Spy Games
10 Episodes
Shake yourself up a martini and enjoy these alternative takes on espionage.
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01:12Episode 1
Introducing Spy Games
Episode 1
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Sabotage
Episode 2
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1936 • United Kingdom
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John LoderThis loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent” is one of the high-water marks of Alfred Hitchcock’s early British period. Sylvia Sidney is the unsuspecting wife of a London c...
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1:47:30Episode 3
Knight Without Armour
Episode 3
Directed by Jacques Feyder • 1937 • United Kingdom
A British spy tries to get a countess out of the new Soviet Union.
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1:22:17Episode 5
The Spy in Black
Episode 5
Directed by Michael Powell • 1939 • United Kingdom
During World War I, a German U-Boat captain is sent to Scotland on a spy mission, but he finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress.
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2:00:44Episode 6
Foreign Correspondent
Episode 6
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1940 • United States
Starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert MarshallIn 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, w...
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1:40:01Episode 7
Samurai Spy
Episode 7
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda • 1965 • Japan
Starring Koji Takahashi, Eiji Okada, Tetsuro TanbaYears of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from t...
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1:33:06Episode 8
Ironfinger
Episode 8
Directed by Jun Fukuda • 1965 • Japan
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
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1:20:18Episode 9
Golden Eyes
Episode 9
Directed by Jun Fukuda • 1968 • Japan
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo. Jun Fukuda directs this follow-up to 100 Shot, 100 Killed (AKA Ironfinger).
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Hopscotch
Episode 10
Directed by Ronald Neame • 1980 • United States
Starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam WaterstonThe inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British filmmaker Ronald Neame. Based on Brian Garfield’s best-sell...