
The Amateur(2025)
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.


“This mission is personal.”
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.

Kate Beckinsale
Avery Graves

Rupert Friend
David Brooks

Saffron Burrows
Elizabeth Mills

Ray Stevenson
Jarvis Hedlund

Goran Kostić
Breznov

Ben Miles
DCIA Nathan Evans

Jaz Hutchins
Agent Maxfield

Romina Tonković
Sorina

Ana Cilas
Abby

Emma Gojković
Evans Assistant
Canary Black is a action, thriller, crime film released in 2024 exploring themes of central intelligence agency (cia), spy thriller, clinical. Directed by Pierre Morel, it stars Kate Beckinsale, Rupert Friend, Saffron Burrows. Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
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