

Directed by Detroit filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow. Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Jessica Chastain stars as a CIA analyst consumed by the relentless, decade-long manhunt for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, culminating in the US military raid on the terrorist’s compound in Pakistan.( Amazon | iTunes | Google Play | Netflix | Showtime | YouTube)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Based on the John le Carré novel of the same name, this gripping slow burn of a Cold War flick follows MI6 intelligence officer George Smiley (Gary Oldman) trying to suss out a Soviet mole within the British secret service in the early 1970s.Casino Royale (2006): The first, and best, of Daniel Craig’s James Bond films, this propulsive adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel of the same name has the British actor reinventing the typically suave secret agent as a brash and brutal provocateur. ( Amazon | iTunes | Google Play | YouTube).( Amazon | iTunes | Google Play | YouTube) Munich (2005): Steven Spielberg’s tragically underrated true story of Operation Wrath of God, the covert mission carried out by Mossad agents to track down and kill those responsible for the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics in West Germany.( BBC America | Amazon)įocus Features “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Killing Eve (ongoing): One of the best new shows on TV, Killing Eve boasts two powerhouse performances, by Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer as, respectively, a British counterintelligence officer and a psychopath assassin working for a mysterious international organization, who become obsessed with each other.Simmons) for a secret United Nations agency in Berlin who is pulled into a conspiracy when he meets his doppelgänger from an alternate reality. Counterpart (ongoing): Half sci-fi, half spy drama, Counterpart follows a bureaucrat (J.K.( Showtime | Hulu | Amazon | iTunes | Google Play) Subsequent seasons drastically expand the scope of the first season’s plot. Homeland (ongoing): Based on an Israeli series, this Showtime drama stars Claire Danes as a bipolar CIA agent trying to figure out if a US Marine who was held captive by Al-Qaeda has turned against the US.( Amazon | iTunes | Google Play | Vudu | YouTube) Abrams starred Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a double and sometimes triple agent working for the CIA who infiltrated an international crime syndicate.
MOVIES ABOUT SECRET AGENTS SERIES
MOVIES ABOUT SECRET AGENTS TV
Created in 1961, this assured, stylish, often zany British TV series about secret agents has informed every spy show that came after it. The Avengers (1960s): No, not those Avengers.
