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

English

7.1

♡ 2

based on magazine, newspaper or article

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

English

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

English

6.4

♡ 28

30%

56%

Action

atomic bomb

based on a true story

based on novel or book

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

English

7.8

♡ 44

96%

90%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

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

English

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

English

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

English

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

English

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%

Action

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

English

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

English

6.8

♡ 11

83%

70%

Action

based on novel or book

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

English

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

English

7.9

♡ 56

97%

John Frankenheimer Director

Kenneth Gibson as Delegate

Michael Masters as FBI Agent

Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines

John Indrisano as Reporter

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

Orions belte

1985

Norwegian

6.8

♡ 1

Action

arctic polar circle region

Ola Solum Director

Gordon Sterne as American tourist

Kjersti Holmen as Eva Gjelseth

Steve Plytas as Russian Ambassador

Helge Jordal as Tom Jansen

Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This is a secret too big for any of them, and soon they find themselves hunted down by Soviet forces and secret agents.

Ginger & Rosa

2012

English

6.2

♡ 10

78%

Sally Potter Director

Jodhi May as Anoushka

Elle Fanning as Ginger

Timothy Spall as Mark

Oliver Platt as Mark Two

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

Torn Curtain

1966

English

6.6

♡ 25

63%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gene Roth as Guard in Post Office

Hansjörg Felmy as Heinrich Gerhard

Paul Newman as Professor Michael Armstrong

Paul Sorensen as Swedish Immigration Officer

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.