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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, monster film, science fiction film
300px|thumb Dr. Douglas Martin is a nuclear scientist working on atomic bomb tests. While collecting aerial data on a United States Air Force (USAF) atomic blast at Soledad Flats, the pilot loses control of their aircraft and they crash.
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Komödie, Secret Agent, spy film
Fathom Harvill, a skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She accepts a lift from a man called Timothy and is taken to see Douglas Campbell, who convinces her that he is a British agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help h…
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Film Noir, romance film, spy film, war film
During World War II, Vincent Van Der Lyn, a former schoolteacher who became a Dutch resistance fighter, causes so much trouble for the Nazis that they place a bounty on his head. As a result, he is ordered by his superiors to travel to Eng…
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Komödie, spy film
Following an accident where two KGB agents are mistakenly killed during a failed attempt to help a Russian athlete's defection to the West, the head of the CIA in Paris stipulates an agreement with his Russian counterpart to have two Ameri…
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Drama, Secret Agent, drama film
In 1908 at Nisi, a small Greek Island under Ottoman rule, Turkish officials, Greek rebels, German emissaries, and other foreign mercenaries mingle as they all try to keep the upper hand in that remote part of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. …
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Drama, War Film, spy film
Roman Catholic priest Fr Elliott goes to the Natural History Museum to meet a section-head in the wartime British Special Operations Executive. On accepting his offer to train for covert operations behind enemy lines in Belgium, he meets a…
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Thriller, War Film, spy film
In March 1917, Captain Hardt, a German U-boat commander in the First World War, is ordered to spy on the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, rendezvousing at the Old Man of Hoy. He sneaks ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact, Fräulein T…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, crime film
Widowed former CIA agent Jack Foster (The Shadow Man) is an enigmatic Fortune 500 business owner, and is the father of an 8-year-old daughter named Amanda. It is the anniversary of the death of Jack's wife, and Jack is taking Amanda to Rom…
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drama film, film noir, silent film, spy film
Dr. Allan Fields is a nuclear physicist employed by the United States Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C. He is also a spy, working for an unnamed foreign power.
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Secret Agent, Thriller, propaganda film, spy film
John Barrington, a talented but eccentric inventor, is working at his Scottish country home on a new bombsight for the RAF. His scatter-brained wife takes in child evacuees from London to be accommodated in a nearby cottage they own. But s…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, spy film
In April 1917, former newspaperman William Gordon (William Powell) is commissioned in the U.S. Army. The day before he is to leave Washington, D.C.
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comedy film, spy film
The film opens with a ski chalet party sequence in Gstaad where Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath aka OSS 117 is entertaining a Chinese countess. The party is attacked by Red Chinese gunmen working for a Mr. Lee and everyone but Hubert and the C…
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Political Thriller, drama film
Susanne Mallison flies into Tempelhof Airport in post-war West Berlin, still open to East Berlin residents before the Berlin Wall is erected. She looks around the war-ravaged city with her sister-in-law Bettina, including the ruins of the …
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spy film
American-born Israeli spy Helen Mason (Mariel Hemingway) is sent to Iraq to coerce an Iraqi pilot into hijacking a Soviet-made fighter jet for Israeli defense research. She seduces Munir Redfa (Ben Cross) in order to blackmail him. There a…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Komödie, Thriller, spy film
On their way to see scientist Dr. Simon True, U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are attacked by members of the THRUSH organization.
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Secret Agent, action film, spy film
Harry (Bill Pullman) is a seasoned CIA agent who is looking to forget his past and become his cover identity—a jazz club owner in Helsinki, Finland. Natasha (Irène Jacob) is a young, ambitious SVR (KGB) agent who is looking to secure a fut…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
In 1780 General Benedict Arnold commands the Continental Army defenses at West Point, New York. Major John Bolton (Cornel Wilde), a dragoon officer assigned to counterintelligence, intercepts and kills a British spy leaving the Storm King …
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Adventure, Komödie, Secret Agent, comedy film
Bob Hope plays Matt Merriwether, a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. Merriwether lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment …
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Romance Film, Secret Agent, drama film, romance film, spy film
In 1915 Vienna, the chief of the Austrian secret service meets prostitute Marie Kolverer, a war widow and accomplished pianist who is very attached to her pet black cat. He poses as a foreign agent to test her loyalty and, to his satisfact…
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Action, action film, spy film, thriller film
Hawaiian agents Donna and Taryn join a global-team leader out to stop a criminal mastermind.
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Political Thriller, biographical film, propaganda film
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operation…
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Drama, drama film, war film
Colonel Jack Knowles is a tough, professional soldier who was decorated for gallantry in Vietnam. The same gung ho mentality that made Knowles a hero in wartime makes him a dangerous loose cannon in peacetime. He is stationed at an outpost…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film
American Charlie Salt and British Chris Pepper own a Soho nightclub, operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe. One night, Pepper finds a Chinese woman on the floor of the club. Assuming she's intoxicated, he make…
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Komödie, romantic comedy, spy film
In 1940, a foreign reporter, “Comrade X”, is bypassing censors and sending out critical stories about the Soviet Union. Commissar Vasiliev, chief of the secret police, announces that he has taken over the censorship of the press. His prede…
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