Best Spy & Agent movies of 1970s

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Akemi Negishi, Yôko Hori, Ryôko Ema, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston, Lawrence Cook, Janet League,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Actors : Joop Doderer, Derek Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In a vein similar to James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Jean Négroni, Patrick Fierry, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before ...

Actors : Peter Carsten, Elke Sommer, Marius Goring, Michael York,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.

Actors : Tom Courtenay, Marlène Jobert, Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Dick Clement,

Andrej (Kirk Douglas), a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travelers to transport the contraband out of the country.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Linda Evans, Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin,

Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Paul Rogers, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Actors : Gordon Jackson, Denholm Elliott, Bette Davis, Robert Wagner,
Directors : David Greene,

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

Actors : Michael Ansara, John Carter, Francine York, Anthony Eisley,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

Squad of beautiful government agents tries to catch saboteurs.

Actors : Zouzou, Elliott Gould, Joss Ackland, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of ...

Actors : Ni Tien, Norman Fell, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson,
Directors : Charles Bail,

When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find ...

Actors : Allen Fiuzat, Benji, Patsy Garrett, Art Vasil,
Directors : Joe Camp,

Benji sniffs out a bogus CIA agent in Athens, Greece.

Actors : William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Houston Savage,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Hell's Angels vs. the Viet Cong!

Actors : Jill Harris, Frank Silvano, Chesty Morgan, Saul Meth,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

Underworld drug king Toplar is flooding the market with low-grade heroin. Agent 99 gets a bit too close to the truth, but manages to gasp out a clue as to the identity of Toplar: he has a ...

Actors : Catherine Schell, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Edward Woodward,
Directors : Don Sharp,

David Callan, top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a ...

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Richard Widmark, Sam Wanamaker, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

While vacationing in Lebanon, a former secret agent finds he has been marked for assassination.