Sabotage (1936), Mother Night (1996), Morituri (1965), This Is My Affair (1937), Operation Crossbow (1965), Gang Related (1997), Cruising (1980), They Came to Blow Up America (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Working Undercover movies.
Storyline: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
Plot Keywords: saboteur, detective, wife, brother, professor, dark, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American living in Germany since childhood, is recruited by the United States to become an informer during the upcoming Second World War. What he does become, is one of the leading anti-semitic news broadcasters of Nazi Germany. After the fall of Hitler's Germany, Campbell's government friends arrange for a quiet life in the United States. His life is quiet until a complex web of spies and neo-Nazis draws him back into the life which he once led. Eventually captured by the Isralies, Campbell's one defense was: "I was an American Spy."—Anthony Hughes <husnock31@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, secret agent, young girl, military officer, radio host, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.—Daniel Bruce <danbec@one.net.au>
Plot Keywords: deserter, government official, ship captain, nazi, british intelligence agent, sailor, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century).—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: naval officer, gangster, singer, theodore roosevelt, suspenseful, melodramatic, white house ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of World War II. Even though the Nazis were in retreat, these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. This movie includes references to Hannah Reich, who was a German test pilot in real-life.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, woman, spy, prime minister, general, colonel, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two corrupt cops murder an undercover DEA agent by mistake, and frantically try to cover their tracks by framing a homeless man for the crime. That involves juggling evidence, coaching witnesses, and improvising to keep their desperate scheme from unraveling.—<rozebud@compuserve.com>
Plot Keywords: police detective, partner, drug dealer, dea agent, homeless person, lawyer, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society. While barely seeing his girlfriend Nancy anymore, the work starts changing him.
Plot Keywords: police detective, girlfriend, police captain, playwright, homosexual, killer, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Because of his German parentage, government agent Carl Steelman is assigned to by his chief, Craig, to join the Nazi Bund, to obtain information on the underground activities of the group. Steelman is welcomed and becomes a trusted member of the group. His father, Julius Steelman, unaware of this son's real mission, drives him from their home. The government agents raid a Bund meeting and Steelman assumes the identity of one of the members who was about to depart to Germany for training. In Berlin, Steelman meets and falls in love with Helga Lorenz, a member of the German underground. In order to hide his true identity and complete his mission, Steelman has to betray the girl to the Gestapo, but later manages to rescue her and see her safely on her way to England. Frau Reiter, wife of the man whose identity Steelman has assumed, threatens to turn him over to the police. He convinces the Gestapo that she is crazy and she is confined to an insane asylum. His training completed, Steelman is sent to America, via submarine, in charge of a group of eight saboteurs. Before they depart the sub, off the Long Island coast, Steelman plants a time-bomb in the sub.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: spy, double agent, nazi, father, wife, patriotic, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
Plot Keywords: detective, partner, love interest, cult leader, reverend, playful, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The hero independently raises his little daughter and works as a security guard in a nightclub. Work is simple, enough to live. At night, he is on duty, and during the day he can communicate with the girl, because he loves her so much. Once in a bar, a terrible fight takes place, the hero has to intervene, but the consequences were sad. As a result, he finds himself in a police station, and then he is sentenced to prison.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
Plot Keywords: bodyguard, bouncer, daughter, strip-club owner, police detective, stripper, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley. The Sheriff puts Crash and Langdon in jail together and then has Dusty break them out. Langdon then leads them to Fugitive Valley where they hope to round up the gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: deputy, partner, nurse, bandit, marshal, sheriff, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sadistic Stephen Danel owns a penal island, and when he is not humiliating and mistreating his wife, he is torturing his convict prisoners and using them for slave labor. Government agent Mark Sheldon is sent to infiltrate the island and bring Danel to justice.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: slave trader, wife, secret agent, cook, prison guard, inmate, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cooper, the deputy director of the CIA, wants to be the director. So, he tries to make it appear that the director is corrupt so that he will resign or be removed. The director appears before a committee and asks for some time to prepare his defense. The director goes home and asks his man Brown to join him. He then shows Brown that Cooper is bugging him. That's when he decides to turn the tables on Cooper by feeding him some false information. And that information is that there's a man, who might be able to clear him of the charges against him, will be arriving at the airport, so he tells Brown to meet him. The Director tells Brown to just pick someone who is arriving at the airport thus making Cooper believe that he is the man who can help the director. Brown picks Richard cause he is wearing mismatched shoes, one of them being red. So Cooper sets up surveillance on Richard and sends his femme fatale, Maddy to come on to him and find out what he knows. While Maddy is playing, ...
Plot Keywords: violinist, femme fatale, government official, friend, quirky, madcap, washington, d.c. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: FBI director Jack Devine always sets up his brother Joe as undercover to trick mobsters. His latest cover is as movie producer Joe Diamond, to get Tommy Sanz for Teamster racketeering. His cover requires a script - the one movie theater manager Steven Schats and his brother Marshall 'Paris' wrote, supposedly a cancer biopic. So Steven is hired as director, his greatest dream, even if producing an Arizona desert drama on Rhode Island is far from ideal. When a former Oscar nominee volunteers to star, the cover gets out of hand till everyone believes in it, even the FBI brass- or not?—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, director, gangster, brother, girlfriend, mafia boss, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: marshal, sheriff, townsperson, bandit, gang leader, daughter, thrilling ...
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