Spy thriller films are not new in the Indian film industry. Since the 1950s Bollywood has produced some good spy films. So today, we are going to discuss the top 19 Bollywood Spy Thriller Movies that you will surely love to watch with your friends and family members.
The List Of Indian Spy Thriller Movies
Have a look at the below section as here we have prepared a list of the 14 best Indian spy thrillers that you can bring watch.
- Farz (1967)
- CID (1956)
- Jewel Thief (1967)
- Aankhen (1968)
- Johny Mera Naam (1970)
- The Great Gambler (1979)
- Agent Vinod (2012)
- 16 December (2002)
- Baadshah (1999)
- D Day (2013)
- Ek Tha Tiger (2012)
- Gangster (2006)
- Baby (2015)
- Kahaani (2012)
- Madras Cafe (2013)
- The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003)
- Phantom (2015)
- Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014)
- Naam Shabana (2017)
Continue reading to grab every possible information about these Bollywood Best Spy Thriller Movies.
#1. Farz (1967)
Rating: 6.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The spy movie starts with Jeetendra who is an Indian secret agent investigating a case of the murder of his fellow secret agent and decided to expose the Under World.
Directed By: Ravikant Nagaich
Written By: V.D. Puranik, Vishwamitter Adil, Arudra
Cast: Aruna Irani, Jeetendra, Babita Kapoor, Kanchana, Manohar Deepak, Sajjan
#2. CID (1956)
Rating: 7.0/10 IMDb
Genre: Crime, Musical, Action
This is one of the best spy thriller movies in Bollywood of all time. A news editor gets murdered when he decided to expose the Under World. Dev Anand an honest police officer decided to investigate the case and decided to reveal the truth.
Directed By: Raj Khosla
Written By: Inder Raj Anand
Cast: Minoo Mumtaz, Dev Anand, Johnny Walker, Shakila, Kumkum, K.N. Singh
#3. Jewel Thief (1967)
Rating: 7.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Musician, Crime, Drama
The story of the movie revolves around a Jewel Theft who tries to put all the blame on the son of the Police Commissioner. The movie was released in 1967 and is one of the best Bollywood spy movies of all time.
Directed By: Vijay Anand
Written By: Vijay Anand, K.A. Narayan
Cast: Anju Mahendru, Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Dev Anand, Tanuja Samarth, Nasir Hussain
#4. Aankhen (1968)
Rating: 7.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Crime, Drama
In Assam, India faces terrorist attacks after Independence. Many people died in the terrorist attacks. Then, a group of people decided to do something for their state to prevent crime.
Directed By: Ramanand Sagar
Written By: Ramanand Sagar
Cast: Lalita Pawar, Mala Sinha, Dharmendra, Sujit Kumar, Parduman Randhawa, Daisy Irani, Zeb Rehman
#5. Johny Mera Naam (1970)
Rating: 7.4/10 IMDb
Genre: Musician, Action, Drama
This is another best spy thriller movies in Bollywood we include in the list. The movie starts with two Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) two sons of a police inspector. They are good at boxing. One day, their father gets killed by his enemies. The sons decided to take revenge on their father’s killer and the chase begins.
Directed By: Vijay Anand
Written By: Vijay Anand, K.A. Narayan
Cast: Premnath Malhotra, Dev Anand, Pran Sikand, Hema Malini, Jeevan Dhar
#6. The Great Gambler (1979)
Rating: 6.4/10 IMDb
Genre: Romance, Action, Crime
This is one of the best Bollywood spy thriller movies of all time. The plot of the movie revolves around Amitabh Bachchan who plays the character of a Gambler. The rest of the movie is all about spies, secret agents, gamblers, and gangsters.
Directed By: Shakti Samanta
Written By: Ranjan Bose
Cast: Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan, Prem Chopra, Zeenat Aman, Utpal Dutt
#7. Agent Vinod (2012)
Rating: 5.1/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Action
The movie was released in 2012 and the story of the film revolves around a Secret Agent who is on a mission to solve a high-profile kidnapping case.
Directed By: Sriram Raghavan
Written By: Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas
Cast: Gulshan Grover, Kareena Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Adil Hussain, Saif Ali Khan, Ram Kapoor
#8. 16 December (2002)
Rating: 6.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Crime, Action, Drama
The plot of the Bollywood spy thriller movie revolves around some terrorist who wants to destroy New Delhi with a nuclear weapon on 16 December 2001. Besides, the film also shows how a group of secret agents finds the clue from the black money Transaction about the attack.
Directed By: Mani Shankar
Written By: Mani Shankar
Cast: Gulshan Grover, Dipannita Sharma, Sushant Singh, Danny Denzongpa, Aditi Govitrikar
#9. Baadshah (1999)
Rating: 6.8/10 IMDb
Genre: Crime, Action, Comedy
Baadshah is an action-comedy movie. A detective name Baadshah ( SRK) is mistaken as a CBI officer and gets involved in a deadly mission to save the Chief Minister from an assassination attempt. Shah Rukh Khan’s character will surely make you laugh.
