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Secret Agent, spy film
Harry Palmer, who has left MI5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki. The package contains six virus-laden eggs that have been stolen from the government of the United K…
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Drama, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, arthouse science fiction film, comedy drama, fantasy film
The film is prefaced by a short story that begins "Once Upon a Time", a silent, black-and-white film that depicts an unnamed country filled with peasant labourers. They pick coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One wo…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, spy film
In 1960s London, Charles Dobbs is a staid MI6 operative investigating Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan, a former Communist who apparently commits suicide. Dobbs becomes suspicious about the cause of Fennan's death while visiting Fenna…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In London, sand is put into the bearings of an electrical generator, causing a power blackout. At a cinema owned by Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), people demand their money back. Verloc enters through a back entrance to the living quarters a…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy thriller, mystery film
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama becomes President of the United States and it is the first day of work for a man known as "The Fool". The Factory, a secret office of government agents, has hired him as a thief. After two agents, High Pri…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Komödie, comedy film, comedy thriller, spy film
An agent of the United States CIA is arrested in Morocco on drug-smuggling charges. The person behind the smuggling operation is CIA deputy director Burton Cooper, who hopes the scandal will lead to the resignation of CIA Director Ross and…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Two FBI agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse. As U.S. Senator Dennis Darden walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat and escapes.
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Action, Secret Agent, drama film, thriller film
Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company's credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer,…
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Action, Crime, Drama, spy film
The story takes place in the early 1970s in Chicago. A white U.S. Senator facing re-election is told that his speech on law and order has led to a decline in his popularity among his African-American constituents.
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Action Comedy, action film, children's film, spy film, superhero film
Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches hi…
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Drama, Historie, spy film
In the beginning of the Second World War, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency—the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a…
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Action, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
Mike Locken and George Hansen are longtime friends and professional partners, agents of Communications Integrity (ComTeg), a private intelligence agency that handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the end of their latest assignment, Ha…
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Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, spy film
About to leave the country, a young Russian woman is ambushed in her Tucson apartment after calling her contact about a Boeing 747 she witnessed landing in the desert. The lead assailant, Kerr, tortures her for information about her roomma…
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Crime, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, spy film
Major Sloane murders Professor Ragheeb, an expert in ancient hieroglyphs at Oxford University, and steals a hieroglyph-encrypted message. Sloane then asks American professor David Pollock, who has taken over Ragheeb's class, to meet with s…
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Komödie, Romance Film, romantic comedy
In a small town, Sam works as an astronomer and enjoys an idyllic life with his childhood sweetheart Linda, who is a school teacher. She wants more experiences than can be offered there, so she goes to New York City for a two-month teachin…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, drama film, spy film
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men h…
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Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, spy film, thriller film
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane wrongly falls under suspicion of setting fire to his Glendale, California manufacturing plant during World War II, an act of domestic sabotage. Kane believes the actual culprit to be an apparent employee,…
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Action, Thriller, drama film, spy film, thriller film
Samir Horn is an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim. His Sudanese father was killed by a car bomb when he was a child. As an adult, Samir is first seen operating as an arms dealer.
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Parodie, Secret Agent, spy film
According to the opening sequence of the film, the title refers to the idea that this film is actually the sixth installment of a series of films featuring the adventures of Leonard with parts one through five concealed in the interest of …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film
Thomas is a British Jew who until a year ago used to work for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in Germany. Now he is retired but still has access to some of his former employer's systems and resources. He receives a mysterious phone cal…
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Animation, children's film, family film, spy film
Lincoln Loud is excited to celebrate his Gran-Gran Myrtle's marriage with his grandfather, Albert. Knowing of, and fascinated by, Myrtle's past life as Agent 28, a secret agent who defeated a supervillain named Dr. Rufus Dufus in her youth…
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Action, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, thriller film
In 2005, undercover CIA operative Leonard Turner is held captive and interrogated by a group of unidentified Russian arms dealers. His interrogators have been aware of Leonard's true identity and demand a full written list of individuals a…
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Komödie, comedy film, female buddy film
"When two actresses discover that their mutual boyfriend isn't all he seems to be, they take off on a cross-country chase to track him down." Refined but struggling actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre p…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, comedy drama, science fiction film, spy film
After observing the launch of a new space platform, Z.O.W.I.E. Chief Lloyd C. Cramden joins President Trent for a game of golf.
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