Polish defector Leiser (Christopher Jones) is offered by MI6 a chance at UK citizenship if he agrees to undertake a mission into East Germany. (This to replace an already murdered MI6 agent.) The mission, (To gather photographic intelligence on a covert East German rocket system in violation of international agreements.) begins to go wrong from the start when, having arrived in East Germany, he's forced to murder a lorry driver for rejecting his homosexual advances. Leiser's objective is further undermined when he falls in love with an East German woman looking for a way out of the country.
18 février 2010. Le monde entier découvre à la une de tous les journaux les photos d’agents du Mossad israéliens pris en flagrant délit d’assassinat de Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, un responsable du Hamas palestinien, un mois plus tôt à Dubaï. Contre toute attente, ce sont les dirigeants du Mossad qui sont les plus surpris par cette révélation, sachant avec certitude que les responsables de l’opération ne font pas partie de leurs rangs. Une enquête s’engage alors afin de découvrir les intentions de ces mystérieux assassins. L’objectif final des "4" de Dubaï se révélera encore plus surprenant et original…
Une aventure entre espions rivaux à propos de documents concernant le procédé pour extraire un carburant de l'eau de mer. Une histoire d'amour qui menace de tourner tragiquement, puisque la jeune femme embrigadée par force dans le réseau du docteur Morenius s'éprend de son rival avant de revenir, triomphante, vers son fiancé.
John A. Walker, Jr. is a cryptologist with the US Navy on a sub. While he is away at sea his wife learns he has been unfaithful to her. He convinces her to stay with him and transfers to a shore post. Walker goes to the Soviet Embassy and agrees to become a spy for cash. He starts stealing secrets, but his wife becomes suspicious and learns what he’s doing. The Navy also becomes suspicious because of the increased number of suspicious encounters between Soviet and American subs. Walker goes on a tour at sea and upon his return his wife threatens to shoot him. The Navy fakes a nuclear accident, which establishes that the Soviets are indeed getting inside info from the US Navy because of the way they react. When a Marine officer starts to get suspicious of him, Walker retires from the Navy. Walker recruits Jerry Whitworth, a navy radio operator into spying; telling him the info is going to Israel. Walker and his wife separate. John Walkers daughter joins the army and he tries to recruit her as a spy, but she gets married, becomes pregnant and leaves the service. Walker becomes a private detective. Walker’s son joins the Navy. Whitworth delivers a blurry roll of film because he wants more money. The Soviets think he has been turned and they try to kill Walker. Eventually Walker repairs his relationship with the Soviets. Walker recruits his son in the Navy as a spy. His ex-wife blackmails him into paying more so she won’t tell. However, she finally calls the FBI and Walker’s daughter confirms he tried to recruit her. After a lengthy investigation Walker, his son and Whitworth are arrested and sentenced to lengthy jail terms.
Un espion français s'empare des plans d'un nouveau moteur d'avion allemand. Une espionne allemande est chargée de le séduire et de le supprimer, mais ils finissent par tomber amoureux l'un de l'autre.
A la suite de la répression des manifestations ouvrières de Gdansk, un officier de l'armée polonaise prend contact avec les américains en vue de leur transmettre des informations sur les opérations envisagées par l'URSS pour conserver sa main-mise sur sa zone d'influence et faire triompher le communisme. Lorsque la présence d'un espion est soupçonné au sein de l'état-major polonais, l'étau de resserre et l'officier demande à être exfiltré par la CIA avec sa famille.
Kitami is requested by the intelligence director, Suritai, to steal a large amount of money from the anti-government guerrillas who fund gangs from Gegen. However, once Kitami infiltrates a Gegen ship in disguise, he discovers there is no cash in the safe, only a cipher on a piece of paper.
Following the events of Page Eight, ex-MI5 officer Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is in hiding on the Turks and Caicos Islands. A mysterious encounter with Curtis Pelissier (Christopher Walken) leads Johnny to a dinner with several shady American businessmen who comprise of a company called Gladstone. The following morning, one of the businessmen is found dead on the beach in suspicious circumstances; Melanie Fall (Winona Ryder), a Gladstone liaison, seems to know more than she lets on. When Pelissier reveals himself to be a CIA agent who knows Johnny's true identity, Johnny desperately cuts a deal with the American: he will help with the investigation of Gladstone in exchange for silence about his location.
Following their flight from Turks and Caicos, Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) and Margot Tyrell (Helena Bonham Carter) maintain a quasi-permanent existence around Europe to evade capture by MI5. After spotting one of his former recruits, disguised as a passing jogger, Johnny relocates once again and orders former colleague Rollo Maverley (Ewen Bremner) to leak news of Prime Minister Alec Beasley's (Ralph Fiennes) corrupt dealings with Stirling Rogers (Rupert Graves) and his Bridge Foundation. Margot secretly keeps in touch with Johnny's pregnant daughter Julianne (Felicity Jones). In London, Acting Director General Jill Tankard (Judy Davis) contacts Home Secretary Anthea Catcheside (Saskia Reeves) and offers her services in aiding Catcheside's embattled husband.
Colonel Duncan Grant (Brian Aherne) is a British officer during World War I. When the British high command get wind of a German plan, titled The W Plan, from the lips of a dying German officer, Major Ulrich Muller (George Merritt), they send Grant behind enemy lines to learn the details. After successfully being dropped by airplane near the German town of Essen, where he makes his way to home of the dead German who was responsible for the plan. Grant is chosen because he speaks fluent German, having spent a significant amount of time in Germany prior to outbreak of hostilities. While in Essen, he runs into an old girlfriend, Rose Hartmann (Madeleine Carroll). When he and Rose go to a nearby café, he is approached by German officers and asked for his papers. While he has the documents taken from Muller, the Germans become suspicious, and Grant has to make a quick getaway. Unfortunately, the plane he is supposed to meet with to make his escape is shot down, after which Grant is arrested for desertion.
Frank Norman, alias Le Solitaire, est chargé d'une mission en tant qu'As des Services Secrets. Il doit se rendre en Espagne pour y récupérer les pièces détachées d'une redoutable arme secrète. Tout en menant son enquête, il doit veiller à protéger son collègue Le Goff qui couvrait l'opération jusqu'à ce que sa couverture soit grillée.
Thomas Lieven vit une vie de banquier à Londres et séduit les dames avec ses talents culinaires. Mais il est poursuivi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale comme agent double et triple supposé des services secrets de la Grande-Bretagne, de la France et de l'Allemagne. Avec le colonel Siméon et l'agent française Mimi, il arrive à Toulouse où il reçoit l'ordre d'établir la liste des agents secrets français à Nice. Un courrier lui annoncerait son retour avec en Angleterre.
Bardo Baretti, millionnaire malfaisant, vole une bombe atomique américaine et demande une rançon d'un milliards de dollars, sinon elle sera lâché sur Washington.