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58 films tagged spies, showing 50
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2025 · Thriller
After the Kandahar hijacking, an intelligence chief sends a young agent into Karachi to work his way up through the gangs shielding a terror network. Three and a half hours, with a lot of names and factions to keep straight.
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2025 · Mystery
An intelligence officer is given a week to find who leaked a secret programme, and his own wife is one of the five suspects. Mostly dinners and interviews, and everyone in the room lies for a living.
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2025 · Comedy
The British prime minister and a US president who used to be an action star cannot stand each other, then end up parachuting out of Air Force One into Belarus together. Chases and bickering the whole way.
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2025 · Comedy
Two CIA operatives who walked away fifteen years ago are living as suburban parents until their cover breaks in a nightclub brawl their kids film. From there it is chases, gadgets and family bickering.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1970 a plane out of Tokyo is hijacked by radicals demanding to be flown to Pyongyang, and Seoul's spy agency sends its best fixer to get the hostages back. A black comedy, mostly about the men on the ground.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A maid of honour who secretly works as a spy has to save her best friend's wedding when mercenaries take the whole party hostage on a private island. Broad comedy with fights in it.
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2025 · Thriller
Two spies who went rogue to be together are lying low at a remote resort when a plane comes down nearby, leaving a hard drive several agencies want. From there it is armed men arriving, one lot after another.
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2012 · Thriller
With six US diplomats hiding in Tehran in 1979, a CIA man proposes to walk them out as the crew of a fake science fiction film. Half Hollywood comedy, half thriller that keeps tightening.
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2017 · Action
An MI6 agent is sent into Berlin days before the Wall comes down to recover a stolen list of undercover officers. Neon, eighties pop, and long bruising fights shot to look like one take.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Animation
A teenage agent is trialling an AI-controlled armoured suit when an expelled former student blackmails him into leaking every agent's identity. Animated, and the second film spun off a Malaysian series.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A webtoon artist whose spy series was panned is accused by the intelligence service when a real terrorist attack copies its plot. A broad Korean action comedy that moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Action
Ethan Hunt and his team hunt the source code of a rogue artificial intelligence that is taking hold of the world's nuclear weapons. Nearly three hours of stunts, gadgets and countdowns.
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2025 · Thriller
A CIA cryptographer loses his wife to a hostage killing in London, and blackmails his own agency into training him to go after the men who did it. He is not a field agent and it shows.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
An Indian intelligence agent who went rogue years ago is recruited by a cartel setting out to take over the government, and a special units officer is sent to bring him down. Nearly three hours of chases, fights and set pieces.
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2025 · Action
A young constable with a violent childhood behind him is sent undercover onto a fortified island off Sri Lanka to trace a shipment of arms and gold, and finds the brother he lost as a child living there. It is long, loud and covers a lot of ground.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2018 · Drama
The first Black officer on the Colorado Springs force answers a Klan recruitment ad by phone and sends a white colleague to the meetings in his place. Funny for long stretches, then it stops being funny.
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2025 · Action
Two leaders of a CIA assassination unit fell in love, had a son and disappeared, and the man who ran the unit has been sending killers after them ever since. Chases and shootouts, with the boy in the middle of them.
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2025 · Thriller
A woman's ex-husband abducts their young daughter and takes her to the Middle East, and years of searching lead nowhere. She teams up with an ex-Marine who recovers stolen children.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A Guardia Civil officer goes undercover inside ETA and stays there for years, trying to find where the group has hidden its weapons in southern France. It covers those years rather than one operation.
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2015 · Drama
An insurance lawyer is handed the defence of a captured Soviet spy, then sent to a divided Berlin to trade him for a downed American pilot. Mostly negotiation, in cold rooms with careful men.
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2026 · Action
A former MI6 assassin living alone on a Scottish island takes in the teenager who brings his supplies, then a surveillance program flags him as a terrorist. Kill teams start arriving, and he has had years to set traps.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Thriller
An Indian agent living as a Karachi gangster keeps working his way into the city's syndicates and Pakistani politics, avenging the 26/11 attacks. Close to four hours, and violent throughout.
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2014 · Action
Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.
