Movies by Lists - Cold War Films (163 [192]) 
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| 23 [23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint]When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB. | 1998 | Hans-Christian Schmid | Thriller, Drama | 7.2 (7.2K votes) | 99 | 20231101 |
| Another CountryBased on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies. | 1984 | Marek Kanievska | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Atomic BlondeAn undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. | 2017 | David Leitch | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (187.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Avalanche ExpressSoviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe. | 1979 | Mark Robson, Monte Hellman | Action, Thriller | 4.9 (1.7K votes) | 1 | 20240803 |
| Balkan Spy [Balkanski spijun]Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events. | 1984 | Dusan Kovacevic, Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic | Comedy, Drama | 8.9 (11.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| BallonEast Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them. | 2018 | Michael Herbig | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.5 (11.5K votes) | 125 | 20220822 |
| BarbaraA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital. | 2012 | Christian Petzold | Drama | 7.2 (14K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Bedford Incident, TheAn American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined. | 1965 | James B. Harris | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (5.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Beloved Berlin Wall [Liebe Mauer]In 1989 Berlin, Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless ac... | 2009 | Peter Timm | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (480 votes) | 103 | 20240803 |
| Berlin Tunnel 21In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend. | 1981 | Richard Michaels | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (304 votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Berlin-Schönhauser Corner [Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser]The story of a group of rebellious teens in East Berlin. | 1957 | Gerhard Klein | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (352 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Big Jim McLainIn the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists. | 1952 | Edward Ludwig | Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | 5.4 (2.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Billion Dollar BrainA former British spy stumbles onto a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom? | 1967 | Ken Russell (*) | Crime, Thriller | 6.0 (5.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Boris and NatashaThe classic cartoon spies, Boris and Natasha, get their very own live-action adventure. Sent to America to find an important microchip, the usually villainous duo begin to question who they're working for and why. | 1992 | Charles Martin Smith | Action, Comedy | 4.7 (890 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Bridge of SpiesDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. | 2015 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.6 (303.1K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Cambridge SpiesThe true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. | 2003 | Tim Fywell | Drama, History | 7.4 (2.1K votes) | 0 | 20231013 |
| Catch Me a SpyAndrej (Kirk Douglas), a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travellers to transport the contraband out of the country. | 1971 | Dick Clement | Comedy | 5.2 (439 votes) | 94 | 20240501 |
| Charlie Wilson's WarA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. | 2007 | Mike Nichols (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.0 (116.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Children of the RevolutionFew knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their ""love-child"" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now. | 1996 | Peter Duncan | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (2.4K votes) | 101 | 20240210 |
| Cold War [Zimna wojna]In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. | 2018 | Pawel Pawlikowski | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.5 (56.7K votes) | 89 | 20220822 |
| Colossus The Forbin ProjectThinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators. | 1970 | Joseph Sargent | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (8.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Company BusinessA retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians. | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Company, TheReal-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad. | 2007 | Mikael Salomon | Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (4.7K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| CondormanCartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West. | 1981 | Charles Jarrott | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 5.7 (4.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Confession, The [L'aveu]A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason. | 1970 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.9 (4.2K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Courier, TheCold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 2020 | Dominic Cooke | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.2 (43.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Cyclist [Radfahrer]Being classified as subversive, GDR photographer Harald Hauswald was for many years observed by the STASI under the code name Radfahrer (Cyclist). | 2008 | Marc Thümmler | Short, Biography, History | 6.5 (15 votes) | 30 | 20240803 |
| Damned, TheAn American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children. | 1962 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.6 (3.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Day After, TheThe effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. | 1983 | Nicholas Meyer | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (15.4K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Deadly Affair, TheA British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide. | 1967 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.8 (3.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Deadly Game, A [Charlie Muffin]Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints... | 1979 | Jack Gold | Thriller | 6.7 (238 votes) | 104 | 20240501 |
| Defence Of The RealmAfter a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that. | 1985 | David Drury | Thriller | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Despite The Falling SnowIn Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him. | 2016 | Shamim Sarif | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (3.1K votes) | 93 | 20220415 |
| Devil's Agent, TheIn East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary. | 1962 | John Paddy Carstairs | Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (86 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Different Loyalty, ABritish war reporter Leo and American journalist Sally meet on assignment in Beirut. When Leo disappears, Sally begins to uncover his secret life, which leads her behind the Iron Curtain and into the clutches of the KGB. In HD. | 2004 | Marek Kanievska | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 4.9 (1.5K votes) | 96 | 20240803 |
