Best Cold War movies

Actors : José Ferrer, James Wainwright, Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.

Actors : Vera Alentova, Anatoliy Lobotskiy, Aleksandr Feklistov, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

The film takes place in early autumn 1983 in Moscow, in an atmosphere of acute cold war (including the war in Afghanistan, the incident with the South Korean "Boeing", etc.).The main ...

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Beverly D'Angelo, Kim Coates, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Allan A. Goldstein,

An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.

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 : Gabriella Hámori, Ákos Orosz, János Kulka, Zsolt Nagy,
Directors : Péter Fazakas,

During the Cold War, the secret service of Kádár began a more dangerous state security game than ever before.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barry Newman, Karen Jensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

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.

Actors : Yoh Yoshida, Fumi Nikaidô, Suzu Hirose,
Directors : Kei Ishikawa,

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.

Actors : Miroslav Etzler, Elena Leeve, Krystof Hádek, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Taru Mäkelä,

August Fools is a romantic comedy set against the political background of the Cold War. Elsa (Kati Outinen), a middle-aged hat maker and part-time clairvoyant, is apparently in total ...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms, Carol Lynley, 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 : Oswald Berzins, Kirill Lavrov, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov,

Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist ...

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.

Actors : Christopher Masterson, David DeLuise, Lyndsy Fonseca, Richard Riehle,
Directors : Nicholas Peterson,

An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.

Actors : Matt McColm, Amanda Pays, Jason Gould, Richard Brake,
Directors : Herb Freed,

Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that ...

Actors : Sandra Lea, Tara Trimble, Steve Railsback, Jason Healey,
Directors : Sig Shore,

An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed. Cold War panic turns to chaos, martial law is declared and the US Constitution suspended. Survivalist John Tillman must save his family from roaming gangs and a corrupt army unit.

Actors : Jeff Hatch, Timothy Oman, Corey MacIntosh, Kaiwi Lyman,
Directors : A.J. Martinson,

In 1963, military industrialist Arthur Blackmark and a Soviet commander must race against the clock to stop an international nuclear incident which threatens to fire up the Cold War and end the world.

Actors : Gwynne McElveen, Tom Kerrisk, Barry John Kinsella, Rachel Walshe,
Directors : John Farrelly,

Two detectives begin an investigation into a disastrous secret military experiment where five prisoners were kept awake for thirty days in a sealed gas chamber.

Actors : Carrie Schiffler, Roxi D'Lite, Dusan Rokvic, David A. Crellin,
Directors : Jonathan Joffe,

The Burlesque Assassins. Beautiful, deadly and a vital weapon in the war on communism that threatens the free world. Set in the 1950s, this tale of cold war espionage and intrigue follows ...

Actors : Catherine Blythe, Paul Nolan, Bill MacDonald, Emmanuelle Vaugier,
Directors : Philippe Browning,

Alex Brown inherits the awesome task of saving his ex-secret agent parents and protecting the planet from evil powers bent on controlling the world's plutonium supply. To do this Alex uses ...

Actors : Georgi Partsalev, Kosta Tsonev, Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Elena Rainova,
Directors : Metodi Andonov,

This is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent to a big Western European company. He works under cover using a false name and finds that company ...

Actors : Zétény Varga, József Gyabronka, Tamás Keresztes, Tibor Pálffy,
Directors : Balázs Lengyel,

In early 1957, the Soviet Union decides to give Hungary the honor of providing the first cosmonaut to orbit in space. The most suitable candidate turns out to be Lajos Serbán, known to all ...