The Tailor of Panama
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal. From TMDB
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36 of 36 · most liked firstLegend! 5 enjoyable Brosnan films: 1. Long Good Friday 2. The Ghost Writer 3. The Tailor of Panama 4. The Matador 5. The Thomas Crown Affair #film www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
unlabelledView post →Oooh, a good request! A bit to my surprise, I can't think of any. I don't remember The Tailor of Panama movie. The first season of Kleo on Netflix has a bad America, but it's pretty over-the-top. The Manchurian Candidate (1954? Lol, 1962.) really goes after a certain *kind* of America.
unlabelledView post →THE TAILOR OF PANAMA - (2001) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Last night's #Movie Directed by John Boorman from a screenplay he co-wrote with John le Carré and Andrew Davies, based on le Carré's novel. Starring Pierce Brosnan, & Geoffrey Rush with Jamie Lee Curtis & Brendan Gleeson among the cast.
unlabelledView post →I want to make a spy film where spy and spy adjacent characters called Harry meet in a Film called When Harrys Met Palmer-Ipcress Files Pearce-Spooks Pendel-The Tailor of Panama Lime-The Third Man Trasker-True Lies Pfarrer-Burn After Reading Caul-The Conversation Naylor-Between the Lines
unlabelledView post →You should! Boorman talks extensively about his offbeat color theories, and everybody around him is in a state of dazed bafflement. Kind of amazing that it didn't end his career, thank goodness. Have you seen The Tailor of Panama? Incredible film.
unlabelledView post →The Tailor of Panama is a fun little riff on Graham Greene’s “Our Man in Havana”, too, and the movie adaptation has Pierce Brosnan obviously having fun as a lecherously incompetent anti-Bond.
unlabelledView post →Brosnan's best spy movie is The Tailor of Panama.
unlabelledView post →Fact-checking Trump on "China's hold" on the Panama Canal. A flood of misleading statements. Maybe Trump has seen John Le Carré-inspired movie The Tailor of Panama? He would be well-advised to read serious reports on the region. Make (Latin) America Gringo Again? edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/a...
unlabelledView post →Might be a good time to watch the best Bond film that’s not a Bond film AKA ‘The Tailor of Panama’ youtu.be/if887QzvTiw
unlabelledView post →My theory is that he saw the 2001 Pierce Brosnan film The Tailor of Panama on TV recently and that’s entirely what sparked this.
unlabelledView post →4/5 Easily John le Carré's wittiest, most satirical novel of a tailor who makes up intelligence reports about things he supposedly hears while crafting beautiful suits for Panama's power brokers. Everyone in this novel has a special interest and an angle, and the lies, and the pushing of these lies, has consequences. Recommended if you're in the mood for some black humor with the writing of an angel. The movie is pretty good, too. #Books #JohnLeCarre #JohnLeCarré #TheTailorOfPanama
unlabelledView post →My favorite subversion of spy movie tropes is “ The Tailor of Panama”. Pierce Brosnan is a lazy, horny MI6 guy who files reports based on whatever his tailor tells him. The tailor is a fabulist and ends up destroying the government of Panama by pretending to be in contact with a revolutionary group.
unlabelledView post →Carré did write a book inspired by Our Man in Havana, The Tailor of Panama, which I haven’t read but the movie version is quite funny in parts. Especially Pierce Brosnan playing a sleazy secret agent, using all of charm he had as Bond channeled into almost a gross parody
unlabelledView post →Brosnan's best espionage movie was "The Tailor of Panama," which was better than any of his Bond flicks.
unlabelledView post →John Boorman’s resume is one of the most interesting of any director. Other credits: Deliverance, Exorcist II, and the cult classic Zardoz. He also made a really great spy movie called The Tailor of Panama that deserves more recognition. #PointBlank #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →11/02/2001: Spy thriller ‘The Tailor of Panama’, based on the eponymous 1996 novel and directed by John Boorman, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Rotten Tomatoes score: 75% Metacritic score: 66/100 #FilmSky #TodayAtTheMovies
unlabelledView post →Pierce Brosnan is excellent in the movie: The Tailor of Panama. Also, the movie has done the book justice!
