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Eye of the Needle

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

6.7(269)19811h 48m5

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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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$18M
Language
English
  • husband wife relationship
  • based on novel or book
  • submarine
  • spy
  • world war ii
  • d-day
  • period drama
  • nazi spy
  • cold blooded killer
  • 1940s
  • isolated island

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United Kingdom, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR24 Jul 1981
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical17 Dec 1981
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical16Capa DVD6 Dec 2000
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical21 Sept 1981
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical2 Sept 1981
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1230 Oct 1981
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical19 Dec 1981
  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical26 Nov 1981
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical26 Jan 1984
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical16 Sept 1983
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1217 Sept 1981
    • Physical12DVD1 Jan 2005
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/145 Nov 1981

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Eye of the Needle was released on 24 July 1981.

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    Wuchak

    4/27/2023

    8/10

    **_To kill and love during WW2 with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan_** A German spy in Britain (Sutherland) has strategic info on the D-Day landing in 1944. As he tries to elude the authorities, he stumbles on a couple living remotely near the coast (Nelligan and Christopher Cazenove). Will he make it out? Who will live and who will die? "Eye of the Needle” (1981) is a war drama/thriller, but not a conventi…

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