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I just watched a fascinating British spy film called “Red Joan” about a very old woman in the late 1990s or early 2000s suddenly accused of treason by spying for the Soviets during and immediately after WW II. The central theme is whether it is morally justified to commit treason in furtherance of world peace and the capacity of one individual to affect the course of history. The woman’s adult son (probably in his 60s in the film) has to come to grips with the fact that his mother was a Soviet spy.

It’s a real good guys versus bad guys movie, so I would consider it a conservative film. It is slow moving and won’t be to everyone’s taste, but I found it enjoyable, even with poor continuity and skips in parts and some horrendously over-the-top type-casting of the Soviet says who recruit Joan. The critics really bombed it.

There is a bit of sex (brief), extra-marital affairs, and a bit of homosexuality (via an old black and white photograph) used for blackmail. There is no profanity or drug use.