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Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Federal Agent movies. #1. The Untouchables (1987) Rating: 7.9/10. Length: 1h 59min. Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime. Director: Brian De Palma. Storyline: After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone rules Chicago with an iron fist.
- 15 Point Break
- 14 Donnie Brasco
- 13 The FBI Story
- 12 Face/Off
- 11 The Siege
- 10 Wind River
- 9 American Hustle
- Edgar
- 7 No Man of God
- 6 The Departed
Clearly, this is one of your less truly factual FBI films, and that’s because it’s mostly about Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reevessurfing and jumping out of airplanes. Keanu is Johnny Utah, a newbie agent and former college football player paired up with Agent Angelo Pappas, played by Gary Busey, which really raises some eyebrows about the Bureau’s hi...
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Donnie Brascowas based on a memoir by Joseph Pistone, who was played in the film by Johnny Depp, an FBI agent who went deep undercover with the New York Bonnano crime family in the 1970s under the moniker Donnie Brasco. Posing as a jewel thief, Pistone/Brasco ends up forging an uneasy frie...
James Stewart starred in this 1959 drama that had a leg up over its competitors in the category of FBI movies: J. Edgar Hoover was a consultant. Not only did he tell the director Mervyn Le Roy, who was a friend, to ax scenes in which he didn’t approve of the Bureau’s portrayal, but he also made a brief cameo and ensured that two agents were on set ...
John Woo’s cult action film had the capacity to be unwatchably silly, but he pushed it that little bit further and it became fantastic. John Travolta played stalwart FBI agent Sean Archer, although much of the time he looks like Nicolas Cage, who is playing mad criminal Castor Troy, because the two have had their faces swapped, in what has to be a ...
Denzel Washington and Tony Shalhoub starred in this 1998 action thriller as special agents Hubbard and Haddad, desperately trying to stem a series of terrorist attacks taking place in New York City. Much like real life after 9/11, law enforcement came down with terrifying harshness against the Arab-American community, and Haddad’s son is one of man...
Taylor Sheridan’s 2017 neo-Western stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as government agents (U.S. Fish and Wildlife and FBI, respectively) trying to solve the murder of an 18-year-old girl whose frozen body was discovered on a Wyoming Indian reservation. The agents butt heads with the medical examiner and security guards at a nearby oil-drillin...
David O. Russell’s 2013 film is a highly fictionalized version of the FBI’s Abscam sting operationof the 1970s and 80s, which involved the takedown of a number of government officials for bribery and corruption, mostly in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Christian Bale and Amy Adams play con artists Irving and Sydney who are caught by an FBI...
A biopic of the FBI’s most famous director starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Clint Eastwood was always going to be big, whether a flop or a hit, and it was mostly a success, with DiCaprio in particular getting acclaim for his performance as the beefy, complicated character. The film goes over seminal moments in history such as the kidnappi...
Going hand-in-hand with our fascination with the FBI is our fascination with serial killers, and Amber Sealey’s 2021 film combines both. Based on historical transcripts, Elijah Wood is Special Agent Bill Hagmaier, who from 1984 to 1989 took on death row inmate Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) as a case study with the Behavior Science Unit. It’s always a risk...
This isn’t a straight portrayal of an FBI agent, but there are still a lot of ties to the organization. Martin Scorsese’s 2006 thriller is based on a few sources: 2002 Hong Kong crime drama Infernal Affairs, the Winter Hill Gang out of Boston led by Whitey Bulger, and the corrupt FBI agent who fell in with them, John Connolly. There’s a good deal o...
- Molly Pohlig
To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
Federal Agent: Directed by Sam Newfield. With William Boyd, Irene Ware, Don Alvarado, Lenita Lane. A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Sam Newfield
- 1936-04-14
Bob Woods, a federal agent, is about to leave on a vacation with fellow agent Jack Lynch when Lynch is murdered. Lynch had been on the West Coast investigating an international spy ring that is trying to secure a formula for a super-explosive created by American inventor Sanderson that could destroy the world.
- Sam Newfield
- William Boyd
Asian crime boss Kaneshiro captures two voluptuous undercover federal agents, Donna and Nicole. But instead of liquidating them, he gives the busty duo a head start in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving six other assassin teams.
Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein. On the threshold of international fame as mature cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd made three low-budget action-melodramas for independent company Winchester Pictures, the last of which, Federal Agent, featured the prematurely graying star as Bob Woods, a G-Man looking into the death of a colleague.
