You Only Live Twice (1967)
1967 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Connery in Japan facing Blofeld in a hollow volcano. You Only Live Twice is Lewis Gilbert's 1967 British spy film loosely adapting Ian Fleming's 1964 novel.
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James BondThunderball (1965)
1965 Terence Young Bond film with Connery in Bahamas. SPECTRE steals NATO nuclear weapons.
James BondFrom Russia with Love (1963)
1963 Terence Young Bond film with Sean Connery in Istanbul. SPECTRE plot involving Soviet decoder.
James BondDr. No (1962)
Dr. No is Terence Young's 1962 British spy film adapting Ian Fleming's 1958 novel and launching the Eon Productions James Bond franchise. The work is the foundational document of the James Bond franchise that has continued across more than six…
James BondGoldfinger (1964)
1964 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Sean Connery facing gold-obsessed Auric Goldfinger and silent assassin Oddjob. Goldfinger is Guy Hamilton's 1964 British spy film adapting Ian Fleming's 1959 novel.
SpyNorth by Northwest (1959)
Hitchcock's 1959 spy thriller. Grant as the wrong man, Saint as the mystery woman, Mason as the urbane villain.
SpyRed Sparrow (2018)
Francis Lawrence's 2018 spy thriller. Jennifer Lawrence as Russian intelligence Sparrow.
ActionThe Bourne Series (2002-2016) Review
The Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.
DramaArgo (2012) Review
Ben Affleck directed and starred. The film adapts the historical events of the 1980 Canadian Caper, when six American diplomats escaped the Iranian hostage crisis through a CIA operation involving a fake Hollywood production.
ActionBlack Widow (2021) Review
Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova carries a film that arrived too late to matter. The Phase Four opener that established the pattern of decorative empowerment.
ActionCaptain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Review
The Russo brothers' 1970s political thriller in superhero clothing. Robert Redford, Chris Evans, and the MCU's peak film.
ActionThe Greatest Spy Films
Twenty spy films covering the full spectrum from Bond's glamour to le Carré's paranoia — procedural thrillers, Cold War tragedies, satires, and action cinema. Every spy film is answering one of two questions: what would it feel like to be…