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Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film and the twenty-first installment in the James Bond series. It follows Bond's mission to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.

Rendition is a 2007 American political thriller film directed by Gavin Hood, featuring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, and more. The story revolves around the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition. When an Egyptian terrorism suspect vanishes during a flight to Washington DC, his wife and a CIA analyst become entangled in a quest to free him from a clandestine detention location.

The Truth About Charlie is a 2002 mystery film directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Mark Wahlberg and Thandiwe Newton. It is a remake of Charade (1963) and pays homage to François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960) featuring French film star Charles Aznavour. The film closely mirrors the original's plotline, set in Paris and featuring famous French actors and cameo appearances by director Agnès Varda and actress/chanteuse Anna Karina.

The Army of Crime (L'Armée du crime) is a 2009 French drama-war film directed by Robert Guédiguian, based on the story of Missak Manouchian, an Armenian-born leader of a Parisian Resistance unit during the Nazi occupation. The film depicts the group's resistance efforts and the Nazi propaganda branding them as an 'Army of Crime'.