Highest-Rated Movies about 'American In Foreign Country'

O.S.S. (1946), Until They Sail (1957), Postmark for Danger (1955), Appointment in Berlin (1943), Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957), The Fake (1953), Conspirator (1949), Highly Dangerous (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best American In Foreign Country movies.

#1. O.S.S. (1946)

Storyline: John Martin is part of an American spy team dropped into France during World War II to destroy the French railway system. After successfully blowing up a tunnel he runs back to save Ellen and is told "Never come back for me again." Later he must choose whether or not to obey her wishes.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: murder, escape, french resistance, parachute, sculpture, bomb, train ...

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#3. Postmark for Danger (1955)

Storyline: A car plunging over a cliff kills its two occupants identified as newspaperman Lewis Forrester and actress Alison Ford (Terry Moore). Surviving Lewis are his two brothers, Tim (Robert Beatty), a portrait painter, and Dave (William Sylvester), a pilot. Scotland Yard discovers that Lewis' death was engineered by a gang of international diamond smugglers he was about to expose. Before he died, he had sent someone in London a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle. Alison's father, John Smith (Henry Oscar) commissions Tim to paint her portrait from a photograph. While Tim is out, the supposedly-dead Alison enters his studio, but flees when she finds the body of Jill Stewart (Josephine Griffin), Tim's favorite model. Scotland Yard Inspector Colby (Geoffrey Kene) suspects Tim because whatever alibi evidence Tim presents vanishes before the Inspector can confirm it. Reg Dorking (William Lucas), a used-car dealer tries to blackmail Tim, offering the post card sent by Lewis. Alison surprises Tim in his studio with the news that the girl killed with Lewis must have been a hitch-hiker, as she had left the car before the crash upset because Lewis had charged her father as being part of the diamond-smuggling ring. She finds her father and he confesses to being as charged. In a phone call with a man named Nightingale, he says he is through with the ring, but leaps to his death when Alison leaves. Tim gets possession of the post card after a brutal fight with his brother Dave, who confesses he is in the gang also. He turns the card over to Scotland Yard who discover it is a list of the smugglers written in invisible ink. Alison goes to Tim's studio where she surprises Nightingale who begins to strangle her.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: 1950s, secret code, father daughter relationship, reporter, american in foreign country, attempted suicide, bracelet ...

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#4. Appointment in Berlin (1943)

Storyline: It's the fall of 1938, and Prime Minister Chamberlain has just signed the Munich Agreement with Adolph Hitler. An RAF officer complains about England's ongoing capitulation to Germany. After a night of drinking, he paints swastikas on Nelson's Monument. The RAF discharges him as unfit to be an officer. An acquaintance enlists him in the British secret service. He meets and courts a German woman from a prominent family. Her brother is highly placed in the Nazi propaganda works. The Germans recruit him and he gives radio broadcasts from Berlin to England, as the voice of truth. His broadcasts have a code that give the British military information. All goes well until his cover is blown and he and his German girlfriend must try to escape.—SimonJack

Plot Keywords: escape, invasion, secret code, car chase, nazi, night club, world war two ...

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#5. Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)

Storyline: An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor) is haunted by his memories of the Korean War and refuses to fly. So when he loses his last dollar on a horse race fixed by a smuggler, he forces himself to accept a $25,000 offer to transport a box of contraband currency from Egypt to Spain. But as Tredman makes the return flight home, he discovers his cargo also includes heroin as he races across the Mediterranean with Interpol hot on his trail.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: egypt, contraband, war veteran, based on novel, femme fatale, criminal organization, underworld ...

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#7. Conspirator (1949)

Storyline: On a visit to London, eighteen-year-old American Melinda Greyton (played by seventeen-year-old Brit Dame Elizabeth Taylor) goes to her first party, a Regimental ball. There she meets and falls madly in love with Major Michael Curragh (Robert Taylor), a handsome bachelor who returns her affections. After a relatively short period of time, they marry and all is bliss. Michael has some peculiar habits such as when he gets upset when Melinda sends an old overcoat out for cleaning, or when she takes a few one pound notes from his wallet. In fact, Michael is a Communist spy and has been a member of the Party since he was in school. When Melinda finally realizes just what and who he is, she tells him to choose between her or his beliefs. He tells her he'll leave the Party, but it's all a ruse. He does love his wife, however, and when his spy masters tell him Melinda must be done away with, he faces the ultimate choice.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: post world war two, hunting rifle, bank note, patriotism, self sacrifice, husband wife relationship, attempted murder ...

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#8. Highly Dangerous (1951)

Storyline: When British Intelligence discovers that an Iron Curtain country is developing insects as weapons, they persuade eminent entomologist Frances Gray (Margaret Lockwood) to get into the country to collect some specimens. On arrival, her cover is almost immediately blown and her contact murdered. The future looks grim for her and also perhaps for the world.—J-26

Plot Keywords: spy, chase, checkpoint, border guard, soldier, secret mission, female spy ...

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#9. Outpost in Malaya (1952)

Storyline: The marriage of rubber-plantation owner Jim Frazer and his wife, Liz, which has survived many disasters, including years in a Japanese internment camp, is at a breaking point. Under constant threats of bandit attacks and concerned with the safety of his plantation and the people on it, Jim spares no time for his marriage. Liz is to take their young son, Mike, home to school in England, and, without telling Jim, does not plan to return. A neighboring plantation is attacked and the owner killed just prior to her departure. Liz and Jim get arms and ammunition from a near-by town, and a night of terror follows as the bandits attack.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: post world war two, smoke bomb, murder, explosion, grenade, hospital, tunnel ...

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#10. The Venetian Affair (1967)

Storyline: After an American diplomat inexplicably explodes a bomb during an international peace conference in Venice, killing himself and everyone in the room, CIA boss Frank Rosenfeld calls ex-agent Bill Fenner in on the case. Fenner is forced to find his ex-wife and save her from the clutches of both the good guys and the bad guys, while still obtaining the Vaugiroud report and uncovering the bombing conspiracy.—Daniel Bolton

Plot Keywords: based on novel, ex wife, old flame, disguise, train, brainwashing, reporter ...

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#11. Flight From Ashiya (1964)

Storyline: Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying out of Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this fictionalized film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a life raft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. The Airplane used in the film was the HU-16 Albatross, A flying boat.—Dod H

Plot Keywords: cafe, american in foreign country, rescue mission, storm, interracial romance, pilot, avalanche ...

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