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.
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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.May 18, '26 -
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
1971 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Connery returning. Las Vegas setting, diamond smuggling, Blofeld as Howard Hughes pastiche.May 18, '26 -
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.May 18, '26 -
You Only Live Twice (1967)
1967 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Connery in Japan facing Blofeld in a hollow volcano. Roald Dahl screenplay.May 18, '26 -
Thunderball (1965)
1965 Terence Young Bond film with Connery in Bahamas. SPECTRE steals NATO nuclear weapons. Extended underwater action sequences.May 18, '26 -
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.May 18, '26 -
Dr. No (1962)
1962 Terence Young Bond debut with Sean Connery as 007. Ursula Andress emerges from Caribbean surf. The franchise begins.May 18, '26 -
Goldfinger (1964)
1964 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Sean Connery facing gold-obsessed Auric Goldfinger and silent assassin Oddjob. Fort Knox plot.May 18, '26 -
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.May 17, '26 -
Red Sparrow (2018)
Francis Lawrence's 2018 spy thriller. Jennifer Lawrence as Russian intelligence Sparrow. Jason Matthews source material from actual CIA officer.May 16, '26