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51. Cleanskin (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A British secret service agent is faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a British-born suicide bomber and his terrorist cell.
Director: Hadi Hajaig | Stars: Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, Abhin Galeya, Tom Burke
Votes: 21,160
52. A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,297
53. A Murder of Quality (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 971
54. Sea Devils (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea
Votes: 795
55. The Endless Game (1989)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A British MI6 agent comes out of retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them, and why.
Stars: Albert Finney, George Segal, Monica Guerritore, Ian Holm
Votes: 234
56. The Other Fellow (2022)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Thriller
A film about Men, Real Men. Named James Bond.
Director: Matthew Bauer | Stars: Gunnar James Bond Schäfer, James Alexander Bond, James Bond Jr., Gregory Itzin
Votes: 187
57. The Pied Piper (1942)
87 min | Drama, War
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger
Votes: 740
58. Bond Girls Are Forever (2002 TV Movie)
Unrated | 46 min | Documentary
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls", the documentary traced the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from ... See full summary »
Director: John Watkin | Stars: Maryam d'Abo, Halle Berry, Ursula Andress, Honor Blackman
Votes: 753
59. Spy Story (1976)
103 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A British spy is framed, so he must evade the KGB, the CIA and the British Intelligence to reach the the heart of the conspiracy in Arctic.
Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Michael Petrovitch, Philip Latham, Don Fellows, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 67
60. Salting the Battlefield ...Moving On (2014 Video)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Graves, David Hare
Votes: 31
61. The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
Director: Arthur Pierson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helena Carter, Richard Greene, Patricia Medina
Votes: 143
62. Clue II: Murder in Disguise (1987 Video)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Sequel to the live action VHS version of Parker Brothers' classic board game 'Clue' (or 'Cluedo'). The characters from the game are now on the run from an Interpol inspector because of all the crimes they've committed.
Director: Ed Buffman | Stars: Betty Lee Bogue, Mara Clark, Walter Covell, Michael Dell'Orto
Votes: 56
63. 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: 131
64. Turks & Caicos: Uncovered (2014 Video)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Celia Duval, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Graves
Votes: 9
65. Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (1996 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A video game about a british espionage agent sent back in time to a failed mission aboard Titanic. At stake: The fate of the entire world!
Stars: Kevin Garrett, Erik Sigvard Quist, Stephanie Quist, Lona Livingston
Votes: 329
66. Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal (2014– )
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The story of Kim Philby, one of the famous Cambridge spies, who was a double agent for the KGB while working in a position of trust for the British secret service. The person he betrayed ... See full summary »
Stars: Ben Macintyre, David Oakes, William Beck, Mark Elliott
Votes: 81
67. First Comes Courage (1943)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
Nicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 263
68. Lancer Spy (1937)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and returns to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Dolores Del Río, George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Virginia Field
Votes: 211
69. The Eye of the Monocle (1962)
105 min | Comedy, Thriller
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Gaia Germani, Charles Millot
Votes: 287
70. Inside the Lines (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, War
During World War 1, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Director: Roy Pomeroy | Stars: Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, Montagu Love, Ivan F. Simpson
Votes: 178
71. Stamboul Quest (1934)
Approved | 86 min | Romance, Thriller, Drama
In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish ... See full summary »
Directors: Sam Wood, Jack Conway | Stars: Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 623
72. The Real Spies Among Friends (2022 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary, History
Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
Director: Nick Tanner | Stars: Roger Allam, Helen Fry, David Haig-Thomas, Harold Rickett
Votes: 40
73. The World of James Bond (1995 TV Movie)
G | 60 min | Documentary
Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
Directors: Paul Hall, Tom Shelly | Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, Chris Connelly, Andie MacDowell, Britt Ekland
Votes: 205
74. Heineken 'Worth the Wait' James Bond 'No Time to Die' Commercial (2021 Video)
1 min | Short
Director: Sam Gold | Star: Daniel Craig
Votes: 50
75. The James Bond Story (1999 TV Movie)
Unrated | 52 min | Documentary
One Bond is not enough, and this documentary proves it! The James Bond Story celebrates the 39th Anniversary of James Bond in the cinema.
Director: Chris Hunt | Stars: Sean Connery, Michael G. Wilson, Roger Moore, George Lazenby
Votes: 516
76. Peter Taylor: My Journey Through the Troubles (2019)
Documentary
In a uniquely personal journey on the 50th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in August 1969, Peter Taylor reflects on almost a half century of covering the Northern Ireland conflict.
Director: Maurice May | Star: Peter Taylor
Votes: 25
77. La valse du gorille (1959)
100 min | Drama
The Russian, British, American and German secret services are fighting over plans for a missile. When the Gorilla learns that its former leader is threatened, it abandons its garrison in Bayonne to enter this waltz of spies
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn, Ursula Herwig, Roger Hanin
Votes: 64
78. Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary
An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 215
79. Goldeneye: Where James Bond Was Born (2020 Video)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Located on Jamaica's north coast overlooking a white sand beach lay Goldeneye. It is here that Ian Fleming fell in love with the island that gave birth to his iconic creation: British intelligence officer James Bond.
Stars: Ian Fleming, Ivar Bryce, Gert Fröbe, Bernard Lee
80. James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute (2002 TV Special)
85 min
Michael Parkinson hosts a celebration of forty years of the most successful movie series ever. Tribute is paid to the talent behind the stunts, gadgets, music and design, while Pierce ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart McDonald | Stars: Michael Parkinson, Shirley Bassey, Ken Adam, Maud Adams
Votes: 104
82. Trináctá legenda (1977 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama
Director: Jaroslav Novotný | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Bohumila Dolejsová, Kveta Fialová, Alexej Gsolhofer
83. The Spy Who Loved Me: Escape from Atlantis Storyboard Sequence (2006 Video)
2 min | Short
Storyboard sequence of the original slightly different ending of the escape from and sinking of Atlantis from the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me".
