In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.

Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace

2023

Swedish

6.5

♡ 6

Per Fly Director

Mikael Persbrandt as Dag Hammarskjöld

Sara Soulié as Hanna

Thure Lindhardt as Peter Levin

Colin Salmon as Ralph Bunche

Set in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a plane in a desperate attempt to negotiate a ceasefire from his enemies after he leads UN troops into their first wartime operation.

Tobor the Great

1954

English

5.2

♡ 11

46%

Lee Sholem Director

Peter Brocco as Dr. Gustav

William Schallert as Johnston - a Reporter

Hal Baylor as Max - Spy-Henchman

Henry Kulky as Paul - Spy-Henchman

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

The Atomic Cafe

1982

English

7.6

♡ 14

93%

Jayne Loader Director

Nikita Khrushchev as Himself

Ronald Reagan as Himself

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

The Tamarind Seed

1974

English

6.4

♡ 10

75%

Action

barbados

based on novel or book

Blake Edwards Director

Kate O'Mara as Anna Skriabina

Aileen Lewis as Diner in Restaurant

Arthur Goodman as Restaurant Patron

Sharon Duce as Sandy Mitchell

During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

The Bedford Incident

1965

English

7.3

♡ 11

86%

James B. Harris Director

Warren Stanhope as Hospitalman Strauss - Sick Bay

Martin Balsam as Lt. Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.

Burnell Tucker as Seaman 1st Class - Bridge

Wally Cox as Seaman Merlin Queffle

During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.

Phantom

2013

English

5.9

♡ 17

26%

Todd Robinson Director

William Fichtner as Alex

Ed Harris as Demi

Matt Bushell as Sentry

Jordan Bridges as Sonar Operator

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Russkies

1987

English

5.5

♡ 8

14%

Rick Rosenthal Director

Joaquin Phoenix as Danny

Walter Robles as Goon

Leo Rossi as Keefer

Whip Hubley as Mischa

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.

Pawn Sacrifice

2014

English

7.0

♡ 81

73%

Edward Zwick Director

Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer

John Lennon as Himself

John Kennedy Jr. as Himself

Al Dubois as NBC Reporter

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Seven Days in May

1964

English

7.8

♡ 19

92%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

John Frankenheimer Director

William Challee as Gen. Riley

Michael Masters as Minor Role

Fredric March as President Jordan Lyman

John Houseman as Vice-Adm. Farley C. Barnswell

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

The Jackal

1997

English

6.4

♡ 83

24%

51%

Action

Adventure

bratva (russian mafia)

Michael Caton-Jones Director

Richard Gere as Declan Mulqueen

J.K. Simmons as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon

Jack Black as Ian Lamont

Bruce Willis as The Jackal

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.

Never Let Me Go

1953

English

6.2

♡ 6

62%

based on novel or book

cold war

Drama

intercultural relationship

newspaper reporter

Romance

Thriller

Delmer Daves Director

Richard Haydn as Christopher Wellington St. John Denny

Theodore Bikel as Lieutenant

Peter Illing as N.K.V.D. Man

Richard Marner as Toasting Russian Officer

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

The Mind Benders

1963

English

6.4

♡ 7

27%

Basil Dearden Director

Wendy Craig as Annabella

Geoffrey Keen as Calder

Michael Bryant as Dr. Danny Tate

Roger Delgado as Dr. Jean Bonvoulois

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.

The Idealist

2015

Danish

6.9

♡ 8

Action

based on a true story

Christina Rosendahl Director

Thomas Bo Larsen as Carl Dinesen

Arly Jover as Estibaliz

Søren Malling as Marius Schmidt

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.

Matinee

1993

English

6.9

♡ 13

93%

Joe Dante Director

Jesse Lee Soffer as Dennis Loomis

Kevin McCarthy as Gen. Ankrum

Omri Katz as Stan

Allison McKay as Teacher

A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

The Spy Who Went Into the Cold

6.6

George Carey Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Joseph Stalin as Self

Phillip Knightley as Self

John Julius Norwich as Self

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

2015

French

7.7

♡ 5

David Korn-Brzoza Director

Charles Chaplin as Self

Harry S. Truman as Self

Sarah Churchill as Self

Diana Churchill as Self

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.