Movies (107) tagged by 'Cold War'
Browse and watch best Cold War movies. See related tags below and find more film lists by similar to "Cold War" topic. Search results are sorted by popularity (views).
Seven Days in May (1964)
An unpopular U.S. President manages to get a nuclear disarmament treaty through the Senate, but finds that the nation is turning against him. Jiggs Casey, a Ma...
Atomic Blonde (2017)
An 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.
Anna (2019)
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government as...
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who v...
Bridge of Spies (2015)
An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.
Another Country (1984)
He rebelled against his family. He outraged his friends. Finally he betrayed his country. Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance as Guy Burgess, a ke...
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Set in a futuristic vision of the late 1980's, Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brough...
The Russia House (1991)
Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British secret service a...
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that t...
Fail Safe (2000) (2003)
This groundbreaking live broadcast television drama, directed by Stephen Frears, features an all-star cast including George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfu...
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. The...
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Jud...
Topaz (1969)
A highly ranked Russian official, Boris Kusenov, his wife and daughter defect to America. Hoped to be a boon for their efforts battling the Cold War with Russi...
Hostile Waters (1997)
The True story of how an antiquated Russian Project 667a "Yankee" Class Submarine, K-219 collides with a Hunter Killer "Los Angeles" Class American submarine ca...
Farewell (2009)
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.
The Courier (2020)
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Russkies (1987)
Three boys living on a Florida military base meet a Russian sailor, injured and stranded in Key West. They decide to help him return home but first must prote...
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa -- are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives b...
Azorian: The Raising of the K-129 (2010)
In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Central North Pacific. American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise. The CIA cra...
Gorky Park (1983)
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one re...
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Harry Palmer no longer spies for the British and is instead a starving private detective. He receives a package of money which is followed by a mechanical voic...
Night Crossing (1982)
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Phantom (2013)
'Ed Harris' plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced ...
China Cry – A True Story (1990)
Drama set in the 1950s, based on a true story, about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become par...
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
While on holiday in Barbados to recover from the lingering effects of a love affair that ended badly, Judith Farrow meets Feodor Sverdlov, a handsome Russian. T...
Project 12: The Bunker (2016)
At the height of the Cold War, Russia was working on a secret scientific mission, which, if successful...
Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)
'Bobby Fischer Against the World' is the first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of B...
The Inside Man (1984)
A young Marine is chosen to spy on a top Swedish scientist. Despite the dangers involved, he is determined to find out what is going on. But when his cover is...
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
Pawn Sacrifce (2014)
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Emp...
Battle Beyond The Sun (1962)
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
The Man Between (1953)
"It wasn't a particularly good story, but I liked the atmosphere of Berlin after the war, and I wanted to work again with James Mason." Thus did director Carol ...
Conspirator (1949)
London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Currag...
Anruf für einen Toten (1966)
After Charles Dobbs, a security officer, has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man commits suicide. An anonymous typed letter had ...
Legacy (2013)
Set 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.
Night People (1954)
Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck...
National Geographic: CIA Secret Experiments (2008)
It's the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secre...
Hallmark Hall of Fame Pack of Lies (1987)
How well do you know your neighbors, your close friends? What if the FBI asked you if they could use your home to spy on them...
Watch the Skies Science Fiction the 1950s and Us (2005)
Directors Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discuss the science fiction movies of the 1950s that influenced them.
Ali Baba and the Seven Dwarfs (2015)
Ali Senay (Cem Yilmaz) and Ilber (Cetin Altay), the two partners of Senay Cüccaciye, sell garden dwarfs. When their innovative company starts to dwindle, they d...
Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
Explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
The Sixties The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005)
A defining chapter in America's past, the '60s shaped a generation and sculpted a political landscape that can still be seen today. The story of the '60s is ill...
On the Brink Doomsday (1997)
The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?
The Looking Glass War (1970)
From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller...
The Red Menace (1949)
A disillusioned, bitter ex-GI gets involved with the Communist party, and winds up falling in love with one of his "instructors." At first true believ...
John Goldfarb Please Come Home (1965)
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Faw...
Agent 3S3 Massacre in the Sun (1966)
The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution and the charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control. Those assisting him though have an agend...
The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plum...
