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Mol philosophers measurg everythg they do agast the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. They're jt a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me […] civil servants playg wboys and Indians to brighten up their rotten ltle liv."</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="1" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1643r8a">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:0rem;}</style><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css l3w2xc">{display:le-block;font-weight:normal;marg:0rem;borr-top:0.25rem solid #15263D;paddg-right:1.1rem;paddg-top:0.4375rem;text-transform:lowerse;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.3;}</style><h6 class="css-l3w2xc e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 156fvc1">{borr-bottom:0.4375rem solid #FF3A30;borr-right:0.4375rem solid transparent;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0;marg-right:0.5rem;width:0;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 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aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Based on the book by John le Carré, Leamas is one of the many ls-than-glamoro spi that populate the thor's work and their adaptatns, om an out-dated, out-numbered and out of style <style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gary Oldman" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Gary Oldman</a> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Tker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</em> to a 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sayg through the haze of noise and mblg which permeat the whole thg. (It was a liberate artistic choice! Actually!!) <em>Te</em> was the first Christopher Nolan thky-thriller to really spl opn. But wh a ltle b of distance, all feels ls like Nolan's dn for a Bond film – though there were fely nods and wks here and there – and more like a genre-bendg attempt to lnch a sensatn straight to your bra. When Protagonist (yep) is reced by a shadowy anisatn which has the technology to manipulate time, he's tasked wh takg out the villao Sator who wants to save the world by turng all backwards and stroyg . Whether mak sense and what actually happens the end is the wrong qutn to ask; 's really a mega-budget attempt to vert blockbter cema at large. Robert Pattson wears some lovely sus too.</p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><style data-emotn="css 1to8et6">{background:#FF3A30;background-lor:#FF3A30;-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;borr:th solid #FF3A30;borr-radi:2rem;lor:#000;display:le-block;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacg:0.04rem;le-height:1.3;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;whe-space:pre-le;width:to;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{paddg:0.5rem 0.7rem 0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg:0.6rem 1.125rem 0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg:0.6rem 1.125rem 0.3125rem;}}{lor:#000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;background-lor:#ffffff;borr:th solid #FF3A30;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="4e4d20e7-e11f-4ad5-9b6c-d62c233033b3" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£3.49" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="bb77bf5f-627c-47ea-8f68-a6623c829c13" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="9" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Charlie Wilson's War (2007)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="10" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><style data-emotn="css 15g0gpe">{background:#FF3A30;background-lor:#FF3A30;-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;borr:th solid #FF3A30;borr-radi:2rem;lor:#000;display:le-block;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacg:0.04rem;le-height:1.3;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;whe-space:pre-le;width:to;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{paddg:0.5rem 0.7rem 0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg:0.6rem 1.125rem 0.3125rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg:0.6rem 1.125rem 0.3125rem;}}{outle-lor:body-cta-btn-lk-foc;}{lor:#000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;background-lor:#ffffff;borr:th solid #FF3A30;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0"><br /></a></p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 1980, Congrs's rint party boy Charlie Wilson is nvced that he should probably do a b of good while he's ernment, and he starts mmagg around Afghanistan and vertly fundg guerrillas fightg agast the Soviet Unn. What uld possibly go wrong? Well, Wilson ends up pletely changg how Ameri fought the Cold War, while also settg tra a seri of events which leads, slowly but surely, to the reapg of a whirlwd. (Before Tom Hanks got volved, the fal scene of the film was to be of the 9/11 attacks.) Don't go to this light-footed per expectg anythg particularly historilly rigoro – 's pretty fast and loose wh the facts – but Aaron Sork's on script duti, Mike Nichols is behd the mera, and Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman head up a ludicroly stacked st. </p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="3e143aad-a2a6-4eac-94b8-12858fab6ef6" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="f82846f7-a49a-4355-907d-d95349c41fdd" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="14" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Spne (1928)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="15" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Frz Lang laid much of the groundwork for the spy films which were to e later wh his eply atmospheric, paranoia-drenched early films. On the heels of the visnary but mercially disastro <em>Metropolis</em>, Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou put together this low budget thriller to try and avoid the UFA stud ncellg his ntract. Lang thought of as "a small film," but 's big on actn. When the German secret service sets about brgg down the head of an anised crime anisatn, but the operative they put onto falls love wh his quarry. Thgs ramp up wh the theft of an ternatnal peace treaty, there's a brilliantly tense tra crash sequence, and the crcendo at a mic hall clearly had an impact on Aled Hchck – he riffed on <em>The 39 Steps</em>.</p><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a> </p><h2 data-no-id="18" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Sneakers (1992)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="19" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Sadly nothg to do wh people who <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="wear sneakers – for sneakg" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">wear sneakers – for sneakg</a> – but a star-stuffed techno-thriller which packs Robert Redford, Ben Kgsley, Sidney Poier, River Phoenix and Dan Aykroyd. Redford is a former radil socialist hacker who Rob Hood funds to worthy , and who's sce formed a crack squad of whe hat hackers who tt out firms' secury. But when they chance on a black box which n crack open any puter system, they realise they're far eper than they ever realised.</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="5ae72c-3d56-47bd-9b0e-7d48fa7e500e" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£5.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="3a679b42-7aea-4b07-a7e1-33c0255d2b0b" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="22" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">At Powers: Internatnal Man of Mystery (1997)</h2><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="23" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="spy films" tle="spy films" loadg="lazy" width="1907" height="810" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">-</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="24" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><br /></p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Almost as soon as Jam Bond beme a sensatn the early Sixti, the particularly lurid versn of spycraft and the unrworld of pnage he reprented was beg spoofed. After Dirk Bogar's <em>Hot Enough for June</em> 1964 me Jam Coburn <em>Our Man Flt</em>, the first two Beatl films, <em>Mosty Blaise</em>, the Neil 'brother of Sean' Connery vehicle <em>OK Connery</em> and loads others bis. The Sixti loved Bond spoofs. Even The Fltston got on . So only ma sense that the Neti' obssn wh the Sixti would throw up s own postmorn sp on the genre. Cryogenilly ozen 1967, At Powers pch up 1997 to track down his old nemis Dr Evil. An extremely Mike Myers kd of hilary ensu.