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

1. Gone Girl (2014)

R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry

Votes: 1,067,692 | Gross: $167.77M

2. The Conversation (1974)

PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 121,907 | Gross: $4.42M

3. The French Connection (1971)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco

Votes: 135,743 | Gross: $15.63M

4. Klute (1971)

R | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider

Votes: 29,635 | Gross: $17.44M

5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid

Votes: 43,031 | Gross: $12.00M

6. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

PG | 83 min | Comedy, Crime

The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy (1984) to help deal with the Mafia.

Director: Alan Metter | Stars: G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf

Votes: 36,192 | Gross: $0.13M

7. Decoys (2004)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren't exactly human.

Director: Matthew Hastings | Stars: Corey Sevier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Kim Poirier, Elias Toufexis

Votes: 5,312

8. 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: 17,546 | Gross: $23.00M

9. Rubicon (2010)

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

Will Travers is an analyst at a New York City-based federal intelligence agency who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Jessica Ann Collins, Lauren Hodges, Dallas Roberts

Votes: 11,095

10. Closure (2007)

R | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

After surviving a gang rape and mugging, a businesswoman and her younger boyfriend plot to murder their attackers, but find themselves conflicted about carrying out their plans.

Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Danny Dyer, Gillian Anderson, Adam Rayner, Antony Byrne

Votes: 7,421

11. The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Romance

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West

Votes: 15,576

12. Sleuth (2007)

R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Kenneth Branagh

Votes: 33,033 | Gross: $0.34M

13. Someone's Watching Me! (1978 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers

Votes: 5,183

14. 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: 6,391

15. My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)

PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.

Director: George Gallo | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks, Selma Blair

Votes: 12,353

16. Close to the Enemy (2016)

59 min | Drama

A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Lucy Ward, Charlotte Riley, August Diehl

Votes: 1,309

17. Armadillo (2010)

Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, War

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.

Director: Janus Metz

Votes: 10,332 | Gross: $0.01M

18. Alone with Her (2006)

Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A quiet but disturbed young man puts the life of a woman he's obsessed with under a virtual microscope when he installs hidden cameras throughout her house.

Director: Eric Nicholas | Stars: Ana Claudia Talancón, Colin Hanks, Jordana Spiro, Jonathon Trent

Votes: 4,191 | Gross: $0.01M

19. The Adventures of Tartu (1943)

Passed | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

In 1940. Captain Terence Stevenson is with the British Army in the bomb disposal unit in London, his primary job is to defuse them. Despite having no experience as a spy, he is asked by his... See full summary »

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns

Votes: 1,128

20. Abandoned (1949)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall

Votes: 1,021

21. Where the Spies Are (1965)

Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 907

22. Cornered! (2008)

R | 87 min | Horror

During their nightly poker game, a group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own convenience store by a masked killer.

Director: Daniel Maze | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, James Duval, Liz Nicole Abrams, Peter Story

Votes: 1,372

23. Going Undercover (1985)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her stepdaughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have ... See full summary »

Director: James Kenelm Clarke | Stars: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Viveca Lindfors

Votes: 201

24. Postmark for Danger (1955)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen

Votes: 656

25. Shadow of the Holy Book (2007)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

A look at how multinational corporations curried favor with Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006), the despot of oil- and gas-rich Turkmenistan, primarily through translating "Ruhnama," his ... See full summary »

Director: Arto Halonen | Star: Nastaran Nasirzadeh

Votes: 232

26. Stick It (2014)

5 min | Short, Romance, Sport

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez

27. Three-Fifty (2008)

9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A guy tries to weasel out of his late fees at the local video store only to discover the video store's database has access to intimate details of his past - and his future.

Director: Maurice Chauvet | Stars: Evin Grensted, Michael Angelo Stuno, Melinda Augustina, Paul McKinney

Votes: 42

28. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Playback (1975)

TV-PG | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A gadget-happy inventor murders his mother-in-law; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Peter Falk, Oskar Werner, Gena Rowlands, Robert Brown

Votes: 2,541

29. Bugs (1995–1999)
Episode: Out of the Hive (1995)

Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Helicopter pilot Ed, electronics expert Ros Henderson and government agent Nick Beckett find themselves working together in an attempt to prevent the theft of a powerful satellite device from a government agency.

Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: Craig McLachlan, Jaye Griffiths, Jesse Birdsall, William Chubb

Votes: 36

30. The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode: Menage a Trois (1997)

TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The new nurse of a wheel-chair bound woman becomes involved with the house's handyman.

Director: Jake Scott | Stars: Terence Stamp, Karen Black, Lena Headey, Daniel Craig

Votes: 207

31. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: Big Brother (2005)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Documentary

Penn and Teller look at how the Patriot Act was rushed into law following 9/11 and what power this gave to the government. It also looks at how we are increasingly being monitored in our day to day life.

Directors: Star Price, Scott Firestone, Tim Rogan, Ted Saad, Chip Selby | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Mark Ciglar, Michael Goudeau

Votes: 121

32. Breaking Bad (2008–2013)
Episode: Caballo sin Nombre (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Walter, Jr. is having a rough time accepting his parents' separation. Jesse buys his old house from his parents. Meanwhile, two mysterious men have come into town looking for Walt.

Director: Adam Bernstein | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris

Votes: 23,891

33. SEAL Team (2017–2024)
Episode: Growing Pains (2022)

TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Drama, War

BRAVO finds unlikely allies as they are deployed to Northern Syria to track down those responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Crampton.

Director: Cherie Nowlan | Stars: David Boreanaz, Max Thieriot, Neil Brown Jr., A.J. Buckley

Votes: 314

34. Galaxy Park (2011–2014)
Episode: Episode #1.17 (2011)

Family, Sci-Fi

Still confident Femke only plays hard to get before dating him, Os offers to let her drive his motorbike or even touch his even more jealously guarded hair, but she turns him down again ... See full summary »

Directors: Gert-Jan Booy, Dennis Bots | Stars: Nicolas Caeyers, Immanuel Lemmens, Soy Kroon, Alex Van Haecke

35. Caught Red Handed (2013– )
Episode: Episode #6.20 (2018)

29 min | Documentary, Crime

A blind man uses an electronic eye to see what his own eyes cannot. A clumsy crook trying to cut it as a burglar ends up cutting his own hand.

Director: Andy Miles | Star: Dominic Littlewood