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Uncover the Thrill: Top Movies and TV Shows about Undercover Missions

Get ready for a world of espionage, deception, and high-stakes action as we delve into the best movies and TV shows centered around undercover missions. From classic spy thrillers to modern-day espionage dramas, we've got you covered. Discover the most gripping stories of secret agents, double agents, and the cat-and-mouse games they play.

The Bureau (2015) TV Show

8.2 232 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: France

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 50

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

Plot: spy, secret identity, mossad, identity crisis, undercover agent, espionage, intelligence agency, moral ambiguity, ...

Place: middle east

Cast

Jim Caviezel

Mira Sorvino

Bill Camp

Gerardo Taracena

Sound of Freedom (2023)

8.0 2.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

Plot: kidnapping, human trafficking, based on true story, honduras, child kidnapping, rescue operation, lost children, children in danger, ...

Place: colombia

Legends (2026) TV Show

7.7 89 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: As drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.

Plot: based on true story, drug trade, undercover operation

Fauda (2015) TV Show

7.5 253 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Israel, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 59

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.

Plot: war on terror, undercover agent, special unit, palestinian-israeli conflict, terrorism, israeli defense force, undercover operation, gaza strip, ...

Place: israel, belgium

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

A Man on the Inside (2024) TV Show

7.4 236 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America, Chile

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: A retired professor with a knack for snooping gets a new lease on life when a private investigator recruits him to go undercover and crack a case.

Style: witty

Plot: spy, san francisco, california, amateur detective, parenthood, private investigator, retirement community, undercover operation, ...

Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026)

7.3 128 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 229 min.

Audience: NR

Story: As rival gangs, corrupt officials and a ruthless Major Iqbal close in, Hamza's mission for his country spirals into a bloody personal war where the line between patriot and monster disappears in the streets of Lyari.

Plot: undercover, espionage, politics, spy, traitor, patriotism, nationalism, gore, ...

Place: pakistan, india

Cast

Keanu Reeves

Patrick Swayze

Lori Petty

Gary Busey

Point Break (1991)

7.2 4.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

Plot: surfing, surfer, undercover agent, self-destruction, fbi, extreme sports, moral conflict, skydiving, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Paula Patton

Simon Pegg

Jeremy Renner

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

7.1 10.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: mask, assassin, budapest, hungary, skyscraper, secret intelligence service, sandstorm, seattle, ...

Place: dubai

Cast

Robert Mitchum

Jean Simmons

Mona Freeman

Herbert Marshall

Angel Face (1953)

7.1 187 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Plot: gas, court case, love triangle, ambulance, stepmother, ambulance man, film noir, emergency doctor, ...

Cast

Glen Powell

Adria Arjona

Austin Amelio

Retta

Hit Man (2024)

6.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Plot: hitman, identity, professor, new orleans, louisiana, romcom, disguise, screwball comedy, ...

Rogue (2013) TV Show

6.7 61 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 50

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.

Plot: cheating, undercover, fbi, undercover agent, murder, female cop, undercover operation

Cast

Bruce Willis

John Malkovich

Morgan Freeman

Helen Mirren

RED (2010)

6.7 7.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.

Plot: assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), undercover agent, kidnapping, assault rifle, affectation, based on comic, shootout, ...

Cast

Bryce Dallas Howard

Orlando Bloom

Nick Mohammed

Paddy Considine

Deep Cover (2025)

6.7 610 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Kat is an improv comedy teacher beginning to question if she’s missed her shot at success. When an undercover cop offers her the role of a lifetime, she recruits two of her students to infiltrate London’s gangland by impersonating dangerous criminals.

Plot: drug dealer, london, england, comedian, organized crime, infiltration, undercover operation, hit by a car, ...

Cast

Martin Lawrence

Will Smith

Jordi Mollu00e0

Gabrielle Union

Bad Boys II (2003)

6.7 6.0K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: R

Story: Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Style: absurd

Plot: drug smuggling, miami, florida, undercover agent, ku klux klan, kidnapping, money laundering, mexican standoff, ...

Place: cuba

Cast

Shah Rukh Khan

Sushmita Sen

Suniel Shetty

Zayed Khan

Main Hoon Na (2004)

6.6 432 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India

Duration: 179 min.

Audience: PG

Story: An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

Plot: college, undercover operation, army major, masala, india pakistan border, lost brother

Cast

Kristen Stewart

Naomi Scott

Ella Balinska

Elizabeth Banks

Charlie's Angels (2019)

6.4 3.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issue, if not it could be turned into a dangerous weapon. But when the cutting edge technology is pushed to an investor before she can do that, Elena turns to the Townsend Agency for help. Now, it's up to the Angels -- Jane, Sabina, and the newly recruited Elena -- to retrieve Calisto before it can be transformed into a weapon of mass destruction.

Plot: training, high technology, betrayal, female protagonist, scientist, agent, female agent, undercover operation, ...

Cast

Chris Pine

Keira Knightley

Kevin Costner

Kenneth Branagh

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

6.1 3.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Russia, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Plot: sniper, new york city, london, england, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, based on novel or book, explosive, ...

Cast

Jessie Buckley

Christian Bale

Peter Sarsgaard

John Magaro

The Bride! (2026)

6.1 579 votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.

Plot: illinois, new york city, prostitute, based on novel or book, musical, mad scientist, niagara falls, murder, ...

Time: 1930s

Place: chicago

Cast

Edgar Ramu00edrez

Luke Bracey

Teresa Palmer

Ray Winstone

Point Break (2015)

6.0 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

Plot: surfing, undercover agent, undercover, fbi, extreme sports, remake, skydiving, los angeles, ...

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