Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy film directed by Richard Marquand, and starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan.

The film is about a German Nazi spy in the United Kingdom during World War II who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and his attempt to return to Germany while he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland.

A passionate romance develops overnight between Faber and Lucy because of the estrangement she has from her husband, a former RAF fighter pilot, after a car crash on their honeymoon four years before, which left him without use of his legs and embittered.

Lucy reaches the radio at Tom's lighthouse, contacts the mainland and is told that help will be sent immediately, but in the meantime it is vital for her to destroy the transmitter (but without explaining why).

But as he attempts to impart the intelligence he has gathered, speaking in German, Lucy realizes his true agenda and blows the lighthouse's fuse by inserting a key into a light socket, thus rendering the transmitter useless and Faber's vital information unheard.