Erased (released as The Expatriate outside of the US) is a 2012 Canadian-Belgian action thriller film directed by Philipp Stölzl, starring Aaron Eckhart and Olga Kurylenko.

The story centers on Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) an ex-CIA agent and Amy (Liana Liberato), his estranged daughter who are forced on the run when his employers erase all records of his existence, and mark them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy.

[3] Ben Logan is an American single parent who has recently moved to Belgium with Amy, his previously estranged teenaged daughter.

Logan soon discovers that the rest of his coworkers have all been killed, and he goes into hiding, aided by Amy's contacts among Algerian undocumented immigrants she had befriended.

The CIA team is led by Anna Brandt, Logan's former lover, who is also on the Halgate payroll, and who recommended him to the shell company for his security engineering skills.

Michael Posner of The Globe and Mail said "Arash Amel’s plot is a hodgepodge of threadbare motifs, liberally cut and pasted from every thriller you’ve seen.

"[10] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times agreed, saying "We have a script, by Arash Amel, that hustles cardboard characters from one crisis to the next, pausing only to leak lines that might have been clipped from a compendium of spy movie clichés.