Spy movies always make the audience enjoy with delicate and hidden feelings and thrilling actions, and the "Mission Impossible" and "Spy Heavy" series naturally do not need too much introduction. This time, we will take stock of 10 compact and exciting high-scoring spy movies, which cannot be covered by limited space, and the ranking is not in any order. Let's take a look.
1. "Spy Alliance"
Douban score: 7.0
Reasons for taking stock: rationality and sensibility.
Synopsis: The story takes place during World War II, when Allied counterintelligence agent Max (Brad Pitt) and French spy undercover Marianne (Marion Goldia) meet in the military strategic location of Kasan Blanca, and in order to fulfill the common vision of assassinating the German ambassador, the two have to pretend to be husband and wife. At first, there were many misunderstandings and contradictions between Marx and Marianne, who had very different personalities, but over time, when they experienced some critical moments of life and death and rescued each other, the fake drama between the two slowly became real, and they fell in love. In the end, the task is successfully completed, the lovers eventually become dependents, they are married, and there is a crystallization of love. Max, who thought the days were going to go on like this, began to suspect his wife's true identity as a Nazi spy by chance.
2. Wanted
Douban score: 7.4
Reason for inventory: Visual prominence.
Synopsis: Life is a meaningless repetition of the little clerk Wesley (James McAvoy), who has to endure the nagging of his fat boss every day, the bed of friends and girlfriends, and the constant use of drugs to control the rapid heartbeat. On this day, he is rescued from the mad gunner's pursuit by a strange woman and enters the world of the League of Assassins, where firefox (Angelina Jolie) and alliance leader Shi Long (Morgan Freeman) inform Wesley that he abandoned his father as a member of the organization, and was recently killed by the traitor Cross, and Wesley must grow up in harsh training as soon as possible to protect himself and even avenge his father. Wesley soon became a member of the Order with his talent for mastering a series of assassination methods, began to carry out the tasks entrusted by fate, and gradually approached the goal of seeking revenge on the Cross, and finally, Sloan ordered Wesley to go to Eastern Europe to assassinate the Cross, but in this mission, Wesley accidentally discovered the conspiracy within the Organization, and this time, he no longer used evasion to solve the problem.
3. "Agent Schott"
Douban score: 7.3
Reason for inventory: Traditional action.
Synopsis: On the day of the wedding anniversary, CIA agent Evelyn Schote (Angelina Jolie) is ordered to interrogate a Russian spy who has surrendered. The other side claimed to have infiltrated the United States since the 80s, and revealed that a master spy had trained several children to train them as spies to send them into ordinary American families and wait for the opportunity to assassinate the president of the United States. To the astonishment of all the agents present, the Russian had identified Schoet as one of the children. Despite the CIA agents' obstruction, Schotter insisted on returning home. After a thrilling chase, she temporarily escaped the pursuit of her former companions. Soon, the Russian president visits the United States, Schote is once again involved in various conspiracies, and her true identity becomes more and more confusing...
4. "Extremely Cold City"
Douban score: 7.2
Reason for inventory: Sharp passion.
Synopsis: Based on Antony Johnston's novel of the same name, the film follows espionage operations before the end of the Cold War: in 1989, the situation in the GDR changed drastically, and the "Berlin Wall" was facing the fate of demolition, but it was also the darkest moment, and various assassinations occurred from time to time. An underground MI6 officer assassinated in Berlin holds a list of spies brought back from the GDR, but the killer is not found in him. An agent named Lorraine Browton (Theron) is tasked with retrieving the list of spies.
5. "Suspect"
Douban score: 7.5
Reason for taking stock: The plot is compact and the action is outstanding.
Synopsis: On the streets of downtown South Korea, there lives a taciturn and disobedient man, Ji Dong-chul (Kong You). He worked as a substitute driver and was accustomed to seeing the blank stares and insults of others. The real him was a former special forces member who had escaped from North Korea and was willing to abandon everything in order to track down the murderer of his wife and children. In North Korea, he received the weight of the highly respected President Park, who knew that the chairman was killed one night, and the old man gave his glasses to Dong Chul before he died. Dong Zhe, who became an important suspect in the case, was involved in a series of whirlpools full of killing and conspiracy, not to mention that the glasses hid a big secret. North Korea's secret services are in a hurry, and Colonel Min Se-hoon (Park Hee-soon), a training instructor at the Air Force Special Forces CCT, is also pursuing Dong Chul. Standing on the cusp of the storm, Dong zhe was forced to rely on his own strength to maneuver among all the forces...
6. "Pot Maker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Douban score: 7.9
Reason for inventory: Implicit and tone.
