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6.6

♡ 12

44%

58%

arctic polar circle region

Adventure

John Sturges Director

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Lt. Cdr. Bob Raeburn

Michael T. Mikler as Lt. Courtney Cartwright

Tony Bill as Lt. Russell Walker

William O'Connell as Survivor

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.

Running Scared

1980

5.0

♡ 1

50%

Paul Glickler Director

Tom McFadden as Col. Williams

Judge Reinhold as Leroy Beecher

Lonny Chapman as Pa Beecher

Pat Hingle as Sergeant McClain

It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.

Path to War

2002

7.3

♡ 14

100%

John Frankenheimer Director

John Aylward as Dean Rusk, Secretary of State

Tom Skerritt as General William Westmoreland

Randy Oglesby as John Stennis

Andrew Borba as NSC Officer #1

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.

Where the Spies Are

1965

5.6

♡ 2

27%

Adventure

assassination

Val Guest Director

Burnell Tucker as Canadian Radio Operator

Denis Quilley as Dentist

John Le Mesurier as MacGillivray

Françoise Dorléac as Vikki

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

My Favorite War

2020

Latvian

7.4

♡ 2

Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen Director

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.

Eminent Domain

1990

5.9

♡ 9

60%

John Irvin Director

Pip Torrens as Anton

Jodhi May as Ewa

Anthony Bate as Kowal

Bernard Hepton as Slowak

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

Superman: Red Son

2020

6.4

♡ 97

89%

Sam Liu Director

Jim Meskimen as John F. Kennnedy

Phil LaMarr as John Stewart

Jason Isaacs as Kal-El

Amy Acker as Lois Lane

Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.

Gorky Park

1983

6.7

♡ 23

78%

59%

cold war

Crime

Drama

government conspiracy

Michael Apted Director

Alexander Knox as General

Ian Bannen as Iamskoy

Lee Marvin as Jack Osborne

Michael Elphick as Pasha

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.

Enigma

1982

central intelligence agency (cia)

5.9

♡ 9

27%

Jeannot Szwarc Director

George Bruce as

Martin Sheen as Alex Holbeck

Sam Neill as Dimitri Vasilikov

Vernon Dobtcheff as Minister

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.

Comrades in Arms

1991

4.0

♡ 3

J. Christian Ingvordsen Director

Bob Gosse as Associate

Steven Kaman as Col. Kotchov

Dan Lutsky as Gula

Lance Henriksen as Rob Reed

Men from Russia and the United States join forces to prevent a powerful drug ring from achieving global domination.

Agent 8 3/4

1964

6.1

♡ 12

38%

Ralph Thomas Director

Roger Delgado as Josef

John Standing as Men's Room Attendant

John Le Mesurier as Roger Allsop

Leo McKern as Simoneva

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

german democratic republic

7.0

♡ 119

84%

Tomas Alfredson Director

Colin Firth as Bill Haydon

Gary Oldman as George Smiley

Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam

Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem

2006

German

6.9

♡ 2

cold war

Documentary

prison

stasi

true-to-life

Marc Bauder Director

Salli Sailmann as

Lisbeth Rachowski as

Utz Rachowski as

Sebastian Gollin as

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German reunification in 1990, talk about their times of trial and their lives today. Neither they, nor their families have come to terms with what happened.

The Fourth War

1990

5.5

♡ 8

64%

John Frankenheimer Director

David Palffy as Gawky Soldier

Harry Dean Stanton as Gen. Hackworth

William MacDonald as MP Corporal

Dale Dye as Sergeant Major

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.

Billion Dollar Brain

1967

5.9

♡ 18

57%

Ken Russell Director

Gregg Palmer as 1st Dutch Businessman

Harry Fielder as Cowboy at Barndance

Michael Caine as Harry Palmer

Karl Malden as Leo Newbigen

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

1966

7.0

♡ 12

Norman Jewison Director

Johnny Whitaker as Jerry Maxwell

Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Bell

Brian Keith as Police Chief Link Mattocks

Peter Brocco as Reverend Hawthorne

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

Deal of the Century

1983

4.7

♡ 9

10%

19%

arms dealer

William Friedkin Director

Sigourney Weaver as Catherine DeVoto

Wallace Shawn as Harold DeVoto

Richard Herd as Lyle

Richard Libertini as Masaggi

Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.

Avalanche Express

1979

4.9

♡ 4

20%

16%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Monte Hellman Director

Maximilian Schell as Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Cyril Shaps as Sedov

Lee Marvin as Wargrave

Vladek Sheybal as Zannbin

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970

7.1

♡ 16

90%

76%

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

artificial intelligence