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While attending a medical conference in Paris, American physician Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, retired musical theater actress and singer Jo McKenna nee Conway, and their adolescent son Hank McKenna decide to take a side trip to among other places Marrekesh, French Morocco. With a knife plunged into h …is back, Frenchman Louis Bernard, who the family met earlier in their bus ride into Marrakesh and who is now masquerading as an Arab, approaches Ben, cryptically whispering into Ben's ears that there will be an attempted assassination in London of a statesman, this news whispered just before Bernard dies. Ben is reluctant to provide any information of this news to the authorities because concurrently Hank is kidnapped by British couple, Edward and Lucy Drayton, who also befriended the McKennas in Marrakesh and who probably have taken Hank out of the country back to England. Whoever the unknown people the Draytons are working for have threatened to kill Hank if Ben divulges any information told to him by Bernard. With what little information they have on hand, Ben and Jo head to London to try and thwart the assassination attempt and more importantly find an alive and safe Hank. Scotland Yard is aware of some pieces to the puzzle, including the fact that Bernard was a French secret service agent and that there will be an assassination attempt on someone. They and the McKennas will have to work together as they hit a diplomatic roadblock, one that may be overcome with a special Jo Con… (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamarriagekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationkitchenairportlondon englandbusparis francehotelchurchrestaurant |
Characters: | police chaseamericanmuslimsnipersingerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | casablanca moroccomarrakech moroccosymphony orchestramusic concerttour busremake by original directorfamous songroyal albert hallveiled womancontemporary settingboy in dangerknifingfolk danceminaretcymbal …taxidermistpolitical intriguechild in dangermarketplacebell towerscotland yardinter culturalnorth africasedativedying wordsveilfamily manfrenchmanchapelmosquewhistlingambassadormoroccoembassyphysicianprime ministercamelgovernment agentchoirmisunderstandingorchestraphone boothblockbustertouristfalling down stairssecret agentwitnessscreamvacationstabbed in the backsearchchild in perilassassinationdisguiseconcertassassinspybritishinterrogationshootingfalling from heightrescueremakesongchasesinging (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 |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationairportbushotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasehusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | contemporary settingwhistlinggovernment agentphone boothblockbustersecret agentstabbed in the backassassinationdisguiseassassinspyfalling from heightrescuechase |
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: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london englandparis francehotelrestaurant |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | casablanca moroccoprime ministerphone boothblockbustersecret agentstabbed in the backassassinationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationfalling from heightrescue |
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring …out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything? (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | hotelchurch |
Characters: | americansniperhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | government agenttouristwitnessstabbed in the backchild in perilassassinationdisguiseshootingrescuechase |
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: | paranoiamarriagekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenairportlondon englandbusparis francehotelrestaurant |
Characters: | americansingerdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | embassyprime ministerphone boothsecret agentscreamsearchchild in perilassassinationassassinshootingsongchasesinging |
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's se …cret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | police stationkitchenhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | singermother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | music concertfamous songblockbusterwitnessassassinationconcertassassinfalling from heightrescuesongchasesinging |
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill …French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationlondon englandparis francehotel |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | ambassadorembassygovernment agentsecret agentsearchassassinationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationchase |
A State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the U.S. That puts her right in the line of fire and she is targeted for death and framed for crimes. Discredited, she is forced to go on the run while she tries to clear …her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenairportlondon englandhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniperdoctor |
Story: | scotland yardambassadorembassydisguiseassassinfalling from heightchase |
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airporthotelrestaurant |
Characters: | singer |
Story: | phone boothfalling down stairsassassinspyshootingsongchasesinging |
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)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportbushotelrestaurant |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | ambassadorembassyfalling down stairschild in perilassassinationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationfalling from heightrescuechase |
Former CIA analyst, Jack Ryan is in England with his family on vacation when he suddenly witnesses an explosion outside Buckingham Palace. It is revealed that some people are trying to abduct a member of the Royal Family but Jack intervenes, killing one of them and capturing the other, and stops the … plan in its tracks. Afterwards, he learns that they're Irish revolutionaries and the two men are brothers. During his court hearing the one that's still alive vows to get back at Jack but is sentenced and that seems to be the end of it. However, whilst the man is being transported, he is broken out. Jack learns of this but doesn't think there's anything to worry about. But, when he is at the Naval Academy someone tries to kill him. He learns that they are also going after his family and so he rushes to find them, safe but having also been the victims of a failed assassination. That's when Jack decides to rejoin the CIA, and they try to find the man before he makes another attempt. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | police stationlondon england |
Characters: | sniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | scotland yardnorth africablockbustervacationchild in perilassassinationassassinspyshootingrescuechase |
