Best Cold War movies of 1960s

Actors : Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Paul Newman, Hansjörg Felmy,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

An 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.

Actors : Dany Robin, John Vernon, Frederick Stafford, Karin Dor,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A 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.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Actors : Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

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.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Pamela Tiffin, James Cagney,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Rock Hudson, Jim Brown,
Directors : John Sturges,

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman, Diane Baker,
Directors : Mark Robson,

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

Actors : Ed Begley, Karl Malden, Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Actors : Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

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 Moscow.

Actors : Barry Sullivan, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

During the Cold War, Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell shapes up his Strategic Air Command B-52 wing to pass a nuclear war readiness test.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Harry Andrews,

During the Cold War, the British and Soviet intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin as pawn in the complex spy-game.

Actors : Jim Backus, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

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 Fawz (Peter Ustinov), soon ...

Actors : Sandra Dee, Peter Ustinov, Akim Tamiroff, John Gavin,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

A "Romeo and Juliet"-inspired Cold War satire starring, written and directed by Peter Ustinov. A tiny but otherwise inconsequential and powerless European country called Concordia holds the...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Ralph Taeger, David McLean,
Directors : Richard Donner,

During the Cold War in the 1960s the U.S.A.F.and NASA tested the experimental rocket-powered aircraft X-15 that set altitude and speed records and reached the edge of outer space.

Actors : David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, Cyril Cusack, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Val Guest,

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Actors : Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Seth Holt,

During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.

Actors : Furankî Sakai, Yuriko Hoshi, Nobuko Otowa, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Shûe Matsubayashi,

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Actors : Joan Collins, Judy Geeson, George Peppard, Oskar Homolka,
Directors : Sam Wanamaker,

A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.