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    Your Favourite Espionage Films...

    This is prompted by a showing of the wonderfully melancholy 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' on terrestrial television- a lovely gloomy black and white Cold War story of betrayal and double agents, starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner.

    For spy or espionage films we can have a fairly loose definition- so films that echo Cold War paranoia get in.


    So, what are your Top Ten or Top Five spy films ?

    Mine:

    The Deadly Affair

    The Parallax View

    Funeral In Berlin

    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

    The Quiller Memorandum

    Three Days Of The Condor

    Journey Into Fear

    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Hitchcock)

    From Russia With Love

    Notorious
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    Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

    ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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    Man, I don't know any of those

    Maybe I should add them to my movie list
    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #3
      PS MARIAH CAREY GLITTER GUEST STARRING BEN KENOBI IN HOT S AND M SCENE:

      We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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      • #4
        The Thirty-Nine Steps (Hitchcock)

        Three Days Of The Condor
        YES!

        'kiss me deadly' - which is also my favorite film ever
        "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

        "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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        • #5
          The third man (Le troisième homme).
          Statistical anomaly.
          The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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          • #6
            17 moments of spring.

            Shtirlitz
            Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
            Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
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            • #7
              Re: Your Favourite Espionage Films...


              From Russia With Love
              Lime roots and treachery!
              "Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake Tungsten

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              • #8
                Spy movies that I've come to appreciate since leaving the intel business (many years ago). Three by Le Carre!

                The whistleblower

                The Ipcress file

                The spy who came in from the cold

                Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

                Smiley's People
                We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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                Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                • #9
                  Graham Greenes 'The Human Factor' was made into a movie, I blieve, I only know the book.

                  Eye of the Needle
                  "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                  "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                  "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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                  • #10
                    You can't mention spy without mentioning 007, From Russia With Love is a good place to start.

                    One movie that I really liked, but seemed to have disappeared rather quickly was Spy Game.

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                    • #11
                      North by northwest

                      Where eagles dare (could techincally be called a war movie, but the real story is about spies)

                      Billion dollar brain (it's a little weird, but then, it's from 67 )
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                      • #12
                        Yes.

                        Where. Eagles. Dare.

                        Everything else pales in comparison.

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                        • #13
                          Sneakers

                          Probably borderline, but one of the more fun recent 'espionage' movies.
                          mssv.net - After Our Time - Six to Start

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Winston
                            Where. Eagles. Dare.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by BlackCat
                              North by northwest
                              excellent flick

                              another I enjoyed was no way out
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