🏷 Discover The Best National Security Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncover the Thrilling World of National Security Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to immerse yourself in the gripping world of national security, where espionage, counter-terrorism, and high-stakes politics come together. From classic Cold War-era dramas to modern-day thrillers, we've curated a list of the best movies and TV shows that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you're a fan of John le Carré or a new viewer, this collection has something for everyone.

Cast

Ryu Seung-ryong

Han Hyo-joo

Zo In-sung

Cha Tae-hyun

Moving (2023) TV Show

8.5 292 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 21

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

Plot: high school, superhero, superhuman, school, super power, agent, healing power, flying man, ...

Place: seoul, south korea

Cast

Roberto Benigni

Nicoletta Braschi

Giorgio Cantarini

Giustino Durano

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

8.4 14.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Style: dark

Plot: dying and death, bookshop, love of one's life, nazi, self sacrifice, loss of loved one, riddle, mass murder, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: italy

Cast

Lee Seung-gi

Suzy

Shin Sung-rok

Moon Jeong-hee

Vagabond (2019) TV Show

8.3 511 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: Morocco, Portugal

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a secret ops agent in order to support her mom and younger siblings, although all she wanted to do is to become a civil servant.

Plot: corruption, blackmail, stuntman, revenge, deception, airplane accident, vagabond, agent, ...

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Paulette Goddard

Jack Oakie

Reginald Gardiner

The Great Dictator (1940)

8.3 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Plot: amnesia, nazi, hairdresser, propaganda, dictator, jewish ghetto, fascism, national socialism, ...

Time: world war i, world war ii

Cast

Elyes Gabel

Katharine McPhee

Jadyn Wong

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Scorpion (2014) TV Show

8.2 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Turkey

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 93

Audience: TV-14

Story: Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

Plot: autism, hacker, nerd, genius, national security, social outcast

Cast

Bruno Ganz

Alexandra Maria Lara

Corinna Harfouch

Ulrich Matthes

Downfall (2004)

7.9 4.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Austria, Germany

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: R

Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Plot: dying and death, based on novel or book, nazi, clerk, dictator, poison, despair, traitor, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Edward Snowden

Glenn Greenwald

Laura Poitras

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William Binney

Citizenfour (2014)

7.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

Plot: biography, national security agency (nsa), woman director, investigative journalism, whistleblower, surveillance state, observational documentary, mass surveillance, ...

Cast

Zachary Levi

Yvonne Strahovski

Adam Baldwin

Joshua Gomez

Chuck (2007) TV Show

7.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 91

Audience: TV-14

Story: When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he becomes the CIA's most vital secret. This sets Chuck on a path to become a full-fledged spy.

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), super computer, secret organization, national security agency (nsa), secret agent, nerd, genius, unlikely lovers, ...

Cast

Kim Myung-min

Jang Dong-gun

Park Hee-soon

Lee Jong-suk

V.I.P. (2017)

7.7 230 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 128 min.

Story: A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), spy, fugitive, neo-noir, busan, south korea, inter-korean relations, national intelligence service (nis)

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018) TV Show

7.7 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), based on novel or book, intelligence, espionage, jack ryan, national security, ex military, analyst, ...

Cast

Claire Danes

Mandy Patinkin

Maury Sterling

Numan Acar

Homeland (2011) TV Show

7.6 2.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, War

Country: United States of America, Israel

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 96

Audience: TV-MA

Story: CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

Style: psychological, absurd

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), war on terror, espionage, conspiracy, marine, psychological thriller, terrorism, national security, ...

Cast

Gaspard Manesse

Raphael Fejtu00f6

Francine Racette

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Stanislas Carru00e9 de Malberg

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

7.5 734 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Plot: parent child relationship, resistance, vichy regime, holocaust (shoah), deportation, jew persecution, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, national socialism, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: france

Cast

Ju00fcrgen Vogel

Frederick Lau

Max Riemelt

Jennifer Ulrich

The Wave (2008)

7.5 3.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Style: shocking, philosophical

Plot: high school, experiment, dictator, gymnasium, trainer, classroom, fascism, national socialism, ...

Cast

Zo In-sung

Park Jeong-min

Park Hae-joon

Shin Sae-kyeong

Humint (2026)

7.4 159 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Story: A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.

Plot: double agent, double cross, undercover operation, inter-korean relations, national intelligence service (nis), political conspiracy, spy vs spy, deadly alliance, ...

Place: south korea, north korea

Cast

Benno Fu00fcrmann

Florian Lukas

Johanna Wokalek

Georg Friedrich

North Face (2008)

7.2 309 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: Austria, Switzerland

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: NR

Story: North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

Plot: human vs nature, bavaria, germany, national socialism, climbing, mountain climbing, alps mountains, mountaineering

Place: switzerland

Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Shailene Woodley

Melissa Leo

Zachary Quinto

Snowden (2016)

7.1 4.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Plot: biography, idealism, idealist, national security agency (nsa), investigative journalism, whistleblower, political thriller, surveillance state, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Gene Hackman

Jon Voight

Regina King

Enemy of the State (1998)

7.1 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.

Plot: washington dc, usa, wiretap, satellite, national security agency (nsa), murder, invasion of privacy, on the run, ...

Cast

Kim Ok-vin

Shin Ha-kyun

Sung Joon

Kim Seo-hyung

The Villainess (2017)

6.9 772 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited with the promise of freedom after ten years of service. However, secrets from her past destroy everything she’s worked for and now she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.

Plot: assassin, katana, revenge, one man army, hand to hand combat, aggressive, korean chinese, national intelligence service (nis), ...

Cast

Roselyn Su00e1nchez

Jason Cottle

Alex Veadov

Nestor Serrano

Act of Valor (2012)

6.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.

Plot: navy, submarine, heroism, scuba diving, u.s. navy seal, military life, valor, terrorist plot, ...