Subgenre Sampler
Spy: 298 Films to Buy & Rent
Piglet Files, The (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. Nicholas Lyndhurst, Serena Evans
- Quirky, much–loved British sitcom, with Nicholas Lyndhurst as an electronics whiz who inadvertently ends up working for the British…
Red King, White Knight (1989)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren
- Tough HBO telemovie places Mikhail Gorbachev at the centre of an assasination plot; Skerritt and von Sydow, CIA and KGB agents respectively, must put…
Betrayed (1988)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard…
- FBI agent Debra Winger must infiltrate a vicious white supremacist network, apparently run by the handsome, affable Tom Berenger. Murky plotting gets…
Pascali's Island (1988)
- Dir. James Dearden
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance
- Polished thriller in which frustrated Turkish spy Ben Kingsley discovers little honour among thieves after he steals a Greek treasure with mysterious…
Windmills of the Gods (1988)
- Dir. Lee Phillips
Feat. Jaclyn Smith, Robert Wagner, Ian McKellen…
- As the Cold War rages, the president names Professor Mary Ashley as the new Ambassador to Romania. Mike Slade is appointed to be her assistant. As…
Fourth Protocol, The (1987)
- Dir. John Mackenzie
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Michael Caine, Ned Beatty…
- Based on the novel by famed thriller writer Frederick Forsyth (DAY OF THE JACKAL), this posits Brosnan as a Russian agent intent on infiltrating…
Living Daylights, The (1987)
- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe
- Timothy Dalton in his debut as Bond delivers up an impressively slick performance as he struggles to disenable an evil Russian general from igniting…
Perfect Spy, A (1987)
- Dir. Peter Smith
Feat. Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Peggy Ashcroft…
- Peter Egan is Magnus Pyum, a spy so perfect he has come to betray everyone he knows, including himself. A superbly realised Beeb version of John Le…
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane…
- Amiable escapade with trouble aplenty for Goldberg after she starts receiving S.O.S messages from a British spy trapped in Soviet Russia. When she…
View to a Kill, A (1986)
- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts…
- Roger Moore's final outing as agent 007. Evil billionaire industrialist Max Zorin (Walken) and his lethal associate May Day (Jones) plan to take over…