Posts Tagged ‘espionage’

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Powell | David Warner | Eric Porter | Karen Dotrice | John Mills | George Baker | Ronald Pickup | Donald Pickering | Timothy West | Miles Anderson | Andrew Keir | Robert Flemyng | William Squire | Paul McDowell | David Collings
Directors: Don Sharp
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The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian ’sleeper’ agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the ’sleepers’. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder’s death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government…

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Timothy Hutton | Sean Penn | Pat Hingle | Joyce Van Patten | Rob Reed | Rob Newell | Karen West | Art Camacho | Annie Kozuch | Richard Dysart | Priscilla Pointer | Chris Makepeace | Dorian Harewood | Mady Kaplan | Macon McCalman
Directors: John Schlesinger
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.

Undercover Brother (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Griffin | Chris Kattan | Denise Richards | Aunjanue Ellis | Dave Chappelle | Chi McBride | Neil Patrick Harris | Gary Anthony Williams | Billy Dee Williams | Jack Noseworthy | Robert Trumbull | J.D. Hall | William B. Taylor | Shauna MacDonald | Ron Pardo
Directors: Malcolm D. Lee
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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization, The Man, defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) has a weird behavior in his presidential campaign, the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is hired to work undercover in the white organization and find what happened with the potential candidate.

Breach (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Cooper | Ryan Phillippe | Laura Linney | Caroline Dhavernas | Gary Cole | Dennis Haysbert | Kathleen Quinlan | Bruce Davison | Jonathan Watton | Tom Barnett | Jonathan Potts | David Huband | Catherine Burdon | Scott Gibson | Courtenay J. Stevens
Directors: Billy Ray
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In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O’Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O’Neill’s told it’s an investigation of Hanssen’s sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O’Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O’Neill’s wife resents Hanssen’s intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film’s story. Can O’Neill help catch red-handed “the worst spy in history” and hold onto his personal life?

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Paddy Considine | Edgar Ramirez | Scott Adkins | Joey Ansah | Daniel Bruhl | Chris Cooper | Brian Cox | Dan Fredenburgh | Tom Gallop | Corey Johnson | Trevor St. John | David Strathairn | Joan Allen | Julia Stiles
Directors: Paul Greengrass
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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding, this time inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar—an upgrade to Project Treadstone—in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne (Damon) sets up a meeting with Ross (Considine) and realizes instantly they’re being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst dodging The Company’s best efforts in trying to eradicate him.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Shadow Man (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: Romania | UK | USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Eva Pope | Imelda Staunton | Vincent Riotta | Michael Elwyn | Skye Bennett | Garrick Hagon | Alex Ferns | Michael Fitzpatrick | Elias Ferkin | Levan Uchaneishvili | Zoltan Butuc | Emanuel Parvu | Vince Leigh | Werner Daehn
Directors: Michael Keusch
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An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.

Agent Cody Banks (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Frankie Muniz | Hilary Duff | Angie Harmon | Keith David | Cynthia Stevenson | Arnold Vosloo | Daniel Roebuck | Ian McShane | Darrell Hammond | Martin Donovan | Marc Shelton | Chris Gauthier | Harry Van Gorkum | Connor Widdows | Eliza Norbury
Directors: Harald Zwart
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Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a shy common teenager, living with his mother, father and little brother in a suburban house. But he is also a very efficient undercover CIA agent. He is assigned by CIA director (Keith David), with the support of his instructor Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon), to date Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to be invited to her birthday party and get close and spy Natalie’s father, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan). Dr. Connors is a brilliant scientist, who has developed some sort of micro-robots with the intention of controlling oil leakage from tankers. However, the investors of the experiment intend to use the device as a powerful weapon.

I Spy (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Owen Wilson | Famke Janssen | Malcolm McDowell | Gary Cole | Phill Lewis | Viv Leacock | Keith Dallas | Tate Taylor | Lynda Boyd | Bill Mondy | Larry Merchant | Sugar Ray Leonard | Jimmy Lennon Jr. | Joe Cortez
Directors: Betty Thomas
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When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States’ top spies, Alex Scott (Owen Wilson), is called to action. What he doesn’t expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy), on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world’s most successful illegal arms dealers, and foil his treacherous plans for the plane.

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: George Lazenby | Diana Rigg | Telly Savalas | Gabriele Ferzetti | Ilse Steppat | Lois Maxwell | George Baker | Bernard Lee | Bernard Horsfall | Desmond Llewelyn | Yuri Borionko | Virginia North | Geoffrey Cheshire | Irvin Allen | Terence Mountain
Directors: Peter R. Hunt
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.