Movies by Lists - Best CIA, NSA, Secret Service Movies (154 [160]) 
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| 2 GunsTwo hardened criminals get into trouble with the US border patrol after meeting with a Mexican drug lord, and then revelations start to unfold. | 2013 | Baltasar Kormákur | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (206.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| 3 Days to KillA dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment. | 2014 | McG | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (92K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| 13 HoursDuring an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos. | 2016 | Michael Bay | Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.3 (132.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| 24 Hours to LiveAn assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life. | 2017 | Brian Smrz | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (14.1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| AbductionA young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. | 2011 | John Singleton (*) | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 5.1 (80.5K votes) | 106 | 20220723 |
| Absolute PowerCareer thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman). | 1997 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (53.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Act of ValorAn elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent. | 2012 | Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War | 6.4 (70.7K votes) | 110 | 20230806 |
| Agent Cody BanksA government agent trains Cody Banks in the ways of covert operations that require younger participants. | 2003 | Harald Zwart | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance, Thriller | 5.1 (34.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| American AssassinAfter the death of his girlfriend at the hands of terrorists, Mitch Rapp is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Stan Hurley. | 2017 | Michael Cuesta | Action, Thriller | 6.2 (78.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| American MadeThe story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. | 2017 | Doug Liman | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (208.6K votes) | 115 | 20240511 |
| American UltraA stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle. | 2015 | Nima Nourizadeh | Action, Comedy | 6.1 (89.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| American, TheAn assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment. | 2010 | Anton Corbijn | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (97K votes) | 105 | 20220822 |
| AnnaBeneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins. | 2019 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (74.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| ArgoActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. | 2012 | Ben Affleck | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (598.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| ArrivalA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world. | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (656.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| AssassinsProfessional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath's targets. | 1995 | Richard Donner | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.3 (81.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| A-Team, TheA group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed. | 2010 | Joe Carnahan | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.7 (254.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Atomic BlondeAn undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. | 2017 | David Leitch | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (187.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Bad CompanyNelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail pr... | 1995 | Damian Harris | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (3.3K votes) | 108 | 20240511 |
| Bad CompanyWhen an Ivy League-educated C.I.A. Agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother (Chris Rock). | 2002 | Joel Schumacher | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 5.6 (47.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Bastille DayA young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France. | 2016 | James Watkins | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (42.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Body Of LiesA CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence. | 2008 | Ridley Scott (*) | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (224.3K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Bourne Identity, TheA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory. | 2002 | Doug Liman | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (532.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Bourne Legacy, TheAn expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films. | 2012 | Tony Gilroy | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.6 (296.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Bourne Supremacy, TheWhen Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive. | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (476.4K votes) | 108 | 20230806 |
| Bourne Ultimatum, TheJason 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. | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (622.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| BreachFBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union. | 2007 | Billy Ray | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.0 (61K votes) | 110 | 20230806 |
| Burn After ReadingA disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it. | 2008 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (324.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Casino RoyaleAfter earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro. | 2006 | Martin Campbell | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 8.0 (636.8K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Catcher Was a Spy, TheFormer Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services. | 2018 | Ben Lewin | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.2 (9.7K votes) | 94 | 20220822 |
| Charlie Wilson's WarA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. | 2007 | Mike Nichols (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.0 (116.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Clear and Present DangerCIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel. | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (105.5K votes) | 141 | 20231001 |
| Cold Light Of Day, TheAfter his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase. | 2012 | Mabrouk El Mechri | Action, Thriller | 4.9 (37.3K votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
| Collateral DamageAfter his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible. | 2002 | Andrew Davis | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (77.1K votes) | 108 | 20231012 |
| ColombianaA young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. | 2011 | Olivier Megaton | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (99.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Company BusinessA retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians. | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Confessions of a Dangerous MindAn adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman. | 2002 | George Clooney | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (87.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Conspiracy TheoryA taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is. | 1997 | Richard Donner | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (98.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Dark Truth, AA former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a disaffected corporate shareholder to expose her company's cover-up of an incident and deaths in an Ecuadorian village. | 2012 | Damian Lee | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (6.3K votes) | 106 | 20240511 |
