All the books by John Le Carre adapted to cinema and television

George Smiley is called out of retirement when one of his former assets, an émigré general, is found murdered. In tidying up loose ends for the Circus, his former employer, he discovers a clandestine operation run by his nemesis, Karla, for his own personal benefit. Smiley is able to use this irregularity against Karla, forcing him to defect to the West.

George Smiley, deputy head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, is forced into retirement in the wake of Operation Testify, a failed spy mission to Czechoslovakia. Veteran British agent Jim Prideaux had been sent to meet a Czech general, having been told the general had information identifying a deep-cover Soviet spy planted in the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Jonathan Pine, an Englishman, is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with Richard Roper, an English billionaire. Four years pass, and then Roper visits the Swiss hotel. What follows is a very dangerous game of intrigue and deception.

The West Berlin office of MI6, under station chief Alec Leamas, has suffered from reduced effectiveness. Leamas is approached by a series of operatives, each one passing him up the chain of the East German intelligence service, and he expresses a willingness to sell British secrets for money.

The series follows the journey of Shaan Sengupta, a former soldier tasked with infiltrating the inner circle of an arms dealer to dismantle his war empire.

A Perfect Spy traces the life story of Magnus Pym and his career in British intelligence and as a double agent. The series recounts Pym’s childhood with his con-man father, his early years at school and university, his encounters with long-time friend and Czech spy Axel, and his final downfall.

Justin Quayle, a low-level British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, learns that his wife Tessa was found dead in the veld. Her colleague, Dr. Arnold Bluhm, initially suspected of her murder, is then found to have been murdered on the same day as Tessa. Despite their loving marriage, Tessa keeps from Justin the reason why she approached him in the first place: to investigate a suspicious drug trial in Kenya and expose it.

A Palestinian assassin is targeting prominent Israelis. The Israelis identify an eccentric English actress and manage to turn her into one of their agents, with whose help she brilliantly wins the confidence of the Palestinian network until she is accepted as one of their own. This will require all of her acting talents and put her at considerable risk.

In 1973, Control, head of British intelligence (The Circus), sends agent Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a prospective defector, a Hungarian Army general who has the name of a mole at the top of British Intelligence. Alleline and Bland request budget approval from civil servant Oliver Lacon for Operation Witchcraft, including a safe house for their high-level Soviet source.

This documentary spans six decades, capturing le Carré’s final and most intimate interview moments, interwoven with scarce archival clips and compelling anecdotes. The narrative unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of the Cold War, stretching seamlessly into the present day.

Issa Karpov, a political refugee from Chechnya who has been tortured by Russian security forces, illegally enters Hamburg, Germany. Günther Bachmann leads a covert German government team that seeks to recruit local informants with ties to Islamic terrorist organizations.

In 1960s London, Charles Dobbs is a staid MI5 operative investigating Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan, a former Communist who apparently commits suicide. Dobbs discovers this to be a lie, and as a result Dobbs suspects that Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi extermination camp, might have some clues regarding Fennan’s death.