Spy, Stand Up

Spy, Stand Up (Espion, lève-toi, 1982) is a French political thriller directed by Yves Boisset — watch it online on iFILM. Sébastien Grenier has spent years in Zurich as a financial analyst, keeping well clear of his past in French intelligence. Then a colleague is shot in broad daylight.

Lino Ventura plays Grenier with the quiet wariness of someone who knows exactly what he used to do. The assignment: trace how one of their own agents was identified and killed. Michel Piccoli and Bruno Cremer are the men around him — none of them easy to read. As Grenier digs deeper, people near him start disappearing. Boisset builds a cold, spare thriller of the old European school, where the spy's own service is as dangerous as the enemy. Watch Spy, Stand Up online on iFILM.