01 A British businessman is recruited to secretly extract intelligence from a Soviet informant during the Cold War.
6 Best Double Agent and Mole Movies
By Vlad Zakh · March 8, 2026
Few premises generate more sustained paranoia than the hidden traitor working from within, and these films mine that tension expertly. In The Lives of Others (2006): An East German secret police officer surveilling a playwright grows unexpectedly sympathetic to his target. Equally memorable is Notorious (1946): A woman is recruited to spy on a group of Nazi conspirators by infiltrating their inner circle through marriage.
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02 An American lawyer negotiates a tense Cold War prisoner exchange between the US and Soviet Union.
03 A retired intelligence officer is brought back to uncover a Soviet mole embedded at the top of British intelligence.
04 An East German secret police officer surveilling a playwright grows unexpectedly sympathetic to his target.
05 A disillusioned British agent undertakes one final, morally ambiguous mission into East Germany.
06 A woman is recruited to spy on a group of Nazi conspirators by infiltrating their inner circle through marriage.
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