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In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans were taken hostage. However, six managed to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA was ordered to get them out of the country. With few options, exfiltration expert Ton β¦y Mendez devised a daring plan: create a phony Canadian film project looking to shoot in Iran and smuggle the Americans out as its production crew. With the help of some trusted Hollywood contacts, Mendez created the ruse and proceeded to Iran as its associate producer. However, time was running out with the Iranian security forces closing in on the truth while both his charges and the White House had grave doubts about the operation themselves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | revisionist history |
Themes: | revolutionexecutiondeceptionescape |
Locations: | car fireairportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | american abroadcanadianhostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | year 1981year 1979year 2001year 19801970s1980s |
Story: | iranian revolutioniran hostage crisispolaroid camerafake passporttehran iranislamic revolutionamerican canadian relationsanimated prologuecia agentmock executionnarrow escapereference to mohammad reza shah pahlavireference to ayatollah kohmeniburning an american flaghiding under floorboards β¦shredding a documentshredded documentawakened by a phonecover identityvariety the newspaperburbank californiaairline ticketreference to warren beattyscript readingaudio begins before videokentucky fried chickencover storyburning a documentamerican embassybolt cutterlocation scoutislamic fundamentalismair traffic controlswissairteletypepaper shreddermovie scripttitle appears in textextractionends with historical noteslangley virginiaincineratorfilm scriptstoryboardu.s. embassyclimbing a fencevolkswagen busboeing 747marketplacesweatshopbazaarintelligence agentcranereference to led zeppelintear gasarchival photographvisachild labormovie posterangry mobnews footagefinger gunsecret missionbilingualismfiring squaddiplomathiding placehanged manfilm studiohollywood signambassadortraffic jamiranianpolaroidassumed identityfilm crewblindfoldedbag over headbreak inistanbul turkeyturkey the countryfilm industryrescue missionparrotlens flarewedding ringfilm producerfilm setarchival footagetitle appears in writingmovie setgas maskpassportiranfalse identitywhite housepress conferencehollywood californiawalkie talkiewhat happened to epiloguewashington d.c.riotsubtitled sceneciasecret agentfilm within a filmgovernmentactor shares first name with characterdirected by starchampagnecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestprologueflash forwardname in titlef wordshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storytitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title (See All) |
Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to t β¦he area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals. The only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationship |
Story: | cia agentends with historical noteslangley virginiau.s. embassybilingualismambassadorrescue missionlens flarewedding ringarchival footagewhite housepress conferencewalkie talkiewhat happened to epiloguewashington d.c. β¦riotciacharacter repeating someone else's dialogueflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storybare chested male (See All) |
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, for the first time, finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and bat β¦tling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadfather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentlangley virginiabilingualismlens flaregas masksubtitled sceneciacharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized β¦ city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | car fireairportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostagehusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | fake passportcia agentbilingualismpassportriotsubtitled sceneciasecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestprologueflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to death β¦bare chested male (See All) |
Jason Bourne is again being hunted by the CIA. It begins when Nicky Parson a former CIA operative who helped Bourne, who went under and now works with a man who's a whistle blower and is out to expose the CIA's black ops. Nicky hacks into the CIA and downloads everything on all their Black Ops, incl β¦uding Treadstone which Bourne was a part of. And Heather Lee, a CIA agent, discovers the hack and brings it to the attention of CIA Director Dewey, the man behind the Black Ops. He orders Parsons be found and, hopefully, Bourne, too. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | car fireairportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | fake passportcia agentlangley virginiapress conferencewashington d.c.riotsubtitled sceneciasecret agentprotestshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Michael Mason, a pick-pocket living in Paris steals a bag with a teddy bear in it. Not realizing the toy contains a timed bomb, he tosses it aside on a busy street. A few seconds later it explodes, killing four people. CCTV footage reveals Masons face and the French police tag him as a terrorist thr β¦eat. The explosion, although botched, was set up by a select group of the French Interior Ministry as a decoy so they can make a half billion dollar digital transfer from a bank, (closed on French National Day) -hence the title Bastille Day. In a separate CIA investigation the unruly agent Sean Briar, discovers the real story behind Masons "terrorist attack". The two men, on different sides of the law, collaborate to bring the corrupt members of the Ministry down. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | cia agentbilingualismhanged manbag over headgas maskpassportpress conferenceriotsubtitled sceneciasecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestf wordshot in the chest β¦shot to deathtitle spoken by character (See All) |
