Secret Agents

2004

French

5.4

♡ 7

26%

Frédéric Schoendoerffer Director

Monica Bellucci as Barbara / Lisa

Vincent Cassel as Brisseau

Jay Benedict as L'Américain

Najwa Nimri as Maria Menendez

From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...