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51. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Horror

An international expedition is sent into Cambodia to destroy an ancient formula that turns men into zombies.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Noland

Votes: 1,886

52. Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988)

87 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A secret formula that can cause plants and animals to expand a thousand-fold in size is stolen by a terrorist group. During a wild chase and shoot-out, the formula is lost. It's found by a ... See full summary »

Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Pierre Kirby, Edowan Bersmea, Danny Raisebeck, Dewey Bosworth

Votes: 217

53. Secret Agent X-9 (1945)

Approved | 246 min | Action, Adventure

American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Keye Luke, Jan Wiley, Victoria Horne

Votes: 151

54. Powder Town (1942)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

An absent minded research scientist takes a job at a munitions factory

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Edmond O'Brien, June Havoc, Dorothy Lovett

Votes: 216

55. The Falcon's Adventure (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Film-Noir, Mystery

The Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father's secret formula for making diamonds. Her father's murder is pinned on the Falcon and, when he and she flee to Florida, another murder seems to confirm his guilt.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward Brophy, Robert Warwick

Votes: 524

56. Superdragon vs. Superman (1975)

R | 84 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Scientist Dr Ting has invented a secret formula that will help the world's food crisis, but refuses an offer to sell it. When Dr Ting is later kidnapped by a sinister organization, Alice's ... See full summary »

Director: Chia-Chun Wu | Stars: Bruce Li, Fei Lung, Lu Wen Lu, Foe Brown

Votes: 176

57. Yellow Dog (1973)

101 min | Action, Drama

A Japanese cop is sent to London on a secret mission.

Director: Terence Donovan | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Robert Hardy, Carolyn Seymour, Joseph O'Conor

Votes: 32

58. The Dawn Express (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Nazi spies in the USA try to steal the formula for synthetic oil and ship it to Germany by means of a night plane called the Dawn Express.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Michael Whalen, Anne Nagel, William Bakewell, Constance Worth

Votes: 248

59. SOS Coast Guard (1937)

Approved | 224 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance

A mad scientist tries to sell his formula for a dist integrating gas to foreign powers.

Directors: Alan James, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Maxine Doyle, Richard Alexander

Votes: 272

60. Crime by Night (1944)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Detective Sam Campbell and his perky sidekick Robby Vance are called in on a routine child support dispute. Things take an unexpected turn when the client's ex-father-in-law, head of a chemical plant, is the victim of an axe murder.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Charles Lang

Votes: 583

61. Navy Spy (1937)

Approved | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.

Directors: Joseph H. Lewis, Crane Wilbur | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Judith Allen, Jack Doyle

Votes: 54

62. El señor fotógrafo (1953)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

An apprentice of photography is accidentally involved in a n international complot.

Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, Rosita Arenas, Ángel Garasa, Rebeca Iturbide

Votes: 346

63. Hammer the Toff (1952)

71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Robinson, Valentine Dyall

Votes: 141

64. The Secret Code (1942)

Approved | 275 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A police detective goes undercover and joins a gang of Nazi agents using explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort, whom he battles in disguise as The Black Commando.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Rudolph Anders

Votes: 75

65. Kilink Istanbul'da (1967)

71 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy

Kilink visits Istanbul to grab a destructive formula which is in the hands of an once-collaborate scientist, Professor Houloussi. He murders him, kidnaps his daughter, tortures her in some ... See full summary »

Director: Yilmaz Atadeniz | Stars: Irfan Atasoy, Pervin Par, Muzaffer Tema, Suzan Avci

Votes: 283

66. The Invisible Thief (1909)

6 min | Short, Crime, Fantasy

A man buys the novel The Invisible Man by "G.H. Wells" at a bookshop, and in it finds the recipe for Wells' invisibility potion. Then the opportunity makes the thief.

Directors: Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca

Votes: 242

67. Thirteen Days to Die (1965)

Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Drama

Spy chase after the secret formula for uranium, U92, employing various sci-fi gadgetry, and physical violence.

