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* ''Film/{{Alien}}" has [[spoiler:the USCSS Nostromo's Science Officer Ash be revealed to be a [[DeceptivelyHumanoidRobots Synthetic]] who was ordered to join Captain Dallas' crew and carry out Special Order 937, a retrieval order to obtain the Xenomorph XX121 specimen for Weyland-Yutani's bioweapons division, with all other crewmembers explicitly stated to be expendable]].

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* ''Film/{{Alien}}" ''Film/{{Alien}}'' has [[spoiler:the USCSS Nostromo's Science Officer Ash be revealed to be a [[DeceptivelyHumanoidRobots Synthetic]] who was ordered to join Captain Dallas' crew and carry out Special Order 937, a retrieval order to obtain the Xenomorph XX121 specimen for Weyland-Yutani's bioweapons division, with all other crewmembers explicitly stated to be expendable]].

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* ''Film/{{Alien}}" has [[spoiler:the USCSS Nostromo's Science Officer Ash be revealed to be a [[DeceptivelyHumanoidRobots Synthetic]] who was ordered to join Captain Dallas' crew and carry out Special Order 937, a retrieval order to obtain the Xenomorph XX121 specimen for Weyland-Yutani's bioweapons division, with all other crewmembers explicitly stated to be expendable]].



* In ''Film/AustinPowers in Goldmember'', #3 in Doctor Evil's organisation is actually a mole for British Intelligence, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and has a huge mole on his face]]. [[IgnoreTheDisability Hilarity ensues]].

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* In ''Film/AustinPowers in Goldmember'', #3 in Doctor Evil's organisation organization is actually a mole for British Intelligence, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and has a huge mole on his face]]. [[IgnoreTheDisability Hilarity ensues]].
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* ''Film/PerfectAssassins'': Leo turns out to be working for [[BigBad Greely]] to bring TheProtagonist to him.
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* ''Film/ForceOfNatureTheDry2'': After discovering that Alice [[StealingFromTheTill embezzled $10,000 from Bailey Tennants]], Aaron and Carmen force her to become an informant inside the company so they can get evidence against Daniel Bailey.
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* ''film/Derailed2002'': [[spoiler:Jacques' handler Lars is in league with Marcus Cole: knowing that what Galina was carrying was an ultra-virulent strain of smallpox, and supplying information to Cole, including what cabin they were in on the train.]]

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* ''film/Derailed2002'': ''Film/Derailed2002'': [[spoiler:Jacques' handler Lars is in league with Marcus Cole: knowing that what Galina was carrying was an ultra-virulent strain of smallpox, and supplying information to Cole, including what cabin they were in on the train.]]
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* ''film/Derailed2002'': [[spoiler:Jacques' handler Lars is in league with Marcus Cole: knowing that what Galina was carrying was an ultra-virulent strain of smallpox, and supplying information to Cole, including what cabin they were in on the train.]]
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* ''Film/GrandSlam'': [[spoiler:Professor Anders has conspired with Mary Ann with to use her position inside the company to steal the diamonds, and TheCaper is really just to cover up the actual theft.]]
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* ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': #3 in Doctor Evil's organisation is actually a mole for British Intelligence, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and has a huge mole on his face]]. HilarityEnsues.

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* ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': In ''Film/AustinPowers in Goldmember'', #3 in Doctor Evil's organisation is actually a mole for British Intelligence, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and has a huge mole on his face]]. HilarityEnsues.[[IgnoreTheDisability Hilarity ensues]].
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** In the first movie adaptation of ''Film/MissionImpossible'', [[spoiler:the team leader Jim Phelps, essentially reversing his portrayal for ''the entire run of the original and second series'']].

