Image of Russia in Western Cinema
The list is borrowed from the article "Cold War and transformation of image of Russia on Western screen" by Aleksandr Fyodorov. It shows how perception of Russia and Soviet Union was changing in American and European cinema in time of Cold War and after - since 1946 till 2009.
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- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsCarl ReinerEva Marie SaintAlan ArkinWithout hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
- DirectorGeorges LampinStarsEdwige FeuillèreLucien CoëdelJean DebucourtMuichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRossano BrazziIrasema DiliánGino CerviAn evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsFosco GiachettiLamberto PicassoMariella LottiWhen a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsIrasema DiliánAmedeo NazzariVittorio GassmanLiterary adaptation: A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsVivien LeighRalph RichardsonKieron MooreA married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsMerle OberonRobert RyanCharles KorvinA multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
- DirectorFred CoeStarsGertrude LawrenceCathleen CordellMicheál MacLiammóirAn English officer must cope with the wiles of Catherine the Great.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsDana AndrewsGene TierneyJune HavocThe story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsLouis HaywardDennis O'KeefeLouise AllbrittonDuring the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsGene RaymondSigrid GuriePatricia MorisonIn this Cold-War thriller Steve Roark (Gene Raymond) helps nuclear scientists in their desperate attempt to escape the ruthless Russian Communist agents who are chasing after them. Roark is a former OSS man assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from Russia and spirit them away from the Iron Curtain. Steve is shocked to discover that one of the scientists is his former lover Linda Carlsen (Sigrid Gurie). In the meantime, sexy cabaret singer-turned-spy Magda Onescu (Patricia Morison) acts as a double agent for both the Allies and the Communists, hoping to gain double profits by giving vital information to both sides.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakMervyn LeRoyStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerMelvyn DouglasIn the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsRobert RyanLaraine DayJohn AgarSuccessful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsRobert RockwellHanna Axmann-RezzoriBetty Lou GersonAn ex-GI becomes involved with the American Communist party, and falls in love with his instructor. The pair quickly realise their mistake, when they see how party leaders handle a member who questioned the party's principles. When they try to leave, they're marked for assassination and hunted by the party killers.
- DirectorJack BernhardStarsRichard TravisHelen WestcottEmory ParnellSpotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong resemblance to Rattick.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsAnton WalbrookEdith EvansYvonne MitchellAn army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.
- DirectorEdward MontagneStarsKeith AndesRita ColtonJack LordThe New York-filmed production opens with a discourse on Communist infiltration into American colleges, and moves on to a series of dialogue exchanges in a night club, an apartment, a barber shop and some offices. A young physicist is being blackmailed, by a friend, into stealing a secret atomic energy plan.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsDanny KayeWalter SlezakBarbara BatesA town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsKent TaylorGloria HoldenGene LockhartReverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach. Meanwhile, he is getting the chance to see how Americans live, and the part that religion plays in their lives, and there is also a slight romance between him and Burnside's former sweetheart, Louise Cannon, who thinks he is the man she knew twenty-years previously. Then comes the night when he is scheduled to go on the air on an international hook-up, at which time he is do an about-face and speak on the virtues of Communism. Instead, he tears up his pro-Communist speech and denounces Communism. Red agents kill him and they are rounded up by the FBI. The real Burnside, in a North Korean prison, hears the broadcast.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsMontgomery CliftPaul DouglasCornell BorchersExperiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsCharles BickfordBonita GranvillePaul KellyThe story of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the German occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindszenty was arrested, tortured, and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Soviet occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsRobert TaylorElizabeth TaylorRobert FlemyngIn Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsWalter PidgeonEthel BarrymorePeter LawfordShortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia (Ethel Barrymore), Nicobar, and his military aides Major John "Twingo" McPhimister (Peter Lawford) and Audrey Quail (Dame Angela Lansbury), become involved in the plight of young ballerina Olga Alexandrova (Janet Leigh), who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.
- DirectorMikel ConradStarsMikel ConradPat GarrisonHantz von TeuffenBoth the CIA and KGB investigate UFOs in Alaska: friend or foe?
