Top 100 Spy Fi Movies :- Best Spy Movies / Secret Agent / Undercover Agent Movies.

The Best Spy Movie Ever. See it to believe it.

3 Movies have been made on the Character The Jackal 1. The Day of the Jackal 2. The Jackal 3. The Assignment

Harry Palmer movies. One of the best adaptation of a spy novel. Ex-KGB & Russia's President putin calls this the most realistic portrayal of a spy.

This Michael Caine vehicle may have been produced by the team behind the Bond films, but its hero Harry Palmer is the antithesis of Ian Fleming's suave super-spy. While Connery's Bond was scoffing at the "noise" of the Beatles, Caine's Palmer was wooing 60s dollybirds by driving them to his place in his Ford Zephyr and rustling up a meal.

Called in to investigate a scientist's disappearance, Palmer's investigation takes a turn for the psychedelic when he's subjected to brainwashing. How very 60s.



5 Movies ...... Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996) (TV) Played by Michael Caine Bullet to Beijing (1995) (TV) Played by Michael Caine Spy Story (1976) Played by Michael Petrovitch (as Patrick Armstrong) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Played by Michael Caine Funeral in Berlin (1966) Played by Michael Caine The Ipcress File (1965) Played by Michael Caine

Years ago Tarantino said in an interview that he had written a James Bond script and that he would love to direct a Bond film. Sadly, that never happened, but ever since I read that I wondered what an R-rated Bond might be like. I don't know, maybe Matthew Vaughn has read that interview too and saw the potential, because 'Kingsman' is pretty much that: An ultra violent, funny, crazy, foul-mouthed James Bond film (with a little bit of 'Men in Black' and 'Mission Impossible' thrown in). You could say that this is to Bond what 'Game of Thrones' is to 'Lord of the Rings': Where the former can't and dare not go (for marketing and box office reasons), the latter joyfully and gloriously ventures. Dirty and (very black) humor - check. Bad language - check. Gratuitous violence - check. Needless to say, I was thrilled.

But it's also a fantastic action film with an amazing cast (Oscar winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine, plus Sam Jackson AND Mark Hamill) and spectacular, over-the-top fight-scenes that in some instances even rival films like 'The Raid' for their sheer visceral intensity. In short, if you're as fed up with lame wannabe Die-Hards and Terminators as I am, go watch this film. Apart from the rare 'John Wick' or 'Equalizer', 'Kingsman' seems to be pretty much the only antidote to the toothless, generic tripe Hollywood tries to pass for action these days.

Alfred Hitchcock at his most hard-boiled, this Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman double bill about the daughter of a Nazi war criminal recruited to infiltrate a ring of Nazis in Brazil became famous for the scene in which Hitchcock slipped around Hollywood’s ban on kissing scenes over three seconds (by having the actors break the kiss every few seconds before continuing). However, it’s Grant’s wardrobe that we’re most interested in, particularly his flawless dinner jacket, preceding a certain spy with a penchant for bow ties and tuxedos by almost twenty years.

The menacing and dark world of espionage has rarely been so memorably created on film as in this consummate piece of cinema, with Fritz Lang’s mastery of expressionist technique at the service of a murky and complex tale of deception and death. The sinister masterspy Haghi is memorably incarnated by Rudolf Klein-Rogge.

An Undercover Agent gets into the Underworld of Indonesia. It is one of the best action movie of all time. Must Watch.

Touted as “the first great picture of 1950” and selected by the BFI as the "best British film of the 20th century", this tale of murder and smuggling in Allied-occupied Vienna remains one of the most stylish thrillers of all time. From the famous "cuckoo clock speech" scene on the Wiener Riesenrad big wheel to Orson Welles' supposedly dead black marketer Harry Lime emerging from a shadowy doorway, to the final chase through the city's cavernous sewers, The Third Man is a film that has often been imitated, but never bettered.

Much to its producers distain, director Carol Reed insisted on shooting the majority of the film on location in post-war Vienna, and the piles of rubble and bomb craters that help define the film's almost apocalyptic appeal are real. Scripted by Graham Greene (who occasionaly worked as a spy for the British government) the dialogue is to kill for, with a character named Major Calloway warning the film’s inquisitive protagonist to “Leave death to the professionals”.

All of these elements combine to make The Third Man without a doubt one of the best spy movie of all time, and according to many, including Roger Ebert, one of cinema's greatest accomplishments, "Of all the movies I have seen, this one most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies."

The Genre defining Movie. This movie was the inspiration for the Bond Movies. Bond movie From Russia with love even copied the helicopter scene from this movie.

North By Northwest is the original anti-spy spy film. It's an espionage tale told from the perspective of the innocent as Cary Grant's advertising executive Roger Thornhill goes on the run from a shadowy organisation in a case of mistaken identity. There's lots to get excited about here, from Thornhill's devotion to a good suit to the epic finale atop a soundstage Mount Rushmore, not to mention to film's fantastically hard-boiled dialogue: "I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed".

