Kgb movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant kgb movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with kgb, spy, espionage, cold war, undercover, secret agent, conspiracy, betrayal, politics and cold war era plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in USA, UK, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kgb: Enigma (1982), Cambridge Spies (2003), Bridge of Spies (2015), The Americans (2013), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Anna (2019), DAU. Natasha (2020), Frederick Forsyth's Icon (2005), The White Crow (2018), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
Best films
New films
| PONIES (2026) | 7.1 | |
| The Courier (2020) | 7.2 | |
| Anna (2019) | 6.7 | |
| A Spy Among Friends (2022) | 7.2 | |
| DAU. Degeneration (2020) | 6.5 |
List of kgb movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 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:
iron curtain, cold war, kgb, spy, espionage, assassination, undercover, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place:
east germany, germany, east berlin, paris france, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, kgb, treason, politics, traitor, communist, betrayal, university, homosexuality, cold war, spy, secret agent ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, europe, london, big ben london
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style:
suspense, historical drama, dramatic, period piece, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cold war, espionage, lawyer, spy, cia, agent, soviet spy, courtroom, politics, berlin wall, court, negotiation ...
Time:
year 1960, year 2015, 2010s, year 1957, 1950s ...
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, west germany ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, sexy, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, undercover, working undercover, mission, top secret, kgb, mole, government agency, couple relations, investigation ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., soviet union, usa, ussr
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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, spy, politics, undercover, cold war, kgb, nuclear bomb, secret agent, conspiracy, closeted homosexual, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
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107K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia, Serbia, Guadeloupe
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Style:
suspense, action thriller, satanic, period piece, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female spy, female assassin, spy, female protagonist, female agent, cia agent, one woman army, murder, double agent, russian spy, assassin, female killer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 90s, 80s, year 1985 ...
Place:
paris france, moscow russia, russia, bahamas, milan italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, UK, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute's employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha's world is a small one, ...
Style:
tense, captivating, neo noir, crying
Plot:
explicit sex, kgb, sexually frustrated woman, scientist, sexual humiliation, unsimulated sex, sex scene, erection, sexual torture, sex, secret agent, espionage ...
Time:
1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kgb, politics, presidential election, espionage, uncover truth, race against time, fighting the system, chases and races, government agency, heroes, danger, secret agent ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, dancer, gay, politics, cold war, dancing, nudity, painting, desertion, kgb, biopic, male nudity ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 2019, 1950s, year 1938
Place:
paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Hungary, Turkey
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style:
confusing, neo noir, bleak, period piece, political ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, secret service, mole, british intelligence, investigation, double agent, kgb, government agency, secret agent, undercover ...
Time:
70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, istanbul turkey, hungary ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 625 min.
TV show
Story:
Story of the rise of a girl from proverbial humble beginnings to top Russian fashion model during Cold War-era USSR.
Style:
touching, exciting, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
fashion show, model, suicide, kgb, impossible love, personality change, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, fashion model, abortion, love ...
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, disturbing, captivating, realistic, political ...
Plot:
world war two, kgb, anal rape, secret agent, introspection, betrayal, haunted by the past, political unrest, undercover, dishonesty, moral dilemma, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945, post world war two
Place:
russia, london, england, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The story takes place in 1957. In the center of the plot - taking place in the small town of mysterious crimes, the investigation of which involved a policeman Balakhnin and KGB agent Mitin.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, showdown, danger, police investigation, murder, death, kgb, fighting crime, partners against crime, private investigator, teamwork, private detective ...
Time:
20th century
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16K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
submarine, nuclear submarine, military, cold war, nuclear threat, navy, underwater, nuclear missile, military life, mission gone awry, danger, sea disaster ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1968
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Real-life figures from the Cold War era mix with a fictional story based on a group of CIA operatives and their counterparts in the KGB, MI6, and the Mossad.
Style:
epic, captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, cia, undercover, mole, politics, intrigue, secret lover, suspicion, double life, state affairs, betrayal ...
Time:
50s, 80s, 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany, soviet union, cuba, west berlin west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style:
tense, sexy, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, double agent, cia, politics, corruption, conspiracy, mentor, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, year 1961 ...
Place:
cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
Style:
tense, captivating, dramatic, exciting
Plot:
british intelligence, espionage, kgb, cold war, double agent, secret agent, reconnaissance, officer, undercover agent, friend, agent, fellow agent ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, 1950s, year 1934
Place:
moscow russia, london
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, kgb, danger, law enforcement, confined, chase, undercover, escapades, spy, politics, vietnam war, cold war ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
vietnam, soviet union, ussr
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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, surreal, political ...
Plot:
espionage, computer, hacker, cold war, computer genius, hacking, nuclear power plant, computer hacker, geek, conspiracy, computer science, drug addiction ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, year 1986
Place:
west berlin west germany, soviet union, german democratic republic, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, brutal, dramatic
Plot:
driver, kgb, father daughter relationship, family relations, social relations, assassination, couple relations, young man, outcast, stranded, tragedy, first love ...
Time:
60s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, tense, serious, intense ...
Plot:
rape, murder, russian mafia, gangster, mob boss, prostitution, twists and turns, male nudity, organized crime, violent, death in childbirth, child prostitute ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are ...
Style:
stylized, witty, humorous, action comedy, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, secret service, reluctant partners, culture clash, cia, cia agent, undercover, chase, secret agent, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, year 2015, 2010s, 1900s ...
Place:
italy, germany, london, rome italy, east germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, iron curtain, undercover, double agent, danger, betrayal, state affairs, dishonesty, working undercover, kgb, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, france, russia, ussr
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Miss Maple, a music teacher, falls ill and a couple of kids try to get money for her treatment by selling Russians the blueprints of military airplanes. The trouble is - blueprints are from miniscule toy models. In middle of it all, teen hormones ...
Style:
lighthearted, retro, period piece, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
kgb, music teacher, cold war, teacher, spy, student, middle school, school, friendship, espionage, unhappiness, teamwork ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, moral dilemma, betrayal, double agent, parents and children, who to trust, family relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, manipulation, secret agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, political, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
human rights, kgb, fighting the system, poet, writer's life, writers, social activist, historical figure, activist, heroes, historical character, freedom fighter ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The year is 1982. Katya Koroleva, an athlete and a beauty, flees from the investigation to her sister in Moscow. Her sister gets her a job as a saleswoman at the Porcelain House store. Here Katya meets a KGB general, not knowing that her sister is ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kgb, idealism, lifestyle, power relations, youth, ambition, society, female protagonist, showdown, state affairs, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, tense, interesting
Plot:
spy, cia, kgb, russian spy, intelligence, loyalty, secret agent, government agency, conspiracy, twists and turns, working undercover, investigation ...
Place:
usa, russia, philadelphia
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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 become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, retro, colorful, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ballet, cold war, dance, defector, cold war era, dancing, kgb, escape, ballerina, dancer, culture clash, expatriate ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
russia, soviet union, siberia, london, ussr
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64K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
espionage, surveillance, investigation, spy, double agent, cia, betrayal, working undercover, fbi, manipulation, suspicion, mission ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr, washington d.c.
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