Highest-Rated Movies about 'Spying', Sort by Popularity

Page Eight (2011), The Measure of a Man (2015), Carry on Spying (1964), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), From Russia with Love (1963), Red Cliff (2008), Snowden (2016), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Spying movies.

#16. A Most Wanted Man (2014)

Storyline: When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community, laying claim to his father's ill gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity - oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré's novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

Plot Keywords: spy, terrorist, government official, co-worker, civilian, muslim, brooding ...

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#17. The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)

Storyline: The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to run at the nearby Gold Cup so Clarence Fitton, bookie brother of headmistress Millicent, ensures his own daughter is on hand to report progress. At the same time Barchester police have planted sergeant Ruby Gates as a teacher, and the Ministry of Education are sending a third inspector down after the previous two disappeared without trace.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: headmistress, bookie, student, juvenile delinquents, petty criminal, teacher, amusing ...

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#18. Cypher (2002)

Storyline: Hoping for a more exciting life than the suburban drawl he currently inhabits, nerdy salary man Morgan Sullivan takes a job as an industrial spy at Digicorp, a global computer corporation. Digicorp assigns him the duty of flying to various conventions around America, recording the speeches that are made. But when Sullivan meets a mysterious woman he begins to realize that his job may not be what it seems, as he descends into a dark underworld of brainwashing and struggles to maintain his own identity.

Plot Keywords: corporate spy, femme fatale, mysterious woman, executive, double agent, accountant, intricate ...

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#19. The Turning Point (1952)

Storyline: Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship for John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: prosecutor, police officer, mobster, journalist, father, girlfriend, brooding ...

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#21. Red Sparrow (2018)

Storyline: A young Russian intelligence officer is assigned to seduce a first-tour CIA agent who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young officers collide in a charged atmosphere of trade-craft, deception, and inevitably forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but the lives of others as well.

Plot Keywords: ballerina, spy, killer, victim, cia agent, brutal, intense ...

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#22. Hollywoodland (2006)

Storyline: Struggling private investigator Louis Simo treats his work more as a means to make a living than a want to do right by what few clients he has. Through connections with the investigation firm for which he used to work, Simo is hired by Helen Bessolo to investigate the death of her son, actor George Reeves. Reeves was best known for his title role in Adventures of Superman (1952), a role which he always despised, in part since it typecast him as a "cartoon", despite it bringing him a certain fame. His June 16, 1959 death by a single gunshot wound while in his bedroom in his Los Angeles home was ruled a suicide by the police, the death which occurred when the house was filled with people. Reeves' story is told in part in flashback as Simo, who is trying to make a name for himself with this case, talks to or tries to talk to some of the players involved, most specifically the wife of MGM General Manager E.J. Mannix, Toni Mannix, with whom Reeves was having a relatively open and ...

Plot Keywords: private investigator, actor, wife, client, woman, melodramatic, emotional ...

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#23. Up Periscope (1959)

Storyline: Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.—Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>

Plot Keywords: naval officer, lieutenant, submarine officer, woman, girlfriend, japanese soldier, thrilling ...

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#24. Pretexts (2008)

Storyline: The couple from Vienna, a theater director, and Daniel, a nursing home doctor, are going through a crisis. They love each other, but they can't stand each other. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the agonizing void in their lives. Their worlds and their needs are different, almost antagonistic. Story about the worst of loneliness: loneliness in company; about unsatisfied wishes and promises that cannot be fulfilled, but which become a pretext to continue living in spite of everything.—jsanchez

Plot Keywords: director, doctor, son, nurse, actor, gripping, emotional ...

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#25. Clouds Over Europe (1939)

Storyline: Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. The latest is British, and Hammond of the Secret Service, comical but competent, investigates undercover. Also interested is waitress Kay, a disguised reporter, and Hammond's sister. The government and plane manufacturer Barrett think the whole business is just coincidence, but the "Viking", ostensible salvage ship controlled by a foreign power, has much to do with it.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: secret agent, pilot, thief, reporter, undercover agent, cheeky, engaging ...

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#26. Red Joan (2018)

Storyline: English-born Joan Stanley (Dame Judi Dench), a Soviet and Communist Party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and gets recruited by the K.G.B. in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers nuclear bomb secrets to Soviet Russia, which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century.—Unknownian

Plot Keywords: secret service agent, traitor, widow, interrogator, spy, shocking, fascinating ...

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#27. Appointment in Berlin (1943)

Storyline: It's the fall of 1938, and Prime Minister Chamberlain has just signed the Munich Agreement with Adolph Hitler. An RAF officer complains about England's ongoing capitulation to Germany. After a night of drinking, he paints swastikas on Nelson's Monument. The RAF discharges him as unfit to be an officer. An acquaintance enlists him in the British secret service. He meets and courts a German woman from a prominent family. Her brother is highly placed in the Nazi propaganda works. The Germans recruit him and he gives radio broadcasts from Berlin to England, as the voice of truth. His broadcasts have a code that give the British military information. All goes well until his cover is blown and he and his German girlfriend must try to escape.—SimonJack

Plot Keywords: air force pilot, secret agent, double agent, girlfriend, nazi, patriotic, crafty ...

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#29. Candlelight in Algeria (1944)

Storyline: An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--and that the British agent has a camera that has photographs of the meeting place.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: spy, nazi, general, woman, frenchman, disturbing, melodramatic ...

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#30. Central Intelligence (2016)

Storyline: Calvin Joyner was voted in high school the guy most likely to succeed. 20 years later he's an accountant. As his high school reunion approaches, he tries to make contact with his old schoolmates. And someone named Bob Stone contacts him. He says that he was known as Robbie Weirdicht in school. Calvin remembers that he was picked on, as a matter of fact after an extremely nasty prank he left school. They agree to meet and Calvin is surprised by how much he has changed. Bob asks Calvin to help him out. He says yes and the next thing he knows some men burst into his home. They're CIA, the one in charge is looking for Stone, she says he's a rogue agent. When they can't find Bob they leave. Later he approaches Calvin telling him, he is not a rogue agent, he's trying to find a person known as the Black Badger who is planning to sell some information that in the wrong hands can be disastrous. so he needs Calvin's help to stop him. Calvin's not sure whom he should believe.

Plot Keywords: accountant, cia agent, spy, bully, villain, brash, confident ...

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