Highest grossing Cold War movies

Actors : Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

John 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 countries.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Steven Berkoff, William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford,
Directors : Andrew Sipes,

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.

Actors : Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Rob Schneider, Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Action star Jean Claude Van Damme plays a fashion designer who must join forces with a C.I.A. agent to combat terrorism.

Actors : John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

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 Empire.

Actors : Joaquin Phoenix, Stefan DeSalle, Peter Billingsley, Whip Hubley,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends in the midst of the Cold War.

Actors : James Fox, John Gielgud, Michael Caine, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Simon Langton,

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 meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...

Actors : Roy Scheider, Lara Harris, Tim Reid, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

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 - Czechoslovakia border.

Actors : Kurtwood Smith, Gene Hackman, Terry O'Quinn, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

A retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians.

Actors : John Tench, Rachel Hayward, Jerry Wasserman, Brian Bosworth,
Directors : Robert Lee,

A CIA agent who, while on assignment in Russia shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union, is captured by KGB forces and placed in a mental hospital. Eleven years later, Carville is given a chance to earn his freedom.

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 : 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 : Julian Wadham, Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett, Michael Cochrane,
Directors : Marek Kanievska,

Leo Cauffield, chief of British counterespionage, fails by a whisker to arrest two fellow Cambridge-graduated spies who just manage to defect to Moscow, resigns and becomes a journalist. In...

Actors : Jennifer Berry, Les Borsay, Kevin Cabell, H. Russell Christopher,
Directors : David Llauger Meiselman,

In the late 1950's, the U.S. Department of Defense used the drainage tunnels underneath Los Angeles to secretly transport nuclear weapons to their Cold War storage facilities in the hills ...

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

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

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 : Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Alexandra Maria Lara, Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet,
Directors : Christian Carion,

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.