Spy war dramas have always been loved by the audience with their tense and exciting plots, reversed plots, and profound and complex character relationships.
It's a pity that the once glorious spy war drama has been lonely in recent years, and there are few masterpieces......
Recommend 10 high-scoring spy war dramas, each of which is classic and exciting, not to be missed, it is recommended to collect.
10. "Mental Arithmetic"
"Secret Calculation" is directed and acted by Liu Yunlong, starring Gao Ming, Song Chunli, Wang Baoqiang, Chen Shu and other well-known actors.
Since its premiere in 2005, it has been highly praised, and is known as one of the "best spy war dramas in the mainland", with a Douban score of 9.0.
The success of "Dark Calculation" is inseparable from an excellent script.
The play is adapted from the work of the same name by the famous mainland novelist Mai Jia, and the original work won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award.
Different from ordinary TV dramas, "Secret Calculation" is divided into three chapters: "Listening to the Wind", "Spring Breeze" and "Chasing the Wind", telling the story of three independent but inextricably linked hidden fronts.
The focus is on radio listeners, codebreakers, and underground workers.
"Secret Calculation" meticulously restores the hardships and fearless patriotic spirit of our party's hidden front comrades in the last century.
Among them, "Huang Yiyi" played by Chen Shu also became uneasy in the hearts of many people back then.
9. "Borrowed Gun"
"Borrowed Gun" may be the most underrated domestic spy war drama.
The play premiered in 2011 and starred Zhang Jiayi, Luo Haiqiong, Zhang Zijian and others.
The plot of "Borrowed Gun" is very rare in spy war dramas, and in most people's impressions, spy fighters generally have a glamorous surface identity and will not worry about funds.
But "Borrowed Gun" is different, the protagonist, as an underground worker, is just an ordinary small clerk, not only has no funds, but also has no guns for action, and has to worry about his wife and children, firewood, rice, oil and salt at home.
This drama rarely filmed a rare "sense of life" in spy war dramas, allowing the audience to see different underground workers.
But because of this, "Borrowed Gun" has mixed reviews, and the word-of-mouth is seriously polarized, and some viewers think that its plot is not serious enough, and the plot setting is unreasonable.
Overall, "Borrowed Gun" is an excellent spy war drama that is worth watching.
8. "Cliff"
When it comes to domestic spy war dramas, "Cliff" must be inseparable.
How popular was "Cliff" back then?
beat "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and won the Gold Award for Best TV Series at the 18th Shanghai TV Festival.
The play is starring Zhang Jiayi and Song Jia, adapted from Quan Xianyong's novel "Horvat Street", which tells the story of our party agents Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan pretending to be husband and wife from 1938 to 1945.
"Cliff" focuses on the portrayal of the characters, the protagonists are no longer without weaknesses, they are also burdened with huge mental pressure, and it is precisely this "truth" that can move the audience the most.
7. "Before Dawn"
2010's "Before Dawn" is considered to be a benchmark work for domestic spy war dramas.
Directed by Liu Jiang, starring Wu Xiubo, Lin Yongjian, and Haiqing, it won the second prize of the 28th Feitian Award for feature-length TV series, and the 26th China TV Drama Golden Eagle Award for outstanding TV series and many other awards.
The plot setting of "Before Dawn" can be called the top in its genre.
The story takes place in Shanghai in the autumn of 1948, the plot is very compact, whether it is the lens language or the setting of suspense, "Before Dawn" reveals an "American drama style", more like a detective reasoning drama than a spy war drama, and the plot is quite "brain-burning".
What is commendable is that the characters in the play, whether they are decent or villains, have very reasonable motives and can withstand the audience's scrutiny.
Decent characters do not have the "halo of the protagonist", and the villain does not forcibly reduce his intelligence, and the contest between the two sides is a confrontation of brain power and will.
At present, the Douban score of "Before Dawn" is 9.2, and fans of spy war movies should not miss it.
6. "Kite"
"Kite" may be the most "bumpy" spy war drama.
directed and acted by Liu Yunlong, starring Li Xiaoran and Luo Haiqiong.
The show was filmed in 2013, but for various reasons, it was not broadcast until 2017, and the number of episodes was cut from the initial 51 episodes to the current 46 episodes.
Although the plot has been greatly revised, "Kite" is still a rare spy war masterpiece.
The story of "Kite" is actually very "old-fashioned": Zheng Yaoxian, the "kite" lurking inside the military command, how to fight wits and courage with the enemy.
In the second half of the story, it focuses on the lives of comrades on the hidden front after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is rarely covered in traditional spy war dramas.
At the end of the TV series, the protagonist's salute on the hospital bed made countless viewers teary-eyed and became an eternal classic of domestic spy war dramas.
