Top Ten Tuesdays

[bleakshaun]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy
True Lies
Enemy of the State
The Losers
Nikita
Munich
North by Northwest
Burn After Reading
The Man Who Knew too Much

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[keirarts]

naked lunch.jpg goldfinger.jpg

3 days of the condor.jpg north by north west.jpg

in like flint 1.jpg concrs.jpg

blue rita.jpg ipcress file.jpg

posession.jpg notorious.jpg

[bleakshaun]

Damn it forgot about Possession and Naked Lunch

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[MrBarlow]

Munich 2005
The Bourne Identity 2005
The 39 Steps 1978
Ronin 1998
The Fourth Protocol 1987
The Recruit 2003
Spy Game 2001
The Ipcress File 1965
The Day of the jackal 1973
Any James Bond movie cant really decide what one to put up

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

Damn it forgot about Possession and Naked Lunch

In all honesty though would they ever be classed as great spy films?

Putting films like that into what is clearly a hugely populated topic anyway smacks of ....

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

The 39 Steps 1978

That's a bold call. I am not a fan of that version, but the 1935 Hitchcock film will probably be in my top 10.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

In all honesty though would they ever be classed as great spy films?

Putting films like that into what is clearly a hugely populated topic anyway smacks of ....

"it's another fairly wide topic, with the only criteria being that a main character is engaged in espionage."

Sam Neil's character in possession is a spy who has been operating on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

In Naked Lunch part of Bill Lee's drugged out reality is operating as an agent and receiving orders from his typewriter to uncover what Dr Benway is up to.

Both are legitmate picks given the criteria.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by keirarts

"it's another fairly wide topic, with the only criteria being that a main character is engaged in espionage."

Sam Neil's character in possession is a spy who has been operating on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

In Naked Lunch part of Bill Lee's drugged out reality is operating as an agent and receiving orders from his typewriter to uncover what Dr Benway is up to.

Both are legitmate picks given the criteria.

in fact here's a brief synopsis for Naked lunch...

William Lee is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide (pyrethrum) to use as a drug to get high. When Lee is arrested by the police, he begins hallucinating because of "bug powder" exposure. He believes he is a secret agent with two handlers in the forms of a talking insectoid typewriter and an alien "Mugwump". The bug assigns him the mission of killing Joan. She is allegedly an agent of an organization called Interzone Incorporated. Lee dismisses the bug and its instructions and kills it. He returns home to find Joan having sex with Hank, one of his writer friends. Shortly afterwards, he accidentally kills her while attempting to shoot a drinking glass off her head in imitation of William Tell.

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Spy Films

10 - Kingsman: The Secret service
9 - Salt (director's cut)
8 - The Bourne Identity
7 - Licence To Kill (admittedly much more of a revenge than spy film)
6 - For Your Eyes Only
5 - The Ipcress File
4 - Casino Royale (not the Peter Sellers one!)
3 - Nikita
2 - Funeral In Berlin
1 - From Russia With Love

[Nordicdusk]

Wow this is still going fair play to everyone keeping this alive great stuff.