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: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenairportlondon englandbushotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniper |
Story: | government agentblockbustersecret agentassassinationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationfalling from heightrescuechase |
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and … Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political thriller |
Themes: | paranoiamarriagemurder |
Locations: | hotelrestaurant |
Characters: | americanhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | contemporary settinggovernment agentsecret agentspyrescue |
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: | political thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenbushotelchurch |
Characters: | police chasesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | government agentsecret agentassassinationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationfalling from heightchase |
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)
Subgenre: | political thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | marriagekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | americanmuslimdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | north africamosquewitnesssearchinterrogationshootingrescue |
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 |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandparis francehotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | frenchmanphone boothfalling down stairssecret agentstabbed in the backdisguiseassassinspybritishinterrogationfalling from heightrescuechase |
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones. Pretending to be cops, Smith and Jones kidnap Lynn and confront …Gene with a simple choice -- kill California governor Eleanor Grant in 90 minutes or less, or Lynn will die. Watson is given a gun, six bullets, and a name tag, and he is told to go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and kill Eleanor, who is giving an afternoon speech. While Jones is watching Lynn in a van, Smith watches Watson in order to prevent Watson from alerting the authorities. Watson must quickly find some way to get himself and Lynn out of this seemingly impossible situation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenhotel |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | frenchmangovernment agentfalling down stairssecret agentchild in perilassassinationdisguisefalling from heightrescuechase |
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: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | airporthotelrestaurant |
Story: | political intriguephone boothsearchassassinspyfalling from heightrescueremakechase |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther …Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | police stationairporthotel |
Characters: | sniperdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | witnessdisguisechase |
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on th …e run to break the spy ring. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | contemporary settingpolitical intriguescotland yardwhistlingstabbed in the backspyshootingchase |
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: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | bushotel |
Characters: | sniperhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | ambassadorblockbustersecret agentassassinationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationrescuechase |
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: | political conspiracyconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | americansniperdoctor |
Story: | embassygovernment agenttouristsecret agentstabbed in the backassassinspyinterrogationrescuechase |
Zane ('Charlie Sheen' (qv)), a young, mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior, he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what it seems to be and a sinister conspi …racy is at work. The aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will stop at nothing to prevent Zane from learning it. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | police stationbushotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasehusband wife relationship |
Story: | searchdisguiseassassinchase |
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: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | police stationairporthotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniper |
Story: | frenchmangovernment agentfalling down stairsdisguiseassassinchase |
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: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandbuschurchrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniperdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | embassygovernment agentsecret agentchild in perilspyinterrogationrescuechase |
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of t …he future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationairportlondon englandchurch |
Characters: | sniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | scotland yardfrenchmanembassyprime ministerstabbed in the backassassinationassassinspybritishrescue |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their q …uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagemurder |
Locations: | kitchenhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | singerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | blockbustertouristsecret agentwitnesssearchassassinationassassinspyshootingfalling from heightrescuesongchasesinging |
Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as a Swiss bank account, the number of which is impla …nted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is - and why he is being hunted. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political thriller |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | paris francehotel |
Characters: | police chasesniper |
Story: | blockbusterfalling down stairssecret agentsearchassassinationassassinspyfalling from height |
For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunte …d man as he finds himself on the run from the police. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | police chasehusband wife relationship |
Story: | government agentphone boothsecret agentvacationdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationfalling from heightremake |
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, … 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)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airporthotelrestaurant |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | government agentblockbusterassassinationdisguiseassassinfalling from heightchase |
James Bond (007) is Britain's top agent and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal CIA agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons" and a trio of assassins, …known as the three blind mice. Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandhotel |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | phone boothblockbustersecret agentassassinationdisguiseassassinspyrescuechasesinging |
