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Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Reilly: Ace of Spies
director: Troy Kennedy Martin actor: Sam Neill
other title: Reilly – Spion der Spione / Reilly. As de espías
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
Sweeney 2 (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sweeney 2
director: Tom Clegg actor: John Thaw / Dennis Waterman
other title: Sbirri bastardi
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Hostile Waters (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hostile Waters
director: David Drury actor: Rutger Hauer / Martin Sheen
other title: Hostile Waters - Im Fahrwasser des Todes / Péril en mer
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.