List of films based on spy books
A list of spy films that are based on books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series, then the TV series is included.
French Revolution
More to add| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
| 1 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1917 | Richard Stanton | United States | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 1905 | Novel | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel | 1955 | UK |
| 2 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1934 | Harold Young | UK | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 1905 | Novel | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1999 | UK |
Early USA
More to add| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
| 1 | The Spy | 1914 | Otis Turner | United States | James Fenimore Cooper | 1821 | Novel | - | - | - |
World War I
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| 1 | The Great Impersonation | 1921 | George Melford | United States | The Great Impersonation | E. Phillips Oppenheim | 1920 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 3 | The Great Impersonation | 1935 | Alan Crosland | United States | The Great Impersonation | E. Phillips Oppenheim | 1920 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 4 | Secret Agent | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | W. Somerset Maugham | 1928 | Novel | Ashenden | 1991 | UK | |
| 5 | The Great Impersonation | 1942 | John Rawlins | United States | The Great Impersonation | E. Phillips Oppenheim | 1920 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 6 | The 39 Steps | 1959 | Ralph Thomas | UK | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 7 | The 39 Steps | 1978 | Don Sharp | UK | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | Novel | - | - | - |
World War II
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& pre-WWIICold War
In March 2015, shooting wrapped on the film adaptation, Damascus Cover of Howard Kaplan's novel The Damascus Cover set in 1989 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Hurt, Jurgen Prochnow and Olivia Thirlby.