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1. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 73,328 | Gross: $20.50M
2. Black Book (2006)
R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn
Votes: 80,668 | Gross: $4.40M
3. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,134
4. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Approved | 173 min | Drama, History, War
August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 5,209
5. Spartan (2004)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Tia Texada
Votes: 33,071 | Gross: $4.43M
6. Deadly Nightshade (1953)
61 min | Crime, Drama
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall, John Horsley, Joan Hickson
Votes: 243
7. Eto bylo v razvedke (1969)
93 min | War
The film tells about the fate of a twelve-year-old intelligence officer, a hero of the Great Patriotic War .
Director: Lev Mirsky | Stars: Viktor Zhukov, Valeri Malyshev, Vladimir Grammatikov, Viktor Filippov
Votes: 57
8.
Get Smart (1965–1970)
Episode:
The Dead Spy Scrawls
(1966)
TV-G | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
KAOS is using a pool hall as its communications center.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Jack Lambert, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 242
9.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
How to Catch a Papa Bear
(1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
The Gestapo sets a trap for the elusive underground agent known as 'Papa Bear' (Hogan) and Newkirk gets caught.
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 165
10.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
LeBeau and the Little Old Lady
(1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
LeBeau says that he keeps rendezvousing with a little old lady who is actually young and beautiful.
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 186
11.
I Spy (1965–1968)
Episode:
Bridge of Spies
(1966)
60 min | Action, Adventure
A beautiful tour guide, a handsome tennis pro and the romantic city of Venice would make for an intimate friendship if the tour guide didn't like to slip knives between men's ribs.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Barbara Steele, Carlo Croccolo
Votes: 55
12.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
Crack-Up
(1972)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Law enforcement agencies believe that Peter Cordel is a killer for hire, but no evidence linking him to any killings has been uncovered. The IMF is assigned to obtain the evidence needed to... See full summary »
Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Lynda Day George, Peter Lupus
Votes: 132
13.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
The Deal
(1972)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Mobsters Larson, and Rogan have made a deal to support Gen. Oliver Hammond in his bid to take over the island nation of Camagua. The IMF capture the mobsters en route, and force them to ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Lynda Day George, Peter Lupus
Votes: 153
14.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
Underground
(1972)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A gang specializing in smuggling criminals out of the country manages to free Gunther Schell, a Syndicate finance man who knows the location of $27 million in Syndicate money. But this same... See full summary »
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Lynda Day George, Peter Lupus
Votes: 127
15.
Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode:
The Van Buren Boys
(1997)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy
Kramer gets mixed up with a gang when he is mugged by them and mistakenly shows their secret sign.
Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 3,285
16.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
The Hunt for Atomic Secrets
(1999)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The all-important race to develop an atomic bomb led to some of the most daring Russian spy operations in the United States. Exclusive interviews with Russian agents detail the inside story of the Soviet atomic spy ring.
Director: Aleksandr Ivankin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Allen Weinstein, Vladimir Chikov, Thomas B. Allen
Votes: 15
17.
The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode:
Red Listed
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Patrick gets a step closer to finding the person who stole his dummy list of Red John suspects, and he may need the help of an old colleague to bring him down.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman
Votes: 1,717
18.
TURN: Washington's Spies (2014–2017)
Episode:
Mr. Culpeper
(2014)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, History, War
En route to New York, Abe is ambushed by a desperate patriot. Washington charges Ben with the task of creating America's first spy ring.
Director: Eagle Egilsson | Stars: Jamie Bell, Seth Numrich, Daniel Henshall, Heather Lind
Votes: 538
19.
SAS: Rogue Warriors (2017)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2017)
58 min | Documentary
Ben Macintyre concludes his history of the formation of the SAS. In 1943, the Service left the deserts of North Africa for mainland Europe and entered a darker and more complex theatre of war.
Director: Matthew Whiteman | Stars: Ben Macintyre, David Stirling, Jim Almonds, Bob Bennett
Votes: 10