</p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="128be3aa-74a9-48e6-a151-666cb7cfa54f" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a2960fb3-9fe0-4e55-b80b-35b53df98652" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="27" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Fantômas - À l'ombre la Guillote (1913)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="28" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">This is the first part of five-film saga released across 1913 and 1914, and probably the earlit example of a straight-up spy film. It was based on a popular newspaper serial about the crimal geni Fantômas, who wears a black hood and leotard and sneaks about g any means to get what he wants. One of his nicknam is "master of everythg and everyone" which feels appropriately spy film villao. Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) and journalist Jerôme Fandor (Ge Melchr) are on his tail though. Many of the spy film gredients are here: lurid bad guy; improbable p; ternatnal settgs; and a nspiracy which jt go eper and eper.</p><p data-no-id="30" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="31" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Cloak and Dagger (1946)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="32" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="spy films" tle="spy films" loadg="lazy" width="3000" height="2321" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">LMPC</span><span class="css-1vpjmnm e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="33" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When Frz Lang was offered a role as head of the German stud UFA by Joseph Goebbels, he fled to Paris and then to Hollywood, aaid his Jewish herage would put him danger. By the end of the war, he'd fd <em>Cloak and Dagger</em> beg attacked for beg apparently too Communist – the fal reel of this nuclear trigue about keepg the secrets of the bomb out of enemy hands was changed by producers and s wrers blacklisted. Gary Cooper is the dashg physicist who falls for Lilli Palmer's ristance fighter Ga while tryg to sort those ddy Nazis out. </p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b24fb413-e150-48c3-840f-18634598b8f8" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="c45b7bd0-7a0c-45e4-a951-1d3c715e91" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="35" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Mata Hari (1931)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="36" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="spy films" tle="spy films" loadg="lazy" width="5146" height="4075" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Archive Photos</span><span class="css-1vpjmnm e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The only drawback of a bpic about Mata Hari – the Dutch dancer, urtan and acced spy who was executed by France durg World War One – is uld never really touch the realy of Hari's life for drama. Greta Garbo's portrayal do give a fair crack though. It go all on the ia that Hari really was a spy (Hari herself nied , and she may have been as much a handy French spegoat as a eful German asset) and ed her glamoro wil to steal secrets for Germany. Garbo was rarely more magic and sultry than here, where the nflatn of sex and spyg first really took hold.</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="0500feb9-8e01-42cd-b000-34fedd915a84" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="557a6d86-1f17-4b9f-ad39-694e7d2ac35d" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="39" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Lady Vanish (1938)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="40" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="spy films" tle="spy films" loadg="lazy" width="1772" height="1297" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Uned Archiv</span><span class="css-1vpjmnm e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="41" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The last stretch of Aled Hchck's n of Brish-ma films up to 1940 returned aga and aga to the spy thriller. <em>The 39 Steps</em>, <em>Secret Agent</em> and <em>Sabotage </em>are all varyg gre of great – pecially the magnificent <em>The 39 Steps</em>, on which more below – and very few films any genre n top <em>North by Northwt</em>, but none of them are as breezily charmg and psychologilly twisty as <em>The Lady Vanish</em>. Somewhere central Europe, a young bri-to-be lled Iris tak a plant pot to the head and meets an old lady lled Miss Froy and a young, annoyg man lled Gilbert before jumpg on a tra. Iris and Miss Froy get iendly, but then sudnly she's nowhere to be found. Was she ever there? And if so, who wanted to get rid of her? Espnage, nuns, a whistled mil motif and a tra-based shootout ensue. And, the cricket-mad Charters and Calditt, mted the ultimate dodrg ic relief duos.</p><p data-no-id="42" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="7c27838e-f210-46f2-a89e-c780a9224bb8" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="c5f24343-0e67-42a6-94b2-252fcef68920" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="43" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">A Most Wanted Man (2014)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="44" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="45" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">We're gog to see que a few John Le Carré adaptatns here, and there have been a lot of extremely cent on. They tend, though, to crystallise a particularly Cold War <em>oiur</em>: the 'good' guys fendg the Wt and s gbby moraly agast monsters beyond the Iron Curta who looked disncertgly like themselv. <em>A Most Wanted Man</em> is a post-9/11 story set Germany, where Philip Seymour Hoffman's Günther Bachmann and his vert team try to turn dissints wh ti to terrorist cells to rmants and gradually turng whole chas of mand to their si. At the same time, a hardle duo lled Mohr and Sullivan are on the tail of a potentially eful source. As ever Le Carré's stori, loyalti are tted and moraly is greyer than grey, and a stellar st cludg Willem Dafoe and Rachel McAdams lifts everythg.</p><p data-no-id="46" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="f130594a-f5c8-424b-b9b2-d8d910dd0f54" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£7.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="0fda3b43-9d9a-473e-9866-2c828c678066" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="47" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Conversatn (1974)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="48" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="49" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Famo for his surveillance expertise, Harry Cl is the go-to guy for rporatns who want to spy on their rivals and, if necsary, their own employe. Gene Hackman’s Cl is a man obssed wh his own privacy, and one of most memorably tragic lead characters cema. When he spects the uple he’s spyg on will be murred, his relig fah him to suffer a crisis of nfince. In ntrast to director Francis Ford Coppola epics, <em>The Godfather</em> and <em>Apolypse Now</em>, the tone is pared back, tightly eded and clstrophobic. In other words, the perfect spy movie atmosphere. Coppola stated that the parallels wh the ntemporary Watergate sndal were cintal. </p><p data-no-id="50" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b6f7fd59-fadf-4b8d-87b4-3762d6fdc220" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="2bf77b2c-7b6b-445c-9762-f9da6407fd81" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="51" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The