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Criterion Channel
87
7.9
/17380/
76
/346/
78
/354/
4.3
/37507/
98
/57/
90
/279/
93
/9/

Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.5
/64757/
73
/2024/
74
/1538/
4.0
/168001/
92
/254/
82
/176/
90
/45/
cc age 16+

Cold War (2018)
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
poster
79
7.8
/24382/
77
/478/
75
/404/
4.0
/21465/
88
/25/
87
/306/
73
/8/

One, Two, Three (1961)
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca-Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.2
/16895/
69
/351/
72
/346/
3.8
/20200/
94
/83/
76
/159/
86
/22/

Barbara (2012)
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
poster
MGM Plus
77
7.5
/20321/
74
/486/
71
/315/
3.9
/17623/
86
/21/
82
/282/
cc age 10+

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
poster
74
6.7
/1749/
74
/26/
62
/25/
3.5
/1924/
100
/8/
70
/33/

Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands. A classic British romantic comedy filled with new wave tunes, 80s fashion, a little politics and a lot of heart.
poster
74
6.9
/7164/
71
/149/
65
/134/
3.4
/1541/
85
/79/
75
/164/
74
/25/

Farewell (2009)
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
poster
Hoopla
72
7.0
/7337/
69
/153/
65
/65/
3.5
/1912/
82
/33/
72
/118/
74
/16/

A Woman in Berlin (2008)
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
poster
72
6.9
/2543/
67
/32/
58
/31/
3.5
/862/
80
/15/
75
/18/

The Legend of Rita (2000)
Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the reunification.
poster
68
7.4
/5329/
69
/45/
64
/67/
3.4
/1207/
65
/31/
88
/60/
61
/27/

East/West (1999)
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
7.2
/352930/
73
/18404/
71
/6643/
3.5
/315853/
68
/294/
73
/2716/
56
/40/
cc age 13+

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
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 forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
poster
Kanopy
71
65
7.5
/14650/
76
/843/
74
/454/
3.6
/12929/
70
/30/
83
/15/
53
/9/

Balloon (2018)
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
poster
64
6.7
/112307/
68
/4034/
65
/1927/
3.3
/73960/
72
/58/
66
/2052/
59
/18/
cc age 13+

The Living Daylights (1987)
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
6.8
/4756/
64
/67/
63
/79/
3.2
/917/
56
/61/
66
/84/
51
/22/

An American Rhapsody (2001)
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.
poster
61
6.6
/31289/
66
/664/
66
/631/
3.2
/26766/
63
/32/
52
/520/
55
/8/

Torn Curtain (1966)
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 border.
poster
MGM Plus
60
6.1
/19403/
65
/479/
61
/314/
3.1
/8148/
70
/20/
50
/166/
67
/20/
cc age 14+

The Russia House (1990)
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
57
7.0
/5613/
71
/247/
65
/128/
3.4
/1322/
76
/25/

Jack Strong (2014)
Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
poster
57
6.5
/118900/
66
/4288/
63
/2110/
2.9
/78642/
41
/49/
47
/1823/
63
/14/
cc age 14+

Octopussy (1983)
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
poster
Hulu
53
5.8
/1412/
61
/35/
52
/18/
3.0
/946/
41
/10/

The Amateur (1981)
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
53
7.4
/1299/
69
/48/
66
/31/
3.5
/1100/
84
/55/
78
/68/
71
/18/

Trumbo (2007)
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture. Written by
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
5.5
/4899/
58
/109/
53
/103/
2.7
/3918/
63
/16/
28
/71/

Scream and Scream Again (1970)
A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
poster
50
6.4
/130750/
68
/3768/
63
/2020/
3.0
/36767/
24
/33/
51
/1680/
36
/20/

The Jackal (1997)
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
poster
Kanopy
45
5.0
/34380/
54
/1376/
52
/784/
2.4
/24080/
26
/42/
34
/1060/
48
/11/
cc age 14+

Casino Royale (1967)
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
poster
69
43
7.2
/2006/
60
/21/
65
/32/
3.5
/939/
78
/83/

Man on a Tightrope (1953)
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
poster
67
41
6.5
/1692/
67
/50/
61
/37/
3.3
/757/
80
/5/
66
/21/

