Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "melodrama", "spy"

1. The English Patient (1996)

R | 162 min | Drama, Romance, War

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas

Votes: 200,700 | Gross: $78.65M

2. Barry Lyndon (1975)

PG | 185 min | Adventure, Drama, War

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

Votes: 182,951

3. The Stand (1994)

Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 38,394

4. The Day of the Locust (1975)

R | 144 min | Drama, Thriller

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton

Votes: 6,364 | Gross: $17.79M

5. All Through the Night (1942)

Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell

Votes: 4,923

6. The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)

R | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lü

Votes: 6,465 | Gross: $1.33M

7. Souls at Sea (1937)

Passed | 92 min | Action, Adventure, History

Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon

Votes: 862

8. Background to Danger (1943)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Thriller, War

A German spy ring plans to publicize a false rumor that Russia, who is fighting Germany, plans to invade neutral Turkey in order to ally them with the Nazis.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre

Votes: 1,581

9. Inside the Lines (1930)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, War

During World War 1, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

Director: Roy Pomeroy | Stars: Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, Montagu Love, Ivan F. Simpson

Votes: 174

10. The Secret Ways (1961)

Approved | 112 min | Adventure, History, Mystery

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.

Directors: Phil Karlson, Richard Widmark | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Regnier, Walter Rilla

Votes: 504

11. Disraeli (1929)

Passed | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History

Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett

Votes: 1,379

12. Espionage Agent (1939)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to root out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft

Votes: 467

13. Roar of the Dragon (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Romance

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain ... See full summary »

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Arline Judge

Votes: 251

14. Hong Kong Hot Harbor (1962)

102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A German journalist tries to track down his friend's murderer in Hong Kong and comes across a dubious gangster organization.

Director: Jürgen Roland | Stars: Marianne Koch, Klausjürgen Wussow, Dominique Boschero, Brad Harris

Votes: 56

15. Three Faces East (1926)

70 min | Drama

An English aviator who is taken prisoner during the war is nursed by a woman who bears a German name but in reality is a British intelligence bureau operative. He falls in love with her. ... See full summary »

Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Jetta Goudal, Robert Ames, Henry B. Walthall, Clive Brook

16. Secret Command (1944)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A U.S. effort to root out German saboteurs at a shipyard during World War II, sends an undercover intelligence officer to infiltrate as a construction worker and look for possible spies among the managers and employees.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick

Votes: 357

17. Murder in the Air (1940)

Approved | 55 min | Drama, Thriller

The corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson

Votes: 336

18. Madame Spy (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A war correspondent's new wife is suspected by his colleagues of being a German spy.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Constance Bennett, Don Porter, John Litel, Edward Brophy

Votes: 70

19. The Love Light (1921)

Unrated | 89 min | Drama

Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore

Director: Frances Marion | Stars: Mary Pickford, Evelyn Dumo, Fred Thomson, Eddie Phillips

Votes: 412 | Gross: $0.69M

20. Everything Is Thunder (1936)

76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During the first world war a Canadian officer escapes from a prison camp and reaches Berlin where he and a streetwalker plan to reach Holland.

Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery, Oscar Homolka, Roy Emerton

Votes: 111

21. Young Eagles (1930)

70 min | Drama

Lt. Robert Banks (Charles Rogers) shoots down and captures a German ace and is betrayed by the woman he loves.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 57

22. The Silent Command (1923)

80 min | Drama

Benedict Hisston is a foreign agent, part of a conspiracy to destroy the Panama Canal and the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. He attempts to acquire information about mine placement in the Canal ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Carl Harbaugh, Martin Faust

Votes: 103

23. Sucedió en Jalisco (1972)

100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Romantic conflicts set against a Mexican Revolution backdrop.

Director: Raúl de Anda | Stars: Rodolfo de Anda, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Julio Aldama, Jorge Lavat

Votes: 20

24. 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

25. May God Forgive Me (1948)

97 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Lena is a spy who manages to seduce rich men only to obtain information.

Director: Tito Davison | Stars: María Félix, Fernando Soler, Julián Soler, Tito Junco

Votes: 57

26. The Scarlet Lady (1928)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

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Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Lya De Putti, Don Alvarado, Warner Oland, Otto Matieson

Votes: 21

27. 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

28. This Mad World (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Paul Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while... See full summary »

Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Kay Johnson, Basil Rathbone, Louise Dresser, Veda Buckland

Votes: 26

29. Secret Service (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, History, Romance

Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is ... See full summary »

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, William Post Jr., Shirley Grey, Nance O'Neil

Votes: 111

30. Hotel Shanghai (1997 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, War

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.