Directed By: Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla, Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla
Written By: Neeraj Vora, Shyam Goel
Cast: Johny Lever, Prem Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan, Amrish Puri, Twinkle Khanna
#10. D Day (2013)
Rating: 7.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Action
The movie starts with a group of secret agents of India who had to go to Pakistan to bring India’s most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim. The remaining story shows their journey and the challenges they faced in Pakistan.
Directed By: Nikkhil Advani
Written By: Niranjan Iyengar, Nikkhil Advani
Cast: Arjun Rampal, Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Huma Qureshi, Shruti Haasan
#11. Ek Tha Tiger (2012)
Rating: 5.5/10 IMDb
Genre: Romance, Action, Adventure
The movie is one of the best Bollywood spy thriller movies of all time. The movie starts with Salman Khan who plays the role of an Indian RAW Agent. On the other hand, Katrina Kaif is a Pakistani ISI Agent. Now, the twist began when the two agents fall in love with each other, and the Security Agencies of both countries search for them.
Directed By: Kabir Khan
Written By: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Ranvir Shorey, Salman Khan, Roshan Seth, Katrina Kaif, Girish Karnad
#12. Gangster (2006)
Rating: 7.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
The movie revolves around three people- an Undercover Spy Agent, a Gangstar, and his girlfriend. Kangana plays the character of the Gangstar’s girlfriend who wants love from her boyfriend but being a Gangstar Shiney Ahuja has to hide from the love. But the twist began when Kangana fall in love with an undercover spy agent who in reality wanted to catch the Gangster.
Directed By: Anurag Basu
Written By: Mahesh Bhatt
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Gulshan Grover, Shiney Ahuja, Vicky Ahuja
#13. Baby (2015)
Rating: 7.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
The movie is a perfect example of a Bollywood spy thriller movie. It revolves around a spy’s personal life and the way he deals with the terrorist.
Directed By: Neeraj Pandey
Written By: Neeraj Pandey
Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Kay Kay Menon, Danny Denzongpa, Rana Daggubati
#14. Kahaani (2012)
Rating: 8.1/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
The spy thriller movie starts with a pregnant woman who comes to Kolkata from London for her missing husband. But everyone she questions refuses to have ever met her husband. The movie was released in 2012 and is one of the best movies of Vidya Balan’s career.
Directed By: Sujoy Ghosh
Written By: Advaita Kala, Sujoy Ghosh
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan, Indraneil Sengupta, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Saswata Chatterjee, Darshan Jariwala
#15. Madras Cafe (2013)
Rating: 7.6/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
The movie shows the journey of an Indian secret agent into a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group. During the journey, he meets a charismatic journalist who follows him to reveal the truth.
Directed By: Shoojit Sircar
Written By: Shubhendu Bhattacharya
Cast: Prakash Belawadi, John Abraham, Raashi Khanna, Malini Sathappan, Manoj Bakshi
#16. The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003)
Rating: 7.0/10 IMDb
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller
The movie starts with Arun Khanna who is an Indian Govt spy and his aim is to stop ISI Chief Ishak Khan from doing terrorist activities. The village girl Reshma helps Arun Khanna to catch Ishaq Khan.
Directed By: Anil Sharma
Written By: Shaktimaan Talwar
Cast: Kabir Bedi, Sunny Deol, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Preity Zinta, Amrish Puri
#17. Phantom (2015)
Rating: 5.9/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
We include Phantom in the list of top Bollywood spy thriller movies. The plot of the film revolves around protagonist Daniyal whose journey to seek justice takes him to Europe from India. What will happen next? For that, you need to watch the movie.
Directed By: Kabir Khan
Written By: Hussain Zaidi, Kabir Khan
Cast: Sohaila Kapur, Saif Ali Khan, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Katrina Kaif, Sohaila Kapur
#18. Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014)
Rating: 7.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime
Virat is a military officer who comes to Mumbai on vacation. During vacation, he attempts to hunt down a gang of terrorists who are planning to destroy the city with sleeper cells. Will he and his team members will able to find out the terrorists and deactivate the sleeper cells?
Directed By: A.R. Murugadoss
Written By: A.R. Murugadoss
Cast: Sumeet Raghavan, Sonakshi Sinha, Freddy Daruwala, Akshay Kumar
#19. Naam Shabana (2017)
Rating: 6.2/10 IMDb
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
This spy thriller film starts with Shabana- a college student who lives with her mother. She killed her father at an early age trying to save her mother from his daily abuse. Shabana is in love with Jai. Unfortunately, Jai was killed by enemies and Shabana decided to punish Jai’s killer.
Directed By: Shivam Nair
Written By: Neeraj Pandey
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Taher Shabbir, Taapsee Pannu, Akshay Kumar, Prithviraj Sukumaran
Conclusion
That’s it. In this guide, we have discussed the 19 best Bollywood spy thriller movies of all time that you can watch and spend a good time with your friends and family members.
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