Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "french-intelligence"

1. Monsieur Spade (2024)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The famous detective Sam Spade is now 60 and living as an expat in the south of France in 1963.

Stars: Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin

Votes: 4,929

2. Atomic Blonde (2017)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

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.

Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 206,414 | Gross: $51.69M

3. Munich (2005)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 238,215 | Gross: $47.40M

4. Casino Royale (1967)

Approved | 131 min | Comedy

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles

Votes: 32,473

5. The Bureau (2015–2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller

A very unique and captivating series about the "bureau des légendes", the mythical powerhouse within the French Secret Service and its dare devil ghost agents.

Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Florence Loiret Caille, Jonathan Zaccaï, Sara Giraudeau

Votes: 14,173

6. Topaz (1969)

M/PG | 143 min | Drama, Thriller

A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor

Votes: 19,539 | Gross: $8.37M

7. The Assignment (1997)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An American naval officer is recruited for an operation to eliminate his lookalike, the infamous terrorist Carlos The Jackal.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri

Votes: 9,974 | Gross: $0.54M

8. OSS 117: From Africa with Love (2021)

117 min | Action, Comedy

The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.

Director: Nicolas Bedos | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Pierre Niney, Fatou N'Diaye, Natacha Lindinger

Votes: 5,837

9. Totems (2021– )

52 min | Drama, Thriller

In 1965, in the midst of the Cold War, a French rocket scientist is thrown in the field for a nearly impossible spy mission and falls for a Soviet woman secretly working for the KGB.

Stars: Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson

Votes: 964

10. The Serpent (1973)

PG | 113 min | Drama, Thriller

A Soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West.

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 1,199

11. 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: 911

12. The Secret Agents (1965)

125 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.

Directors: Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Terence Young, Werner Klingler | Stars: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot

Votes: 281

13. Dark Journey (1937)

Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell

Votes: 1,453

14. The Joy of Singing (2008)

99 min | Comedy

A banker has died. He trafficked in nuclear material, so French intelligence assign two agents to find his list of contacts, which are on a flash drive: Muriel - the boss, acerbic, willing ... See full summary »

Director: Ilan Duran Cohen | Stars: Marina Foïs, Lorànt Deutsch, Jeanne Balibar, Julien Baumgartner

Votes: 314

15. The Man from Cairo (1953)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.

Directors: Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton | Stars: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano

Votes: 199

16. Fort Algiers (1953)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr, Leif Erickson

Votes: 250

17. Murder in the Pacific (2023)

Documentary

The efforts by the New Zealand authorities to solve the case of who bombed the Rainbow Warrior ship in 1985, which resulted in the death of one of the crew.

Stars: Chris Martin, Peter Willcox, Bunny McDiarmid, Pierre Joxe

Votes: 80

18. Babette Goes to War (1959)

106 min | Comedy, War

Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Ronald Howard, Michael Cramer

Votes: 452

19. The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)

Unrated | 85 min | Crime, Drama

A barrister (Anna Neagle) tries to defend her client, a U.S. scientist (Anthony Quayle), for killing his bride (Zsa Zsa Gabor), a U.S. spy.

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath

Votes: 226

20. Mission to Venice (1964)

88 min | Crime, Thriller

(1963) Sean Flynn, Madeleine Robinson. Errol's son, Sean plays a sleuth attempting to find a missing husband. He stumbles upon a ring of spies in the process. From 16mm.

Director: André Versini | Stars: Sean Flynn, Madeleine Robinson, Pierre Mondy, Jacques Dufilho

Votes: 60

21. The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island (2009)

89 min | Documentary

"Rainbow Warrior" is a legendary ship with which Greenpeace launched its first whale defense campaigns since the late 1970s. He also served in actions that protect the water from dropping ... See full summary »

Director: Suzanne Raes

Votes: 44

22. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: French Twist (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a known terrorist comes to Miami the team tries to find him. And an Interpol operative comes to assist them. Crockett is taken with her but Tubbs thinks there's something odd about her.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 426

23. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: France's Man in Moscow (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Vladimir Vetrov was a KGB officer who worked for the French intelligence service. The "Farewell Document," shared with President Reagan included Soviet intelligence gained by Vetrov.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Eric Raynaud, David Charney, Calder Walton, Sergey Kostin

24. Jack Ryan (2018–2023)
Episode: French Connection (2018)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Jack and Greer decode a fresh piece of intel that takes them to Paris and one step closer to the elusive Suleiman. Hanin's husband returns home with a renewed fervor for his secretive mission, leaving her unsure of their family's future.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Ali Suliman

Votes: 4,574

25. Deutschland 86 (2018)
Episode: Green Book (2018)

TV-MA | 49 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Brigitte tries to convince Martin to work as a double agent.

Director: Florian Cossen | Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Florence Kasumba, Sylvester Groth

Votes: 254