15 Most Underrated Spy Movies Of All Time

Easily the most underrated movie on this list despite being helmed by Seconds director/counter-cultural film icon John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate is a blackly funny Cold War satire which took unsparing aim at nationalistic jingoism at the time of its 1962 release.

A twisty thriller with a killer script, the film follows Frank Sinatra in shaky, nervously charming form as a former troop whose fellow soldier is commended as a hero and thrust into political life by his overbearing mother upon the pair's release from a Korean war camp.

However all is not as it seems in this unpredictable flick, a movie whose tone bounces from spiky satire to deadly serious thriller every couple of minutes. Featuring Angela Lansbury's finest performance and an early, effective depiction of PTSD in the form of Sinatra's troubled hero, this one is a must-watch for political thriller fans, history heads, spy movie completists, satire lovers, literally anyone who likes films...