The 50 Best Spy Movies of All Time
When it comes to categorizing spy movies, it’s often challenging due to their diverse range, which spans from films about world domination by evil masterminds to realistic tales of undercover agents exchanging secrets. (Interestingly enough, even Westerns have a clear setting in the Old West, but the genre can be just as confusing when you consider exceptions like non-Western Westerns!). To include a variety of spy films that represent the genre’s full scope, Vulture decided on a broad definition for this list of top spy movies. If the movie includes espionage as a significant aspect, then it qualifies as a spy film for our purposes.