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1. The Americans (2013–2018)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.
Stars: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Keidrich Sellati, Holly Taylor
Votes: 111,511
2. Black Widow (2021)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 427,025 | Gross: $183.65M
3. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 851,321 | Gross: $408.08M
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford
Votes: 900,114 | Gross: $259.77M
5. V (2009–2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An extraterrestrial race arrives on Earth with seemingly good intentions, only to slowly reveal their true machinations the more ingrained into society they become.
Stars: Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman
Votes: 58,920
6. Zoolander (2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell
Votes: 292,230 | Gross: $45.17M
7. Elysium (I) (2013)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga
Votes: 471,446 | Gross: $93.05M
8. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 138,319 | Gross: $50.58M
9. The 5th Wave (2016)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.
Director: J Blakeson | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders
Votes: 117,424 | Gross: $34.92M
10. Quantico (2015–2018)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A look at the lives of young FBI recruits training at the Quantico base in Virginia when one of them is suspected of being a sleeper terrorist.
Stars: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Votes: 63,928
11. No Way Out (1987)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton
Votes: 46,083 | Gross: $35.51M
12. Without Remorse (II) (2021)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An elite Navy SEAL goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.
Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce
Votes: 64,645
13. Executive Decision (1996)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation.
Director: Stuart Baird | Stars: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Steven Seagal, John Leguizamo
Votes: 61,645 | Gross: $56.57M
14. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 79,919
15. Battlestar Galactica (2003)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons, a rag-tag fugitive fleet of the last remnants of mankind flees the pursuing Cylons while simultaneously searching for their true home: Earth.
Stars: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber
Votes: 80,308
16. American Ultra (2015)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy
A stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
Director: Nima Nourizadeh | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton, John Leguizamo
Votes: 96,092 | Gross: $14.43M
17. The Villainess (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female assassin leaves a trail of bodies behind her as she seeks revenge.
Director: Jung Byung-gil | Stars: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-kyun, Sung Jun, Kim Seo-hyeong
Votes: 16,825 | Gross: $0.03M
18. Far Cry 5 (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
A deputy is sent to the town of Hope County to arrest Joseph Seed, a corrupt evangelical religious leader who rules the town with the help of his disturbed followers.
Director: Patrick Methe | Stars: Greg Bryk, Mark Pellegrino, Seamus Dever, Jenessa Grant
Votes: 9,094
19. The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
PG | 102 min | Crime, History, Mystery
In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice
Votes: 2,787
20. Telefon (1977)
PG | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly
Votes: 6,254
21. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Edward James Olmos, Dean Stockwell, Michael Trucco, Grace Park
Votes: 21,234
22. Little Nikita (1988)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava
Votes: 6,024 | Gross: $1.73M
23. Shack Out on 101 (1955)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin
Votes: 830
24. My Own Worst Enemy (2008)
60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Henry Spivey, an efficiency expert, lives a typical suburban life, right down to the wife, two kids, dog, and minivan. In contrast, Edward Albright is a lethal, multilingual operative. It ... See full summary »
Stars: Christian Slater, Mike O'Malley, Saffron Burrows, Mädchen Amick
Votes: 3,457
25. The Shadow Effect (2017)
Not Rated | 93 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An ordinary man begins to suddenly have delusions that he's a disposable assassin and that those closest to him may in fact be his enemies.
Directors: Obin Olson, Amariah Olson | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Cam Gigandet, Michael Biehn, Brit Shaw
Votes: 1,940
26. Coronet Blue (1967)
60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Michael Alden is an amnesiac, who must discover his real identity before the operatives of a mysterious group locate him and kill him. The key to his past might be "Coronet Blue", a meaningless phrase he for some reason remembers.
Stars: Frank Converse, Joe Silver, Brian Bedford, Robert Burr
Votes: 210
27. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 3,296
28. The Eleventh Hour (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Thriller
Action film about a N.Korean general's vendetta against a U.S. team of special ops soldiers who are on a mission to free Japanese political prisoners.
Director: John Lyde | Stars: Matthew Reese, Jennifer Klekas, K. Danor Gerald, David Nibley
Votes: 907
29. Daughter of the Mind (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Horror, Thriller
A professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Don Murray, Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Barbara Dana
Votes: 442
30. She Knows Too Much (1989 TV Movie)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A master cat burglar, Samantha White, is released from prison into custody of bumbling S.O.B. agent Harry. She has to help his agency solve a string of murders tied to a Manchurian Candidate scenario.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Robert Urich, John Bennett Perry, Dennis Lipscomb
Votes: 107
31. Murder in Space (1985 TV Movie)
95 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Michael Ironside, Martin Balsam, Damir Andrei
Votes: 258
32. Tango One (2018)
112 min | Crime, Drama
Three officers are assigned to go undercover and join a mission to capture Den Donovan.
