With The Secret Agent coming to cinemas and a Kathryn Bigelow season at BFI Southbank, we look at the tense, paranoid world of the political thriller and how filmmakers have used the genre to expose injustice, corruption and misused power.
By Brogan Morris
By Rory Doherty
By Chloe Walker
By Miriam Balanescu
By Leigh Singer
By Pamela Hutchinson
By David Parkinson
By Michael Brooke
By John Berra
By David West
By Georgina Guthrie
By Pamela Hutchinson
By Rory Doherty
By Anton Bitel
By Emily Maskell
By Rory Doherty
By Anton Bitel
By Miriam Balanescu
By Emily Maskell
By David Parkinson
By Carmen Gray
By Michael Brooke
By Lillian Crawford
By Georgina Guthrie
By Chloe Walker
By Rory Doherty
By Miriam Balanescu
By Emily Maskell
By George Bass
By James Rose
