Spy Thrillers

[jeregenest]

Here is a "best of list" of the 10 spy thrillers.

• The Ipcress File (1965)


• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)


• Charade (1963)


• No Way Out (1987)


• Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)


• Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery


• The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1966)


• Goldfinger (1964)


• Secret Agent (1936)


• Three Days Of The Condor (1975)

It is an interesting and eclectic list. I've seen them all and can recommend most of them, I'm not a Bourne fan and I'd put something like Lives of Others on my list well before thinking of including Austin Powers.

Comments

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

I really wouldn't have thought of the Bourne movies as spy movies. I always saw the Treadstone subjects as assassins more than spies. I know Treadstone is part of the CIA, I just mean I don't see much of what I think of as spying in the Bourne movies.

(I should say I'm going purely by the recent Matt Damon movies, I've never read the book or seen the old Richard Chamberlain miniseries)

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I agree. However the line between assassin and spy is porous, just like the line between caper and spy is. They sit in a happy venn. What interests me about lists like this is the "thriller" and the difference between a mystery-thriller and an action-thriller (and the all too rare action-mystery-thrillers). A movie like Three Days and one like the Bournes are similar but one is more of an action-thriller and the other is more a thinking person's mystery-thriller.