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

Roadside Attractions has released a new trailer for the espionage thriller Our Kind of Traitor.

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.

Not exact matches

By 1965, she was working in Black Spurs, one of producer A.C. Lyles» B - Westerns, renowned for their use of aging genre stars, and Owens retired from movies after portraying Richard Egan's love interest in the low - budget espionage thriller The Destructors (1968).

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

Too violent and plot - light for Le Carré fans, not pacy or twisty enough for Bourne addicts, not shiny and fun enough for those craving James Bond and far too classy for the John Wick crowd, Red Sparrow is a good - looking, well performed, somewhat worthy espionage thriller that it's hard to recommend to anyone.

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

Gripping Drama - Fuzzy Politics Kidman And Penn Elevate UN Thriller By Cole Smithey Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller.

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.

Premiering August 13th on TNT is Legends, a new espionage thriller developed for TV by three - time Emmy award winner Howard Gordon (24, Homeland).

Such an approach renders the immense complexities informing each side's dilemmas too simplistically, as a means for a more digestible, straightforward narrative of familial betrayal and conventional thriller - level espionage.

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

While there are plenty of high points to recommend here from the giddy sophisticated comedy - romance Jewel Robbery (1932), a Pre-Code Ernst Lubitsch wannabe, to the eclectic political espionage thriller British Agent (1934) to the exotic and risque melodrama Mandalay (1934), I cast my vote for THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933) as the quintessential Kay Francis vehicle and an excellent introduction to the actress.

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.

That is the proposition posed by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a spellbinding espionage thriller which was nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Actor (Oldman), Screenplay and Score categories.

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.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG - 13 for intense violence and brief profanity) Chris Pine stars as the title character previously played by Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck, in this reboot of the franchise inspired by the Tom Clancy series of espionage thrillers.

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.

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.

Showtime has renewed its Emmy - winning drama «Homeland» for a third season in 2013, the network announced Monday.The espionage thriller, starring Emmy winners Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, drew 5.2 million viewers when factoring in DVR playback for its...

Paranoia (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and violence) Espionage thriller about a rising corporate superstar (Liam Hemsworth) who finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly game of cat - and - mouse being played by a couple of rival billionaire CEOs (Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford).

2 Guns (R for profanity, brief nudity and pervasive violence) Espionage thriller about a DEA Agent (Denzel Washington) and a Naval Intelligence Officer (Mark Wahlberg) tricked into mistrusting each other while infiltrating a drug cartel.

This is the intriguing premise underpinning Duplicity, an uneven espionage thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy who landed a couple of Oscar nominations a year ago for Michael Clayton.

8:00 pm — TCM — North by Northwest Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for George Kaplan and pulled into an elaborate web of espionage in one of Hitchcock's most enjoyable and funniest thrillers.

Following last week's trailer for The Catcher Was a Spy [watch it here], a new poster has arrived online for Ben Lewin's upcoming World War II espionage thriller featuring Paul Rudd; take a look below... This gripping, stranger - than - fiction espionage thriller brings to life the incredible true story of Moe Berg, the professional baseball player who became a -LSB-...]

An espionage thriller for thinking adults!

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.

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.

Red Sparrow (R for profanity, sexuality, frontal nudity, graphic violence and torture) Espionage thriller revolving around a Russian ballerina (Jennifer Lawrence) recruited by the KGB who ends up falling for the CIA agent (Joel Edgerton) she was supposed to seduce and compromise.

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).

From there, the script was handed over to Tony Gilroy, known for his work on crackerjack espionage thrillers Michael Clayton and the Bourne trilogy.

A contemporary, potentially timely, Russian - centered espionage thriller (minus, alas, any recognizable thrills), Red Sparrow ends as it begins, as an unlikely, ultimately forgettable misfire unlikely to appear in career highlight reels for second youngest performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (Silver Linings Playbook).

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.

Four years too late and watered down for network television, Carrie Mathison, err, Charleston «Charlie» Tucker (Katherine Heigl) first appears in NBC's new espionage thriller, State of Affairs, trying to keep her therapist at bay.

Her new film The East is an exciting update to the espionage thriller, and I had a ton of questions for her about the film, being a filmmaker, and her approach to her craft.

Jennifer Lawrence and regular Hunger Games sequels director Francis Lawrence are teaming back up for an adaptation of espionage thriller novel Red Sparrow.

That landed him right at the deep end, hired by Leonardo DiCaprio «s Appian Way company to adapt an Atlantic Monthly article into «The Infiltrator,» a thriller about a British spy undercover in the I.R.A. Again, that film's not yet made it out of development hell, but it worked, as Zetumer is perhaps the only man to have written for two of the biggest espionage franchises — he did a script polish on 007 entry «Quantum of Solace,» and was hired by Universal (albeit without the knowledge of Paul Greengrass, hence the director's exit from the franchise) to write an unused draft for a fourth «Bourne «movie.

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.

Salt (PG - 13 for violence and intense action sequences) Angelina Jolie plays the title character in this espionage thriller about a disgraced CIA Agent - turned - fugitive who goes on the run to try to clear her name after being falsely accused of being a Russian spy.

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.

DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: Jennifer Lawrence is a wonderful dramatic and comic actress, but she can't pass for the star of the Bolshoi Ballet, the so - called pride of Russia, in the espionage thriller «Red Sparrow.»

For fans of espionage thrillers: Masaryk Station by David Downing In the last book in his series, double agent John Russell walks the line between American and Soviet intelligence.

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.

It also helps that the genre I write in (espionage action thrillers) seems to be very popular for audiobook fans.

Meanwhile, boosted by the attention for HUNTER, BAD DEEDS continues to steadily climb the Audible category bestseller lists, moving into the top 100 «Espionage Thrillers,» too (it's at # 85 as of this writing).

In addition, it ranked # 19 among all «Mysteries & Thrillers» (24,303 titles), # 17 in the «Suspense» subcategory (14,255 titles), and — wait for it — # 1 in the «Espionage» subcategory (1,779 titles).

* # 1 in Audible «Espionage Thrillers» (for almost 5 full days) * # 7 in Audible «Suspense Thrillers» * # 9 in Audible «Mysteries & Thrillers» * # 6 in Audible «Mysteries & Thrillers» (averaged over 7 days) * # 12 in all Audible categories (fiction & nonfiction) averaged over the previous 7 days * # 25 among all Audible titles (some 297,000 books)

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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HUNT FOR THE ENEMY is the breathtaking finale to Rob Sinclair's bestselling Enemy series of espionage thrillers.