Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "electronic-surveillance"

1. Narcos (2015–2017)

TV-MA | 50 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

Stars: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Alberto Ammann

Votes: 470,164

2. Casino (1995)

R | 178 min | Crime, Drama

In Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods

Votes: 563,769 | Gross: $42.44M

3. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 410,403 | Gross: $11.29M

4. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt

Votes: 523,414 | Gross: $134.52M

5. The Island (2005)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 327,609 | Gross: $35.82M

6. Donnie Brasco (1997)

R | 127 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the Mafia life--at the expense of his regular one.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby

Votes: 332,159 | Gross: $41.91M

7. Runaway Jury (2003)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman

Votes: 104,570 | Gross: $49.44M

8. All the President's Men (1976)

PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam

Votes: 126,017 | Gross: $70.60M

9. A Most Wanted Man (2014)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.

Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl, Robin Wright

Votes: 80,154 | Gross: $17.24M

10. Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small town Wyoming as part of the Witness Protection Program.

Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Elisabeth Moss

Votes: 42,789 | Gross: $29.58M

11. Citizenfour (2014)

R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum

Votes: 57,972 | Gross: $2.80M

12. The Russia House (1990)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox

Votes: 17,540 | Gross: $23.00M

13. Get Gotti (2023)

50 min | Documentary, Crime

Told from both sides of the law this documentary series from the makers of "Fear City" follows the FBI's battle to bring down infamous mob boss John Gotti.

Stars: Anthony Ruggiano Jr., George Gabriel, Eric Shawn, Barbara Nevins Taylor

Votes: 2,846

14. Boot Camp (2008)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A group of at-risk teens are sent to a what they think is a rehabilitation program on Fiji, but it's really a prison-like camp where kids are abused and brainwashed.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Mila Kunis, Gregory Smith, Peter Stormare, Regine Nehy

Votes: 9,295

15. Fear City: New York vs the Mafia (2020)

TV-MA | 52 min | Documentary, Crime

Five Mafia families ruled New York with a bloody fist in the 1970s and '80s, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.

Stars: John Alite, Michael Franzese, Jim Kossler, John Joyce

Votes: 8,441

16. Spycraft (2020–2022)

TV-MA | 271 min | Documentary

Follows intelligence experts who offer an look behind the CIA's most secretive operations throughout history and the devices that made them possible.

Stars: H. Keith Melton, Dylan Berry, Robert Bigman, Hamet Yousef

Votes: 2,501

17. Boss of Bosses (2001 TV Movie)

93 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Chazz Palminteri, Angela Alvarado, Jay O. Sanders, Clancy Brown

Votes: 1,476

18. The Kremlin Letter (1970)

M/PG | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger

Votes: 2,308 | Gross: $0.24M

19. Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet (2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, Crime

Conspiracy. Fraud. Violence. Murder. What starts out virtual can get real all too quickly--and when the web is worldwide, so are the consequences.

Stars: Paul Black, Daniel Rigmaiden, Devin McGee, Aaron Kuban

Votes: 2,450

20. Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015)

TV-MA | 113 min | Animation, Action, Crime

In this sequel to Psycho-Pass TV show, Inspector Tsunemori is sent to a neighboring war-torn nation, where the Sibyl System is being introduced as an experiment, to find Shinya Kogami, her former enforcer who went rogue three years ago.

Directors: Naoyoshi Shiotani, Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Bryn Apprill, Major Attaway, Z. Charles Bolton, Cole Brown

Votes: 4,524 | Gross: $0.14M

21. One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)

Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to Europe where a scientist's age-reversing machine is in danger of being seized by T.H.R.U.S.H. spies.

Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Maurice Evans

Votes: 407

22. Sebastian (1968)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

During the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker accused of Communist affiliations from the wrath of the security branch.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud

Votes: 702

23. Cherish (2002)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Director: Finn Taylor | Stars: Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Brad Hunt, Liz Phair

Votes: 2,941 | Gross: $0.18M

24. Finger Man (1955)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey

Votes: 424

25. A Good American (2015)

TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, History

How a group of NSA code-breakers had a chance of preventing 9/11.

Director: Friedrich Moser | Stars: William Binney, Jesselyn Radack, Kirk Wiebe, Diane Roark

Votes: 1,334

26. The Nest (2002)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Alliances change when an armored car with an Albanian mafia boss prisoner escapes a mafia army by driving inside a warehouse, which is being robbed by a French gang stealing laptops etc.

Director: Florent-Emilio Siri | Stars: Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel, Nadia Farès, Pascal Greggory

Votes: 5,737

27. Gotti: Godfather and Son (2018)

TV-14 | 172 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

John Gotti Jr. tells the story of how he became the man he is today. When you realize that family is more important than the mafia, that's when he steps out of the shadows. The father lives and dies "by the sword." Very sad but moving.

Stars: John Gotti Jr., Bruce Cutler, Larry Mazza, Edward McDonald

Votes: 228

28. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, History

With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.

Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan

Votes: 57

29. Target for Killing (1966)

93 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama

A secret agent battles a secret brainwashing organisation.

Director: Manfred R. Köhler | Stars: Stewart Granger, Karin Dor, Rupert Davies, Curd Jürgens

Votes: 218

30. The Honeytrap (2002)

90 min | Thriller

A woman is forced to confront her dark side when she investigates her husband's suspected infidelity.

Director: Michael G. Gunther | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Valerie Edmond, Anthony Green, Stuart McQuarrie

Votes: 105

31. The Feeling of Being Watched (2018)

86 min | Documentary

When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.

