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Fair Game(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 357 votes)

Wife and mother Valerie Plame has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched uranium to Iraq, Then Valerie's secret work and identity is leaked to the press. With her cover blown and other people endangered, Valerie's career and personal life begin to unravel.

Directed by Doug Liman - With Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Noah Emmerich, Ty Burrell, Sam Shepard, Bruce McGill, ...
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The Russia House(1990)

R
| 2h 2min | Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 117 votes)

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Directed by Fred Schepisi - With Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, J. T. Walsh, ...
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Mirage(1965)

1h 48min | Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 43 votes)

New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Leif Erickson, Walter Abel, ...

This Island Earth(1955)

NR
| 1h 27min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
3.0/5 (with 95 votes)

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Directed by Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold - With Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Russell David Johnson, Lance Fuller, Douglas Spencer, ...

The Missing Scientists(1954)

45min | Thriller
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of nuclear scientists try to make sure top secret information about atomic weapons does not fall into the wrong hands.

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Nuclear Shelter(1981)

1h 26min | Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.

Directed by Roberto Pires

Sofia(1948)

1h 22min | Thriller, Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.

Directed by John Reinhardt - With Gene Raymond, Sigrid Gurie, Patricia Morison, Mischa Auer, José Torvay, John Wengraf, ...
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Let's Live Again(1948)

1h 7min | Comedy, Fantasy

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

Directed by Herbert I. Leeds - With John Emery

DNA: Secret of Photo 51(2007)

50min | History, Documentary

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another biologist, Rosalind Franklin. 50 years later, NOVA investigates the shocking truth behind one of the greatest scientific discoveries and presents a moving portrait of a brilliant woman in an era of male-dominated science.