Every spy thriller movie streaming on Netflix in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Netflix’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Netflix US
Directed by Aditya Dhar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDhurandhar's infiltration narrative weaponizes cultural immersion as tradecraft, mirroring real espionage operations that demand total identity dissolution.
A mysterious traveler slips into the heart of Karachi's underbelly and rises through its ranks with lethal precision, only to tear the notorious ISI-Underworld nexus apart from within.
Directed by Nithilan Saminathan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMaharaja subverts spy-thriller conventions by obscuring whether vengeance or espionage drives the protagonist, creating genuine investigative uncertainty.
A barber seeks vengeance after his home is burglarized, cryptically telling police his "Lakshmi" has been taken, leaving them uncertain if it's a person or object, jeer at his request until they learn what they're really looking for.
Directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArticle 370 grounds geopolitical intrigue in constitutional specificity, using bureaucratic machinery as the thriller's mechanical tension rather than gunplay.
Ahead of a major constitutional decision which rendered the Article 370 of the Indian state ineffective, special agent Zooni Haksar is tasked with a secret mission to quell violence in the conflict-ridden region.
Directed by Meghna Gulzar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRaazi's genius lies in marital intimacy as the ultimate double-agent liability—love becomes operational vulnerability in wartime intelligence work.
An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMcQuarrie's international globe-hopping and time-pressure mechanics exemplify contemporary spy craft's reliance on logistics and technological precision.
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Directed by Rian Johnson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a spy thriller—this is a murder mystery in a religious setting.
When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.
Directed by Yang Woo-seok
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSteel Rain executes the kidnap-extraction thriller by trapping diplomatic necessity and military survival in a single protagonist's impossible mission.
Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.
Directed by Michael Ritchie
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a spy thriller—this is a comedic crime caper about an undercover journalist.
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
Directed by Shantanu Bagchi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMunich's epistolary spy craft—letters and encrypted messages—resurrects pre-digital espionage tradecraft as genuinely suspenseful counterintelligence.
Set in the 1970s, an undercover Indian spy takes on a deadly mission to expose a covert nuclear weapons program in the heart of Pakistan.
Directed by Christian Schwochow
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMunich Conference becomes espionage battleground as former friends navigate geopolitical intrigue through coded messages and double-agent tension.
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Directed by Park Hoon-jung
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNight in Paradise weaponizes gang hierarchy as intelligence structure, where rival operatives infiltrate each other's organizations for leverage and survival.
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.
Directed by Robert De Niro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMardaani 2 subordinates serial-killer narrative to institutional critique, exposing how law enforcement itself enables predation through bureaucratic negligence.
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Directed by Ariel Vromen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Angel's true-story foundation—Ashraf Marwan's simultaneous service to Egypt and Israel—embodies the spy thriller's ultimate philosophical dilemma: loyalty's futility.
True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
Directed by Gideon Raff
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Red Sea Diving Resort transforms humanitarian rescue into deep-cover operation, proving compassion and espionage operate through identical operational frameworks.
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
Directed by Morgan S. Dalibert
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAKA weaponizes emotional bonding as counterintelligence vulnerability, where the operative's humanity becomes both asset and fatal operational liability.
A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss' young son.
Directed by Siddharth Anand
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWar's mentor-student combat dynamic transforms personal betrayal into tactical espionage, making emotional rupture the thriller's operational consequence.
Khalid, entrusted with the task of eliminating former soldier turned rogue Kabir, engages in an epic battle with his mentor who taught him everything.
Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Berlin File's arms-deal collapse simultaneously activates multiple hostile intelligence services, creating cascading paranoia where every actor becomes unreliable.
When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.
Directed by Lee Hae-young
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBeliever brilliantly inverts hierarchy: undercover cop outmaneuvers trafficker-turned-informant, proving institutional power corrupts agency more dangerously than crime.
After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel.
Directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeShe Walks in Darkness plants an agent into terrorist infrastructure without backup, weaponizing radical isolation as the spy thriller's purest psychological torture.
A young agent leaves everything behind to pose as a member of ETA, risking her life to uncover the terrorists' hideouts in the south of France.
Directed by Byun Sung-hyun
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGood News harnesses aviation security protocols as thriller architecture, where procedural rules become both obstacle and weapon in geopolitical cat-and-mouse.
When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.
Directed by Joe Russo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Gray Man's globe-spanning manhunt weaponizes institutional betrayal: when CIA hunts its own asset, bureaucracy becomes the true adversary.
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCarry-On's airport-security setting transforms mundane checkpoint procedures into espionage infrastructure, proving thriller tension lives in procedural specificity.
An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.
Directed by Trevor Nunn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRed Joan's elderly protagonist arrests force retrospective interrogation of decades-old Cold War ideological compromises, making memory itself a counterintelligence weapon.
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHumint's Russia-North Korea operative collision weaponizes asymmetrical intelligence capabilities, creating mutual assured paranoia across geopolitical fault lines.
A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.
Directed by Gopi Puthran
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a spy thriller—this is a crime drama about a police officer hunting a serial killer.
Officer Shivani Shivaji Roy is stationed at Kota where she goes against a ferocious serial killer who rapes and murders women.
Directed by Na Hyun
✦ MovieMuse AI takeYaksha: Ruthless Operations deploys black-ops hierarchy as psychological pressure-cooker, where team loyalty becomes lethal liability in foreign espionage.
Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
Directed by Cyprian T. Olencki
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFurioza's coercion premise—infiltrate or brother imprisoned—weaponizes familial obligation as tradecraft, making personal relationships operational liabilities.
A policewoman makes her ex-boyfriend an offer he can't refuse: either he infiltrates and informs on a gang of hooligans, or his brother goes to jail.
Directed by Abhinay Deo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeForce 2 synchronizes RAW institutional machinery with personal vengeance, proving intelligence agencies exploit emotional motivation as recruitment strategy.
ACP Yashvardhan teams up RAW Agent KK to bring down the master mind terrorist, Shiv.
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKhufiya's mole-hunt narrative weaponizes institutional paranoia itself, transforming intelligence agencies into self-cannibalizing entities consumed by internal suspicion.
When a mole in an intelligence unit leads to the murder of an undercover spy, a hardened agent relentlessly pursues him to avenge the death.
Directed by Rodolphe Lauga
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAd Vitam transforms domestic vulnerability into operational exposure, proving the assassin's family becomes his most exploitable security breach.
When he and his pregnant wife are attacked in their home, a former elite agent becomes trapped in a deadly manhunt tied to his own painful past.
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