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Komödie, Parodie, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, comedy film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, teen film
Mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot has created an army of beautiful female robots using his "bikini machine." These androids, dressed in gold bikinis, are programmed to seduce wealthy men and trick them into signing over their fortunes. Assisting …
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Film Noir, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, spy film
In neutral Turkey in 1944, German ambassador Franz von Papen converses at a soiree with Countess Anna Staviska, a Frenchwoman and the widow of a pro-German Polish count. Now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film
Martin McGartland is a 21-year-old street hustler in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s. The Irish Republican Army wants to recruit him, but he is reluctant because of what he sees as their cruel street justice. Because of his connection t…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, ninja film
British Colonel Scarf Mulgrew threatens to nuke New York City unless he is paid 50 million dollars. Agents Sean Davidson, Carl Brackston and Joe Armstrong, a former special forces commando now working as a teacher with the Peace Corps, tea…
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Political Thriller, spy film
Maurice Castle is a well-bred, mid-level bureaucrat in MI6 whose life seems unremarkable, apart from the fact that he has an African wife, Sarah, and son, Sam. The company regime, represented by éminence grise Dr. Percival and agency highe…
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Drama, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, spy film, war film
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer), a former concert pianist and composer, travels to England as a confidential agent of the Republican government. His mission is to buy coal or to deny it to the Fascist reb…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, spy film
In 1917, France is embroiled in World War I. Dubois, head of the French spy bureau, offers to spare the life of a captured agent if he will reveal who he is protecting. Dubois suspects it is Mata Hari, a celebrated exotic dancer, but the p…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 2010, with 65-year-old Howard Marks going onto a stage in front of a packed theatre to great applause. Marks asks if there are any plainclothes policemen in the audience, to which the reply is negative. Then, while light…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film tells the story of Mosab, son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who for ten years was a spy for Israel's Shin Bet. The documentary features largely interviews with Mosab Hassan Yousef and also with his operator Gonen Ben Yitzh…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, war film
The gang of big-shot Broadway gambler Alfred "Gloves" Donahue, at a restaurant, plays with military toys, imagining fighting Hitler. The restaurant gives Gloves a cheesecake not made by Mr. Miller, a baker who makes Gloves' favorite cheese…
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Political Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, drama film, spy film, thriller film
In the opening scene, set in 1973, the Troubles in Northern Ireland result in the death of Collette's younger brother when they are children. The film jumps forward to 1993 London. After a failed bombing attack in London, Collette is arres…
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Blaxploitation, Detective Film, Secret Agent, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Queens private detective John Shaft is contacted by his old friend Cal Asby, an insurance salesman and mortician, who tells him he's in trouble and asks him to come immediately. As soon as Shaft arrives, Asby is killed by a bomb planted in…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, spy film
In 2068, the New World Aircraft Corporation in England gives Brains an open brief to design a revolutionary aircraft. Brains suggests an airship, prompting howls of laughter from the executives. Nevertheless, his proposal is accepted and t…
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War Film, spy film, war film
By late 1944, as the Allies march toward the Rhine, it is obvious that Germany will lose the war. American Colonel Devlin leads a military intelligence unit that enlists German POWs to cross into German territory and spy on their former co…
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action film, spy film, thriller film
Renegade KGB agents hijack a plutonium shipment inside the United States and use it to plant a nuclear device in the Saudi Arabian Ghawar Oil Field. They threaten to detonate it, thereby contaminating 50% of the world's oil reserve, unless…
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Classical Western, Komödie, Western film, comedy film
Calamity Jane is busted out of a sheriff's jail by a couple of government agents under Governor Johnson and Commissioner of Internal Affairs Emerson. Johnson and Emerson wish to hire her to uncover white traders illegally selling guns to a…
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Thriller, mystery film
U.S. government agent Harry Hannan suffers a nervous breakdown after his wife Dorothy is killed, and spends five months in a sanitarium. Upon returning to his apartment in New York City, he finds it is occupied by a doctoral student named …
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Action, Adventure, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, heist film, spy film
Nick Lassiter (Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion, and after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforce…
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Crime, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film
The story is set in Southern California in July 1993. Jack Powell is a businessman with a wife and kids who live in San Diego. He's on his way home, when he pulls over to the side of the road to check out a crime scene.
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Action Comedy, science fiction comedy, spy film
Helm is sent to the ICE (Intelligence and Counter Espionage) Training Headquarters to uncover a traitor in the organisation. While there he meets ICE agent Sheila Sommers, a test pilot who has been recovered from a Central American jungle …
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Film Noir, Thriller, docudrama, drama film, film noir, spy film, war film
The film begins, and is interspersed with, documentary footage, and is narrated throughout. The opening footage is described as derived from FBI surveillance, showing officials at the German Embassy in Washington, and describing them as ac…
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drama film, spy film, thriller film
In 1980s Germany at the height of the Cold War, 19-year-old Karl Koch finds the world around him threatening and chaotic. Inspired by the fictitious character Hagbard Celine (from Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's 1975 book The Illumin…
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Secret Agent
A decade ago, agent Martin Baxter quit MI6 after his wife's tragic murder in an operation gone wrong. But when journalist Sasha asks for help solving an old case, Martin finds himself in the crosshairs of both UK and Russian intelligence. …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, spy film
After an MI6 agent carrying a roll of film containing flyover photographs of the East German town of Kalkstadt is found dead and the film goes missing, MI6 conclude he was killed by the Stasi to cover up the presence of a new rocket system…
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