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and una …mbitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamarriagemurder |
Locations: | kitchenairportlondon englandchurchrestaurant |
Characters: | singerdoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | assassinspysongchasesinging |
Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | police stationairportlondon englandparis francehotel |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | scotland yardmisunderstandingtouristsecret agentassassin |
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: | paranoiamarriagemurder |
Locations: | police stationlondon englandhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | casablanca moroccofrenchmanmoroccoambassadorembassyphone boothsecret agentassassinationspyinterrogationrescue |
Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choos …e between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationbus |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | witnesschild in perildisguiseassassinshootingchase |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia |
Locations: | airporthotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniperhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | embassyphone boothsecret agentspyinterrogationchase |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a …nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagemurder |
Locations: | london englandbusparis francehotel |
Characters: | singerhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | tour busphone boothconcertbritishinterrogationsongsinging |
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)
Subgenre: | political thriller |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | sniperhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | prime ministerfalling down stairssecret agentsearchassassinationassassinbritishinterrogationshootingchase |
In New Orleans, English teacher of the high school Rampart High, Will Gerard, and his wife, musician Laura Gerard, are in love with each other. One night, Laura leaves a rehearsal and is assaulted, while Will is playing chess with his friend Jimmy. Will is visiting her in hospital when, out of the b …lue, a stranger named Simon tells him that he belongs to an organization of vigilantes and offers to eliminate the assailant. In return, the organisation would want a favor from Will in the future. Will agrees, and the criminal is murdered. Six months later, Simon collects his debt with Will. He demands that Will kill Alan Marsh, a pedophile. Will accidentally kills Alan and soon he learns that the victim was an awarded journalist that was investigating the organization. Now he seeks evidences to prove his innocence but the network of the organization is powerful and is seeking Will out to eliminate him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationbusrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasedoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | orchestraassassinationdisguiseassassininterrogationfalling from heightrescuechase |
Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both … need to solve in order to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | police stationairportlondon englandhotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniper |
Story: | assassinbritishinterrogation |
SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. When NATO is held to ransom, the British reactive their "00" agents and send James Bond to recapture the warheads and kill Blofeld.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | kitchenairportlondon englandhotel |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | north africablockbustersecret agentdisguiseassassinspybritishrescueremake |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
Locations: | churchrestaurant |
Characters: | singermother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | symphony orchestrawhistlingchoirorchestrasearchconcertsongchasesinging |
Bond is back and his next mission takes him to Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger and his henchman are planning to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. To save the world once again, Bond will need to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats and avoid Goldfinger's personal pilot, …the sexy Pussy Galore. She might not have feelings for Bond, but will 007 help her change her mind? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandhotel |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | famous songblockbustersecret agentdisguiseassassinspybritishchase |
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)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportlondon englandparis francehotelchurchrestaurant |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | ambassadorembassysecret agentstabbed in the backdisguiseassassinspyinterrogationrescue |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police stationairportbus |
Characters: | police chasesniperfather son relationship |
Story: | government agentassassinationassassinspyrescue |
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- … endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airportbushotel |
Characters: | sniperdoctor |
Story: | embassyfalling down stairssecret agentassassinationdisguiseassassininterrogationfalling from heightrescue |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca …tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia |
Locations: | airporthotelrestaurant |
Characters: | americandoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | frenchmantouristscreamvacationsearchchild in perilrescue |
In the midst of an elaborate conspiracy, an expert negotiator is driven to the edge when he's framed for the murder of his partner, as well as embezzling money from his department's pension fund. His only chance to prove his innocence is to take hostages himself, acquire the services of another expe …rt negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | marriagekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | sniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | misunderstandingassassinationinterrogationrescue |
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 …shing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracysuspense |
Themes: | paranoiakidnappingmurder |
Locations: | airporthotelchurchrestaurant |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | frenchmangovernment agentdisguiseconcertinterrogationfalling from heightchase |
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)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | hotelrestaurant |
Characters: | police chasesniperhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | government agentblockbusterfalling down stairssecret agentstabbed in the backchild in perildisguiseassassinspyfalling from heightrescuechase |