Dirty War

Dirty War

2004 · 90 min · EN · 6.0 (33 votes)
Dir. Daniel Percival · Starring Louise Delamere, Alastair Galbraith, Waleed Elgadi, Martin Savage, Koel Purie, Helen Schlesinger · Music Joe Walker

On a quiet street the men next door are going about their business. The business of nuclear terrorism.

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After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of men and women directly affected by terrorism. Among them: a firemen worried about the increasingly dangerous conditions he and his men are expected to work under; the head of the anti-terrorist branch whose responsibility it is to protect London and a female Muslim detective brought into Scotland Yard to investigate another suspected terrorist cell. But it is too late to stop the attack.

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A chillingly realistic portrayal of a city under siege. It captures the mundane dread and procedural grind of counter-terrorism, making the threat feel palpable and inescapable. The film is a stark, unvarnished look at ordinary people facing extraordinary terror.

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