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1. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,541
2. Fair Game (1995)
R | 91 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
Director: Andrew Sipes | Stars: William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford, Steven Berkoff, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 13,841 | Gross: $11.53M
3. Saboteur (1942)
Passed | 109 min | Thriller, War
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter
Votes: 27,979
4. Topaz (1969)
M/PG | 143 min | Drama, Thriller
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor
Votes: 19,555 | Gross: $8.37M
5. Red Joan (2018)
R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Votes: 14,421 | Gross: $1.58M
6. The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into a sheepdog.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello
Votes: 5,573 | Gross: $0.10M
7. The 39 Steps (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones
Votes: 2,332
8. Batman (1943)
Approved | 260 min | Action, Crime, Family
The very first serial to adapt the comic book character of the Batman. In it, the Batman is a secret U.S. government agent, attempting to defeat the schemes of Japanese agent Dr. Daka operating in Los Angeles at the height of World War II.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 2,472
9. The Girl Hunters (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Legendary detective Mike Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Mickey Spillane, Shirley Eaton, Scott Peters, Guy Kingsley Poynter
Votes: 806
10. Destination Tokyo (1943)
Passed | 135 min | Adventure, War
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely
Votes: 5,751
11. Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)
TV-14 | 125 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
Director: Hyeon Na | Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Park Hae-soo, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yang Dong-kun
Votes: 4,587
12. The Iron Curtain (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 1,107
13. The MacKintosh Man (1973)
PG | 98 min | Thriller
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews
Votes: 5,220 | Gross: $3.30M
14. Knock on Wood (1954)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy
Discovering that a ventriloquist is travelling to Zurich, a spy ring hides secret plans in his dummies' heads. When a second spy ring learns of the plans, they descend upon the ventriloquist, causing city-wide pandemonium.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns
Votes: 1,165
15. 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: 3,294
16. Eyes in the Night (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally
Votes: 1,956
17. Springfield Rifle (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Thriller, War, Western
Major Lex Kearney becomes the North's first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who's behind the theft of Union cavalry horses in Colorado during the Civil War.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly
Votes: 2,280
18. Suzy (1936)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
Believing that a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a struggling chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris where she meets and marries a World War I pilot (Cary Grant), whose carefree ways bring unexpected results.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Lewis Stone
Votes: 1,722
19. Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Bela Lugosi
Votes: 1,537
20. Ship Ahoy (1942)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien
Votes: 716
21. Richard Sorge. Master Spy (2019)
624 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film about the life and work of the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge in Japan on the eve of and during the Second World War in Japan. Working as a correspondent for an ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksandr Domogarov, Shion Nakamaru, Osamu Yamamoto, Andrey Rudenskiy
Votes: 75
22. Man on a String (1960)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 496
23. Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,831
24. Dead on: Relentless II (1992 Video)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Ray Sharkey, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster, Marc Poppel
Votes: 442
25. The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Successful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Ryan, Laraine Day, John Agar, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 1,272
26. Hotel Reserve (1944)
Approved | 79 min | Thriller
A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
Directors: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury | Stars: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Julien Mitchell
Votes: 912
27. Shoot First (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Thriller
A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer, Marius Goring
Votes: 354
28. Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Mystery, Romance
Deresco, owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works as a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich von Stroheim, Otto Kruger
Votes: 170
29. Subterfuge (1968)
89 min | Thriller
A C.I.A. man goes to London to assist British Intelligence uncover a mole and destroy a foreign spy ring.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Gene Barry, Joan Collins, Richard Todd, Tom Adams
Votes: 144
30. The Secret Code (1942)
Approved | 275 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A police detective goes undercover and joins a gang of Nazi agents using explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort, whom he battles in disguise as The Black Commando.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 74
31. Fly-By-Night (1942)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir
After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Richard Carlson, Albert Bassermann, Miles Mander
Votes: 384
32. Hong Kong Confidential (1958)
Not Rated | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the Cold War, an American secret agent must find a kidnapped Arab prince who is being used by the Soviets to gain leverage against America's plans to install missiles in a Middle-Eastern country.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Gene Barry, Beverly Tyler, Allison Hayes, Ed Kemmer
Votes: 215
33. We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance
WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas. Young Brad Craig (Langton) enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Quine, Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 192
34. Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (1950)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
When enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile reservation, the chief of America's counterspy division (Howard St. John) and Scotland Yard's best investigator Ron Randell ... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Howard St. John, Amanda Blake, Ron Randell, June Vincent
Votes: 165
35. Cairo (1942)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen
Votes: 503
36. Pals of the Saddle (1938)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Foreign agents are smuggling monium (a chemical used in producing poison gas) into Mexico. The three Mesquiteers get involved when they ride to save a girl (really a government agent) on a runaway horse.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Doreen McKay
Votes: 416
37. Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943)
Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, War
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a German spy ring.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Rod Cameron, Joan Marsh, Duncan Renaldo, Lionel Royce
Votes: 113
38. To Skin a Spy (1966)
93 min | Mystery, Thriller
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo, Adrian Hoven
Votes: 406
39. 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
40. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung
Votes: 119
41. Passport to Suez (1943)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Lone Wolf undercover to foil the Nazis stealing the plans!
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Robert Stanford
Votes: 384
42. The Dawn Express (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Nazi spies in the USA try to steal the formula for synthetic oil and ship it to Germany by means of a night plane called the Dawn Express.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Michael Whalen, Anne Nagel, William Bakewell, Constance Worth
Votes: 246
43. Cipher Bureau (1938)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury, Don Dillaway
Votes: 97
44. Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
Passed | 59 min | Mystery
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 517
45. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943)
Approved | 245 min | Action, Drama, War
A Coast Guard officer is assigned to protect the coastline from spies, saboteurs and enemy agents.
Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Don Terry, Walter Sande, Elyse Knox, Philip Ahn
Votes: 60
46. Behind the Eight Ball (1942)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
The members of a summer theater group get mixed up with spies and murder.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Carol Bruce
Votes: 79
47. The Black Dakotas (1954)
Approved | 65 min | Western
During the American Civil War, Confederate spies aim to steal Union gold intended for the peace treaty with the Sioux and thus pit the Indians against the Union Forces.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 293
48. Counter-Espionage (1942)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Lone Wolf tracks down German spies in London during the German bombing.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall
Votes: 368
49. A Trip to Paris (1938)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The Jones Family goes to Paris to celebrate Father and Mother's 25th anniversary. Adventures include love and spy rings.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason
Votes: 21
50. The Torso Murder Mystery (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Mystery
Ted Healey, a British man, is employed in a factory which makes anti-submarine patrol boats fitted with a secret torpedo device. Healy is in the pay of the German Secret Service and his ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni, Romilly Lunge
Votes: 43