A list of touchstones for Blades '68 divided into Spy Fiction, Crime Capers, and Weird & Sci-Fi. The lists are: James Bond (various) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000) The Prisoner (1967-68) The Italian Job (1969) Get Carter (1971) Ocean’s Eleven (1960 and 2001) Le Samouraï (1967) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Soylent Green (1973) Logan’s Run (1976) THX 1138 (1971) Jason King (1971-72) The Avengers (1961-69) The Sandbaggers (1978-80) The Ipcress File (1965) GTA: London 1969 (1999) Bullitt (1968) Ronin (1998) Lupin III (various) Alphaville (1965) Thunderbirds (1965-66) A Clockwork Orange (1971) The 10th Victim (1965) The Conversation (1974) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Funeral in Berlin (1966) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) The Gentlemen (2024) Danger: Diabolik (1968) The Getaway (1972) The Long Goodbye (1973) Discovering Scarfolk (2014) Disco Elysium (2019) Deathloop (2021) and We Happy Few (2016).