Chief of Station is a 2024 American action thriller film written by George Mahaffey, directed by Jesse V. Johnson and starring Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko, Alex Pettyfer, Daniel Bernhardt, Chris Petrovski, Nick Moran, Kris Johnson, and James Faulkner. It was released on May 3, 2024.

Plot

Ben Malloy is CIA Chief of Station in Eastern Europe, and finds himself with his wife Farrah in Budapest. On their wedding anniversary, the café were they met is bombed and she dies. After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, Ben, back in Washington, decides to go back to Budapest to gather new evidence. He stops there after having learned that his son, Nick, a recently graduated IT engineer has met a girl and lives in Croatia; they have planned to meet in Paris. In Budapest, Ben challenges Evgeny, a FSB officer, who tells him that Farrah was a supervisor of foreign agents and hid things from him. When he is about to reveal what, Evgeny is shot by Kharon, a Chechen assassin, and a group of men. Branca, Ben's ex-partner in Hungary, saves Ben and takes him on a river boat. Ben discovers Branca has betrayed him and the latter torture Ben to know what Farrah has given him before her death. A former Russian agent of Farrah, Krystyna, saves him and they escape. They go to Farrah's cache and discover on her laptop she had intel on Branca and CIA Deputy Director William having accepted bribes. In Croatia, Branca had Nick kidnapped by CIA agents and Ben offers to exchange Farrah's laptop against Nick's release. Finally, they meet in Hungary, where they save Nick and kill Kharon, before exposing Deputy Director Williams at a meeting.