General (1926)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="52" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="53" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Y, the one about the tra. You've seen the b where Bter Keaton bonks a railway sleeper out of the way wh another railway sleeper; watch the whole thg, though, and you'll see 's a proto-spy film. The spy jt happens to be beg played by the most gifted ic actor who ever lived. Dperate to sign up for the Conferat durg the Amerin Civil War to imprs his beloved – yeah, not a tremendo cisn – Keaton's tra driver Johnnie fds himself spurned when he's turned down for service. </p><p data-no-id="54" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But then his other beloved, the lootive The General, is stolen by Unn spi. He giv chase another lo, and a seri of creasgly spectacular stunts and set piec ensu. The General might be a edy, but the way that pch an ordary man to a dangero polil trigue is pure spy thriller material, and Keaton's mment to his own wildly dangero stunts echo Tom Cise's eye-bogglg latter-day <em>Missn: Impossible</em> work. Keaton reflected toward the end of his life that he "was more proud of that picture than any I ever ma."</p><p data-no-id="55" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="56" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Atomic Blon (2017)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="57" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="58" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Charlize Theron is MI6 agent Lorrae Broughton, who on the eve of the fall of the Berl Wall 1989 is roped to the office to expla her recent work the cy. A microfilm ntag the nam of every agent on eher si of the Iron Curta at work Berl has been stolen, and she's dispatched to brg back. <em>Atomic Blon</em> isn't particularly origal, but s pulpy, spleilly vlent actn sequenc and the ntankero buddy-up between Theron and Jam McAvoy make more than worth your time.</p><p data-no-id="59" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="60" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Spne (1928)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="61" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="62" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The kgp of an ternatnal crime anisatn has to be brought down by the secret servic, but this kgp sets his own spyg operatn to motn. Frz Lang didn't thk much of <em>Spne</em> – "a small film, but wh a lot of actn," as he said at s ceptn – but you'd not know by the barrellg openg sequence, which manag to swiftly set up everythg the next two and a half hours will unravel.</p><p data-no-id="63" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The rt of Lang's penultimate silent film is jammed wh actn too, om an exhilaratgly staged tra crash to a fale which a spy is trapped between pursuers and a cklg mic hall dience. You n see a young Hchck takg not on the way Lang swirls together ath and danger wh popular entertament – pare and ntrast the fale of <em>The 39 Steps</em> – and slyly suggts that we're voyrs for watchg along. </p><p data-no-id="64" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="65" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Cizenfour (2014)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="66" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="67" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A thoroughly morn spy movie. Filmmaker Lra Poras serv as director and nfidant as she terviews whistleblower Edward Snowdon over eight days a Hong Kong hotel room, work that would lead to the 2014 Pulzer Prize for Public Service. The revelatns over how wispread US surveillance of s own cizens is have lost none of their shock, and as Snown, Poras and journalist Glenn Greenwald discs how they will drop their bombshell on the world, this is as nervo and grippg a watch as anythg wh John le Carré’s name attached to .</p><p data-no-id="68" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="136db345-abd6-449e-93bb-64921dd7e598" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£5.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a791d3ef-a5-4479-b8e0-2b7a94760703" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="69" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Top Secret! (1984)<br /></h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="70" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="71" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">An unr-appreciated Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movie that do for the spy genre what <em>Airplane! </em>did for the airport disaster movie. That is, send up wh unhged relish. The plot, such as is, ncerns Amerin rock star Nick Rivers (a superbly blank Val Kilmer) beg dispatched to East Germany durg the send world war to perform at a ftival, only to fd himself ught up an unrground ristance movement. It’s also a mil, and an Elvis parody. The sills is fect. “I know a ltle German. He’s stg over there.” “What phony dog poo?” “I know… all sounds like some bad movie”. When me out the dience voted wh their feet and went to see <em>Gremls</em> stead. It flopped spectacularly.</p><p data-no-id="72" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="13ab962d-d456-4190-a883-ac7d43ed40a1" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£3.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="948bc2a1-2370-4d3e-9f3d-9f60117239" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="73" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Ipcrs File (1965)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="74" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="75" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><br /></p><p data-no-id="76" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> "<a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="[Harry Palmer] had my attu to thory: screw , I'll do my way and get right. A rebel." class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">[Harry Palmer] had my attu to thory: screw , I'll do my way and get right. A rebel.</a>" So said the great Sir Michael Cae durg an terview wh <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Esquire</em>, and we'd have to agree that he's on to somethg. For Palmer, service the MOD is a penance of sorts for his crimal explos while the Brish Army, rather than a reer plan. Released the same year as Sean Connery's fourth Bond outg, <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Thunrball</em>, Cae's Harry Palmer is the anti-007. He shops supermarkets, lik okg (omelett are a specialy) and wants a pay-rise so that he n upgra his kchen utensils. Tasked wh vtigatg the brawashg of sixteen Brish scientists, Palmer is kidnapped and subjected to the IPCRESS ndng method, an attempt to turn him to a double agent. Ristg the procs, Palmer purposefully subjects himself to pa while chantg one of Cae's most inic quot: "My. Name. Is. Harry. Palmer!"</p><p data-no-id="77" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH HERE" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="42fe624f-3233-49e1-a240-e11c2e839b" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£4.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="332cb43e-6c3f-4022-801e-39c6843a203e" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH</a></p><h2 data-no-id="78" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">No Way Out (1987)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="79" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="80" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The voice-over the trailer for Kev Costner and Gene Hackman's thriller about a US Naval officer vtigatg a murr is pure eighti overkill. The plot, however, still stands up as one of the bt spy films mted to film, wh Gene Hackman turng an on-the-money performance as the Secretary Of Defence tryg to shift the blame for his promiscuo wife's murr away om himself and on to a moured Soviet sleeper agent named Yuri, while taskg Costner – the other man the affair – to vtigate. Called "tly labyrthe and gen" and a "<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="superr example of the genre" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">superr example of the genre</a>" the late, great movie cric Roger Ebert's origal review, 's Hackman and Costner's performanc that elevate this to a classic. For anyone disappoted wh the lackltre <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Jack Ryan: Shadow Rec</em>, this is the film to watch to see Costner playg the spy game properly.