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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…mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water suspense black comedy |
Themes: | justice prejudice surveillance paranoia robbery escape torture fear prison politics |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | snow storm water torture usa russia motel courtroom airport taxi bathtub airplane motorcycle snow hotel train restaurant …bar new york city (See All) |
Characters: | german soldier police chase girl crying self portrait crying girl american abroad german russian secretary sniper waitress sister sister relationship lawyer student soldier …brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police (See All) |
Period: | year 1960 1950s 1960s |
Story: | russian spy court appointed lawyer soviet embassy berlin wall white briefs border crossing law office surface to air missile law firm u.s. supreme court supreme court man wearing glasses pilot ejects cia agent secret mission …fighter pilot show trial undercover agent riding a subway radio news prisoner exchange fbi agent spy plane brooklyn bridge newspaper headline graduate student walking in the rain college student prison sentence heavy rain el train prison guard nuclear explosion telephone call foot chase reference to dmitri shostakovich lighting a cigarette for someone judicial misconduct reference to spartacus aerial reconnaissance begins with historical notes douglas dc 6 dead drop self destruct mechanism soviet flag flashbulb red scare plane shot down secret message pledge of allegiance marmalade coded message russophobia east berlin east germany man wearing a tuxedo college graduate anti communism matchbook west berlin west germany guilty verdict sleep deprivation year 1957 dentures negotiator judgment counsellor distraction mob of reporters hangar ends with biographical notes multiple time frames scottish accent world war two veteran coat saying grace undershirt zippo lighter u.s. air force bilingualism tommy gun negotiation west germany drive by shooting nuclear bomb top secret razor blade insurance xenophobia film starts with text east germany kgb man in underwear assistant embassy plane crash wall irish american bureaucracy translator pipe smoking riding a bicycle coin briefs lieutenant border spying parachute archival footage evacuation male underwear passport following someone brooklyn new york city phone booth wristwatch jail cell looking at oneself in a mirror law what happened to epilogue card game missile berlin germany cold war washington d.c. cia espionage secret agent typewriter suspicion glasses soviet union american flag court race against time undercover mission umbrella fbi binoculars pilot attempted murder gunshot news report drawing radio no opening credits trial judge subway prisoner bridge gang newspaper spy shot in the back telephone revolver handcuffs interrogation painting letter arrest watching tv shot to death based on book based on true story three word title chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
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… city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | paranoia escape torture fear |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | airport taxi bathtub airplane motorcycle snow hotel train restaurant bar |
Characters: | police chase american abroad german russian sniper soldier mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | russian spy berlin wall cia agent undercover agent heavy rain foot chase bilingualism film starts with text kgb evacuation passport following someone phone booth wristwatch berlin germany …cold war cia espionage secret agent suspicion race against time undercover mission umbrella binoculars attempted murder gunshot news report radio bridge spy shot in the back telephone revolver interrogation shot to death chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
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 …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)
Subgenre: | fish out of water suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia robbery escape torture fear prison |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane motorcycle restaurant |
Characters: | police chase american abroad german russian sniper soldier father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent prison guard foot chase plane shot down bilingualism embassy passport wristwatch looking at oneself in a mirror missile cia espionage secret agent race against time …undercover mission attempted murder news report no opening credits subway prisoner bridge spy shot in the back handcuffs interrogation arrest shot to death chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of… the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture politics |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | water torture russia taxi airplane motorcycle snow hotel train new york city |
Characters: | police chase german russian sniper soldier husband wife relationship police |
Story: | russian spy cia agent brooklyn bridge newspaper headline foot chase cold war washington d.c. cia espionage secret agent soviet union american flag race against time undercover fbi …attempted murder news report no opening credits subway spy shot in the back handcuffs interrogation arrest shot to death chase explosion photograph (See All) |
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesi…s is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture prison |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | russian husband wife relationship |
Story: | russian spy cia agent undercover agent fbi agent foot chase passport wristwatch washington d.c. cia espionage secret agent suspicion race against time undercover fbi …attempted murder radio prisoner spy revolver interrogation shot to death chase photograph (See All) |
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… 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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia escape fear prison |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxi airplane hotel restaurant |
Characters: | american abroad german secretary soldier mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | secret mission fighter pilot undercover agent heavy rain prison guard telephone call plane shot down coded message bilingualism tommy gun top secret embassy plane crash parachute phone booth …jail cell looking at oneself in a mirror card game espionage secret agent suspicion race against time undercover mission umbrella binoculars pilot no opening credits prisoner spy shot in the back telephone revolver interrogation letter shot to death explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
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…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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance escape prison |
Locations: | usa motel courtroom airport taxi airplane snow hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | american abroad lawyer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | man wearing glasses fbi agent heavy rain foot chase world war two veteran bilingualism phone booth jail cell what happened to epilogue washington d.c. typewriter race against time umbrella fbi binoculars …pilot judge prisoner revolver handcuffs letter arrest based on true story chase photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture prison |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | bathtub motorcycle restaurant |
Characters: | police chase sniper waitress soldier police |
Story: | newspaper headline prison guard foot chase nuclear bomb razor blade wristwatch jail cell missile american flag race against time undercover mission news report no opening credits prisoner …revolver handcuffs interrogation arrest chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (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…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)
Subgenre: | fish out of water suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape fear politics |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | airport airplane motorcycle restaurant |
Characters: | american abroad soldier mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship family relationships |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent foot chase ends with biographical notes zippo lighter bilingualism film starts with text embassy translator archival footage evacuation wristwatch looking at oneself in a mirror what happened to epilogue washington d.c. …cia suspicion american flag race against time undercover mission news report no opening credits shot in the back shot to death based on book based on true story chase explosion photograph bare chested male (See All) |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th…e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture fear politics |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane restaurant bar |
Characters: | russian sniper student soldier father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship |
Story: | undercover agent newspaper headline college student telephone call foot chase hangar top secret following someone looking at oneself in a mirror cia espionage secret agent race against time undercover mission …fbi binoculars gunshot news report no opening credits spy shot in the back interrogation letter shot to death chase photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woma…n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | justice escape |
Locations: | motel courtroom restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | newspaper headline college student heavy rain insurance jail cell law typewriter american flag court attempted murder news report no opening credits judge revolver handcuffs …letter arrest photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
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…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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture politics |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | water torture airport bathtub airplane motorcycle hotel train restaurant bar |
Characters: | american abroad russian sniper soldier |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent nuclear explosion foot chase bilingualism nuclear bomb top secret assistant embassy evacuation wristwatch cold war cia espionage secret agent …suspicion race against time undercover mission attempted murder news report no opening credits spy shot in the back handcuffs interrogation shot to death chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder…. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | paranoia escape fear |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | courtroom airport taxi airplane hotel train restaurant |
Characters: | police chase secretary husband wife relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | undercover agent newspaper headline telephone call foot chase matchbook following someone phone booth looking at oneself in a mirror cold war washington d.c. espionage secret agent suspicion undercover attempted murder …judge newspaper spy shot in the back telephone handcuffs arrest shot to death three word title chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | motorcycle hotel restaurant |
Characters: | american abroad russian sniper |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent foot chase parachute evacuation phone booth jail cell cia espionage secret agent suspicion court race against time mission drawing …judge subway spy shot in the back handcuffs interrogation shot to death photograph bare chested male (See All) |
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a …KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia escape politics |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | airport taxi hotel restaurant |
Characters: | secretary |
Story: | russian spy cia agent undercover agent newspaper headline heavy rain telephone call foot chase top secret kgb phone booth looking at oneself in a mirror cold war washington d.c. cia espionage …race against time undercover gunshot subway spy revolver arrest shot to death chase photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Now that Dom and Letty are on their honeymoon and Brian and Mia have retired from the game-and the rest of the crew has been exonerated-the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime he can't seem to escape and a betraya…l of those closest to him, they will face trials that will test them as never before. From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, the elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage... and to bring home the man who made them a family. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance escape fear prison |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | russia taxi airplane motorcycle snow hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | police chase american abroad russian sniper soldier father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | brooklyn bridge prison guard foot chase saying grace top secret irish american parachute wristwatch jail cell missile berlin germany espionage secret agent american flag race against time …mission binoculars pilot attempted murder prisoner spy shot in the back handcuffs arrest shot to death chase explosion 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…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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture fear |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | airport taxi bathtub airplane motorcycle hotel train restaurant |
