Every Movie Based On John Le Carre Novels, Ranked

When it comes to quality spy thrillers, John le Carré movies come with a level of prestige thanks to the quality of the author’s novels that they’re based on. Over his career, le Carré wrote 31 novels, including eight in his popular George Smiley series. The author was a spy himself before he took up writing, working for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) — experience he brought to his stories and, by extension, the movies based on them. While he wasn’t an instant sensation, when his third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was released in 1963, it became an international bestseller.