Marathon Man (1976)

John Schlesinger bridges historical trauma and intelligence agency complicity as a lone doctoral student researching his McCarthy-era father is hunted through the streets of New York. Dustin Hoffman is pushed to physical exhaustion by Laurence Olivier's chilling Nazi war criminal, who operates freely under the tacit protection of a covert American division. It captures the terrifying reality that government institutions routinely trade moral accountability and human lives for geopolitical expediency and smuggled diamonds.