List of good (great) spy/espionage films

[Dracoro]

Excluding Bond and Bourne (as seen them all) but do any of you peeps have recommendations of good spy/espionage/CIA/NSA/conspiracy/etc. type films.

No doubt there's a lot of dross but be good to draw a list of good films of this genre.

Feel free to add ones that are crap as well so I know which to avoid

[PaulHogan]

Films:
North by Northwest
Double Indemnity
Ipcress File
Funeral in Berlin
The Third Man
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
The 39 Steps
Where Eagles Dare
3 Days of the Condor
Ronin

And the TV shows:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Smiley’s People

[fido]

Eye of the Needle - liked this one because you sort of sympathise with the baddy.

[RedLCRB0b]

Enemy Of The State (as long as you don't mind Will Smith)

Manchurian Candidate is supposed to be good but I've not managed to watch it yet

[Hawmaws]

No way out

[rich85uk]

traitor

possibly body of lies???

[Dracoro]

Keep 'em coming chaps, a few so far I have already seen but plenty I haven't so just what I'm after.

Quite like some new(ish) CIA/American type things as well as the old classics.

[Oakey]

Spy Game
Syriana
The Good Shepherd
Charlie Wilsons War
The Recruit

[FourWheelDrift]

Carry on Spying
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. films
* To Trap a Spy (1964)
* The Spy with My Face (1965)
* One Spy Too Many (1966)
* One of Our Spies is Missing (1966)
* The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
* The Karate Killers (1967)
* The Helicopter Spies (1968)
* How to Steal the World (1968)
Matt Helm films
* The Silencers (1966)
* Murderers' Row (1966)
* The Ambushers (1967)
* The Wrecking Crew (1969) <--- Chuck Norris's film debut.

But whether you want to list them as ones to watch or ones to avoid depends on what you like

[ritmo]

film..
The quiller memorandum
Munich
The whistleblower
The lives of others
The baader meinhof complex (a bit OT as its terrorism not espionage)
Casablanca
The day of the jackal

TV..
Game set and match
A perfect spy

[Halb]

Of all the ones mentioned so far the quality ones are;
North by Northwest
Double Indemnity
Ipcress File
Funeral in Berlin
The Third Man
The Man Who Knew Too Much (both versons)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
The 39 Steps
Where Eagles Dare
3 Days of the Condor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Telly)
Smiley’s People (Telly) both the tellies are better than films in my opinion due to the amount of time they have to layer the story, stuff like the Russia House can't cover it.
No way out
Syriana
The Good Shepherd
Charlie Wilsons War
The Recruit
The Quiller Memorandum
The Whistleblower
Casablanca
The Day of the jackal

And I shall add

The Black Windmill
The Parallax View
Seven Days in May
The Jigsaw Man
State of Play (telly)
The State Within (telly)
Thirteen Days
Spartan
The Boys From Brazil
The Odessa File
The Osterman Weekend
Failsafe
The Quiet American
The Conversation
The Sentinal
In The Line of Fire


not seen Constant Gardener is it any good?

[anonymous-user]

Another vote for Syriana.
I'd add The Fourth Protocol too, in a slightly naff-1980s way.
Michael Caine in a Mk 3 Transit van chasing Pierce Brosnan in an XR3i....what's not to like?

[Halb]

Yeh the Forth Protocol is good. Michael Caine is in loads!
I won't add the 90s H Palmer films though


The In-Laws is good for a laugh.

[mattviatura]

The Fourth Protocol is a great story (Octopussy anyone?) but I think a poor film.

The handbrake turn at the station (St. Pancras??) is cool though.

Not really a spy film but how about Marathon Man?

[FourWheelDrift]

mattviatura said:

The Fourth Protocol is a great story (Octopussy anyone?) but I think a poor film.

How can any movie filmed on location in Milton Keynes be poor?

[ritmo]

FourWheelDrift said:

mattviatura said:

The Fourth Protocol is a great story (Octopussy anyone?) but I think a poor film.

How can any movie filmed on location in Milton Keynes be poor?

the train scenes in Octopussy were filmed in Peterboro - exotic eh ?

[FourWheelDrift]

Compared to MK, yes.