Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the 2011 film) is slow, but fantastic. There's a BBC television series of it as well, and while I haven't seen it I've heard good things about it.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) is also supposed to be a quintessential cold war thriller, but I haven't seen it either.

Actually it's probably safe to say that anything adapted from a le Carre novel would probably make for a good film or television series. A Most Wanted Man was decent, and I've heard good things about most of the adaptations of his work.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies are awesome. Not really action packed but really dark and intellectual 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the 2011 film) is slow, but fantastic. There's a BBC television series of it as well, and while I haven't seen it I've heard good things about it.

 

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) is also supposed to be a quintessential cold war thriller, but I haven't seen it either.

 

Actually it's probably safe to say that anything adapted from a le Carre novel would probably make for a good film or television series. A Most Wanted Man was decent, and I've heard good things about most of the adaptations of his work.

I just watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). I wasn't expecting it to be quite so dark, but I was really impressed. I'll have to watch it again to figure out all the details. Thanks for the suggestions!

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies are awesome. Not really action packed but really dark and intellectual 

You've mentioned that one a couple of times, I think. I'll have to get around to watching it sometime.

-L

I just watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). I wasn't expecting it to be quite so dark, but I was really impressed. I'll have to watch it again to figure out all the details. Thanks for the suggestions!

 

Dark tonally, or dark visually? I guess if the spy stories you exposed yourself to were in the vein of the James Bond films then I guess I could see why that would be surprising. Personally I prefer moodier films like this one to James Bond and Bourne.

If you meant visually... I think the dank atmosphere works wonders for telling the story. I personally love the cinematography.

 

I just watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). I wasn't expecting it to be quite so dark, but I was really impressed. I'll have to watch it again to figure out all the details. Thanks for the suggestions!

 

 

Dark tonally, or dark visually? I guess if the spy stories you exposed yourself to were in the vein of the James Bond films then I guess I could see why that would be surprising. Personally I prefer moodier films like this one to James Bond and Bourne.

 

If you meant visually... I think the dank atmosphere works wonders for telling the story. I personally love the cinematography.

 

I guess it surprised me a bit because I had watched The Man with the Golden Gun immediately beforehand, which is totally the opposite end of the spectrum.

But I really liked it, and as you say, the dark aspect is very effective and matches the story perfectly. The whole thing was really well done.

-L