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Best Female Spy Movies

Intelligence obtained through espionage enables correct decisions to be made, whether in times of war or peace. The best female spy movies are sometimes based on true stories and sometimes depict fictional heroism.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
| by Melisa Kaplan
Best Female Spy Movies

Information is the most valuable weapon, and many things can be sacrificed to obtain it. Spies are heroes who selflessly serve for their country, knowing that they may be expendable. The best female spy movies tell stories of heroes who put their lives on the line to carry out their missions. Movies about female spies, whose existence is almost a mystery, an unknown, and a secret, enable us to get to know them better and, as a result, to admire them.

Each female spy has a different style of carrying out her duty. As depicted in the best female spy movies, some are part of operations organized to obtain top-secret information and documents, while others aim to get close to a designated target and intervene at the right time. In the best movies about female spies, the protagonists fulfill their duties sometimes by using their innocence, sometimes by using their charm, and sometimes by using their military merit.

The best female spy movies are based on stories that focus on a single character, and therefore the quality of acting is the main determinant of the movies' success. That's why we see so many Oscar-winning actresses portraying the protagonist in the best female spy movies. It should even be said that some of them are among the most famous actresses in Hollywood history. When these acting performances are combined with original stories, some of the best female spy movies emerge.

When I did detailed research to choose the best female spy movies of all time, I saw that the list would consist of movies from different genres. While most of the best female spy movies take us to the peak of suspense for several hours, some of them promise breathless action. And a few productions manage to make us laugh a lot. I have selected the most successful productions in which female spies are at the center of the plot, and I have listed these best female spy movies for you. Let's take a look at the best female spy movies without revealing to the protagonists that we are aware of their existence.

Best Female Spy Movies
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Release Year
1946
Stars
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern
Director
Paul Verhoeven
Release Year
2006
Stars
Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn
Director
Francis Lawrence
Release Year
2018
Stars
Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling
Director
Trevor Nunn
Release Year
2018
Stars
Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Spy
Director
Paul Feig
Release Year
2015
Stars
Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason Statham
Director
Phillip Noyce
Release Year
2010
Stars
Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski
Director
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Release Year
2019
Stars
Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache
Director
David Leitch
Release Year
2017
Stars
Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan
Director
Yuval Adler
Release Year
2019
Stars
Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman, Cas Anvar, Rotem Keinan
Director
Simon Kinberg
Release Year
2022
Stars
Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger