In the opening scene, set in 1973, the Troubles in Northern Ireland result in the death of Collette's younger brother when they are children.

In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government.

Lee Ja-Sung (Lee Jung-jae) is an undercover police officer who has been working in Goldmoon International, South Korea's largest corporate crime syndicate.

Ryoo Seung-bum stars as Nam Chul-woo, a poor fisherman living a simple life in North Korea with his wife and daughter.

In North Korea, Eom Chul-Woo (Jung Woo-Sung), a former agent of the North Korean Special Forces is assigned the mission of executing the Supreme Guard Commander, Gwang Dong-Park, and the minister of the State Security Department, Du-won Kim, by chief director of the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), Ri Tae-han (Kim Kap-Soo), after he receives the information that the two leaders are planning a coup d'état on Victory Day.

The Popular Front wins the French general elections of 1936. In Spain, the Civil War begins.

John Shay (George Peppard), a British MI5 agent, had grown up in the United States, and who was nearly killed while on assignment abroad.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson.

The time is the early-to-mid-1960s, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. An unknown aircraft approaches North America from Europe.

John Reilly, an American national, finds himself in an African hospital where, he learns, he has spent the last two years due to a head injury.

The Enemy Within is a 1994 HBO TV-movie remake of the 1964 film Seven Days in May, starring Forest Whitaker, Jason Robards, Jr.

Manuscripts Don't Burn (Persian: دست‌نوشته‌ها نمی‌سوزند‎, translit.

It is based on the novel Ice Ages, by German author Hannelore Hippe.

Charles Thoroughgood (Charlie Cox), a young spy, discovers the truth about his father's past.

Jeffrey Nicolas Grant (River Phoenix), a brash hyperactive high school student lives in a San Diego suburb with his parents, who own a successful garden center.

Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov (Yul Brynner), a high-ranking KGB official who defects while he is in France, has highly classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States.

In 1997, Rachel is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a release party in Tel Aviv for Sarah's book based on the account Rachel, Stefan and David gave of the events in 1965.

Nineteen-year-old Li Myung-hoon (Choi Seung-hyun) never imagined he would become a killer. Born to a privileged life in North Korea, his dream was to become a pianist.

The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union.