Hidden Agenda (1990 film)
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Hidden Agenda is a 1990 film starring Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, and Brad Dourif.
Hidden Agenda is a political thriller film directed by Ken Loach. The film is about the murder of an American civil rights activist in Northern Ireland by the police while driving in the company of an IRA sympathiser. It is inspired by the investigation into the RUC's alleged "shoot to kill policy", with Cox's character representing John Stalker. E4A, an undercover unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary claimed to be involved in the killings, is mentioned briefly in the film.
The motives behind the murder in the film are supposed to show the "inner workings" of politics and (in Loach's belief) the way government acts to protect supposed freedom. We are shown the conformist face of people, the assumed futility of going against the "high powers", the manipulation of the media and some true ulterior motives that in Loach's socialist beliefs drive the current world.
During one scene late in the movie, a renegade SAS agent possessing an audio tape that incriminates the British government is kidnapped by an SAS squad and bundled into a van on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin, a very busy river crossing in the center of the city. Loach filmed the scene with a hidden camera and without letting passers-by know that they were witnessing a movie shoot.
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| 1960s | Poor Cow | Kes |
| 1970s | The Save the Children Fund Film | Family Life | Black Jack |
| 1980s | The Gamekeeper | Looks and Smiles | Which Side Are You On? |
| 1990s | Fatherland | Hidden Agenda | Riff-Raff | Raining Stones | Ladybird Ladybird | Land and Freedom | A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership | Carla's Song | The Flickening Flame | My Name Is Joe |
| 2000s | Bread and Roses | The Navigators | Sweet Sixteen | Ae Fond Kiss... | Tickets | The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
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