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When a secret agent virus infects a bacterium, they do a little espionage.
Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very likely that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market.
They went and searched Dreyfus's apartment, looking for any signs of espionage.
So if you watch the evening news, you would think that most of this is espionage or nation-state activity.
Espionage, you see, is an accepted international practice.
But what Russia was doing in 2016 went far beyond espionage.
While she was determined to take her pacifist principles as far as possible, Noor had to learn the art of espionage.
Corporate espionage is not an easy game— but sometimes, that’s just how the sausage is made.
George Segal--who, in the 1960s, starred mostly in war and espionage pictures--had become, by this time, one of America's greatest sad-sack comedians; his nutty reactions and batty responses rival only his mother's inscrutabilities.
An obviously non-Arab American (Mr. DiCaprio) trying to pass himself off as an Arab ... speaking fluent Arabic ... concocting all kinds of hair brain schemes that are doomed to failure ... trying to out think and outfox real Arabs who are completely unfooled by his laughable Arab masquerade ... trying to romance a Palestinian woman while in the middle of conducting a highly sensitive and complex espionage mission ... etc.
The most disturbing thing about this film is not that it's a load of hogwash (the CPUSA was never really as much an espionage threat as the movie makes out).
A combination of The Eagle Has Landed, Star!, Oh! What a Lovely War!, and Edwards' Pink Panther films, Darling Lili never engages the viewer; the aerial sequences, the musical numbers, the romance, the comedy, and the espionage are all ho hum.
This is apparently done to hide an espionage ring intent on stealing plans for a new American bomber.
It has a very intriguing plot and a good mix of drama, romance, and espionage.
Christian Duguay directed this tidy little espionage thriller early in his career.
This movie does an excellent job of taking us all the way through the dark tunnel of espionage, from the inception through the ultimate reckoning.
Take a young liberal idealist Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) put in a top secret classification in a government front company because of his father's position team him up with a no'count drug dealer Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) who is wanted by the police and needs a new source of income and you have a recipe for espionage.
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1955) is Alfred Hitchcock's own remake of his 1934 thriller about a married couple (James Stewart and Doris Day) on vacation in Morocco where they got caught up in a nightmare that include murder, espionage, assassinations and the worst of all, kidnapping of their 10-years-old son.
It could be the espionage, code cracking and WW II theme.
What was once idealism, turns into capitalism and espionage.
Unlike 007 movies, this shows how things really go down in the world of espionage.
In this one, the Honolulu detective is investigating an espionage ring that was initially tracked by a former Scotland Yard acquaintance who has turned up missing in the Big Apple...This is the best of the Chan entries I've seen so far in current memory with every clue being connected (though, of course, if I look at them at closer examination, there could still be some holes though I can't think of any right now).
The worst part overall was the main plot thread, which had to do with some corporate espionage that is never fully explained and we never, ever care about in the slightest.
It definitely fits the time period as the Axis & Allies were playing espionage games throughout most of North Africa & the rest of the world.
No really good plot, neither an espionage flick nor a romantic love story.
Rather foolish attempt at a Hitchcock-type mystery-thriller, improbably exchanging espionage for archaeology and based on the Robin Cook novel; incidentally, I’ve recently acquired another adaptation of his work – COMA (1978) – in honor of the late Richard Widmark.
This is a low-budget spoof of the espionage genre.
The movie seems torn between being a detective mystery and an espionage thriller, but never settles upon one or the other.
The mystery here wasn't too bad, quite interesting but nothing on the level of Mission Impossible international espionage.
You will feel like you are watching some lost espionage noir classic from the late 1940's with the perfectly lighted black and white scenes, while at the same time feel you are on the brink of something beyond the cutting edge, especially in scenes like the assassination aboard the train.
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