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 β¦ 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? (Read More)
Themes: | executiondeception |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | year 2001 |
Story: | polaroid cameratraffic jamwhat happened to epiloguewashington d.c.ciasecret agentgovernmentprologueflash forwardbased on true storytitle spoken by characterone word title |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens β¦ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | car fireairportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | hostage |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | burbank californiahollywood signbreak infilm producertitle appears in writinggas maskhollywood californiawalkie talkiegovernmentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestprologueflash forwardf wordshot in the chest β¦shot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male (See All) |
In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the co β¦mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentsecret missionbilingualismarchival footagepassportwhat happened to epiloguewashington d.c.ciasecret agentshot to deathbased on true storybare chested male |
After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs β¦ for interrogation which includes torture. An American CIA operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man's wife raises hell to find him despite being pregnant but the person behind this refuses to help or give her any information. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentpaper shreddertraffic jambag over headpassportwashington d.c.subtitled sceneciaprologueshot in the chesttitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Two sci-fi geeks take a pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by 'Seth Rogen' (qv)) has been hanging out at a top-secret militar β¦y base. When he discovers he's been taken prisoner, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town - a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy ('Simon Pegg' (qv)) and Clive Gollings ('Nick Frost (I)' (qv)). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | hostage |
Period: | year 19801980s |
Story: | tear gaslens flaretitle appears in writinggas maskpassportwalkie talkiesubtitled scenesecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title |
When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | american abroadhostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentbilingualismtraffic jambag over headsubtitled sceneciacharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested maleone word title |
In the middle of World War II, in turbulent 1942, a plane flies over Morocco and drops a Royal Canadian Air Force paratrooper who comes in to land on a drop zone, somewhere in the desert dunes outside Casablanca. Just in time before anyone notices him, the fearless Wing Commander Max Vatan gets in a β¦ car and heads to the town with orders to meet Parisian Marianne Beausejour, a skillful member of the French Resistance. On a mission to assassinate the German Ambassador in Casablanca, the two operatives must convince every one of their true feelings as a married couple, while in the background, they need to make the necessary preparations for the critical soiree. Without delay, after the success of this suicide mission, Max and Marianne flee together to England with plans on marrying and making a family, regardless of the war. Instead, heavy clouds of distrust and suspicion threaten their relationship, when Max receives a call from the Secret Service Division to inform him that his beloved wife is actually an impostor. In disbelief, with a terrible task in his hands and crushed under a devastating dilemma, Max must find the courage to seek for answers in the perilous streets of bombarded London, regardless of the outcome. In the end, amid duty and love, who shall live and who shall die? (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | american abroadcanadianhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | fake passportintelligence agentsecret missionbilingualismambassadorassumed identitysubtitled scenesecret agentactor shares first name with characterchampagneflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by character β¦bare chested maleone word title (See All) |
Barney Ross leads the "Expendables", a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. β¦Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition. Once there, they meet with local rebel Sandra and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city. When they escape the island and Sandra stays behind, Ross must choose to either walk away and save his own life - or attempt a suicidal rescue mission that might just save his soul. (Read More)
Themes: | executionescape |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | cia agentrescue missionlens flaretitle appears in writingpassportsubtitled sceneciadirected by starcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |
Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hu β¦rley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | cia agentislamic fundamentalismbilingualismiranianbag over headistanbul turkeygas maskwalkie talkiesubtitled sceneciasecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to death β¦bare chested male (See All) |
Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are m β¦urdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses an agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary, is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentbilingualismambassadorrescue missionwhite housepress conferencewashington d.c.subtitled sceneciasecret agentgovernmentshot to deathtitle spoken by character |