| Death of a PresidentYears after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime. | 2006 | Gabriel Range | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (7K votes) | 97 | 20231001 |
| Debt, TheIn 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them. | 2010 | John Madden | Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (68.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Die Another DayJames Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon. | 2002 | Lee Tamahori | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.1 (215.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| DormantReleased in 2019 and a prequel to live action mini-series, Bermuda City, Dormant follows Detective Jordan Long who is drawn in by government secrets as he investigates murders tied to late CIA Agent, Nigel Goodman. | 2018 | Julian Jay Burton | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 4.1 (125 votes) | 96 | 20221228 |
| Double,, TheA retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin. | 2011 | Michael Brandt | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (29.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dying of the LightWhen a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago. | 2014 | Paul Schrader (*) | Action, Drama, Thriller | 4.5 (10.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Echelon ConspiracyAt first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world. | 2009 | Greg Marcks | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (19.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| End GameA secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President. | 2006 | Andy Cheng | Action, Thriller | 5.1 (5.6K votes) | 93 | 20231001 |
| Enemy of the StateA lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime. | 1998 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.3 (238.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Equalizer 2, TheRobert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? | 2018 | Antoine Fuqua | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (149.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| ErasedAn ex-CIA agent and his estranged daughter are forced on the run when his employers erase all records of his existence, and mark them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy. | 2012 | Philipp Stölzl | Action, Thriller | 6.1 (30.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Expendables, TheA CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent. | 2010 | Sylvester Stallone | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.5 (338.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| ExtractionA former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation. | 2015 | Steven C. Miller | Action, Thriller | 4.1 (11.1K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Fair GameCIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration. | 2010 | Doug Liman | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (48.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Fay.GrimA ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information t | 2006 | Hal Hartley | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 6.2 (4.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Forgotten , TheAfter being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work. | 2004 | Joseph Ruben | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (65.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Fourth Angel, TheA man seeks justice after his wife and two daughters are gunned down in a terrorist attack. | 2001 | John Irvin | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.3 (3.1K votes) | 1 | 20220912 |
| From Paris With LoveIn Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. | 2010 | Pierre Morel | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (115.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Ghost Writer, TheA ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. | 2010 | Roman Polanski (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (161.3K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Good Day To Die Hard, AJohn McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces. | 2013 | John Moore | Action, Thriller | 5.3 (204.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Good Shepherd, TheThe tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. | 2006 | Robert De Niro | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.7 (101.9K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Green ZoneDiscovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region. | 2010 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.8 (135.5K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| HackersHackers are blamed for making a virus that will capsize five oil tankers. | 1995 | Iain Softley | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (71.9K votes) | 105 | 20230619 |
| HannaA sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. | 2011 | Joe Wright | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (196.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| HavanaIn 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. | 1990 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.1 (7.9K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| HitmanA gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Eu | 2007 | Xavier Gens | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.3 (167K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Hunt for Red October, TheIn November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain, in a new undetectable sub, violates orders and heads for the U.S. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect, or to start a war? | 1990 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.6 (191.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Hunting Party, TheA young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them. | 2007 | Richard Shepard | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.8 (26K votes) | 101 | 20240511 |
| In The Line of FireSecret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president. | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (100.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| International, TheAn Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring. | 2009 | Tom Tykwer | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (94.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Interpreter, ThePolitical intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot. | 2005 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (104.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Interview, TheDave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. | 2014 | Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 6.5 (320.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Jack Ryan Shadow RecruitJack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. | 2014 | Kenneth Branagh | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (129.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Jason BourneThe CIA's most dangerous former operative is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past. | 2016 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Thriller | 6.6 (220.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| JFKNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. | 1991 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (151.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| Kill The MessengerJournalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua. | 2014 | Michael Cuesta | Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (46.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| KillersA vacationing woman meets her ideal man, leading to a swift marriage. Back at home, however, their idyllic life is upset when they discover their neighbors could be assassins who have been contracted to kill the couple. | 2010 | Robert Luketic | Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller | 5.5 (90.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Killing Room, TheFour individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program. | 2009 | Jonathan Liebesman | Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (14.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Kingdom, TheA team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East. | 2007 | Peter Berg | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (124.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Knight and DayA young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name. | 2010 | James Mangold | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 6.3 (190.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Law Abiding CitizenA frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. | 2009 | F. Gary Gray | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (288.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Line, The [La linea]The unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination. | 2009 | James Cotten | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.1 (3.9K votes) | 95 | 20240511 |
