# A Call to Spy (2020)

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**Runtime**: 124 min
**Genres**: History, Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Lydia Dean Pilcher
**Written by**: Sarah Megan Thomas
**Starring**: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland, Samuel Roukin

> *Ordinary women. Extraordinary heroes.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You join Vera Atkins in 1942 London desperate to staff Churchill’s shadow army with unconventional agents. Virginia Hall limps off a train with a fake passport and a wooden leg while Noor Inayat Khan insists pacifism won’t stop the fight. The walls have ears and the Gestapo waits. The women learn to kill softly, not silently. Lydia Dean Pilcher turns real-life espionage into a quiet storm.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, paranoid, tender

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