Characters: | police chase american abroad sniper police |
Story: | cia agent newspaper headline telephone call foot chase evacuation following someone looking at oneself in a mirror berlin germany washington d.c. cia espionage secret agent race against time binoculars no opening credits …spy shot in the back interrogation watching tv shot to death chase explosion photograph bare chested male (See All) |
This new version of the saga of CIA analyst Jack Ryan begins as Jack attends the London School of Economics. 9/11 happens. He subsequently enlists in the Marines, sustaining severe injuries when the chopper deploying him to Afghanistan is shot down. While in intense rehab, he grabs the attention of …Harper, a man who works for the CIA and who would like Jack to finish his studies, get a job on Wall Street, and seek out terrorist plots through their financial transactions. Ten years pass. Jack finds anomalies in the accounts of a Russian named Cherevin and thinks he should go to Russia to check out what's going on. He's told not to tell anyone who he is, including his girlfriend Cathy, which makes her doubt him when she catches him in some lies. In Russia, Cherevin assigns someone to assist Jack, but when the two are alone, the man tries to kill Jack instead, so Jack kills him. Obviously, Cherevin is hiding something. Jack goes to meet him and says he'll bring his fiancee along, but when Cathy shows up, Jack has to tell her the truth. Harper says Cathy has to go with Jack when she meets Cherevin. Jack doesn't want her to but Cathy says she's going, so the action begins that leads to the climax. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia fear |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | russia airport airplane motorcycle hotel restaurant new york city |
Characters: | american abroad russian secretary sniper soldier |
Story: | surface to air missile cia agent undercover agent fbi agent brooklyn bridge college student college graduate multiple time frames drive by shooting wall lieutenant cia espionage secret agent race against time …undercover fbi binoculars news report no opening credits spy painting shot to death explosion bare chested male (See All) |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i…mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | justice prejudice surveillance torture prison politics |
Locations: | water torture courtroom snow |
Characters: | lawyer soldier brother sister relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | prison guard foot chase phone booth jail cell what happened to epilogue binoculars news report radio trial judge prisoner revolver handcuffs interrogation arrest …based on book based on true story chase explosion cigarette smoking (See All) |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa…st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | justice surveillance paranoia robbery |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | motel courtroom taxi restaurant bar |
Characters: | secretary waitress sister sister relationship lawyer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | heavy rain telephone call foot chase pledge of allegiance assistant following someone law court race against time undercover umbrella attempted murder gunshot news report trial …judge telephone arrest chase photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape torture |
Locations: | usa motel bar |
Characters: | american abroad sniper lawyer soldier husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | border crossing cia agent fbi agent bilingualism film starts with text border cia suspicion mission fbi binoculars news report no opening credits shot in the back handcuffs …interrogation arrest shot to death explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer,… and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | usa airport airplane hotel train restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | police chase sniper police |
Story: | fbi agent brooklyn bridge el train foot chase irish american following someone brooklyn new york city what happened to epilogue washington d.c. undercover fbi subway shot in the back revolver handcuffs …arrest based on true story three word title chase cigarette smoking (See All) |
Colonel Katherine Powell is a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from "capture" to "kill." But …as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance escape politics |
Locations: | airport airplane hotel |
Characters: | secretary lawyer soldier mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | undercover agent heavy rain foot chase u.s. air force top secret bureaucracy lieutenant law missile race against time undercover mission pilot news report no opening credits …spy chase photograph bare chested male (See All) |
CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA's top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bi…shop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | torture prison |
Locations: | taxi motorcycle train restaurant bar |
Characters: | german secretary sniper husband wife relationship |
Story: | cia agent telephone call top secret east germany embassy spying passport berlin germany cold war washington d.c. cia espionage american flag mission binoculars …prisoner spy explosion photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an imp…ossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | robbery escape |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane snow restaurant new york city |
Characters: | german soldier american abroad german sniper soldier |
