Subgenre Sampler
Spy: 298 Films to Buy & Rent
North by Northwest (1959)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason…
- Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
Stopover Tokyo (1957)
- Dir. Richard L Breen
Feat. Joan Collins, Robert Wagner
- Familiar spy story uses exotic locales to best advantage.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Doris Day
- Hitchcock remakes his 1934 film and generally comes up trumps with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocent victims of international espionage.…
Night People (1954)
- Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork…
- Talky thriller with Gregory Peck as a Colonel trying to negotiate the release of a young G.I. held in East Germany. Plenty of political chicanery and…
Who Done It? (1954)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Benny Hill
- A young Benny Hill nudges and winks his way through his only feature film, as a novice private eye who gets involved with foreign spies.
Pickup On South Street (1953)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark
- Pick–pocket Richard Widmark inadvertently steals a micro–film and becomes a fugitive from both police and spies. Vivid espionage thriller…
Five Fingers (5 Fingers) (1952)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie…
- Witty espionage thriller set during the Second World War with Mason as a status–hungry valet who hawks important documents to the Germans in…
Dick Barton Trilogy, The (Dick Barton Special Agent, Dick Barton Strikes Back, Dick Barton at Bay) (1948-1950)
- Dir. Godfrey Grayson, Alfred J. Goulding
Feat. Don Stannard, Sebastian Cabot, George Ford…
- A collection of three campy spy thrillers from Hammer Studios during their successful post–war period, with Don Stannard playing the special…
Golden Earrings (1947)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye
- Romantic spy film set the eve of World War II in which Ray Milland plays an English officer on an espionage mission in Nazi Germany to recover a…
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Gary Cooper
- Fritz Lang spruces up this WWII spy thriller in which Gaz Cooper takes on the the Nazis.