John le Carré had reason to be grateful for this perfectly judged film of his novel. Martin Ritt's utterly persuasive adaptation channelled all the key ingredients of the original, aided immeasurably by Paul Dehn’s impeccable screenplay, in which all the equivocations of the espionage world are played out to a devastating conclusion. The success of the film, of course, rested on the shoulders of Richard Burton as spy Alex Leamas, and he delivered one of his most truthful performances.

Real Life Spies relate to the deep cover spy that Richard Burton plays in the movie. Like a “moth to the flame,” the key to the mission success of Burton’s character is his deniability for those who sent him on the mission. The White Hat Powers that Be wring every ounce of decency out of the main character. Many a spy who has worked a long time in the field encounters this dilemma – the bad guys aren’t so bad and the good guys aren’t so good and you are going to have to betray a lot of good, decent people to accomplish the mission. This movie particularly represents the moral damage that spies encounter after many years in the field.

Time has not dimmed the visceral power of Jean-Pierre Melville’s uncompromising and minatory classic about the high price paid by undercover Resistance agents in Nazi-occupied France. With strikingly etched performances, the film is as disturbing as the day it was released, notably for the controversial refusal to paint all the members of the Resistance in heroic colours. Perhaps the most persuasive performance in the film is that of Simone Signoret – only one of her impressive gallery of such achievements.

His name is Joe Turner — code name, Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him. Robert Redford stars as the CIA researcher who returns from lunch to find all his co-workers murdered. Double-crossed and forced to go underground, he kidnaps a young woman (Faye Dunaway) and holds her hostage as he unravels the mystery. Conspiracy films don’t come any better.

Almost deserving of its place on this list because of its style alone (those suits, that knitwear, that peacoat). Out of his comfort zone as the cockey leading man, Redford turns in a stellar performance as he runs from both the CIA and a string of mysterious killers, with Max Von Sydow ticking the ‘evil assassin in tan trenchcoat’ box.

Brilliant Undercover Agent Drama, with an all star cast including Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin.

A Brilliant Cold War movie with a Dream Cast including Orson Welles, Max Von Sydow, etc.

John Huston lamented the commercial failure at the time of its release of this unique, bizarre film, but it’s now crammed with cult interest, not least for its quite astonishing cast, including (among the spies) Bergman’s actor Max Von Sydow (with another Bergman alumnus, Bibi Andersson, as his wife, whose taste for sadomasochistic sex is her undoing), along with the terrifyingly avuncular Richard Boone, a menacing Orson Welles, and even George Sanders in drag. Noel Behn’s classic novel becomes a truly unique movie – one that, for years, was impossible to see.

One of the best spy movie, with a good story and a great International Cast.Director John Frankenheimer helmed this action thriller at full throttle. A briefcase with undisclosed contents — sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob — makes its way into criminals’ hands. An Irish liaison (Natascha McElhone) assembles a squad of mercenaries, or ronin, charged with the thorny task of recovering the case. But the team, led by an ex-CIA agent (Robert De Niro), mistrusts one another. Can they accomplish their mission?

The Best Popcorn Spy Movie out there.

Better than Most Bond Movies or Mission Impossible Movies. Played – as only he could – by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harry Tasker is an altogether different sort of spy to most of the characters in this list. He shoots before he thinks and does covert, under the radar things like getting into a lift on horseback. Yet despite this he's still somehow managed to convince his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) that he's a mild-mannered salesman.

His web of lies soon begins to unravel when he catches his wife cheating on him – and decides to spice up her life by sending her on a "mission."

It's harmless fun – explosions, plenty of soundbites for Arnie and a nuclear warhead or two.

This is what secret agent action movies should be like...without pretension, without being overly philosophical...it's the raw simplicity and humor in "Le Professionnel" that make it oh-so-magnifique! Yes, Morricone's score is unforgettable. The characters...the heroes, antagonists...everything is so yummy and cozy. Belmondo exudes such irresistable charm that at the end I just hoped he'd RUN to the helicopter...but alas, this isnt a Hollywood production. Go Joss, woo! A definite must-see...and the car-chase was good, even in today's CGI standards. Oh, and the French ensemble cast is wonderful!

"Leon the Professional" meets "Man on Fire". Great Action and good action sequences.

This movie is a good example of how a story can be carried by the force of the actors' skill and director's art rather than relying the science of special effects. The absence of "action" means that the audience's attention has to be held by the sheer force of the story line, the actors' interpretations of it and the director's presentation of the product as a whole.

It deals honestly with what intelligence gathering is. A mundane craft open to manipulation not only by governments but also by lowly operatives. Sir Alec Guinness, as he later became, portrays the ordinariness of the seedy characters who carry on this trade. Ernie Kovacs gives a splendid presentation of the laid back but sinister not so secret policeman while Burl Ives is as powerful as ever.

The pre-Castro Cuban setting is well portrayed and one can almost feel the tropical heat as the cast of misfit characters go about there subterfuge business.

It wasn't a Hitchcock movie!!!! Audrey Hepburn plays Reggie, a widow who's pursued through Paris by a gang of ex-OSS agents trying to track down her husband's ill-gotten fortune. Cary Grant is Peter, a charming stranger who helps her – but is he all he seems?