| Don Camillo in Moscow [Il compagno Don Camillo]Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union. | 1965 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Eiger Sanction, TheClassical art professor and collector Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend. | 1975 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (19.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Eminent DomainA high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events. | 1990 | John Irvin | Drama | 5.8 (419 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Englishman Abroad, AnThe actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman. It turns out that he's the notorious spy Guy Burgess. | 1983 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.5 (618 votes) | 61 | 20240501 |
| EnigmaA C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot. | 1982 | Jeannot Szwarc | Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (1.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Executioner, TheA British Intelligence Agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent. | 1970 | Sam Wanamaker | Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (384 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Experts, TheTwo NYC guys get jobs starting a nightclub in Smalltown, USA. They don't know it's a spy training model town in USSR . | 1989 | Dave Thomas | Comedy | 4.9 (2.7K votes) | 94 | 20240427 |
| Fail-SafeA technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted? | 1964 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (21.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Fair PlayThe 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The young talented sprinter Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As a part of the preparation she is placed in a secret ""medical p... | 2014 | Andrea Sedlácková | Drama, Sport | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 100 | 20240501 |
| Falcon and The Snowman, TheThe true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union. | 1985 | John Schlesinger (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (11.5K votes) | 131 | 20220315 |
| Farewell [L'affaire Farewell]The French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events. | 2009 | Christian Carion | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (6.7K votes) | 113 | 20220723 |
| FatherlandA singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West. | 1986 | Ken Loach (*) | Drama, Music | 6.3 (497 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| FBI Story, TheA dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies. | 1959 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.5 (3.2K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| FirefoxA pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink. | 1982 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.0 (26.9K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| For Your Eyes OnlyJames Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel, equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. | 1981 | John Glen | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.7 (98.6K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Fourth Protocol, TheJohn Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countrie | 1987 | John Mackenzie | Thriller | 6.5 (9.9K votes) | 119 | 20220414 |
| Fourth War, TheCold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border. | 1990 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (1.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| From Russia With LoveJames Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. | 1963 | Terence Young | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (130.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Funeral in BerlinA British Agent is sent to East Berlin to receive a Communist defector, but the true situation turns out to be rather more complicated. | 1966 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Thriller | 6.9 (6.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Girl in the Kremlin, TheIn 1953, Soviet dictator Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes plastic surgery and vanishes but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe. | 1957 | Russell Birdwell | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (106 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Good German, TheWhile in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver. | 2006 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War | 6.0 (24.8K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Good Night,and Good LuckBroadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. | 2005 | George Clooney | Biography, Drama, History | 7.4 (96.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Good Shepherd, TheThe tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. | 2006 | Robert De Niro | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.7 (101.9K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Gorky ParkA Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy. | 1983 | Michael Apted | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (13.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Gotcha!Jonathan plays Gotcha with fellow college students, testing ability as assassin or mark, using paintball guns on campus. He flies to Paris on vacation and, with a woman taking his virginity, on to Berlin, where the game/ammo gets rea | 1985 | Jeff Kanew | Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (8.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Guardians, The [Zashchitniki]During the Cold War, an organization called ""Patriot"" created a super-hero 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... | 2017 | Sarik Andreasyan | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.0 (13.9K votes) | 89 | 20221212 |
| GulagMickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of S | 1985 | Roger Young | Drama | 6.7 (717 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Hell and High WaterDuring the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3. | 1954 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (1.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Highly DangerousA British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers. | 1950 | Roy Ward Baker | Action, Thriller | 5.9 (560 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| HopscotchGrounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them. | 1980 | Ronald Neame | Adventure, Comedy | 7.2 (7.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| HostagesThe movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner | 2017 | Rezo Gigineishvili | Crime, Drama, History | 6.1 (1.9K votes) | 103 | 20220415 |
| Hunt for Red October, TheIn November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain, in a new undetectable sub, violates orders and heads for the U.S. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect, or to start a war? | 1990 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.6 (191.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Ice Station ZebraUSN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station. | 1968 | John Sturges (*) | Adventure, Thriller | 6.6 (11.8K votes) | 148 | 20240229 |
