Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "wartime-espionage"

1. Max Manus: Man of War (2008)

Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.

Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken

Votes: 29,819

2. 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: 2,215

3. The Angry Hills (1959)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Thriller

In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Müller, Gia Scala

Votes: 1,165

4. The Iron Curtain (1948)

Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History

The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger

Votes: 1,110

5. The Key to Rebecca (1985 TV Movie)

R | 194 min | Drama, Romance, War

In Cairo during World War II, a German Agent tries to infiltrate the British command to lay the groundwork for Erwin Rommel's conquest of Egypt.

Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Cliff Robertson, David Soul, Season Hubley, Lina Raymond

Votes: 528

6. Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, War

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey

Votes: 1,861

7. Eyes in the Night (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery

A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally

Votes: 1,962

8. Reunion in France (1942)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen

Votes: 1,894

9. Betrayed (1954)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, History, Mystery

A Dutch intelligence officer recruits an Allied woman to act as liaison with dashing Resistance leader "The Scarf" for a British attack on Arnhem.

Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern

Votes: 1,333 | Gross: $1.97M

10. The Other Fellow (2022)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, Thriller

A film about Men, Real Men. Named James Bond.

Director: Matthew Bauer | Stars: Gunnar James Bond Schäfer, James Alexander Bond, James Bond Jr., Gregory Itzin

Votes: 187

11. Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Mystery, War

With Jane still away for the war effort, Tarzan and Boy set off to retrieve rare medicinal herbs, only to run into an American messenger, German spies, and the mysterious desert's treacherous fauna and flora.

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger

Votes: 2,254

12. I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, William Henry

Votes: 230

13. Hotel Reserve (1944)

Approved | 79 min | Thriller

A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Directors: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury | Stars: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Julien Mitchell

Votes: 915

14. Joan of Paris (1942)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War

An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers reach Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest is injured; his wounds need treating and he must stay hidden. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar

Votes: 931

15. Sekretnaya missiya (1950)

98 min | War, Drama

Last days of WWII. English and American agents head to Berlin for secret negotiations with nazi leaders.

Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Nikolai Komissarov, Sergei Vecheslov, Yelena Kuzmina, Vasili Makarov

Votes: 73

16. Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)

Passed | 68 min | Mystery, Romance, War

Scotland Yard's Room 40 was instrumental in Allied victory during WW1, but has been compromised in the decades since, a killer in their midst.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Edgar Barrier, Stephanie Bachelor, C. Aubrey Smith, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 86

17. Intelligence

Drama | Announced

A spy period drama that explores the early days of the CIA as its new Director, Allen Dulles, transforms the small government organization into the most dangerous group in the world in ... See full summary »

18. Combat Dealers (2014– )
Episode: 007 (2021)

44 min | Documentary

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Directors: Rory Kaufhold, Martin O'Toole | Stars: Bruce Crompton, Ian Fleming, Freddie Kruyer

19. World on Fire (2019–2023)
Episode: Episode #2.3 (2023)

TV-14 | 57 min | Drama, Romance, War

As Stan and Rajib make a hasty retreat across the desert, Marga reasserts her commitment to the führer. Meanwhile, David is in peril in the skies over France.

Director: Meenu Gaur | Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Miriam Schiweck, Inga Dietrich, Ahad Raza Mir

Votes: 154

20. The Camp X Files (2015– )
Episode: The Whitby Encampment (2015)

Comedy

Martin's first day at a mental health center reveals a shared delusion among the patients that they operating a wartime spy training facility.

Director: Stephen Lategan | Stars: Stefan Kuchar, Don Berns, Andrew Cromwell, Meena Jagait