Story: | newspaper headline bilingualism tommy gun translator lieutenant evacuation jail cell looking at oneself in a mirror american flag race against time mission binoculars radio no opening credits bridge …spy shot in the back revolver interrogation painting letter arrest shot to death based on book based on true story explosion cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for t…he FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the pres… (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia fear politics |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | courtroom airport taxi airplane hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | supreme court cia agent fbi agent newspaper headline college student heavy rain foot chase evacuation phone booth law washington d.c. cia court fbi news report …trial judge bridge newspaper telephone revolver watching tv shot to death three word title chase explosion bare chested male (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia robbery escape torture prison |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane motorcycle snow bar |
Characters: | police chase american abroad russian sniper lawyer soldier police |
Story: | cia agent show trial newspaper headline prison guard nuclear explosion foot chase nuclear bomb evacuation jail cell looking at oneself in a mirror missile cia american flag court race against time …mission news report no opening credits trial judge subway prisoner bridge shot in the back interrogation letter watching tv shot to death chase explosion photograph bare chested male (See All) |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser…ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | justice surveillance paranoia escape torture fear |
Locations: | courtroom motorcycle snow restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | police chase lawyer husband wife relationship police |
Story: | brooklyn bridge heavy rain telephone call mob of reporters world war two veteran tommy gun drive by shooting top secret evacuation suspicion court undercover umbrella drawing trial …judge gang shot in the back telephone revolver handcuffs interrogation arrest shot to death chase explosion 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…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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | escape torture politics |
Locations: | usa airplane motorcycle snow hotel bar |
Characters: | american abroad secretary sniper soldier father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | cia agent fighter pilot fbi agent bilingualism top secret washington d.c. cia espionage secret agent american flag undercover mission fbi binoculars attempted murder …news report spy shot in the back telephone interrogation watching tv shot to death chase explosion (See All) |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Themes: | justice escape |
Locations: | courtroom airport taxi airplane hotel |
Characters: | german soldier german sister sister relationship lawyer father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | law firm u.s. supreme court radio news telephone call bureaucracy passport wristwatch looking at oneself in a mirror what happened to epilogue washington d.c. trial judge newspaper telephone painting …letter arrest based on true story chase photograph cigarette smoking (See All) |
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detai…l and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance torture politics |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | water torture usa motel airport taxi bathtub airplane motorcycle hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | sniper waitress lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | newspaper headline walking in the rain telephone call pipe smoking passport following someone looking at oneself in a mirror washington d.c. cia secret agent suspicion american flag umbrella no opening credits newspaper …interrogation arrest watching tv chase photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world ('Harrison Ford (I)' (qv) and 'Gary Oldman (I)' (qv)) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing …to destroy each other. A young superstar ('Liam Hemsworth' (qv)), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape fear |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxi motorcycle restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | fbi agent brooklyn bridge foot chase college graduate zippo lighter insurance spying brooklyn new york city espionage race against time undercover umbrella fbi attempted murder news report …subway spy handcuffs interrogation arrest watching tv chase photograph cigarette smoking 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… 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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | justice paranoia escape prison politics |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane motorcycle hotel train restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | german sister sister relationship mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | telephone call negotiation kgb embassy pipe smoking following someone brooklyn new york city phone booth law what happened to epilogue cia espionage secret agent umbrella binoculars …no opening credits prisoner shot in the back telephone arrest watching tv shot to death based on book based on true story chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Retired CIA agent Frank Moses is in love with Sarah Ross and enjoying their normal life. Out of the blue, Marvin Boggs meets Frank in the supermarket and tells that Wikileaks has released the information that they had participated and know the whereabouts of the Nightshade, a portable nuclear weapon… that was smuggled in pieces and hidden in Russia. Now the top agents in the world are under contract to seek them out to discover where Nightshade is. The trio travels to Paris and teams-up with the Russian Katja to track down the former Russian Agent 'The Frog' to get more information about the operation. They learn that the brilliant inventor Dr. Edward Bailey might know where the weapon is. They discover that Bailey has been interned in an asylum in London by the MI-6 for thirty-two years and the British Victoria joins the team. They rescue Bailey and find that the nuclear device is hidden in the Kremlin. Soon the dangerous South Korean Han joins the group expecting to retrieve the weapon. But dangerous killer Jack Horton is hunting Frank down and will not stop until he recovers the nuclear bomb. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape torture prison |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | russia airport airplane motorcycle hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | american abroad russian sniper soldier |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent nuclear explosion foot chase u.s. air force nuclear bomb embassy washington d.c. cia espionage secret agent race against time undercover fbi bridge …spy shot in the back revolver handcuffs interrogation arrest shot to death explosion photograph bare chested male (See All) |
Xander "XXX" Cage is a thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring, and avoid going to prison. Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected where others …have failed, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Xander must combat an organization led by a clever, ruthless and nihilistic Yorgi whose first target is the city of Prague. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | escape torture prison |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | airplane motorcycle snow restaurant |
Characters: | police chase american abroad russian sniper waitress police |
Story: | undercover agent man in underwear parachute male underwear law washington d.c. espionage secret agent race against time undercover mission fbi binoculars gunshot no opening credits …bridge spy shot in the back telephone revolver interrogation arrest shot to death chase explosion cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor…mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | escape prison |
Locations: | courtroom taxi bathtub motorcycle snow hotel train |
Characters: | german sister sister relationship lawyer soldier brother sister relationship mother daughter relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | border crossing newspaper headline telephone call foot chase multiple time frames pipe smoking following someone phone booth law typewriter binoculars gunshot drawing no opening credits trial …judge prisoner newspaper telephone painting letter arrest chase photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violen…t war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg. (Read More)
Themes: | justice paranoia robbery escape torture fear prison politics |
Locations: | courtroom airport bathtub motorcycle train |
Characters: | police chase german sniper lawyer student father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship police |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | newspaper headline telephone call foot chase west berlin west germany west germany embassy briefs jail cell berlin germany typewriter gunshot trial judge prisoner bridge …gang newspaper handcuffs interrogation arrest watching tv shot to death based on book based on true story chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n…ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | justice surveillance paranoia robbery escape torture fear prison politics |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | usa airplane motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | police chase american abroad russian secretary sniper lawyer mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | newspaper headline prison guard mob of reporters coin lieutenant parachute evacuation jail cell law court race against time mission attempted murder news report no opening credits …trial judge prisoner bridge gang shot in the back revolver handcuffs interrogation letter arrest shot to death three word title chase explosion bare chested male (See All) |
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…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: | surveillance politics |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | russia airport taxi motorcycle hotel restaurant bar |
Characters: | american abroad russian sniper father daughter relationship |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent foot chase embassy cia espionage undercover mission news report no opening credits spy shot in the back revolver interrogation shot to death …three word title chase photograph bare chested male (See All) |
A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | airport taxi airplane hotel train restaurant |
Characters: | police chase soldier mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | undercover agent fbi agent newspaper headline foot chase washington d.c. espionage secret agent suspicion undercover fbi news report no opening credits spy shot in the back handcuffs …arrest chase photograph bare chested male (See All) |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recru…itment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance torture politics |
Locations: | russia taxi bathtub restaurant |
Characters: | russian student brother sister relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Period: | year 1960 1950s 1960s |
Story: | cia agent radio news newspaper headline telephone call soviet flag saying grace top secret xenophobia kgb berlin germany cold war washington d.c. cia suspicion fbi …spy interrogation three word title cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
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…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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape torture prison |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | airplane motorcycle snow hotel restaurant |
Characters: | police chase sniper soldier |
Story: | cia agent secret mission prison guard foot chase guilty verdict distraction lieutenant parachute missile cia secret agent court mission pilot trial …shot in the back revolver handcuffs interrogation arrest shot to death chase explosion bare chested male (See All) |
In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven ye…ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape politics |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | courtroom bathtub hotel train restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | secretary lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | brooklyn bridge newspaper headline assistant following someone brooklyn new york city looking at oneself in a mirror suspicion court race against time undercover news report no opening credits trial judge subway …handcuffs arrest shot to death bare chested male (See All) |