- DirectorEmil A. LingheimStarsEdvard PerssonIvar WahlgrenAurore PalmgrenSummer 1945. Anders Svensson lives a care-free life on the Swedish countryside. One day he gets a letter from his nephew, Ville. Now when the war is over, Ville is stuck in the Baltic city of Stettin. Without money or papers, he is unable to get to Sweden. But Svensson gets on a ship to the Soviet-occupied city. The Soviet military has made it very difficult for people to leave the port but with some ingenuity he manages to get past the guards.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsHoward DuffMärta TorénPhilip FriendDuring the Cold War, a microfilm concealed in the collar of a panther, transported by freight rail, is sought by several spies after the animal escapes its cage following the train's derailment in Switzerland.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsLiam RedmondAndré MorellKenneth GriffithA wave of sabotage has been sweeping England, taking lives and creating instability. Cmdr. Robert Brennan and Supt. Folland of the Special Branch and Major Elliott of MI5 are charged with putting an end to this internal terrorism.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsMichael RenniePatricia NealHugh MarloweAn alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsSabuLita BaronH.B. WarnerThere is this little small-island kingdom located off the South China coast and the United States offers a pact of economic aid and military assistance if needed. But there is this Asiatic Communist nation/power---not identified but the name starts with 'C'--- that does not want this treaty to be signed, for whatever reason those Commie-nations have for doing whatever it is they are doing, and they have a plan going to thwart the treaty. Then the island King-inheritor, Sabu, playing a tic-tac-toe role name, comes home. Sabu does this at a large sacrifice, as he had to give up his promising career as a world-class prizefighter in the United States. But he has little choice as his brother, the prior King, had been murdered and if there was anything kingdoms were big on, it was keeping the royal crown in the hands of one family. Sabu, after accepting accolades from the citizens, snoops around and discovers that his cousin, who has reigned for a brief period between the murder of the previous family-member King and the return of Sabu, is the leader of the faction opposing the treaty. Well, right behind the rulers of "C", that is. But Sabu has a guy from Texas and another one from Brooklyn helping him, so that evens the odds in his favor.
- DirectorArch ObolerStarsWilliam PhippsSusan Douglas RubesJames AndersonThe world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsCarla BalendaElliott ReidEdgar BarrierMatt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Nazis-turned-Communists have purchased a lodge on an island in the middle of the fish-killing lake, and have built some kind of laboratory. Never one to pass up a chance to sell a story to a magazine, Matt decides to investigate. His only ally is Janet Keller, the sister of the local doctor who has been caught up in whatever those nefarious Commie-Nazis are up to. What they are up to, with Soviet financing, is the development of diseases to use in bacteriological warfare against the United States, starting right there in Minnesota.
- DirectorDorrell McGowanStuart E. McGowanStarsFlorence MarlyLee FrederickKatsuhiko HaidaA Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsFrank LovejoyDorothy HartPhilip CareyIn Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsWayne MorrisLola AlbrightAlan Hale Jr.Mike Wien, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy American businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on his way to Siberia carrying microfilms of U.S. defense installations.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsGene BarryLydia ClarkeMichael MooreAn atomic scientist's son is kidnapped by enemy agents.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn WayneNancy OlsonJames ArnessIn the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists.
- DirectorRussell RouseStarsRay MillandMartin GabelHarry BronsonA chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGerald MohrPeggie CastleDan O'HerlihyA group of people at a bar witness the unfolding events of a Soviet invasion of the USA.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerPatricia NealStephen McNallyA US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
- DirectorRobert ParrishPhil KarlsonStarsDana AndrewsMärta TorénGeorge SandersCold war intrigue in France and Hungary.
- DirectorHarry HornerStarsPeter GravesAndrea KingHerbert BerghofAn American scientist is able to contact and communicate with Mars with shattering political, economic, and spiritual repercussions.