Director: Manfred R. Köhler | Stars: Thomas Alder, Peter Carsten, Serge Nubret, Metta Roongrat

Votes: 84

68. Zázracný nos (2016 TV Movie)

103 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Kristína Kanátová, Anna Javorková, Ivan Romancík, Ján Dobrík

Votes: 91

69. Perils of Pauline (1933)

Passed | 231 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Craig Reynolds, James Durkin, John Davidson

Votes: 157

70. Oh! Those Most Secret Agents (1964)

83 min | Action, Comedy

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Ingrid Schoeller, Carla Calò

Votes: 192

71. C.I.D. 909 (1967)

123 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A wealthy Indian scientist known as Professor has developed a nuclear project to bring about peace in the world. He has encrypted this project in code words known only to him and his ... See full summary »

Director: Mohammed Hussain | Stars: Feroz Khan, Mumtaz Askari, Helen, Rajan Haksar

Votes: 26

72. Fanfare for a Death Scene (1964 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 73 min | Drama

An American secret agent on the trail of a vanished scientist must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry.

Directors: Leslie Stevens, Walter Grauman | Stars: Richard Egan, Dee Hartford, J.D. Cannon, Al Hirt

Votes: 107

73. Two-Man Submarine (1944)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Medical researchers find mold on a remote South Pacific Island and develop penicillin in their secret laboratory.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, J. Carrol Naish, Robert B. Williams

Votes: 34

74. Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? (1964)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Jerry creates a potion that makes him super-fast, which causes Tom nothing but trouble.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 532

75. The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1935)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

The head of a drug company mysteriously disappears, after taking credit for a new anesthetic that actually resulted from the work of several doctors, and his surgeon is found strangely murdered by a surgical instrument.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge, Mary Astor

Votes: 296

76. Under the Counter Spy (1954)

6 min | Animation, Family, Short

This cartoon is a parody of the then current TV show, "Dragnet". Police are warned of an escaped criminal, "The Bat", who possesses a super strength tonic. He hides the tonic in Woody's ... See full summary »

Director: Don Patterson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Dick Nelson, Grace Stafford

Votes: 109

77. Girl in the Case (1944)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

William Warner is not only a crack defense lawyer, but he has an even more useful skill--he's an expert at picking open any kind of lock, which comes in handy in his line of work. This ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Janis Carter, Robert B. Williams, Richard Hale

Votes: 60

78. Murder at Dawn (1932)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Josephine Dunn, Jack Mulhall, Eddie Boland, Marjorie Beebe

Votes: 177

79. Radio Patrol (1937)

Passed | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: Grant Withers, Adrian Morris, Kay Hughes, Mickey Rentschler

Votes: 63

80. Murder in the Clouds (1934)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Bob "three star" is the hotshot pilot for Trans America Lines. When he is not flying for the airlines, he can get into trouble doing aerobatics over the field. His main squeeze is Judy ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak, Gordon Westcott, Robert Light

Votes: 312

81. Secret Venture (1955)

Approved | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton, Kathleen Byron, Karel Stepanek

Votes: 28

82. The Spy Swatter (1967)

6 min | Animation, Family, Short

After a mouse scientist invents a cheese than can strengthen mice to defeat cats, Daffy Duck is ordered to stop Speedy Gonzales before he can deliver the formula.

Director: Rudy Larriva | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 123

83. The International Style (2021)

38 min | Short, Comedy

Super spy Nick must stop evil multimillionaire Quentin Frosst from selling a top secret formula on a stolen microchip, to one of two enemy government villains, all while trying to win the heart of Frosst's sister, Carmel.

Director: John Paizs | Stars: John Harvie, John Paizs, Kathy Driscoll, Darrell Baran

Votes: 30

84. Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Romance, War

Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy, Cliff Nazarro, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 133

85. The Call of the Savage (1935)

Passed | 212 min | Adventure, Romance

Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Dorothy Short, Harry Woods, Bryant Washburn

Votes: 68

86. Paying the Price (I) (1916)

50 min | Drama, War

While developing a powerful explosive, naval officer Paul Towne introduces his friend Richard Tracy to Judith Corbin, his friend since childhood. For years, Paul had assumed that he would ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Hall Crane | Stars: Gail Kane, Robert Cummings, Lydia Knott, George Relph

