Spy noirs
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1. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Passed | 96 min | Thriller, War
In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Fortunio Bonanova
Votes: 6,832
2. Eyes in the Night (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally
Votes: 1,956
3. China Girl (1942)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
With America still neutral, an American news photographer on assignment in Burma is courted by both the Japanese and The Flying Tiger volunteers fighting for China to film the strategic Burma Road.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 683 | Gross: $1.40M
4. Conspiracy (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
For the last four years Margaret Holt has been helping her brother, assistant D.A. Victor Holt, to try to bring down the dope dealing Schemer Marko gang. Margaret kills Marko (aka 'James ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Hugh Trevor, Ivan Lebedeff
Votes: 175
5. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When a German saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio "Voice of Terror", the Intelligence Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny
Votes: 5,191
6. Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory, Claud Allister
Votes: 465
7. Navy Secrets (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Thriller
A Navy officer is assigned to break up a spy ring within the service itself.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Fay Wray, Grant Withers, Craig Reynolds, Wilhelm von Brincken
Votes: 113
8. Enemy Agent (1940)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Mystery
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, Robert Armstrong, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 70
9. British Intelligence (1939)
Approved | 61 min | Romance, Thriller, War
Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie
Votes: 1,318
10. The Saint's Vacation (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae, Cecil Parker
Votes: 591
11. Invisible Agent (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 2,655
12. Blackout (1940)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler
Votes: 1,351
13. International Settlement (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Dolores Del Río, George Sanders, June Lang, Dick Baldwin
Votes: 89
14. Blockade (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday
Votes: 639
15. Warn That Man (1943)
82 min | Comedy, Thriller, War
During the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They will have an agent pose as Lord Buckley, who owns a large estate that Churchill frequently... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie, Philip Friend
Votes: 163
16. U-Boat 29 (1939)
77 min | Thriller, War
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Votes: 2,459
17. Bombsight Stolen (1941)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 1,365
18. The Next of Kin (1942)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Wartime 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.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Reginald Tate
Votes: 303
19. The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Mystery
A group of spies is after the plans for an anti-aircraft gun, and the leader uses the opportunity to embroil the Lone Wolf in the plot. Trying to settle an old score, this shady character ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 820
20. The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Romance, War
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Veronica Lake, Franchot Tone, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 219
21. Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
An English nurse with a great reputation for her work in Belgian hospitals, becomes outraged at the number of Allied soldiers detained in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I, and devises a secret plan to help hundreds escape.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson
Votes: 404
22. Bomber's Moon (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, War
An American bomber pilot, who sees his brother machine-gunned to death, escapes a concentration camp with a beautiful Russian doctor, and exacts his revenge by shooting down a mysterious German flight mission led by his brother's killer.
Directors: Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster, John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 87
23. The Seventh Cross (1944)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy
Votes: 2,991
24. Pastor Hall (1940)
95 min | Drama
This film is based on the story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930s has to... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring
Votes: 159
25. This Land Is Mine (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,731
26. The Voice in the Night (1941)
95 min | Drama, War
Hitler's doctor is gradually realizing that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start disappearing into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley, Derek Farr
Votes: 307
27. Underground (1941)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, who are SS officers in the Nazi party. ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn, Karen Verne, Mona Maris
Votes: 623
28. Above Suspicion (1943)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Oxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 2,446
29. Hitler's Children (1943)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis | Stars: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger
Votes: 998 | Gross: $3.36M
30. Women in Bondage (1943)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, War
Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Toni Hall is prevented ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Gail Patrick, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Tala Birell
Votes: 114
31. Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, War
In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan
Votes: 385
32. Betrayal from the East (1945)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama
Before World War II, Japanese spies seek secrets of the Panama Canal.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Regis Toomey
Votes: 265
33. Confidential Agent (1945)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,369
34. North of Shanghai (1939)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, War
American reporters Helen Warnet and Jed Howard meet on a boat to Shangai unaware that Japan had just invade China and enemy spies are everywhere.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: James Craig, Betty Furness, Keye Luke, Morgan Conway
Votes: 35
35. Bombs Over Burma (1942)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Chinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Anna May Wong, Noel Madison, Leslie Denison, Nedrick Young
Votes: 254
36. Paris Calling (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flee the city when the goose-stepping German storm troopers arrive. After her mother ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 127
37. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Passed | 134 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After the German administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 6,390
38. Uncertain Glory (1944)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Germans.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson
Votes: 1,494
39. Hitler's Madman (1943)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, War
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman
Votes: 918
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