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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

Joseph Sargent Director

James Hong as Dr. Chin

Susan Clark as Dr. Cleo Markham

Robert Quarry as Scientist

Byron Morrow as Secretary of State

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

K-19: The Widowmaker

2002

6.7

♡ 68

59%

53%

based on a true story

Kathryn Bigelow Director

Harrison Ford as Capt. Alexei Vostrikov

Liam Neeson as Capt. Mikhail Polenin

Tygh Runyan as Maxim

Michael Gladis as Yevgeny Borzenkov

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

The Iron Curtain

1948

based on memoir or autobiography

6.3

♡ 1

59%

William A. Wellman Director

Gene Tierney as Anna Gouzenko

Peter Whitney as Cipher Lt. Vinikov

Stefan Schnabel as Col. Ilya Ranov

June Havoc as Nina Karanova

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.

Ladybug Ladybug

1963

based on magazine, newspaper or article

7.1

♡ 2

Frank Perry Director

Alice Playten as Harriet

William Daniels as Mr. John Calkins - the School Principal

Nancy Marchand as Mrs. Andrews

James Frawley as Truck Driver

The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent nuclear attack.

Walk East on Beacon!

1952

5.7

♡ 1

cold war

communist infiltrator

Alfred L. Werker Director

Karl Weber as Charlie Reynolds

Peter Capell as Chris Zalenko aka Gino

George Murphy as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden

George Roy Hill as Nicholas Wilben

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

Red Joan

2018

6.4

♡ 28

30%

56%

atomic bomb

based on a true story

Biography

cold war

co-worker relationship

Trevor Nunn Director

Ciarán Owens as Detective Hughes

Judi Dench as Joan Stanley

Stephen Campbell Moore as Max Davis

Tereza Srbová as Sonya Galich

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

The Right Stuff

1983

7.8

♡ 44

96%

90%

Adventure

Philip Kaufman Director

Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper

Ed Harris as John Glenn

Jeff Goldblum as Recruiter

Pamela Reed as Trudy Cooper

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.

Invasion U.S.A.

1985

5.5

♡ 35

22%

Joseph Zito Director

Eddie Jones as Cassidy

Richard Lynch as Mikhail Rostov

Wallace Wilkinson as Pastor

Dan Fitzgerald as Veteran Cop

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Tetris

2023

7.4

♡ 122

81%

Jon S. Baird Director

Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers

Anthony Boyle as Kevin Maxwell

Matthew Marsh as Mikhail Gorbachev

Toby Jones as Robert Stein

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.

A Different Loyalty

2004

4.9

♡ 6

17%

Marek Kanievska Director

Michael Cochrane as Dick Madsen

Jim Piddock as George Quennell

Joseph Antaki as Lebanese Security Officer

Sharon Stone as Sally Cauffield

In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.

Closing Gambit: Korchnoi vs Karpov & The Kremlin

2018

7.0

♡ 1

Alan Byron Director

Leonid Brezhnev as Self

Bobby Fischer as Self

Muhammad Ali as Self

Anatoli Karpov as Self

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.

Farewell

2009

French

6.9

♡ 7

85%

75%

based on a true story

Christian Carion Director

Alex Ferns as Agent écossais 1

Willem Dafoe as Feeney

Diane Kruger as Femme jogging

Lee Marvin as Self

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.

Guardians

2017

Russian

4.1

♡ 32

92%

Sarik Andreasyan Director

Vyacheslav Razbegaev as General-mayor Nikolay Dolgov

Sebastien Sisak as Ler

Valeriya Shkirando as Mayor Elena Larina

John F. Kennedy as Self

During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a superhero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but, in hard times, they must show themselves again.

The Jigsaw Man

1983

5.1

♡ 7

cold war

Thriller

Terence Young Director

John Franklyn-Robbins as English doctor

Vladek Sheybal as Gen. Zorin

Jennifer Jayne as Nurse

Michael Caine as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

The Falcon and the Snowman

1985

6.8

♡ 11

83%

70%

John Schlesinger Director

Sean Penn as Daulton Lee

Arthur Taxier as FBI Agent

Marvin J. McIntyre as Ike

John Lennon as John Lennon

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

King of the Rocket Men

1949

6.7

♡ 6

95%

Fred C. Brannon Director

Mae Clarke as Glenda Thomas

Dale Van Sickel as Martin - Henchman [Ch.1] / Prof. Drake [Ch. 1] / Gates - Henchman [Chs. 6-7, 9-11]

Eddie Parker as Rowan [Ch. 3]

Carey Loftin as Sparks - Henchman [Ch. 2]

Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.

The Manchurian Candidate

1962