- DirectorHarry S. FranklinBoris PetroffStarsGuy MadisonMalaCarole MathewsLieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsGeorge MurphyFinlay CurrieVirginia GilmoreA G-man searches for a communist sleeper-cell in Boston.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGregory PeckAnn BlythAnthony QuinnIn 1850 San Francisco, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsRobert WalkerHelen HayesVan HeflinThe Jeffersons are the ideal picture-perfect all-American family in a small town, but their eldest son John returns home after a long absence spouting views that cause them to worry he may be a Communist.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsSid MeltonMara LynnSam FlintWhen he is told that he is to spend three more years as a tailgunner, goofball GI Herbert Pumice thinks that a promotion--which he has little to no chance of getting--will get him out of the job he hates. He asks his girlfriend Sally, who owns the base café, for help. She goes to the base commander, Col. Baker--who she knows has a crush on her--to help out Herbert. Col. Baker schedules a promotion hearing for Herbert that Friday. He naturally fails it miserably, and then learns that Col. Baker is going out on a date with Sally. Meanwhile, the base military intelligence officer discovers that Herbert is a dead-ringer for the head of a spy ring intending to sabotage a new automated plane, and gets Herbert assigned to infiltrate the gang. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJames MasonDanielle DarrieuxMichael RennieDuring WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsCornel WildeTeresa WrightAlfonso BedoyaIn the 1840s, most Californians want their state to break away from Mexico and possibly join the USA but Russia, Britain and France aim to grab California for themselves.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsGeorge ColeOscar HomolkaNadia GrayA British sanitary engineer accidentally takes plans for a secret weapon on vacation thinking they're plumbing designs. Russians recruit him for the plans. He falls for a Russian agent, unaware the plans are for a dangerous weapon.
- DirectorWesley BarryStarsRoddy McDowallKristine MillerHarry LauterIn an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsJohnny WeissmullerAngela StevensLester MatthewsJungle Jim tries to relocate African natives so that the atom bomb can be tested on their island. Enemy agents interfere.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRichard WidmarkJean PetersThelma RitterA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsClark GableGene TierneyBernard MilesAn American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
- DirectorVictor VicasStarsIvan DesnyRuth NiehausRené DeltgenIn 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa returns to Berlin as a civilian engineer in charge of factory production. He remembers Anna and searches for her in the western sector, where he is observed by the Secret Police. He is instructed to report to the police chief, Kazanow, who reprimands him for leaving the eastern zone. While there, Mischa discovers that Anna is Kazanow's secretary. Factory manager Schultz resents the Russians and attempts to murder Mischa, who is seriously injured but recovers and wins Schultz's respect and confidence. Schultz tells Mischa he is planning to escape to the western zone, and Mischa gives him the address of a contact in free Germany. Schultz's plan is uncovered by the police and he commits suicide. When they find the contact's address, Mischa and Anna, now deeply in love, are forced to flee. There, the Russian secret police trick Anna into a car and start the drive back to the eastern zone from which there is no way out.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsRichard DenningNancy GatesRichard LooYankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsFredric MarchTerry MooreGloria GrahameA Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonClaire BloomHildegard KnefIn post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRichard WidmarkBella DarviVictor FrancenDuring the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsRonald ReaganSteve ForrestDewey MartinDuring the Korean War, an American officer is tasked with infiltrating a Communist-run POW camp in order to investigate the treatment of American prisoners by the enemy.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames WhitmoreEdmund GwennJoan WeldonThe earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsGregory PeckBroderick CrawfordAnita BjörkDuring the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.
- DirectorJack AlexanderStarsHarry TownesIrja JensenJacques AubuchonIn 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a code clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, bolted for the freedom of the West and took many secret documents with him that helped lay waste to a good portion of Russia's Western Hemisphere spy system. His headline-making defection later served as the basis for 20th Century-Fox's "The Iron Curtain" in 1947. This film, shot in a semi-documentary style, proports to tell how the Soviets "might" attempt to kill Gouzenko, then living in carefully disguised circumstances somewhere in Canada. Gouzenko, his face covered in a Ku Klux Klan-type hood---no symbolism intended---appears in the epilogue, while Westbrook Van Voorhis, in his usual voice-of-doom "March of Time" style, narrates the opening sequence retelling the background and setting up the film's premise.
- DirectorGeorges CombretStarsPierre BrasseurIsa MirandaRenée FaureGregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him...
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsTrevor HowardAlida ValliRichard BasehartA British lad tries to investigate his father's disappearance in Venice when nobody believes him.
