L'amant Double

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate two rare portraits of black British subjects from the 18th and 19th centuries. Painted with extraordinary skill and sophistication, both pictures are highly unusual in their positive depiction of black sitters at a time when Britain was still heavily engaged in slavery. But this is also an intriguing double whodunnit. Who are the artists who broke with the conventions of the time to paint these exceptional works?

Adattamento cinematografico del romanzo di Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Il doppio”, il film racconta la storia di un uomo insignificante (Jesse Eisenberg) che viene portato quasi ad un esaurimento nervoso dalla comparsa di un suo sosia. Dal regista dell’acclamato Submarine, "Il doppio”, il romanzo di Dostoevskij, in un magistrale adattamento cinematografico destinato a rimanere tatuato negli occhi e nel cuore.

It's a story that even the best spy novelists couldn’t have invented, complete with double agents and the CIA vs KGB. "Farewell" is one of the greatest spy stories of the Cold War. We're going to reveal the dark side…
Farewell, alias of Vladimir Vetrov, is a KGB agent put on the shelf. In 1980, he decides to take revenge and contacts the French counter-intelligence agency, the DST, the Direction de la surveillance du territoire. He offers to provide the list of KGB agents operating abroad, double agents, but also the list of technological and scientific secrets that the KGB has been stealing from the West for decades in every field: nuclear, aeronautics, military and civil…

A musician Guy Lambert makes a tour in Great Britain. Jill Conway, a wealthy heiress, is a big fan of Guy's who has developed a very serious crush on him; her family wants to keep her away from the romantically-inclined singer, so they send her to Belgium, not realizing that Guy has a string of gigs set up there.

Mr. Ozaki, a Japanese conglomerate businessman living in Los Angeles, hires a beautiful young double (Maria) to protect his real daughter (Lisa) from harm. When Maria is kidnapped by a professional crime organization for a $2 million ransom, her bodyguard, Luke Campbell, conceives a plan to rescue her.

The Double Man is a 1967 British spy film which was directed by Franklin Schaffner and based on the novel Legacy of a Spy by writer Henry Maxfield. The film starring Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland and Clive Revill. In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.

Baghdad, the playground for the rich and infamous, where anything can be bought - but for a price. This is Uday Hussein's world and with his depraved lust for debauchery and immorality, he helps himself to whatever turns him on. When army lieutenant Latif Yahia is summoned to Saddam's palace, he is faced with an impossible request - to be Uday's 'fiday' - his body double, or have his family condemned to death. In a world entrenched in betrayal and corruption, knowing who to trust becomes a matter of life or death for Latif, as he battles to escape from his forced existence.

The real-life James Bond, daring ladies' man Dusan Popov worked as a double agent, bankrolled by both the Germans and MI6 on his missions.