Two low-level government employees, Emmitt Fitz-Hume (played by Chevy Chase) and Austin Milbarge (Dan Aykroyd), are chosen for a top-secret CIA mission. They are unsuitable as CIA agents but are deliberately chosen for this reason, as their mission is a decoy one and they are expendable. After being β¦ fast-tracked through training they are parachuted into Pakistan where all manner of adventures await them. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | american abroad |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | cia agentintelligence agentsecret missionpress conferencewashington d.c.ciasecret agentgovernmenttitle spoken by character |
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He β¦ needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplane |
Story: | cia agentfinger gunbag over headfalse identitywalkie talkiesubtitled scenecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental β¦ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Themes: | revolutionexecution |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Period: | 1970s1980s |
Story: | iranian revolutiontehran iranislamic revolutionfiring squadturkey the countrygas maskiranpassportciafilm within a filmprotestflash forwardone word title |
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the Syndicate.
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | cia agentlangley virginiabag over headsubtitled sceneciasecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueflash forwardshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra β¦cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | fake passportbilingualismassumed identityhollywood californiawhat happened to epiloguewashington d.c.champagnecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueflash forwardf wordbased on true storybare chested male |
The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire Martin comments on how he and Matt β¦are about the same height and he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunting down a serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim... (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | finger gunbilingualismassumed identitylens flarefalse identitywalkie talkiesubtitled scenecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprologueflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). When he wakes up β¦with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and make the deal with him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | car fireairportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostagehusband wife relationship |
Story: | cia agentbilingualismpassportwalkie talkiesubtitled sceneciasecret agentf wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title |
Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence justified American involvement, according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad, Poundstone. Veteran CIA operative Marty β¦ tells Miller that there are no weapons, it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Also suspicious of Poundstone is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne, who lets slip to Miller that Poundstone told her he had secret talks in Jordan with an important Iraqi, code-named Magellan, who told him about the weapons, though it now seems likely Magellan's true information was to the contrary. So begins a hunt for the truth. Who's playing whom? (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | cia agentaudio begins before videobag over headtitle appears in writingpress conferencesubtitled sceneciashot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storytitle spoken by character |
Matt Weston ('Ryan Reynolds (I)' (qv)) is a CIA rookie who is manning a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa, when Tobin Frost ('Denzel Washington' (qv)) the CIA's most wanted rogue agent is captured and taken to the safe house. During Frost's interrogation, the safe house is overtaken by mercenari β¦es who want Frost. Weston and Frost escape and must stay out of the gunmen's sight until they can get to another safe house. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | cia agentamerican embassylangley virginiabag over headsubtitled sceneciacharacter repeating someone else's dialogueshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all ov β¦er Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare. (Read More)
Themes: | executiondeception |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentlangley virginiau.s. embassyiranianbag over headturkey the countrypassportsubtitled sceneciaprologuef wordshot in the chestshot to death |
Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight, in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its police force which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
Themes: | revolutionexecutiondeceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | cia agenthanged manbag over headlens flaregas maskpress conferencewalkie talkieriotciacharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostagefather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentu.s. embassyclimbing a fenceciagovernmentshot to deathbare chested male |
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | year 2001 |
Story: | cia agentlangley virginiasecret missionambassadorassumed identitywashington d.c.subtitled sceneciasecret agentprologuebased on true storytitle spoken by character |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) β¦is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
Themes: | executiondeception |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | bilingualismbag over headlens flarefilm setfalse identitypress conferencewhat happened to epiloguesubtitled scenechampagnecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot to deathbased on true storybare chested male |
James Reece is an ambitious aide to the U.S. Ambassador in Paris, doing little jobs for the CIA and hoping to get into black ops. On the night he and his girlfriend, Caroline, become engaged, he's told to pick up Charlie Wax at Orly. Charlie is an unorthodox government employee - large, bald and bea β¦rded, foul-mouthed and eccentric. Charlie immediately takes James on a wild ride of murder and mayhem, through ethnic enclaves. As bodies pile up, the purpose remains opaque to James. Caroline, unhappy that James has been out of touch for a day, tells him to bring Charlie for dinner. Charlie can be charming - where will it lead? Does the chess-playing James have what it takes? (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | cia agentambassadortraffic jamlens flaresubtitled sceneciasecret agentgovernmentf wordshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |
Famous symbologist on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unlea β¦shing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | bazaarbilingualismistanbul turkeywalkie talkiesubtitled sceneprotestshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title |
Four American soldiers who are in Iraq are sent on a mission to recover plates for printing 100 dollar bills that were used to print a billion dollars. After doing the job and returning to the base their commanding officer is killed in an explosion and the plates are stolen by another operative. The β¦y would be court martialed and sent to different prisons. 6 months later, the leader, Hannibal Smith is visited by a CIA spook who tells him he knows where the man who took the plates is and wants him and his men to recover it. So he helps him escape and he breaks out the others and they go after the plates. But after doing it, they discover that the spook might not be ok. And a military intelligence officer who was involved with one of them is pursuing them. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | cia agentsecret missionbag over headrescue missiongas masksubtitled sceneciasecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Loosely based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the worlds' most elite operatives - Danny, a ruthless killer-for-hire ('Jason Statham' (qv)) and Hunter, his longtime mentor ('Robert De Niro' (qv)) - against the cunning leader of a secret society of former Special Air Service operatives('Cliv β¦e Owen'). Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of revenge and deception - where things are not always what they appear to be. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | hostage |
Period: | year 19801980s |
Story: | finger gunbag over headlens flarewhat happened to epiloguesecret agentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storybare chested male |
Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, β¦ who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government -- Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he's more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President's itinerary, while Horrigan's boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan's colleague Al D'Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary. (Read More)
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | intelligence agentnews footagebag over headfalse identitywhite housepress conferencewashington d.c.ciagovernmentf wordshot in the chestshot to death |
Peter Devereaux is a former CIA agent who is asked by the man he worked for to extract a woman who is in Russia and is presently close to a man running for President, who is believed to have committed crimes during the Chechen war. She can give them the name of someone who can prove it. His friend s β¦ays that she will only come to him. So he goes and she gets the info and tries to get out but the man finds out and tries to stop her. (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | american abroadhostage |
Story: | cia agentambassadorassumed identitypress conferencesubtitled sceneciaf wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Ga β¦briel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money. (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | airportlos angeles california |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | lens flarefalse identitywashington d.c.secret agentgovernmentcharacter repeating someone else's dialogueshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title |
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential Secret Service Agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced t β¦o rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster. (Read More)
Themes: | executiondeceptionescape |
Characters: | hostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bag over headgas maskwhite housepress conferencewashington d.c.subtitled scenecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Joe is classified as a "looper", a job in which his employers use time travel to send men from the future to be killed into the past, where Joe can properly dispose of their bodies. However, to tie up loose ends and erase the evidence of his ever being a looper, Joe knows that one day his future sel β¦f will be sent back for him to kill. When this day comes, Joe's future self is prepared and escapes, and the two men struggle separately in the past trying to evade capture and attempting to fulfill their own personal agendas. (Read More)
Themes: | execution |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationship |
Story: | finger gunbilingualismbag over headlens flarewedding ringsubtitled scenecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguef wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterone word title |
In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan β¦, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin's closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin's increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out. (Read More)
Themes: | execution |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | hostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | diplomatpassportpress conferencegovernmentprologueshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, star β¦ting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Characters: | hostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | fake passportpassportwhite housepress conferencewashington d.c.character repeating someone else's dialogueprologueflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
In 2079, in Washington, the ex-CIA Operative Snow is brutally interrogated, accused of treason against the United States. The chief of the secret service Scott Langral believes that he shot the agent Frank in a hotel room. Meanwhile, the idealistic daughter of the president of the USA, Emilie Warnoc β¦k, is visiting MS One, a maximum security prison in outer space expecting to find evidence that the prisoners are actually guinea pigs of a huge corporation. When one of her bodyguards loses a hidden pistol to the dangerous prisoner Hydell, he subdues the staff in the central control room and releases the prisoners, including his brother Alex who becomes the leader of the riot. Now the veteran agent Harry Shaw offers freedom to Snow if he succeeds in rescuing the president's daughter. But the idealistic Emilie does not want to leave MS-One without the hostages. (Read More)
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | cia agentfinger gunrescue missionlens flarewhite housewashington d.c.riotciacharacter repeating someone else's dialogueshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title |
With many people fearing the actions of super heroes, the government decides to push for the Hero Registration Act, a law that limits a hero's actions. This results in a division in The Avengers. Iron Man stands with this Act, claiming that their actions must be kept in check otherwise cities will c β¦ontinue to be destroyed, but Captain America feels that saving the world is daring enough and that they cannot rely on the government to protect the world. This escalates into an all-out war between Team Iron Man (Iron Man, Black Panther, Vision, Black Widow, War Machine, and Spider-Man) and Team Captain America (Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant Man) while a new villain emerges. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostagefather son relationship |
Story: | cia agentbilingualismdiplomatassumed identitylens flaregas masksubtitled sceneciagovernmentprologueflash forwardshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develo β¦ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | car firelos angeles california |
Characters: | hostagehusband wife relationship |
Story: | gas maskiranfalse identitypress conferenceriotfilm within a filmgovernmentchampagnecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestprologueflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to death β¦bare chested male (See All) |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife β¦ is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | hostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | fake passportclimbing a fencewedding ringtitle appears in writingwhat happened to epilogueciasecret agentgovernmentshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storytitle spoken by characterbare chested maleone word title |
In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convince β¦d he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe. (Read More)
Themes: | executiondeception |
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | teletypefiring squadhanged mantitle appears in writingwhat happened to epiloguegovernmentflash forwardshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storytitle spoken by characterone word title |
Soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff dies from what is a flu or some other type of infection. Her young son dies later the same day. Her husband Mitch however seems immune. Thus begins the spread of a deadly infection. For doctors and administrators at the U.S. Center β¦s for Disease Control, several days pass before anyone realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. They must first identify the type of virus in question and then find a means of combating it, a process that will likely take several months. As the contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins to break down as people panic. (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhostagehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | blindfoldedgas maskpress conferenceriotsubtitled scenecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueprotestone word title |
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life cha β¦nges forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. (Read More)
Themes: | revolutionexecution |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | ends with historical notesvisafiring squadblindfoldedwalkie talkiesubtitled sceneprotestprologueshot in the chestshot to death |
Dying of brain cancer, a dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger; but first, he must complete one last mission - even if it m β¦eans juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunt down the world's most ruthless terrorist and look after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife is out of town. (Read More)
Themes: | deception |
Characters: | american abroadhostagehusband wife relationship |
Story: | cia agentlangley virginialens flaregas masksubtitled sceneciasecret agentshot in the chestshot to deathtitle spoken by character |
It's been seventeen years since Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets t β¦he poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn...or both be sacrificed for their sins against the state. (Read More)
Themes: | deceptionescape |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | hostage |
Story: | hanged manrescue missionwhite housepress conferencewalkie talkiewashington d.c.character repeating someone else's dialogueprologueflash forwardf wordshot in the chestshot to deathbare chested male |