What is the best John le Carré screen adaptation?

Cold War mole hunts and modern arms dealers, from slow BBC serials to glossy features.

1. 1
   Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

   The BBC serial with Alec Guinness as Smiley, still treated as the benchmark adaptation.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

   Tomas Alfredson's film with Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunting a Soviet mole inside British intelligence.
   763pts
3. 3
   The Tailor of Panama

   The 2001 spy comedy with Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.
   560pts
4. 4
   The Night Manager

   The 2016 series with Tom Hiddleston as a hotel manager recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's circle.
   485pts
5. 5
   The Little Drummer Girl

   The 2018 miniseries with Florence Pugh as an actress recruited by Israeli intelligence.
   397pts
6. 6
   A Perfect Spy

   The 1987 BBC serial of le Carré's semi-autobiographical novel.
   397pts
7. 7
   Smiley's People

   The 1982 BBC sequel in which Alec Guinness's Smiley faces his Soviet counterpart, Karla.
   397pts
8. 8
   The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

   The 1965 film with Richard Burton as a burned-out British agent on a final mission in East Germany.
   291pts
9. 9
   The Constant Gardener

   The 2005 thriller with Ralph Fiennes investigating his wife's death and a pharmaceutical conspiracy in Kenya.
   291pts
10. 10
    The Russia House

    The 1990 film with Sean Connery as a publisher drawn into a Cold War espionage plot.
    291pts
11. 11
    Our Kind of Traitor

    The 2016 thriller about a couple who become entangled with a Russian money launderer.
    291pts
12. 12
    A Most Wanted Man

    The 2014 film with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a German intelligence operative in Hamburg.
    0pts

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