Every spy thriller movie streaming on Hulu in the US right now — 22 films ranked by rating, checked against Hulu’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Hulu US
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✦ MovieMuse AI takeCarnival chaos as cover: surveillance and evasion amid festival crowds creates authentically paranoid atmosphere.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Directed by Paul Feig
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesk analyst forced into field work satirizes but ultimately validates espionage genre's core: preparation meets chaos.
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Directed by Michiel Blanchart
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIdentity deception as central mechanic—locksmith thriller weaponizes trust and false credentials for escalating tension.
Mady, a student, works as a locksmith by night. He helps Claire get into her apartment and soon realizes that she lied to him about her identity and robbed something that belonged to a dangerous man, Yannick. Mady gets embroiled in a manhunt and will have one night to prove his innocence.
Directed by James Hawes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCivilian vengeance trajectory subverts spy-agency formula; decoder's obsessive pattern-recognition becomes both asset and liability.
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
Directed by Lee Jong-pil
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDefection across DMZ: geopolitical stakes grounded in personal stakes, where escape IS the entire operative mission.
After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
✦ MovieMuse AI takePreemptive conspiracy theory made flesh; kingmakers plotting war demands lateral thinking over direct confrontation.
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Directed by Woo Min-ho
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHistorical assassination plot examines pre-modern espionage tradecraft preceding twentieth-century intelligence formalization.
In 1909, several years after Korea is forced into becoming a Japanese colony, freedom fighters plot the daring assassination of Japan's prime minister during their quest for independence.
Directed by Susanna Fogel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAmateur entanglement replaces professional competence; chaos erupts when civilians stumble into tradecraft they cannot decode.
A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTranslator bond subverts typical operative-asset hierarchy; interdependence in hostile terrain creates authentic vulnerability.
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Directed by Greg Mottola
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSuburban masquerade deconstructs spy-next-door cliché; aesthetics become surveillance, sophistication a cover identity.
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert operatives.
Directed by Neil Burger
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInherited intelligence becomes inherited liability; generational espionage where daughter must unearth father's compartmentalized secrets.
When Maya learns her father Sam was once a spy, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an international conspiracy. As she seeks answers, Maya herself becomes a target and must quickly learn the skills of her father.
Directed by Jamie Marshall
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInternal siege paranoia escalates when safe house becomes trap; agents question which among them is compromised.
Trapped in a high-security safe house after a terrorist attack in downtown Los Angeles, six government agents realize they must survive not just the enemy outside, but the potential traitor among them.
Directed by Magnus Martens
✦ MovieMuse AI takeConfined-space terrorism: moving train transforms into pressure cooker where soldier cannot retreat, only neutralize.
An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.
Directed by Tom Vaughan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReduces undercover infiltration to college comedy premise, abandoning psychological tension for fish-out-of-water hijinks and sorority stereotypes.
When the FBI hires her to go undercover at a college sorority, Molly Morris must transform herself from a tough, streetwise private investigator to a refined, sophisticated university girl to help protect the daughter of a one-time Mobster. With several suspects on her list, Molly unexpectedly discovers that not everyone is who they appear to be, including herself.
Directed by Steve Barnett
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCold War hostage rescue inverts soldier-protector dynamic; tech specialist becomes bargaining chip both sides pursue ruthlessly.
With tensions between North and South Korea, a US helicopter crashes on the North side. The survivors must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out without the help of US military support.
Directed by Dolph Lundgren
Follows a police officer who must retrieve an eyewitness and escort her after a cartel shooting leaves several DEA agents dead, but then he must decide who to trust when they discover that the attack was executed by American forces.
Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrieving operative weaponizes personal vendetta; wife's death transforms investigation into justified betrayal of former allies.
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
Directed by Simon West
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWedding infiltration as cover operation; espionage duties collide with friendship obligations, neither compromisable.
Sam is a secret agent whose toughest mission to date is pleasing her bride-to-be best friend at a lavish destination wedding. When a team of mercenaries crashes the party and takes the guests hostage, Sam is thrown into a fight unlike any before — one where she can’t risk blowing her cover or ruining the big day. As she takes on the bad guys in a high-stakes battle disguised as a fairy-tale affair, she realizes the real threat might be closer than she thinks.
Directed by Jon Keeyes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMentor-apprentice assassination duel; resurging handler must confront protégé's superior tradecraft and ideological divergence.
Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, who resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head.
Directed by Roel Reiné
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNewspaper classifieds as secure channel; analog communication method grants CIA hitman autonomy from electronic oversight.
Operating alone in the field for more than 20 years, a CIA hitman uses the "Help Wanted" section of the newspapers to get his orders from the Agency. His long-lost daughter, now a UK MI6 analyst, tracks him down to deliver shocking news: his CIA boss has been dead for years and the division long since shut down. Together, they set out to discover whose orders he's been executing.
Directed by Asif Akbar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCultural specificity: Bangladeshi agent navigates dual-agency politics while dismantling international trafficking empire.
Elite Bangladeshi CIA agent Masud Rana – codename MR-9 – teams up with an American CIA operative to bring down an international criminal organization headed by a ruthless businessman.
Directed by Tom DeNucci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVigilante collectivism targets untouchable elite; righteous assassins wage shadow war against systems immune to law.
A group of righteous assassins called The Collective take aim at a highly sophisticated human trafficking ring backed by a network of untouchable billionaires. With their backs against the wall, The Collective has no choice but to put their most important mission in the hands of rookie assassin, Sam Alexander.
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