Spy Thrillers on Netflix

As a secret police agent eavesdrops on a successful writer in East Germany in 1984, he becomes increasingly fascinated by the man's life and politics.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 02:17:35
Netflix ID: 70056425 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1979, six Americans take shelter from Iranian militants in the Canadian embassy, prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate plot to rescue them.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:00:18
Netflix ID: 70231922 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.7
Runtime: 02:08:29
Netflix ID: 70293703 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Brooklyn attorney enters into intense negotiations for the release of American pilot Gary Powers after his spy plane is downed by the Soviets.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:21:26
Netflix ID: 80050060 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While on a covert Caribbean holiday, MI5's Johnny Worricker becomes embroiled with shifty American businessmen linked to an international conspiracy.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:39:23
Netflix ID: 80019909 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Mossad agent leads an effort to track down the Palestinian terrorists who killed a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:43:43
Netflix ID: 70038133 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this drama set in World War II-era Shanghai, a young actress gets caught up in a complex plot involving love, seduction and assassination.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:38:12
Netflix ID: 70059999 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Communist Hungary circa 1957, a member of the secret police whose job is to evaluate citizens' loyalty is unknowingly spied upon by his mentor.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:27:58
Netflix ID: 81288436 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This quiet thriller traces Edward Snowden's journey from Army recruit to disillusioned cyber analyst bent on exposing vast U.S. surveillance programs.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 02:14:14
Netflix ID: 80064514 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the 1990s, a South Korean spy poses as a brassy entrepreneur with a luring scheme for a cash-strapped North Korea, but politics tests his loyalty.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:17:14
Netflix ID: 81019389 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This gripping thriller about Cold War espionage follows an English spy as he returns to MI-6 under suspicion that he's become a Soviet operative.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:07:22
Netflix ID: 70202128 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being wounded in World War II, a disillusioned Nazi colonel hatches a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:00:17
Netflix ID: 70101344 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An idealistic CIA agent teams with a veteran operative and the head of Jordanian intelligence to infiltrate an underground terrorist network.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:08:14
Netflix ID: 70101694 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Allied agent Max Vatan falls for a French spy during World War II. When Vatan learns she might be a double agent, he strives to prove her innocence.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 02:04:34
Netflix ID: 80112565 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Trash-TV maven Chuck Barris has a big secret: He's a CIA assassin who kills while escorting his game show winners on their vacation prizes.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:48:48
Netflix ID: 60024947 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A story of greed and corruption in the global quest for oil unfolds through the fates of a CIA operative, an energy analyst and other power players.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:07:40
Netflix ID: 70018715 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1982 Czechoslovakia, a disturbed secret police agent becomes obsessed with the lover of a dissident under his surveillance.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 02:25:45
Netflix ID: 81289300 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A half-Russian, half-Chechen man, brutalized by torture, arrives in Hamburg, where he seeks a British banker's help in recovering his father's estate.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:01:38
Netflix ID: 70266685 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A former Mossad intelligence agent is forced to relive her unsuccessful pursuit of a Nazi war criminal when the fugitive reemerges 30 years later.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:53:36
Netflix ID: 70122317 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two U.S. soldiers in the first Gulf War are programmed to rebel once they return home. Several years later, one becomes a vice presidential candidate.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:09:49
Netflix ID: 60037627 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Spies from around the globe pursue MI5's Johnny Worricker and his old flame, Margot Tyrell, whose intel could bring down the British government.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:36:49
Netflix ID: 80019908 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As his country prepares for war, top Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan makes contact with Israel and wades into a shadowy game of high-stakes espionage.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:54:12
Netflix ID: 80188120 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1960, Israeli spies undertake a daring mission to capture notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and bring him to justice. Based on real events.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:03:35
Netflix ID: 80986885 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To protect her mother, a former ballerina agrees to train as a spy, then must use her powers of seduction to lure out a mole in her government.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:20:13
Netflix ID: 80187054 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An Interpol agent and a Manhattan assistant D.A. join forces to take down a prominent financial institution involved in international arms dealing.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:57:58
Netflix ID: 70105936 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1971, a fallen army major’s son is tapped by India's Research and Analysis Wing to serve as an undercover agent in Pakistan in the lead-up to war.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 02:20:55
Netflix ID: 81039384 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a new intelligence agency is formed, three rebellious army officers take on risky, obscure missions, raising doubt in who they're working for.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:55:17
Netflix ID: 81168350 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Silvia Broome is a translator at the United Nations. But her job turns perilous when she overhears a plot to assassinate a government official.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:08:19
Netflix ID: 70019510 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an unemployed man accepts a job to transcribe phone calls, he finds himself tangled in a sinister web of political intrigue.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:30:46
Netflix ID: 80143200 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During 1962’s Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:43:06
Netflix ID: 81221170 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A pair of romantically involved corporate operatives are entangled in a bitter rivalry between two mammoth pharmaceutical companies.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:05:00
Netflix ID: 70109692 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on a true and gripping story: Cuban spies infiltrate exile groups in the 1990s to stop terrorism against the island, but at a high personal cost.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 02:08:02
Netflix ID: 81000201 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Working as a Mossad spy assigned to Tehran, Rachel reaches her breaking point. Now it’s dangerously hard to tell whose side she’s on.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:56:52
Netflix ID: 81162171 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the year 1989, a veteran spy is sent to Damascus, Syria, on a mission to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of the country.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:33:30
Netflix ID: 80189708 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A CIA operative diagnosed with dementia discovers that a terrorist long presumed dead has resurfaced, forcing him on one last mission.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 4.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:34:04
Netflix ID: 80014726 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Betrayed by the Spanish government he once served, a former secret agent plots to steal millions of dollars embezzled by a corrupt public official.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 02:02:33
Netflix ID: 80121843 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb