
Enigma(1982)
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.


“He went to bed an all-American kid and woke up the son of Russian spies.”
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

Sidney Poitier
Roy Parmenter

River Phoenix
Jeff Grant

Richard Jenkins
Richard Grant

Caroline Kava
Elizabeth Grant

Lucy Deakins
Barbara Kerry

Richard Bradford
Konstantin Karpov

Richard Lynch
Scuba

Jerry Hardin
Brewer

Loretta Devine
Verna McLaughlin
Albert Fortell
Bunin
Little Nikita is a drama, action, thriller film released in 1988 exploring themes of spy, fbi, teenage boy, pursuit in traffic, soviet spy, adult child friendship. Directed by Richard Benjamin, it stars Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins. An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
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