2025 · thriller · survival · spy
Fog of War
Directed by Michael Day1h 43m2025
With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancée find themselves stranded on a remote estate. As the Allies plan the D-Day Invasion, the couple become aware of a Nazi spy hiding amongst them with stolen documents bound for Germany. Unsure of who to trust, and facing danger around every corner, they must uncover the spy’s identity as the outcome of the war hangs in the balance.
Our read: Fog of War (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · survival · spy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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