Night Crossing (1982)
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
36
6.6
/1643/
63
/29/
57
/37/
3.4
/815/
67
/6/
68
/15/

Dangerous Moves (1984)
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
poster
Kanopy
81
31
8.3
/1139/
73
/20/
73
/9/
3.8
/673/
100
/5/
83
/1/

The Jump (2020)
In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.
poster
73
30
7.5
/517/
73
/8/
54
/15/
3.5
/246/
92
/13/
94
/5/
59
/7/

Disco and Atomic War (2009)
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
poster
MGM Plus
68
30
6.8
/373/
40
/5/
65
/7/
100
/238/

Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
poster
71
29
7.0
/952/
75
/34/
73
/38/
3.4
/484/

Open the Wall (2014)
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
poster
59
28
6.4
/1276/
62
/23/
58
/25/
3.1
/511/
53
/47/

The Iron Curtain (1948)
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
poster
The Roku Channel
53
26
5.9
/1822/
62
/53/
55
/40/
3.1
/660/
27
/14/

Enigma (1982)
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.
poster
63
24
6.6
/787/
58
/7/
63
/9/
63
/112/

The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
39
23
4.3
/2350/
36
/13/
38
/30/
2.9
/650/
23
/1918/
35
/5/

Born American (1986)
A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
poster
44
22
4.9
/1611/
52
/42/
47
/27/
2.9
/459/
33
/6/
27
/24/

Red Planet Mars (1952)
Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
poster
59
21
6.1
/822/
68
/25/
64
/18/
3.3
/335/
40
/77/

Never Say Goodbye (1956)
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
20
7.1
/1400/
74
/29/
67
/13/
3.4
/416/

Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)
The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A successful lawyer in Vienna, Olga is called back to Hungary when her old mother, Mary suddenly falls into a coma. While Mary is floating between life and death, Olga finds a deeply silent secret. The increasingly passionate research leads back to the post-war Europe of the '50s.
poster
57
15
6.2
/825/
49
/12/
55
/17/
3.2
/415/

Assignment: Paris (1952)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
poster
55
14
5.6
/610/
56
/12/
48
/15/
3.1
/637/

The Fall of Berlin (1950)
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
poster
Hoopla
44
14
5.3
/992/
48
/16/
51
/21/
3.0
/495/
12
/7/

The Gamma People (1956)
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
poster
57
13
6.7
/793/
45
/8/
59
/17/
3.4
/324/
50
/3/

Escape from East Berlin (1962)
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
12
7.4
/678/
66
/6/
56
/10/
3.6
/317/

An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
poster
57
10
6.2
/570/
53
/12/
52
/12/
3.2
/214/

The Secret Ways (1961)
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.
poster
?
7.4
/104/

Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema (2013)
An inspiring portrait of Dovzhenko, one of the greatest film directors, known as Homer of Cinema. The film features Sergei Trimbach, Oleksandr Muratov, Vyacheslav Bihun, Raisa Prokopenko, and Peter Simms.
poster
?
10
/1/

Sonderurlaub (1963)
TV-Movie from Rainer Erler
poster
47
?
6.7
/992/
66
/37/
10
/1/

Doppelgänger (2023)
Hans and Jan Bitner live on opposite sides of the iron curtain. Hans lives in France, he leads a quiet life. Bitner is a Pole, involved in the fight for a free Poland. Their lives are different, but there is one detail that links them.
poster
?
7.1
/11/

Highway East (2004)
With their border crossings, transit routes and their control by the “Volks-Polizei” (GDR police), with their concrete slabs and their history of construction, reaching back to the “Reichsautobahn” of the National Socialist era, the AUTOBAHN east stands as an example of German and German-German history. With a flair for anecdotes and situations, big politics and the small folks along the side of the road, Gerd Kroske has filmed a documentary, which refers back to the educational films of the transit police and footage of surveillance cameras of the state security and shows much more than a piece of “civil engineering” history.
poster
?
9.1
/17/

Dottern bakom järnridån
Swedish documentary by two brothers who tell the story of their Estonian mother who as a teenager came to Sweden from the closed Soviet Union.


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