Sentences with phrase «espionage thriller set»

The Age of Shadows I Saw the Devil / The Good the Bad and the Weird's Kim Jee - woon's latest is this espionage thriller set in 1920s Japan - occupied Korea.

Much of its domestic comedy - meets - espionage thriller set - up was actually cribbed from the 1991 French farce La Totale!

Not exact matches

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Screen adaptation of John le Carre's classic, espionage thriller, set at the height of the Cold War, about a disgraced, former head of British intelligence (Gary Oldman) who comes out of retirement to catch the Soviet mole who has infiltrated the agency's highest echelons.

Veteran actors Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins are all set to star in espionage thriller «Official Secrets.»

The Bourne boom is still in full effect in Hollywood right now, as studios continue to set the wheels in motion on more spy movies and espionage - themed thrillers.

Beirut (R for profanity, violence and a nude image) Espionage thriller, set in the Eighties during Lebanon's civil war, about a retired U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) coaxed back into service by a CIA agent (Rosamund Pike) to negotiate the release of a kidnapped colleague (Mark Pelligrino).

They may be less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of violent beat - downs.

Populated with henchmen, heroes, and femme fatales, punctuated with elaborate action sequences, and set against a backdrop of Weimar - era European decadence, DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER had an unmistakable influence on all the espionage thrillers that followed in its wake.

The Debt (R for violence and profanity) International espionage thriller, set in 1997, about three former Mossad Agents (Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds) who come out of retirement to track down a Nazi war criminal (Jesper Christensen) back on the loose after already being apprehended by them 35 years earlier.

Character - driven investigative thriller set in the world of counterintelligence focuses on former CIA agent Erica Wolfe, the most notorious traitor in modern history and most hated woman in America, who is brought out of a federal supermax prison by the FBI to help stop some of the most dangerous acts of espionage threatening the United States today.

The basic bundle includes a gritty and fast - moving thriller from the sensational Russell Blake, a gripping morality tale set in the world of animal testing from J.E. Fishman, a tale of wrongful conviction and potential redemption from Joshua Graham, an espionage thriller filled with nonstop action from Allan Leverone, and a shocking novel of our prison system gone awry from C.J. West.

This month's best new mysteries include a tense psychological thriller set in Tokyo, plenty of high - stakes espionage and a long - awaited Swedish translation.

Like his films, which range from courtroom dramas to war and espionage thrillers to unconventional romances and more, Hanks covers a wide spectrum in his debut collection of short stories in a host of styles, situations and settings.