political-intrigue
  • Saboteur picture
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    Saboteur (1942)

    An innocent man (Robert Cummings) on the run hunts wartime spies, and the pursuit takes them to the...

  • The Legend of Zorro picture
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    The Legend of Zorro (2005)

    The masked swordsman (Antonio Banderas) and his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) fight a European count...

  • Silver City picture
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    Silver City (2004)

    A campaign manager hires a private detective (Danny Huston) after a Colorado gubernatorial candidate...

  • The Black Windmill picture
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    The Black Windmill (1974)

    A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much picture
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    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

    Plotters kidnap a U.S. couple's (James Stewart, Doris Day) son to hide an assassination at Royal...

  • Half Moon Street picture
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    Half Moon Street (1986)

    A beautiful American research student in London begins work as an escort and finds herself involved...

  • The Eiger Sanction picture
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    The Eiger Sanction (1975)

    An art professor (Clint Eastwood) must draw on his abilities as an assassin to kill an unknown enemy...

  • Blow Out picture
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    Blow Out (1981)

    A sound man (John Travolta) re-creates a political murder-by-car-crash with a sight-and-sound...

  • Three Days of the Condor picture
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    Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    A CIA bookworm (Robert Redford) reports mayhem to his boss (Cliff Robertson), then hides out with a...

  • All the President's Men picture
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    All the President's Men (1976)

    The Washington Post's Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) tie the...

  • Elizabeth picture
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    Elizabeth (1998)

    After succeeding her sister Mary to the throne in 1558, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) rules Britain...

  • The Parallax View picture
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    The Parallax View (1974)

    A reporter's investigation into a political assassination reveals a nationwide network of trained...

  • No Way Out picture
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    No Way Out (1987)

    The secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman) forces a Pentagon naval aide (Kevin Costner) to lead a...

  • Queen Margot picture
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    Queen Margot (1994)

    The sister (Isabelle Adjani) of Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) of France must wed Protestant Henri...

  • The Eagle Has Landed picture
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    The Eagle Has Landed

    A Nazi colonel (Robert Duvall) drops a colonel (Michael Caine), a task force and an Irishman (Donald...

  • The Hunt for Red October picture
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    The Hunt for Red October (1990)

    Moscow, Washington and a CIA analyst (Alec Baldwin) track a renegade Soviet captain (Sean Connery)...

  • Torn Curtain picture
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    Torn Curtain (1966)

    A top U.S. physicist (Paul Newman) defects to East Germany seeking information about Soviet nuclear...

  • Marie Antoinette picture
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    Marie Antoinette (1938)

    The 18th-century Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) has an affair with a Swedish count (Tyrone Power)...

  • Mary of Scotland picture
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    Mary of Scotland (1936)

    Queen Elizabeth (Florence Eldridge) jails Queen Mary (Katharine Hepburn) for 18 years, then puts her...

  • The Third Man picture
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    The Third Man

    Visiting postwar Vienna, Austria, a pulp writer (Joseph Cotten) probes the death of a shady friend...

  • The 39 Steps picture
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    The 39 Steps (1935)

    Spies and the police chase a handcuffed couple (Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll) who cannot stand...

  • Journey into Fear picture
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    Journey into Fear

    Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior...

  • Arabesque picture
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    Arabesque (1966)

    A U.S. professor (Gregory Peck) at Oxford turns spy with the mistress (Sophia Loren) of a plotting...

  • Richard III picture
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    Richard III (1995)

    An ambitious noble murders his way to England's throne in this adaptation of Shakespeare's play, set...

  • Little Nikita picture
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    Little Nikita (1988)

    An FBI agent (Sidney Poitier) finds a dormant link between an Air Force Academy applicant's (River...

  • The Next Man picture
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    The Next Man (1976)

    Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better to...

  • The Whistle Blower picture
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    The Whistle Blower (1987)

    An Englishman (Michael Caine) questions the accidental death of his son (Nigel Havers), a Russian...

  • The Fourth War picture
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    The Fourth War (1990)

    Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out...

  • Hidden Agenda picture
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    Hidden Agenda (1990)

    A U.S. activist (Frances McDormand) and a British inspector (Brian Cox) link Belfast slayings to a...

  • Soldier of God picture
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    Soldier of God (2006)

    Rene is a dedicated warrior-monk of the famed Knights Templar. A religious order whose mission to...