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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.»

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.

Jennifer Lawrence is unconvincing as the star of the Bolshoi Ballet in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow.

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

Keeping the movie in the espionage thriller genre will play to the strengths of the titular Black Widow — Natasha Romanoff — as a character.

Playwright and screenwriter (The Reader) David Hare has gathered quite a cast to star in his espionage thriller Page 8.

proclaims a Russian oligarch out of central casting while staring down Jennifer Lawrence's dress in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow.

Among that subgroup of titles published by Audible Studios, it has hit # 4 in Espionage Thrillers and # 18 among all their Mysteries & Thrillers.

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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).

A complex espionage thriller that makes impeccable use of a careful pace to stretch the tension to its maximum and an appropriately dark cinematography to recreate the paranoia of the»70s and the Cold War maneuvers, while Gary Oldman underacts in a perfect performance.

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

In contrast to the tonally exploitative, post-9 / 11 catastrophe smut of the Avengers tentpoles, the former plays as a clever espionage thriller built on political intrigue, disguised as a comic book movie.

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.

This is an unmistakably Asian variant on the action movie, a sleek, slick, entertaining espionage thriller in the John Woo mold.

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.

Gene Hackman stars in an intricate espionage thriller in which he is asked to accompany military prisoner Tommy Lee Jones from Europe to America.

In this spy thriller, Jennifer Lawrence is Dominika, a former ballerina forced to enter Sparrow School, a government program that thrusts her into a treacherous espionage game.

Whatever one might think of Allied, a glossy World War Two espionage thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as secret agents who try to forge a viable family life in the midst of a world on fire, it's worth celebrating that Robert Zemeckis is firmly dedicated to filming flesh - and - blood people again.

Jennifer Lawrence takes the bull by the horns as a Russian spy in white - knuckle espionage thriller Red Sparrow.

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.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a tense and dense espionage thriller, that weaves its story like a tightening noose, until the audience is left breathless in the cinema.

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.

SYNOPSIS Taylor Lautner stars as a young man unwittingly thrust into a deadly world of covert espionage in Lionsgate's action - thriller, ABDUCTION, directed by John Singleton.

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.

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.

In 2012, she was cast in the erotic thriller Passion, the romantic drama To Wonder, the romantic comedy About Time, and an espionage thriller in A Most Wanted MaIn 2012, she was cast in the erotic thriller Passion, the romantic drama To Wonder, the romantic comedy About Time, and an espionage thriller in A Most Wanted Main the erotic thriller Passion, the romantic drama To Wonder, the romantic comedy About Time, and an espionage thriller in A Most Wanted Main A Most Wanted Man.

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.

The Cold War espionage thriller is just one of the many genres and modes of cinema subtly referenced in Barcelona and that comparatively define Stillman's distinct brand of comedy.

In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years lateIn some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years latein others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years latein The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years latein from the Cold just a few years later.

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.

Based upon John le Carré's 1974 espionage novel of the same name and directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), the acclaimed thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, a former British Intelligence operative called out of retirement to track down a mole within the agency.

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...

But while Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has already expressed interest in doing a comedic film centered around Black Widow, the studio should probably opt to make the movie a, pre serious espionage thriller, and it already has the perfect directorial team in Joe and Anthony Russo.

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).

In Anton Corbijn's («The American,» «Control») espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man, Günther Bachmann, played by a German accented Philip Seymour Hoffman in his final role, is the tough - minded, hard - drinking head of a clandestine anti-terrorist operation working to find sources that will point them to higher - level terrorists in the Islamic communitIn Anton Corbijn's («The American,» «Control») espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man, Günther Bachmann, played by a German accented Philip Seymour Hoffman in his final role, is the tough - minded, hard - drinking head of a clandestine anti-terrorist operation working to find sources that will point them to higher - level terrorists in the Islamic communitin his final role, is the tough - minded, hard - drinking head of a clandestine anti-terrorist operation working to find sources that will point them to higher - level terrorists in the Islamic communitin the Islamic community.

Funny thing, I didn't know much about the story before seeing the film but I saw «Spielberg» and «Spies» in the title and thought «sweet a Spielberg espionage thriller».

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.

Starting out as a slow - boiling espionage thriller, «Iron Man» eventually becomes the action blockbuster that the trailers hinted at, but not until all of the pieces are in place.

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.

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.

In many ways it is an unofficial sequel to his feature debut The House on 92nd Street (1945), a wartime espionage thriller based on the real - life case of the FBI tracking down a ring of German spies in New York CitIn many ways it is an unofficial sequel to his feature debut The House on 92nd Street (1945), a wartime espionage thriller based on the real - life case of the FBI tracking down a ring of German spies in New York Citin New York City.

Pierce Brosnan returns to the world of international espionage in the action - packed spy thriller «The November Man» directed by Roger Donaldson.

Espionage thrillers can be so much fun in both book and movie form.

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).

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.

«Shadow Dancer» is a decent espionage thriller, but again, not quite memorable enough to include in our main list.

«A Most Wanted Man» Synopsis: Adapted from the book by John Le Carré («Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy»), this espionage thriller centers on an uneducated and destitute ex-prisoner who illegally arrives in Hamburg and gets caught up in the international war on terror.

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.

We'll likely never see Schrader's original cut (though he secretly reedited the film using work print DVDs into a new feature entitled Dark, clips of which can be seen in his MasterClass lecture), but what's available is a passable espionage thriller featuring a halfway compelling Cage performance.