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23 films tagged spies
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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2012 · Comedy
Two rookie cops with nothing to show for themselves are sent back into high school undercover, where the social rules have changed since they were students. It runs on the two of them bouncing off each other.
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2006 · Drama
A Stasi officer in 1984 East Berlin is assigned to bug a playwright's flat and listen, day after day. What he hears starts to work on him.
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2012 · Thriller
With six US diplomats hiding in Tehran in 1979, a CIA man proposes to walk them out as the crew of a fake science fiction film. Half Hollywood comedy, half thriller that keeps tightening.
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2017 · Action
An MI6 agent is sent into Berlin days before the Wall comes down to recover a stolen list of undercover officers. Neon, eighties pop, and long bruising fights shot to look like one take.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2018 · Drama
The first Black officer on the Colorado Springs force answers a Klan recruitment ad by phone and sends a white colleague to the meetings in his place. Funny for long stretches, then it stops being funny.
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2015 · Drama
An insurance lawyer is handed the defence of a captured Soviet spy, then sent to a divided Berlin to trade him for a downed American pilot. Mostly negotiation, in cold rooms with careful men.
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2014 · Action
Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.
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2006 · Action
A newly promoted British agent is sent to out-play a banker to terrorists at a very expensive poker table in Montenegro. The card game runs long, and the chases around it are done with real bodies and real buildings.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2011 · Action
A contractor who does the jobs governments will not admit to is set up on an assignment in Dublin and starts working back through the people who hired her. The fights are long, quiet and have no music.
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Little-known
2004 · Action
In ninth-century China two policemen set a trap for a rebel group by freeing a blind dancer they believe will lead them to it. The fights are long and colourful and mostly outdoors.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
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2009 · War
In occupied France a squad of American soldiers hunts Nazis behind the lines while a young cinema owner in Paris makes plans of her own. It is built out of long talking scenes that keep tightening.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Drama
A Chicago car thief is picked up by the FBI and offered a deal: get close to the young chairman of the local Black Panther chapter and report back. It moves between the two men all the way through.
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2014 · Action
A London teenager with a police record is recruited into a very old and very well dressed secret spy service, while a tech billionaire hands out free SIM cards to the world. Loud, rude and full of fights.
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2018 · Action
A spy team chases stolen plutonium across Paris, London and the mountains of Kashmir, with a rival agency shadowing every move. The plot is there to get you from one stunt to the next, and the stunts are the real thing.
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2012 · Action
A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Science fiction
An agent is recruited into an operation involving objects and people moving backwards through time, and told not to try to understand it. Loud and fast, and it explains itself while running.
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2002 · Action
A man is fished out of the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back, no memory, and a bank account number under his skin. He finds out what he can do at the same time you do, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
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2017 · Fantasy
A mute cleaner at a secret government lab in 1962 Baltimore starts leaving boiled eggs for the creature they are keeping in a tank. A fairy tale for grown-ups, with a Cold War thriller running underneath.
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2009 · Action
In a 1985 where costumed heroes have been outlawed and the world is close to nuclear war, one of them is thrown out of a window and an old colleague starts asking why. Long, slow and very violent.
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2012 · Thriller
A CIA analyst spends a decade of her working life on one question: where bin Laden is. Procedural and cold, years of cables and interrogations and meetings, and then one long night raid.
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