Top 100 Spy Movies List

#100 Spy Movie

The Pacifier (2005) PG

Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains in the kids' house.

Director:

Adam Shankman

Writers:

Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant

Stars:

Vin Diesel, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot

#99 Spy Movie

Spy Hard (1996) PG-13

Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 is assigned by his Director, to stop the evil General Rancor from destroying the world. WD-40 believed Rancor was dead and he teams up with the hot K.G.B. Agent Veronique Ukrinsky to find Rancor and save the world.

Director:

Rick Friedberg

Writers:

Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Stars:

Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning

#98 Spy Movie

La Femme Nikita (1990) R

Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

Director:

Luc Besson

Writers:

Luc Besson

Stars:

Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana

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#97 Spy Movie

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) R

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Director:

John Schlesinger

Writers:

Robert Lindsey, Steven Zaillian

Stars:

Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle

#96 Spy Movie

The November Man (2014) R

An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.

Director:

Roger Donaldson

Writers:

Michael Finch, Karl Gajdusek

Stars:

Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko

#95 Spy Movie

Funeral in Berlin (1966)

A British agent is sent to Berlin to receive a Communist defector, but the true situation turns out to be rather more complicated.

Director:

Guy Hamilton

Writers:

Len Deighton, Evan Jones

Stars:

Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid

#94 Spy Movie

The 39 Steps (1935)

A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Writers:

John Buchan, Charles Bennett

Stars:

Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

#93 Spy Movie

The Double (2013) R

A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.

Director:

Richard Ayoade

Writers:

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Ayoade

Stars:

Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn

#92 Spy Movie

Unknown (2011) PG-13

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Director:

Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers:

Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell

Stars:

Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones

#91 Spy Movie

The Lives of Others (2006) R

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.

Director:

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writers:

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Stars:

Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch

#90 Spy Movie

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) GP

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.

Director:

Guy Hamilton

Writers:

Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz

Stars:

Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray

#89 Spy Movie

Charlie Wilson's War (2007) R

A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.

Director:

Mike Nichols

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin, George Crile

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

#88 Spy Movie

The Tailor of Panama (2001) R

A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British agent.

Director:

John Boorman

Writers:

John le Carré, Andrew Davies

Stars:

Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis

#87 Spy Movie

The Fourth Protocol (1987) R

John 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.

Director:

John Mackenzie

Writers:

George Axelrod, Richard Burridge

Stars:

Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty

#86 Spy Movie

Zero Dark Thirty (2012) R

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.

Director:

Kathryn Bigelow

Writers:

Mark Boal

Stars:

Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt

#85 Spy Movie

The Odessa File (1974) PG

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former SS captain, who allegedly commanded a concentration camp during WWII.

Director:

Ronald Neame

Writers:

Frederick Forsyth, Kenneth Ross

Stars:

Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell

#84 Spy Movie

A View to a Kill (1985) PG

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

Director:

John Glen

Writers:

Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson

Stars:

Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts

#83 Spy Movie

Night Train to Munich (1940)

When Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Axel Bomasch, inventor of a new type of armor-plating.

Director:

Carol Reed

Writers:

Gordon Wellesley, Sidney Gilliat

Stars:

Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid

#82 Spy Movie

The Bourne Legacy (2012) PG-13

An 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.

Director:

Tony Gilroy

Writers:

Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy

Stars:

Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton

#81 Spy Movie

The World Is Not Enough (1999) PG-13

James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.

Director:

Michael Apted

Writers:

Neal Purvis, Robert Wade

Stars:

Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle

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