#MOVIES ABOUT SECRET AGENTS PROFESSIONAL#

#MOVIES ABOUT SECRET AGENTS PROFESSIONAL#

In the 1930s professional baseball player Moe Berg (Paul Rudd) – nicknamed “Professor” because he studied at Princeton and Columbia – cops abuse for being (definitely) Jewish and (possibly) homosexual, but thanks to his skill with languages, he gets a seat on an all-star baseball tour of Japan… where he promptly takes a bunch of very useful photos of the Japanese docks that score him a job with the OSS (the precursor to the CIA). The Catcher Was A Spy is the kind of all-American story that has to be true because nobody could make it up. Paul Rudd as Moe Berg in ‘The Catcher Was A Spy’. It will be available at SBS On Demand for 30 days after it airs. Red Joan airs at 9.30pm, Wednesday 19 January on SBS World Movies. She thought what she was doing was right at the time, and she still believes so now for her, selling out her country created a safer world no matter what the cost.

Dench’s iron-willed performance refuses to take the easy way out. As a framing device this could easily have softened her betrayal, painting her actions as a youthful indiscretion that hardly matters now. Judi Dench plays the elderly Joan, who’s being investigated long after the end of the Cold War. But when she found herself working as a secretary for the UK’s atomic bomb program, the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and a little pressure from her lover) saw her supplying top secret information to the Soviet Union. What if you had access to information that could make the world a more peaceful place, but only if you betrayed your own country? For Joan Smith (Sophie Cookson) spending time with Communists while studying physics in 1930s Cambridge was just part of the university experience. The very British Red Joan looks at spying from another angle. Sophie Cookson as Joan Smith in ‘Red Joan’. It will be available at SBS On Demandfor 4 weeks after it airs: The Spy airs at 9.30pm, Monday 17 January on World Movies. Spying is a dirty business – especially once Terboven has her working as a double agent spying on the Swedes – and finding someone you can trust with your heart, let alone your life, is all but impossible. There’s plenty of seduction and pillow talk here, but the glamour is all a front.

But even here there’s a solid dose of gritty reality while Wigert’s 40s style is more than stunning enough to explain how the Nazi chief of occupied Norway, Josef Terboven (Alexander Scheer), could (and did) fall for her, her espionage career has as much to do with protecting her ailing father as it is about doing what’s right and finding out Nazi secrets from her lover. The closest to Bond-style glamour is Norway’s The Spy, the real-life story of famous Norwegian–Swedish actress Sonja Wigert (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) during World War II. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Sonja Wigert in ‘The Spy’.

Movies about secret agents