Director: Sacha Bennett | Stars: Susannah Allman, Enrique Arce, Elijah Baker, Sacha Bennett
Votes: 389
33. Global Frequency (2005 TV Movie)
45 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Detective Sean Flynn and scientist Kate Finch are the latest recruits of The Global Frequency, a secret rogue spy agency that handles threats to global security. They must find a man who's somehow been melting people with his mind.
Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Michelle Forbes, Aimee Garcia, Josh Hopkins, Jenni Baird
Votes: 283
34. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Nicholas Winand, Thomas Betthauser, Scott Thompson, Blaiden D. Cordle
Votes: 1,317
35. Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (1994 Video Game)
Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Dystopian FMV-lite point and click adventure game. By 2095, America has become a fascist theocracy. Two government enforcers are forced to join the underground resistance movement after someone orders the secret police to kill them.
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder
Votes: 48
36. Enigma (1977 TV Movie)
60 min | Action, Drama
The exploits of secret agent Andrew Icarus who works for a world wide crime-fighting organization. This was a pilot for CBS that was not picked up.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Scott Hylands, Guy Doleman, Soon-Tek Oh, Barbara O
Votes: 10
37. Former KGB Spy Rates 9 Russian Spy Scenes in Movies (2020 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Jack Barsky is a former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the US from 1978 to 1988. After being exposed, he turned FBI informant and has since stayed in the United States, becoming a ... See full summary »
Star: Jack Barsky
38. Ladybear (1985 TV Movie)
96 min | Thriller
A woman discovers that she is a brainwashed Russian agent that is tapped to perform secret duties for the Embassy.
Director: Peter McCubbin | Stars: Carol Poirier, Claudette Roche, Tom Nursall, Sidney Bruyn
Votes: 17
39. Tracer
Short, Action, Comedy | Post-production
A cabin-dwelling woodsman with gaps in his memory lives a peaceful, solitary life. That is until a group of strangers arrive at his door demanding that he hand over a mysterious device. The... See full summary »
Director: Jared Wardlaw | Stars: John Cottingham, Isaac Kirk, Caleb Paschall, Ethney Munson
40. The Hollow Coin (1958)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
This U.S. Army film describes a case of espionage against the United States by Colonel Rudolph Abel.
Stars: Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, James B. Donovan, Albert Einstein, Nikita Khrushchev
42. The Case of Comrade 'T' (1956)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
This film gives an example of a foreign secret agent unable to get information in various jobs in America because of good security.
44.
Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode:
Divided Loyalties
(1995)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lyta Alexander returns to the station with news that one of the officers on the station is an undercover operative.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan
Votes: 755
45.
Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode:
The Face of the Enemy
(1997)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Garibaldi sets up Sheridan who is promptly taken into custody by Clark's men. The reason behind Garibaldi's behavior and what happened to him when he disappeared in his Starfury is revealed.
Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan
Votes: 665
46.
Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979)
Episode:
Murder on the Rising Star
(1979)
TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Starbuck is framed for murder of a sports rival. Apollo suspects Baltar but Adama agrees to charge Starbuck and try him for murder until Apollo can come up with some proof that he didn't do it.
Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Votes: 386
47.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Alien Radio
(1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A skeptical radio show host, who loves to shoot down his listener, reports of alien encounters and one of his listeners, who claims to be possessed by an alien, set himself on fire in front of him.
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Hope, Malcolm Stewart, Alex Diakun
Votes: 238
48.
Secret Agent Man (2000)
Episode:
Sleepers
(2000)
42 min | Action, Thriller
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Costas Mandylor, Dina Meyer, Dondré T. Whitfield, Ivana Milicevic
Votes: 17
49.
Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode:
Divide and Conquer
(2000)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an SG-team member tries to assassinate the Tok'ra leader, it is believed that some of the SGC have been converted into Za'tarc - programmed assassins. The Tok'ra Freya comes to the SGC... See full summary »
Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Votes: 1,273
50.
Family Guy (1999– )
Episode:
Spies Reminiscent of Us
(2009)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
With the help of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, Stewie and Brian discover that Mayor West is a Cold War sleeper agent; Peter and the guys start an improv group.
Directors: Cyndi Tang, James Purdum, Peter Shin | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
Votes: 1,710