The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 spy film, the tenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. The film co-stars Barbara Bach and Curt Jürgens and was directed by Lewis Gilbert.
The film takes its title from Ian Fleming's 1962 novel The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth book in the James Bond series, though it does not contain any elements of the novel's plot. The storyline involves a reclusive megalomaniac named Karl Stromberg, who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilisation under the sea. Bond teams up with a Soviet agent, Anya Amasova, to stop the plans, all while being hunted by Strombergs powerful henchman, Jaws.
The Spy Who Loved Me was well received by critics, who saw the film as a return to form for the franchise and praised Moore's performance. Moore himself called the film his personal favourite of his tenure as Bond. The soundtrack composed by Marvin Hamlisch also met with success. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards amid many other nominations and novelised in 1977 by Christopher Wood as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me.
A British and a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine suddenly vanish. James Bond MI6 agent 007 is summoned to investigate. On the way to his briefing, Bond escapes an ambush by a squad of Soviet agents in Austria, killing one during a downhill ski chase and evading the others. The plans for a highly advanced submarine tracking system are being offered in Egypt. There, Bond encounters Major Anya Amasova KGB agent Triple X as a rival for the microfilm plans. They travel across Egypt together, encountering Jaws a tall assassin with razor-sharp steel teeth along the way. Bond and Amasova reluctantly join forces after a truce is agreed by their respective British and Soviet superiors. They uncover evidence linking the plans to shipping tycoon and reclusive scientist Karl Stromberg.
They identify one of Stromberg's men, Sandor, who leads them to one of Stromberg's associates, Max Kalba, who runs a club in Cairo. There they find that Kalba has been killed by Jaws and retrieve the microfilm from his body. They then track down Stromberg's underwater base, Atlantis, where he is holding the missing submarines captive. Stromberg reveals his plan to trigger a nuclear war between Britain and Russia, which would destroy both superpowers and allow him to create a new world order under the sea. He also reveals that he knows of Amasova's identity and that he was responsible for killing her lover in Austria. He then orders Jaws to kill them, but they escape and stow away on one of the captured submarines, Liparus. They contact MI6 and inform them of Stromberg's plan.
Bond and Amasova organise the submarine crews to attack Stromberg's men and take control of Liparus. They then use the submarine to fire a torpedo at Atlantis, destroying it and killing Stromberg. However, before they can escape, they are attacked by another submarine controlled by Stromberg's second-in-command, Naomi. They manage to evade her torpedoes and destroy her submarine with their own. They then surface and are picked up by a Royal Navy helicopter. As they kiss, they are interrupted by their superiors on a video call, who congratulate them on their success.