7 of the best wartime spy thrillers

1MATA HARI (1931)

THIS Greta Garbo movie is the story of an exotic dancer who spied on the British for the Germans. The movie posters declared: “Men worshipped her like a goddess, only to be betrayed by a kiss!”

2NOTORIOUS (1946)

ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S thriller has Ingrid Bergman as a woman recruited to expose a group of Nazis in South America. Cary Grant co-stars as a US intelligence officer.

3CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE (1958)

INSPIRED by the real-life story of Violette Szabo, Virginia McKenna plays the wife and mother who went undercover in Germanoccupied France during the Second World War.

4CHARLOTTE GRAY (2001)

CATE Blanchett stars as a young Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance to find her pilot lover shot down in France.

5FEMALE AGENTS (2008)

FRENCH film about an all-female team recruited to rescue a British expert from the Germans during the Second World War before they uncover information about the D-Day landings in Normandy.

6INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)

QUENTIN TARANTINO’S film stars Diane Kruger as an undercover German film star working with the British to assassinate Nazi leaders gathered together for a movie premiere.

7THE DEBT (2010)

HELEN MIRREN plays an Israeli agent who was part of a team after a Nazi criminal, but events come back to haunt them 30 years later.