The Hunt For Red October (1990)

The world's largest and deadliest submarine, an undetectable Soviet craft codenamed Red October, is hijacked by commander Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) and heading for America, and a race against time begins as both superpowers seek to capture the sub or destroy it. Hit "End of the Cold War" thriller based on Tom Clancy's book also stars Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill. 135 min. C/Rtg: PG

Patriot Games (1992)

Tom Clancy's best-selling novel is turned into an intense action thriller with Harrison Ford playing Jack Ryan, the former CIA advisor who finds his and his family's lives threatened by a group of Irish terrorists after he kills one of them during a trip to London. Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Bean, and Richard Harris also star. 117 min. C/Rtg: R

Clear And Present Danger (1994)

In this intense treatment of the hit Tom Clancy novel, Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan is called on to take over ailing superior Vice Admiral Jim Greer’s (James Earl Jones) CIA post. Ryan unravels an elaborate scandal involving warring South American drug cartels and stretching from the Colombian jungle to the Oval Office. Willem Dafoe, Donald Moffat, Joaquim de Almeida, and Anne Archer also star. 141 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

The Sum Of All Fears (2002)

Ben Affleck inherits the role of Jack Ryan in this action-packed adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel. When a group of neo-Nazis steals a nuclear bomb, implicating the Russian government, rookie CIA agent Ryan is called in to defuse the situation before all-out war erupts between the U.S. and Russia. With Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan. 123 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

After accidentally uncovering a Russian terrorist plot to crash the U.S. economy, junior CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is sent to Moscow in search of answers. An inexperienced field agent, Ryan gets some dangerous on-the-job training in international espionage, dodging assassins as he squares off against the sinister businessman (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed) behind the conspiracy. Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner co-star in this thrilling reboot, not based on a specific Tom Clancy story. 105 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

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