Spy movies

[Anonymous]

NP here. I wanted to watch the original Tinker Tailor with Alec Guiness but it wasn't on Netflix or iTunes. Is it worth ordering a physical DVD?

I actually didn't care for the movie version of Spy Who Came In from the Cold. I didn't even finish it. Book was 1000x better imho.

Liked The Third Man a lot.

Not sure if it qualifies as a "spy" movie exactly but I just rewatched Hunt for Red October and it's pretty great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. I wanted to watch the original Tinker Tailor with Alec Guiness but it wasn't on Netflix or iTunes. Is it worth ordering a physical DVD?

I actually didn't care for the movie version of Spy Who Came In from the Cold. I didn't even finish it. Book was 1000x better imho.

Liked The Third Man a lot.

Not sure if it qualifies as a "spy" movie exactly but I just rewatched Hunt for Red October and it's pretty great.

I bet the public library would have it on DVD.

[Anonymous]

this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKM8T94GC2c

and this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9oMGJDY-8

[Anonymous]

I like the action style ones like the MI series, Jason Bourne series. I also second Sneakers.

But for comedy, I like True Lies, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Duplicity (if not comedy, then at least tongue-in-cheek).

Not great movies, but ones I really liked: Paycheck (Affleck), The Recruit (Pacino, Farrell), Spy Game (Redford, Pitt), Erased (Eckhart).

[Anonymous]

Three Days of the Condor
Patriot Games
No Way Out
The Manchurian Candidate
The Truth About Charlie -- a crime thriller, but it feels like a spy movie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. I wanted to watch the original Tinker Tailor with Alec Guiness but it wasn't on Netflix or iTunes. Is it worth ordering a physical DVD?

I actually didn't care for the movie version of Spy Who Came In from the Cold. I didn't even finish it. Book was 1000x better imho.

Liked The Third Man a lot.

Not sure if it qualifies as a "spy" movie exactly but I just rewatched Hunt for Red October and it's pretty great.

Yeah, I didn't like the film version of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Lacking, somehow. Who played the lead - Richard Burton, maybe? But Alec Guinness is very good as George Smiley so yes, I would check the library for the original of Tinker Tailor. Smiley's People too.

[Anonymous]

Ronin

[Anonymous]

The Spanish prisoner
The lives of others
The Berlin file
The secret agent (conrad)
Any Alan furst adapation
The company
Loved rubicon of course it's been cancelled
Black book
The conversation

[Anonymous]

Foyles War is a series that often intermingles espionage and police work.

Not a traditional spy flick, but The Three Musketeers (Faye Dunaway made my blood run cold.)

This thread has made me nostalgic for the Wild Wild West tv show:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058855/?ref_=nv_sr_2

I was a kid when I watched it so I doubt it would hold the same appeal. (I used to watch I Spy, but don't want to see that any more.)