| Innocent, TheA British telecommunication expert comes to 1950s Berlin to help the Americans spy on USSR. He meets a cute, mysterious local woman. | 1993 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 5.6 (1.6K votes) | 119 | 20220419 |
| Intergirl [Interdevochka]A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency. | 1989 | Pyotr Todorovskiy | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Ipcress File, TheIn London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | Thriller | 7.2 (15.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Jack StrongThe most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law. | 2014 | Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Thriller | 7.1 (4.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Jet PilotAir Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR. | 1957 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 5.7 (2.4K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| JFKNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. | 1991 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (151.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| Jigsaw Man, TheAn MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents. | 1983 | Terence Young | Thriller | 5.1 (1.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Journey, TheA British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer. | 1959 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Joy DivisionA teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is ""adopted"" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life. | 2006 | Reg Traviss | Drama, War | 6.0 (1K votes) | 105 | 20240803 |
| Judgment in BerlinAmerican judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified. | 1988 | Leo Penn | Drama | 5.8 (884 votes) | 96 | 20240501 |
| K-19 - The WidowmakerWhen Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. | 2002 | Kathryn Bigelow | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.7 (67.3K votes) | 138 | 20240416 |
| Kingdom of the Crystal SkullIn 1957, archaeologist and adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is called back into action and becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls. | 2008 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure | 6.1 (443.6K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Kremlin Letter, TheDuring the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow. | 1970 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (2.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| LegacySet in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. | 2013 | Pete Travis | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (472 votes) | 90 | 20240501 |
| Letter to BrezhnevTwo Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Pe | 1985 | Chris Bernard | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Little NikitaAn F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son. | 1988 | Richard Benjamin | Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (6K votes) | 98 | 20240501 |
| Lives of Others, TheIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (378.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Living Daylights, TheJames Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications. | 1987 | John Glen | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.7 (95.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Looking Glass War, TheFrom the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites. | 1970 | Frank Pierson | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (1.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Lord of WarAn arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent. | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (307.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Man From U.N.C.L.E., TheIn the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. | 2015 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 7.3 (296.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Man on a StringA US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR. | 1960 | André De Toth | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (393 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Man on the Wall, The [Der Mann auf der Mauer]An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected. | 1982 | Reinhard Hauff | Drama | 6.3 (79 votes) | 105 | 20231013 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (74.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| MeteorThe U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth. | 1979 | Ronald Neame | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.0 (7.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Missiles of October, TheIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 1974 | Anthony Page | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.1 (1.1K votes) | 150 | 20240427 |
| Moscow on the HudsonA Russian saxophonist visiting New York with a circus troupe suddenly decides to defect from the USSR during a shopping trip to a department store, but he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined. | 1984 | Paul Mazursky | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (11.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Mrs. Ratcliffe's RevolutionShe left the land of Marks and Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin. Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution is a feelgood comedy following one dysfunctional family's journey from 1968 West Yorkshire to 19-below-freezing East Germany a | 2007 | Bille Eltringham | Comedy | 5.8 (638 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Night CrossingTrue tale about two men planing to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them. | 1982 | Delbert Mann (*) | Drama, Family, History, Thriller | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 107 | 20240313 |
| No Way OutA coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress. | 1987 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (39.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| OctopussyA fake Fabergé egg, and a fellow Agent's death, lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. | 1983 | John Glen | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.5 (103.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Odessa File, TheFollowing the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. | 1974 | Ronald Neame | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (11.3K votes) | 130 | 20220822 |
| One, Two, ThreeIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter. | 1961 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (20.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Orion's Belt [Orions belte]A group of seamen from Norway find a Soviet listening station and they become targets for both America and Russia. Another cold war takes place. | 1985 | Ola Solum, Tristan de Vere Cole | Action, Thriller | 6.9 (2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Our Man in HavanaJim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble. | 1959 | Carol Reed (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (5.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Package, TheExperienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him. | 1989 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (9.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| PasportA case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel. | 1990 | Georgiy Daneliya | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (1.2K votes) | 103 | 20240803 |
| Pawn SacrificeSet during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. | 2014 | Edward Zwick (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Sport, Thriller | 7.0 (43.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Pickup on South StreetA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. | 1953 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (14.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Prize, TheAs the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways. | 1963 | Mark Robson | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (5.3K votes) | 134 | 20240501 |
| Promise, The [Das Versprechen]East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the | 1994 | Margarethe von Trotta | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (668 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Question of Attribution, ASir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a ... | 1992 | John Schlesinger (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War | 7.6 (251 votes) | 70 | 20220723 |
| Quiet American, TheAn old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman. | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.0 (28.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Quiller Memorandum, TheIn the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate. | 1966 | Michael Anderson | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (4K votes) | 104 | 20220723 |
| Red Cockatoo, The [Der rote Kakadu]A coming-of-age story set in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision. | 2006 | Dominik Graf | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (877 votes) | 128 | 20240614 |
| Red DawnIt is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces. | 1984 | John Milius | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.4 (54.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Red HeatAn American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with sadistic guards and in-mates. As she tries to | 1985 | Robert Collector, Ernst Ritter von Theumer | Thriller | 4.8 (788 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Red King, White KnightThe C.I.A. hears of a K.G.B. scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner (Tom Skerritt), an agent retired for ten years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the | 1989 | Geoff Murphy | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (203 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Ring of Treason [Ring of Spies]During the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring. | 1964 | Robert Tronson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (474 votes) | 90 | 20240501 |
| Rocky IVRocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | Drama, Sport | 6.9 (198.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Romanoff and JulietA tiny, otherwise inconsequential and powerless European country called Concordia holds the deciding vote in a crucial United Nations resolution. As the U.S. and Soviet Union try to manipulate Condordia so that its vote aligns with t | 1961 | Peter Ustinov | Comedy | 6.3 (483 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Russia House, TheAn expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia. | 1990 | Fred Schepisi (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (15.8K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Russians Are Coming, TheWithout hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed. | 1966 | Norman Jewison (*) | Comedy, War | 7.0 (8.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| RusskiesA group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends in the midst of the Cold War. | 1987 | Rick Rosenthal | Drama | 5.6 (1.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Serpent, TheA Soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West. | 1973 | Henri Verneuil | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (1.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Serpent, The [Le serpent]A Soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West. | 1973 | Henri Verneuil | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (1.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Seven Days In MayUnited States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack. | 1964 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (15.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Shape of Water, TheAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (401.2K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Silk StockingsA musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. | 1957 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (3.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| SleepersAmidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been ""lost."" A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled i... | 1991 | Geoffrey Sax | Comedy, Drama | 8.3 (447 votes) | 52 | 20230806 |
| Spies Like UsTwo bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. | 1985 | John Landis (*) | Adventure, Comedy | 6.4 (51.7K votes) | 102 | 20230806 |
| Spy GameRetiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. | 2001 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (154K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Spy StoryA British spy is framed, so he must evade the KGB, the CIA and the British Intelligence to reach the the heart of the conspiracy in Arctic. | 1976 | Lindsay Shonteff | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (62 votes) | 103 | 20231024 |
| Spy Who Came In From the Cold, TheInstead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission. | 1965 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (16.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Spy Who Loved Me, TheJames Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed. | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.1 (105.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Spy With My Face, TheU.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to the Swiss Alps to find a secret nuclear weapon design but T.H.R.U.S.H. agents kidnap Solo and replace him with a look-alike double. | 1965 | John Newland | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action | 6.1 (474 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| StripesTwo friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun. | 1981 | Ivan Reitman (*) | Comedy, War | 6.9 (71.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Tamarind Seed, TheDuring a Caribbean vacation, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian Agent. | 1974 | Blake Edwards (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (2.1K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| TelefonA Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words. | 1977 | Don Siegel (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (5.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| TestamentThe life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack. | 1983 | Lynne Littman | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (6.1K votes) | 90 | 20220315 |
