Eye of the Needle
To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.
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7/24/1981Runtime
108 minsOverview
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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EnglishBudget
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$18,000,000Homepage
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A taut spy thriller that tightens into an intimate emotional standoff between a ruthless German agent and a lonely English woman on an isolated Scottish island. The film finds tragedy in the collision between duty and desire, making every interaction charged with hidden stakes.
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