Top Espionage Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Ranveer Singh

Akshaye Khanna

R. Madhavan

Arjun Rampal

Dhurandhar (2025)

7.3 324 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 214 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A mysterious traveler slips into the heart of Karachi's underbelly and rises through its ranks with lethal precision, only to tear the notorious ISI-Underworld nexus apart from within.

Plot: espionage, political party, politics, asia, patriotism, nationalism, controversy, gore, ...

Time: 1990s, 2000s

Place: pakistan, india

ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (2017) TV Show

7.3 62 votes

Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: "ACCA" is a giant unified syndicate residing in a kingdom split into 13 autonomous regions. ACCA was formed back when there was threat of a coup d'etat, and has continued to protect the peace for almost one hundred years. Jean Otus, vice-chairman of the inspections department at ACCA headquarters, wanders through the 13 districts, checking to see if there is any foul play afoot. His quiet everyday life slowly gets swallowed up into the world's conspiracies!

Plot: corruption, detective, espionage, politics, government, police, flashback, royalty, ...

Cast

Jeff Bridges

John Lithgow

Alia Shawkat

Navid Negahban

The Old Man (2022) TV Show

7.2 458 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.

Plot: based on novel or book, affectation, espionage, ex-cia agent, adoring, celebratory

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Cast

Tom Cruise

Hayley Atwell

Ving Rhames

Simon Pegg

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

7.2 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 170 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Plot: mask, artificial intelligence (a.i.), diving, submarine, espionage, spy, nuclear missile, fake identity, ...

Cast

John David Washington

Robert Pattinson

Elizabeth Debicki

Kenneth Branagh

Tenet (2020)

7.2 11.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 150 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

Style: intense

Plot: assassin, espionage, spy, time travel, mumbai (bombay), india, arms dealer, terrorism, ...

Cast

Takuya Eguchi

Atsumi Tanezaki

Saori Hayami

Kenichirou Matsuda

SPY x FAMILY CODE: White (2023)

7.2 654 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While under the guise of taking his family on a weekend winter getaway, Loid's attempt to make progress on his current mission Operation Strix proves difficult when Anya mistakenly gets involved and triggers events that threaten world peace.

Plot: espionage, spy, slice of life, female assassin, based on manga, family, aftercreditsstinger, shounen, ...

Gunslinger Girl (2003) TV Show

7.1 55 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: The Social Welfare Agency saves the lives of terminal patients using cybernetic implants. Then it teaches them to kill. After surviving the slaughter of her family, young Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a rebuilt body and no memory. Teamed with Jose, who is responsible for turning her into the perfect assassin, Henrietta’s been given a second chance—but at what cost?

Style: psychological

Plot: cyborg, assassin, espionage, based on manga, child soldier, anime

Place: italy

Cast

Jean Dujardin

Louis Garrel

Emmanuelle Seigner

Gru00e9gory Gadebois

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

7.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 132 min.

Story: In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

Plot: based on novel or book, espionage, military officer, spy, based on true story, trial, antisemitism, miscarriage of justice, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Keira Knightley

Ben Whishaw

Sarah Lancashire

Black Doves (2024) TV Show

7.1 416 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

Style: intense

Plot: holiday, london, england, spy, espionage, female protagonist, political, spies, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Jon Voight

Emmanuelle Bu00e9art

Henry Czerny

Mission: Impossible (1996)

7.0 10.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

Plot: mask, mission, london, england, central intelligence agency (cia), computer, paris, france, ...

Cast

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Dylan Berry

Spycraft (2021) TV Show

6.9 106 votes

Genre: Documentary, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: The spy game is a serious business, and throughout history, the tools and technologies developed for it have mattered as much as the spies themselves.

Plot: spy, central intelligence agency (cia), fbi, intelligence, interview, espionage, investigation, female spy, ...

Cast

Akshay Kumar

Anupam Kher

Kay Kay Menon

Rana Daggubati

Baby (2015)

6.8 196 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 160 min.

Story: A nascent elite team of the Indian intelligence system perpetually strives to detect and eliminate terrorists and their plots. Officer Ajay leads his team to destroy one such potentially lethal ploy in their biggest operation yet.

Plot: espionage, elite unit, terrorism, commando

Cast

Michael Caine

Nigel Green

Guy Doleman

Sue Lloyd

The Ipcress File (1965)

6.8 349 votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

Plot: espionage, spy, james bond spoof, swinging 60s, harry palmer

Time: cold war

Place: england

Deep State (2018) TV Show

6.7 108 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.

Plot: london, england, africa, washington dc, usa, central intelligence agency (cia), espionage, mi6, ...

Place: middle east

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch (2025) TV Show

6.7 84 votes

Genre: Action, Animation

Country: France, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the shadowy world of espionage, Sam Fisher is a rumor and a legend. Pulled back into action, he must help a new recruit unravel a global conspiracy.

Plot: europe, espionage, based on video game, geopolitics, thriller, sinister, ambiguous, comforting, ...

Time: near future

Cast

Gal Gadot

Jamie Dornan

Alia Bhatt

Sophie Okonedo

Heart of Stone (2023)

6.7 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.

Plot: mission, saving the world, undercover agent, undercover, espionage, spy, secret agent, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Lena Gu00f3ra

Andrzej Konopka

Bartu0142omiej Topa

Ewelina Starejki

The Eastern Gate (2025) TV Show

6.7 36 votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, War

Country: Poland

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.

Plot: espionage, secret service, belarus, belarusian border, risky situations, minsk, belarus, suspense thriller

Place: russia

Cast

Harrison Ford

Willem Dafoe

Joaquim de Almeida

Henry Czerny

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

6.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Plot: sniper, central intelligence agency (cia), helicopter, assassination, usa president, based on novel or book, ambush, espionage, ...

Cast

Gary Oldman

Colin Firth

Tom Hardy

John Hurt

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

6.6 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

Plot: london, england, budapest, hungary, espionage, spy, traitor, kgb, ...

Time: cold war, 1970s

Cast

Donald Glover

Maya Erskine

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024) TV Show

6.6 405 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.

Style: intense

Plot: espionage, marriage, interracial marriage, based on movie

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