11 spy movies to shake you and stir you

With the release this week of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last film ‘A Most Wanted Man’, Declan Burke takes a look at the most influential spy films ever made

PHILIP Seymour-Hoffman's last starring role, in A Most Wanted Man is a John Le Carré adaptation, where he plays a German spy, Günther Bachmann who is keeping a close eye on a Chechen illegal immigrant in Germany.

It being Le Carré, this isn’t a simple story of the hunter and the hunted. We find a banker laundering cash for terrorists; a doctor suspected of working for Al Qaeda and an idealistic immigration lawyer all tangled up in a web of intrigue and suspense.