way Out
- The Conversation
Where to Watch:HBO Max, or rentable on most platforms. Addressing the license-to-kill elephant in the room, Dr. No, Bond's first big outing is natural place to start for this giant 60-year franchise of James Bond movies. Sean Connery creates an instant film icon with his portrayal of author Ian Fleming's daring MI6 agent, traveling from England to ...
Where to Watch:HBO Max, or rentable on most platforms. Master crafter of classic thriller movies, Alfred Hitchcock, dropped a masterwork on our laps with North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant as an everyman mistaken for a Cold War spy, hurling him into a cross-country chase and numerous threats on his life. Including a dangerous, clinging climax ...
Where to Watch:Paramount+, Pluto TV w/ ads, or rentable on most platforms. Three Days of the Condor, from the great Sydney Pollack, stars frequent Pollack-collaborator Robert Redford as a bookish CIA researcher who racing against time to find out who's behind the murder of his co-workers. It's a mid-'70s New York-based thriller that reflects the di...
Where to Watch:AMC+, or rentable on most platforms. Now a CBS series, James Cameron's True Liesreunited the director with Arnold Schwarzenegger (and Aliens' Bill Paxton) for an adventure-comedy about a special ops spy whose wife discovers he's not the mild-mannered computer salesman he's pretended to be since the day they met. As the first film to ...
Where to Watch: HBO Max, or rentable on some platforms. More Hitchcock here as one of the director's earlier (and best) works, The 39 Steps, solidified him as a true pioneer of the spy thriller, following 1934's The Man Who Knew Too Much and preceding 1936's Sabotage. A secret society of puppet masters is at the heart of this pre-WW II project, as ...
Where to Watch:Prime Video, or rentable on some platforms. Famed espionage author John le Carré -- whose had many a novel turned into a movie/TV series -- got the all-star treatment here for his 1974 staple-of-the-genre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. With an ensemble cast featuring the likes of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby J...
Where to Watch:HBO Max, or rentable on most platforms. Ben Affleck directed and starred in this Best Picture winner, which used both wry wit and punchy paranoia to dramatize the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran in the early '80s -- using a fake sci-film production as a cover to get CIA agents into the country. Argo's unique blend of i...
Where to Watch:Fubo, or rentable on most platforms. A historical drama, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma, The Imitation Game shines a tragic spotlight on cryptanalyst Turing, who figured out how to decrypted German intelligence messages during WW II. Despite his heroic contributions to the war, Turing was condemned by the British...
Where to Watch:HBO Max, or rentable on most platforms. This '80s political action-thriller stars Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, and Will Patton in a (then) modern take on twisty spy stories from the '30s and '40s. No Way Out-- based on the 1946 novel The Big Clock (which already had two film adaptations before this) -- follows a Navy Lt.,...
Where to Watch:Fubo, Showtime, or rentable on most platforms. Francis Ford Coppola's unconventional, claustrophobic trip, The Conversation, pulled in some big time Oscar nominations for its portrayal of a paranoid, secretive surveillance expert who suspects the couple he is spying are targets for murder. Facing a crisis of conscience, Gene Hackman'...
The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).
1. Anna (II) (2019) R | 118 min | Action, Thriller. 6.6. Rate. 40 Metascore. Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins. Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy.
