$20.55M, TV-MA Daniel Craig, James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain. Action, Drama, Thriller.
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Jeremy Renner, Votes: 147 min Tony Scott (Mendes’s 2015 follow-up, Spectre, on the other hand, proved that a similar combination of elements could fall apart.). Mathieu Amalric, 385,007 In this John le Carré adaptation, Brosnan plays Andy Osnard, a disgraced, unscrupulous, but unfailingly charming MI6 agent who sees a new assignment in an ultracorrupt Panama as a chance to accumulate money and power.
105 min American Spy is framed as a letter from Marie to her young twin sons, who are in the house at the time of their mother's attempted assassination. Hailee Steinfeld, Kris Wu, Votes:
28,463 The novel’s success allowed le Carré to embark on a long career depicting his former profession as the domain of gray, defeated men, most of whom have abandoned their consciences out of a sense of professional obligation. Val Kilmer, Votes: | Joss Whedon | Robert Downey Jr.,
When students in their school begin exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. This is a master working in top form from start to finish to create a film that’s been much-imitated but never topped. Famke Janssen, Votes:
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Idris Elba, Charlotte Le Bon, | A film about Natasha Romanoff in her quests between the films Civil War and Infinity War.
| Sean Penn, Director: 133 min Jennifer Garner, Joe Russo
When a naive pre-med student named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever. Director: Stars:
Simon Pegg, Votes: Sandwiched between Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Titanic, it can’t help but feel a bit minor by Cameron’s standards, bringing little new to the genre beyond a sense of excessiveness.
Drama, History, Thriller. 116 min Samuel L. Jackson, | |
Jeremy Renner, $90.38M, PG ran for four seasons in the mid-’60s, but wasn’t widely remembered by the time the 21st-century rolled around. | Crime, Drama, Mystery. In the first of his several outings as Palmer, Michael Caine is put-upon and bogged down with paperwork. Retired CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. Lucy Liu, Christopher Plummer, Votes: Denise Richards, Votes:
96,706 | It’s a battle of wits that John Boorman directs with a palpable sense of danger, building tension by letting his characters sweat in the tropical heat. Stars: Agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother (Chris Rock). Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
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Joan Allen, $95.72M, R | | Gross: |
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Gilroy brings in some of the skills he picked up writing the, Mike Myers’s affectionate send-up of ’60s spy movies, Tom Clancy’s long-serving CIA analyst Jack Ryan into a more traditional action hero, jaw-dropping photography by Roger Deakins, Pierce Brosnan didn’t always get the best material as Bond, John Boorman directs with a palpable sense of danger, it’s sometimes impossible to tell the good guys from the bad guys in the midst of crossed wires, twisted loyalties, and mission drift, Tom Cruise–starring big-screen adaptation of the ’60s spy show, Redford delivers a tough, rattled performance, the best action movie of this century, from a film-opening prison break through a nausea-inducing trip to the top of the Burj Khalifa and beyond, John le Carré wrote in 1989, reflecting on his 1963 novel. |
Isolationist senators even held a Senate subcommittee to investigate the presence of pro-war sentiment in Hollywood movies as late as September of 1941. The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. Director: A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Matthew Vaughn | Gross: Already a subscriber? American Spy works on so many levels — it's an expertly written spy thriller as well as a deeply intelligent literary novel that tackles issues of politics, race and gender in a way that's never even close to being heavy-handed or didactic. There’s a reason many low-budget, tongue-in-cheek Bond knockoffs like The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World have been forgotten.). Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher. Michael Apted Tom Wilkinson, |
Stephen Sommers The Lady Vanishes proved Hitchcock could be just as effective in tighter quarters. John Woo | Gene Wilder, $132.38M. Lupita Nyong'o, Stars: 202,395 | | $35.61M, R 125 min | | Gross: Enrico Colantoni, Director: Alexa Davalos,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, $121.66M, PG-13 Gary McKendry
Action, Adventure, Thriller. Vera Farmiga, Votes: Stars: The film stays light, but Ritchie brings excitement and flair to the action scenes.
We look at decades of film history to answer just that, finding plenty of Bond, Bourne, and Hitchcock films along the way.
Girish Karnad,
$52.80M, PG-13 Stars: Stars: Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. | Movies. Director: A gang of thieves plot to take the family's valuables, and she is all that stands between them and their lives. Action, Adventure, Thriller.
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Michelle Dockery, Votes: 443,988 Stars:
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January Jones, Léa Seydoux, A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.
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officials and the Russian President-elect. | Director: In this case, it’s talented amateurism for the win. Stars: Stars: Action, Crime, Drama. It also features a memorable trip into the London underworld and the best imaginable payoff of an early scene that sets up Best’s character as an expert skeet shooter. 115 min Radha Mitchell, Votes: A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. Action, Adventure, Thriller. Ming-Na Wen, 427,050 Alan Tudyk,
John Malkovich, Brett Dalton, He calls headquarters only to realize he’s not sure whom, if anyone, he can still trust. And, as for the latter, we tried to include some representative samples from each Bond era. It’s similar in tone to Fleming’s early novels, a spy story whose more outrageous elements — dig those switchblade shoes with poison blades! A woman returns from combat and befriends a family in NYC. Graham Greene spent a carer alternating between what he considered serious novels and lighter work he regarded as “entertainments,” some of which involve spies (which makes sense, since Greene himself dabbled in espionage).
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Freddie Highmore, | Gross: Henry Cavill, Pierre Morel
Stars: This Tomas Alfredson adaptation demands close attention.
310,175
$63.86M, PG-13
Robert Redford,
$64.04M, R (Greengrass would return to the series twice more, first with The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, then with Jason Bourne in 2016. An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. But it all works here, and the scene pitting Bond against a laser almost single-handedly launched the spy-fi subgenre. Toby Stephens, Votes:
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Redford delivers a tough, rattled performance as a man who’s learning new skills on the job because his life depends on it. | | Gross:
(At least Westerns take place in the Old West. Director: ©
| A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
| A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence. | Gross:
167 min A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. $176.65M, Not Rated
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. Johnny Depp,
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants. |
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| | Gross: 44 min | | Gross: Action, Adventure, Thriller. Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF.
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$186.34M, PG-13 | Gross: Though later entries starring a series of other actors (Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine) would turn Tom Clancy’s long-serving CIA analyst Jack Ryan into a more traditional action hero, none would make him as appealing as in this first outing. Director: David Fincher Judi Dench,
And while it would be easy enough to fill out a whole list with nothing but le Carré adaptations, Bourne movies, Bond movies, and Hitchcock films, we tried to look more broadly.
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SOE's "spymistress," Vera Atkins (Stana Katic), recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Atpe), a Muslim pacifist.