Eurospy film

Eurospy films is a nickname for the genre of European international co-production films that imitated and/or parodied the British James Bond series of films. The first large wave of Eurospy films were released in 1964, two years after the release of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, and the same year of the release of the film many consider to be the apotheosis of the James Bond film series, Goldfinger. For the most part, the Eurospy craze ended around 1967 or 1968. In Italy, where most of these films were produced, this trend replaced the declining sword and sandal genre.