Urban Espionage Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 37 films about espionage and set in cities, spanning 1940–2015. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1976

  All the President's Men

  Washington, D.C. — 1970s
  Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula
• 2012

  Argo

  Tehran · Los Angeles · Virginia — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Ben Affleck
• 1969

  Army of Shadows

  Paris · Marseille · London — 1940s
  Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville
• 2015

  Bridge of Spies

  New York City · Berlin — 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1943

  Casablanca

  Casablanca — 1940s
  Urbandir. Michael Curtiz
• 1963

  Charade

  Paris — 1960s
  Urbandir. Stanley Donen
• 1998

  Elizabeth

  England — Early Modern
  Urbandir. Shekhar Kapur
• 1998

  Enemy of the State

  Washington, D.C. · Baltimore — 1990s
  Urbandir. Tony Scott
• 1940

  Foreign Correspondent

  London · Amsterdam — 1930s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1963

  From Russia with Love

  Istanbul · Yugoslavia — 1960s
  Urbandir. Terence Young
• 1995

  Ghost in the Shell

  Japan — Near Future
  Urbandir. Mamoru Oshii
• 1995

  GoldenEye

  Saint Petersburg · Cuba — 1990s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Martin Campbell
• 1964

  Goldfinger

  Kentucky · Switzerland — 1960s
  Rural · Urbandir. Guy Hamilton
• 2009

  Inglourious Basterds

  Paris — 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino
• 2012

  Kahaani

  Kolkata — 2010s
  Urbandir. Sujoy Ghosh
• 2007

  Lust, Caution

  Shanghai · Hong Kong — 1940s
  Urbandir. Ang Lee
• 1976

  Marathon Man

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. John Schlesinger
• 1996

  Mission: Impossible

  Prague · London — 1990s
  Urbandir. Brian De Palma
• 2005

  Munich

  Munich · Paris · Rome · Beirut · New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1959

  North by Northwest

  New York City · Chicago — 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1946

  Notorious

  Rio de Janeiro — 1940s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1953

  Pickup on South Street

  New York City — 1950s
  Urbandir. Samuel Fuller
• 1981

  Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Cairo · Nepal — 1930s
  Desert · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1998

  Ronin

  Paris · Nice · Arles — 1990s
  Urbandir. John Frankenheimer
• 1942

  Saboteur

  California · New York City — 1940s
  Urban · Desertdir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1992

  Sneakers

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Phil Alden Robinson
• 1971

  The Conformist

  Paris · Rome — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• 1973

  The Day of the Jackal

  Paris — 1960s
  Urbandir. Fred Zinnemann
• 2006

  The Lives of Others

  Berlin — 1980s
  Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 1956

  The Man Who Knew Too Much

  Marrakesh · London — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1962

  The Manchurian Candidate

  New York City — 1950s
  Urbandir. John Frankenheimer
• 1975

  Three Days of the Condor

  New York City · Washington, D.C. — 1970s
  Urbandir. Sydney Pollack
• 2011

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

  London · Budapest · Istanbul — 1970s
  Urbandir. Tomas Alfredson
• 1942

  To Be or Not to Be

  Warsaw — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Ernst Lubitsch
• 1966

  Torn Curtain

  East Berlin · Leipzig — 1960s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1998

  Who Am I?

  Johannesburg · Rotterdam — 1990s
  Wilderness · Urbandir. Jackie Chan
• 2012

  Zero Dark Thirty

  Pakistan · Abbottabad · Afghanistan · Washington, D.C. — 2000s · 2010s
  Urbandir. Kathryn Bigelow