In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.

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.

The Experts

1989

English

4.9

♡ 4

30%

Dave Thomas Director

Eve Brent as Aunt Thelma

Rick Ducommun as Sparks

John Travolta as Travis

Arye Gross as Wendell

Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they've actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training, is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies, and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?

Telefon

1977

English

6.5

♡ 9

44%

47%

Action

based on novel or book

Don Siegel Director

Roy Jenson as Doug Stark

Charles Bronson as Maj. Grigori Borzov

Sheree North as Marie Wills

Alex Sharp as Martin Callender

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

The North Star

1943

English

5.9

♡ 2

31%

Lewis Milestone Director

Henry Hall as Farmer

George Lynn as German Pilot

Eric Roberts as Grisha Kurin

Anne Baxter as Marina Pavlov

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

K-19: The Widowmaker

2002

English

6.7

♡ 68

59%

53%

Action

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.

Leto

2018

Russian

♡ 1

78%

st. petersburg, russia

summer

Kirill Serebrennikov Director

Nikita Efremov as Bob

Irina Starshenbaum as Natasha

Aleksandr Kuznetsov as Skeptic

Yuliya Aug as Tatiana

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

2019

Russian

7.6

♡ 12

95%

cinema on cinema

Documentary

portrait of a filmmaker

portrait of an artist

soviet union

soviet union filmmaker

tuscany, italy

Andrey A. Tarkovskiy Director

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Self

Margarita Terekhova as Self

Andrei Tarkovsky as Self

Inna Churikova as Self

An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.

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.

Twist again à Moscou

5.6

Jean-Marie Poiré Director

Albert Delpy as

France Rumilly as

Bernard Blier as Alexei

Christian Clavier as Iouri

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring.

Robert Reborn

2019

English

2.7

♡ 25

96%

Andrew Jones Director

David Lenik as Adler

Jon Bard as Doctor Mikhailov

John R. Walker as The Pilot

Lee Bane as The Toymaker

In 1951 USSR, as the Cold War intensifies, infamous dictator Joseph Stalin is suffering with illness and his death is imminent. Meanwhile, KGB agent Stoichkov discovers a mysterious stage show in the Baltic region featuring three creepy dolls - Robert, Kalashnikov and Miss Cyclops. Spellbound by the lifelike animation displayed by the dolls on stage, Stoichkov investigates the show's host and discovers he is a German Toymaker who owns a mystical book which holds the key to eternal life. Believing the Toymaker and his book will help Stalin escape death, Stoichkov kidnaps him and they board a plane to Moscow. But the Toymaker's living creations have followed them. When the plane is in mid air all hell breaks loose as Stoichkov and his team of KGB agents realize the three dolls are on board and will stop at nothing to rescue their puppet master. Fasten your seat belt and prepare for blood soaked toy terror at 30,000 feet.

Kin-dza-dza!

1986

Russian

7.8

♡ 4

94%

Comedy

cosmos

Drama

post-apocalyptic future

Georgiy Daneliya Director

Artyom Karapetyan as Abradox - The Governor of Alpha

Nina Ruslanova as Galina Borisovna - the vice-Dean at Earth

Levan Gabriadze as Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze - 'Fiddler'

Valentin Golubenko as Lord PG's Guard #2

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

Cargo 200

2007

Russian

7.1

♡ 6

81%

violence against women

Laura Obiols Director

Anzhelika Nevolina as

Dmitriy Kubasov as

Aleksey Serebryakov as Aleksey

Andrey Mokeyev as (as Andrei Mokeyev)

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.

The Ascent

1977

Russian

8.2

♡ 19

100%

Larisa Shepitko Director

Mikhail Selyutin as

Vasili Kravtsov as

Sergei Kanishchev as Boy wearing Budenovka

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Portnov, the Nazi interrogator

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Jack Strong

2014

Polish

7.0

♡ 1

76%

1970s

Biography

central intelligence agency (cia)

cold war

Crime

Drama

husband wife relationship

Wladyslaw Pasikowski Director

Patrick Wilson as Daniel

Maja Ostaszewska as Hania

Michalina Olszanska as Iza

Mariusz Bonaszewski as Prosecutor

Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.

Rambo III

1988

English

5.8

♡ 139

41%

Russell Mulcahy Director

Richard Crenna as Col. Samuel Trautman

Kurtwood Smith as Griggs

Alon Aboutboul as Nissem

Sylvester Stallone as Rambo

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

The Way Back

2010

English

7.3

♡ 112

73%

Peter Weir Director

Mark Strong as Khabarov

Ed Harris as Mr. Smith

Colin Farrell as Valka

Gustaf Skarsgård as Voss

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.