Film

Eye of the Needle 1981

Directed by Richard Marquand

  • Drama, Thriller
  • 108 min
  • R

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

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.

DramaThrillerhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or booksubmarinespyworld war iid-dayperiod dramanazi spycold blooded killer1940sisolated island

Log it

Sign in to log this.

Character

Not read yet. Character is read in the background after the first visit.

Who loves it, who doesn't

No profiled raters yet.

Ask the title a question

Answered from what people have written, never made up: a verdict, how much when it's a matter of degree, and the sentences that say so, quoted with their names. Reviews here first, then TMDB's reviews and the title's Wikipedia plot and reception. If nothing settles it, you can put it to the curators.