Spies and seduction have been comfortable bedfellows since Samson and Delilah, so SPYSCAPE hand-picked 15 steamy, must-stream movies for a romantic date night. In addition to Tom Cruise’s smoothest moves, there’s an eclectic mix of spy movies certain to tease and please.
Max (Brad Pitt) and Marianne (Marion Cotillard) live for danger in Allied (2016), with a backdrop of cloak-and-dagger espionage adding a spark to their fiery relationship. Some married couples dabble in the dark arts in real life too, including two KGB super-spies who infiltrated the CIA in the 1970s and joined a spy ‘swingers’ club.
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Sex and secrets went hand-in-hand for Dmitri Bystrolyotov. He was a Stasi ‘Romeo’, seducing West German secretaries to steal secrets in a Cold War world full of torrid affairs. Young Soviet journalist Emil Draitser stumbled on Dmitri’s story and revealed the devilish details in our True Spies podcast.
French Queen Marie Antoinette was notoriously decadent, powdering her white wigs with flour while her subjects struggled without bread. Her affairs were the source of constant gossip during the dangerous days of the French Revolution, leading researchers to develop X-ray technology to decode her centuries-old love letters. What secrets did they reveal?
