Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore spies, espionage and secret agents.
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Super Hero, action film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
Russian terrorist group Anarchy 99 acquires the biochemical weapon "Silent Night", presumed missing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Undercover NSA agent Jim McGrath is assigned to recover the weapon, but is killed by Anarchy 99 …
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In Brazil, a satellite that had fallen out of orbit crashes on NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons who is attempting to recruit footballer Neymar for the Triple-X (xXx) program, seemingly killing them both. In New York City, Xiang's team infiltrate…
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Action, Computeranimation, Romantic Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, epic film, live-action/animated film, military science fiction, science fiction film, white savior film
In 2154, Earth suffers from resource exhaustion and ecological collapse. The Resources Development Administration (RDA) mines the valuable mineral unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora is i…
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Action, action film, adventure film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In Virginia, assailants breach an underground NSA bunker run by Agent Augustus Gibbons, who fends off the attackers before barely escaping with Toby Shavers. To find help from a XXX with more attitude, Gibbons meets his former comrade, Dar…
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Secret Agent, action film, spy film
Two months after retrieving the key to the source code for the malevolent artificial intelligence known as the Entity, rogue IMF agent Ethan Hunt receives a message from U.S. President Erika Sloane, informing Ethan that the Entity continue…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
An adolescent Madeleine Swann witnesses her mother's murder by Lyutsifer Safin, whose family was murdered by Madeleine's father, Mr. White, under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. After wounding Safin, Madeleine falls into a frozen lake, b…
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Satire On War, War Film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, alternate history film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, parody film, period drama film, political satire, suspense film, thriller film, war drama, war film
In 1941, Austrian SS- Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite about a fugitive Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. He boasts his nickname, "The Jew Hunter", then offers LaPadite amnesty if he will give up the Dreyfuses. LaPa…
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Action, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Dom Cobb and Arthur are "extractors" who perform corporate espionage using experimental dream-sharing technology to infiltrate their targets' subconscious and extract information. Their latest target, Saito, is impressed with Cobb's abilit…
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Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980s Boston, Irish mob boss Frank Costello introduces himself to a young Colin Sullivan. Years later, Sullivan has been groomed as Costello's spy inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and joins the Special Investigation Unit. Ano…
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Secret Agent, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film, spy film, thriller film, time-travel film
On "the 14th,” the Protagonist leads a covert CIA extraction during a staged terrorist siege at an Opera House in Kyiv. Compromised, he is saved from KORD forces by a masked operative whose bag has an orange trinket. The Protagonist retrie…
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Romance Film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 operative James Bond is promoted to 00 agent after assassinating traitorous MI6 section chief Dryden and his contact in Prague. In Uganda, Mr. White introduces Steven Obanno, a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, to Le Chiffre, an…
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Action Comedy, War Film, action comedy film, action film, drama film, spy film, war film
In late 1941, during World War II, the United Kingdom struggles to halt Nazi Germany's attempts to take over Europe, with London regularly bombed by the Luftwaffe and supply and aid ships constantly sunk by German submarines. Brigadier Col…
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Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, spy film
In Istanbul, MI6 agents James Bond and Eve Moneypenny pursue mercenary Patrice, who has stolen a hard drive containing details of undercover NATO agents. As Bond and Patrice fight on the roof of a moving train, M orders Moneypenny to shoot…
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Dark Comedy, Secret Agent, Tragic Comedy Film, adventure film, black comedy film, spy film, thriller film
In 1950, stateless arms dealer and industrialist Anatole "Zsa-Zsa" Korda narrowly survives a sixth assassination attempt. Knowing he cannot run forever, Korda tries to mend his relationship with his only daughter, Catholic novice Sister Li…
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Action, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
A cryptic message from the previous M leads MI6 agent James Bond to carry out a mission in Mexico City, foiling a bombing attempt at the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral during the Day of the Dead festival. Bond obtains a ring, stylised …
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Anti-War Film, Crime, Historie, Melodrama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, film noir, flashback film, romance film, war film
In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca, then in French Morocco. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and German officials, refugees desperate…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the representative of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for obtaining the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises to provide Loki with …
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Secret Agent, action film
In Dubai, an MI6 mission to extract intelligence run by Nigel Cooke fails when his men are killed by Liam Crown. Jack Ryan, now working a civilian job on Wall Street, is approached by his friend James Greer, now CIA deputy director. He rel…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, spy film
The Sevastopol, a next-generation Russian stealth submarine named after the Ukrainian city of same name, on its inaugural mission, activates an advanced active learning defense system using a two-piece cruciform key. The AI appears to beco…
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Action, Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film
Shortly after capturing Mr. White, James Bond drives him from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. Evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates White regarding the mysterious organisation Quantum.
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Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film, melodrama, romance film, thriller film
In 1962, during the Cold War, Elisa Esposito works as a janitor in a secret government laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. Found abandoned by the side of a river as an infant with scars on her neck, Elisa is mute and communicates through si…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
George Woodhouse, a counterintelligence officer with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is given one week by his superior, Philip Meacham, to investigate the leak of a top-secret software program code-named Severus. One of five sus…
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Anti-War Film, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1928, Alan Turing, constantly bullied at boarding school, befriends Christopher Morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography. Turing develops romantic feelings, but Christopher dies of bovine tuberculosis before he can confess. When …
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, spy film
MI6 agents James Bond and Alec Trevelyan infiltrate a clandestine Soviet chemical weapons lab in Arkhangelsk. After witnessing Trevelyan seemingly being executed by the facility's commanding officer, Colonel Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, Bon…
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