Espionage in mystery movies
In year of release order. From 2023 going back in time to 1935.
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- DirectorChristopher PresswellA former spy is accused of selling state secrets to the highest bidder, igniting a national security crisis. But when secret service agent Harry Walker is sent to retrieve the stolen documents, he begins to question who the real enemy is.
- DirectorDaniel LuskoA CIA spy struggling to maintain his sanity uses a special set of skills to search for the man who killed his family at an isolated Arab refugee camp in the mountains.
- DirectorSurender ReddyStarsAkhil AkkineniMammoottySakshi VaidyaA spy with a mysterious past, who is on a mission to uncover the truth about a dangerous terrorist organization.
- DirectorVishal BhardwajStarsTabuAli FazalWamiqa GabbiKrishna Mehra is an operative at Indian spy agency known as R&AW. She is assigned to track down the mole selling India's defense secrets, while all along grappling with her dual identity as a spy and a lover.
- DirectorFahd NurStarsOmair RanaAhad Raza MirAnoushay Abbasi"Unlock the Secrets of an International Espionage Caper: Inspector Jamshed and His Sleuth-Savvy Children Lead the Way to Worldwide Peace and Order!"
- DirectorJanus MetzStarsGoksin ErdemliKasia MaderaChris PineVeteran CIA agent Henry is reunited in Vienna with his former colleague and lover Celia.
- DirectorNicholas JensenStarsCaleb BrunmanImogen SandsMatthew Glen JohnsonFollowing a diamond heist, freelance spy Denny McDonald confronts his man-child temptations while staying confined in his employers' safe-house.
- DirectorLi BinStarsZhichao MengGu ShangweiTenma ShibuyaEspionage thriller set during World War II that tells of one man's war on a squad of thirteen soldiers.
- DirectorThomas MeadmoreStarsMuammar GaddafiHenry KissingerMoshe DayanAn ambitious historian unmasks the worlds greatest spy, setting in motion the very events that lead to the spy's mysterious death.
- DirectorJabaar EdmondStarsWanda BlackTim CameronLorenzo CarswellAgent X (Cranstan Cumberbatch), former military contractor, now secret agent is brought in on a mission to track a drone killer , but finds himself tangled deep into a web of cryptocurrency, bitcoin mining, politicians, and Hit-men in modern day St. Petersburg that takes him further into the world of espionage than he ever imagined.
- DirectorLucas HighamStarsLucas HighamJoe HighamJayden HemsworthMastermind British agent Phoenix Rogue is on the hunt for terrorist super evil The 34 Year Old Midget. He must travel to Italy Limone Sul Garda, on his way he is tasked with surprise attacks and the ultimate mystery, who is The 34 Year Old Midget.
- DirectorShamim SarifStarsRebecca FergusonCharles DanceAnthony HeadIn Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him.
- DirectorMark WatersStarsAbbie CobbGia MantegnaAlan Van SprangA former CIA agent gets a job as a teacher at a Washington D.C. prep school where he recruits an elite group of students for an espionage mission.
- DirectorMatt SteinauerStarsCurtis ArmstrongBret BantaPaget BrewsterWhen Gumshoe receives a cryptic note from his former partner, he follows the trail straight into a world of spies, Nazis and mysterious forces, all vying for a prize that can change the course of World War 2.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsAndrew ScottRomola GaraiCharlie CoxSet in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past.
- DirectorFelix ChongAlan MakStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiXun ZhouXuebing WangAn espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsGary OldmanColin FirthTom HardyIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
- DirectorAlexander KlymkoStarsVincent PastoreBen CurtisLora KojovicJonathan, an electronics expert and spy, is hired to track a beautiful woman with a harrowing past. Little does he know that this will be an assignment like no other. As he carries on with his surveillance, he cannot ignore that his feelings are growing for this woman, his "target". He is getting too involved. It's getting too real. He finally crosses a professional line and meets her, only to find out that her mysterious past is nothing he could have imagined. With the mob after her and time running out, they have to work together to expose the real secret that has been following her for years.
- DirectorJohn LasseterBradford LewisStarsOwen WilsonLarry the Cable GuyMichael CaineStar race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
- DirectorRay Arthur WangStarsLong NguyenMatthew John ArmstrongMichael AkiAbout the hunt for a stolen classified disk, a suspected foreign spy, and the absurd lengths a government will go through to find their 'villain'... before the end of Independence Day weekend.
- DirectorPascal JardinSeok-hoon LeeStarsAndrea BakerAdrian TrussJoris JarskyIn their first mission as, like, total spies, three newly-befriended teen girls investigate the disappearances of people across Beverly Hills, uncovering a plot involving trendy makeover machines, a fancy space hotel and global destruction.
- DirectorStephanie ArgyAlec BoehmStarsLee PerkinsDonal Thoms-CappelloMeg BroganWashington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, a charming and irrepressible young thief is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device that the Japanese military is using to encode its top-secret messages. During the mission, which is complicated by the spy's dark past in Tokyo, the two discover that they are pawns in a larger game. Together, they devise an intricate but risky scheme to outwit the people trying to use them.