5. "Red"
"Red" starring Zhang Luyi, Tao Hong, and Zhou Yiwei has a Douban score of 9.1, and it is also one of the highest-rated domestic spy war dramas.
The play premiered in 2014 and is considered a "clear stream" in spy war dramas.
The story of "Red" takes place in Shanghai after the Battle of Songhu, and the protagonist is Xu Tian, a young accountant with special skills but color blindness, who wants to live in peace, but accidentally gets involved in the struggle between the underground party and the Japanese invaders, and finally devotes himself to the revolutionary cause.
But as a spy war drama, the rhythm of "Red" is relatively slow, which requires the audience to be patient, and as a period drama, it is based on spy war.
This has led to the well-made "Red" being applauded, and audiences who like to watch spy war anti-Japanese dramas are not "happy" to watch, and the title of the film has persuaded many young audiences.
Overall, "Red" is still a film worth recommending.
4. "The Pretender"
In 2015, "The Pretender" was considered one of the "ceilings" of idol spy war dramas at that time, and was well received by the audience.
is different from traditional hardcore spy war dramas, "The Pretender" starring all handsome men and beautiful women, starring Hu Ge, Jin Dong, Wang Kai, Liu Mintao, Song Yi, Wang Ou and others.
To some extent, the appearance of "The Pretender" is "epoch-making", breaking the tradition of anti-Japanese spy war TV series mainly targeting older audiences, but taking into account young audiences.
It turned out that this attempt of "The Pretender" was very successful, and it became popular at the time.
Until today, there has not been a spy war drama idol drama comparable to it.
Objectively speaking, the plot of "The Pretender" is slightly "old-fashioned", and the character creation is relatively "face-painted", but the plot of the whole drama is compact and reversed layer by layer, making the audience "cool".
Because of this, "The Pretender" is still popular, with a Douban score of 8.6.
3. "No War in Peking"
"No War in Peking", which premiered in 2014, was a "phenomenal" historical drama that year, with a Douban score of 9.0.
The lineup of the play is extremely strong, adapted from Yuan Heping's novel of the same name, starring Liu Ye, Chen Baoguo, Jiao Huang, Wang Qingxiang, Liao Fan and other seven actors.
The story of "No War in Peking" takes place in Beiping in 1948, and strives to restore history.
has created many flesh-and-blood characters, each of which is unforgettable for the audience;
The plot is compact, and there is no water injection throughout the 53 episodes, which is quite rare in today's film and television dramas.
From the script to the actors, "No War in Peking" highlights the two words "sincerity", as long as you have watched this drama, you can feel the intentions of the main creative team.
2. "No Regrets Tracking"
What kind of drama can be called a divine drama?
"No Regrets Tracking" is well deserved.
This drama premiered in 1995, starring Wang Zhiwen, Liu Peiqi, Yue Xiuqing, He Bing and others, using a dual-protagonist model, the plot is ups and downs, exciting, and the story spans up to 40 years.
The play is adapted from Zhang Ce's short criminal investigation novel of the same name, and under the bold adaptation of director Yin Li and screenwriter Shi Jianquan, the TV series takes an ordinary background alley as the main line, recording 40 years of wind and rain changes.
How popular was this drama back then?
Let's put it this way, at that time, the national audience was waiting for two dramas after eating, one was "I Love My Home", and the other was "No Regrets Tracking".
Nearly 30 years have passed, "No Regrets Tracking" is still the most classic spy war drama, not to be missed.
1. "Latent"
If you can only recommend one spy war drama, then the answer can only be "Latent".
How good is Latent?
This drama has gone beyond the scope of spy war dramas, and it is not just about spy war, but about human nature.
Some people even regard it as a workplace education film.
This drama not only has a tense and exciting plot, but also the characters created are classics, in addition to the protagonists Yu Zecheng and Wang Cuiping, Stationmaster Wu, Lu Qiaoshan, Ma Kui, Li Ya, Late Autumn, Xie Ruolin, etc., are all impressive.
There are even more golden sentences in the play, and they are still talked about to this day.
For example, Stationmaster Wu's "Time is like a wild donkey, it doesn't stop running." ”
"Emei Peak, also TM solo photo, quite romantic."
Xie Ruolin's "Now that the two gold bars are here, you tell me which one is noble and which one is dirty." ”
"It's all about doctrine in the mouth, but it's all business in the heart."
"Latent" is a phenomenal TV series, after it was broadcast in 2008, the popularity has not decreased, but has risen, and the reputation has risen all the way, and only "Bright Sword" can be compared to domestic dramas.
epilogue
Classic dramas are like old wine, the more you taste it, the more mellow it becomes.
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