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Dr. No
1962 film by Terence Young
No Time to Die
No Time to Die is a 2021 spy thriller film and the twenty-fifth film in the James Bond series. The sequel to Spectre (2015), it is the fifth and final film to star Daniel Craig as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond has retired from active service in MI6 and is recruited by the CIA to extract a kidnapped scientist carrying deadly DNA-targeting nanobots, leading him to uncover a plot by the bioterrorist Lyutsifer Safin to kill millions of people. The film was directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay he co-wrote with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on a story conceived by Purvis, Wade and Fukunaga. In addition to Craig, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, and Rory Kinnear reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah appearing in new roles.
You Only Live Twice
1967 film directed by Lewis Gilbert
Tenet
Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.
Bridge of Spies
2015 film directed by Steven Spielberg
The 39 Steps
1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 film directed by Tomas Alfredson
Black Book
2006 film by Paul Verhoeven
Allied
2016 film by Robert Zemeckis
Argylle
Argylle () is a 2024 spy action-comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, and written by Jason Fuchs. The film features an ensemble cast, including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, and Samuel L. Jackson. Its plot centres on a reclusive author who is drawn into the world of spies and espionage after she realises that a new spy novel she is writing mirrors real-world events. It was filmed in Europe from August to December 2021.
Sabotage
1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Criminal
2016 film directed by Ariel Vromen
Secret Agent
1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock
The Odessa File
1974 film by Ronald Neame
A Most Wanted Man
2014 film directed by Anton Corbijn
Enigma
2001 film directed by Michael Apted
The Courier
2020 film directed by Dominic Cooke
The Black Windmill
1974 film directed by Don Siegel
Survivor
2015 film directed by James McTeigue
Operation Crossbow
1965 film by Michael Anderson
The Fourth Protocol
1987 film by John Mackenzie
The Tamarind Seed
1974 film by Blake Edwards
The Mackintosh Man
1973 film by John Huston
Billion Dollar Brain
1967 film by Ken Russell
Britannic
2000 television film
Stratton
2017 film directed by Simon West
Eye of the Needle
1981 film by Richard Marquand
Funeral in Berlin
1966 film by Guy Hamilton
Our Kind of Traitor
2016 film by Susanna White
The Chairman
1969 film by J. Lee Thompson
The Man Who Never Was
1956 film by Ronald Neame
Canary Black
2024 film directed by Pierre Morel
Conspirator
1949 film by Victor Saville
The Man Between
1953 film directed by Carol Reed
The 39 Steps
1959 film by Ralph Thomas
Deadlier Than the Male
1967 film by Ralph Thomas
A Dandy in Aspic
1968 British spy film
Night Train to Munich
1940 film directed by Carol Reed
The Executioner
1970 film by Sam Wanamaker
Permission to Kill
1975 film by Cyril Frankel
The Jigsaw Man
1984 film by Terence Young
Spider in the Web
2019 film directed by Eran Riklis
The Human Factor
1979 film by Otto Preminger
Cleanskin
2012 film
Enigma
1983 drama film by Jeannot Szwarc
Nobody Runs Forever
1968 film by Ralph Thomas
The Million Eyes of Sumuru
1967 film by Lindsay Shonteff
The 39 Steps
2008 television film directed by James Hawes
Danger Route
1967 British spy film
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 film by Frank Launder
I Was a Spy
1933 film directed by Victor Saville
The Man in the Road
1956 film by Lance Comfort
The Whistle Blower
1986 film by Simon Langton
The Liquidator
1965 film by Jack Cardiff
The Riddle of the Sands
1979 film directed by Tony Maylam
The Mind Benders
1963 film by Basil Dearden
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996 film by Douglas Jackson
The Partisan
2024 film directed by James Marquand
Assignment K
1968 film by Val Guest