Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "soviet-spy"

1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)

R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.

Votes: 746,310 | Gross: $326.11M

2. 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: 111,836

3. The Imitation Game (2014)

PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.

Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech

Votes: 827,484 | Gross: $91.13M

4. The Shape of Water (2017)

R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones

Votes: 448,658 | Gross: $63.86M

5. Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan

Votes: 328,526 | Gross: $72.31M

6. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel

Votes: 116,562 | Gross: $46.80M

7. Salt (2010)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Thriller

A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski

Votes: 330,725 | Gross: $118.31M

8. Octopussy (1983)

PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn

Votes: 113,228 | Gross: $67.90M

9. Deep Throat Part II (1974)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

When one of sex therapist extraordinaire Linda's patients turns out to be harboring the plans to a top-secret government computer, both the KGB and the CIA attempt to enlist Linda in their efforts to steal the data.

Director: Joseph W. Sarno | Stars: Linda Lovelace, Harry Reems, Levi Richards, David Davidson

Votes: 690 | Gross: $0.35M

10. Red Joan (2018)

R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes

Votes: 14,474 | Gross: $1.58M

11. Smiley's People (1982)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery

The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance.

Stars: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal

Votes: 4,777

12. Cambridge Spies (2003)

59 min | Drama, History

The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West

Votes: 2,221

13. The Trouble with Spies (1987)

PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

British spy George Trent disappears in Ibiza. Appleton Porter is sent to investigate, questioning hotel guests who were Trent's neighbors. Trent survives assassination attempts while unraveling the mystery.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge

Votes: 590 | Gross: $0.21M

14. Condorman (1981)

PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton

Votes: 5,437

15. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver

Votes: 5,255

16. Daniel (1983)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Daniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Asner

Votes: 1,601 | Gross: $0.28M

17. The Liquidator (1965)

Approved | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Colonel Mostyn of the British Intelligence Service suspects there is a leak in his department and hires an American expatriate to eliminate various targets working for the Soviets.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 1,302

18. The Assets (2014)

60 min | Thriller

CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes works to save Soviet intelligence officers from being exposed by a mole inside her organization.

Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Paul Rhys, Harriet Walter, Ralph Brown

Votes: 2,363

19. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)

830 min | Drama, History, War

During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.

Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova

Votes: 4,998

20. The Whistle Blower (1986)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems to be impenetrable.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud

Votes: 2,648 | Gross: $1.50M

21. Nyrkki (2019– )

Not Rated | 43 min | Drama, Thriller

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the ... See full summary »

Stars: Emmi Parviainen, Katja Küttner, Sampo Sarkola, Hannu-Pekka Björkman

Votes: 713

22. Hulk (1966)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

The adventures of a nuclear scientist cursed with the tendency to turning into a huge green brute under stress.

Stars: Bernard Cowan, Don Mason, Jack Creley, Claude Rae

Votes: 1,054

23. Agent 38-24-36 (1964)

110 min | Comedy

A Russian spy is supposed by the British Secret Service to steal some faked orders, but he is too stupid to succeed. His girlfriend tries to help him, but it seems he is too foolish to succeed.

Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Grégoire Aslan, Jean-Marc Tennberg

Votes: 469

24. Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

Fact-based story about a 1990s espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in U.S. history. Aldrich Ames (Timothy Hutton) was a middle class C.I.A. Agent, whose ... See full summary »

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Joan Plowright, Elizabeth Peña, C. David Johnson

Votes: 368

25. The Serpent (1973)

PG | 113 min | Drama, Thriller

A Soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West.

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 1,210

26. Pack of Lies (1987 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Drama

London in the early 1960s. The life of a couple is upset by the coming of a British Secret Service Agent who moves in across the street.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Teri Garr, Sammi Davis, Ronald Hines

Votes: 446

27. Conspirator (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender

Votes: 1,110

28. Shchit i mech (1968)

341 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

The title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.

Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Alla Demidova, Valentina Titova, Oleg Yankovskiy

Votes: 698

29. The Beatles and India (2021)

96 min | Documentary, Music

Documentary exploring how John, Paul, George and Ringo fell in love with Indian culture while visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his Himalayan ashram in 1968.

