Highest-Rated Movies about 'Treason', Sort by Popularity

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Captain Blood (1935), Henry V (1989), Yellow Sky (1948), Time Limit (1957), Hamsun (1996), The Age of Shadows (2016), If I Were King (1938) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Treason movies.

#1. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

Storyline: 'The Count of Monte Cristo' is a remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name. Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes' girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 13 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him. With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.

Plot Keywords: sailor, best friend, prisoner, count, girlfriend, gripping, passionate ...

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#2. Captain Blood (1935)

Storyline: Arrested during the Monmouth Rebellion and falsely convicted of treason, Dr. Peter Blood is banished to the West Indies and sold into slavery. In Port Royal, Jamaica the Governor's daughter Arabella Bishop buys him for £10 to spite her uncle, Col. Bishop who owns a major plantation. Life is hard for the men and for Blood as well. By chance he treats the Governor's gout and is soon part of the medical service. He dreams of freedom and when the opportunity strikes, he and his friends rebel taking over a Spanish ship that has attacked the city. Soon, they are the most feared pirates on the seas, men without a country attacking all ships. When Arabella is prisoner, Blood decides to return her to Port Royal only to find that it is under the control of England's new enemy, France. All of them must decide if they are to fight for their new King.

Plot Keywords: doctor, pirate, lady, governor, government official, sailor, brash ...

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#3. Henry V (1989)

Storyline: King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result, he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way, the young King must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.

Plot Keywords: king, princess, soldier, patriotic, rousing, emotional, thrilling ...

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#4. Yellow Sky (1948)

Storyline: A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.—E.W. DesMarais <jlongst@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: outlaw, young woman, grandfather, bank robber, apache, prospector, gritty ...

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#5. Time Limit (1957)

Storyline: Military investigator Colonel William Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Harry Cargill, a Korean War prisoner of war who is accused of aiding the enemy. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing him to move this case to court-martial, Edwards doubts eventually convinces him of Cargill's innocence.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>

Plot Keywords: colonel, major, soldier, prisoner of war, lieutenant, captain, suspenseful ...

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#6. Hamsun (1996)

Storyline: Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway on April 9, 1940, he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords: writer, wife, doctor, adolf hitler, intense, melodramatic, norway ...

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#7. The Age of Shadows (2016)

Storyline: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause.—Anthony Mumford

Plot Keywords: police captain, spy, resistance leader, friend, brooding, fascinating, gripping ...

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#8. If I Were King (1938)

Storyline: In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris, and King Louis goes undercover to find one, thereby meeting Francois Villon, poet, philosopher and rogue. By chance Villon kills the king's traitor and is ordered to replace him...as Grand Constable of France! But there's a catch...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: poet, constable, traitor, lady, king, rousing, thrilling ...

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#9. Traitor (2008)

Storyline: Samir Horn is a former soldier, a devout Muslim, and U.S. citizen in the Middle East selling bomb detonators to Islamic radicals. He joins their cause as both the FBI and a rogue CIA agent track him. Horn escapes a Yemeni prison, goes underground in France where he proves his abilities, and is sent to the United States to choreograph a simultaneous and multiple terror attack. Will the intelligence agencies talk to each other, and can Horn be stopped?

Plot Keywords: fbi agent, terrorist, traitor, coworker, dark, gritty, washington, d.c. ...

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#10. Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Storyline: A man named Owen Davian kills an IMF agent that was sent undercover by the legendary Ethan Hunt, who has retired from combat missions. Hunt now has a fiancé, Julia, who believes that he works for the traffic department when he really trains younger IMF agents to go into combat. He is assigned to his last mission. His mission, should he choose to accept it is to capture Davian, who is selling a toxic weapon called the rabbits foot. But Davian is reckless, cruel, and deathly. He promises Hunt that he will find Julia, hurt her, and Ethan will be too dead to help her. The mission is no more different to others, its dangerous, smart, and impossible; but now it's personal.

Plot Keywords: agent, arms dealer, love interest, doctor, spy, nemesis, thrilling ...

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#12. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

Storyline: The true story of Christopher Boyce, a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton; it can't last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.—Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>

Plot Keywords: friend, spy, operative, cop, father, suspenseful, uneasy ...

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#13. The Rack (1956)

Storyline: Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the Korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords: military officer, father, widow, prisoner of war, lawyer, psychiatrist, emotional ...

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#14. A Touch of Larceny (1960)

Storyline: Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the Admiralty, finds he suddenly needs to make some money when he falls for American Virginia Killain. When he hatches a plot to disappear in circumstances that suggest he has defected and then return to sue the papers, Virginia doesn't take much notice - at least at first.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: naval officer, gentleman, fiancée, criminal, admiral, amusing, cheery ...

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#15. Springfield Rifle (1952)

Storyline: Major Lex Kearney, dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, has actually volunteered to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: major, wife, son, traitor, thief, confederate soldier, intense ...

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