Posts Tagged ‘espionage’

Bourne Supremacy, The (2004)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Potente, Franka | Cox, Brian | Stiles, Julia | Urban, Karl | Mann, Gabriel | Allen, Joan | Csokas, Marton | Gallop, Tom | Bedford Lloyd, John | Sandler, Ethan | Monaghan, Michelle | Roden, Karel | Arana, Tomas | Akinshina, Oksana
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent—who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names—the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

Syriana (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Novak, Kayvan | Clooney, George | Waked, Amr | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Jeffrey | Cooper, Chris | Foxworth, Robert | Henson, Nicky | Art, Nicholas | Damon, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Hinkle, Steven | Tormé, Daisy | Gerety, Peter | Lintern, Richard
Directors: Gaghan, Stephen
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Spies Like Us (1985)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Hope | Chase, Chevy | Aykroyd, Dan | Forrest, Steve | Dixon, Donna | Davison, Bruce | Casey, Bernie | Prince, William | Hatten, Tom | Oz, Frank | McKeown, Charles | Daughton, James | Staahl, Jim | Angel, Vanessa | Plotnikova, Svetlana | Thomsen, Bjarne
Directors: Landis, John
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Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and eventually end up in Afghanistan, chased by the Russians, where they learn they are being used as decoys to draw out the Sovet defenses. Two real spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet missile and test the new US orbital defence laser. The missile is fired and while heading for an American City, the laser system misses it’s target. The contingency plan for this scenario, as set out by the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd World War happen anyway.

Munich (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Craig, Daniel | Hinds, Ciarán | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Zischler, Hanns | Zorer, Ayelet | Rush, Geoffrey | Almagor, Gila | Lonsdale, Michael | Amalric, Mathieu | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria | Becker, Meret | Croze, Marie-Josée | Attal, Yvan
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Cruise, Tom | Scott, Dougray | Newton, Thandie | Rhames, Ving | Roxburgh, Richard | Polson, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Serbedzija, Rade | Mapother, William | Purcell, Dominic | Wilkinson, Matthew | Bell, Nicholas | Brogers, Cristina | Chan, Kee | Fleming, Kim
Directors: Woo, John
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IMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of a genetically created disease called ‘Chimera’. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure called ‘Bellerophon’ and now need ‘Chimera’ to complete their grand plan of infecting the whole world. In order to infiltrate and locate the terrorist group he relies on the help of an international thief Nyah of whom he quickly develops a love interest. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to find and destroy ‘Chimera’ before the terrorists get their hands on it, but he must also find ‘Bellerophon’ so as to save his love interest who has already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death.

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scott Thomas, Kristin | Cruise, Tom | Voight, Jon | Béart, Emmanuelle | Czerny, Henry | Reno, Jean | Rhames, Ving | Redgrave, Vanessa | Dye, Dale | Iures, Marcel | Caramitru, Ion | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Yakunina, Valentina | Vasut, Marek | Osgood, Nathan
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan’s the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps’ wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won’t be easy.

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Dunaway, Faye | Robertson, Cliff | von Sydow, Max | Houseman, John | Powell, Addison | McGinn, Walter | Chen, Tina | Kane, Michael | McHenry, Don | Miller, Michael B. | Osuna, Jess | Narizzano, Dino | Stenborg, Helen | Gorman, Patrick
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. “Condor” must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Malone, Jena | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Osborne, Holmes | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Chase, Daveigh | McDonnell, Mary | Duval, James | Taxier, Arthur | Swayze, Patrick | Hoffman, Mark | St. James, David | Tangen, Tom | Mahannah, Jazzie | Purdy, Jolene | Stone, Stuart | Lundy, Gary
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

True Lies (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Heston, Charlton | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Arnold, Tom | Paxton, Bill | Carrere, Tia | Malik, Art | Dushku, Eliza | Heslov, Grant | Manesh, Marshall | Rauter, Dieter | Morris, Jane | Chappell, Katsy | Wyler, Crystina | Samra, Ofer
Directors: Cameron, James | Allen, James
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Special agent Harry Tasker gets out of the water outside a heavily guarded mansion, takes off his wetsuit, and there is a dinner jacket underneath. Harry strolls into a swanky party. Harry meets with Juno Skinner, steals some computer files, and escapes in a blaze of gunfire. He’s picked up by his partner, Albert “Gib” Gibson, and they return to the United States. Harry goes home to his wife Helen. Helen doesn’t know what Harry does because he pretends to be a computer salesman. Their 14-year-old daughter Dana is a sullen teenager, and Helen is so bored by the routine of her life that she’s on the verge of having an affair with used-car salesman Simon, who claims to be a spy. Harry is hot on the trail of a group of terrorists led by Salim Abu Aziz. Aziz and his men are smuggling nuclear weapons into the USA in pieces of Persian art, and Aziz plans to hold the country hostage in the name of the Crimson Jihad. Harry’s also out to save his marriage when he discovers Helen with Simon, who still claims to be a spy. Harry uses the Agency’s resources to give Helen a taste of the real thing. Harry blackmails Helen into seducing an enemy agent — Harry himself — in a hotel room, but their tryst is interrupted by Aziz’s men, who kidnap them and take them to one of the Florida Keys, where they’re preparing to detonate their nuclear bomb. Harry escapes and rescues Helen, and then they discover that Aziz has gone to Miami and kidnapped Dana. Harry uses a harrier jet to get to Miami, where he sets out to rescue Dana.

Johnny English (2003)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Countries: France | UK
Actors: | Atkinson, Rowan | Vasconcelos, Tasha de | Miller, Ben | Wise, Greg | McFerran, Douglas | Nicolson, Steve | Harvey, Terence | McNally, Kevin | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Young, Nina | Davies, Rowland | Imbruglia, Natalie | Fordham, Philippa | Malkovich, John | Berrington, Tim
Directors: Howitt, Peter
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Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.