Director: Assia Boundaoui | Stars: Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, Christina Abraham, Assia Boundaoui, Iman Boundaoui

Votes: 159

32. Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994 TV Movie)

Crime, Documentary

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Directors: Bill Jersey, Gary Weimberg | Stars: Albert Anastasia, Billy Beattie, Angelo Bruno, Brendan Byrne

Votes: 50

33. Stingray (2016 TV Movie)

27 min | Documentary, News

They're used by police, federal officials and hackers. They can read your text messages, see where you are and more. They go by many names but some know them as Stingrays. But what is a ... See full summary »

Directors: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Rashinda Bankhead | Stars: Jason Hernandez, Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Sam Richards, Scott Schober

34. The Program (2012)

9 min | Documentary, Short

Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: William Binney, Daniel Ellsberg, Jameel Jaffer, James Bamford

Votes: 43

35. Mugshots: John Gotti - End of the Sicilians (2013)

45 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Shot in Sicily and Brooklyn, this is the story of John Gotti's crew. Before you see John Travolta bring Gotti to the big screen in the upcoming Hollywood release - 'Gotti: In the Shadow of ... See full summary »

Stars: Giovanni Falcone, George Anastasia, Angelo Bruno, Joe Valachi

36. This Is My Railroad (1946)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short

The development of the railroad line in Sacramento, California, and all the jobs related with the building, operating and controlling the railway service.

Director: Gene K. Walker

Votes: 6

37. Biography (1987– )
Episode: The Gambinos: The First Family of Crime (1997)

TV-14 | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Stars: Barbara Aiosa, Albert Anastasia, Al Aronne, A.J. Benza

Votes: 120

38. Automan (1983–1984)
Episode: Murder, Take One (1984)

47 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Former movie star Veronica Everly is suspected of the murder of gossip columnist Keith Gillette. Automan discovers a Hollywood producer Michael Hagedorn has a greater motive for the murder,... See full summary »

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Desi Arnaz Jr., Chuck Wagner, Heather McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Votes: 33

39. Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode: The Avenging Angel (1985)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Hunter gets an anonymous tip involving a man who killed his wife. After investigating and arresting the man, he is tried but the key witness against him changes his testimony; suggesting ... See full summary »

Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Nancy Stafford, Robert Gray

Votes: 126

40. The Lone Gunmen (2001)
Episode: Tango de los Pistoleros (2001)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Yves becomes a smuggler's partner in a tango competition in Miami while the Lone Gunmen are afoot to uncover what Yves is after.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Stephen Snedden

Votes: 303

41. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: E.B.E. (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder and Scully become the focus of a disinformation campaign when they attempt to trace the government's secret transport of an alien life form.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jerry Hardin, Allan Lysell

Votes: 5,889

42. Heavy Metal (2000– )
Episode: Radar (2003)

Documentary, History, War

The development of RAdio Detection And Ranging technology and its role in World War II.

Director: Colin Barratt

43. Network First (1994– )
Episode: The War Against the Mafia Part 1: The Founding Father (1994)

Documentary

How America's law enforcement agencies tackled the Mafia. Concentrates on the Gambino family from 1980 to 1993. Includes secret FBI recordings, interviews and allegations that the family were responsible for the deaths of 200 people.

Director: Tim Shawcross | Stars: Jack Klaff, John Gotti, Joseph Armone, Wilfred Johnson

Votes: 5

44. Network First (1994– )
Episode: The War Against the Mafia Part 2: Death in the Family (1994)

Documentary

The programme begins with the funeral of Carlo Gambino, the model for The GODFATHER. His successor, Paul Castellano, turned the Mafia into a billion dollar business by controlling New York's waste disposal and construction industries.

Stars: Jack Klaff, Dominick Montiglio, Edward McDonald, Carlo Gambino

45. Network First (1994– )
Episode: The War Against the Mafia Part 3: The King of Little Italy (1994)

Documentary

The programme looks at the rise and fall of gangster, John Gotti, who took charge after arranging the murder of Paul Castellano. Bribing his way to freedom, justice finally caught up with him and he is now doing a life sentence.

Stars: Jack Klaff, John Gotti, Bruce Cutler, Bruce Mouw

46. The Final Report (2006– )
Episode: Getting Gotti (2006)

45 min | Documentary

When John Gotti emerged as head of the Gambino crime family, the media took notice of this charismatic new boss who was tried several times but never convicted. NGC revisits Gotti's rise to... See full summary »

Stars: Jimmy Turnbull, George Gabriel, John Gleeson, Jerry Capeci

Votes: 7

47. The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode: NSA Whistleblower: Government Collecting Everything You Do (2019)

27 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show

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Stars: William Binney, Abby Martin

Votes: 11

48. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: Voice of the Bug (1957)

30 min | Drama

A private detective, whose specialty is electronic surveillance devices, is found murdered. Blake joins the Las Vegas police force to bring the killer of the former policeman to justice.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Rod Cameron, Don Haggerty, Carolyn Craig, Tol Avery

Votes: 10

49. Elite (2018–2024)
Episode: Cayetana y Valerio (2020)

TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Polo is harassed at school. Samuel mulls the police's offer as he and Rebeca become closer. Ander struggles with his treatment.

Director: Dani de la Orden | Stars: Itzan Escamilla, Miguel Bernardeau, Álvaro Rico, Arón Piper

Votes: 1,295

50. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: In the Age of AI (2019)

TV-14 | 113 min | Documentary, News

FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.

Directors: Neil Docherty, David Fanning | Stars: Will Lyman, Lee Sedol, Pedro Domingos, Fu-Kai Lee

Votes: 126