Synopsis: During the Cold War, the world's two major secret service organizations, the Russian "Center" and the British "Circle Field", fought openly and secretly. The agent was killed, and the top was furious and instructed the "circle field" to dig out the "gopher". There were 5 suspects, namely the pot maker, tailor, soldier, poor man, and beggar named after the "boss" in the circle. Among them, the "beggar" George Smiley (Gary Oldman), the "beggar" who washed his hands in the golden basin, was originally suspected. One day, Peter Gillem (Benedict Cumberbatch), the leader of the Action Group-Scalping Group, and Lacan, the spy director of the British Cabinet Office, ruled out Smiley's suspicions and reintroduced him to dig up the "gopher". As a result, Smiley began to visit the deceased separately, investigating the "round field" boss Allerlein, the tailor - Bill Haydn (Colin Feith), the soldier - royer Brand, a veteran spy in charge of Eastern European affairs, and the poor - the head of the logistics department's lighting team, Toby Easthas. For a time, the circle field was full of doubts, everyone was in danger, who was the "gopher"...
7. "The Secret Agent"
Douban score: 8.1
Reason for taking stock: First-class storytelling skills.
Synopsis: Set in Germany in 1963, during the Cold War, the father of a German female car technician Gabbie (Alicia Vikander) is an expert in nuclear weapons, and recently, there is evidence that he is helping the Nazis build nuclear weapons to achieve the evil ambitions of unifying all mankind. Napoleon (Henry Cavill) is an CIA agent whose mistakes he made put his career in jeopardy, and he must make some achievements to prove that he is not useless. Ilya (Amy Hammer) is an agent of the Soviet National Security Council, his father is branded a corrupt by the government, and in order to get rid of the bad influence his father brought to him, Ilya must work harder than others. Both of these men want to arrest the nuclear bomb master before the other.
8. "Spy In the Middle"
Reason for taking stock: The atmosphere is still OK.
Synopsis: James (Colin Farrell) successfully passes the initial CIA review as a laude student and enters the training base for special training with other elite students. The CIA sent walter (Al Pacino), the most experienced ace agent, to train the youngsters. In the almost cold-blooded variety of cruel training, the best performing James was inexplicably eliminated. Among the newcomers, the female trainee Lyra (Brigitte Muna) arouses the suspicion of the upper echelons. He was suspected of being an undercover agent sent by a hostile intelligence organization. As a result, James, who had a good relationship with Lyra in training, was quietly assigned to anti-undercover work. James began to deliberately approach Lyra to inquire about the situation. But as the two get along, he has feelings for Lyra, who doesn't know his friends or enemies. In the face of national honor and personal feelings, how to choose James's distressed heart?
9. "Life and Death Spy Change"
Reasons for inventory: feelings, actions.
Synopsis: Kim Myung-hee is an agent of North Korea's Eighth Special Forces who has assassinated several dignitaries since infiltrating South Korea in 1993. Her actions attract the attention of South Korean secret service agencies, and agents Choi Sang-hwan (Han Seok-kyu) and Lee Jung-hee (Song Kang-ho) investigate her whereabouts, but she disappears. In 1998, Kim Myung-hee reappeared, she asked black-market arms dealer Lin Guangchao to help find a new weapon liquid bomb CTX, Lin bribed Kim Jong-uncle, a researcher at the Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, to help him steal it, but he did not succeed. After the matter was exposed, the two were killed by Kim Myung-hee. Because of Kim Myung-hee's defeat, North Korea sent a team of agents led by Bu Wan-kun (Choi Min-sik) to hijack the bombs while the South Korean army was transporting CTX to the arms exhibition, preparing to sabotage the upcoming friendly football match between the two countries. All this made Choi Sang-hwan, Lee Chung-hee and their superior, Minister Gao, very distressed, and they found that Kim Myung-hee could always find the target one step ahead of them and sabotage their actions, and Kim Myung-hee was beside them, perhaps the closest and least defensive person.
10. "Bridge of Spies"
Reason for taking stock: Master it.
Synopsis: At the beginning of the Cold War, New York lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) defended soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel (Marc Reirance), when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were tense, James still upheld the principle of fairness and justice, and defended Abel impartially, Albert admired his integrity, he also appreciated Abel's loyalty, although he finally lost the case, the two established a delicate friendship. Soon after, the U.S. U2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by the Soviet military while on a classified mission, and James was hired by the CIA to negotiate with the Soviet Union on behalf of the United States, trying to negotiate with the Soviet Union for a change of prison conditions and rescue the abducted American pilot in a very slim opportunity.