87. The Blood Barrier (1920)

60 min | Drama

Eugene Solari is fanatically jealous of his beautiful wife Enid. While on a mission for her father, she visits Major Trevor. Her husband finds out and, enraged, rushes to Trevor's house. ... See full summary »

Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Sylvia Breamer, Robert Gordon, William R. Dunn, Eddie Dunn

88. Federal Agent (1936)

Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Irene Ware, Don Alvarado, Lenita Lane

Votes: 37

89. Leap to Fame (1918)

50 min | Drama

Charles Trevor, a young chap just out of college, is put to work on a daily newspaper and at once starts to lead a life of adventure and romance. A German spy and a maiden in distress cross... See full summary »

Director: Carlyle Blackwell | Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley, Muriel Ostriche, Alec B. Francis

90. Hurricane Hutch (1921)

Passed | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to introduce many daredevil features.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Charles Hutchison, Warner Oland, Lucy Fox, Diana Deer

Votes: 27

91. Torchy Turns Turtle (1933)

21 min | Short, Comedy

Office boy Torchy stumbles upon a spy network intent upon stealing the secret formula from his boss' safe. Can clueless Torcy get the formula back? With the help of the boss' daughter and a Tommy gun, he has a chance.

Director: C.C. Burr | Stars: Ray Cooke, Marion Shockley, Edmund Breese, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 8

92. On the Jump (I) (1918)

60 min | Comedy, War

During World War I, an enterprising and patriotic reporter named Jack Bartlett interviews President Woodrow Wilson on the importance of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Jack returns from Washington... See full summary »

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Walsh, Frances Burnham, James A. Marcus, Henry Clive

Votes: 15

93. Swat the Spy (1918)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Andrew Sheldon is so busy perfecting a new explosive for the United States' effort in the Great War that he fails to realize that his butler, cook, housekeeper, and chauffeur are all German... See full summary »

Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Jane Lee, Katherine Lee, Charles Slattery, Pat Hartigan

94. The Further Exploits of Sexton Blake: The Mystery of the S.S. Olympic (1920)

Crime

A detective saves the kidnapped daughter of an inventor murdered for his formula.

Director: Harry Lorraine | Stars: Douglas Payne, Marjorie Villis, Jeff Barlow, Frank Dane

95. Die hai hua (1968)

98 min | Thriller

The head of an international spy ring tries to steal a formula that stimulates rapid growth in plants. He wants to use it to create giant soldiers and conquer the world.

Director: Umetsugu Inoue | Stars: Lily Ho, Peter Chen Hou, Feng Chin, Betty Ting Pei

Votes: 28

96. Bluff (1916)

Comedy

Louie, the janitor of a large New York building, leaves New York for a small town to try to work out his formula for the "manufacturing of gold from baser metals." He has picked at random ... See full summary »

Director: Rae Berger | Stars: Clarence Kolb, Max Dill, May Cloy, Tom Chatterton

97. Tup-akka-lakko (1980)

105 min | Comedy

A postman tells the wild story about a test tube adult and gangsters after a secret formula. There are also secret agents and some filmmaking. A crazy comedy from Spede Pasanen.

Director: Spede Pasanen | Stars: Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Heikki Kinnunen

Votes: 516

98. The Burglar's Assistant and Other Tales (1999 Video)

60 min | Adventure

Several stories are featured in this film. In the first, a home owner goes over the line when two inept burglars invade her house. In the second, a psychiatrist and her patient explore ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Nichole Fauve, Shayna Clark, Brandi Lessur, Heidi Staley

99. The Snow Falcon 2 (1999 Video)

74 min | Adventure

The Organization continues their pursuit of the Snow Falcon, a secret-formula protected by a bevy of beautiful agents. Their new operative is no more successful than their former one, as ... See full summary »

Director: Isaac W. | Stars: Andrea Lake, Audra Rain, Celeste St. Germain, Isaac W.

100. The Sky Skidder (1929)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Inventor Al Simpkins develops a new airplane fuel, "Economo," which he claims gets a thousand miles to the pint.

Director: Bruce Mitchell | Stars: Al Wilson, Helen Foster, Wilbur McGaugh, Gilbert Holmes