Slow Horses wraps up its fifth season next week, but don't worry as two more seasons are already confirmed. As we wait for that finale, we've got just the Gary Oldman movie you need to see in order to fill that spy thriller gap in your life.
Back in 2011, Oldman took on a very different spy role to Jackson Lamb in Tomas Alfredson's excellent all-star adaptation of classic John le Carré novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It sees Oldman play George Smiley who has to hunt down a Soviet double agent at the top at the British secret service, teaming up with the likes of Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) to do so.
And when we say all-star, we're not exaggerating. As well as Oldman, Hardy and Cumberbatch, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy also stars Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, Kathy Burke and John Hurt, among others.
Basically all the British stars you'd want to see in a movie.
If that sounds like a movie you want to see (or you fancy a rewatch), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has just been added to BBC iPlayer in the past week, after airing recently on BBC Two. It'll be available to watch for the next 25 days.
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The spy thriller has also just been added to Prime Video in the past week as well. Don't worry if you're not an Amazon Prime subscriber as you can take advantage of a 30-day free trial for Amazon Prime, as long as you haven't signed up in the past 12 months, to watch it for free.
If you want to keep the John le Carré vibes going, Prime Video also has 2016's Our Kind of Traitor available to watch right now. The adaptation has another impressive cast that includes Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Mark Gatiss and Naomie Harris, among others.
Even though season five of Slow Horses has yet to finish on Apple TV, it was recently confirmed that season six has already finished filming and production starts on season seven at the end of this month.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is available to watch right now on Prime Video and BBC iPlayer in the UK.
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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