Director: Peter Patzak | Stars: Agnieszka Wagner, Nicholas Clay, James McCaffrey, Min Zhang

Votes: 33

31. Murder on the Waterfront (1943)

Approved | 51 min | Drama, Mystery

Joey Davis has just been married to Gloria, but before they can have their wedding night, he's called into service in the Navy. He smuggles his new bride into the camp. The camp is under ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Warren Douglas, Joan Winfield, John Loder, Ruth Ford

Votes: 78

32. Do and Dare (1922)

50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

When Henry Boone (Tom Mix) hears his grandfather's stories of his youth as a pioneer and scout, he is gripped by the fires of romance and decides to hunt adventure. Boone finds himself in ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Tom Mix, Dulcie Cooper, Claire Adams, Claude Payton

33. True Heaven (1929)

61 min | Drama, War

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Director: James Tinling | Stars: George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Phillips Smalley, Oscar Apfel

34. Princess of the Ursinos (1947)

110 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story of the Countess d'Orsini, French noblewoman and courtesan at the court of the Spanish king, who acted as an agent for the King of France and was one of the most powerful people at the Spanish court.

Director: Luis Lucia | Stars: Ana Mariscal, Roberto Rey, Fernando Rey, Juan Espantaleón

Votes: 44

35. The Story Without a Name (1924)

60 min | Action, Drama

Drakma, an international spy, seeks the possession of the triangulator (a device emitting electronic death rays), which radio expert Alan Holt invented for the United States Government. ... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Agnes Ayres, Antonio Moreno, Tyrone Power Sr., Louis Wolheim

36. Trapped in the Sky (1939)

Passed | 61 min | Drama

Upon developing a new type of electronically driven plane, Walter Fielding, an inventor, offers the United States government first option on his creation. However, when William Fornay, a ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan, Paul Everton, Katherine DeMille

37. The Great Deception (1926)

60 min | Drama

Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence, of which he is a member. He is loved by ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Ben Lyon, Aileen Pringle, Basil Rathbone, Sam Hardy

38. The Claws of the Hun (1918)

50 min | War, Drama

An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles Ray, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Dorcas Matthews

39. For Liberty (1917)

50 min | Drama, War

Marcia Glendon an expatriate, has lived in Berlin for years. Courted by both German General Von Lentz and American spy Frank Graham, Marcia attempts to aid her country when war breaks out ... See full summary »

Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Gladys Brockwell, Charles Clary, Bertram Grassby, Willard Louis

40. The Message of the Mouse (1917)

60 min | Drama

A wealthy financier is tricked by a pair of spies into giving millions to foreign powers. His daughter is suspicious and hires a Detective, who is able to foil the foreign agent's plans. ... See full summary »

Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Anita Stewart, Julia Swayne Gordon, Rudolph Cameron, L. Rogers Lytton

41. The Yellow Typhoon (1920)

60 min | Drama

Hilda and Berta Nordstrom, although identical in appearance, are opposites in temperament. Berta weds naval engineer Robert Hallowell, deserts him in Europe, and travels to the Orient in ... See full summary »

Director: Edward José | Stars: Anita Stewart, Ward Crane, Donald MacDonald, Joseph Kilgour

42. Secret Orders (1926)

60 min | Drama

At the outbreak of the World War, Janet Graham, a telegrapher, is persuaded by Eddie Delano, a crook masquerading as a salesman, to marry him. She agrees, but upon discovering his duplicity... See full summary »

Director: Chester Withey | Stars: Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, Evelyn Brent, John Gough

43. Shadows of Suspicion (1919)

50 min | Drama, War

When the Great War begins, English sportsman Cyril Hammersley is thought to be a slacker because he refuses to join the army for pacifistic reasons. His American fiancée, Doris Mathers, ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Naomi Childers, Helen Lindroth, Kenneth Kealing

44. The Secret Service Man (1912)

Short, Drama

Officials of a foreign country learn that certain United States war plans they desire are in the possession of a prominent senator, at his country home. An adventuress, high up in society ... See full summary »

Stars: Wallace Reid, Rodman Law

45. The Conspirators (1914)

11 min | Short, Drama

Miss Lorimer, a clever Secret Service operative of the United States Government, is detailed to hunt down the plans of a band of conspirators plotting a South American revolution. By ... See full summary »

Director: Marshall Farnum | Stars: Jack Nelson, Alma Russell, Walter Roberts, John O'Hara