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1. Slow Horses (2022– )

TV-MA | Drama, Thriller

Follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.

Stars: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rosalind Eleazar

Votes: 71,433

2. Page Eight (2011 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Johnny works for MI5. His neighbor Nancy approaches him. When his best friend and boss suddenly dies, Johnny's left to sort out things about the PM, MI5 and US.

Director: David Hare | Stars: Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Tom Hughes, Michael Gambon

Votes: 20,125

3. MI-5 (2002–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.

Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones

Votes: 18,432

4. Casino Royale (1967)

Approved | 131 min | Comedy

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles

Votes: 32,525

5. Licence to Kill (1989)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell, Talisa Soto

Votes: 112,172 | Gross: $34.67M

6. Operation Mincemeat (2021)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, War

During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Rufus Wright

Votes: 35,264

7. A Spy Among Friends (2022)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Thriller

In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union.

Stars: Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Edmondson

Votes: 6,250

8. Unlocked (I) (2017)

R | 98 min | Action, Thriller

A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, John Malkovich

Votes: 38,736

9. MI-5 (2015)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.

Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Kit Harington, Peter Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Wildman

Votes: 23,925

10. Turks & Caicos (2014 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Worricker is a retired spy living in the Caribbean. He realizes he is in trouble when four "businessmen" show up. They look like mob bosses, but one actually works for the CIA. He gets help from two former MI5 colleagues back in London.

Director: David Hare | Stars: Winona Ryder, Christopher Walken, Bill Nighy, Hansel Piper

Votes: 7,160

11. Liaison (2023)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Thriller

A high-stakes, contemporary thriller exploring how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future.

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Peter Mullan, Gérard Lanvin

Votes: 5,724

12. Mortdecai (2015)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn

Votes: 76,891 | Gross: $7.61M

13. Salting the Battlefield (2014 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

MI5 officer Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrell are on the run together across Europe. But Worricker knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront his nemesis, the prime minister.

Director: David Hare | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Shazad Latif, Felicity Jones, James McArdle

Votes: 4,610

14. 6 Days (I) (2017)

R | 94 min | Action, Drama, History

Based on the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, this action-thriller dramatizes a six-day standoff between armed Iranian Arabs and SAS soldiers ready for a counterattack.

Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Martin Shaw

Votes: 24,690

15. Traitors (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | History, Thriller

A British civil servant agrees to spy on her own government for the Americans in the aftermath of WWII.

Stars: Emma Appleton, Brandon P Bell, Keeley Hawes, Luke Treadaway

Votes: 3,925

16. The Game (2014–2015)

59 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A Cold War spy thriller that tells the story of invisible wars fought by MI5.

Stars: Tom Hughes, Jonathan Aris, Victoria Hamilton, Shaun Dooley

Votes: 3,552

17. 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: 14,433 | Gross: $1.58M

18. Partners in Crime (2015)

55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Agatha Christie's crime-fighting duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, solve mysteries and search for enemy spies in 1950s Britain.

Stars: Jessica Raine, David Walliams, James Fleet, Matthew Steer

Votes: 2,711

19. Cambridge Spies (2003)

59 min | Drama, History

The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West

Votes: 2,208

20. Queen & Country (2014)

TV-14 | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis

Votes: 1,867 | Gross: $0.03M

21. Spy (2011–2012)

30 min | Comedy

Tim is in a custody battle with his ex-wife, when he quits his job. He applies for a job as a civil servant doing data entry, but discovers during the job interview that he has been offered a job as a trainee spy for MI5.

Stars: Tom Goodman-Hill, Darren Boyd, Jude Wright, Robert Lindsay

Votes: 3,921

22. Closed Circuit (2013)

R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 23,290 | Gross: $5.73M

23. Hidden Agenda (1990)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch

Votes: 4,611 | Gross: $1.03M

24. Between the Lines (1992–1994)

50 min | Crime, Drama

British police drama following the team at the Complaints Investigation Bureau - the unit that polices the police.

Stars: Neil Pearson, Tom Georgeson, Siobhan Redmond, Tony Doyle

Votes: 636

25. Page Eight: Electronic Press Kit (2011 Video)

26 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: David Barron, Judy Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon

Votes: 31

26. Shadow Dancer (2012)

R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen

Votes: 13,029 | Gross: $0.10M

27. U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Thriller

A teenage boy's descent into the dangerous world of the Internet and the harrowing consequences of his actions. A true story.

Director: Andrew Douglas | Stars: Jamie Blackley, Anthony Warren, Jack Lowden, Toby Regbo

Votes: 3,215

28. Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Anthony Bate, Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Ingrid Hafner

Votes: 72

29. Decrypted (2021)

112 min | Comedy, Drama

An outrageous and provocative dark comedy about a mismatched NSA team who kidnap Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and attempt to torture him for the information they need to destroy cryptocurrencies.

Director: Tom Sands | Stars: Sophia Myles, David Hoflin, Amanda Abbington, Kevin McNally

Votes: 1,988

30. Goldfinger: The Radio Play (2010 Video)

87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

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Director: Martin Jarvis | Stars: Toby Stephens, Ian McKellen, Rosamund Pike, Jon David Yu

Votes: 28

31. Salting the Battlefield ...Moving On (2014 Video)

16 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Graves, David Hare

Votes: 31

32. Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal (2014– )

Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Drama, History

The story of Kim Philby, one of the famous Cambridge spies, who was a double agent for the KGB while working in a position of trust for the British secret service. The person he betrayed ... See full summary »

Stars: Ben Macintyre, David Oakes, William Beck, Mark Elliott

Votes: 81

33. The Spy Who Went Into the Cold (2013)

75 min | Documentary

Documentary on Kim Philby's career as an MI6 agent who spied for the Soviet Union throughout WWII and afterward, and his subsequent exile in the Moscow.