</p><p data-no-id="81" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="c582f5ce-2543-4dc6-9c94-99dc55e85b43" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£2.49" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="ae41b236-1571-4dce-bf83-a5843c7e4815" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="82" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><h6 class="css-l3w2xc e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><li class="css-79zw4t e6pr2lz2"><a href="//culture/a29636081/when-is-no-time-to-die-out-jam-bond-mours-trailer-teasers-and-everythg-you-need-to-know/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Everythg We Know About 'No Time To Die'" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="no time to die" tle="Everythg We Know About 'No Time To Die'" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Everythg We Know About 'No Time To Die'</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><h2 data-no-id="83" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Bridge of Spi (2015)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="84" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Bt spy films" tle="Bt spy films" loadg="lazy" width="2000" height="1333" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">-</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="85" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">After the none-more-grty <em>Munich,</em> Steven Spielberg returned to Cold War polickg – but this time he took Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance wh him, the latter on reer-high form. Hanks is Jam B Donovan, an surance lawyer who is drafted as a patsy to fend Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Rylance), but sticks to his prcipl and helps him avoid the ath sentence. A few years later, US airman Gary Powers's U2 spy plane is shot down over Rsia and Donovan is tapped up by the Soviets to help wh a possible prisoner swap for Abel. </p><p data-no-id="86" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It's more a character study the patiently nstcted Le Carré mould than is a no-holds-barred set-piece-driven adventure, which giv Rylance room to quietly and drily earn your sympathy. It looks absolutely glor too, and wh Joel and Ethan Coen helpg out on script duti, there are a lot more lghs than most spy thrillers set the GDR.</p><h2 data-no-id="87" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="860ae5df-2e09-46a7-8683-f16c30e8f573" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£5.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="407e1f24-31e7-4673-9faf-e7d6f19bfeec" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></h2><h2 data-no-id="88" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Burn After Readg (2008)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="89" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="90" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Spy parodi tend to send-up the slickns of secret agents, the vany of super villas and other Bond-spired movie trop. The Cohen Brothers’ star-studd farce <em>Burn After Readg, </em>however, aims s satire at the paranoid petence of so-lled telligence agenci, and the schemg dunc who fall foul of them search of an easy dollar. Thk <em>Tker Tailor Soldier Spy </em>crossed wh <em>Four Lns</em>, and… you’re still pretty far away, actually. Jt watch , why don’t you? It’s jt as funny now as was upon release twelve years ago, and the never endg Rsiagate bacle only adds prcience to the film's Cold War mdset. </p><p data-no-id="91" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The set-up: Osbourne "Ozzie" Cox (John Malkovich) qus his job as a mid-level CIA operative to wre a memoir. Meanwhile, a bid to secretly beg divorce proceedgs, his wife Katie (Tilda Swton) downloads his fancial rerds onto a disc to give to her lawyer – but accintally pi his memoir draft over too. Not long after that, the lawyer qutn advertently leav the disc at her lol gym, where ’s disvered by two cluels chancers the form of Lda Lzke (Franc McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pt). What follows is a tangled web of blackmail, sex, subterfuge, murr and boundls stupidy. The only good cisn the entire film is Gee Clooney's beard.</p><p data-no-id="92" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="1a912e-9d48-4f05-90ee-d4c69f6c3551" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£7.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="4c24bf16-f40b-4f22-883d-5e23d13a2c12" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="93" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Missn: Impossible – Fallout (2018)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="94" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Bt spy films" tle="Bt spy films" loadg="lazy" width="1200" height="800" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">-</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="95" class="body-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The <em>M:I</em> seri pivoted om beg a trilogy wh one great film to an all-nquerg actn juggernt over the urse of the 2010s, but 's easy to fet while you're watchg Tom Cise flg himself about on the Bhurj Khalifa that he's supposed to be a spy. He's a spy though, and a spy for the IMF at that. (That's the Impossible Missn Force, not the Internatnal Moary Fund.) </p><p data-no-id="96" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In probably the bt of all the <em>Missn: Impossible</em> films, he has to stop terrorists bblg together nuclear bombs wh stolen plutonium. That's not the pot, though. The pot is that Cise is very obvly dog all the staggerg stunts himself, cludg the much-vnted HALO jump sequence. He actually jumped out of a plane 106 tim to get the eefall shots, and <em>Fallout</em> fds new ways to channel that visceral sh brilliantly. Angela Bassett, Vansa Kirby and Henry Cavill's Motache jo Cise alongsi a roll ll of stars om prev impossible missns.</p><p data-no-id="97" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b48fc2ba-488d-4b2a-ae4b-7c4997e65025" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£2.49" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="6181474e-d07b-47f7-85c2-db9acbed9966" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="98" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Enemy of the State (1998)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="99" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Bt spy films" tle="Bt spy films" loadg="lazy" width="1486" height="836" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">-</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="100" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">This update of those post-Watergate Robert Redford polil thrillers – films which qutn whether you n tst the anisatns that are meant to be lookg out for – plac squarely the mass surveillance era. The Natnal Secury Agency has murred a prickly ngrsman who's beg a big nerd about their plan to spy on everyone, but the whole thg's ught on vio. </p><p data-no-id="101" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The footage is planted on district attorney Robert Dean Clayton (Will Smh), and the NSA sets about stroyg his life. So, the classic Hchckian mo, he's got to clear his name and work out what the hell's gog on. It's ls subtle than those mid-Seventi films, but barrels along and has the enormo draw of a particularly spleic late-perd Gene Hackman, who spends much of his screen time screamg at Smh while lookg out for his beloved t.</p><p data-no-id="102" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b197ad25-d92b-40be-a5db-0664974e6451" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="807b74dc-3032-40c2-8453-6f21407a7ce2" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="103" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Argo (2012)</h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="104" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Bt spy films" tle="Bt spy films" loadg="lazy" width="1600" height="1276" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">-</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="105" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In the sub-genre of 'spy films where normal people have to do some spyg', <em>Argo</em> stands apart. Ben Affleck shar top billg wh Ben Affleck's Magnificent Beard this one, based on the te story of a film crew who had to help bt some Amerin hostag out of Tehran. They didn't e ad drops or jetpacks or a watch wh a laser . They pretend to make a fake sci-fi fantasy adventure <em>Star Wars</em> rip-off lled <em>Argo</em> and smuggled some Canadian passports.<em></em></p><p data-no-id="106" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">While 's a nsummate spy thriller, manag to bend toward beg a heist per too, wh some top turns om John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, and particularly Alan Ark as the ntankero, veteran film producer Lter Siegel. Don't like the fact that beat <em>Lln</em> to<em></em> the Bt Picture Osr? Argo fuck yourself.</p><p data-no-id="107" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b79128c7-b3f2-4a45-abd6-b2f779c975a6" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£3.49" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="1a172d04-8523-4968-a2c5-3415b58ace57" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><style data-emotn="css meds3b">{font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><p data-no-id="108" class="body-h2 css-meds3b et3p2gv0"><strong>Tker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)</strong></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="109" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="110" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The set-up is simple: "There’s a mole, right at the top of the Circ," John Hurt’s MI6 spymaster Control tells <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gary Oldman" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Gary Oldman</a>’s Gee Sey as he tasks him wh tchg a traor leakg secrets to the Soviets. All the key le Carré them are here this stripped-down but unhurried take on the novel - lonels, ailty, cle - and Oldman’s vast armoury of ty facial flch and tics make him stand out even an ensemble of Bra’s more cerebral leadg men: alongsi Hurt, there’s <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Benedict Cumberbatch" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Benedict Cumberbatch</a>, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Tom Hardy" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Tom Hardy</a>, Col Firth and Mark Strong. The grimy, grotty, shamblg Bra of the 1970s is brilliantly evoked, the tailorg is impecble, and the fal montage, set to Jul Iglias’ versn of Somewhere Beyond the Sea, is as satisfygly elegant a cematic ncln as you’ll see.<br /></p><p data-no-id="111" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="8dfe23-4d16-4241-8e-0b8a0b4809b0" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£3.49" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a9ef284d-553f-409d-8dd3-704efcfe5582" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="112" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Bourne Inty (2002)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="113" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="114" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Loosely based on Robert Ludlum's story of an amniac spy, Doug Liman's <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Bourne Inty</em> prsed the re-set button on the entire genre, wh <a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Daniel Craig" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Daniel Craig</a>'s Bond films and even Christopher Nolan's <a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Batman" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Batman</a> trilogy takg spiratn om Bourne's btal, close-quarter's bat style and grty, ra-soaked lotns. It was also the film that ma take Matt Damon – the angry kid om <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Good Will Huntg</em> and the stoner-angel om <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Dogma</em> – serly as a fully-fledged Hollywood leadg man. </p><p data-no-id="115" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b8a3b7c7-ec30-4280-90f1-66da68568520" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£7.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="335eeb36-f24b-49d6-a348-114e4a3b4b5b" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="116" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Imatn Game (2014)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="117" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="118" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It turns out ’s not jt the ventn of the puter that we n thank the real-life Alan Turg for, but also, part, the Allied w World War II. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the -crackg Turg and this engagg, Osr-wng film reimag the story of when Turg worked at Bletchley Park and vented a mache – which he lls Christopher – to unver the Nazi’s attack plans. However, there’s a dark agent the cryptography partment; boo, hiss, ’s John Cairncross (Allen Leech), who threatens to out Turg when he disvers his own secret that puts natnal secury at risk. It’s a bter endg though, when you realise that Turg was never honoured for his work durg the war, and took his own life after beg nvicted of gross cency and chemilly strated for beg gay. The film go a small way to redrs the balance of his remarkable life, and may have been an spiratn for Queen Elizabeth II givg Turg a posthumo Royal Pardon.</p><p data-no-id="119" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="120" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="121" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="122" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When Jon Ronson sat down to wre <em>The Men Who Stare At Goats</em> – a non-fictn book explorg the US ernment partment of psychic spi that were apparently ed for special ops throughout the years – there’s no way he uld have imaged would end up as a Hollywood film featurg Gee Clooney, Brad Pt and Ewan McGregor the starrg rol. But then, as Ronson well knows, the tth is often stranger than fictn. This farcil and highly enjoyable per tak a Coen-brothers-era Clooney (“I’m a Jedi warrr”! Clooney-as-Lyn-Cassady, announc to McGregor-as-Ronson) who tails how he and a band of men, the New Earth Army, uld make a goat’s heart stop jt by starg at hard enough and were sent out to brg about world peace. Set largely Iraq wh the backdrop of the Iraq war, the exploratn of this ltle-known bizarre squad and s history the US army works as a ftg unterpot to highlight the absurdy of war self.</p><p data-no-id="123" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="2ff3e0df-820a-4c1a-b4c6-a6018af0f255" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="fad1472f-7c0e-46e0-9713-9f2d2884ce" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="124" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Notor (1946)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="125" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="126" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> Aled Hchck at his most hard-boiled, this <a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Cary Grant" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Cary Grant</a>-Ingrid Bergman double bill about the dghter of a Nazi war crimal reced to filtrate a rg of Nazis Brazil beme famo for the scene which Hchck slipped around Hollywood's ban on kissg scen over three sends – by havg the actors break the kiss every few sends before ntug. However, 's Grant's wardrobe that we're most terted , particularly his flawls dner jacket, precedg a certa spy wh a penchant for bow ti and tuxedos by almost 20 years.</p><p data-no-id="127" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="2ed17258-4f3f-44c8-8d32-0f86259b854a" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="62e8351a-84e1-4327-8d37-741a5d21f1da" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><p data-no-id="128" class="body-h2 css-meds3b et3p2gv0"><strong>The 39 Steps (1935)</strong></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="129" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="130" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Few films ma Orson Well gasp, "Oh my God, what a masterpiece." <em>The 39 Steps</em>, named the fourth bt Brish film of the 20th century by the BFI, is one. In only Hchck's send spy film, released a year after <em>The Man Who Knew Too Much</em>, Robert Donat plays Richard Hannay, an nocent man acced of murr who n only clear his name by unverg an evil bal lled the 39 Steps. Stylish, relentlsly pacy and revolutnary s time, Hchck soups up John Buchan's novel wh darg set piec – most famoly Hannay's scramble along the outsi of the Flyg Stsman and pe onto the Forth Bridge – and adds an erotic charge by shacklg the hero to the director's first icy but irristible blon female lead, played by Malee Carroll. Hchck's first great thriller troducers the key gredients of all that were to e: an honourable man ught a shadowy behemoth's web; the McGuff of what the 39 Steps are to keep the actn sprtg along; and, most of all, a playful maniftatn of the clstrophobic, obssive relatnship wh sex he'd return to later <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Psycho" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Psycho</a></em>, <em>Fr</em><em></em><em>enzy</em>, <em>Marnie</em> and <em>Vertigo</em>.</p><p data-no-id="131" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="7d6b46fd-541f-4a33-9117-bc2af1d091e3" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£5.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="1faaabd6-07b6-4284-b851-46d3e70b223b" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="132" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Three Days Of The Condor (1975)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="133" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="134" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> Almost servg of s place on this list bee of s style alone (those sus, that knwear, that peaat) Sydney Pollack's 1975 thriller about a CIA rearcher who back to fd his un ad is que possibly <a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Robert Redford" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Robert Redford</a>'s bt role. Out of his fort zone as the ckey leadg man, Redford turns a stellar performance as he ns om both the CIA and a strg of myster killers, wh Max Von Sydow tickg the 'evil assass tan trenchat' box.</p><p data-no-id="135" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="923632ae-9cdd-4346-bf8e-6b7f482f151f" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£5.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="00f7efba-cc17-44d1-8c81-ba94d39678a2" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="136" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><h6 class="css-l3w2xc e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Stori</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><li class="css-79zw4t e6pr2lz2"><a href="//culture/film/a7509/bt-sex-movi/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Sex Movi: The Top 10 Greatt Bonkbters" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="sex movi" tle="Lbian sex films and movi" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Sex Movi: The Top 10 Greatt Bonkbters</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li><li class="css-79zw4t e6pr2lz2"><a href="//culture/film/a10465/g-of-age-movi/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="10 Films That Capture Beg A Teenager" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="boyhood" tle="Boyhood" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">10 Films That Capture Beg A Teenager</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><h2 data-no-id="137" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">From Rsia Wh Love (1964)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="138" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="139" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> Of urse we're not sayg Connery's send outg is the bt Bond film of all time (although there's a strong se to be ma for ) but, terms of good old fashned pnage, you'd be hard-phed to beat Bond's explos wh SMERSH and super Soviet assass Red Grant (a stone ld Robert Shaw). From poisoned toe-spik to takg down a helipter wh a rifle bbled together om a briefse, this is the film that set the tone for <a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Bond" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Bond</a> films to e. The bt scene of urse is Bond's tense after-dner fight wh Red Grant aboard the Orient Exprs, followed by Bond's phy one-ler as he tak the body of the ad Rsian, "Red we wh fish. I should have known."</p><p data-no-id="140" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="7aacf8ab-df21-411e-9a80-3d1b882bab28" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£7.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="516043dc-f1c1-4fcb-aeb3-e6b0e05b5e47" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="141" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Spy Kids (2001)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="142" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="143" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Some rears might blk at the cln of a fay-iendly per this Very Ser List. But <em>Spy Kids</em>, fun, eic and fantastil as may be, is genuely up there wh some of the most acplished pnage movi ever ma. You’d expect nothg ls of wrer/director Robert Rodriguez, the celebrated wrer/director behd <em>S Cy</em> and <em>From Dk till Dawn</em>, who always had rpect for the taste and telligence of his youthful target dience. “I wanted this to have the feel like a kid wrote ,” be told Creative Screenwrg 2015. “Shot , eded , directed . What a kid would do […] I was so spired by those kds of movi when I was growg up, and they weren’t makg them anymore.”</p><p data-no-id="144" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It begs wh a simple premise: what if your seemgly humdm mum and dad were secretly ternatnal spi? Once upon a time, Gregor (Anton Banras) and Ingrid (Carla Gugo) were sent on a missn by their rpective telligence agenci to assassate each other, but end up fallg love, retirg and startg a fay. All’s well that ends well. But then a spate of disappearanc force them to return to actn twelve years later, and they soon jo the long list of MIA agents. Needls to say, ’s left up to their children, 12-year-old Carmen and 9-year-old Juni, to save the day. </p><p data-no-id="145" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">While <em>Spy Kids</em> is undoubtedly the strongt stalment the four-part anchise, <em>Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams</em> featur a le (om Steve Bcemi’s azzled scientist Romero) so unexpectedly poignant that serv a mentn: <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="“Do you thk that God stays heaven bee he too liv fear of what he has created?”" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">“Do you thk that God stays heaven bee he too liv fear of what he has created?”</a></p><p data-no-id="146" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="4c30b9dc-fe5a-4c84-96d5-33261833d7" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="£2.49" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="4598b9b4-6204-4b39-9a1b-2cda8b073c" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Movi" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="147" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">Zero Dark Thirty (2012)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="148" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="149" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> Kathryn Bigelow's Osr wng exploratn of the CIA's obssive hunt for Osama B Lan ma a star of <a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Jsi Chasta" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Jsi Chasta</a> and was celebrated as one of the most telligent spy thrillers of all time. Like <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor"><a href=" target="_self" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Homeland" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Homeland</a></em> turned up to eleven, <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Zero Dark Thirty</em> brought the realy of torture, ary base bombgs and al Qaeda to a viewg public that had only prevly read about them broadsheets and limed published acunts. This is a spy film that dispens wh the glamour to show that spy work is dirty work and the chillg fact that those searchg for the tth are often jt as cluels as the rt of .</p><p data-no-id="150" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="4268d5f0-919a-4372-9595-74c3badd15" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a1fdcccd-d019-4d4f-a71f-0c6038bae1" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="151" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">North By Northwt (1959)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="152" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="153" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> Tied wh <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Vertigo</em> for the tle of 'Hchck's greatt film', <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">North By Northwt</em> is the origal anti-spy spy film. It's an pnage tale told om the perspective of the nocent as <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Cary Grant" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Cary Grant</a>'s advertisg executive Roger Thornhill go on the n om a shadowy anisatn a se of mistaken inty. There's lots to get exced about here, om Thornhill's votn to a good su to the epic fale atop a soundstage Mount Rhmore, not to mentn to film's fantastilly hard-boiled dialogue: "I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wiv and several bartenrs that pend upon me, and I don't tend to disappot them all by gettg myself 'slightly' killed". </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="154" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><style data-emotn="css p7qblm">{posn:relative;--posn:absolute;height:to;} img{max-width:100%;height:to;} a{posn:absolute;}</style><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Cary Grant North By Northwt crop dter scene" tle="Cary Grant North By Northwt crop dter scene" loadg="lazy" width="4878" height="3664" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css 1i6sckr">{background:#c92228;bottom:0;paddg:.5rem;right:0;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg:0.39rem;}}</style><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// Uk&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><style data-emotn="css 1l3i1cl">{display:block;height:1rem;width:1rem;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:1.063rem;height:1.063rem;}}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="155" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Most nversatns about the film tend to foc on the now inic crop-dter scene ( which Thornhill fds himself the middle of rn fields, wh nowhere to hi as a belligerent pilot swoops down on him) and wh good reason - 's ttament to Hchck's genuy that a scene so simple - one that chews the piranha-filled ps, laser beam vasectomi and exotic lols of Bond for a mid-wtern farmer's field - still holds up as one of the most menacg chase sequenc film history. All told, <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">North By Northwt </em>remas an inic film om one of history's most inic directors. </p><p data-no-id="156" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="80902a2e-5c9f-4d63-a9a0-95339a4ef5d5" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"67a1c675-44b4-45cd-bd62-a1001851fad5","se_id":"190ce153-424a-469c-a2ee-0521e9e2c5cb","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-price data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="88827bd5-f44a-4b28-b4a1-082007c802ed" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1to8et6 ebsw2pb0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="157" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Liv Of Others (2006)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="158" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="159" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"> Five years before <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">Tker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</em> did dreary Cold War drama, <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">The Liv Of Others</em> gave a glimpse behd the Iron Curta and over the Berl Wall to 1980s Soviet-occupied East Berl a drama that documented the Big Brother-que observatns rried out by the Stasi (the German Democratic Republic's secret police). The film foc on the surveillance rried out on a German playwright, Ge Dreyman who wr an anti-ernment article after his iend ms suici. Told om the perspective of the Stasi official tasked wh monorg Dreyman, <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">The Liv Of Others </em>offers a tly grim glimpse to what was like to be a spy durg the Cold War, particularly if you didn't necsarily believe the e you had voted your life to. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="160" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="The Liv of Others " tle="The Liv of Others " loadg="lazy" width="3071" height="1289" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="// Uk&" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Sony Pictur</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="161" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Produced and directed Germany, the film do away wh Hollywood pretenc at a happy endgs and silver lgs – nothg particularly cheerful happens here, om the daily paranoia of both the observers and the observed to the harrowg fal scen volvg Dreyman's young actrs girliend. Nor is any character entirely likeable. Dreyman is ee-spired but a vout munist, while Stasi spy Wiler attempts to supprs evince on the playwright while nmng untls others to prison or worse. An outstandg film about the grey area lost to the Wt behd the Berl Wall and the grey moral ground s habants are forced to hab orr to survive. </p><p data-no-id="162" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="WATCH NOW" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-15g0gpe et3p2gv0">WATCH NOW</a></p><h2 data-no-id="163" class="body-h2 css-qplj0i et3p2gv0">The Third Man (1949)</h2><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="164" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="165" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Touted as "the first great picture of 1950" and selected by the BFI as the "<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="bt Brish film of the 20th century" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">bt Brish film of the 20th century</a>", this tale of murr and smugglg Allied-occupied Vienna remas one of the most stylish thrillers of all time. From the famo "<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="cuckoo clock speech" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">cuckoo clock speech</a>" scene on the Wiener Rienrad big wheel to Orson Well' supposedly ad black marketer Harry Lime emergg om a shadowy doorway, to the fal chase through the cy's verno sewers,<em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor"> The Third Man</em> is a film that has often been imated, but never bettered. 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Man who protected prints wr tell-all memoir: Breakg Free, A Saga of Self-Disvery by a Gay Secret Service Agent

Contents:

'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY

Adam Reed, the creator of FX's Archer, talks about TV's only gay secret agent and why you should watch tonight's season four premiere. * gay secret agents *

Early the first season of "Q-Force, " Netflix's rnchy and heartfelt new animated edy (now streamg), there's a poignant exchange between novice gay spi Steve (Sean Hay) and Deb (Wanda Syk).

But the openly gay actor, who played the unapologetic Jack McFarland for 11 seasons of the s (cludg s recent revival), murely dismiss his "trailblazer" stat.

'Q-FORCE' TRAILER: NETFLIX INTRODUC THE FIRST ALL-GAY SPY TEAM

A U.S. telligence muny that once forced out gays and lbians for secury reasons now se clivy as the bt way to protect the untry, and seeks to rec spi om a wir talent pool that clus the LGBT muny. At a ssn tled Ameri’s LGBT Spi (Secret Agents of Change) held at the South by Southwt tech summ At, Texas, the panelists said for the U.S. telligence muny - wh a $60 billn-pl budget and more than 100,000 employe - to attract the bt talent, mt embrace diversy. * gay secret agents *

'" "Q-Force" follows the adventur of a misf group of superspi led by Steve, a risg star the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA) who's punted to a low-level job Wt Hollywood after g out as gay.

SECRET AGENTS, GAY ALIENS AND ELF PS: 10 MOVI THAT HAVE EXCED FOR 2020

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For Liedman, was a chance to make somethg "fun and stupid" and full of queer joy, fog the gay trma we so often see film and televisn. " More:I'm jt a boy, standg ont of Hollywood, beggg for more joyful LGBTQ filmsThe adult-oriented seri also don't shy away om nudy and graphic, although still stylized, pictns of gay sex. " In the weeks leadg up to release, "Q-Force" has gotten phback om crics and Twter ers for s at-tim dated gay stereotyp, which were on full display  the show's much-rid first teaser trailer.

SPY-ON-SPY ACTN: GAY LIFE ON ARCHER

12776 Entertament News 2004-06-16 Brendan Fraser may go unrver Gay Secret Agent Variety reports that Brendan Fraser is negotiatg to star the pnage spoof Gay Secret Agent, about an openly queer spy. Developed by At Powers producers Suzanne and Jennifer To... * gay secret agents *

Acrdg to the synopsis, "Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Goln Boy of the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he me out as gay.

NETFLIX HAS ORRED A SPY SERI DCRIBED AS A ‘GAY JAM BOND’

"Archer's" openly gay spy Ray Gillette evolved om a cutaway gag to a fully formed regular player. * gay secret agents *

“Q-Force, ” Netflix’s animated edy seri, is about a group of unrvalued LGBTQ superspi, cludg Steve Marywhether (also known as Agent Mary), a gay secret agent who is Jam Bonsque, who try to prove themselv on personal and profsnal adventur. “Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Goln Boy of the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he me out as gay, ” the official scriptn reads.

He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts.

Ryan Murphy produc this adaptatn of the 2018 Broadway revival of Mart Crowley’s notor play about a dysfunctnal group of gay men livg New York. We’re hopg that this versn–which reportedly will clu the revised text of the 2018 revival as well–ton down the self-loathg of the characters, not to mentn the subtle homophobic elements that make the origal 1970 film crge-ducg.

MAN WHO PROTECTED PRINTS WR TELL-ALL MEMOIR: BREAKG FREE, A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT

Revolutn Studs is g out of the closet wh the edy "Gay Secret Agent." Brendan Fraser is negotiatg to play the tle character, wh Brad Hall and Andrew Gottlieb wrg the script. * gay secret agents *

David Lynch tried adaptg Dune back 1984 wh disastro rults: the film ranks as one of the most herent, disgtg and homophobic movi ever ma. The story of teen lovers stroyed by rival gangs 1950s New York more or ls remas the same, though out-gay screenwrer Tony Khner (who wrote Angels Ameri) has hted that his script will adhere closely to the origal stage versn, and likely tegrate some of the revisns of the 2009 Broadway revival, which featured both Spanish language lyrics and dialogue. The creator of the popular FX animated spy seri Archer, which premier season four tonight on FX, has jt been asked if he n name an openly gay spy.

While Reed don't b shoulrs wh spi on a day-to-day basis, he assum we mean fictnal spi -- but nohels he is h wh this realizatn, Reed seems proud that he has created Ray Gillette, the smart, handsome, and openly gay spy on his seri. "No proment gay spi e to md, " says Reed as he discs the upg fourth season of one of the most unr-celebrated animated edi on TV.

Wh this all-star team and no shortage of wty, rnchy one-lers, Archer has cemented self as one of the most shockg and hilar shows on Archer as a world-reknowned womanizer, Ray provis an tertg pot of ntrast as a petent, smart spy who happens to be gay. But Reed hts that Ray may walk aga (perhaps thanks to a pair of cyberic legs), and also allus that Ray may not be the only gay spy viewers see the new season.

Q FORCE REVIEW – NETFLIX’S GAY SPY PER IS DISASTROLY DATED

Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * gay secret agents *

" On Archer, sults fly as fast as bullets, wh the spi nstantly ribbg each other on everythg om their choice of wardrobe to their bedroom manners -- wh Ray's sexualy ually feelg the bnt of his worker's won Bt Show You're Not Watchg at the New Now Next Awards back 2010, and while all the characters are fair game the ISIS offic, Reed was never serly ncerned about the gay backlash for the flak Ray tak at the office.

BRENDAN FRASER IS GAY SECRET AGENT

Abstract. This chapter discs how Christopher Isherwood ed the metaphor of “secret agent” or “spy” to exprs his msage to his gay or “queer” rears. Th * gay secret agents *

The star also serv as the shownner and executive producer for the project, which follows his journey the world as a gay man wh cerebral palsy.

Ncuti Gatwa stars the show as Otis’s openly-gay bt iend Eric, who fac homophobia as he to terms wh his sexualy durg the programme’s first season. Telligence muny that once forced out gays and lbians for secury reasons now se clivy as the bt way to protect the untry, and seeks to rec spi om a wir talent pool that clus the LGBT a ssn tled Ameri’s LGBT Spi (Secret Agents of Change) held at the South by Southwt tech summ At, Texas, the panelists said for the U.

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Netflix has orred 10 episos of Q-Force, an animated edy seri based on a gay secret agent and his team of LGBTQ super project has been spearhead by Will & Grace star Sean Hay and producer Todd Miller, who has scribed the seri as "gay Jam Bond". “We were thkg how do we get to do gay spy and every week, and the only way to do that is animated, bee we n do all of the fun parts of a Jam Bond film. ”Hay echoed his pot, sayg: “I don’t know that the studs would greenlight a feature wh a leadg character that’s gay that genre.

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The animated adult edy seri, created by Sean Hay (Will and Grace) and Michael Schur (The Good Place, Brooklyn Ne-Ne), foc on a the adventur of gay secret agent Steve Maryweather, a. Homophobia is not so much wispread this world as enmic, and at every turn, Mary and his iends are held back bee they are gay. There n be a snobbishns and hostily, particularly onle, about mastream gay culture, as if all LGBTQ+ people are the same and the only te way to exprs queerns is to bate Judh Butler.

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