Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "counter-espionage"

1. The Departed (2006)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 1,423,122 | Gross: $132.38M

2. 24 (2001–2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 197,103

3. MI-5 (2002–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.

Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones

Votes: 18,409

4. Red Sparrow (2018)

R | 140 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling

Votes: 201,662 | Gross: $46.87M

5. Alias (2001–2006)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.

Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman

Votes: 54,783

6. Atomic Blonde (2017)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 206,627 | Gross: $51.69M

7. Allied (2016)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Vincent Ebrahim

Votes: 169,857 | Gross: $40.10M

8. Without Remorse (II) (2021)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An elite Navy SEAL goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.

Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce

Votes: 64,582

9. Casino Royale (1967)

Approved | 131 min | Comedy

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles

Votes: 32,510

10. La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A clandestine anti-terrorist organization fakes the death of a convicted murderer and trains her in the fighting skills necessary to succeed in her new job.

Stars: Peta Wilson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer, Roy Dupuis

Votes: 10,819

11. Æon Flux (2005)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Æon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.

Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo, Marton Csokas

Votes: 132,805 | Gross: $25.87M

12. Æon Flux (1991–1995)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi

There is a mysterious and immoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives and background remain unexplained, as do those of her antagonist/lover, Trevor Goodchild.

Stars: Denise Poirier, John Rafter Lee, Max Redmond, Julia Fletcher

Votes: 7,063

13. Breach (2007)

PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

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.

Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney

Votes: 61,774 | Gross: $33.23M

14. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 18,827

15. Our Man in Havana (1959)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, Ernie Kovacs

Votes: 6,104

16. The Looking Glass War (1970)

M/PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers

Votes: 1,438 | Gross: $0.17M

17. Across the Pacific (1942)

Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton

Votes: 5,446

18. U-Boat 29 (1939)

77 min | Thriller, War

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring

Votes: 2,460

19. Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972)

133 min | Action, War

A man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.

Director: Hajrudin Krvavac | Stars: Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Neda Spasojevic

Votes: 2,962

20. The House on 92nd Street (1945)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 3,296

21. Operation Corned Beef (1991)

105 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Squale, an ace spy, is called back from South America to carry out a tough operation. Goal: dismantle an international arms traffic masterminded by an important French government official. ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Isabelle Renauld, Valérie Lemercier

Votes: 3,040

22. Colonel Redl (1985)

R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

Votes: 3,344 | Gross: $0.00M

23. Jane Doe: Vanishing Act (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 92 min | Mystery

When a lone passenger with vital software disappears from an airplane midair, a mom, who quit Central Security Agency years ago, is secretly called in as consultant to solve the mystery.

Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, William R. Moses, Jessy Schram

Votes: 496

24. The Third Generation (1979)

111 min | Crime, Drama

A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen

Votes: 2,810

25. Where the Spies Are (1965)

Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 907

26. The Atomic City (1952)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An atomic scientist's son is kidnapped by enemy agents.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke, Michael Moore, Nancy Gates

Votes: 520

27. Nada (1974)

110 min | Thriller

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and takes him to a farm in the ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato

Votes: 1,128

28. Knight Without Armor (1937)

Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, History

After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas

Votes: 1,460

29. Stamboul Quest (1934)

Approved | 86 min | Romance, Thriller, Drama

In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish ... See full summary »

Directors: Sam Wood, Jack Conway | Stars: Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill, C. Henry Gordon

Votes: 622

30. Traitor/Patriot (2022)

50 min | Documentary, History, War

What motivates someone to betray their own people? To be disloyal? Money? Ego? Idealism? Traitor/Patriot unravels the intricate stories of people who committed espionage against the ... See full summary »

Stars: Josh Morrison, David Charney, Mark Kelton, Calder Walton

Votes: 8

31. The Intelligence Men (1965)

103 min | Comedy, Mystery

Coffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent Garden, aided by MI5 friend.

Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, William Franklyn, April Olrich

Votes: 514

32. The Master Key (1945)

Passed | 226 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Government agents battle a gang of Nazis who are trying to use the Orotron machine, which can turn seawater into gold.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Milburn Stone, Jan Wiley, Dennis Moore, Addison Richards

Votes: 87

33. The Enemy General (1960)

Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An American OSS agent and the French underground attempt to rescue a Nazi general, who is awaiting execution by the Germans, and help him escape to London.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Johnson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dany Carrel, John van Dreelen

Votes: 173

34. My Favorite Spy (1942)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical

Complications arise for newlywed Kay Kyser and his bride when he gets involved in espionage at the request of the Army.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 338

35. The Nasty Rabbit (1964)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy

Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S.

Director: James Landis | Stars: Michael Terr, Arch Hall Jr., Liz Renay, Arch Hall Sr.

Votes: 463

36. The Secret Four (1939)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The four men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Lawton

Votes: 188

37. A Woman of Experience (1931)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance

In 1915 Vienna, the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa decides to answer the patriotic appeals and help by working in the hospital, but her reputation causes her to be rejected. ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, William Bakewell, Lew Cody, Zasu Pitts

Votes: 206

38. Assignment in Brittany (1943)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War

A French captain (Jean-Pierre Aumont) poses as a Nazi to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast of France, while assuming the identity of a look-a-like French citizen.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso

Votes: 288

39. Tales from the Tower (2001)

45 min | Drama

England's infamous Tower of London is showcased, and a history of its uses, including a prison, torture chamber and repository for the royal jewels.

Directors: Robin Bextor, Paul Bryers | Stars: Dallas Campbell, Marc Bolton, Anthony Straeger, Joseph C. Sullivan

Votes: 14

40. Theoretically, an even much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Challenged by phone by the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, The Boss travels to the year 2121, where the USSR won the Cold War. Caught spying, The Boss undergoes a subtle questioning technique that tortures him and his interrogator.

Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato

Votes: 6

41. Secret Enemies (1942)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Thriller

A lawyer becomes a government secret agent after an agent-friend of his is murdered, and discovers a nest of German spies operating out of a former client's hotel.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Faye Emerson, John Ridgely, Charles Lang

Votes: 225

42. Kim jest ten czlowiek? (1985)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, War

The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his ... See full summary »

Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Henryk Talar, Ewa Szykulska, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Krzysztof Chamiec

Votes: 34

43. Don't Talk (1942)

Approved | 22 min | Drama, Short

This MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Donald Douglas, Gloria Holden, Barry Nelson, Harry Worth

Votes: 291

44. .357 Magnum (1977)

R | 71 min | Action, Drama

Agent Jonathan Hightower's weapon of chose is the deadly .357 Magnum.

Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Gary Boyd, Silvi Walter, Aldo Girotti, Angela O'Neil

Votes: 56

45. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

46. A byl li Karotin (1990)

Not Rated | 161 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Early 1930s of the 20th century. A leak of classified information is discovered at the Soviet shipbuilding plant.

Director: Gennadi Poloka | Stars: Boris Sokolov, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Yuriy Popovich, Ivan Bortnik

Votes: 68

47. Counterspy (1958 TV Movie)

27 min | Adventure

When a massive Soviet battleship negotiates the treacherous Oslo harbor without a local pilot, American counterespionage agent David Harding suspects that the enemy has developed a secret ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Don Megowan, Brad Johnson, Gerald Milton, Phyllis Stanley

Votes: 16

48. The H Files: A Tangled Web (1998 Video)

45 min | Adventure

A merciless intruder grabs, binds and gags two beautiful government agents. They manage to escape and meet an undercover operative who tells them that she's discovered a plot to overthrow ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Kelsie Chambers, Brandi Lessur, Shawna Lake

49. Conspiracized (2003)

83 min | Drama

Have you been Conspiracized? A rebellion has awakened... A powerful corporation struggles to preserve automation-control over the minds of all citizens. Standing in their way is a cult of ... See full summary »

Director: C.D. Schultz | Stars: Danny Beissel, Denise Dickens, Gina Martino, Arvil Prewitt

Votes: 12

50. Varjoja Kannaksella (1943)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Directors: Theodor Luts, Erkki Uotila | Stars: Matti Lehtelä, Dolly von Alfthan, Ensio Jouko, Aarno Kivistö

Votes: 35