Spy Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated May 11, 2024
Le Professionnel
1981 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsCharged with assassinating an African despot, French spy Joss Beaumont seeks vengeance after his government double-crosses him. Imprisoned in Africa for two years, the angry Beaumont makes a bold escape and decides to complete his mission.
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Assassin's Bullet
2012 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin.
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The Fearmakers
1958 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAfter returning home from the Korean War and discovering that his public relations firm was sold, traumatized ex-POW Alan (Dana Andrews) goes to work for his old company and attempts to prove that propaganda-pushing communists are now secretly running the show. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, this conspiracy thriller co-stars Dick Foran as the firm's new chief and Marilee Earle as a secretary who joins Alan's dangerous search for the truth.
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Ballistica
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen a terrorist organization uses a just-developed experimental bomb to threaten the lives of millions, the CIA must move swiftly to defuse the problem, turning to a man uniquely qualified for the job: a deadly operative called Damian (Paul Logan). Will his expertise with guns, ballistics and hand-to-hand combat be enough, though, to take down the enemy and keep alive the one person who can deactivate the bomb, Dr. Alexa Tanner (C.B. Spencer)?
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Haywire
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsA last-minute mission in Dublin turns deadly for stunning secret operative Mallory Kane when she realizes she's been betrayed and that her own life is no longer safe. Now, to outwit her enemies, she'll simply have to outlast them.
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Allotment Wives
1945 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFormer newspaperman Pete Martin (Paul Kelly), now with military intelligence, goes undercover to investigate women who have been committing fraud by entering into multiple marriages with U.S. military personnel in order to claim their spousal pay allotments. Pete discovers that a racketeering outfit is running the scam, with chic ringleader Sheila Seymour (Kay Francis) attempting to prevent her daughter, Connie (Teala Loring), from participating.
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Shadow Dancer
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsCollette, a single mother and career IRA terrorist, is captured after an abortive bombing in London and faces an excruciating ultimatum. She can either turn against her lifelong compatriots or go to prison and be separated forever from her son.
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Highly Dangerous
1950 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsUpon learning that a foreign government is developing insects to spread deadly bacteria, British intelligence sends entomologist Frances Gray (Margaret Lockwood) to investigate in this unusual thriller. American reporter Bill Casey (Dane Clark) aids Frances in her perilous search. Frances and Bill endure several frightening encounters with the enemy before locating the lethal bugs, which must be eradicated before they contaminate the planet.
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Devil's Racecourse
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDuring an annual hiking trip with friends, college student Wendy is abducted by an ex-FBI agent turned fugitive, and when his relentless pursuers appear, the man entrusts Wendy with vital data that could expose a shocking governmental conspiracy.
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Jungle Heat
1957 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis tense espionage drama takes place in Hawaii, where Dr. Jim Ransom (Lex Barker) investigates sabotage carried out by pro-Japanese Fifth Columnists who want to destabilize the islands in November, 1941 -- just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jim is hampered by racist labor specialist Roger (Glenn Langan), although Roger's wife, nurse Ann (Mari Blanchard), helps Jim find the truth behind the explosive attacks on vital sugar plantations.
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Pier 5, Havana
1959 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThis unusual 1959 drama follows American Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) as he travels to Cuba to search for a missing friend, Hank Miller (Logan Field), who has been kidnapped by anti-Castro forces. Joining Steve in the hunt is Monica (Allison Hayes), his ex-girlfriend who is now married to Hank. Steve uncovers a vast network of intrigue and learns that the counterrevolutionaries want Hank to transform their transport planes into bombers.
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Caribe
1987 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsPrepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropics of Central America. Helen is an amateur, making her money as an illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists.
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The Apocalypse Watch
1997 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsCIA analyst Drew Latham takes over a covert assignment after his brother is killed pursuing an underground neo-Nazi movement with lethal plans. With the help of his brother's girlfriend, Latham races to stop the terrorists from paralyzing Europe.
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The Apocalypse Watch
1997 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsBased on the best-selling novel by Robert Ludlum, this captivating thriller follows CIA analyst Drew (Patrick Bergin), who has taken over a case from his brother, a field agent who was killed in the line of duty. With the help of the brother's former partner and girlfriend, Karin (Virginia Madsen), Drew conducts an investigation that leads him to discover a sinister neo-Fascist movement that has been plotting to poison the world's reservoirs.
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Blindside (1986)
1986 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsHarvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot
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Hong Kong Confidential
1958 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsCold War rivalries fuel this action saga starring Gene Barry as Casey Reed, a U.S. covert agent dispatched to Hong Kong in an attempt to rescue an Arab prince kidnapped by the Soviets for strategic reasons. Posing as a lounge singer for the operation, Reed picks up the trail of the prince but is then captured by enemy agents. Now, Reed will have to think fast if he and his royal buddy are to remain alive and prevent further mayhem.
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The Cat Burglar
1961 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsUnwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers. In this stylized crime drama, the quarry coolly eludes the pack while eliciting the aid of an unlikely party: blonde beauty Nan Baker (June Kenney), the attaché's original carrier.
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Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsThis Cold War-era thriller stars Richard Egan as a U.S. intelligence agent hunting for a missing scientist who possesses a valuable secret formula but keeps it all in his head rather than writing anything down. Most importantly, the agent must reach the scientist before enemy spies do. Burgess Meredith contributes a key character role to the drama, and trumpeter Al Hirt provides a jazzy soundtrack.
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KT
2002 | NR | 2.2 out of 5 StarsThis historical thriller relates the strange saga of the 1973 kidnapping of Kim Dae Jung, the future president of South Korea. While living in exile in Tokyo, Kim is abducted by the Korean CIA -- but who's really behind the snatching and why?
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