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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) is an American spy action film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. The film follows the story of a next-generation Russian stealth submarine, the Sevastopol, which is equipped with an advanced AI. However, when the AI becomes self-aware and betrays its crew by causing a fatal attack, IMF agent Ethan Hunt must take action. He travels to the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert to retrieve a crucial key piece from Ilsa Faust, an MI6 agent who is on the run. In order to ...

The Old Man (2022–2024) is an American drama thriller television series based on the 2017 novel The Old Man by Thomas Perry. As a Vietnam veteran and former CIA operative, Dan Chase lives off-the-grid in Connecticut for thirty years after killing an intruder who broke into his home. The show was developed by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine. While fleeing, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald, who becomes his forced partner. In light of Chase’s complicated past during the Soviet–Afghan War, FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper was ...

The upcoming action spy film, The 355 (2022), helmed by director Simon Kinberg and written by Theresa Rebeck and Kinberg, follows the story of a group of individuals embroiled in an intense race for a special decryption program drive. This sought-after drive, capable of accessing any digital system on Earth, is presented to criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke by a drug lord at a location 150 mi (240 km) south of Bogotá, Colombia. However, Clarke’s betrayal leads to chaos as he kills the drug lord just as authorities ...

The Gray Man (2022) is an American action thriller directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Mark Greaney. In 2003, senior CIA official Fitzroy visits a prisoner who had been convicted of killing his abusive father to protect his brother. Eight years later, Fitzroy offers the man his freedom in exchange for working as an assassin in the Sierra program. In 2021, code-named “Sierra Six,” he is on a mission in Bangkok with fellow agent Dani Miranda to eliminate a target ...

The King’s Man (2021), a spy action film directed by Matthew Vaughn, is the third installment in the British Kingsman franchise. Based on the comic book The Secret Service, it serves as a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Set in 1902 during the Second Boer War, British aristocrat Orlando, Duke of Oxford, and his family visit a refugee camp in South Africa while working for the British Red Cross. Tragically, Orlando’s wife Emily is fatally wounded in a sniper attack on the camp and makes her husband promise to keep their son away from ...

No Time to Die (2021) is the latest installment in the James Bond franchise, marking its twenty-fifth film produced by Eon Productions. Madeleine Swann, as a young girl, witnesses her mother’s murder at the hands of terrorist Lyutsifer Safin. Safin’s family was previously assassinated by Swann’s father, Mr. White, under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In self-defense, Swann shoots Safin and escapes but falls into a frozen lake where Bond rescues her. Years later, after Blofeld’s arrest, Swann joins Bond on a trip to Matera where she convinces him to visit the grave of his former lover ...

A film Black Widow (2021), based on Marvel Comics, follows the titular character as she navigates a complex web of espionage and betrayal. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 24th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In 1995, undercover agents Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff pose as a family in Ohio with “daughters” Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova. Their mission: to steal S.H.I.E.L.D. intel and flee to Cuba where their boss, General Dreykov, trains Romanoff and Belova to become deadly Widows. In the years that follow, Shostakov is imprisoned while Romanoff and Belova ...

Men in Black: International (2019) is an American sci-fi action comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray and scripted by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. It belongs to the Men in Black franchise, but stands alone as a sequel within the same universe. Unlike previous films, it does not feature Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones as protagonists. In 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralyzed by MIB agents after they encounter an alien at home. Molly helps the extraterrestrial escape and avoids being ...

Spies in Disguise (2019) is an American animated spy comedy produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Lance Sterling, a confident agent of H.T.U.V. (Honor, Trust, Unity and Valor), is tasked with retrieving an attack drone from Japanese arms dealer Katsu Kimura in Japan. Despite orders from H.T.U.V. director Joy Jenkins to stay put, Sterling takes matters into his own hands and successfully defeats Kimura and his gang before escaping with the drone. Upon returning to headquarters, Sterling confronts Walter Beckett, a social outcast and MIT graduate who equipped nonlethal weapons into Sterling’s suit. However, after being fired by ...

Luc Besson wrote, produced and directed Anna (2019), an action thriller film. The movie follows a young Russian woman named Anna who is trapped in an abusive relationship and desperate for a way out. Alex, a KGB agent, recognizes her plight and offers her a chance to become a field operative. After intensive training, she is informed that she will work under Olga, a senior handler at the KGB, for five years before being allowed to leave the agency and start anew. However, the new director of the KGB, Vassiliev, goes back on this agreement and sees former agents as liabilities rather than assets. He believes that death ...