| LockoutA man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. | 2012 | James Mather, Steve Saint Leger | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.1 (97.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, TheSamantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past. | 1996 | Renny Harlin | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (78.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Losers, TheA CIA special forces team is betrayed and left for dead by their superiors, galvanizing them to mount an offensive on the CIA. | 2010 | Sylvain White | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (105.8K votes) | 97 | 20231013 |
| Man From U.N.C.L.E., TheIn the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. | 2015 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 7.3 (296.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Man on FireIn Mexico City, a former CIA operative swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect. | 2004 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (351.9K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Men Who Stare at Goats, TheA reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. | 2009 | Grant Heslov | Comedy, War | 6.2 (130.8K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Mercury RisingShadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code. | 1998 | Harold Becker | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (76.6K votes) | 111 | 20231001 |
| MI-5 [Spooks - The Greater Good]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. | 2015 | Bharat Nalluri | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (22.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Mighty Heart, AMariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband Daniel when he goes missing in Pakistan. | 2007 | Michael Winterbottom | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.6 (27.9K votes) | 108 | 20230619 |
| Mission ImpossibleAn American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization. | 1996 | Brian De Palma (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.1 (409.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible IIIMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera". | 2000 | John Woo (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.1 (330.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible IIIIMF agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancée in response. | 2006 | J.J. Abrams (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.9 (345.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible IV - Ghost ProtocolThe IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. | 2011 | Brad Bird | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (476.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible Rogue NationEthan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF. | 2015 | Christopher McQuarrie | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (360K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| MobiusAn FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman, who works as a trader in a Russian bank. | 2013 | Eric Rochant | Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (5.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Most WantedA Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and its officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady. | 1997 | David Hogan | Action, Thriller | 5.6 (6.3K votes) | 99 | 20231001 |
| Mr. and Mrs. SmithA bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. | 2005 | Doug Liman | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.5 (477.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| MunichAfter the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day. | 2005 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.5 (222.5K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| My SpyA hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. | 2020 | Peter Segal | Action, Comedy | 6.3 (33.4K votes) | 99 | 20231016 |
| Naked Weapon [Chik loh dak gung]40 13 y.o. girls are kidnapped and the next 6 years forcefully trained to be sexy assassins. The survivors go on to be top int'l assassins known as China dolls. A CIA agent's on track of them. | 2002 | Siu-Tung Ching | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.5 (7.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Nothing But The TruthIn Washington, D.C., a reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source. | 2008 | Rod Lurie | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (39.2K votes) | 108 | 20230806 |
| November Man, TheAn ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect. | 2014 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Thriller | 6.3 (66.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Numbers Station, TheA disgraced black ops agent is dispatched to a remote CIA broadcast station to protect a code operator. Soon, they find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late. | 2013 | Kasper Barfoed | Action, Thriller | 5.6 (19.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Olympus Has FallenSecret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers. | 2013 | Antoine Fuqua | Action, Thriller | 6.5 (269.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in MexicoHitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general. | 2003 | Robert Rodriguez | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (159.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Patriot GamesWhen CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge. | 1992 | Phillip Noyce | Action, Thriller | 6.9 (109.4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Quiet American, TheAn old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman. | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.0 (28.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Recruit, TheA brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency. | 2003 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Thriller | 6.6 (133.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| RedWhen his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants. | 2010 | Robert Schwentke | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (302.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Red 2Retired CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. | 2013 | Dean Parisot | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (167.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Red SparrowBallerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both natio | 2018 | Francis Lawrence | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (179.4K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| RenditionWhen a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears. His wife asks senator for help. | 2007 | Gavin Hood | Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (57.8K votes) | 122 | 20231120 |
