Genre
Spy Thrillers
Espionage on film, split between glamorous fantasy and the colder tradition where tradecraft is bureaucratic, morally soiled, and mostly waiting.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tomas Alfredson · 2011
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Martin Ritt · 1965
The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · 2006
Munich
Steven Spielberg · 2005
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