Stars: Michael G. Wilson, Walter Gotell, Geoffrey Keen, Bernard Lee
Votes: 21
84. A Revolutionary Romance (1911)
Drama, Romance, Short
During the American Revolution, an American girl, played by Marian Swayne, falls in love with a captured British spy and helps him escape his captors, but not before she recovers the military plans of the Continental Army.
Star: Marian Swayne
85.
Fox Mystery Theater (1984)
Episode:
Czech Mate
(1984)
73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Vicky's ex-husband, John, invites her on a trip to communist Prague. First John disappears, then her passport. Vicky finds herself alone and penniless in Prague and becomes a tragic pawn caught in a web of espionage and murder.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Susan George, Patrick Mower, Richard Heffer, Peter Vaughan
Votes: 160
86.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Blunt
(1987)
TV-14 | 86 min | Drama
The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.
Director: John Glenister | Stars: Ian Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Williams, Rosie Kerslake
Votes: 214
87.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
A Question of Attribution
(1991)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his ... See full summary »
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: James Fox, Gregory Floy, David Calder, Edward de Souza
Votes: 267
88.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
In the Secret State
(1985)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleague.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Frank Finlay, Matthew Marsh, Geoffrey Chater, Michael Byrne
Votes: 16
89.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode:
Diamonds Aren't Forever
(1989)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In this James Bond spoof, a suave super spy called James (played by former James Bond actor George Lazenby) must retrieve a golden statue from an isolated hotel filled with spies and kooky characters.
Director: Peter Crane | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Blum, Eve Crawford, Don Lake
Votes: 110
90.
Banned in the UK (2005)
Episode:
1985-1989
(2005)
Documentary
Controversy and censorship from the mid to late 80s, including the rave scene, football hooliganism, the Heysel Stadium disaster, the Beastie Boys tour, Spy Catcher, The Satanic Verses, Clause 28, Visions of Ecstasy, and the Zircon affair.
Stars: Gerry Adams, Rupert Allason, Tony Benn, Garry Bushell
91.
History's Mysteries (1998–2011)
Episode:
Spies of the Revolutionary War
(1999)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
How Washington's spies Nathan Hale, John Honeyman, Benjamin Tallmadge, his spy network in New York known as the Culper Ring, and British spies Thomas Hickey, John Andre and Benedict Arnold played key roles in the Revolutionary War.
Director: Jim Milio | Stars: David Ackroyd, Andrew C. Batten, Clare Brandt, Willard Sterne Randall
Votes: 8
92.
Brits (2000– )
Episode:
The Secret War
(2000)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Sam Collyns | Star: Peter Taylor
93.
Spy City (2020)
Episode:
Codename Beethoven
(2020)
Not Rated | Drama, Thriller
Berlin, 1961: Fielding Scott, a disgraced MI6 agent, is given a chance to rehabilitate. He is supposed to organize the defection of an East German scientist who has made an explosive ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Dominic Cooper, Romane Portail, Leonie Benesch, Johanna Wokalek
Votes: 116
94.
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode:
The Lordly Ones
(2021)
66 min | Documentary, History
It wasn't just the Slave Trade. 150 years ago Britain had wrecked China by forcing opium on the country. It made Britain the richest and most powerful country in the world. But it enslaved ... See full summary »
Star: Adam Curtis
Votes: 102
95.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #2.2
(2018)
Documentary, History, War
To improve their bombs, the US Navy turned to the animal world for inspiration. When 270 men vanished into a cloud, witnesses claimed the soldiers had been abducted by aliens.
Directors: Mike Ibeji, Justine Ostrowska, Alex Turner | Stars: Martin K.A. Morgan, Andrew Robertshaw, Guy Walters, Joshua Levine
96.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(2018)
Documentary, History, War
Hukbalahap Rebels in the Philippines believe they have a new enemy - a vampire. The British claim that an RAF pilot's incredible night vision comes from eating carrots.
Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Joshua Levine, Guy Walters, Dominic Selwood, Andrew Robertshaw
97.
The Graham Norton Show (2007– )
Episode:
Daniel Craig/Léa Seydoux/Lashana Lynch/Rami Malek/Ed Sheeran
(2021)
TV-14 | 46 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Graham is joined by the stars of the long-awaited James Bond film, No Time to Die (2021). In his final appearance as 007, Daniel Craig is joined by French star Léa Seydoux, British actress ... See full summary »
Director: Toby Baker | Stars: Graham Norton, Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch
Votes: 63
98.
The Movie Show (1994–1999)
Episode:
Bond Special: Tomorrow Never Dies
(1997)
23 min | Short, News, Talk-Show
Stars: Vic Armstrong, David Arnold, Samantha Bond, Michael Caine
99.
No Time to Die: The Official James Bond Podcast (2021)
Being 007
(2021 Podcast Episode)
36 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
For the final episode, we'll explore the character of 007 himself: embodying a certain mythic heroism - self-assured, confident, and unapologetic. Six different actors have played the ... See full summary »
Stars: James King, Barbara Broccoli, Daniel Craig, Cary Joji Fukunaga
100.
Transatlantic (2023)
Episode:
The Angel of History
(2023)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History
An unpleasant surprise sends Varian and Mary-Jayne scrambling to find new accommodations, while Lisa leads a dangerous trek through the mountains.
Directors: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond | Stars: Gillian Jacobs, Lucas Englander, Cory Michael Smith, Corey Stoll
Votes: 189