Not The Usual Spy Films Double Feature:
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
George Segal is Quiller, an American secret agent who is, oddly, working for the British in Berlin after doing something or other in the Middle East. (In the Quiller novels he's British.) It seems that two British agents were killed while investigating a neo-Nazi organization. Quiller follows the few leads he has, meets our movie's pseudo-Bond Girl (Senta Berger), gets captured by the Bad Guys (led by Max von Sydow) and drugged, and is tossed out when he doesn't reveal any vital information. It seems the Bad Guys want to know where the Good Guys' headquarters is located as much as the Good Guys want to know theirs, and Quiller is caught in the middle. The Bad Guys capture Quiller (again!) and Berger, let him go but tail him, and threaten to kill both of them if they don't get the info. He manages to evade the Bad Guys in the movie's only explosive scene. Then there's an ambiguous twist ending. Ambiguous is appropriate, because the screenplay is by the infamously elliptical playwright Harold Pinter, so there's a lot of low-key dialogue. Segal is an odd choice for the role; he seems only minimally interested in what's going on. The whole thing doesn't fit well into either the James Bond/comic book fantasy spy genre, or the gritty/realistic school of espionage fiction.
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
Combination of romantic love story and cynical spy story. Julie Andrews stars in this film written and directed by husband Blake Edwards. She's a widow whose husband, whom she stopped loving some time ago, died in a car wreck a few years back. (We get several flashbacks to the accident, a classic car-going-over-cliff-and-exploding scene.) She had an affair with a married man that ended badly. Omar Sharif is a Soviet military attache. They meet in Barbados, and romance blossoms. Since Andrews works for somebody in British intelligence, it seems likely that Sharif wants to seduce her into betraying her country. His bosses want him to, anyway, and her bosses assume that's what he's doing. Complicating matters is the fact that the Soviets have somebody in British intelligence working for them already. Eventually we get our big action scene, during the last ten minutes of the film. At more than two hours, it moves at a leisure