Top 100 Spy Movies List

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery movie

#40 Spy Movie

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) PG-13

A 1960s hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy in the 1990s, where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place.

Director:

Jay Roach

Writers:

Mike Myers

Stars:

Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York

#39 Spy Movie

Knight and Day (2010) PG-13

A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name.

Director:

James Mangold

Writers:

Patrick O'Neill

Stars:

Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard

#38 Spy Movie

The Quiet American (2002) R

An older British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Writers:

Graham Greene, Christopher Hampton

Stars:

Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen

#37 Spy Movie

Hanna (2011) PG-13

A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.

Director:

Joe Wright

Writers:

Seth Lochhead, David Farr

Stars:

Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana

#36 Spy Movie

The Sum of All Fears (2002) PG-13

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo Nazis faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.

Director:

Phil Alden Robinson

Writers:

Tom Clancy, Paul Attanasio

Stars:

Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain

#35 Spy Movie

The International (2009) R

An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.

Director:

Tom Tykwer

Writers:

Eric Warren Singer

Stars:

Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl

#34 Spy Movie

The Recruit (2003) PG-13

A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.

Director:

Roger Donaldson

Writers:

Roger Towne, Kurt Wimmer

Stars:

Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan

#33 Spy Movie

Killer Elite (2011) R

When his mentor is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, a killer-for-hire is forced into action. His mission: kill three members of Britain's elite Special Air Service responsible for the death of his sons.

Director:

Gary McKendry

Writers:

Matt Sherring, Ranulph Fiennes

Stars:

Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro

#32 Spy Movie

From Russia with Love (1963) PG

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

Director:

Terence Young

Writers:

Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood

Stars:

Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya

#31 Spy Movie

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) PG-13

In 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.

Director:

Guy Ritchie

Writers:

Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram

Stars:

Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander

#30 Spy Movie

Spy (2015) R

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

Director:

Paul Feig

Writers:

Paul Feig

Stars:

Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law

#29 Spy Movie

Salt (2010) PG-13

A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Writers:

Kurt Wimmer

Stars:

Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor

#28 Spy Movie

RED (2010) PG-13

When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.

Director:

Robert Schwentke

Writers:

Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber

Stars:

Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman

#27 Spy Movie

Bridge of Spies (2015) PG-13

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.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers:

Matt Charman, Ethan Coen

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda

#26 Spy Movie

Body of Lies (2008) R

A 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.

Director:

Ridley Scott

Writers:

William Monahan, David Ignatius

Stars:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong

#25 Spy Movie

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) R

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

Director:

George Clooney

Writers:

Chuck Barris, Charlie Kaufman

Stars:

Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney

#24 Spy Movie

A Most Wanted Man (2014) R

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.

Director:

Anton Corbijn

Writers:

Andrew Bovell, John le Carré

Stars:

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl

#23 Spy Movie

Moonraker (1979) PG

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Director:

Lewis Gilbert

Writers:

Christopher Wood

Stars:

Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale

#22 Spy Movie

Octopussy (1983) PG

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

Director:

John Glen

Writers:

George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum

Stars:

Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan

#21 Spy Movie

Licence to Kill (1989) PG-13

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him.

Director:

John Glen

Writers:

Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum

Stars:

Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell

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