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** In the first movie adaptation of ''Film/MissionImpossible'', ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'', [[spoiler:the team leader Jim Phelps, essentially reversing his portrayal for ''the entire run of the original and second series'']].
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* In ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'' it is discovered there is a mole in [=MI7=]. In trying to figure out who the mole is, Johnny English believes they have both a mole and a vole. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* ''Film/Cadaver2020'': When [[TheProtagonist Leonora]] and her family sit down to their meal, the family on the table next to theirs introduce themselves, Lars the husband, Katherine the wife, and Susanna the daughter. Later, Lars and Katherine are each found elsewhere is the hotel, distraught over not being able to find each other, or Katherine. [[spoiler:Actually, they're both in on what's going on. Lars is one of the actors, and knows the guests are [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies made into food]] for them to eat. He reveals himself as one to the movie's audience when he knocks Leonora unconscious.]]

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* ''Film/Cadaver2020'': When [[TheProtagonist Leonora]] and her family sit down to their meal, the family on the table next to theirs introduce themselves, Lars the husband, Katherine the wife, and Susanna the daughter. Later, Lars and Katherine are each found elsewhere is the hotel, distraught over not being able to find each other, or Katherine. Katherine. [[spoiler:Actually, they're both in on what's going on. on. Lars is one of the actors, and knows the guests are [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies made into food]] for them to eat. eat. He reveals himself as one to the movie's audience when he knocks Leonora unconscious.]]
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* ''Film/Cadaver2020'': When [[TheProtagonist Leonora]] and her family sit down to their meal, the family on the table next to theirs introduce themselves, Lars the husband, Katherine the wife, and Susanna the daughter. Later, Lars and Katherine are each found elsewhere is the hotel, distraught over not being able to find each other, or Katherine. [[spoiler:Actually, they're both in on what's going on. Lars is one of the actors, and knows the guests are [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies made into food]] for them to eat. He reveals himself as one to the movie's audience when he knocks Leonora unconscious.]]

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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' parodies this trope's ''name''. The villains have a mole in the U.S. government that allows them to get information about what the government is doing. The mole is revealed to be a literal mole that is part of the President's Staff.



* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' parodies this trope's ''name''. The villains have a mole in the U.S. government that allows them to get information about what the government is doing. The mole is revealed to be a literal mole that is part of the President's Staff.

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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' parodies this trope's ''name''. The villains have a mole in In ''Film/RockyMountain'', Craigie talks with the U.S. government [[ArmyScout Shoshone scouts]] and learns that allows them to get information about what they are really a chief, Man Dog, and his sons: secretly spying on the government is doing. The mole is revealed to be a literal mole Union Army. He warns Barstow that is part of the President's Staff.they will escape and return with their tribe.
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* In the "unofficial" ''[[Film/TheTerminator Terminator]]'' sequel ''Film/ShockingDark'', [[spoiler:Fuller turns out to be a cybernetic infiltrator programmed to protect the [[MegaCorp Tubular Corporation]]'s secrets, and quickly begins killing off members of the team after they discover his true identity]].
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* In the fourth ''Film/HomeAlone'' film, Kevin suspects that the burglars have an inside man who is helping them with the kidnapping and believes it to be Mr. Prescott. [[spoiler: He is surprisingly right, although it turns out to be the maid Molly, who is also Marv's mother]].

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* In the fourth ''Film/HomeAlone'' film, ''Film/HomeAlone4TakingBackTheHouse'', Kevin suspects that the burglars have an inside man who is helping them with the kidnapping and believes it to be Mr. Prescott. [[spoiler: He is surprisingly right, although it turns out to be the maid Molly, who is also Marv's mother]].
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* [[spoiler: Tex]] in ''Film/RobotJox''.

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* [[spoiler: Tex]] [[spoiler:Tex]] in ''Film/RobotJox''.



* One of the people in ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' is not actually "{{Ronin}}", and is still working for his/her agency. [[spoiler:It's Sam]].

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* One of the people in ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' ''Film/Ronin1998'' is not actually "{{Ronin}}", and is still working for his/her agency. [[spoiler:It's Sam]].Sam.]]



* [[spoiler: Becky]] in ''Film/SinCity'' ends up ratting the Old Town girls out to the mob.

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* [[spoiler: Becky]] [[spoiler:Becky]] in ''Film/SinCity'' ends up ratting the Old Town girls out to the mob.
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* In ''Film/GForce'' [[spoiler: Speckles, the MissionControl Star-nosed Mole [[BackFromTheDead comes back from an unfortunate garbage truck incident]] (he got in an empty soup can and used it to roll it down to the dump) to reveal himself as the one who's actually turning household appliances into killing machines]].

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* In ''Film/GForce'' ''Film/GForce'': [[spoiler: Speckles, the MissionControl Star-nosed Mole [[BackFromTheDead comes back from an unfortunate garbage truck incident]] (he got in an empty soup can and used it to roll it down to the dump) to reveal himself as the one who's actually turning household appliances into killing machines]].machines]]. Bonus points for him being [[spoiler:a literal mole]].
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* In ''Film/TheTerrorOfTheTongs'', District Commissioner Harcourt is in league with the Red Dragon Tong and is feeding them information about Captain Sale's investigation.
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* ''Film/DinosaurHotel'': [[spoiler:Zara]] is revealed to have been working with [[BigBad The Games Master]] from the beginning.
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* ''Film/NoWayOut'' features a remarkable combination of a mole and a RedHerringMole. The murder of the mistress (Sean Young) to the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman) is blamed on a Soviet mole as a RedHerring to divert attention from the real killer (the Secretary himself). The protagonist (Kevin Costner) must race to find evidence of this before they figure out that [[HiredToHuntYourself he's the one being framed]]. The twist is that [[spoiler:although he didn't kill the girl, Costner really ''is'' a Soviet mole]].

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* ''Film/NoWayOut'' ''Film/NoWayOut1987'' features a remarkable combination of a mole and a RedHerringMole. The murder of the mistress (Sean Young) to the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman) is blamed on a Soviet mole as a RedHerring to divert attention from the real killer (the Secretary himself). The protagonist (Kevin Costner) must race to find evidence of this before they figure out that [[HiredToHuntYourself he's the one being framed]]. The twist is that [[spoiler:although he didn't kill the girl, Costner really ''is'' a Soviet mole]].

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* In the movie adaptation of ''Film/MissionImpossible'', [[spoiler:the team leader Jim Phelps, essentially reversing his portrayal for ''the entire run of the original and second series'']].

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** ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'': Ethan is led to believe the mole in the IMF feeding information to Davian that keeps resulting in operations gone wrong and dead agents is Brassel, while Ethan himself is framed as the mole to Brassel. The real mole turns out to be [[spoiler:Musgrave]], who is actually Davian's boss rather than the other way around.
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* ''Film/ScareCampaign'': [[spoiler:New actress Abby]] is actually a mole for the Masked Freaks; setting the cast and crew of ''Scare Campaign'' up to be killed by them.
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* ''Film/NoEscape1994'': [[spoiler: King]] turns out to be the Warden's inside man in the Insiders. One man in the Outsiders also turns out to be a spy of the Insiders, who lets Robbins escape, knowing he'll be killed for doing so.
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* The TV film ''Guardian Angel'' has [[spoiler:Lawton Hobbs' maid, Maria]] in this role.

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* The TV film ''Guardian Angel'' ''Film/GuardianAngel'' has [[spoiler:Lawton Hobbs' maid, Maria]] in this role.
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* ''Film/FastAndFurious6'': [[spoiler:Agent Riley Hicks is actually Owen Shaw's spy, sent to gather intel by posing as Luke Hobbs' assistant.]]
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* In the fourth ''Film/{{HomeAlone}}'' film, Kevin suspects that the burglars have an inside man who is helping them with the kidnapping and believes it to be Mr. Prescott. [[spoiler: He is surprisingly right, although it turns out to be the maid Molly, who is also Marv's mother]].

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* In the fourth ''Film/{{HomeAlone}}'' ''Film/HomeAlone'' film, Kevin suspects that the burglars have an inside man who is helping them with the kidnapping and believes it to be Mr. Prescott. [[spoiler: He is surprisingly right, although it turns out to be the maid Molly, who is also Marv's mother]].



** In both ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', an [[TheIlluminati Illuminati-esque]] [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] known only as "Quantum" has its operatives planted within many governments and corporations as a way to secretly dominate the world and tilt events to its favor. They've even managed to penetrate [=MI6=], CIA and even the Canadian and Russian intelligence services. For example, the BigBad of ''Quantum of Solace'', Dominic Greene, for instance, is the head of a ''Greenpeace''-style organization that is actually in business with a lot of shady corporations and criminals. In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', it's later revealed that [[spoiler:SPECTRE and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the one behind the villains of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', and even bankrolled Raoul Silva's schemes in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. Blofeld's EvilPlan is to seize control of the world's major intelligence agencies through a series of staged terrorist attacks, and the data would then be forwarded to him via his moles, including Max Denbigh, the head of the merged MI5 and [=MI6=].]]

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** In both ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', an [[TheIlluminati Illuminati-esque]] [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] known only as "Quantum" has its operatives planted within many governments and corporations as a way to secretly dominate the world and tilt events to its favor. They've even managed to penetrate [=MI6=], CIA and even the Canadian and Russian intelligence services. For example, the BigBad of ''Quantum of Solace'', Dominic Greene, for instance, is the head of a ''Greenpeace''-style organization that is actually in business with a lot of shady corporations and criminals. In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', it's later revealed that [[spoiler:SPECTRE and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the one behind the villains of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', and even bankrolled Raoul Silva's schemes in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. Blofeld's EvilPlan is to seize control of the world's major intelligence agencies through a series of staged terrorist attacks, and the data would then be forwarded to him via his moles, including Max Denbigh, the head of the merged MI5 [=MI5=] and [=MI6=].]]



* ''Film/MallCop'': [[spoiler:Paul Blart's trainee Veck Sims]] is the main villain. [[spoiler: The trainee]] is the brainy.

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* ''Film/AirForceOne'' has [[spoiler:Agent Gibbs, a [[BodyguardBetrayal traitorous Secret Service agent]] who helps Ivan Korshunov and his group of terrorists access the weapons to take over the titular plane. Gibbs proceeds to play dumb for the rest of the film until the plane has to be abandoned, whereupon he shows his true colors to President Marshall [[DirtyCoward to save himself]].]]

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* ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': Miranda Frost betrays James Bond and [=MI6=] after Graves bought her out with an Olympic gold medal.



* ''Film/TheNegotiator'': Commander Grant Frost is the one orchestrating the whole scheme that stole money from the orphan fund, murdered Danny Roman's partner Nathan Roenick when he found out, and framed Roman for it.



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* ''Film/ThirteenSins'': It's implied that a large number of people are involved in the game, including people high up in authority. [[spoiler:Det. Chilcoat]] seems to be a reasonable authority figure, trying to figure out the game. [[spoiler:He's actually their cleanup guy]].
* [[spoiler:Fay]] in ''Film/AdoptingTerror'', is feeding information to the biological father who's terrorizing the adoptive family.
* A One Nation Earth officer in the ''Film/{{Apocalypse}}'' film series movie ''Tribulation'' shows up in a Christian hideout ready to kill all the Christians in it, but as it turns out only fires blanks, revealing himself to be on their side.
* ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': #3 in Doctor Evil's organisation is actually a mole for British Intelligence, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and has a huge mole on his face]]. HilarityEnsues.
%%* ''Film/TheAvengers1998''[[spoiler:Father]].
* ''Film/BigGame'' has two: Morris disables Air Force One's self-defense systems, allowing Hazar to take it down, and [[spoiler:Herbert]] texts Hazar when situation deteriorates to the point the president must be killed instead of taken alive.
* In ''Film/BlackChristmas2019'', [[spoiler:Helena]] apparently believes in the frat's stance on the position of women, and acts a mole inside the sorority: stealing the items the frat uses to track their victims.
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' played with this trope and its variants; when two characters join Wallace's crew, one appears to be the mole but it turns out to be the other one and the first one [[StabTheScorpion saves the hero]].
* The prisoners in ''Film/BreathingRoom'' soon realize that one of them must be feeding information to their captors. It's [[spoiler:Number 14]].
* ''Film/{{Bunni}}'': Chris is revealed to be working with the killer[[spoiler:, aka, his mom]].
* ''Film/CaptiveState'': [[spoiler:Mulligan]] turns out to be one in the government for the Resistance.
* There are two in ''Film/CarlitosWay''. One is revealed right away and is working for the FBI, the other is not revealed until the ending.
* In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', the BigBad Dragon cannot figure how the Chai Lais always manage to turn up in time to thwart his schemes. At the end of the film, the Chai Lais handler reveals that he had a spy planted in Dragan's oragnisation. [[spoiler:It's Katherine.]]
* ''Film/TheDeparted'' is the story of a mole in the Massachusetts State Police and another in the Boston Mafia trying to discover each other.
** At one point the mole is tasked at trying to find the mole in within the State Police, Himself. [[spoiler: He wasn't the only mole; unbeknownst to him until the very end]].
** Which is a remake of ''Film/InfernalAffairs'', where the mole was in the Hong Kong police and the other mole was in the Triads.
* In ''Film/{{Disraeli}}'', the Russians have a mole in the office of Prime Minister UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli. Disraeli knows this, and uses the situation to his advantage.
* ''Film/DogSoldiers'' had a mole, who didn't '''''intend''''' to be the mole originally. The one woman who rescued the soldiers from the Werewolves and tries to help them escape from the surrounded country house is revealed to be a member of the Werewolf family herself. Apparently, it seemed she thought the soldiers knew about the beasts and had come to rescue her (and perhaps cure her) from the Werewolves. However after every escape plan goes wrong, she reveals herself to be one of them, reveals that she had let the rest of the wolves in the house while they were busy and begins changing into one of them herself.
** She is promptly [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] seconds later.
* In ''Film/EasternCondors'', one of the Cambodian guerillas aiding the squad is secretly working for the Viet Cong and betrays the team to the Vietnamese army.
* In ''Film/TheGatlingGun'', Leona is secretly in league with Two Knives and steals the firing pin from the Gatling gun to render it inoperable.
* ''Film/{{Get Smart}}'': [[spoiler: Agent 23]]
* In ''Film/GForce'' [[spoiler: Speckles, the MissionControl Star-nosed Mole [[BackFromTheDead comes back from an unfortunate garbage truck incident]] (he got in an empty soup can and used it to roll it down to the dump) to reveal himself as the one who's actually turning household appliances into killing machines]].
* The TV film ''Guardian Angel'' has [[spoiler:Lawton Hobbs' maid, Maria]] in this role.
* [[spoiler: Anna]] in ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''.
* In ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', [[spoiler:Czaka]] is a Nazi collaborator in the Resistance.
* ''{{Film/Headhunters}}'' shows Ove as an employee of a security company who was specifically planted to deactivate alarms for his art burglar friend.
* In ''Film/TheHeat'', [[spoiler:Adam, the DEA agent, was Larkin all along]].
* In the fourth ''Film/{{HomeAlone}}'' film, Kevin suspects that the burglars have an inside man who is helping them with the kidnapping and believes it to be Mr. Prescott. [[spoiler: He is surprisingly right, although it turns out to be the maid Molly, who is also Marv's mother]].
* ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'': [[spoiler:Jin pretends to go to the good side before going for an actual HeelFaceTurn, but everybody thinks that he's still working for the government. Then we find that Leo, who set up Jin's finding out where the Flying Daggers were, is actually one of the Flying Daggers and was a mole.]]
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''
** Indy's partner Mac in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' [[DoubleAgent flips sides multiple times]] over the course of the movie. What he's really working for is the money.
--->"So what, you're a triple agent?"\\
"No, I just lied about being a double."
** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Dr. Elsa Schneider is revealed to be working with the Nazis about halfway through the film. She pretended to help Indy in order to obtain Henry Sr.'s grail diary, which could confirm the location of the Grail's resting place. Elsa, however, subverts her role when she purposefully gives Donovan the wrong grail, which eliminates him from the picture, allowing Indy to obtain the true grail and heal his father. In the end, this (questionable) redemption is not enough, as she tries to leave with the grail from the temple. In a TakeMyHand moment, she can't keep herself from reaching for the grail below her as she hangs on to Indy above a deep abyss. She ultimately [[DeathByMaterialism loses her life]] when her gloved hand slips away and she falls to her death.
* In ''Film/IpMan2'', [[spoiler: "Fatso"]] appears to be a minion of the [[PoliceBrutality brutal British]] at first, until he turns out to be working for their arrest. Foreshadowed by [[spoiler: his offering to silence editor-in-chief Kan, then not doing so after the British policeman leaves.]]
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** ''Film/DrNo''. Miss Taro is an agent of Dr. No who works as a secretary in Government House, passing classified information on to him.
** In both ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', an [[TheIlluminati Illuminati-esque]] [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] known only as "Quantum" has its operatives planted within many governments and corporations as a way to secretly dominate the world and tilt events to its favor. They've even managed to penetrate [=MI6=], CIA and even the Canadian and Russian intelligence services. For example, the BigBad of ''Quantum of Solace'', Dominic Greene, for instance, is the head of a ''Greenpeace''-style organization that is actually in business with a lot of shady corporations and criminals. In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', it's later revealed that [[spoiler:SPECTRE and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the one behind the villains of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', and even bankrolled Raoul Silva's schemes in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. Blofeld's EvilPlan is to seize control of the world's major intelligence agencies through a series of staged terrorist attacks, and the data would then be forwarded to him via his moles, including Max Denbigh, the head of the merged MI5 and [=MI6=].]]
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', [[spoiler:37th Dolan]] turns out to have infiltrated the Axe and Cross to aid the Witch Queen's supporters.
* Although the cast spends a large part of ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' thinking that [[spoiler: Skinner]] is The Mole, it turns out to actually be [[spoiler: Dorian Gray]].
* ''Film/MallCop'': [[spoiler:Paul Blart's trainee Veck Sims]] is the main villain. [[spoiler: The trainee]] is the brainy.
* ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'': Richards (played by James Spader of ''Series/TheBlacklist).'' Yes, a plant for a rival ''department store'' seeking to buy out the one he is infiltrating.
* In the movie adaptation of ''Film/MissionImpossible'', [[spoiler:the team leader Jim Phelps, essentially reversing his portrayal for ''the entire run of the original and second series'']].
%%* Assjuice, very briefly in ''[[Film/{{Neighbors2014}} Neighbors]]''.
* Creator/AlfredHitchcock's MistakenIdentity film ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' features a mole inside the crime syndicate. Naturally, it's the FemmeFatale.
* ''Film/NoWayOut'' features a remarkable combination of a mole and a RedHerringMole. The murder of the mistress (Sean Young) to the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman) is blamed on a Soviet mole as a RedHerring to divert attention from the real killer (the Secretary himself). The protagonist (Kevin Costner) must race to find evidence of this before they figure out that [[HiredToHuntYourself he's the one being framed]]. The twist is that [[spoiler:although he didn't kill the girl, Costner really ''is'' a Soviet mole]].
* In ''Film/ThePhenixCityStory'', [[spoiler:Jeb Bassett]], one of the Pattersons' associates, secretly reports to mob boss Rhett Tanner.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. After a heist goes wrong, the main characters become paranoid, with Mr Pink repeatedly claiming there has to be a mole. [[spoiler:We eventually discover it was Mr Orange]].
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter'', the Red Queen warns Alice that there's an Umbrella agent amongst the group helping her infiltrate the Hive. It turns out to be [[spoiler: Doc]], which Alice [[GenreSavvy has already figured out]] by the time it's revealed, since they're the only one of the group other than her and [[spoiler: Claire]] who's still alive.
* [[spoiler: Tex]] in ''Film/RobotJox''.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' parodies this trope's ''name''. The villains have a mole in the U.S. government that allows them to get information about what the government is doing. The mole is revealed to be a literal mole that is part of the President's Staff.
* One of the people in ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' is not actually "{{Ronin}}", and is still working for his/her agency. [[spoiler:It's Sam]].
* In ''Film/RunningScared'', the two protagonists seem about ready to be gunned down by gangsters fairly early in. Lo and behold, two of [[BigBad the bad guy's]] {{Mooks}} turn out to be undercover cops and rescue them.
%%* The movie ''Film/{{Salt}}'' is filled with moles.
* In ''Film/Seven1979'', Mailei is actually working for Harris and reporting on the plans of TheSyndicate to take over Hawaii. However, when she is sent to help the Seven, she reveals her true colours as a SixthRangerTraitor.
* [[spoiler:Andy]], in ''Film/{{Shuttle}}'', appears to be one of the passengers held hostage by The Driver, but is actually his conspirator, which comes in handy when the heroes get the upper hand.
* ''Film/ShotCaller'': [[spoiler:Shotgun]] is working with Officer Kutcher to bring down Jacob and the rest of the Aryan Brotherhood, since his drug-smuggling girlfriend has a twenty year sentence hanging over her head. Jacob kills him when he finds out.
* [[spoiler: Becky]] in ''Film/SinCity'' ends up ratting the Old Town girls out to the mob.
* In ''Film/SistersOfDeath'', Mr. Clyburn tells the girls that one of them knew for sure that the hazing ritual that killed his daughter seven years ago was sabotaged, and that that witness was working with him. It was[[spoiler: Sylvia]], who actually pulled the trigger in the ritual
* ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': [[spoiler:Robby]] sold out his friends to the Germans and lured them into a trap during the beach operation. He's later assassinated by Guus, who is himself arrested in the process.
* In ''Film/{{Spy}}'', Karen Walker turns out to be one. [[spoiler: Bradley, meanwhile, reveals himself to be a mole for Rayna, but is actually a mole for the CIA.]]
* The director of intelligence in ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' is initially seen by one of the protagonists (and the audience) as a traitor who's trying to assassinate the Sky Marshal, covering up the failed attempt and preventing his rescue, and seizing power. Well, she actually is doing all that...because the Sky Marshal has gone nutty (well, nuttier) and is going to sell humanity out to the enemy.
* '' Franchise/StarWars'':
** [[PersonOfMassDestruction Palpatine]], the kindly [[AFatherToHisMen patrician]] [[CoolOldGuy Senator]], turns out to be a FauxAffablyEvil CorruptPolitician Mole for TheDarkSide against the Jedi-influenced leadership of the Old Republic. He becomes TheEmperor and the iconic BigBad of the entire series.
** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'': [[spoiler:General Hux]] is concerned enough over [[spoiler:Ren’s]] influence over the Dark Side that he aids [[LaResistance the Resistance]] in infiltrating a key First Order starship, without fully turning over to their side.
* ''Film/{{Stalag 17}}'' involves one of these in a German POW camp during [=WW2=]. It turns out to be someone other than who everyone assumes it to be.
* In ''Film/TheThieves'', [[spoiler:Julie]] is planted on the team by the Hong Kong Police to lead them to the reclusive fence Wei Hong. Interesting [[spoiler: her]] father really is a notorious thief, the reason that the undercover role was so easily believed.
* ''Film/WildWind'' has an American spy impersonate a Nazi collaborator.
* In ''Film/TheWindmillMassacre'', [[spoiler:coach driver Abe]] is actually an agent of the Miller, delivering souls to him, and referring to him as "Master".
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': [[spoiler:Slugworth]]. More precisely, it's a man in Wonka's employ pretending to be an industrial spy to tempt the kids as a SecretTestOfCharacter.
* In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', Kayla Silverfox was one for her sister's sake, but changed once Victor makes things worse.

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