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By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: «The Debt,» an espionage thriller with Sam Worthington and Helen Mirren, held its premiere at last year's Toronto International Film Festival.

Filmmaker Reed Morano teams with dp Sean Bobbitt (his best work was Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines) for what a global espionage thriller with Blake Lively in La Femme Nikita-esque mode.

Already a seasoned playwright in his native U.K., the 36 - year - old makes his feature screenplay debut with «Bridge of Spies,» a Cold War espionage thriller with none other than Steven Spielberg at its helm and Tom Hanks as its hero.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

It takes a special kind of film to lose me immediately, and «Paranoia,» a particularly sad espionage thriller with very little espionage and zero thrills, did just that.

An old - school espionage thriller with a movie - biz comedy twist, all the better for being (almost) entirely true.

If you like escapist espionage thrillers with lots of action, perhaps there's enough quality actors, superb stunt work, and nice location shoots to give The November Man a passable grade, especially because the R - rated action can be quite brutal compared to a James Bond flick.

Not exact matches

Red Sparrow is a deliciously perverse, unflinchingly violent thriller — a modern - day espionage tale that breaks with the tradition of making the spy business the purview of suave and debonair characters.

But Francis Lawrence's steely thriller, based on the first of Jason Matthews» trilogy of novels, shares more DNA with John Le Carré's densely - plotted espionage page - turners than the MCU.

Our evening begins with North By Northwest, the mistaken identity everyman espionage comedy thriller starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

The modern espionage thriller is consumed with technology, prioritizing a high - tech surveillance state over the grunt work that used to be a spy's stock in trade.

Red 2 (PG - 13 for profanity, drug use and pervasive violence) Espionage thriller finds former, CIA Agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) coaxed back out of retirement and reunited with his elite team of spies to track down a portable nuclear bomb that's landed in the hands of terrorists.

With a new trailer for espionage thriller THE IMITATION GAME on its way this week, the good folks at StudioCanal have sent us a short Vine — which contains new footage from the trailer — to whet our appetites.

• Part of the genius of Burn After Reading is the way it employs the somber aesthetics of an espionage thriller to tell a story that is, at its core, a sex farce (though admittedly one with an unusually high body count).

Director Francis Lawrence has reconnected with his «Hunger Games» star Jennifer Lawrence for a dark espionage thriller about a Soviet spy ring called «sparrows.»

With Pierce Brosnan returning to espionage in this moderately budgeted thriller, you can expect great performances from the cast; mayhem controlled and uncontrolled; a damsel in distress who is more than she seems to be, and, of course, monumental betrayal — not necessarily in that order.

DEADLINE — Hard to imagine there will be a hotter film package unveiled at Cannes next week than 355, a large - scale espionage film that Simon Kinberg will direct with an all - star international spy cast of Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong» o. They'll play international agents in a grounded, edgy action thriller that aims to alter a male - dominated genre with a true female ensemble, in the style of spy franchises The Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible and James Bond.

As discussed above, The Interview looks more like an espionage thriller than a comedy with its dark, contrasty visuals.

With a strong cast and striking production values, this thriller is sleek enough to hold our interest even if corporate espionage isn't a very exciting topic for the movies.

This snappy 1944 espionage thriller, made on a budget comparable to an ambitious American B movie, finds romantic adventure in wartime intrigue in Algiers as Mason flees the Nazis with vital information for the Allies, or so he tells the American girl (Carla Lehman) who becomes his ally.

The Russo Brothers proved their ability to make great espionage thrillers featuring superheroes with 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Screenwriter Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton) certainly has success with these types of governmental espionage thrillers.

Those two films aren't biopics, but they share the insidery, involuted interests of Steve Jobs; the biopics in the «hit» camp (Compton, Black Mass, The Imitation Game and American Sniper) are all much beefier, externalised affairs playing obviously to mass audiences, with even The Imitation Game trying its hardest to be an espionage thriller.

