English films about secret agents

List of the best English films about secret agents according to the audience: The Courier, Cleanskin, Grimsby, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Legacy, Johnny English Strikes Again, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Spooks: The Greater Good, Spy, Skyfall.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:47

While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:18

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong, Austria, United Kingdom, Morocco
Duration02:29

    Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A Breed Of Heroes (adapted by the BBC in 1994). As the three day week, petrol rationing and industrial strife plunge Britain into a state of emergency, MI6 trainee spy Charles Thoroughgood is asked to reconnect with an old university friend, Russian diplomat Viktor Koslov, with a view to 'turning' him. Viktor has his own agenda, though, and reveals a shocking truth about Charles's own family that threatens to derail him, both personally and professionally. He is catapulted into a dangerous personal odyssey to uncover the truth but finds himself drawn into a lethal KGB plot to mount an attack within the UK. His life is further complicated by a relationship with the wife of another agent, which forces him to realise that betrayal can take many forms.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China
    Duration02:35

    Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
    Duration02:07

    In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:32

    During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Turkey
    Duration02:23

    When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows - aided only by field agent, Eve - following a trail to the mysterious Silva, whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:26

    After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    Sly and dry intelligence agent, Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:21

    Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships his father.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:48

      An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:05

      Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
      Duration02:29

        In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, West Germany
        Duration02:06

        A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:15

        While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their young daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:50

          A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
          Duration01:51

          A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:38

          A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryFrance, Israel, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:02

          A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genredrama
          CountryGermany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia

          Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute's employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha's world is a small one, split between the demands of the canteen during the day and alcohol fuelled nights with her younger colleague Olga, during which the two confide their hopes of romance and for a different future. At a party one evening Natasha becomes close to a visiting French scientist Luc Bige and the two sleep together. The following day her life takes a dramatic turn when she is summoned to an interrogation by the KGB's General Vladimir Azhippo who questions the nature of her relationship with the foreign guest.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:54

          Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent it's detonation.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, thriller
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:35

            A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genredrama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:33

            An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:38

            Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            On the evening of her 18th birthday, Molly Dawes finds herself drunk and is sick in the doorway of an army recruitment office. She looks into the window of the office and sees a life-sized photograph of an army girl, everything that Molly isn't but wants to be - respected. The following morning, Molly finds herself back in the recruitment office and is eventually persuaded to complete an aptitude test. No-one thinks she can stick it out, including herself. But slowly and surely, Molly is maturing and learning to believe in herself. She digs in and finds a strength that she never thought she had.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrehorror
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genreaction, thriller, adventure
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, West Germany
            Duration02:14

            James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 one more time to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge. This is the last time for Sean Connery as Her Majesty's Secret Agent 007. Made outside of the traditional Broccoli production environment due to separate rights having been obtained for this specific Ian Fleming story.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:47

            Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genredocumentary, music
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration00:54

            The band stormed Europe in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genredrama
            CountryFrance, Belgium, United Kingdom

            Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs handrails about the house.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan
            Duration01:49

            Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genremelodrama, drama, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:25

            A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrecomedy
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            Ashens goes on a quest to find the legendary and elusive piece of electronic tat known only as the GameChild.

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
            CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
            Duration02:36

            A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genreaction, thriller, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France
            Duration01:46

            A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:51

            A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
            Duration02:45

            Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genreaction, thriller
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
            Duration01:56

              Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
              Duration01:40

              Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration01:55

              A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, France
              Duration02:35

                Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.




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