Genre: Spy

Spy stories trade in secrets and deception — agents, cover, and missions where the truth is a weapon and trust is the biggest risk.

  • Live and Let Die (1973) Cover

    Live and Let Die (1973)

    1973 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Roger Moore's debut. Voodoo, blaxploitation tropes, Jane Seymour as Solitaire. Paul McCartney theme.
  • Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Cover

    Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

    1971 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Connery returning. Las Vegas setting, diamond smuggling, Blofeld as Howard Hughes pastiche.
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Cover

    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

    1969 Peter Hunt Bond film with George Lazenby's single outing. Diana Rigg as Tracy. Alpine ski chases. Tragic ending.
  • You Only Live Twice (1967) Cover

    You Only Live Twice (1967)

    1967 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Connery in Japan facing Blofeld in a hollow volcano. Roald Dahl screenplay.
  • Thunderball (1965) Cover

    Thunderball (1965)

    1965 Terence Young Bond film with Connery in Bahamas. SPECTRE steals NATO nuclear weapons. Extended underwater action sequences.
  • From Russia with Love (1963) Cover

    From Russia with Love (1963)

    1963 Terence Young Bond film with Sean Connery in Istanbul. SPECTRE plot involving Soviet decoder. Train fight with Robert Shaw.
  • Dr. No (1962) Cover

    Dr. No (1962)

    1962 Terence Young Bond debut with Sean Connery as 007. Ursula Andress emerges from Caribbean surf. The franchise begins.
  • Goldfinger (1964) Cover

    Goldfinger (1964)

    1964 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Sean Connery facing gold-obsessed Auric Goldfinger and silent assassin Oddjob. Fort Knox plot.
  • North by Northwest (1959) Cover

    North by Northwest (1959)

    Hitchcock's 1959 spy thriller. Grant as the wrong man, Saint as the mystery woman, Mason as the urbane villain. Crop-duster, Mount Rushmore, train interior.
  • Red Sparrow (2018) Cover

    Red Sparrow (2018)

    Francis Lawrence's 2018 spy thriller. Jennifer Lawrence as Russian intelligence Sparrow. Jason Matthews source material from actual CIA officer.
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