Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "counter-spy"

1. The Good Shepherd (2006)

R | 167 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

Director: Robert De Niro | Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 108,618 | Gross: $59.95M

2. Wasp Network (2019)

TV-MA | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.

Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal, Ana de Armas

Votes: 11,945

3. The Company (2007)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Romance

Real-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad.

Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane

Votes: 4,967

4. Counterstrike (1990–1993)

60 min | Action, Adventure

After his wife is killed in a terrorist operation, international industrialist Alexander Addington assembles a private team of troubleshooters to help combat terrorism around the world.

Stars: Simon MacCorkindale, Christopher Plummer, Tom Kneebone, Andre Mayers

Votes: 232

5. Bon Voyage (1944)

TV-G | 26 min | Short, War

A young Scottish R. A. F. Gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German Agent.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Blythe, Janique Joelle

Votes: 1,994

6. 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

7. 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: 821

8. Man on a String (1960)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby

Votes: 497

9. Nada (1974)

110 min | Thriller

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and takes him to a farm in the ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato

Votes: 1,128

10. I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican

Votes: 968

11. Darla in Danger (2002 Video)

75 min | Adventure

Buxom spy Darla Crane is kidnapped by an enemy agent known only as "The Silent Man." How can she be rescued when her compatriot Calli Cox is held prisoner by an evil woman with a knack for bondage?

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Jodi Baldwin, Calli Cox, Darla Crane, Kat Le

12. Counter-Espionage (1942)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The Lone Wolf tracks down German spies in London during the German bombing.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall

Votes: 370

13. The Spy Ring (1938)

Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: William Hall, Jane Wyman, Esther Ralston, Robert Warwick

Votes: 89

14. David Harding, Counterspy (1950)

Passed | 71 min | Drama

Based on the long-running radio program created by Philips H. Lord, the film opens with a radio commentator blasting the U. S. government for the manner in which a certain foreign power has... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Willard Parker, Audrey Long, Howard St. John, Raymond Greenleaf

Votes: 127

15. Theoretically, an even much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Challenged by phone by the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, The Boss travels to the year 2121, where the USSR won the Cold War. Caught spying, The Boss undergoes a subtle questioning technique that tortures him and his interrogator.

Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato

Votes: 6

16. La chatte sort ses griffes (1960)

102 min | Drama, War

In 1944, former French Resistance agent Cora is employed by German Intelligence after being subjected to mind control experiments.

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Horst Frank, François Guérin, Harold Kay

Votes: 71

17. High Season for Spies (1966)

86 min | Crime, Action, Thriller

A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.

Director: Julio Coll | Stars: Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck, Américo Coimbra

Votes: 52

18. The Talking Parcel (1978 TV Movie)

Unrated | 40 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A little girl finds an odd parcel on the seashore, and in It a talking parrot who takes her on an epic journey to a fantasy land called Mythologia to rescue a wizard imprisoned by an evil cockatrice. They must gather allies along the way.

Director: Brian Cosgrove | Stars: Lisa Norris, Freddie Jones, Mollie Sugden, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 85

19. Operação Dinamite (1967)

90 min | Action, Thriller

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Director: Pedro Martins | Stars: Nicolau Breyner, Armando Cortez, Glória de Matos, Simone de Oliveira

20. Imogène (1989–1996)
Episode: Imogène contre-espionne (1996)

85 min

The commander Yves Le Guellec,brother-in-law of Imogène LEdantec has been kidnapped by a very dangerous spy called "The Hieroglyph".Imogène goes to Paris and meets the Director in a public ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Vecchiali | Stars: Dominique Lavanant, Jean Benguigui, Riton Liebman, Louba Guertchikoff

21. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode: Endgame (1983)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama

Reilly's plan to overthrow the Bolshevik government and install himself as head of state hits a bump in the road when Lenin's intelligence chief Dzerzhinsky convinces him to postpone a ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sam Neill, Tom Bell, Brian Protheroe, Hugh Fraser

Votes: 66

22. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode: The Trust (1983)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama

Sidney auctions off his collection of Napoleana to finance a Russian counterrevolutionary group and convinces Henry Ford to finance an invading German army.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Sam Neill, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell, Clive Merrison

Votes: 65

23. Milton the Monster (1965–1967)
Episode: Captain Fligh/Muggy Doo or Die/Who Do Voodoo?

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Fearless Fly battles Captain Fligh. Muggy-Do is a vacuum cleaner salesman who ends up as a counter-espionage agent. Professor Fruitcake makes a voodoo doll of Professor Weirdo.

Director: Hal Seeger | Stars: Bob McFadden, Herb Duncan