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Scottish woman joins French resistance only to find the British spooks are betraying her comrades (they are avowed communists) to the Nazis.	Charlotte Gray
Fictional portrayal of the Stasi in East Germany, but it could just as well be a film about MI5. The Stasi used most of the same techniques as MI5, from opening letters in the mail, to spying through keyholes and bugging telephones. However, they probably did not open files on the East German equivalent of MPs.	The Lives of Others
American Made is an action film about the Iran Contra affair. Drug smuggling on a mind boggling scale; helping illegal immigrants enter the US; financing terrorists and drug cartels in Latin America. It can only be the CIA and Ronald Reagan (with the help of Olly North). God Bless America.	American Made See Wikipedia.
Brazil is a remarkable film made by Terry Gilliam and starring his fellow Python Michael Palin. It is a thinly disguised (very thinly) version of George Orwell's 1984 and reveals that far from being an attack on Communism, Orwell (or Eric Blair, his real name) was actually targeting the secret state of his era, particularly MI5. It has been described as a satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporatism and state capitalism. In other words: MI5.	Brazil See Wikipedia.
Whilst the tone and texture are interesting (and absorbing) the plot is childish and silly. It was about America's policy of torturing people without trial in various foreign parts (like Guantanamo, probably). As a journalist in the film points out, this was well known at the time. The MI5 man says but now we know the locations. The journalist replies we always knew since we heard the screams.	Page Eight. See also Wikipedia.
Red Joan is a 2018 British spy drama film, directed by Trevor Nunn, from a screenplay by Lindsay Shapero. The film stars Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbova, and Judi Dench. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by Jennie Rooney, which was itself inspired by the life of Melita Norwood. Norwood worked at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association as a secretary and supplied the Soviet Union with nuclear secrets.	Red Joan. See also Wikipedia.