25 best spy movies ever

The Tailor of Panama (2001)

Pierce Brosnan makes it into our list of spy movies not with his run of forgettable 1990s Bond films, but via the more measured gait of The Tailor of Panama.

Geoffrey Rush plays the eponymous suitmaker in this adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel, thought in turn to be based on Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. That’s spy pedigree right there.