unlabelledView post →The Tailor of Panama...so aggressively boring that it angered me. Even Jamie Lee Curtis getting her boobs out could not rescue that movie. Close second and third: Dr. Strange 1, and the third Nolan Batman movie. I fell asleep for about 30 minutes in both of them.
unlabelledView post →An original and clever film. It’s the comedic origin of The Tailor of Panama.
unlabelledView post →Yeah, I'm not an Excalibur fan. But I do like Zardoz,although I definitely don't think my focus is on "Cult" films. Deliverance is probably his best film, although The Tailor Of Panama is a guilty pleasure. I'm just really not a fan of a lot of his direction, which is a bit ham-fisted.
unlabelledView post →And he watched 35 minutes of The Tailor Of Panama movie
unlabelledView post →Yes, of course I did. I don’t it’s quite time to watch the 2001 film “The Tailor of Panama” again, though. You know…I just realized that “The Tailor” would make a great double feature with the 1959 film “Our Man in Havana”.
unlabelledView post →I think Trusk has been watching The Tailor of Panama, the film in which Geoffrey Rush plays a fantasist and compulsive liar. He goes a step too far when he tells British spy and super cad Pierce Brosnan the Panama Canal is being sold to foreign interests which almost starts a war.
unlabelledView post →Are we seeing real-life version of "The Tailor of Panama" movie playout?👀
unlabelledView post →There are amazing LeCarre novels and so-so ones. There are amazing movies/series based on these novels, and kind of crappy ones. The Tailor of Panama is a kind of crappy movie from a so-so novel. Tinker Tailor (BBC), Smiley's people, Spy Who came in from the Cold, amazing movies/series from […]
unlabelledView post →Just finished watching The Tailor of Panama(2001). This movie just hits differently in 2026. Very differently.
unlabelledView post →The ambitious and probably quite duplicitous "Luxmore" (David Hayman) manages to salvage something for his MI6 agent friend "Andy" (Pierce Brosnan) from his latest peccadillo by having him sent to Panama to represent British intelligence. Of course he's less than impressed with a posting to this political backwater, but fairly swiftly realises that there is plenty going on to keep him occupied - above and beneath the sheets. His principal contact proves to be an eccentric tailor (Geoffrey Rush)…
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the Tailor of Panama at the weekend and I’m still pissed off about the gratuitous grab of Jamie Lee Curtis’s tit. That was a lazy directorial choice and actually made a third rate film really poor
unlabelledView post →I've watched THE TAILOR OF PANAMA and THE NOVEMBER MAN b/c I like Pierce Brosnan. I also like Bill Granger's November Man books, but the movie wasn't much of an adaptation of them.
unlabelledView post →The Tailor of Panama is an underrated and sadly prescient book/movie.
unlabelledView post →The Tailor of Panama both the film and novel are inspired by OM in H. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tai...
unlabelledView post →they should try doing a movie of The Tailor Of Panama again but this time get these blokes to do both the soundtrack and the costumes
unlabelledView post →Spy(ish?) thrillers that I've seen and recall having good romances: -Casablanca! -No Way Out (Kevin Costner & Sean Young) -- Gene Hackman plays a key role, but not in the romance -The Tailor of Panama (Pierce Brosnan & Catherine McCormack)... although I think this film had a VERY dark side too!
unlabelledView post →the Tailor of Panama is a jaded movie written by john le carre and a greasy psuedo bond pierce brosnan who starts fabricating yellowcake like Intel rumors that Americans love to get cover for moves exactly like this. some one is going to run these hoaxes soon
unlabelledView post →The John Le Carré Film Issue. Over Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Russia House en The Tailor of Panama.
unlabelledView post →Feeling like watching a spy movie tonight, so here i am choosing which of the le Carre movie adaptation should i pick aside from Tinker Tailor and The Tailor of Panama...
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