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It is the height of the cold war, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it.
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"Secret agent Harry Palmer is blackmailed into working for MI5 again on his wildest and most dangerous assignment yet. An insane oil billionaire, intent on destroying Communism by starting a new world war, is close to achieving his goal with the help of the world's largest and most powerful computer. Harry is the only man who may be able to stop him, but as he races from London to Finland to Latvia to Texas and back, he must determine who of his supposed...
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Escaping from the Nazis, British colonel Ralph Denistoun and his partner arrange to meet in Stuttgart to steal Hitler's poison gas formula. On the journey, Denistoun meets Lydia, who keeps him out of harm's way. Only with the help of the extraordinary gypsy woman can he finish the mission that will make him a hero in this tale of espionage and intrigue.
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"A British secret agent [is] targeted for death by friend and foe alike. [Major John Tarrant] take[s] up the revenge trail when ruthless gunrunners kidnap his young son and demand a king's ransom fortune in uncut diamonds for the boy's release. With each new lead, [the] chilling quest becomes increasingly deadly as he begins to suspect that one of his colleagues is in league with the merciless abductors. The spine-tingling high voltage chase ends...
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"It is the height of the Cold War, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it"--Container.
6) Masquerade
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The British government is in negotiations with the Middle Eastern oil-rich nation of Ramaut to allow in British drilling agencies, but Ramaut withdraws from the talks, leaving Britain desperate. British Colonel Drexel is enlisted in a covert operation to kidnap the Ramaut prince, Jamil, to force an oil agreement between the countries. Drexel brings in American David Frazer to assist, but Frazer finds someone else has plans for Jamil.
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American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film's title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.