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Shining Through

Shining Through (1992) more movies like this

directed by David Seltzer
featuring Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud

Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel Shining Through. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with international lawyer Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). Ed hires her immediately when he finds out that she speaks ...

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The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed (1976) more movies like this

directed by John Sturges
featuring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk, the Germans plan to kidnap him. Heinrich Himmler ...

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Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle (1981) more movies like this

directed by Richard Marquand
featuring Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove

Having already been seen spying for the Nazis in 1979's The Eagle Has Landed, Donald Sutherland once more infiltrates wartime England on behalf of Der Fuhrer in Eye of the Needle. Willing to kill even the most innocent of bystanders to complete his task, Sutherland manages to remain in Britain until the eve of D-Day in 1944. Discovering that the ...

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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was (1956) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd

The Man Who Never Was is the true story of how the Allies threw the Nazis off track in planning the invasion of Sicily. The British Royal Navy exhumes the corpse of a man who died of natural causes, arranging to make it appear as though the dead man was a special services operative carrying the secret invasion plans. The elaborate ruse includes ...

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Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow (1965) more movies like this

directed by Michael Anderson
featuring Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the longest. This being an MGM production, Peppard has time to ...

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Decision Before Dawn

Decision Before Dawn (1951) more movies like this

directed by Anatole Litvak
featuring Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegarde Neff, Dominique Blanchar, O.E. Hasse

With the Third Reich disintegrating, several members of the German army are defecting to the Americans and offering their services as spies. US officer Gary Merrill trusts none of these last-minute "converts", but German prisoner Oskar Werner seems to be sincere. Werner insists that by helping the Americans, he is saving Germany from destruction. ...

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Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo (1943) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck, Akim Tamiroff

Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action is transplanted from World War I Galicia to World War II Egypt as Rommel's Afrika Corps viciously forces the British Army to retreat towards Cairo. Protagonist John J. Bramble (Franchot Tone) is ...

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The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark (1965) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Anton Diffring, David Weston

In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the manufacture of atomic weapons), under the order of the German military. Knut Straud (Richard Harris), a leading figure in the Norwegian underground, joins forces with scientist ...

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All The Queen's Men

All The Queen's Men (2002) more movies like this

directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
featuring Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier

A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to ...

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Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich (1940) more movies like this

directed by Carol Reed
featuring Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the unwitting pawn of a genuine Nazi (Paul von Hernreid, just ...

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Colonel Redl (1985) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans-Christian Blech, Gudrun Landgrebe, Dorottya Udvaros

The second film in the trilogy made by director Istvan Szabo and actor Klaus Maria Brandauer -- hammocked between Mephisto and Hanussen -- Colonel Redl continues Mephisto's fascination with a man overwhelmed by history. In that film, Brandauer played an actor who tried to ignore the rise of the Third Reich, and here he's an ambitious military ...

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5 Fingers (1952) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Oscar Karlweis, Herbert Berghof, Walter Hampden

Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of the British ambassador to Ankara during World War II, Cicero is actually a Nazi agent. He holds no particular political viewpoint: the Nazis offered the best price, so for the time being he is loyal to them. Falling in love ...

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The House on 92nd Street (1945) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll

Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S. Thanks to covert surveillance, the FBI learns of the presence of several suspicious persons in NYC. William Eythe is a German-American college student approached by the spies to become a secret Nazi ...

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13 Rue Madeleine (1946) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Roland Belanger, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel

This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it is also a full-fledged spy thriller. An excellent cast includes James Cagney, Karl Malden, E.G. Marshall, and Red Buttons. Cagney stars as an O.S.S. training officer, bent upon discovering a German traitor within his ranks ...

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British Intelligence (1940) more movies like this

directed by Terrell O. Morse
featuring Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Maris Wrixon, Leonard Mudie

Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of the 1930 espionager Three Faces East, the film stars Boris Karloff as Valder, the sinister butler of a British cabinet minister. It is quite possible that Valder is a German spy, and equally likely that the mysterious Helene ...

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Cloak and Dagger (1946) more movies like this

directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Marjorie Hoshelle

Inspired by actual events, Cloak and Dagger was first major "atomic power" melodrama of the postwar era. Gary Cooper stars as bookish physics professor Alvah Jesper, a character obviously based on A-bomb codeveloper J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pressed into service by the OSS in the last months of WW2, Jasper is sent to Europe in search of Dr. Polda ...

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Enigma (2002) more movies like this

directed by Michael Apted
featuring Matthew MacFadyen, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The true story of a major breakthrough in intelligence technology created during World War II provides the backdrop for this blend of mystery, romance, and espionage, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is a gifted mathematician who is working with the British government on the development and maintenance of the Enigma ...

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Watch on the Rhine (1943) more movies like this

directed by Herman Shumlin
featuring Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Donald Woods, Geraldine Fitzgerald, George Coulouris, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi

An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas, recreating his Broadway role of tireless anti-fascist crusader Kurt Muller. As the clouds of war gather in Europe in the late 1930s, Muller arrives in Washington DC, accompanied by his American wife Sara (top-billed Bette ...

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O.S.S. (1946) more movies like this

directed by Irving Pichel
featuring Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Richard Benedict, Richard Webb

Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents who parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops. One of the spies is a woman, and this bothers the group leader, ...

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I See a Dark Stranger (1946) more movies like this

directed by Frank Launder
featuring Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Tom Macauley

I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre. Deborah Kerr is terrific as Irish colleen Bridie Quilty, raised from childhood to despise the British and everything they stand for. Bridie's anglophobia proves useful to Nazi spy Miller (Raymond Huntley), who hopes to use the girl ...

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Dark Journey (1937) more movies like this

directed by Victor Saville
featuring Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Bushell, Margery Pickard

The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced German officer who is actually head of his country's ...

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Mother Night (1996) more movies like this

directed by Keith Gordon
featuring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Kirsten Dunst

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel Mother Night like so: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." In Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Vonnegut's book, Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright living in Germany shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. ...

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Mata Hari (1985) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Harrington
featuring Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown, Gottfried John

Sylvia Kristel adds her sexual allure to the story of Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), executed by the French in 1917 at the age of 41 for being a double agent. In reality, "Mata Hari" had been married, had children, and performed as a dancer around Europe -- not the normal background for a spy. And according to the man who requested her ...

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Black Dragons (1942) more movies like this

directed by William Nigh
featuring Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, Clayton Moore, George Pembroke, Robert W. Frazer

After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot proper gets under way, wherein a group of six men conspire to undermine America's war effort. What is the connection between these six men, all of them outwardly respectable members of Washingtonian society? Hero Don (Clayton ...

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The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) more movies like this

directed by Burt Kennedy
featuring Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman

One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of fact-finding missions in Europe just before WW2. ...

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