Best Espionage

This documentary provides a deep dive into the Cambridge Analytica scandal, exploring how personal data was harvested from millions of Facebook users to influence political elections. The film follows...

Darker Than Black is a gritty, noir-inspired sci-fi series set in a world where a mysterious field has appeared in Tokyo, granting people supernatural powers at a cost. The story follows Hei, a contra...

Signal is a highly regarded, end-to-end encrypted messaging app favored by journalists, activists, and security professionals. Its open-source nature allows for independent security audits, and its si...

The Tor Browser is a free software application that enables anonymous communication online. It routes internet traffic through a network of relays, making it difficult to trace the user's location or...

Palantir Gotham is a powerful data integration and analysis platform used by intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and government organizations. It allows users to connect disparate data sources, id...

The Forgotten Code is a historical thriller set during World War II, following a young codebreaker who uncovers a hidden message that could change the course of the war. The novel blends real historic...

Full Metal Panic! is a classic series that balances high-stakes military action with school-life comedy. It follows Sousuke Sagara, a soldier for the secret anti-terrorist organization Mithril, who is...

Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest is a quintessential spy thriller, renowned for its masterful suspense and iconic set pieces. Cary Grant plays a New York advertising executive mistaken for a spy...

Strike Back is a relentlessly action-packed series following Section 20, a covert British intelligence unit. The show features intense firefights, explosive stunts, and globe-trotting missions. The ca...

Alec Leamas is a British intelligence agent who is tired of the game. He is offered one last mission: to defect to East Germany and sow disinformation. John le Carrés masterpiece is the antithesis of...

Homeland, initially airing on Showtime, is a gripping thriller centered on Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), a CIA officer with bipolar disorder who becomes convinced a rescued prisoner of war has been...

Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the perfect blend of classic stealth and modern action. It features the 'Mark and Execute' system, which allows for satisfying, high-speed takedowns, while still maintainin...

This series is the definitive television adaptation of Masamune Shirow's manga. It follows Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 as they investigate high-tech crimes in a future where cybernetic bodies...

Fauda is an Israeli action thriller series that follows an elite Mista'arvim unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, who infiltrate Palestinian militant groups. The series offers a gritty and realistic po...

A professional assassin known only as 'The Jackal' is hired to kill French President Charles de Gaulle. Frederick Forsyths classic is the gold standard for the procedural thriller. It is a tense, clin...

Patriot is a darkly comedic spy thriller that follows John Tavner, an intelligence officer who is forced to go undercover as a mid-level employee at a piping firm. Key features include its unique blen...

Matt Damon stars as a man found adrift at sea with amnesia, who gradually discovers he possesses deadly skills and is being hunted by shadowy organizations. The film revolutionized the spy genre with...

Before We Die, a Swedish series, blends crime investigation with personal drama, following a police officer whose family is entangled in the case shes investigating. The series explores themes of loya...

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is the pinnacle of the Sam Fisher era. It introduced a revolutionary light-and-sound meter that remains one of the best stealth interfaces in gaming history. The game focus...

Burn Notice, a USA Network series, follows a former CIA operative who is suddenly burned and stripped of his assets and identity. He uses his skills to help people in need while trying to uncover the...

Alias, a classic from the early 2000s, follows Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner), a double agent working for the CIA while infiltrating a criminal organization known as SD-6. The show is renowned for i...

Slow Horses, streaming on Apple TV+, is a darkly comedic spy thriller following a team of disgraced MI5 agents relegated to Slough House, a dumping ground for failures. Led by the slovenly but brillia...

Robert Redford stars in 'Sneakers' (1992), a clever heist film centered around a team of security specialists who are blackmailed into stealing a powerful decryption device. The film explores themes o...

Nikita is a stylish and action-packed series following a former assassin who seeks to dismantle the organization that trained her. Maggie Q delivers a compelling performance as the resourceful and dea...

The Bureau is a sophisticated French espionage thriller that explores the world of DGSE intelligence officers. While it focuses on the 'shadow war' of intelligence rather than traditional battlefield...

The Americans is a critically acclaimed FX television series that aired from 2013 to 2018, following two KGB spies operating as a suburban American couple in Washington D.C. during the Cold War. The s...

Counterpart explores the concept of a parallel universe accessible through a hidden doorway in a Berlin office building. The series follows Howard Silk, a low-level bureaucrat, as he discovers the exi...

The Rook follows Myfanwy Thomas, a woman who wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead bodies and discovers shes a high-ranking operative for a secret organization. OMalleys writing is witty and invent...

Deutschland 83/86/89 is a German-British television series that follows a young East German spy sent to West Germany during the Cold War. The series is praised for its meticulous recreation of the 198...