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1	Eye of the Needle (1981) more movies like this directed by Richard Marquand featuring Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove Having already been seen spying for the Nazis in 1979's The Eagle Has Landed, Donald Sutherland once more infiltrates wartime England on behalf of Der Fuhrer in Eye of the Needle. Willing to kill even the most innocent of bystanders to complete his task, Sutherland manages to remain in Britain until the eve of D-Day in 1944. Discovering that the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.25!
2	Shining Through (1992) more movies like this directed by David Seltzer featuring Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel Shining Through. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with international lawyer Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). Ed hires her immediately when he finds out that she speaks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.53!
3	The Eagle Has Landed (1976) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk, the Germans plan to kidnap him. Heinrich Himmler ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.53!
4	13 Rue Madeleine (1946) more movies like this directed by Henry Hathaway featuring James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Roland Belanger, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it is also a full-fledged spy thriller. An excellent cast includes James Cagney, Karl Malden, E.G. Marshall, and Red Buttons. Cagney stars as an O.S.S. training officer, bent upon discovering a German traitor within his ranks ... see all copies from $4.79! new only from $10.19!
5	Decision Before Dawn (1951) more movies like this directed by Anatole Litvak featuring Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegarde Neff, Dominique Blanchar, O.E. Hasse With the Third Reich disintegrating, several members of the German army are defecting to the Americans and offering their services as spies. US officer Gary Merrill trusts none of these last-minute "converts", but German prisoner Oskar Werner seems to be sincere. Werner insists that by helping the Americans, he is saving Germany from destruction. ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $10.19!
6	The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) more movies like this directed by George Seaton featuring William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Erica Beer, Ernst Schroeder, Eva Dahlbeck In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in return for information on the Nazis. Erickson agrees to ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $10.19!
7	The Man Who Never Was (1956) more movies like this directed by Ronald Neame featuring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd The Man Who Never Was is the true story of how the Allies threw the Nazis off track in planning the invasion of Sicily. The British Royal Navy exhumes the corpse of a man who died of natural causes, arranging to make it appear as though the dead man was a special services operative carrying the secret invasion plans. The elaborate ruse includes ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $10.19!
8	Hell and High Water (1954) more movies like this directed by Samuel Fuller featuring Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans Hell and High Water brings an intriguing Cold War slant to a standard submarine melodrama. Richard Widmark plays a soldier-of-fortune sub commander who agrees to sell his services to noted atomic scientist Victor Francen and his assistant (and daughter) Bella Darvi. Francen intends to prove that the Communists intend to launch a nuclear attack on ... see all copies from $8.70! new only from $8.70!
9	O.S.S. (1946) more movies like this directed by Irving Pichel featuring Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Richard Benedict, Richard Webb Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents who parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops. One of the spies is a woman, and this bothers the group leader, ... see all copies from $21.95! new only from $21.95!
10	The House on 92nd Street (1945) more movies like this directed by Henry Hathaway featuring William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S. Thanks to covert surveillance, the FBI learns of the presence of several suspicious persons in NYC. William Eythe is a German-American college student approached by the spies to become a secret Nazi ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.19!
11 view cover	Across the Pacific (1942) more movies like this directed by John Huston featuring Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Charles Halton, Victor Sen Yung, Keye Luke A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific was originally envisioned as the story of a Japanese invasion of Hawaii. Real-life events of December of 1941, however, precluded such a scenario and the location was changed to the Panama Canal. For reasons known only to ... see all copies from $24.99! new only from $24.99!
12 view cover	Five Graves to Cairo (1943) more movies like this directed by Billy Wilder featuring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck, Akim Tamiroff Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action is transplanted from World War I Galicia to World War II Egypt as Rommel's Afrika Corps viciously forces the British Army to retreat towards Cairo. Protagonist John J. Bramble (Franchot Tone) is ... see all copies from $21.57!
13 view cover	All The Queen's Men (2002) more movies like this directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky featuring Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59!