The Man on the Other Side (2019)
It is 1974, and in the Cold War paranoia of East and West Germany, it can be dangerous to know too much. But time is running out for Sophie Zimmermann. She is b...
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To inves...
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
During 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 M...
The Defector (1966)
Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who's recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help the...
Toys in the Attic (2009)
A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
History Is Made at Night (1999)
A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in t...
Thud Pilots (2018)
An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the cou...
Massive Retaliation (1984)
Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the stress to c...
The Internecine Project (1974)
A retired agent devises a cunning plan to eliminate those who know too much about his past.
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne...
The Salzburg Connection (1972)
A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.
Don't Drink the Water (1994)
An ordinary American family goes on vacation to Europe. Because of the Cold War they are stuck in the U.S. Embassy surrounding by the Soviet forces.
Hell and High Water (1954)
During 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 Commun...
Spacewalk (2017)
Trying to keep lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
The Fourth War (1990)
Cold 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 - Czecho...
Eminent Domain (1990)
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Truman (1995)
Though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Devil's Agent (1962)
In East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.
Spion aan de muur (1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
The Man Outside (1968)
Former CIA agent McLean is contacted by Venaxas, a Greek operative. Together they plan to "sell" the whereabouts of a Russian secret police official, ...
Up the Creek (1958)
During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to...
The Ugly American (1963)
An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
Never Let Me Go (1953)
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Rage to Kill (1988)
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has...
The Executioner (1975)
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprisin...
Flight to Tangier (1953)
During the Cold War, a mysterious plane, carrying $3 million, arrives at Tangier airport and various interested parties try to grab the cash.
A-Bombs Over Nevada (2016)
A series of nuclear bomb test conducted outside Las Vegas in the 1950s and early 60s
The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing ou...
The Waiting Time (1999)
When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unravel the e...
Subterfuge (1968)
A C.I.A. man goes to London to assist British Intelligence uncover a mole and destroy a foreign spy ring.
Assault on the Wayne (1971)
During the Cold War, enemy agents, posing as U.S. Navy crew, sabotage a nuclear submarine and steal its anti-ballistic missile guidance system.
Pueblo (1973)
A Cold War incident, told in flashbacks, regarding the capture of the American spy ship, U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew by North Korean naval units off the North Ko...
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
In Montreal, a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involv...
The Ultimate Guide: Submarines (2000)
This program provides an overview of many aspect of submarine technology including; the various types of submarines, their missions, design considerations, hist...
Stealing the Superfortress (2001)
How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.
The Whistle Blower (1987)
A 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 me...
Zits (1988)
A group of middle school students start selling fake military plans to the KGB to pay for their music teacher's eye operation.
Legend of the White Horse (1987)
A satire of Cold War politics, where Red bureaucrats meet U.S. corporate greed, and a witch and a dragon.
The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to ...
Joy Division (2006)
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
Fact-based story about a 1990s espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in U.S. history. Aldrich Ames (Timothy Hutton) was a middle cla...
Shots in 3/4 Time (1965)
B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance.Phillippe Tissout is sent by his boss to Paris to take over th...
High Flight (1957)
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Bunker (2014)
Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of the Cold War...
Hong Kong Confidential (1958)
During the Cold War, an American secret agent must find a kidnapped Arab prince who is being used by the Soviets to gain leverage against America's plans to ins...
Godspeed, Los Polacos! (2021)
Five university students risk it all to fight for democracy in the Eastern Bloc after claiming the first descent of the world's deepest canyon.
Winter Flight (1986)
A young RAF serviceman and a local waitress fall for each other, but Falklands War looms in the background.
Playing the Changes - Tracking Darius Brubeck (2024)
Darius Brubeck - Playing the Changes is a documentary that revolves around Darius Brubeck, son of jazz musician Dave Brubeck, and Darius' wife Catherine (C...
Related tags:
'Contest' 'CIA Agent' 'Interview' 'Cold War' 'FBI' 'Beautiful Woman' 'Anti Communism' 'Spacecraft' 'u.s. military' '3 Dimensional' 'east west' 'Ballet' 'Mercenary' 'West Berlin West Germany' 'Montreal Quebec' 'Commanding Officer' 'Nightclub Singer' 'Idiot' 'Scientist'