Gritty and involving, this small British thriller is like Memento crossed with The Bourne Identity as it reveals its secrets through a fragmented structure that involves espionage and memory.When a woman (Reid) wakes up on...

It's a horror show that unfolds with all the breathtaking suspense of an espionage thriller, and a necessary step toward raising awareness.

We're hoping he'll up the ante yet again with his next feature, the espionage / Yakuza thriller The Avenging Silence, for which an intriguing (and surprisingly detailed) synopsis has already been released.

Looking forward, Relativity will release the corporate espionage thriller Paranoia (in theatres August 16, 2013), Luc Besson's comedic action film The Family (in theatres September 20, 2013) with EuropaCorp, Scott Cooper's gritty drama currently - titled Out of the Furnace (in theatres October 4, 2013) and Joseph Gordon - Levitt's daring directorial debut Don Jon (in theatres October 18, 2013).

Sound of My Voice director Zal Batmanglij reteams with his co - writer / lead actor Brit Marling for this espionage thriller.

Regrettably, the Oscar - winning director (for Traffic) saw fit to interpret what might have made a compelling corporate espionage thriller (ala Michael Clayton) into a lighthearted romp revolving around Whitacre's cat - and - mouse relationship with the FBI's incompetent Keystone Cops who served as his contacts, instead of focusing squarely on the pricing scandal.

Paranoia, directed by Robert Luketic, is an espionage thriller that doesn't boast any big special effects, just an impressive cast with an intriguing plot.

The Bourne Identity Matt Damon stars in this explosive, action - packed espionage thriller about a man with deadly skills, but no memory of who he is or why the government wants him dead.

Target (1985), which re-teamed Penn with Gene Hackman, is an espionage thriller in which a father and son (played by Matt Dillon) must search for their missing mother / wife amidst much Le Carre-esque international conspiracy and corruption.

A cosmopolitan, romantic espionage thriller that channels North by Northwest by way of Charade, with Johnny Depp in the Cary Grant role and Angelina Jolie as the cool, elegant and effortlessly glamorous femme fatale, and an Oscar - winning director getting his first taste of a Hollywood budget.

But I found it to be an insubstantial, yet nifty little espionage thriller; with solid acting & craftsmanship.

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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.

From there, the film morphs from courtroom drama to espionage thriller as Donovan finds himself flying to Berlin in order to secretly negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Russians: they'll get Abel, and the US will receive recently downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in return.

Espionage thriller The East comes out this Friday and Trey had the chance to chat with cowriter and actress Brit Marling.

Director Gavin O'Connor's The Accountant unevenly juggles a «follow the money» procedural with a corporate espionage thriller.

Think John Wick turned espionage thriller: replace its lo - carb Neo with a female version of James Bond who makes Daniel Craig look like David Niven.

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.

Action thriller author Chris Allen dominates the international bestselling writing lists with his black - ops Interpol espionage series, Defender, Hunter, Avenger and Helldiver.

The Rogue Women Writers (a group of eight women writing international espionage and geopolitical thrillers, who blog at www.roguewomenwriters.com) were assigned a Friday afternoon slot with Lee moderating.

With An American Spy, Olen Steinhauer, by far the best espionage writer in a generation, delivers a searing international thriller that will settle once and for all who is pulling the strings and who is being played.

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What would it take to put our way of life at risk?Is it possible for a handful of ultra-deep players to cripple the global economy?A secret organization with immense wealth and limitless influence squares off against The Establishment in this # 1 Bestselling financial conspiracy thriller from espionage master Lars Emmerich.As the clandestine conflict reaches an explosive flashpoint, Special Agent Sam Jameson, a brash, ballsy, and beautiful spy catcher, is cast headlong into the crossfire.

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It's a name that is synonymous with spies, espionage, political thrillers, and tactical - focused video games.

Mr. Douglas's play with the conventions of the cinematic espionage thriller is heady and gripping.