Watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman as the flatulent head of MI5's rejects; le Carre with jokes.

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies suspecting each other; Soderbergh's chamber thriller.

A brainwashed war hero, a Queen of Diamonds and a political assassination; paranoia in 1962.

Two KGB sleeper agents as a Virginia couple in the Reagan years; the best spy series.

An East German soldier planted in the West German army; the Cold War as pop.

A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.

Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.

Tom Cruise's HALO jump, a helicopter chase in Kashmir and a broken ankle on camera.