Best Cold War movies

Actors : William Prince, Alberta Watson, Ken Wahl, Jeremiah Sullivan,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Actors : Danila Kozlovsky, Fedor Bondarchuk, Sergey Gazarov, Anna Chipovskaya,
Directors : Aleksey Andrianov,

In the spring of 1941 German agent Wasser of the Abwehr holds an NKVD commissar hostage. Two soldiers, a boxer, and a spy are the NKVD's only hope to rescue him.

Actors : Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen, Bernard Hill,
Directors : Reg Traviss,

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.

Actors : Jon Øigarden, Trond-Viggo Torgersen, Linn Stokke, Mads Ousdal,
Directors : Thomas Cappelen Malling,

The true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War.

Actors : Glenn Plummer, Irène Jacob, Bill Pullman, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Ilkka Järvi-Laturi,

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 the post cold war Helsinki.

Actors : Svetlana Khodchenkova, Dmitriy Ulyanov, Elena Leszczynska, Leslaw Zurek,
Directors : Waldemar Krzystek,

During the Cold War, a married young Soviet woman and a Polish officer are drawn together by music.

Actors : Krzysztof Kolberger, Hanna Bieniuszewicz, Bo F. Munthe, Curt Broberg,
Directors : Mats Helge Olsson,

Swedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led ...

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 : Anthony Hickox, Corey Johnson, Armand Assante, Barna Illyés,
Directors : Anthony Hickox,

Frank Banner used to specialize in helping Soviet spies defect safely to the West. Banner's wife was shot to death aiding such an escape. Now, with the Cold War over, Banner is called upon ...

Actors : Sergio Rubini, Miriana Raschillà, Claudia Pandolfi, Pietro Del Giudice,
Directors : Susanna Nicchiarelli,

Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Dennis Hopper, Gösta Ekman, Kåre Mölder,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

"The Inside Man" is based on a real-life incident during the days of the Cold War when a Soviet submarine was spotted in Swedish waters.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Bor Jeng Chen, Te-Nan Lai, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng,

Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Tom Courtenay, Laurence Harvey, 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 : Michelle Lee, William Hope, Sarah Brown, Adrian Paul,
Directors : Ivan Mitov,

In 1979 a UFO is spotted over Ukrainian territory in the Soviet Union. A squadron of MIG23 fighters are dispatched to intercept it.

Actors : Maxi Witrak, Michael Marcel, Ego Mikitas, Tania Fox,

Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.