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 7.1
 110K
WarGames (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a ...
Style: clever, futuristic, tense, cyber, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: cold war, hacker, computer, computer hacker, teenager, nuclear threat, hacking, computer cracker, computer genius, chess, artificial intelligence, nuclear war ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: seattle, oregon, washington state, usa, ussr ...
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 5.9
 2K
Enigma (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, kgb, espionage, assassination, politics, danger, dishonesty, government agency, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: east germany, germany
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 6.4
 53K
Spies Like Us (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Style: humorous, parody, funny, light, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, kgb, chase, mistaken identity, race against time, buddy, farce, secret service, nuclear war, nuclear threat ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, middle east, asia, pakistan ...
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 6.2
 9K
Gotcha! (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron curtain by a sexy spy.
Style: sexy, spoof, sexual, erotic, action comedy ...
Plot: spy, cold war, college, chase, female nudity, espionage, age difference, city, urban, violence, spy spoof, subculture ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: europe, paris france, germany, soviet union, east berlin ...
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 7.6
 335K
Lord of War (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, France, Zambia, Italy, Denmark, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most ...
Style: clever, suspense, realistic, thought provoking, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: business, greed, corruption, arms dealer, cold war, arms dealing, millionaire, gunrunner, rags to riches, smuggling, human nature, rise and fall ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, year 2001 ...
Place: africa, bolivia, new york, odessa ukraine, sierra leone ...
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 7.3
 122K
Crimson Tide (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, underwater, u.s. navy, military, nuclear, war, spy, sea ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, pacific ocean, mediterranean sea, alabama
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, black and white, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cold war, military, satire, nuclear war, nuclear threat, anti war, disaster, doomsday, nuclear holocaust, u.s. president, nuclear, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, britain ...
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 7.7
 3K
The Game (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: London 1972. When a defecting KGB officer, Arkady Malinov, reveals Operation Glass, a devastating Soviet plot that could change the course of the Cold War, Daddy, the head of MI5, assembles a secret team to investigate. As the Soviets awaken a list ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spy, conspiracy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, twists and turns, state affairs, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, intelligence, post war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, england
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 6.2
 19K
Topaz (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, betrayal, cuban missile crisis, surveillance, undercover, conspiracy, kgb, politics, government agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1962
Place: cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
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 6.7
 205K
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: spy, cold war, assassin, female killer, lgbt, female assassin, woman fights a man, female warrior, lesbian, rogue agent, female agent, female spy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 1989, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: berlin germany, east berlin, germany, eastern europe, europe ...
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 6.5
 112K
Octopussy (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. James Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Style: exciting, tense, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, cold war, secret agent, circus, 007, terrorism, race against time, espionage, agent, secret service, british secret service, kgb ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india, east germany, east berlin, fictional island, asia ...
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Smiley's People (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, british intelligence, spy, investigation, working undercover, secret mission, politics, traitor, intelligence, mysticism, spy thriller ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, hamburg germany, berlin germany
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 6.6
 29K
Torn Curtain (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, stylized, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, iron curtain, political intrigue, politics, stasi, secrets, manipulation, police investigation, murder mystery ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin ...
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, touching, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cold war, love, politics, forbidden love, female secret agent, secret, danger, female spy, love and romance, espionage, spy, desertion ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, chase, betrayal, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
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 7.1
 45K
No Way Out (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: twists and turns, conspiracy, murder, espionage, cold war, investigation, love triangle, political corruption, sex scene, spy, plot twist, secretary of defense ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., pentagon, manila philippines, usa
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 7.5
 191K
The Abyss (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: ufo, ocean, underwater, first contact, submarine, sea, disaster, alien, space and aliens, survival, alien encounter, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Style: political, realistic, clever, factual, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cia, cold war, womanizer, politics, politician, congress, congressman, spy, propaganda, arms dealer, conspiracy, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2000s, year 2007, year 1980 ...
Place: afghanistan, washington d.c., texas, pakistan, usa ...
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Style: political thriller, psychotronic, suspense, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, computer, anti communism, spy thriller, railway, martial arts, revolt, woman with a gun, secret mission, machine gun ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland, england, texas, latvia ...
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 4.6
 342
Blackmark (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 1963 Military Industrialist Arthur Blackmark must race against the clock to stop an international incident which threatens to end the world.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: political conspiracy, cold war, john f. kennedy, terrorist, conspiracy, save the world, nuclear missile, special agent, nuclear threat, race against time, political intrigue, terrorist attack ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: soviet union, ussr
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 7.6
 579K
Watchmen (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited ...
Style: neo noir, visually stunning, visually appealing, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, alternate reality, vigilante, anti hero, distopia, good versus evil, moral dilemma, mars, masked vigilante, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place: usa, new york, america, washington d.c., los angeles ...
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 8.6
 18K
Foyle's War (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
Style: clever, serious, captivating, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, investigation, police investigation, police detective, war crime, spy, detective inspector, police, espionage, homicide detective, whodunit, murder investigation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new mexico, london
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Project Blue Book (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”
Style: enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ufo, alien, physicist, political conspiracy, alien abduction, investigation, state affairs, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien technology, alien contact, scientific research ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
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The Whistle Blower (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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...
Style: political thriller, political, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, whistleblower, murder, paranoia, spy thriller, intrigue, law enforcement, 007, iron curtain, politics ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
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The Russia House (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
Style: political, stylized, sex comedy, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, surveillance, iron curtain, cia, undercover, politics, intrigue, international relations, secret agent, russian woman, love ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, england, lisbon portugal, soviet union, europe ...
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 7.5
 62K
Cold War (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style: black and white, romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: cold war, musician, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore, defector ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: poland, paris france, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
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 7.2
 7K
23 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to ...
Style: mind bending, psychological, cyber, cult classic, political ...
Plot: hacker, computer, cold war, espionage, hacking, conspiracy, computer hacker, drug addiction, mathematics, internet, kgb, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, year 1986
Place: west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany ...
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
Style: funny, fast paced, black and white, talky, biting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, satire, coca cola, communism, capitalist, farce, corporate executive, race against time, voice over narration, cold war era, psychological torture ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, east berlin, east germany ...
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Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, action thriller, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, espionage, spy, satellite, military, underwater, winter, snow, disaster, political intrigue, double agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: scotland
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The Living Daylights (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
Style: suspense, saga, exciting, spectacular, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: 007, espionage, cold war, soviet afghanistan war, betrayal, spy, secret service, cello, secret agent, agent, assassin, car chase ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, vienna, tangier morocco, england, morocco ...
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