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2026 · Action
Jack Ryan, out of the CIA and working on Wall Street, agrees to collect a package in Dubai as a favour, and lands in a black-ops programme that was meant to have been shut down. Chases through Dubai and London.
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2006 · Action
A newly promoted British agent is sent to out-play a banker to terrorists at a very expensive poker table in Montenegro. The card game runs long, and the chases around it are done with real bodies and real buildings.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Action
A South Korean agent tracking a crime ring in Vladivostok runs into a North Korean officer working the same case, and both want the same restaurant worker as their source. The two sides circle each other, with her caught in between.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
The adopted son of two British secret agents washes out of MI7, learns he is of Indian origin, and is sent to Goa to get a woman out of a crime boss's factory. A broad spy comedy, played for laughs throughout.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
Four former Spanish intelligence agents are killed on the same day, and an operative codenamed Zeta is sent after the one who is still missing, with a Colombian officer alongside him. A spy thriller, and the hunt keeps widening.
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2026 · Drama
In 1919 the poet D'Annunzio occupies the disputed city of Fiume, and an anarchist doctor, a rival with fascist leanings and a Russian pianist spying for Moscow are drawn together. There is a lot of history to follow.
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2026 · War
Jean Moulin is parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to pull the scattered Resistance groups into one movement under de Gaulle. A hard, serious war film that stays close to one man.
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2026 · Thriller
A Chinese state security team loses most of the evidence in a botched intercept, then learns a foreign agency is recruiting a mole inside their own unit. Lots of names, lots of double-dealing.
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Little-known
2011 · Action
A contractor who does the jobs governments will not admit to is set up on an assignment in Dublin and starts working back through the people who hired her. The fights are long, quiet and have no music.
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Little-known
2004 · Action
In ninth-century China two policemen set a trap for a rebel group by freeing a blind dancer they believe will lead them to it. The fights are long and colourful and mostly outdoors.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
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2009 · War
In occupied France a squad of American soldiers hunts Nazis behind the lines while a young cinema owner in Paris makes plans of her own. It is built out of long talking scenes that keep tightening.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Drama
A Chicago car thief is picked up by the FBI and offered a deal: get close to the young chairman of the local Black Panther chapter and report back. It moves between the two men all the way through.
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2014 · Action
A London teenager with a police record is recruited into a very old and very well dressed secret spy service, while a tech billionaire hands out free SIM cards to the world. Loud, rude and full of fights.
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2018 · Action
A spy team chases stolen plutonium across Paris, London and the mountains of Kashmir, with a rival agency shadowing every move. The plot is there to get you from one stunt to the next, and the stunts are the real thing.
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2012 · Action
A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Science fiction
An agent is recruited into an operation involving objects and people moving backwards through time, and told not to try to understand it. Loud and fast, and it explains itself while running.
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2002 · Action
A man is fished out of the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back, no memory, and a bank account number under his skin. He finds out what he can do at the same time you do, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
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2017 · Fantasy
A mute cleaner at a secret government lab in 1962 Baltimore starts leaving boiled eggs for the creature they are keeping in a tank. A fairy tale for grown-ups, with a Cold War thriller running underneath.
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Little-known
2006 · Drama
A Stasi officer in 1984 East Berlin is assigned to bug a playwright's flat and listen, day after day. What he hears starts to work on him.
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2009 · Action
In a 1985 where costumed heroes have been outlawed and the world is close to nuclear war, one of them is thrown out of a window and an old colleague starts asking why. Long, slow and very violent.
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2012 · Thriller
A CIA analyst spends a decade of her working life on one question: where bin Laden is. Procedural and cold, years of cables and interrogations and meetings, and then one long night raid.
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2006 · Science fiction
An undercover narcotics officer in a surveilled near-future America is assigned to spy on himself, while the drug he takes pulls his mind apart. Animated over live action, and hard to follow on purpose.
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1995 · Animation
A cyborg officer in a Japanese security section hunts a hacker who edits people's memories, and starts wondering what is left of her own. Talky, and the action is short and sudden.
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Little-known
2017 · Documentary
An amateur cyclist doping himself as an experiment gets help from the head of the Russian anti-doping lab, who turns out to have a great deal to say. It changes into something else halfway.
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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