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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, thriller film
Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, seeks out a Munich resident named Jakob Zouk to warn him about a plot against his life. Zouk is terminally ill and receives the news with apathy, so Stratten explains his …
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Komödie, spy film
The plot provides the setup for a string of sight gags, puns, jokes based on Asian stereotypes, and general farce. The central plot involves the misadventures of secret agent Phil Moskowitz, hired by the Grand Exalted High Macha of Rashpur…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film
Retired CIA black-ops hitman James Jackson Dial (Wesley Snipes) is living his life in seclusion on his ranch in Montana when he is offered the chance to redeem himself by his former employer, Jeremy Collins (Ralph Brown). Some years earlie…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, spy film, thriller film
Harry Pearce is head of the counter-terrorism department (Section D) at MI5. Harry's team is transporting terrorist Adem Qasim through London when the convoy is attacked, allowing Qasim to escape and a CIA operative to be killed. Realising…
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Romance Film, melodrama, spy film
After the death of her husband and a failed love affair with married Royal Air Force Group Captain Richard Paterson, Judith Farrow, a British Home Office assistant, meets Soviet attaché Colonel Feodor Sverdlov while on vacation in Barbados…
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Drama, Film Noir, film noir
In post World War II Paris, various passengers board a secure U.S. Army train to Frankfurt. They include American, Russian, British, French, and German diplomats, scientists, military personnel, and others cleared to make the passage.
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Secret Agent, spy film
In late 1930s London, debonair safecracker Eddie Chapman pulls off several safe crackings (as the Gelignite Gang) but is caught and convicted while holidaying on the channel island of Jersey and imprisoned. Months later, war commences and …
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Crime, spy film
"Combined Intelligence" agent James Bond comes under fire from an assassin. He dodges the bullets and enters Casino Royale. There he meets his British contact, Clarence Leiter, who remembers "Card Sense Jimmy Bond" from when he played the …
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, romance film, spy film, war film
In 1992, Linda Voss is interviewed by a BBC documentary team about her experiences during World War II. Growing up in New York City as a woman of mixed Irish/German Jewish parentage, she dreamed of visiting family members in Berlin. In 194…
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action film, comedy film, spy film
Eighteen-year-old Michael Corben of Detroit, Michigan, is a handsome underachiever slacker. Rather than attending his high school French class, he spends all of his time drinking and partying, until graduation arrives, when all of his deba…
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Action, Secret Agent
A group of officers based in the Citadel, a top-secret CIA–Five Eyes black site in Jordan, must fight for their lives in a cat-and-mouse game against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee, who got himself on the black site …
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Horror, Nazi exploitation, Thriller, War Film, exploitation film
Two officers from the American Women's Army Corps volunteer to go undercover in a Nazi concentration camp to gather information and potentially rescue Martha Grossman, a Jewish scientist. The female inmates serve as sex slaves for German o…
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Political Thriller, drama film, spy film
Joseph Rearden, a petty criminal-turned-agent for British intelligence, arrives in London. There, MI5 officer Mackintosh and his deputy, Mrs. Smith, inform Rearden of a way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service.
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Crime, Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, war film
On July 29, 1939, renowned British big-game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's Bavarian retreat. With Hitler in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifl…
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Crime, Thriller, film noir, heist film, spy film
On a crowded New York City subway train pickpocket Skip McCoy steals Candy's wallet. Unbeknownst to either it contains microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend Jo…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, spy film
Once a photographer by day and spy by night, Matt Helm is now a happily retired secret agent, shooting photos of glamorous models instead of guns and enjoying a close relationship with his assistant, the lovely Lovey Kravezit. But then his…
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Drama, Film Noir, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, romance film
In December 1941, just before the entry of the United States into World War II, an American agent from the Naval Intelligence Office arrives in Shanghai to find his friend Conner was recently murdered. Determined to find out who killed Con…
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Action, Thriller, drama film, spy film
CIA operative Emerson Kent (John Cusack) is sent to kill a man who owns a bar. Before being killed by Kent, the man reveals he is a former agent who wanted to retire. A witness flees the scene, accidentally leaving his wallet behind.
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Historie, Secret Agent, War Film
The series is set from 1934 to 1951 and follows the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean, who whilst studying at the University of Cambridge are court…
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Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Evan Lake is a highly decorated veteran CIA agent and Intelligence Star recipient reduced to a desk job at Langley with his protege and close friend Milton "Milt" Schultz. Twenty-two years ago during an op in Africa, Lake was captured by t…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, who were so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents. They can be activated on…
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Komödie, comedy film
In the Soviet Union on the eve of Perestroika, groups of potential Soviet spies are trained in a town made up to pass for "Indian Springs", Nebraska. The denizens of the town speak perfect English and go about their days as Americans to tr…
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spy film
Major Mujtaba Rizvi is a former Pakistan Army officer, who took an early retirement. The plot involves a counter-terrorism operation being conducted in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, led by Ehtesham Khattak and coordinated by …
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Mysterie, Secret Agent, cyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
Recently unemployed accountant Morgan Sullivan is bored with his suburban life. Pressured by his wife to take a job with her father's company, he instead pursues a position in corporate espionage. Digicorp's Head of Security, Finster, indu…
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