Directors: Ajoy Bose, Peter Compton | Stars: Shankara Angadi, Sidharth Bhatia, Steve Turner, Ajoy Bose

Votes: 506

30. 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: 262

31. Escape to Nowhere (1973)

PG | 117 min | Drama, Thriller

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy

Votes: 1,062

32. The Spies (1957)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 1,101

33. Richard Sorge. Master Spy (2019)

624 min | Biography, Drama, History

A film about the life and work of the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge in Japan on the eve of and during the Second World War in Japan. Working as a correspondent for an ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksandr Domogarov, Shion Nakamaru, Osamu Yamamoto, Andrey Rudenskiy

Votes: 77

34. Hide and Seek (1964)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Cambridge astrophysicist on routine business in London finds it frustratingly difficult to return a wallet of money to an Eastern European friend, a task complicated by a puzzling if scatterbrained society girl.

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Curd Jürgens, Janet Munro, George Pravda

Votes: 196

35. My Father the Spy (2019)

85 min | Documentary

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York ... See full summary »

Directors: Gints Grube, Jaak Kilmi | Stars: Natalija Knipse, Ieva Lesinska, Imants Lesinskis, Marta Lesinska

Votes: 136

36. Blade on the Feather (1980 TV Movie)

82 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer...but both men are more than they claim to be.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Kika Markham, Phoebe Nicholls, Donald Pleasence, Tom Conti

Votes: 247

37. Kuulustelu (2009)

110 min | Drama, War

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

Director: Jörn Donner | Stars: Minna Haapkylä, Marcus Groth, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Lauri Nurkse

Votes: 356

38. Sporting Chance (1975)

Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.

Directors: Val Guest, Peter Medak, Leslie Norman | Stars: Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, John Cairney, Donald Pickering

Votes: 82

39. Secret Agent (1947)

88 min | Drama, Thriller, War

Soviet agent Fedotov must cross over into German occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondence between a high ranking German general and Hitler.

Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Pavel Kadochnikov, Amvrosi Buchma, Viktor Dobrovolsky, Dmitri Milyutenko

Votes: 313

40. Arctic Flight (1952)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Mike Wien, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy American businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale Jr., Carol Thurston

Votes: 164

41. Number One Gun (1990)

96 min | Action, Comedy

Number 1 has to compete against the mad Russian agent Ace Kissoff, who can change into a woman by just taking a pill.

Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Michael Howe, Gary Hope, Gerald Sim, Cleo Rocos

Votes: 31

42. Ystävät, toverit (1990)

132 min | Drama

Arno Jurmala is an appreciated nickel tycoon. He has an elegant wife and he owns a huge nickel factory somewhere in Northern Finland. When he is celebrating his birthday in the late 1930s, ... See full summary »

Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Mikk Mikiver, Stina Ekblad, Hannu Lauri, Paavo Liski

Votes: 124

43. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

44. Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya (1987)

Adventure, War

During the Great Patriotic War in 1942, by decision of the headquarters of the Supreme High Command near Rivne, a special-purpose detachment "Winners" was created. Reconnaissance is the ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Yuri Grebenshchikov, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Yuriy Zhuk

Votes: 18

45. An Affair of States (1966)

94 min | Comedy

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Director: Sammy Drechsel | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Pascale Petit, Daniel Gélin

Votes: 81

46. Hella W (2011)

82 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who ... See full summary »

Director: Juha Wuolijoki | Stars: Tiina Weckström, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Matleena Kuusniemi, Maria Heiskanen

Votes: 380

47. Zemlya, do vostrebovaniya (1973)

153 min | Drama, War

Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the... See full summary »

Director: Venyamin Dorman | Stars: Oleg Strizhenov, Oleg Zhakov, Valdemars Zandbergs, Mariya Sagaidak

Votes: 30

48. Mayor 'Vikhr' (1967)

Not Rated | 216 min | Adventure, War

The Germans planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Soviets to stop the disaster.

Stars: Vadim Beroev, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Viktor Pavlov, Vladislav Strzhelchik

Votes: 118

49. Xue jian leng ying bao (1980)

Action, Drama, War

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Director: Ao-Hsin Chin | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Wei-Chung Chang, Fu-Wen Chen, Yang Chiang

50. Klaus Fuchs - Atomspion (1989)

88 min | Documentary

England, 1950. A defector Russian points out the brilliant nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs as a spy for the Soviet Union. Apparently, five years earlier, Fuchs had smuggled documents out of ... See full summary »

Directors: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini, Wolfgang Meyer | Stars: Bernhard Baier, Hans Bethe, Klaus Fuchs, Lutz Göhnermeier