[edwinland]

I didn’t even know they made a movie of it. I didn’t really care for the book. Tinker, Tailor is my favorite spy movie.

[BenLurkin]

The best spy film of all time would be “What’s Up Tiger Lily”

[LukeL]

It’s not Top Secret?

[The Louiswu]

It’s not a movie but Chuck seemed pretty realistic 🤣🤣

[dennisw]

pong

[Jambe]

My choice - Three Days of the Condor - 1975, Robert Redford.

Totally plausible - even in today environment.

[Billthedrill]

What? No underwater Lotus Esprits? No astronaut-gobbling killer satellites? No mini-rocket cigarettes? Gondola hovercraft? Leg cast missile? How do they expect us to take this movie seriously?

[Angelino97]

Someone who claimed to have worked in intelligence told me that Spy Game got a lot of it right.

[doorgunner69]

I liked Company Business and a CIA that could not be trusted

[P.O.E.]

The Danger Man TV Series

[Alas Babylon!]

My favorite is the Eiger Sanction.

A highlight of my life was having a beer at the Kleine Scheidegg and taking the train to the Jungfrau Joch. I even got to look out the opening in the mountain where George Kennedy recuses Clint Eastwood.

[nwrep]

The list suffers from recency bias since everyone they interviewed was 50 or younger. Most people know TDOTC as the greatest spy film ever made.

[FateAmenableToChange]

Spy movies need (1) intricate intellectual plots, (2) engaging and developing characters, and (3) a very moderate amount of intense action.

3 Days of the Condor meets all of those and may be the best spy movie ever as long as you can watch Robert Redford. But a friend of mine in the late 1990s was working in post-soviet Russia and almost literally lived the plot of that movie and ultimately got out after a car chase to the US embassy. I wish they’d make a movie about him.

[mairdie]

Get Smart - Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
https://youtu.be/IQlMoDNHT38

Get Smart - If You Want to Sing Out - Cat Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22FLK9iWoos

Get Smart - Operator - Jim Croce
https://youtu.be/nu1y1VWjM54

Get Smart - Part of the Plan - Dan Fogelberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_skPOdOti64

Get Smart - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgWsWvxzJa0

Get Smart - El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5MbxMZtKM

[Political Junkie Too]

For a different kind of spy film, I just recorded 36 Hours, starring James Garner.

I saw it once before, but I want to watch it again.

-PJ

[dfwgator]

The Lives Of Others

[WhattheDickens?]

Ping

[BikerJoe]

I’ve always liked “Funeral in Berlin”.

[jerod]

This is the best...

When you can turn a vacuum cleaner into an atomic bomb... And convince your superiors that you're telling the truth... That's spy craft.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk