Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (
2015) | IMDb:
7.4
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Captain Phillips (
2013) | IMDb:
7.8
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Barkhad Abdi
,
Barkhad Abdirahman
,
Faysal Ahmed
,
Mahat M. Ali
,
Michael Chernus
Contagion (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Starring:
Marion Cotillard
,
Matt Damon
,
Laurence Fishburne
,
Jude Law
,
Kate Winslet
,
Jennifer Ehle
Hanna (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan
,
Eric Bana
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Tom Hollander
,
Olivia Williams
,
Jason Flemyng
Inception (
2010) | IMDb:
8.8
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Ken Watanabe
,
Tom Hardy
,
Elliot Page
,
Dileep Rao
Body of Lies (
2008) | IMDb:
7
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Russell Crowe
,
Mark Strong
,
Ali Suliman
,
Simon McBurney
,
Michael Gaston
Arn: The Knight Templar (
2007) | IMDb:
6.6
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Starring:
Joakim Nätterqvist
,
Sofia Helin
,
Stellan Skarsgård
,
Michael Nyqvist
,
Mirja Turestedt
,
Morgan Alling
Sahara (
2005) | IMDb:
6
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey
,
Penélope Cruz
,
Steve Zahn
,
William H. Macy
,
Lennie James
,
Lambert Wilson
Kundun (
1997) | IMDb:
7
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
Ishtar (
1987) | IMDb:
4.6
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Starring:
Warren Beatty
,
Dustin Hoffman
,
Isabelle Adjani
,
Charles Grodin
,
Jack Weston
,
Tess Harper