The American political action thriller television series known as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (2018–2023), based on characters from the fictional Ryanverse by Tom Clancy, first premiered on August 31, 2018, on Amazon Prime Video. When CIA analyst Jack Ryan discovers a series of suspicious bank transfers, his search for answers takes him away from his desk job and into a dangerous game across Europe and the Middle East. With a terrorist leader planning a major attack against the US and its allies, Ryan must stay one step ahead in this deadly cat-and-mouse pursuit. In the ...

The British television espionage drama, The Little Drummer Girl (2018), is an adaptation of John le Carré’s novel of the same name from 1983. It debuted with six episodes on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2018 and on AMC in the United States during November of that year. Set in 1979, the series follows a young English actress who is approached by Mossad to go undercover and thwart a Palestinian terrorist group’s plans in Europe. In The Little Drummer Girl, the boundaries between love and hate, truth and fiction, and right and wrong are blurred as the ...

Condor (2018–2020) is a thriller series based on James Grady’s novel Six Days of the Condor and its 1975 film adaptation Three Days of the Condor, written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel. The show features Max Irons in the lead role. Created by Todd Katzberg, Jason Smilovic, and Ken Robinson, it ...

In 2018, director David Kerr brought us Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), a spy action comedy that sees the return of MI7’s older and retired agents due to a cyber attack. Among them is Johnny English, now working as a geography teacher who secretly trains his students in espionage. With the other inactive agents out of commission, English is left to embark on the mission himself. He enlists the help of his former sidekick and MI7 clerk, Angus Bough, and together they gather their equipment – which includes explosive jelly babies and a tracker cleverly disguised as a Sherbet Fountain. Leaving behind their ...

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) is an American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Dawidoff. Moe Berg, an experienced 15-year baseball player, takes on a new role as a spy in the war effort to outdo Nazi Germany in developing the first atomic bomb. The Germans made a breakthrough by splitting the atom in 1938, and the race for the bomb was on. In charge of delivering this weapon was German Nobel prize winner Werner Heisenberg. To counter this threat, Moe ...

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), directed and co-written by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, follows the story of Audrey Stockman in Los Angeles. Recently dumped by her boyfriend Drew, Audrey’s best friend and roommate Morgan Freeman encourages her to get rid of his belongings. Little does she know, Drew is actually a CIA agent being pursued by dangerous individuals. Before leaving town, Drew asks Audrey not to burn anything while he is away. At work, Audrey meets a man who turns out to be Sebastian Henshaw, revealing that he is looking for Drew who has gone missing. ...

Red Sparrow (2018) is an American spy thriller directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Justin Haythe, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews. In modern-day Russia, Dominika Egorova is a renowned ballerina who cares for her sick mother. After sustaining a career-ending injury, she is approached by her uncle Ivan, the deputy director of the SVR. Ivan tasks her with seducing Russian gangster Dimitry Ustinov to secure her mother’s ongoing medical treatment. During this mission, Ustinov is killed by ...

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), an American action spy film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, follows IMF agent Ethan Hunt as he races against time to stop a terror-for-hire group, the Apostles, from acquiring nuclear bombs. Two years after their leader Solomon Lane is captured, the Syndicate has reorganized and recruited extremist John Lark to carry out their plan of dismantling the existing world order. When Ethan’s attempt to retrieve the plutonium cores in Berlin fails and his team member Luther Stickell is taken hostage, he chooses to save his teammate but loses the cores to the Apostles. ...

Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2017) is an American action comedy-drama streaming television series starring and produced by Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ridley Scott, and Amazon Studios. The show follows the retired martial arts and action movie star as he plays himself, but it’s soon revealed that his movie career and personal history are just a facade. In reality, Jean-Claude is a secret agent known as Jean-Claude Van Johnson, with his personal assistant and make-up specialist serving as his covert accomplices. After five ...

The action thriller film, American Assassin (2017), helmed by Michael Cuesta, follows Mitch Rapp and his girlfriend Katrina Harper as they enjoy a vacation in Ibiza, Spain. Tragically, moments after Katrina accepts Mitch’s marriage proposal, a jihadist cell storms the beach and begins attacking civilians with assault rifles. In the midst of chaos, Rapp desperately searches for Katrina but she is killed by the terrorists. Eighteen months later, consumed by his thirst for revenge, Rapp frequents an online message board where the terrorist responsible for his girlfriend’s death quizzes him on Islam and ...