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Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being
Genres: | Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama |
Production Companies: | Suftley, United Artists |
Publication Date: | September 14, 1995 |
Budget: | $20,000,000 |
Runtime: | 107 |
Tagline: | There is no right or wrong, only fun and boring |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (537) |
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Publication Date: | December 16, 1965 |
Budget: | $5,500,000 |
Runtime: | 130 |
Tagline: | Look up! Look down! Look out! |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (837) |
A golden bullet has 007 engraved on it as it smashes into the secret service headquarters. The bullet came from the professional killer Scaramanga who has yet to miss a target and James Bond begins a mission to try and stop him.
Publisher: | MGM |
Genre: | Action |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Genres: | Adventure, Action, Thriller |
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intellige
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. Howe
Genres: | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of contr
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a
Genres: | Thriller, War |
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Genre: | Thriller |
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana t
Publisher: | MGM |
Genre: | Action |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | United Artists, Eon Productions, Danjaq |
Publication Date: | December 12, 1969 |
Budget: | $6,500,000 |
Runtime: | 142 |
Tagline: | Far up! Far out! Far more! James Bond 007 is back! |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (676) |
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Publisher: | MGM |
Genre: | Action |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. Whit
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
Production Companies: | Eon Productions |
Publication Date: | October 30, 2008 |
Budget: | $200,000,000 |
Runtime: | 106 |
Tagline: | For love, for hate, for justice, for revenge. |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (3905) |
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genre: | Comedy - British |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
Publisher: | New Line |
Genre: | Action - Crime |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
James Bond must unmask the mysterious head of the Janus Syndicate and prevent the leader from utilizing the GoldenEye weapons system to inflict devastating revenge on Britain.
Genres: | Adventure, Action, Thriller |
Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as we
Genres: | Mystery, Thriller |
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
Genres: | Action, Thriller |
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | United Artists, Eon Productions, Danjaq |
Publication Date: | September 17, 1964 |
Budget: | $2,500,000 |
Runtime: | 110 |
Tagline: | Everything he touches turns into excitement! |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (1420) |
A mysterious space craft kidnaps a Russian and American space capsule and brings the world on the verge of another World War. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and meets with his archenemy Blofeld. The fifth film from the legendary James Bond seri
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action, Thriller, Adventure |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | Eon Productions |
Publication Date: | June 12, 1967 |
Budget: | $9,500,000 |
Runtime: | 117 |
Tagline: | You Only Live Twice...and Twice is the only way to live! |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (767) |
Bond takes on a North Korean leader who undergoes DNA replacement procedures that allow him to assume different identities. American agent, Jinx Johnson assists Bond in his attempt to thwart the villain's plans to exploit a satellite that is powered by so
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | Eon Productions |
Publication Date: | November 17, 2002 |
Budget: | $140,000,000 |
Runtime: | 133 |
Tagline: | He’s never been cooler. |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (1585) |
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world’s superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Genres: | Adventure, Action, Thriller |
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut ins
Genres: | Action, Comedy, Crime |
Budget: | $43,000,000 |
Runtime: | 117 |
Tagline: | Action's never been so hot! |
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyo
Genres: | Action, Drama, Thriller |
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced
Genres: | Comedy, Action, Adventure |
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller |