Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Sydney Pollack crafts a chilling scenario wherein an unassuming CIA analyst reading foreign literature for hidden ciphers returns from lunch to find his entire section assassinated. Robert Redford embodies the vulnerability of a civil servant caught between competing factions of a clandestine intelligence agency determined to secure Middle Eastern oil supplies. The film accurately anticipated the lethal pivot of state security apparatuses toward economic resource control, making its climax on a New York street corner bitterly prescient.