Most Popular "Cryptography" Titles

1. The Imitation Game (2014)

PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Writers: Graham Moore, Andrew Hodges | Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech

Votes: 460,463 | Gross: $91.12M

2. Zodiac (2007)

R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, History

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.

Writers: James Vanderbilt, Robert Graysmith | Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards

Votes: 298,893 | Gross: $33.05M

3. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar | Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 605,930 | Gross: $170.71M

4. The Da Vinci Code (2006)

PG-13 | 149 min | Mystery, Thriller

A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Dan Brown | Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen

Votes: 312,725 | Gross: $217.54M

5. For Your Eyes Only (1981)

PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Writers: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson | Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson

Votes: 71,725 | Gross: $62.30M

6. From Russia with Love (1963)

Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

Writers: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood | Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi

Votes: 88,934 | Gross: $24.80M

7. U-571 (2000)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, War

A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.

Writers: Jonathan Mostow, Sam Montgomery, David Ayer | Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi

Votes: 65,101 | Gross: $77.09M

8. Windtalkers (2002)

R | 134 min | Action, Drama, War

Two U.S. Marines in WWII are assigned to protect Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.

Writers: John Rice, Joe Batteer | Director: John Woo | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich

Votes: 55,782 | Gross: $40.91M

9. Mercury Rising (1998)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.

Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal | Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride

Votes: 54,106 | Gross: $32.94M

10. Sneakers (1992)

PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.

Writers: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes | Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, Jo Marr

Votes: 43,846 | Gross: $51.43M

11. The Numbers Station (2013)

R | 89 min | Action, Thriller

A disgraced black ops agent is dispatched to a remote CIA broadcast station to protect a code operator. Soon, they find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late.

Writer: F. Scott Frazier | Director: Kasper Barfoed | Stars: John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Liam Cunningham, Richard Brake

Votes: 15,318

12. Midway (1976)

PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

A dramatization of the battle that was heralded as the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Writer: Donald S. Sanford | Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford

Votes: 13,525

13. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

R | 131 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Writers: Robert Lindsey, Steven Zaillian | Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten

Votes: 8,257 | Gross: $17.10M

14. Travelling Salesman (2012)

80 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Four mathematicians are hired by the US government to solve the most powerful problem in computer science history.

Writers: Andy Lanzone, Timothy Lanzone | Director: Timothy Lanzone | Stars: Danny Barclay, Eric Bloom, David John Cole, Malek Houlihan

Votes: 842

15. Les vampires (1915)

Not Rated | 399 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

Writer: Louis Feuillade | Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé

Votes: 3,089

16. Revelation (2001)

R | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Dating back to the time of Jesus Christ, an ancient relic known as the Loculus has been fought over by the forces of light and darkness down the centuries. Created in 50 AD, the wood panels... See full summary »

Writers: Frank Falco, Stuart Urban | Director: Stuart Urban | Stars: Natasha Wightman, Udo Kier, Diran Meghreblian, David Urban

Votes: 1,381

17. Breaking the Code (1996 TV Movie)

75 min | Biography, Drama

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans... See full summary »

Writers: Andrew Hodges, Hugh Whitemore | Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Blake Ritson, William Mannering

Votes: 561

18. So Sweet, So Dead (1972)

X | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Writers: Luigi Angelo, Roberto Bianchi Montero, Italo Fasan | Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina, Silvano Tranquilli, Annabella Incontrera

Votes: 374

19. Sebastian (1968)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter. This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers.

Writers: Leo Marks, Gerald Vaughan-Hughes | Director: David Greene | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud

Votes: 364

20. Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)

111 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

This is called the first Soviet science fiction film because of its "futuristic" sets on Mars, although most of it takes place in Moscow. The movie is set at the beginning of the NEP (New ... See full summary »

Writers: Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep, Aleksei Tolstoy | Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolai Batalov

Votes: 1,661

21. The Nine Tailors (1974 TV Mini-Series)

Mystery

The title refers to the nine strokes of a church bell to announce the death of a man. In this adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers's intricate, nostalgic, and atmospheric novel of the same name,... See full summary »

Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Elizabeth Proud, Patrick Jordan

Votes: 232

22. The Red Machine (2009)

84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Washington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, a charming and irrepressible young thief is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device... See full summary »

Directors: Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm | Stars: Lee Perkins, Donal Thoms-Cappello, Meg Brogan, Mo Byrnes

Votes: 228

23. Rendezvous (1935)

94 min | Comedy, War

In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets ... See full summary »

Writers: Bella Spewack, Sam Spewack, P.J. Wolfson, George Oppenheimer, Herbert O. Yardley | Directors: William K. Howard, Sam Wood | Stars: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 462

24. Jane Doe: Vanishing Act (2005 TV Movie)

92 min | Mystery

Frank Darnell, director of the Central Security Agency (CSA), is at a loss when Miles Crandall, the genius who writes top-secret satellite communication software for is Pentagon-contracted ... See full summary »

Writer: Dean Hargrove | Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, William R. Moses, Jessy Schram