- DirectorMatthew DesotellStarsRyan BurnhamGerold WunstelBill McCormackA lost man surfaces from a crude underground espionage experiment. He is stalked through a city's recesses by a murky assassin. The curious image of a "cowboy" haunts his thoughts. He should die tonight, but doesn't know why.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonEdgar RamírezJoan AllenJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
- DirectorFrank MerleStarsErin KilleanCharles Riffenburg IVBobby ZamanTina hates her boring after school job in a shipping store, where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens, until one day, when a secret agent recruits her to help capture a dangerous criminal: the mysterious Maxwell, who has been receiving packages in Tina's store for months. Her reward for helping to bring down this wanted man will be uncovering the truth within those strange packages for Maxwell.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsAlex PettyferMickey RourkeSophie OkonedoAfter the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of the UK's secret intelligence service, MI6, into a mission which will save millions of lives.
- DirectorVincenzo NataliStarsJeremy NorthamLucy LiuNigel BennettAn unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsConnie NielsenGina GershonChloë SevignyA French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsDougray ScottKate WinsletSaffron BurrowsA young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
- DirectorTeddy ChanStarsJackie ChanMin KimEric TsangAt a Hong Kong shopping center, Buck Yuen's (Jackie Chan's) intuition warns him. He saves a robbery's loot and gets on television, ends up in Istanbul via South Korea, and accidentally becomes a spy. Fortunately, he knows Kung Fu.
- DirectorVíctor CárdenasStarsRobert FucillaVíctor CárdenasRachel Deboer1942. How would a wealthy German spy in America feel if the morning after his wedding he finds his American wife dead in their bathtub with her wrists and neck slashed after having committed suicide? How would this man feel if his wife had committed suicide out of remorse because she delivered the incriminating evidence to the government that would send him to jail? How would he feel if he wasn't really a spy but he made her believe he was just so she would give him the time of day!? What if she was also hiding something - something awful?
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsEdward AttertonAmanda RyanJacqueline BissetA fictional account of the sinking of the H.M.H.S. Britannic off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916. This explores the theory of a German Agent sabotaging the liner, a hospital ship.
- DirectorIain PatersonStarsKevin DillonAndrea RothJ.T. WalshA young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
- DirectorAnthony Pullen ShawStarsAngela LansburyThomas Ian GriffithEd BishopOld Mrs. Pollifax has always wanted to be an agent and CIA accidentally hires her for a mission to Morocco. She may not have experience or training, but she's smart and brave.
- DirectorJulian GrantStarsSteve GuttenbergKim CoatesTorri HigginsonAn elite squad of government agents executes a daring mid-air raid to retrieve the world's deadliest biological weapon, SEREX. With disaster imminent, they confront the killer, only to find that it's one of their own.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsMichael CaineSean YoungIan HolmA former British Secret Service Agent falls for an American woman, and becomes entangled in a web of espionage.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsEmmanuel SalingerThibault de MontalembertJean-Louis RichardA medical student returning to France finds himself mixed up in a dark affair of espionage between the Eastern and Western blocs, involving agents of the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service).
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsDenholm ElliottJoss AcklandGlenda JacksonTaken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at Carne School, a boy's school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master's wife brutualy murdered, with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed-knit society of Carne, and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.
- DirectorGennadi PolokaStarsBoris SokolovVasiliy MishchenkoYuriy PopovichEarly 1930s of the 20th century. A leak of classified information is discovered at the Soviet shipbuilding plant.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsHarrison FordBetty BuckleyEmmanuelle SeignerIn a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.
- DirectorStephen PoliakoffStarsCharles DanceCassie StuartBill PatersonSharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsDonald SutherlandNed BeattyRuth GordonGeorge Trent (James Willis), a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
- DirectorB.R. ChopraStarsRajesh KhannaAshok KumarSmita PatilA Captain discovers that his assignment to work with a Defence minister is a front for government espionage, and is pulled into a complex tangle of deceit in the struggle to keep his country safe.
- DirectorAndy SidarisStarsDarby HintonSybil DanningArt MetranoA womanizing private detective is assigned the task of investigating who is behind the hi-tech computer technology leaks to the Russians.
- DirectorRob CohenStarsRobert HaysRon TravisM. Emmet WalshAn investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsHenry ThomasDabney ColemanMichael MurphyA young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget.
- DirectorCraig LahiffStarsAndrew ClarkDieter GoingEdwin HodgemanA Nazi spy in wartime England realises that he's been discovered. A superb exercise in film noir.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsRobert PowellDavid WarnerEric PorterIn March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
- DirectorLindsay ShonteffStarsMichael PetrovitchPhilip LathamDon FellowsA British spy is framed, so he must evade the KGB, the CIA and the British Intelligence to reach the the heart of the conspiracy in Arctic.
- DirectorTakashi TsuboshimaStarsKeiko AramakiHiroshi AyukawaJun FujimakiDeep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsBarry NewmanAnna KarinaKlaus Maria BrandauerA list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.
