Movies and TvShows featuring "fifth-columnist" theme.
When a night club owner discovers a dead body, he becomes embroiled in a plot by Nazi saboteurs to blow up a battleship. With the help of his loyal friends, he must navigate the dangerous world of espionage to save the day.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy tells the story of an FBI agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in the United States. As tensions rise between Germany and the US, the agent must gather enough evidence to stop the Nazis from carrying out their plans of industrial espionage and sabotage. With the threat of war looming, the agent's mission becomes more dangerous, leading to a gripping showdown with the Nazis.
Ship Ahoy is a comedy musical set on a ship during World War II. A group of performers find themselves caught up in a spy ring when they unwittingly stumble upon a government secret. With misunderstandings, mistaken identities, and secret weapons, the performers must navigate their way through the chaos while also putting on a show for the passengers.
During World War II, a major is sent to Amsterdam with a soldier and a safe cracker to steal a stash of diamonds before the Nazis can get their hands on them. Based on a true story, this thrilling heist movie follows their dangerous mission and the obstacles they face along the way.
Hangmen Also Die! tells the story of a surgeon who assassinates a high-ranking Nazi official and the consequences that follow. Set in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, the film follows the protagonist as he becomes a target of the Gestapo and joins the resistance movement. Through twists and turns, the plot explores themes of sacrifice, patriotism, and the brutality of war. It culminates in a tense and thrilling climax as the protagonist fights for justice and freedom.
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Background to Danger is a suspenseful film that takes place during the height of World War II. The story follows an American agent who becomes entangled in a web of espionage and danger as he attempts to uncover a Nazi plot. With twists and turns at every corner, the protagonist must navigate through a treacherous world of spies, assassins, and media manipulation to prevent a catastrophic event.
Black Dragons (1942) is a thriller movie set in World War II. The story revolves around a businessman who assumes multiple identities to seek revenge. As the war intensifies, he becomes entangled in a web of sabotage, betrayal, and assassination. With a combination of cosmetic surgery, assumed identities, and secret societies, the protagonist leads a dangerous and thrilling life.
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
Raza is a family saga set during the Spanish Civil War. It follows the story of a patriotic family torn apart by the conflict, with themes of duty, bravery, and sacrifice. The film explores the relationships between family members and the impact of war on their lives.
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
During World War II, a British police inspector is tasked with investigating the murder of a woman in a dark room, leading him to uncover a Nazi spy network and classified information.
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Nick Carter, a master detective, investigates a spy ring and uncovers a plot to sabotage airplane factories. He must navigate through a web of deception and danger to bring the culprits to justice.
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.