If nobody does it better, IMDb users at least agree that spy movies like North by Northwest, the Bourne series, and Mission: Impossible rival 007.
Read update When it comes to pure action-packed entertainment, few genres serve up as many thrills as spy movies. Spy films have been a mainstay of cinema all the way back to the medium's earliest days, like 1914's silent film The German Spy Peril. The genre kicked into high gear during the Cold War, led most famously by the James Bond movies - although the genre extends far beyond 007.
In contrast to the more over-the-top James Bond movies that were so popular at the time, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is more restrained and realistic, making for a welcome change of pace.Richard Burton also delivers a memorable performance in this World War II movie. He and Clint Eastwood play a pair of British commandos on a mission to rescue an American general held captive in an impregnable Nazi fortress high in the Bavarian Alps.
Joining Damon in the cast are Joan Allen as CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy and Brian Cox as Bourne's former handler, Ward Abbott, both of whom are terrific. With Greengrass' trademark shaky-cam style and Matt Damon's magnetic performance, The Bourne Supremacy more than lived up to its smash-hit predecessor. 9 'Argo' IMDb score: 7.7/10 Argo is a political thriller directed by Ben Affleck that tells the true story of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
The supporting cast includes John Cazale, Allen Garfield, and Cindy Williams. It's a more realistic take on the spy genre, which owes a lot of inspiration to the Watergate scandal that had put eavesdropping and bugging devices at the front of Americans' minds.Alfred Hitchcock directed this romantic thriller starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, a woman whose father was a Nazi spy. Devoted government agent T.R.
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