Subgenre Sampler
Spy: 298 Films to Buy & Rent
Skyfall (2012)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench…
- Bond’s 50th anniversary outing is his most spectacular and serious yet, with 007 drawn back to London, and eventually his Scottish homeland, in…
Two Lives (2012)
- Dir. Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
Feat. Juliane Kohler, Liv Ullmann, Rainer Bock
- A "war child" of the Nazi regime – the name given to children conceived by German officers and Norwegian women, who were subsequently taken…
Haywire (2011)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum…
- Steven Soderbergh directs this classy action vehicle for mixed martial arts star Gina Carano, here playing a black ops spy who is double crossed on…
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West…
- The blundering Bond returns in this agreeably silly sequel. This time round a series of international assassins are hunting the Chinese premier, and…
Manipulation (2011)
- Dir. Pascal Verdosci
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch
- Sweaty Cold War thriller centred on the cat–and–mouse game between a special agent investigating possible spy moves by a top PR advisor.
Spy Kids 4 (All the Time in the World ) (2011)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard…
- Rebooted fourth edition of the cartoonish espionage fantasy sees original spy kids Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara hand over the reins to a new duo…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Hurt…
- An enthralling, impeccably cast screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s quintessential cold war spy novel, centred on a retired George Smiley (Oldman)…
American, The (2010)
- Dir. Anton Corbijn
Feat. George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido…
- George Clooney stars a weary hit–man forced to lay low in the Italian countryside after a job goes wrong in this attractive though lugubrious…
Covert Affairs (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Anne Dudek…
- Compulsive spy caper with Piper Perabo vamping it up as a CIA trainee inexplicably thrust into the front line and order to hunt down her…
Debt, The (2010)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds…
- Gripping spy thriller, with Helen Mirren as a retired Mossad agent whose exploits in capturing a Nazi war criminal come back to haunt her three…