Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle

1981 · 108 min · EN · R · 6.6 (191 votes)
Dir. Richard Marquand · Starring Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove, Faith Brook, Barbara Ewing · Music Miklós Rózsa

To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.

DramaThriller

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

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A tense, atmospheric wartime thriller. The isolated setting amplifies the paranoia and desperation of a spy on the run. Expect a slow-burn build to a gripping, inevitable confrontation.

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