Votes: 233

25. Imagination (2007)

70 min | Fantasy

Dr. Reineger is a child neuro-psychologist who has become confident that the twin Anna has a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome, rendering her unable to cope with reality. As for her... See full summary »

Writer: Eric Leiser | Director: Eric Leiser | Stars: Ed K. Gildersleeve, Nikki Haddad, Jessi Haddad, Courtney Sanford

Votes: 187

26. Jaws of Justice (1933)

Passed | 58 min | Western

Seeker Dean has found the gold he has been looking for for 15 years. Heading for the Government office, Boone Jackson kills him. Kickabout finds a cryptogram as to the gold's location and ... See full summary »

Writer: Joseph Anthony Roach | Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jack Perrin, Robert Walker, Ruth Sullivan, Lafe McKee

Votes: 20

27. Black Kiss (2004)

133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the ... See full summary »

Writer: Macoto Tezuka | Director: Macoto Tezuka | Stars: Reika Hashimoto, Kaori Kawamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Masanobu Andô

Votes: 247

28. The Code Talkers: A Secret Code of Honor (2003 Video)

23 min | Documentary, Short

The cast and crew of Windtalkers (2002) and a select few of the actual Navajo code talkers share their feelings on the situation of their being involved in WWII, and the film. We also see ... See full summary »

Writer: Brian DiMuccio | Director: Richard Mortillaro | Stars: Adam Beach, Thomas A. Begay, Sam Billison, Jeff Bingaman

Votes: 33

29. Battle of the Atlantic (2002 TV Mini-Series)

Documentary, History, War

The story of the World War II effort by Nazi Germany to disrupt Allied shipping with U-boat attacks and the Allied efforts to prevent it.

Stars: Chris Broyles, Bill Paterson

Votes: 93

30. Asalto informático (2002 TV Movie)

105 min | Thriller

Each of the members of a group of hackers is willing to fight against system. Their messages and attacks are political, socially demmanding but also playful. Each of them have reasons to ... See full summary »

Writer: Fernando Hugo Rodrigo Blanco | Director: Miguel Angel Carrasco | Stars: Antonio Dechent, Lucina Gil, Paco Luna, Paco León

Votes: 18

31. Sekret Enigmy (1979)

158 min | Biography, Drama, History

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ... See full summary »

Writers: Stanislaw Strumph-Wojtkiewicz, Roman Wionczek | Director: Roman Wionczek | Stars: Tadeusz Borowski, Piotr Fronczewski, Piotr Garlicki, Tadeusz Plucinski

Votes: 28

32. Inside Q's Lab (2000 Video)

10 min | Documentary, Short

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Writer: Bruce Scivally | Director: John Cork | Stars: Marie Clairu, Desmond Llewelyn, Charles Juroe, Lewis Gilbert

Votes: 74

33. Noir (1996 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

This Windows CD-ROM game takes players back to 1940 Los Angeles through computer graphics composed entirely of black and white photographs and video. Players assume the role of a detective ... See full summary »

Writer: Jeff Blyth | Director: Jeff Blyth | Stars: John Boyle, Lesley Pedersen, Karen Teliha, Richard Morrison

Votes: 12

34. The Man from Downing Street (1922)

50 min | Adventure

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Writers: Lottie Horner, Bradley J. Smollen, Clyde Westover, Florine Williams | Director: Edward José | Stars: Earle Williams, Charles Hill Mailes, Boris Karloff, Betty Ross Clarke

35. Horizon (1964– )
Episode: Inside the Dark Web (2014)

Documentary

Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence - surveillance. With many concerned that governments and corporations ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Radford | Stars: Amanda Drew, Reem Al Assil, Julia Angwin, Jacob Appelbaum

Votes: 95

36. Foreign Intrigue (1951–1955)
Episode: The Boy in the Park (1955)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A cryptographer finally breaks an important code while resting in a quaint Viennese park. When he suffers a heart attack, a small boy picks up the paper he was working on and uses it is ... See full summary »

Director: Eugène Lourié | Star: Gerald Mohr

37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode: The Dancing Men (1984)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.

Creator: John Hawkesworth | Director: John Bruce | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Tenniel Evans, Betsy Brantley

Votes: 476

38. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: The Gold Bug (1980)

Not Rated | 45 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's Island off Charleston S.C., a boy encounters two obsessed eccentrics living there. These men ... See full summary »

Writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Pomerantz | Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Roberts Blossom, Geoffrey Holder, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Moberly

Votes: 54

39. Medium (2005–2011)
Episode: The Medium Is the Message (2009)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Allison begins to dream of a serial killer who has not struck in 11 years and is believed by the author of a best-selling book on the murders to have confessed on his death bed. When ... See full summary »

Creator: Glenn Gordon Caron | Director: Larry Teng | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 82

40. The Blacklist (2013– )
Episode: Wujing (No. 84) (2013)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Red (James Spader) takes Liz (Megan Boone) on an undercover assignment to bring down a freelance Chinese spy who's targeting CIA agents.

Creator: Jon Bokenkamp | Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold

Votes: 1,569