Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle

To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.

1981108 min6.7 / 10

A tense wartime thriller that traps a ruthless Nazi spy and a woman in an intimate, morally fraught relationship on an isolated island, where love and duty collide.

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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