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Unfortunately, it seems our airdate this week comes before the actual release date of the film in the United States, so we thought we'd just cover that OTHER Avengers movie — the 1998 abomination starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as posh, droll British secret agents attempting to stop Sir Sean Connery from holding the British ecosystem for ransom (we think).

The script's idea of being pro — civil liberties is to romanticize the notion of British secret agents going around the world killing anyone they please.

He and Mater find themselves in the middle of a clandestine war between the forces of fossil and alternative fuels, also involving the British secret agents Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer).

The film will be directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) and will have Daniel Craig reprise his role as the legendary British secret agent.

Michael Caine voices British secret agent Finn McMissile, who also figures heavily in the new film.

After foiling a plot to seize the British crown in his first self - titled movie outing, incompetent British secret agent Johnny English is back, and must now prevent the assassination of the Chinese premier, in the expectedly silly but thoroughly entertaining Johnny English Reborn.

Reinventing the spy genre for the 21st century, the story follows a British secret agent who takes his wayward nephew under his wing and trains him to become a gentleman spy.

The Bond series really was on it's knees when Brosnan stepped into the shoes of the British secret agent with the rubbish jokes and a penchant for girly drinks.

The actress will play one of the female leads in this spy comedy about a British secret agent forced to team up with his soccer hooligan brother.

A clumsy British secret agent makes it through several disastrous events thanks to his assistant Bough in Johnny English.

Grimsby centers on a British secret agent (Mark Strong) who is forced to go into hiding in his hometown with his dim - witted soccer hooligan brother (Sacha Baron Cohen).

With a script from Cohen, Phil Johnston and Peter Baynham, the new comedy finds a top - notch British secret agent (Strong) forced to go on the lam with his long - lost, loud - mouthed brother (Cohen), a football hooligan who hails from... well, you can work that out from the title.

In a nutshell: Atomic Blonde is about a badass, bisexual British secret agent who fights like John Wick and seduces like James Bond who travels to Germany days before the fall of the Berlin Wall to recover some stolen intelligence.

Now, well - heeled Bond fans that feel the same way will have the rare opportunity to add the 1965 Aston Martin DB5 the British secret agent drove in the movie's opening scene — the first DB5 driven by Bond since the Sean Connery era.

Fans of the film will appreciate the ability to play as over 20 different characters, including the loveable Mater, military veteran Sarge, and British secret agent Finn McMissile.

Not exact matches

The DGSE hiring target is 500 - 600 recruits a year to bring its numbers up to 7,100 by 2019, but the skills required are not those of amphibious frogmen or secret agents of the kind incarnated by the fictional British character James Bond.

What pretty much no one knows — until now — is that the famous author of the Chronicles of Narnia was a secret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - reasecret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - reaSecret Intelligence Service — the for - real MI6.

According to foreign secretary David Miliband, the UK government does not «cooperate, authorise or condone» torture, but Mr Mohamed claims questions US agents asked him while in detention in Morocco about his life in London could only have come from information supplied by the British secret services.

He took her into a little office and told her they knew she was a spy, an agent of the British secret service.

Skripal was recruited by the British MI6 in 1995, and before his arrest in Russia in December 2004, he was alleged to have blown the cover of scores of Russian secret agents.

In 1972, The head of MI5 (Brian Cox) sets up a secret committee that includes interrogator Joe Lambe (Tom Hughes), Bobby Waterhouse (Paul Ritter), detective Jim Fenchurch (Shaun Dooley) and secretary Wendy Straw (Chloe Pirrie), Sarah Montag (Victoria Hamilton), and her husband Alan (Jonathan Aris), to locate sleeper agents for the Soviets in this six - part British miniseries written by Toby Whithouse.

Babak Najafi directs the action sequel, which sends Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) and President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) to London for the funeral of the British prime minister.

She is told that a fellow agent in Berlin was recently killed (the man in the opening scene) and it is believed he had a file with the secret identities of the British spy network around the world.