- DirectorYves RobertStarsPierre RichardBernard BlierJean RochefortA hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
- DirectorPanos GlykofrydisStarsKostas PrekasJenny RousseaSpyros KalogirouAfter missing in action for two years, a wounded Greek counter-espionage officer returns to Athens with the name of the mole who is selling top-secret information to the enemy. Now, his family is at risk. Will he commit high treason?
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsAnthony HopkinsJack HawkinsRobert MorleyIn a vein similar to the James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
- DirectorKamal SharmaStarsMumtaz AskariSailesh KumarBrij Mohan VyasA top secret microfilm gets stolen and secret agent 077 aka Rakesh is assigned to retrieve it feom the enemies. The adventure of returning the microfilm to its rightful owner intertwined with Rakesh's evolving love story forms the basis of the plot
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames MasonMaximilian SchellSimone SignoretA British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsRichard JohnsonElke SommerSylva KoscinaBritish agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsYul BrynnerBritt EklandClive RevillIn a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
- DirectorE. Darrell HallenbeckStarsRobert VaughnDavid McCallumLeo G. CarrollU.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to Europe where a scientist's age-reversing machine is in danger of being seized by T.H.R.U.S.H. spies.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsRay DantonMargaret LeeCarlo D'AngeloA series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot to imperil the world with a potent new drug.
- DirectorPhilip DunneStarsRock HudsonClaudia CardinaleJack WardenA New York psychiatrist is solicited by government agents in connection with a former patient of his who also happens to be a scientist wanted by certain foreign powers.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge SegalAlec GuinnessMax von SydowIn the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.
- DirectorJacques DerayStarsLino VenturaJean BouiseMarilù ToloA 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.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsGregory PeckSophia LorenAlan BadelInternational intrigue in London, involving an American university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
- DirectorVittorio SalaStarsBrett HalseyPier AngeliGastone MoschinA leading American spy has a miniature camera surgically implanted in his eye, unbeknownst to him, and with it photographs secrets for the Russians, helping them gather information about a newly created death ray.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsEddie ConstantineAnna KarinaAkim TamiroffA U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsMurray HamiltonJoyce TaylorHugh MarloweWhile attending a school for diplomats' daughters, the teen-aged daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsPeter van EyckMacdonald CareyMarianne KochIn East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsKenneth MoreTaina ElgBrenda de BanzieIn London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsSteve BrodieSandra FrancisAndrea DomburgA captive German, engaged in the Russian satellite program, holds the secret of Sputnik's beep signals. He escapes into the Free World where he is kidnapped by agents who want to "sell" him to the highest bidder.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsCurd JürgensPeter UstinovO.E. HasseShort of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.
- DirectorSheldon ReynoldsStarsRobert MitchumGeneviève PageIngrid ThulinWhen a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsKent TaylorJane HyltonKathleen ByronAn American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRichard WidmarkJean PetersThelma RitterA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsLloyd BridgesMoira ListerAlan WheatleyAn American WWII veteran goes back to England after the war only to discover that his wartime sweetheart has got mixed up with a dangerous spy ring.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerPatricia NealStephen McNallyA US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsRichard TravisPamela BlakeRochelle HudsonFBI Agent Steve Blair finds himself caught up in Cold War espionage when he boards a plane heading west. Some sensitive papers have disappeared and Steve must keep tabs on a suspect without giving himself away.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsRichard TravisMicheline CheirelLeonard StrongJohnny Vickers is a US government agent operating in London. Vickers puts a tail on the double agent Marcel Grandet with whom he'd worked during World War II. Grandet stole a fortune in jewels during the war, and with these jewels he intends to finance a neo-Nazi movement. Posing as a fellow fascist, Travis is able to infiltrate the villains. But will Vickers be able to return the stolen jewels and save his own skin?
- DirectorWilliam RowlandStarsAlan CurtisEvelyn AnkersMicheline CheirelA couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsLawrence TierneyAnne JeffreysLowell GilmoreJohnny, an ex-Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsWilliam EytheLloyd NolanSigne HassoBill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRay MillandMarjorie ReynoldsCarl EsmondStephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsEdgar BarrierStephanie BachelorC. Aubrey SmithScotland Yard's Room 40 was instrumental in Allied victory during WW1, but has been compromised in the decades since, a killer in their midst.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJames MasonCarla LehmannRaymond LovellAn American sculptress in wartime Algiers 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.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsJames MasonJoyce HowardTom WallsDuring WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsDean JaggerJohn CarradineMary BrianA forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceMarjorie LordSherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy hands.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsMervyn JohnsJohn ChandosNova PilbeamWartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
- DirectorStanley LoganStarsGeorge SandersTom ConwayJane RandolphTom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsMichael WhalenAnne NagelWilliam BakewellNazi 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.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsWilliam GarganMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinDetective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battling German spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsConstance BennettDon PorterJohn LitelA war correspondent's new wife is suspected by his colleagues of being a German spy.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsFlorence RiceJohn BealMargaret HayesAn intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose German agents.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsNancy KellyRichard CarlsonAlbert BassermannAfter being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.