Everyone's wearing a mask in this frothy, fun escapade – it's as cool as… well, as Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn running around 1960s Paris in a comedy adventure caper.

Internationally acclaimed director Luc Besson delivers the action-packed story of Nikita (Anne Parillaud), a ruthless street junkie whose killer instincts could make her the perfect weapon. Recruited against her will into a secret government organization, Nikita is broken and transformed into a sexy, sophisticated “lethal weapon.” Later remade in the United States as Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda.

Anne Parillaud stars as the titular femme fatale, a teenage junkie who's taken under the wing of a shadowy government agency after a robbery gone wrong ends with a policeman dead and her in jail. She's given a choice – work as a sleeper assassin or her fake suicide will become all too real.

Nikita's trained up to be a killer in high heels and a little black dress – but when a mission goes awry, Jean Reno's ruthless "Cleaner" (who bears more than a slight resemblence to his later role in Leon) is sent in.

Director Luc Besson lays on the clinical, European gloss with a trowel in this slick and stylish film.

James Bond Movies :-

Probably the most popular in this genre. James Bond doesn't need any introduction. The best movies are :- 1. Skyfall 2. Goldeneye 3. Casino Royale 4. Dr No 5. From Russia With Love 6. Goldfinger

After James Bond series, this is the most popular spy movie character :- i.e. Ethan Hunt.

4 Movies till now

After james bond and Mission Impossible the most popular in this genre. Forget about the workaday Richard Chamberlain adaptation; this pared-to the bone and kinetic piece reinvented Robert Ludlum’s novel (with a low-key Matt Damon as the tough-as-nails, cut-adrift agent). The film launched a barnstorming new franchise (a franchise, moreover, that has made its mark on an older series, via the harder edge of Daniel Craig’s Bond debut, Casino Royale). It’s now widely accepted that Doug Liman’s movie and its follow-ups were better that Ludlum’s formulaic novels.

3 Movies .... The bourne Identity The Bourne Supremacy The Bourne Ultimatum

This movie happens to be a personal favourite for spies tasked with counter-intelligence. The only mission for a CI operative is to identify, deceive and mind-*beep* other enemy spies. This movie epitomizes the Spy-versus-Spy battles that take place every day without the public’s knowledge.

Made during the height of the cold war and McCarthy era, this is a film that doesn't take sides except to show that the spy game is an ugly sport.

A prostitute has her purse snatched on the subway. It contains a microfilm, and a communist spy ring will go to any lengths to recover it. Two parallel investigations unfold as both spies and cops hunt down the precious information.

Anti-hero pickpocket Skip McCoy is played with scornful assurance by Richard Widmark. He knows the cops to be his moral equals and intellectual inferiors, so he taunts them: "Go on," he says to captain Dan Tiger (Murvyn Vye), "drum up a charge. Throw me in. You've done it before." In this pitiless world, the cops are just one more gang on the streets. Just as Candy the hooker bribes Lightning Louie to get a lead, so the police are busy paying stool pigeons for information.

A Remake of this movie is The Cape town Affair 1967 starring James Brolin.

George Smiley is here played impeccably by James Mason – but the character is called Charles Dobbs, for rights reasons. Helping the renamed Smiley is retired police inspector Albert Mendel (Harry Andrews, every inch as exemplary as Mason). Dobbs is the ultimate real-life spy, low key and inconspicuous. As in The Spy who Came in From the cold, the moral quicksands of modern espionage have rarely been so persuasively conjured on film, with direction (Sidney Lumet) and playing perfectly dovetailed into a film in which human betrayal lays waste to a variety of lives.

Jackie Chan is Secret Agent who has lost his memory, and is now being chased by a number of other agency spies.

It has the Charm of a Jackie Chan movie combined with a Jason Bourne like treatment. Must Watch.

George Clooney (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and Golden Globe for his role) plays CIA operative Bob Barnes in this political thriller by Stephen Gaghan. America is at the beck and call of the Middle East when it comes to the oil industry, and all its players — Washington, sheiks, oil companies, field workers — intersect with each other. The star-studded cast includes Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Chris Cooper and Christopher Plummer.

The voice-over in the trailer for Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman’s thriller about a U.S. Naval officer investigating a murder is pure eighties overkill. The plot, however, still stands up as one of the best spy films committed to film, with Gene Hackman turning in an on-the-money performance as the Secretary Of Defence trying to shift the blame for his promiscuous wife’s murder away from himself and on to a rumoured Soviet sleeper agent named Yuri, while tasking Costner – the other man in the affair – to investigate. Called “truly labyrinthine and ingenious” and a “superior example of the genre” in the late, great movie critic Roger Ebert’s original review, it’s Hackman and Costner’s performances that elevate this to a classic. For anyone disappointed with this year’s lacklustre Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, this is the film to watch to see Costner playing the spy game properly.

Very witty, sexy movie. Take the humour of Sherlock (with Robert Downey Jr. & Jude law) and stick it in a bond movie- then you have The man from U.N.C.L.E. - I like bond movies, but I LOVED the man from uncle. It doesn't get boring, or drop at any point.

One of the first few movie in this genre. Greta Garbo plays the real-life WWI spy.