Red Joan (2019)

Joan Stanley lives in contented retirement in a picturesque village in England, until her tranquil existence is suddenly shattered when she's shockingly arrested by MI5. Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one of the most influential spies in living history. Rewind back to the 1930s, young Joan is a demure physics student at Cambridge University. She falls intensely in love with a seductively attractive Russian saboteur, Leo, who shows her that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy. Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: Would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them? What price would you pay for peace? Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Red Joan is the taut and emotional discovery of one woman's sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A woman to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom.