At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.

The Coldest Game

2019

Polish

6.2

♡ 14

Lukasz Kosmicki Director

Cezary Kosinski as John Gift

Bill Pullman as Joshua Mansky

Robert Wieckiewicz as PKiN Director

John F. Kennedy as Self

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

The War Game

1966

English

7.9

♡ 18

93%

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

pre-code

War

Peter Watkins Director

Michael Aspel as Commentator

Peter Graham as Commentator

Peter Watkins as Documentist

Dave Baldwin as Schoolmaster / Interviewer

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.

The Phenomenon

2020

English

7.4

♡ 37

100%

James Fox Director

Peter Coyote as Narrator

Bill Clinton as Self

George W. Bush as Self - 43rd President of the United States

Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States

This documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking government officials and NASA Astronauts, Senator Harry Reid says it "makes the incredible credible."

Ice Station Zebra

1968

English

6.6

♡ 12

44%

58%

Action

Adventure

arctic polar circle region

based on novel or book

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

English

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

English

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

English

5.6

♡ 2

27%

Adventure

assassination

based on novel or book

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.

The Courier

2020

English

♡ 159

85%

95%

Action

based on a true story

based on true story

central intelligence agency (cia)

Dominic Cooke Director

Rachel Brosnahan as Emily Donovan

Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne

John F. Kennedy as Self

Jessie Buckley as Sheila

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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

English

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

English

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

English

6.7

♡ 23

78%

59%

Action

based on novel or book

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

English

5.9

♡ 9

27%

central intelligence agency (cia)

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

English

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

English

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

English

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

german democratic republic

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

English

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.