London Has Fallen (Blu - ray + DVD + Ultraviolet) Details: 2016, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Rated: R, graphic violence, language The lowdown: Gerard Butler returns as Secret Service agent Mike Banning who, in this sequel, must protect President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) from a terrorist group that already has killed several world leaders who were in London for the funeral of the British prime minister.

It is basically the British Intelligence, without the Hollywood touch of James Bond or other movie secret agents.

Control believes there's a breach in the highest levels of «the Circus,» the code name for the British secret service, and he uses his influence to set Smiley after the mole, who is sneaking secrets to the Soviets and is most likely one of four powerful agents (Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Ciaran Hinds, David Dencik).

Tinker Tailor opens with Control (John Hurt, for once not playing a loon), head of the British secret service MI6 — referred to as the «Circus» — sending his agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into the field to flush out a mole within the Circus.

Adapted from a British series of the same name, «Free Agents» stars Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn as co-workers who hook up but want to keep it secret from their co-workers.

An intermittently amusing riff on British spy movies, starring Colin Firth as a secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, «Kingsman» collapses into outlandish absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

Oldman's towering, transformative turn in «Darkest Hour» is miles apart from his other Oscar - nominated performance, delicately playing George Smiley, the impassive, inscrutable British secret service agent in 2011's «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.»

A British Secret Service agent finds himself on a questionable, albeit dangerous assignment: stopping the men (man?)

Over the last few years, we've seen Michael Fassbender in a number of different guises — British agent disguised as a Nazi, Roman warrior, Gothic romantic lead, metal - bending Holocaust - surviving mutant, repressed psychotherapist, rampant sex addict, treacherous secret agent, and Peter O'Toole - ish android.

Broughton delves into an underground world of counter-intelligence, defections gone awry and secret assassinations to recover the list, risking her own life to save the lives of the British agents.

Their calling remains secret to everyone in their personal lives, as they pose as a travel agent and cruise ship captain even to British expatriate Tuck's ex-wife (Abigail Spencer) and young son (John Paul Ruttan).

This time, in the script most recently drafted by Christian Gedegast, «a U.S. Secret Service agent (Butler), the U.S. president (Eckhart) and the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (Freeman) are attending the funeral of the British prime minister when all hell breaks loose (again).»

At Lisbon airport, an American businessman is mistaken for a British secret - agent, by friend and foe alike, with hilarious consequences.

An opportunity for such a life presents itself when Wormold is recruited for the British Secret Service by a gentleman named Hawthorne (played by the great Noel Coward), who feels being a ho - hum vacuum cleaner salesman is the perfect front for Wormold to be their Havana agent.

Based on the cult TV show of the 60s, British Ministry secret agent John Steed (Fiennes, Quiz Show) now is on the big screen, this time investigating the strange goings - on in the weather caused by the villain, Sir August de Wynter (Connery, The Rock).

The British sports car builder is collaborating with Florida - based Triton Submarines to create Project Neptune, a limited edition luxury sub for life aquatic fans and wannabe secret agents.

One certainly fit for a secret British undercover agent is a highly desirable ’14 Vanquish (Lot # 714) that's finished in Skyfall Silver with a blue interior.

Now, for secret agents who aren't in that big of a hurry, the British marque has announced...

Philby was a British Secret Service agent spying for the Soviets during the Cold War.

For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service who at one time volunteered to assassinate Hitler for his countrymen.

«British Secret Service agent Peter Guillam has been summoned out of his quiet retirement in Breton to come to London and explain his involvement in a clandestine operation, code - named Windfall, to a bunch of people too young or too inexperienced to understand its ramifications.

About SIS According to SIS's informative website, a formal and permanent British intelligence service was first established in 1909; but the history of British intelligence organizations engaged in foreign intelligence goes back at least to the 15th century (Thomas Cromwell ran secret agents in Europe on behalf of Henry VIII and Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's «spymaster», maintained a network of 50 secret agents abroad and a substantial network in Britain.

They have been freed by a «Mrs. White,» a secret British intelligence agent, who needs someone to take down Hitler and his Third Reich once and for all.