Concur with the above choices with a few additions:
The Secret Agent with David Suchet. From the Joseph Conrad Story
The Constant Gardner & The Little Drummer Girl by Le Carre'
The Bourne movies by Ludlum
Reilly, Ace of Spies. With Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly.
Three Days of the Condor, very prescient for these times. Favorite line:
"I don't remember yesteday. Today it rained."
The Package with Gene Hackman & Tommy Lee Jones
Our Man In Havana with Guiness & Noel Coward by Graham Greene
Syriana with George Clooney
And the all time classic, The Third Man with Orson Welles as Harry Lime.
I haven't seen the Ed Wilson biopic yet but it looks pretty good & close to what I already knew about Wilson.
The one movie I'd like to see made would be a bio of Markus Wolf of the Stasi, the template for the Karla character in the Le Carre' series.
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