14 view cover	Mother Night (1996) more movies like this directed by Keith Gordon featuring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Kirsten Dunst Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel Mother Night like so: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." In Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Vonnegut's book, Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright living in Germany shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.99!
15 view cover	Black Dragons (1942) more movies like this directed by William Nigh featuring Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, Clayton Moore, George Pembroke, Robert W. Frazer After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot proper gets under way, wherein a group of six men conspire to undermine America's war effort. What is the connection between these six men, all of them outwardly respectable members of Washingtonian society? Hero Don (Clayton ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
16 view cover	The Heroes of Telemark (1965) more movies like this directed by Anthony Mann featuring Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Anton Diffring, David Weston In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the manufacture of atomic weapons), under the order of the German military. Knut Straud (Richard Harris), a leading figure in the Norwegian underground, joins forces with scientist ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $19.58!
17 view cover	The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) more movies like this directed by Burt Kennedy featuring Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of fact-finding missions in Europe just before WW2. ... see all copies from $5.86! new only from $8.58!
18 view cover	Watch on the Rhine (1943) more movies like this directed by Herman Shumlin featuring Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Donald Woods, Geraldine Fitzgerald, George Coulouris, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas, recreating his Broadway role of tireless anti-fascist crusader Kurt Muller. As the clouds of war gather in Europe in the late 1930s, Muller arrives in Washington DC, accompanied by his American wife Sara (top-billed Bette ... see all copies from $16.68!
19 view cover	The Adventures of Tartu (1943) more movies like this directed by Harold S. Bucquet featuring Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilia, Phyllis Morris Tartu--or more formally, The Adventures of Tartu--stars Robert Donat as a Rumanian-born British spy, dispatched to Czechoslovakia during World War II. Posing as an ineffectual milquetoast, Donat is hired as a chemist in a Nazi-controlled poison gas factory. Working in concert with the Underground, our hero spends his off-hours dismantling the Nazi ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $4.98!
20 view cover	Dark Journey (1937) more movies like this directed by Victor Saville featuring Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Bushell, Margery Pickard The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced German officer who is actually head of his country's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00!
21 view cover	British Intelligence (1940) more movies like this directed by Terrell O. Morse featuring Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Maris Wrixon, Leonard Mudie Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of the 1930 espionager Three Faces East, the film stars Boris Karloff as Valder, the sinister butler of a British cabinet minister. It is quite possible that Valder is a German spy, and equally likely that the mysterious Helene ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00!
22 view cover	I See a Dark Stranger (1946) more movies like this directed by Frank Launder featuring Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Tom Macauley I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre. Deborah Kerr is terrific as Irish colleen Bridie Quilty, raised from childhood to despise the British and everything they stand for. Bridie's anglophobia proves useful to Nazi spy Miller (Raymond Huntley), who hopes to use the girl ... see all copies from $11.13! new only from $15.95!
23 view cover	Cloak and Dagger (1946) more movies like this directed by Fritz Lang featuring Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Marjorie Hoshelle Inspired by actual events, Cloak and Dagger was first major "atomic power" melodrama of the postwar era. Gary Cooper stars as bookish physics professor Alvah Jesper, a character obviously based on A-bomb codeveloper J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pressed into service by the OSS in the last months of WW2, Jasper is sent to Europe in search of Dr. Polda ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98!
24 view cover	Mata Hari (1985) more movies like this directed by Curtis Harrington featuring Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown, Gottfried John Sylvia Kristel adds her sexual allure to the story of Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), executed by the French in 1917 at the age of 41 for being a double agent. In reality, "Mata Hari" had been married, had children, and performed as a dancer around Europe -- not the normal background for a spy. And according to the man who requested her ... see all copies from $5.49! new only from $5.49!
25 view cover	Night Train to Munich (1940) more movies like this directed by Carol Reed featuring Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the unwitting pawn of a genuine Nazi (Paul von Hernreid, just ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $14.99!

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