Here we've displayed a list of the best Defection films : Crossing the Line(2006), Citizenfour(2014), A Most Wanted Man(2014), Torn Curtain(1966), The Living Daylights(1987), The White Crow(2018), The Executioner(1970), Savage Pampas(1966) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2006
91 Minutes
narrator soldier officer government official engaging fascinating uneasy north korea prison courtroom defection propaganda desertion family dysfunction court-martial escape metamorphosis 2000s
A collection of personal accounts stemming from Arizona's illegal immigration crisis.
Documentary
USA|Germany|UK
2014
114 Minutes
reporter hacker fugitive defector government official director brooding emotional fascinating hong kong hotel office street airplane cab surveillance covert operations defection hiding travel
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA|Germany
2014
121 Minutes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Rachel McAdams Grigoriy Dobrygin Willem Dafoe Robin Wright Homayoun Ershadi Nina Hoss Franz Hartwig Daniel Brühl Kostja Ullmann Vicky Krieps
spy terrorist government official co-worker civilian muslim brooding emotional intense germany office street car apartment helicopter spying defection inheritance suspicion work
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
128 Minutes
Paul Newman Julie Andrews Lila Kedrova Hansjoerg Felmy Tamara Toumanova Ludwig Donath Wolfgang Kieling Günter Strack Gisela Fischer Mort Mills Carolyn Conwell
spy physicist friend communist fiancé fiancée suspenseful tense thrilling east germany copenhagen cold war nuclear weapons espionage defection romance escape love 1960s
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|USA
1987
130 Minutes
Timothy Dalton Maryam d'Abo Jeroen Krabbé Joe Don Baker John Rhys-Davies Art Malik Andreas Wisniewski Desmond Llewelyn Robert Brown Geoffrey Keen Walter Gotell
james bond secret agent assassin sexy woman kgb agent commander thrilling confident concert hall airplane office espionage assassination cold war gun running defection chases mystery pursuit 1980s
James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|Serbia
2018
127 Minutes
Oleg Ivenko Adèle Exarchopoulos Ralph Fiennes Raphaël Personnaz Chulpan Khamatova Sergei Polunin Calypso Valois Olivier Rabourdin Louis Hofmann Zach Avery Mar Sodupe
rudolf nureyev dancer engaging intricate leningrad, russia ballet ballet cold war defection transformation 20th century
The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1970
107 Minutes
George Peppard Joan Collins Judy Geeson Oscar Homolka Charles Gray Nigel Patrick Keith Michell George Baker Alexander Scourby Peter Bull Ernest Clark
spy secretary double agent wife scientist kgb agent suspenseful gritty london athens, greece istanbul espionage betrayal cold war love triangle defection mystery quest 1970s
A British Intelligence Agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Action
1966
100 Minutes
Robert Taylor Ron Randell Marc Lawrence Ty Hardin Rosenda Monteros Felicia Roc Ángel del Pozo Mario Lozano Enrique Ávila Laura Granados Milo Quesada
native army officer revolutionary soldier bandit prostitute brash rousing amusing argentina plains fort village prostitution native people defection armed conflict old west military rivalry
An Army captain (Robert Taylor) in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's (Ron Randell) gaucho gang.