| TestimonyThe story of the great Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin. | 1987 | Tony Palmer | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 7.1 (261 votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Thirteen DaysIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 2000 | Roger Donaldson | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.3 (57.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6. | 2011 | Tomas Alfredson | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (209.6K votes) | 127 | 20231120 |
| To Trap a SpyThe pilot for the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," re-edited and released to theaters as a feature. | 1964 | Don Medford | Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Action, Crime | 6.1 (493 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Top SecretAn American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany. | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Comedy, Crime, Music | 7.2 (64.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| TopazA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring. | 1969 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (17.9K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Torn CurtainAn American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West. | 1966 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (26.5K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Tower, The [Der Turm]A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advanta... | 2012 | Christian Schwochow | Drama | 7.0 (612 votes) | 180 | 20240803 |
| TrumboIn 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. | 2015 | Jay Roach | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (80.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Tunnel 28 [Escape from East Berlin]In 1962, a group of East Berliners escapes to West Berlin through a tunnel dug from the basement of a house located near the Berlin Wall. | 1962 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.6 (551 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Tunnel, The [Der Tunnel]During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections. | 2001 | Roland Suso Richter | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.7 (6.2K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| W [W is War]A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. | 1983 | John Badham (*) | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (103.8K votes) | 114 | 20230424 |
| WarGamesA young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. | 1983 | John Badham (*) | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (97K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Wasp Network [Cuban Network]The story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder. | 2019 | Olivier Assayas | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (10.9K votes) | 127 | 20221228 |
| West [Lagerfeuer]She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past. | 2013 | Christian Schwochow | Drama | 6.5 (984 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| West [Westen]She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past. | 2013 | Christian Schwochow | Drama | 6.4 (1K votes) | 102 | 20240820 |
| WestlerFelix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become ... | 1985 | Wieland Speck | Drama | 6.6 (432 votes) | 94 | 20240501 |
| When the Wind BlowsA naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war. | 1986 | Jimmy T. Murakami | Animation, Comedy, Drama, War | 7.7 (10.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Whistle Blower, TheA war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems to be impenetrable. | 1986 | Simon Langton | Thriller | 6.2 (2.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| White Crow, TheThe story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. | 2018 | Ralph Fiennes | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (6.4K votes) | 127 | 20220822 |
| White NightsA Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR? | 1985 | Taylor Hackford | Drama, Music | 6.7 (7.3K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Wrong Is RightA TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc. | 1982 | Richard Brooks | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| X-Men First ClassIn the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them. | 2011 | Matthew Vaughn | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (672.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Deutschland 83 | 2015 | nan | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Americans | 2013 | nan | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Game, Set, and Match | 1988 | nan | Drama, Thriller | 8.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Hour | 2011 | nan | Drama | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Perfect Spy | 1987 | nan | Thriller | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Philby, Burgess and Maclean | 1977 | Gordon Flemyng | Drama | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Assets | 2014 | nan | Thriller | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Game | 2014 | nan | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Breakthrough at Reykjavik | 1987 | Sarah Harding | Drama | 9.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Escape from East Berlin | 1972 | Solano Gaudite | Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Hunter | 1952 | nan | Drama | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cold War | 1998 | nan | Documentary, History | 8.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Brezhnev | 2005 | nan | Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Moscow 1980: Games of the XXII Olympiad | 1980 | nan | Sport | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kreml-9 | 2001 | nan | Documentary | 2.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Man Who Saved the World | 2014 | Peter Anthony | Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Get Smart | 1965 | nan | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Tak nachinalas legenda | 1976 | Boris Grigorev | Biography, Drama, Family, War | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Here Was Cuba | 2013 | Emer Reynolds, John Murray | Documentary | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Sunshine Patriot | 1968 | Joseph Sargent | Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Codename: Kyril | 1988 | nan | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Persecuted | 2014 | Benjamin Bondar | Short, Action, Drama | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Razvyazka | 1969 | Nikolai Rozantsev | Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Red Army | 2014 | Gabe Polsky | Documentary, Biography, History, Sport | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Comrade Detective | 2017 | nan | Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal | 2014 | nan | Documentary, Drama, History | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Real Doctor Zhivago | 2017 | George Cathro | Documentary | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Going Under | 1991 | Mark W. Travis | Comedy | 3.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Summer of Rockets | 2019 | nan | Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |