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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, spy film
Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation on Santa Catalina Island, California. His widowed daughter, Jennifer Nelson, helps by donning a mermaid costume and swimming underneath his boat for the passengers' amusement. Je…
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Action, Thriller, spy film
Harry Palmer is forced into early retirement from MI5. He receives a telephone call offering a mysterious job opportunity. Later he is given an air ticket to Saint Petersburg and on arrival is met by a young man named Nikolai.
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Drama, drama film, spy film
In 1940, German engineer Kurt Muller, his American wife Sara, and their children Joshua, Babette, and Bodo cross the Mexican border into the United States to visit Sara's brother David Farrelly and their mother Fanny in Washington, D.C. Fo…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, action film, comedy film
Jane and Jefferson Blue are a wise-cracking couple of spies for an unnamed U.S. covert organization on maternity leave in New Orleans with their baby daughter whom they dote on (though they are unable to agree on whether her name should be…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
In 1914, Imperial German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of mysterious assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British Intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black noteb…
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Secret Agent, spy film
American-born East German dissident Alex Holbeck, living in Paris, hosts a samizdat radio program aimed at Iron Curtain countries. Bodley, a CIA agent, recruits Alex to take on a dangerous assignment. Alex is sent to East Berlin on a missi…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, musical film
During World War I, Lili Smith is a beloved English musical star and a secret German spy, much admired by the French and British pilots who she mixes with at the Cafe Can-Can. One American, Major Larrabee, woos her with a gypsy serenade ou…
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Crime, drama film, mystery film, spy film
Coming to the assistance of a nanny who is almost killed during a bungled hit-and-run assassination attempt, Richard Hannay is surprised to find that there is no baby in her pram. Curious, he meets her at the Palace Music Hall where she ha…
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Monster Film, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In 1982, a Soviet moon lander crashes into the Bering Sea. In 2015, biology professor Stephen and graduate students Ronelle and Sadie go on an experimental tour to study the effects of global warming on whales. Sadie's grandfather, Graff, …
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Secret Agent, action film, disaster film, spy film, thriller film
Soviet General Marenkov decides to defect to the West. He is in charge of Operation Winter Harvest, a plot to poison crops in the West. CIA agent Harry Wargrave leads the extraction team.
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Romance Film, Thriller, drama film
A talented and idiosyncratic bio-mathematician, Danielle Flinders is staying at a seaside hotel on the coast of Normandy where she meets the British Agent James More awaiting transport to Somalia to search for Somali Jihadist leaders. The …
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, spy film
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig, who is disrespectful of it, and seems more interested in women and drinking. Arriving in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted that Inger Lisa Andersson, whom he f…
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War Film, spy film
In response to a radio broadcast request for photographs of France, mother of three Odette Sansom sends a letter to the Admiralty, but an addressing mistake brings her to the attention of the Special Operations Executive, who need French p…
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Action, Sci-Fi, spy film
Oscar Goldman is reluctantly attending a gala banquet at The Pentagon to celebrate the upcoming "World Unity Games" unhappy that he now has to practice détente with former enemies in the era of glasnost. Also at the gala, Steve Austin is n…
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Crime, Secret Agent, crime film, detective film, drama film, spy film
Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization. Qu…
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Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, film noir, spy film
In an opening scene before the credits, the assassin Banat is seen preparing a gun while a gramophone sticks as it plays. The story that follows is the narrative of a letter from Howard Graham, an American armaments engineer, to his wife S…
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Thriller, crime film, spy film, thriller film
Noel Holcroft's late father — who was a general in the Wehrmacht and once close to Adolf Hitler — left behind a fortune supposedly to make amends for his wrongdoings. More than forty years later, Noel finds himself embroiled in a web of co…
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Parodie, Secret Agent, spy film
thumb|Monica Vitti at the set in Amsterdam, July 1965 thumb|Interview with Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti and director Joseph Losey After the assassination of one of their agents in Amsterdam, British Secret Service chief Sir Gerald Tarrant r…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, spy film, thriller film
CIA officer Harris is involved in missions to detain and relocate foreign nationals for interrogation. When Harris' superior is murdered, he finds himself the scapegoat for the killing of a detainee and must run from a team of operatives s…
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Thriller, War Film, drama film, spy film, war film
As German forces take over Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Axel Bomasch, a Czechoslovak scientist working on a new type of armour-plate, is flown to Britain. Bomasch's daughter, Anna, is arrested before she can reach the airport and sent to …
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Action Comedy, action film, comedy film, romantic comedy film, spy film
Jonathan Moore, an 18-year-old veterinary student at UCLA, is an expert at "Gotcha", a popular Assassin-like game where students chase each other on campus using paintball guns. Jonathan and his roommate Manolo travel to Paris during sprin…
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Cartoon, action film, adventure film, musical film
In the opening scene, a man physically identical to Fred Flintstone, later revealed to be secret agent Rock Slag, is being chased through Bedrock. His pursuers, Ali and Bobo, think that they have finally killed Slag when they push him off …
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Drama, Historie, War Film, spy film
A few months before the D-Day landings during World War II, the British government launches a misinformation campaign, spreading a rumour that the landings might occur at a location other than Normandy. The details of the operation are han…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, spy film
Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His best friend and superior, director general Benedict Baron, summons Worricker to a meeting with fellow MI5 agent Jill Tankard and Home Secretary Anthea Catcheside regarding a potentially e…
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