Films about intelligence

Films about intelligence
List of the best films about intelligence according to the audience: The Courier, Limitless, Salt, The Bourne Identity, 12 Strong, Clear and Present Danger, Killers, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Three Days of the Condor, From Paris with Love.

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

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: 7.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:45

A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"

Markimdb: 7.9
Genreaction, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, France
Duration01:53

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy – but who does he work for?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:34

A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration02:21

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the gun and settles down with his new bride. That is, until he learns that someone from his past has put a contract out on his life.

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: 7.4
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:29

    James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig, working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realizes that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, France, Canada, China
    Duration01:51

    When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:55

    October 1941. Thousands of fascists troops are advancing on Kalinin to capture the city and therefore open a direct route to Moscow. There are two thousand people able to defend the city and they are without tanks or artillery. The only hope of holding the enemy off is in the fifth infantry division convoy, who are about to pass through Kalinin station. But saboteurs intend to do everything to keep this from happening. The head of the Kalinin garrison, Major Sysoyev, struggles to keep order and calm in the city, and himself falls under suspicion of involvement with the subversive enemy group.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:08

    The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:39

    In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryRussia
    Duration02:08

    Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryFrance, USA, Canada, Russia
    Duration02:05

    Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:25

    At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
    Duration02:32

      An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
      CountryChina, USA
      Duration01:43

      An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA, South Africa, Japan
      Duration01:55

      A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUkraine

      In the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Sayenko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur.

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      Genredrama, biography
      CountryRussia, Belarus

      The picture is dedicated to the exploits of the Soviet underground fighters and partisans who heroically fought against the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The image of the main character of the railway worker Ales Arlovich is collective, but it is based on the fate of the Soviet underground fighter Fyodor Krylovich, who committed the largest land sabotage of the Second World War at the Osipovichi railway station.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, adventure, film noir, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      In this Fritz Lang's compelling World War II espionage thriller, Gary Cooper stars as Alvah Jasper, a shy and retiring physics professor at a midwestern university. When government agents press Jasper into joining them in an effort to curtail the Nazis' efforts to attain atomic secrets, his life takes a dramatic turn.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:05

      A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:19

      The story is centered on the story of Andrei, who was trained in the special school of the Foreign Intelligence Service 15 years ago, where teenagers were trained from adolescents. In the early 2000s, the project was closed, and the main character has long settled in one of the European cities and no longer recalls Russia. One day he picks up the phone and hears the voice of his father, who was presumed dead. He tells Andrei that the hunt is open for him. He is trying to destroy unknown forces, and he can only run. Andrei is now driven by a desire not only to survive, but also to find his father again. To help the protagonist comes his first love, Masha, who in everything that happens also has her own interest. Andrei is getting deeper into the spy game, not realizing its true scale.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:20

      A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:16

      Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:14

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      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:37

      The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.

      Markimdb: 3.4
      Genrecrime, detective, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:38

      During the summer of 1947 a group of detectives are going to Odessa with the undercover mission - to fight a post-war criminal wave.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genredrama, military
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:24

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      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:30

      The movie is based on the events in South Ossetia in August 2008, and portraying a brutal Georgian army engaging in ethnic cleansing at the behest of its omnipresent American masters.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
      Duration02:19

      In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryNorway, Denmark, Germany
      Duration01:58

      Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
      CountryNetherlands, Hungary, Belgium

      While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, adventure, military
      CountrySoviet Union, Poland, East Germany
      Duration03:11

      Soviet spy film , based on a novel by Vadim Kozhevnikov, who was Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountrySouth Africa, USA
      Duration02:04

      When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

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      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryRussia

      Iliana is a psychological thriller with elements of noir and black humor, the actions of which are rapidly unfolding within 24 hours. The plot of the film is tailored as an intricate puzzle with a lot of unexpected twists that will deceive even the most sophisticated viewer. Unpredictable plot moves will keep you in suspense and ignorance until the very last frame. Iliana - this is passion and self-interest, love and hate, revenge and betrayal in one bottle - all that can happen between a man and a woman.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:10

        When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, thriller, military, biography
        CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Hungary
        Duration02:07

        With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.




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