I recommended The Super Mario Bros. Movie if you have kids. But I have two recommendations for you if you need something to stream this weekend. Pierce Brosnan is now probably the most underrated James Bond in the line of actors who have played him. In some ways, looking back to his Bond feels like a little relief from the unrelentingly morose version pioneered by Daniel Craig.

But for my money, the two best Brosnan-and-a-gun movies were the two roles he chose that seemed calculated to throw off the heavy stink of the Bond cologne.

The first is The Tailor of Panama (2001), in which Brosnan plays a disgraced and louche British spy exiled to Panama. The screenplay was adapted by John le Carré and Andrew Davies from le Carré’s novel of the same name. Geoffrey Rush plays the title character, another Brit disgraced in the U.K. who started over in the third world. The two character play off each other brilliantly. The novel and film also play up hilariously the totally subordinate but anxious role the Anglos play in the Anglo-American world order.

The second, The Matador (2005), features Brosnan as a hitman, Julian Noble, who is losing his nerves and self-possession in Mexico City as he meets an American businessman, Danny Wright, played by Greg Kinnear. The two strike up an unlikely friendship as Noble confesses what he is to the incredulous Wright — and demonstrates for him in an absolutely bravura sequence, the art of “facilitating a fatality.”