Director: George Carey | Stars: Dick Beeston, George Blake, Anthony Blunt, Winston Churchill

Votes: 194

34. The Writing on the Wall (1996 TV Movie)

196 min | Thriller

When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Smith | Stars: Lena Stolze, Martin Glyn Murray, Bill Paterson, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 47

35. Complicit (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 99 min | Drama, Thriller

'Complicit' follows the trail of Edward (David Oyelowo), an MI5 officer desperate to foil what he believes is another 7/7-style atrocity planned by British terror suspect Waleed (Arsher Ali... See full summary »

Director: Niall MacCormick | Stars: David Oyelowo, Arsher Ali, Rupert Procter, Wahab Sheikh

Votes: 791

36. Turks & Caicos: Uncovered (2014 Video)

19 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Celia Duval, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Graves

Votes: 9

37. William Martin (2017)

15 min | Short, Drama, History

When the course of the Second World War is in the hands of four Spanish fishermen.

Director: Richard Jordan | Stars: Carmelo Crespo, Antonio Gómez, Manuel Palomo Pró, Andrés Suárez

38. Double Take (2006 Video)

85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

After the New York and Madrid attacks, the international communities need for closer co-operation and shared intelligence has led to the creation of the European Intelligence Agency. The ... See full summary »

Director: Brendan Maguire | Stars: Julie Ferris, Gail Brady, Selina Fairbairn, Tatiana Filippo

Votes: 9

39. Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy (2013 Video Game)

E10+ | Adventure, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew travels to Glasgow to investigate the role a mysterious terrorist organization played in her mother's death.

Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Jeff Allen Pierce, Julia Stockton, Sofia Rybin

Votes: 54

40. Torpedo Up the Ass (2022)

73 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The very very secret agent Cochon is back, this is Part 3 of his adventures. Relentless, he continues to look for the spy with a huge ass, it seems that he found her this time, she is hiding in a crater, Copermic, on the Moon.

Director: Rodrig Andrisan | Stars: Kosar Amini, Rodrig Andrisan, David Barker, Katie Cannon

41. Surveillance Secrets (2019– )

43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An 8-part series that blows the lid on the secret world of espionage and surveillance. The use of closely-guarded techniques and dramatic tension guides the viewer on a journey of suspense into espionage and surveillance tactics.

Stars: Fabian Lord, Marie Gooljar

42. L'affaire Jack King (2015)

52 min | Documentary

The British 1940s wartime counterespionage "Operation Jack King" is explained after MI5 archives are opened for this.

Directors: Benjamin Cohen, Nicolas Cotto | Stars: Sebastien-Yves Laurent, Stephen Dorril, Thomas Hennessey, Michael Jago

Votes: 160

43. The Confession (VI) (2016)

96 min | Documentary

A man returns from Bagram in Afghanistan and Guantanamo to tell the story.

Director: Ashish Ghadiali | Stars: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Colin Powell

Votes: 64

44. L'Enfer sur la plage (1966)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, her former lover.

Director: José Bénazéraf | Stars: Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Claess, Georges Planchon, Monique Thiriet

Votes: 53

45. On the Lam (2016)

35 min | Short, Crime

Carl a hardened criminal has done a heist so he's holed up watching television. The heat is on him so he crashes an ex-con Rod to arrange an operation for a new face to start over. Carl ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Anton | Stars: Jerry Anton, Marco Aponte, Clare Aster, John-Paul Brennan

46. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: The French Drop (2004)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

February 1941: A local murder investigation sidetracks Foyle's endeavor to pursue a position that would contribute more to the war effort as he finds himself caught between rival spy organizations.

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jake Harders, Mark Berry, Michael Kitchen, Amanda Pointer

Votes: 690

47. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–2016)
Episode: ... But We Think You Have to Go (1998)

Not Rated | 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Gary realises he's been left to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied France.

Director: Robin Nash | Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Emma Amos, Elizabeth Carling, Christopher Ettridge

Votes: 45

48. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–2016)
Episode: We Don't Want to Lose You... (1998)

Not Rated | 28 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Gary is coerced into undertaking a special mission by impersonating a french colonel.

Director: Robin Nash | Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Elizabeth Carling, Emma Amos, Victor McGuire

Votes: 46

49. MI-5 (2002–2011)
Episode: The Special: Part 1 (2005)

TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When an American extremist group sets off a bomb in London, promising more attacks if their demands aren't met, the team must act fast to prevent any more casualties.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Michelle Bonnard, Peter Brooke, Anna Chancellor

Votes: 293

50. MI-5 (2002–2011)
Episode: Diana (2005)

TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Ruth is visited by his partner Angela, an ex-MI5 officer, who asks Ruth for help in proving that MI5 killed Lady Diana. When Ruth refuses to help her, Angela takes matters into her own hands, visiting the Grid with a deadly proposition.

Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Anna Chancellor, Lindsay Duncan, Peter Firth, Raza Jaffrey

Votes: 262