| Report, TheIdealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets. | 2019 | Scott Z. Burns | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.2 (39.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| RoninA freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians. | 1998 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (180K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| RubyAn exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby's perspective. Ruby owns a run-down strip club in Dallas, and does what he can for credibility, both by giving information to the FBI and | 1992 | John Mackenzie | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 5.5 (1.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Russia House, TheAn expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia. | 1990 | Fred Schepisi (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (15.8K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Safe HouseA young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. | 2012 | Daniel Espinosa | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (218.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| SaltA CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. | 2010 | Phillip Noyce | Action, Thriller | 6.4 (308K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Sentinel, TheA Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent. | 2006 | Clark Johnson | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (49.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| SicarioAn idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. | 2015 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (407.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Sicario - Day Of The SoldadoThe drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro. | 2018 | Stefano Sollima | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (142.7K votes) | 122 | 20220414 |
| Siege, TheThe secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law. | 1998 | Edward Zwick (*) | Action, Thriller | 6.4 (71.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Situation, TheThe story of an American journalist, a CIA operative, and an Iraqi photographer against the backdrop of the bloody war in Iraq. | 2006 | Philip Haas | Drama, War | 6.3 (883 votes) | 111 | 20231101 |
| SneakersA security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. | 1992 | Phil Alden Robinson | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (57.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| SnowdenThe NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press. | 2016 | Oliver Stone (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (163.1K votes) | 134 | 20240511 |
| SpartanThe investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official. | 2004 | David Mamet | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (32.6K votes) | 106 | 20230806 |
| Specialist, TheA woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the mafia that killed her family. | 1994 | Luis Llosa | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (65K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Spies Like UsTwo bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. | 1985 | John Landis (*) | Adventure, Comedy | 6.4 (51.7K votes) | 102 | 20230806 |
| Spy GameRetiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. | 2001 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (154K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Spy Next Door, TheFormer C.I.A. spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. | 2010 | Brian Levant | Action, Comedy, Family | 5.5 (43.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Sum of All Fears, TheCIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Marylan | 2002 | Phil Alden Robinson | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.4 (112.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| SwordfishA covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to help him | 2001 | Dominic Sena | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.5 (184K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| SyrianaA politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it. | 2005 | Stephen Gaghan | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (130.5K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| TakenA retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris. | 2008 | Pierre Morel | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.8 (588K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Taken 2In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. | 2012 | Olivier Megaton | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.3 (301K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| This Means WarC.I.A. operatives wage an epic battle on each other when they discover they are dating the same woman. | 2012 | McG | Action, Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (183.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Three Days of the CondorA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. | 1975 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (53.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6. | 2011 | Tomas Alfredson | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (209.6K votes) | 127 | 20231120 |
| To Live and Die in L AA fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner. | 1985 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (32.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Traitor When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. | 2008 | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (57.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| True LiesA fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United Stat | 1994 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 7.2 (251.1K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| UnknownWhen a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is. | 2011 | Jaume Collet-Serra | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (257.9K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| US MarshallsU.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder. | 1998 | Stuart Baird | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (101.9K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Vantage PointThe attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. | 2008 | Pete Travis | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (148.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| ViceThe story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. | 2018 | Adam McKay | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (137.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Walk on WaterFollowing the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal. | 2004 | Eytan Fox | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (7K votes) | 103 | 20231120 |
| We Have a GhostFinding a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home turns Kevin's family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest investigate the mystery of Ernest's past, they become a target of the CIA. | 2023 | Christopher Landon | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Horror, Mystery | 6.1 (30.9K votes) | 126 | 20231115 |
| White House DownWhile on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. | 2013 | Roland Emmerich (*) | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (216.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| X-Men First ClassIn the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them. | 2011 | Matthew Vaughn | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (672.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| xXx State of The UnionDarius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States. | 2005 | Lee Tamahori | Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.5 (69.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Zero Dark ThirtyA chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.4 (289.9K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| Zero DaysA documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. | 2016 | Alex Gibney | Documentary | 7.8 (9.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Stay Behind - Min farfars hemmelige krig | 2017 | Ida Grøn | Documentary | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Good American | 2015 | Friedrich Moser | Documentary, Biography, History, Thriller | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Lonely Place for Dying | 2009 | Justin Eugene Evans | Action, Thriller, War | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Unlucky Bastard | 2013 | nan | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Insurgents | 2006 | Scott Dacko | Drama, Thriller | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bandido | 2004 | Roger Christian | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Romance | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |