Best spy movies?
for me its the good shepard. also the accidental spy
>>215113858>Tinker tailor soldier spywhat is about?
>>215113858They need to make a movie about Kim Philby
>>215114186it about tinker tailor soldier spy
>>215114186Multitasking
>>215113858Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sucked.
>>215114226t. filtered
turned off TTSS after 15 minutes. Complete schlock. You have outed yourself as a midwit NPC by endorsing it
>>215114226>>215114764What didn't you guys like about it? (My only request is you refrain from using "boring" or any synonyms)
Spy Game was a lot better than I thought it would be. It leans more into secret agent action movie opposed to espionage thriller, but some of the more dramatic scenes are really good. Redford and Pitt actually gave a fuck about this movie and it shows.
>>215113858much like stalker this is a pointless indecipherable snoozefest that pseuds on here like to pretend they enjoyed so everyone thinks they're smart. at least a couple are going to reply to me seething. I shan't read whatever they type for I won't be returning to this thread.
>>215114915>indecipherable you're truly retarded
There's tons of Le Carre glowfag kinos better than TTSS 2011
>>215114915correct
>>215113858has any anon watched the BBC version?worth it?
>>215115111Such as?
>>215114828The source material needs to be added to for any modern adaptation, since the genre has moved so far since the original book was published. This movie failed to do that.
>>215113858Ronin
>>215113858You should watch the BBC miniseries and the sequel Smiley's people. >Luke... Did I ever tell you about the time I beat captain picard at a game of international spycraft? He was a good friend.
>>215115141Very worth it, though I prefer Smiley's People to the Tinker tailor miniseries. Both are really good.
>>215114186British intelligence realizes they have a mole at the highest levels and they have to figure out who it is without tipping off anyone inside the agency. They tap the former right-hand-man of the previous director, who was ousted after the former director had a op to find the mole blow up in his face. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy are the code words for the four primary suspects. John LeCarre worked for british intelligence around the same time Ian Flemming did. If bond is the sexy idealized romantic exciting picture of being a spy, LeCarre's books were about the spycraft, analysts, mind-games, and shadowboxing chessmasters.
>>215115247thanks, m8can you watch smiley's people first and still enjoy it, or should you do tinker first?greeting from kazakhstan
>>215115357After reading a book about the Cambridge 5 it turns out that mi6 and the CIA are both incompetent and were completely buttfucked by Soviet intelligence
>>215115166Not doing your homework
>>215115357I've read this copypasta on different websites for years now
>>215115166The Constant Gardner is great
>>215114226it was pretty underwhelming, quite boring and talky and with some gayness
>>215114226100000% this. Total UK trash with 15+ characters.
>>215114915Perfect synopsis.
>>215114915>everyone thinks they're smartThis is such an odd criticism. I love the movie and I don't think it's particularly "smart" or intricate. It's very straightforward. No one who enjoys this movie should be looking for any credit for how clever they are.
>>215114764This
>>215116439You're forgetting this board is infested with brown underage capeshitters who can't pay attention to anything for longer than 30 seconds unless you're constantly jangling keys in their face.
>>215114828The non-linear plot is confusing, it isn't abundantly clear that Control is dead, or that Jim's teacher side-plot isn't a flashback and that he hasn't actually been killed in Budapest as is implied, you pretty much need to watch the whole film twice to properly recontextualize each scene and appreciate the procedural. There's also a good bit of subtext that's cut or left unexplained due to having to condense a slow burn novel into a single film.
>>215116668>it isn't abundantly clear that Control is deadThis is revealed in the first 19 minutes of the movie. You have the Budapest scene, the Circus meeting where Control resigns, and then Smiley's meeting with the Minister where the Minister explicitly states Control is dead. The context clues are obvious that Jim's teacher plot isn't a flashback because his interactions with Bill make it clear he's already trained in intelligence. Sure spies work at schools but not secondary schools. In case it wasn't already clear, they "resolve" that by having Smiley show up later as part of his investigation.
>>215116939I was under the impression for most of the film that spies either die in the field or retire with a generous pension due to their hazardous working conditions, therefore the notion of Control dying very suddenly in a poor hospital or Bill surviving being shot in the back, being released by the Soviets, recovering from his injuries, and then having to live in a trailer and teach elementary school seemed implausible. These are both confirmed much later in the film, but like I said, at that point, having been watching so much of the film on a false presumption, you pretty much need to rewatch it to understand the actual context of events.
My favourite genre.
>>215113858Just started watching Slow Horses man it's so good
>>215116293>15+ charactersYeah that goes with the genre. Try and keep up, brainlet.
>>215117226I guess I can kind of see where you're coming from as far as Jim goes but as I said Control being dead is confirmed in the third scene less than 20 minutes into the movie.
>>215113858spy gamemunicha spy among friends (series)
>>215113858Black Bag
>>215116668Big Brain post. Garbage movie.
>>215117274He continues to appear in flashbacks beyond that point for the sole purpose of finding a mole within their organization, the notion of him faking his death seems perfectly in line with the overall plot. It doesn't help that his death scene is a two second long shot of him knocking over a glass in his hospital bed, it's uncharactaristically sudden for such a major character's death.
>>215113858Fuck this boring ass movie and fuck you
>>215115357I haven't seen the movie or the miniseries, but I really liked the book. Or the books. They're loosely based on the British Kim Philby / Cambridge Five spy scandal."Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is about finding out there's a traitor high up in British intelligence and setting a trap. "The Honorable Schoolboy" plays in Southeast Asia at the time of the Vietnam War and is about finding a link/a weakness of the Soviet spy master who planted the traitor in the British intelligence service. Finally, "Smiley's People" is about setting a trap for that Soviet spy master and capturing him.I know this is /TV/, but the books are a good read.
Any other movies or shows that are grounded and focus on tradecraft rather than pew pew and titties.
>>215115141BBC miniseries is incredible, Alec Guinness is the perfect SmileyIt's a bit dreary visually though, filmed at the end of the 70's when Britain was at peak post WW2 poverty and everything looks pretty old, worn out and grim
>>215113858The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is greatNot for everyone, it's black and white and pretty dark throughoutMight be Richard Burton's best role as an aging alcoholic spy with his best days behind him trying for one more coup before he is put out to pasture
>>215114226the series is better
>>215113858All I recall from this one is Mark Strong is in another bad wig and gay. Seriously I can't recall any points from the main plot. Spies being spies and gay sometimes I guess.
>>215115166The Night ManagerA Most Wanted Man
>>215117429I don't think you can fake your own death in a hospital just by knocking over a glass and rolling over. Socialized healthcare isn't great, but it's not THAT bad.
Just came out, its free on prime. Probably a 7/10 but I could probably watch Cate Blanchett read the phone book for 2 hours so ymmv
>>215118341forgot pic
I fucking love the movie, mini series, and book
More like John LeKinoEvery single adaptation of his work filters plebs
>>215113858>best spy movie>posts a cockold moviekek
>>215115661I totally forgot about this. Loved this movie.
>>215114828It's a ten hour story condensed into two hours in a way that's completely incomprehensible if you don't already know the story.
>>215119414It was written around the time of the Suez Canal crisis, where the UK was figuratively cucked by the US
>>215119968qrd?
>>215117592excellent movie
>>215120223>UK and France invade Egypt to get control of the Suez Canal they helped build>US says no, threatens to sell bonds of pounds sterling if they don't leave>UK submits and leaves
Not a movie, but The Bureau is a pretty cool show, very dry like a Le Carre.
>>215113858Tinker Tailor is great.>>215114890Spy Game is also great, I decided to rewatch it the day that Redford died.
>>215120915>rewatch it the day that Redford diedfml, that totally didn't occur to me, and it's one of my favs, too.
>>215120915Three Days of the Condor
>>215121028Also rewatched that but I liked Spy Game a lot more.
>>215118369Didn't care for this one that much but Fassbender and Cate are kino
>>215114828it's gay.unbearable.gays mourning.totally unbearable.
>>215114890then you should have a look at three days of the condor, then.
>>215114915you, are filtered.why not, that said.
>>215118238a most wanted man is a must see.not for the plot, which is very linear and easy.but for the actors.there's a very nice game between Seymour Hoffman and Wright, and how the CIA fucks the german, Northstream2 style, if you see what i mean.Germany's an occupied cuntry.
>>215115417>the British are unable to suspect nobility.case closed.
>>215116596he!truth nuke.you forget to name the spic and the nigger though.
>>215116668>you pretty much need to watch the whole film twiceit's a +.
>>215121588This. No one would approve of a song or album you didn't want to listen to more than once, so why shouldn't movies be the same?
>>215117498>17 moments of springbest CCCP spy series of all time.it's on YT.>Le Bureau des légendes (The Bureau)jewish series with jewish actors, made in France, trying to let you think that it's a bout France and frenchies, while it's a bout jews.
>>215115417Communists and Soviet agents are far more entrenched within the political system than anyone would like to admit, the state department has been full of them since WW2 possibly before, when people think of McCarthyism they think of random writers in Hollywood being exposed as commies but he actually spent most of his efforts trying to expose all the commies in the state department and they eventually killed him for it
>>215113858Jason BourneKingsmanThe lives of others
>>215117226People who do that kind of work do it out if a sense of duty not cause the pay is good, you dont want to recruit people motivated by money or material gain because those types of people can be easily bought and compromised or steal secrets to sell so their pay and pensions won't really be very large. As for being killed in the field it happens but not that often, most the time a spy's job is to bribe or blackmail someone else into giving them secrets/documents not to acquire them directly themselves so they are not often in direct danger themselves
>>215120365America really are shit allies to everyone but Israel
french film.on the 80ies, a high soviet admin gave intel for free to frenchies.french president, who then was supected of being a commie by the US, gave the intel for free to the US.Mitterand/Reagan.
>>215122361yeah, that's why everyone, in the whole world, prefers to ally with the Russians.
>>215122396Back in the oven, Shlomo.
>>215114186revenge of the cucked
>>215122421it's the US, who are ruled by the jew, actually, retarded man.
>>215113858
>>215114200Tinker Tailor was inspired by his story
>>215122248>you dont want to recruit people motivated by money or material gain because those types of people can be easily bought and compromised or steal secrets to sell so their pay and pensions won't really be very large.Good point, but I know for a fact that intelligence agencies won't hire or promote candidates with financial trouble as that could be used as leverage by enemy intelligence, to that end I assumed an intelligence agency with vast resources like MI6 would take care of their own. Seeing your former comrades be thrown by the wayside upon retiring, like Jim and Control were, would be just as much of a motivation to defect as an out and out bribe from the enemy.
