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Satire On War, action comedy film, spy film, war film
The film takes place as two parallel plots separated by a couple of years: In 1982, Wylie Cooper is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army. In 1984, US Army tank commander Lt. T.M.
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Secret Agent
Set in ISIS-controlled Raqqa, the plot follows mercenary spy Haibala (serving Russian interests) and Ceuta nurse/spy Malika (working via Europol), both chasing ISIS leader "The Jordanian".
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Thriller, mystery film, religious film, thriller film
After a hacking attack on the Pope alerts him to two mysterious deaths in a church in Seville, the Vatican sends special agent Father Quart to investigate by orders of his superior, Spada. Ownership of the church is contested between Macar…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film, spy film
In 2065, the first human mission to Mars is launched from Glenn Field in the form of spacecraft Zero-X. Unknown to Captain Travers and his four-man crew, master criminal the Hood has stowed away on board to photograph Zero-Xs wing mechanis…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
Cross is an experienced, but retiring Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and assassin who is training freelance hitman Jean Laurier, alias Scorpio, to replace him. Cross is teaching him as much about protecting himself from his patron…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Jeffrey Nicolas Grant (River Phoenix), a brash hyperactive high school student, lives in a San Diego suburb with his parents, who own a successful garden center. Keen to fly, he has applied for entry to the Air Force Academy. During a rout…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Vienna Anna accompanies her sister Mirka to a nude photo-shoot for an escort agency, run by Rocco. Mirka chooses the professional name 'Blanca', and Rocco reveals he murdered a wealthy client, splitting his money with the escort who tipped…
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Drama, disaster film, drama television series, romance film
In Southampton in 1916, HMHS Britannic, a sister ship of the Titanic, is commissioned as a hospital vessel for wounded Allied soldiers fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign. Among the nurses who are to serve aboard her is Lady Lewis, who is b…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, spy film
In 2069, the European Space Exploration Council's (EUROSEC) Sun Probe discovers a planet in the same orbital path as Earth on the far side of the Sun. The findings are transmitted to a power in the East by double agent Dr Hassler. Tracing …
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Thriller, spy film
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky.). They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen f…
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy
The story is set in New York City in the 1890s. A bawdy singer, Lady Lou, works in the Bowery barroom saloon of her boss and benefactor, Gus Jordan, who has given her many diamonds. But Lou is a lady with more men friends than anyone might…
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Adventure, Dark Comedy, spy film
In London, in 1908, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau Limited. To bring about its destruction, she meets the bureau's you…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, political thriller film
In 1974, Carlos the Jackal has sex and kills a spider with his cigarette then evicts the woman from his room. He dons a disguise and walks to a cafe where CIA agent Henry Fields is sitting at a table. Recognizing Fields, Carlos asks for a …
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LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, Thriller, political thriller film, spy film
In late 1969, U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Charles Rone is contacted by "The Highwayman", a veteran spy and member of a freelance espionage ring that sells information to the highest bidder. The Highwayman recruits Rone for an intellige…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, Thriller, satanic film, science fiction film, spy film
Lee Barrett, a former intelligence agent, is approached by a man offering him a job to join a political organization against bioweapons. However, the man turns out to be an impersonator sent by Barrett's former boss, Eric Cavanaugh, to tes…
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Action, action film, drama film, martial arts film, spy film, thriller film
Through radio traffic, the US and Soviet Union learn that an F-111 carrying a sensitive missile guidance system is lost near Malta. CIA agent Dean Rickert initially dispatches agent Steve Henderson to retrieve it, but his director insists …
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Melodrama, lesbian-related film, romance film, spy film
The film weaves together two stories set 30 years apart: one set in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, and one from post-Soviet Russia in the early 1990s. A young Soviet woman, Katya, lost her parents during the Great Purge. Though she prete…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, spy film, war film
A silhouetted narrator connects the film to recent events, beginning in a quiet corner of Scotland in 1937. A postman delivers letters from all over the world to a Mrs. MacLaughlin, who forwards the contents of one envelope to Dr.
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Action, Secret Agent
An undercover DEA agent wakes up with amnesia in a Mexican mental institution. While several drug cartels are looking for him, he gradually remembers his identity, though he's skeptical about some aspects.
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Action, drama film
Avner, an adept Israeli military officer, is interrupted from his service in the IDF by a special request from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to join Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. Despite warnings from his father, he agrees to j…
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Action, Adventure, drama film, spy film, war film
On November 17, 1941, on Governor's Island in New York City, Captain Rick Leland is court-martialed and discharged from the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Princess Patricia's Cana…
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drama film
The play and subsequent film are based on Blunt's role in the Cambridge Spy Ring and, as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, personal art adviser to Queen Elizabeth II. It portrays his interrogation by an MI5 officer, his work researching an…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
Verloc works as a spy for the Russian government. He is hired by a foreign organisation to cause political instability in the country.
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Drama, drama film, war film
Confined in an Israeli jail, Howard W. Campbell, Jr. writes a memoir about his career in Nazi Germany.
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