An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Colonel Redl

1985

German

7.4

♡ 2

84%

István Szabó Director

Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alfred Redl

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Thronfolger

István Hirtling as (uncredited)

Hans Christian Blech as von Roden

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

Vaterlandsverräter

2011

German

7.3

♡ 2

Annekatrin Hendel Director

Antje Mauksch as

Ursula Karusseit as

Matthias Hering as

Stefan Kowalski as Narrator

The story of the complex man and 75-year-old writer named Paul Gratzik, who worked as a Stasi informant in the GDR and was known as a “man of extremes”. However, after spying on friends and colleagues for more than 20 years, Gratzik decided to voluntarily expose himself in the 1980s.

The Candidate

2018

Spanish

7.1

♡ 29

92%

Rodrigo Sorogoyen Director

Bárbara Lennie as Amaia Marín

Luis Zahera as Cabrera

Ana Wagener as La Ceballos

María de Nati as Nati

Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.

The House on 92nd Street

1945

English

6.6

♡ 2

50%

Henry Hathaway Director

Gene Lockhart as Charles Ogden Roper

Signe Hasso as Elsa Gebhardt

Frank Richards as German Spy Trainee

Lloyd Nolan as Inspector George A. Briggs

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

The Lincoln Conspiracy

1977

English

5.9

♡ 2

James L. Conway Director

Fred Grandy as David Herold

Wallace Wilkinson as Dr. Samuel Mudd

Joe Dorsey as Lt. Edward P. Doherty

Christopher Allport as Michael O'Laughlin

Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.

The Informer

1935

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

ira (irish republican army)

love

treason

John Ford Director

Ward Bond as Man

Frank Hagney as Policeman

Anne O'Neal as Singer

J.M. Kerrigan as Terry

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

Elizabeth

1998

English

7.4

♡ 52

83%

Shekhar Kapur Director

Vincent Cassel as Duc d'Anjou

Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I

Daniel Craig as John Ballard

Rod Culbertson as Master Ridley

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

Russian

7.6

♡ 16

Sergei M. Eisenstein Director

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Vsevolod Pudovkin as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

A Different Loyalty

2004

English

4.9

♡ 6

17%

Marek Kanievska Director

Michael Cochrane as Dick Madsen

Jim Piddock as George Quennell

Joseph Antaki as Lebanese Security Officer

Sharon Stone as Sally Cauffield

In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.

The Tall Target

1951

English

7.2

♡ 6

100%

66%

Adventure

american civil war

assassination of president

political assassination

Thriller

treason

Western

Anthony Mann Director

Peter Brocco as Fernandina

Paula Raymond as Ginny Beaufort

Regis Toomey as Insp. Tim Reilly

Barbara Billingsley as Young Mother

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Captain Blood

1935

English

7.7

♡ 12

100%

Michael Curtiz Director

Leonard Mudie as Baron Jeffreys

Forrester Harvey as Honesty Nuttall

Colin Kenny as Lord Chester Dyke

Errol Flynn as Peter Blood

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Le Samouraï

1967

French

8.0

♡ 56

92%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Carlo Nell as 2ème inspecteur

Nathalie Delon as Jane Lagrange

Alain Delon as Jef Costello

Maurice Auzel as Un homme menotte au commissariat

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

English

7.1

♡ 71

93%

74%

ambition

based on play or musical

Drama

Fantasy

History

husband wife relationship

Joel Coen Director

Bertie Carvel as Banquo

Brendan Gleeson as Duncan

Denzel Washington as Macbeth

Sean Patrick Thomas as Monteith

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Quisling: The Final Days

2024

Norwegian

7.1

♡ 7

99%

Erik Poppe Director

Lisa Loven Kongsli as Heidi Olsen

Anders Danielsen Lie as Peder Olsen

Johan Ivarson as Politibetjent #2

Gard B. Eidsvold as Vidkun Quisling

After five years, the German occupation of Norway ends on 8 May 1945. The rebuilding of the nation can begin, but first the final chapter must be written. In a dark cell at Akershus Fortress sits the man who committed the greatest treason of all: Vidkun Quisling. Now he must be held accountable for his actions and the atrocities that Nazi ideology led to.

Cloak & Dagger

1984

English

6.6

♡ 15

parent child relationship

Richard Franklin Director

Linden Chiles as Airport Security Chief

Eloy Casados as Alvarez

Henry Thomas as Davey Osborne

John McIntire as George MacCready

Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, gives Davey a mysterious video game cartridge called Cloak & Dagger, which in actuality contains top-secret government information. With the help of his younger friend Kim, the tech savvy Morris, and even a little help from his fictional secret agent mentor, Davey must stay one step ahead of pursuers as he tries to survive a real-life game of espionage in the streets of San Antonio, Texas.

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Elizabeth

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A Different Loyalty

The Tall Target

Captain Blood

Le Samouraï

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Quisling: The Final Days

Cloak & Dagger