15 Most Underrated Spy Movies Of All Time

15. Top Secret

Starting off with a spoof, 1984's Top Secret! is the wildly underrated Airplane follow-up created by comedic dream team ZAZ.

At the height of their powers in the eighties brothers David and Jerry Zucker, alongside Hot Shots creator Jim Abrahams, created this Val Kilmer vehicle in the years between their more recognized hits Airplane and The Naked Gun.

Criminally under-seen, this World War II set spoof of spy movies manages to be even more chaotic and anarchic than Airplane, with its nonsensical plot and countless detours harkening back to the troupe's scattershot film debut, 1977's John Landis-directed Kentucky Fried Movie.

The plot ostensibly follows Kilmer's attempts to stop East and West Germany reuniting under cover of a culture festival, but it's mostly an inspired excuse for some Elvis song parodies and increasingly ambitious, surreal sight gags.