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… 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: | escape torture prison politics |
Locations: | water torture airport taxi airplane |
Characters: | secretary sister sister relationship lawyer student brother sister relationship father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships police |
Story: | cia agent telephone call top secret pipe smoking passport washington d.c. cia typewriter american flag shot in the back handcuffs interrogation watching tv explosion photograph …cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the… capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the Government after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape fear |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | russia snow restaurant bar |
Characters: | russian husband wife relationship police |
Period: | 1960s |
Story: | fbi agent newspaper headline college student heavy rain top secret embassy suspicion race against time fbi binoculars attempted murder news report bridge spy telephone …revolver interrogation arrest watching tv shot to death chase (See All) |
After accomplishing the assignment of dismantling a human trafficking organization, the former military and drifter Jack Reacher goes to Washington to invite his liaison, Major Susan Turner, to have dinner with him. However, he meets her substitute, Colonel Sam Morgan, who explains that Major Turner… has been arrested and accused of espionage. Jack seeks out her veteran lawyer, Colonel Bob Moorcroft, who explains that Major Turner has also been accused of the murders of two soldiers in Afghanistan. Further, he also tells Jack he is being sued, accused by a woman of being the father of her fifteen year-old daughter, Samantha. When Moorcroft is murdered, Jack is accused of being the killer and sent to a prison. He sees that Turner and he have been framed and also that Turner will be killed by two assassins. However, he rescues her and they flee. Soon, they realize that there is a conspiracy involving military people from the army and a government contractor that is a powerful arms dealer. Jack also learns that Samantha is in danger and Turner and he rescue her. They decide to protect her since a skilled assassin is hunting them down while they try to find the motive of the conspiracy. Who can be trusted? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape torture fear prison |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | motel airport taxi airplane hotel restaurant |
Characters: | waitress lawyer soldier police |
Story: | heavy rain prison guard telephone call foot chase lieutenant following someone jail cell looking at oneself in a mirror law washington d.c. espionage suspicion race against time undercover umbrella …attempted murder prisoner shot in the back telephone handcuffs interrogation arrest watching tv shot to death chase explosion photograph bare chested male (See All) |
Jackie Chan, a top secret militant soldier, crashes into the South African jungle after his mission of kidnapping three scientists (who were experimenting with a powerful mineral) has gone awry. Waking up in a village of local natives, Chan has no memory of who he is, thus being addressed as "Who Am… I". His journey with aid from two female sidekicks to find out his identity leads him all the way to Rotterdam where he coincidentally discovers the location of the organization that kidnapped the three scientists. With no memory, Chan is thirsty for answers by any means necessary. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape torture |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | taxi airplane motorcycle hotel |
Characters: | police chase soldier police |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent newspaper headline foot chase top secret parachute cia espionage secret agent undercover mission binoculars bridge spy handcuffs …interrogation arrest chase explosion bare chested male (See All) |
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… needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance escape torture prison |
Locations: | water torture airplane hotel |
Characters: | sniper lawyer father daughter relationship |
Story: | cia agent undercover agent prison guard foot chase phone booth jail cell undercover binoculars drawing no opening credits prisoner shot in the back handcuffs interrogation letter …arrest shot to death chase explosion cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |
After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shoc…king new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to make impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fish out of water suspense |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape fear prison politics |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airport airplane train |
Characters: | lawyer soldier brother sister relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | show trial heavy rain prison guard foot chase plane crash wall bureaucracy jail cell missile suspicion race against time mission pilot attempted murder no opening credits …trial prisoner shot in the back revolver handcuffs arrest shot to death chase explosion bare chested male (See All) |
On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces wi…th the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack. As the investigation continues, the Tsarnaev brothers realize that the authorities are close to identifying them and attempt to flee the city to continue their fanatical mayhem. To stop them, a police manhunt is performed that would have bloody confrontations and a massive dragnet shutting down the City of Boston to make sure there is no escape from the law. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense black comedy |
Themes: | surveillance paranoia escape fear |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | police chase sniper soldier husband wife relationship police |
Story: | radio news fbi agent newspaper headline college student bilingualism archival footage law what happened to epilogue american flag fbi news report no opening credits handcuffs interrogation arrest …watching tv shot to death based on true story chase explosion photograph cigarette smoking bare chested male (See All) |