Best Undercover
Hit Man is a 2023 crime comedy directed by Richard Linklater. The film centers on an undercover New Orleans police contractor who assumes the role of a hitman to assist a woman facing danger. It’s based on the real-life experiences of a Houston Police Department officer from the late 1980s and 1990s...
The Likeness (2008) is the second novel in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series. Detective Cassie Maddox is drawn into an investigation when a murdered woman is discovered using an identity Maddox herself had created during a previous undercover operation. The victim bore a close physical resemb...
“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” details Ethan Hunt’s confrontation with a newly formed global syndicate of rogue spies. The film expands the IMF’s universe and introduces compelling new characters like Ilsa Faust. It is significant within the franchise for its scale and action sequences while a...
Harry's Game is a British spy novel written by Gerald Seymour and published in 1975. The narrative centers on Harry Brown, a former military officer recruited to go undercover in Belfast during the Troubles to track down an active IRA assassin. The story provides a gritty and detailed examination of...
The Spy Gone North details the true story of Park Chae-seo, a South Korean intelligence officer who infiltrated North Korea in the 2010s. Her undercover operation, undertaken to rescue her kidnapped brother, highlights the significant challenges and risks involved in covert operations within the hea...
Point Break is a 1991 thriller following an FBI agent’s investigation into a group of surfers involved in elaborate bank robberies. The film's notable use of surfing alongside intense action and crime drama captivated audiences. It primarily targets viewers interested in suspenseful narratives, char...
"Donnie Brasco" is a 1997 biographical crime drama directed by Mike Newell, featuring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino in leading roles. The film is an adaptation of the real-life experiences of FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, who successfully infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City during the 1...
Valley of the Wolves is a Turkish television series centered on Agent Polat Alemdar, an undercover operative involved with organized crime. The narrative explores connections between criminal activity and Turkish political dynamics. It concluded its broadcast following a shift to Kanal D for its fin...
Infernal Affairs II is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Acting as a prequel to the highly successful 2002 film Infernal Affairs, it traces the parallel origin stories of the police officer who infiltrates the triads and the mobster who embeds himself within the po...
T-Men is a 1947 American film noir directed by Anthony Mann and released by Eagle-Lion Films. Presented in a semidocumentary style that became popular in postwar crime films, the movie follows two United States Treasury Department agents (Dennis O'Keefe and Alfred Ryder) who go undercover to infiltr...
"Inversions" is a 1998 science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, notable for exploring the Culture universe through political and medical intrigue on a low-technology planet.
Vishwaroopam is a 2013 Indian spy thriller film written, directed by, and starring Kamal Haasan. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil and Hindi and features Haasan as Vishwanath, a Kathak dance teacher in New York who is actually a RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) intelligence agent. The narrat...
Youth of the Beast is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki for the Nikkatsu studio and starring Jo Shishido. Shishido plays a former police officer who enters Tokyo's criminal underworld and sets rival organizations against each other while investigating deaths connected to his past...
Mr. Standfast is a 1919 spy and adventure novel by Scottish author John Buchan, featuring his recurring protagonist Richard Hannay. It is the third of five Hannay novels, following The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and Greenmantle (1916). Set during the First World War, the narrative follows Hannay as he...
Cliff Walkers is a 2021 Chinese spy thriller directed by Zhang Yimou. The film is set in the 1930s puppet state of Manchukuo and follows a team of four Communist Party of China agents who parachute into the region on a covert extraction mission. It was selected as China's official entry for the Best...
The Merciless is a 2017 South Korean crime-action film directed by Byun Sung-hyun, screened in the Midnight Screenings section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It stars Sul Kyung-gu as a veteran prison inmate who befriends a young cellmate played by Kim Jaejoong, with the narrative unfolding across...
The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 action film centering on an undercover police officer, Brian O’Conner, who investigates criminal activity within a street racing organization. He forms a significant relationship with Dominic Toretto, the group's leader, while attempting to uncover a series of hija...
The East is a 2013 American political thriller directed by Zal Batmanglij and written by Batmanglij and Brit Marling. Marling plays an operative for a private intelligence firm who infiltrates an underground environmental collective that retaliates against corporations it considers responsible for s...
Traitor is a 2008 American espionage thriller directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce. Cheadle plays Samir Horn, a former U.S. military operative whose apparent involvement with an international terrorist organization places him under FBI investigation. The film combin...
Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak and the concluding entry in the Infernal Affairs trilogy. Its nonlinear story moves between events before and after the first film, revisiting undercover police officer Chan Wing-yan while following Lau Kin-ming'...
The Mob is a 1951 American crime film directed by Robert Parrish and released by Columbia Pictures. Broderick Crawford stars as a police detective who assumes a false identity and infiltrates a criminal organization operating through a waterfront labor racket. The film combines an undercover investi...
Never Been Kissed (1999) is an American romantic comedy directed by Raja Gosnell, starring Drew Barrymore as a rookie newspaper reporter who goes undercover as a student at a high school to write a feature story.
Need for Speed: Undercover was released in 2008 as the twelfth title within the Need for Speed franchise. Developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts, it launched across multiple platforms including PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, and Windows. The game’s initial release date was Novembe...
Frederick Forsyth's 2006 thriller in which a British SAS officer undergoes deep-cover infiltration of Al-Qaeda to prevent a major terrorist operation in the post-9/11 era.
The Black Klansman is a 1966 American exploitation film directed by Ted V. Mikels about a black man who joins the Ku Klux Klan to avenge his daughter's death.
The Ivory Game is a gripping documentary that exposes the illegal ivory trade and the devastating impact on elephant populations. The film follows a team of undercover investigators as they infiltrate the criminal networks driving the trade. Its a powerful and disturbing look at the dark side of wil...
Secret Millionaire is a reality series, originating in the UK in 2006 and later adapted for ABC in 2012, in which wealthy individuals lived anonymously in impoverished communities before revealing themselves and donating money.
