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1940s Spy Movies

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Journey into Fear(1943)

1h 8min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 39 votes)

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

Northern Pursuit(1943)

1h 33min | Drama, Adventure, War
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.

Cloak and Dagger(1946)

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

The Fallen Sparrow(1943)

1h 34min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.

The Conspirators(1944)

1h 41min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

Black Dragons(1942)

1h 4min | Horror, War
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.

Directed by William Nigh - With Bela Lugosi

The Next of Kin(1942)

1h 42min | Drama, War, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.

Yellow Canary(1943)

1h 38min | Drama, Thriller, War
2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

Contraband(1940)

1h 32min | Adventure, Thriller, War
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.

O.S.S.(1946)

1h 47min | War, Thriller, Action
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives. Martine and Duprez then get reassigned to assist fellow spy Frank Schmidt aka Parker (Richard Webb) embedded in the German army so he can relay important Nazi troop movements. Then she is discovered by an old foe, Col. Paul Meister (John Hoyt) but Martine must radio the vital information and misses her.

Golden Earrings(1947)

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

British Intelligence(1940)

1h 1min | Action, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

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The Adventures of Tartu(1943)

1h 31min | Romance / Love, War
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.

Action in Arabia(1944)

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

Secret Agent(1943)

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.

Directed by Seymour Kneitel - With Bud Collyer

Spies(1943)

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little at a time to listening Axis spies. He tells his mom some of the secret when he calls her from a phone booth; the rest he spills to a dolly dolly spy who plies him with liquor. Snafu's loose lips put himself at risk.

Directed by Chuck Jones - With Mel Blanc

G-men vs. the Black Dragon(1943)

4h 3min | Action
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.

The Bribe(1949)

1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.

Madame Spy(1942)

1h 3min | War, Drama

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.

Two Yanks in Trinidad(1942)

1h 24min | Comedy, Adventure
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).

Document Z-3(1943)

1h 25min | War

Document Z-3 (Italian:Documento Z-3) is a 1942 Italian spy film directed by Alfredo Guarini and starring Isa Miranda, Claudio Gora and Luis Hurtado. It was one of three Miranda films directed by Guarini that helped re-establish her in Italian cinema following her return from a largely unsuccessful spell in Hollywood. Many critics were not impressed with the film, feeling that Miranda had not recovered the spontaneity of her pre-Hollywood films. This is considered the first movie in which Federico Fellini has worked as a screenwriter.

Atlantic Convoy(1942)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.

They Came to Blow Up America(1943)

1h 13min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.

Directed by Edward Ludwig - With George Sanders

Hotel Reserve(1944)

1h 29min | Thriller
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

King of the Royal Mounted(1940)

3h 31min | Western, Action, Adventure

The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.

Against the Wind(1948)

1h 36min | War, Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

Cottage to Let(1941)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

Submarine Alert(1943)

1h 6min | Action, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.

Directed by Frank McDonald - With Richard Arlen

Dangerously They Live(1941)

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

This Was Paris(1942)

1h 17min | Drama, War
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.

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