Best Spy Movies

Compiled 2026-10-30. The main table copies the spy list published on 2025-06-02 and modified on 2025-06-10, 89 films in all. No. 1 is Kim Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows (2016). No. 89 is John Glen’s The Living Daylights (1987). The publish date, the modified date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 89 films

All 89 rows follow the page ranks. Years and directors are copied from the page. No. 65 is filled from archive; No. 75 and No. 76 both list Fair Game as on the page.

How this ranking was built

Compiled 2026-10-30. The list was published 2025-06-02 and modified 2025-06-10. Rotten Tomatoes posted it. RT Staff is the byline. The page title is 89 Best Spy Movies (Spy), Ranked by Tomatometer. The page runs from No. 1 to No. 89, and this table follows that order. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.

This was read from the live page on 2026-10-30. No. 65 was an empty shell; Haywire (2011, Steven Soderbergh) was filled from the 2025-07-09 Wayback capture. No. 75 and No. 76 are both Fair Game (2010) on the live page and in that archive, so both rows stay. The other titled ranks are on the live page. Director names are the Directed By lines.

The page keeps Certified Fresh spy movies — spy characters plus a political, international, or high-government setting — ranked by Tomatometer.

Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels where available. Chinese labels are simplified.

Action titles: best action movies. Thriller: best thriller movies.

The picture

Rows S through C hold 18 films each; D holds 17. The pool is all 89 films.