- DirectorAntonio PetrucciStarsVittorio De SicaSilvana PampaniniAlberto SordiAn Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsEva BartokIvan DesnyKarlheinz BöhmBeautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories about life in St. Petersburg and easily can be persuaded to accompany him there. Minski promises her father to marry her later. In truth he's soon tired of her and throws her out; she's passed around among the officers of the czar like a prostitute. When her father gets word of it, he wants to take revenge.
- DirectorBruno HübnerStarsFritz AsmussenLina CarstensHans Clarin
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsJudy CanovaAndy ClydeRoss ElliottJudy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsRichard ConteRona AndersonRussell NapierA US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsTerence MorganYolande DonlanAndré MorellA senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information...
- DirectorGeorge CooganJackie CooganStarsJackie CooganMona KnoxMike StokeyA couple who have escaped from the Baltics to Copenhagen are pursued by a KGB officer.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsEdward G. RobinsonGeorge RaftAudrey Totter-In Montreal (Canada), a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved.
- DirectorStellio LorenziStarsRoger CrouzetPierre MondyPierre Asso
- DirectorBernard KnowlesCharles FrankStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Christopher RhodesElizabeth WallaceIn an Eastern Bloc country, a firing squad is doing its duty executing enemies of the state. When the shooting is over, one of the soldiers goes to check on the bodies of the executed men. To his surprise, he sees that one of them, Michael Turbin, is still alive.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsJoseph CottenEva BartokJörg BeckerThe Pacific Rim's best bonded courier is tasked with delivering a bratty 15-year-old to her mother in the U.S. amid a bitter custody battle and escalating stakes.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJune AllysonFrank LovejoyAn ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsGlenn FordDorothy McGuireArthur KennedyCourtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsIngrid BergmanYul BrynnerHelen HayesAn opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
- DirectorFalk HarnackStarsLilli PalmerIvan DesnySusanne von AlmassyIn 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKevin McCarthyDana WynterLarry GatesA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
- DirectorAnthony SquireStarsDonald HoustonFay ComptonAnton DiffringA Cornish poacher clashes with dangerous international spies.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsÉric RohmerFrançoise MartinelliJean-Claude BrialyIn this adaptation of Tolstoy's argument for sexual abstinence, a man recounts the events that led to the killing of his wife.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPaul DouglasEva BartokLeslie PhillipsAn 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.
- DirectorMarcel BluwalStarsClaude RichRoger CarelMadeleine Lambert
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsGene BarryValerie FrenchGeorge VoskovecAliens take five people, give them small capsules which can kill mankind without additional damage, with the understanding they will colonize Earth only if they use the weapons.
- DirectorRussell BirdwellStarsLex BarkerZsa Zsa GaborJeffrey StoneIn 1953, Soviet dictator Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes plastic surgery and vanishes but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.
- DirectorJohn GoetzFranchot ToneStarsFranchot ToneClarence DerwentDolores DornA retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls the doctor (Astrov) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. The presence of Yelena introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household. Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonya is in love with Astrov, who fails even to notice her. Finally, when the professor announces he wants to sell the estate, Vanya, whose admiration for the man died with his sister, tries to kill him.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsBob HopeKatharine HepburnNoelle MiddletonRussian Captain defects to England, not for politics but due to gender discrimination. English Captain ordered to sell capitalism. Defector argues communism better. They fall in love despite KGB attempts to retrieve her.
- DirectorRichard L. BreenStarsRobert WagnerJoan CollinsEdmond O'BrienAn American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsJohn WayneJanet LeighJay C. FlippenAir Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
- DirectorJoseph SterlingStarsPhilip FriendMary MackenzieLeslie DwyerIntelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he may discover what went wrong?
- DirectorRobert C. DertanoStarsJacques ScottMichele MontauGeorge GrahamAn Eastern European escapes to America, where Communist agents try to track him down.
- DirectorHenry S. KeslerStarsRuth RomanSterling HaydenWerner KlempererDuring the 1950s, a man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsDerek FarrElla RainesDonald WolfitCommunist agents trail an important scientist to try to steal his top-secret new formula.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFred AstaireCyd CharisseJanis PaigeA Russian government official is sent to Paris to bring back her comrades; she soon gets a taste of Paris life and falls in love with an American movie producer.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsGerald MiltonMichael MillsViolet RensingRe-creation of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. A Hungarian militarist (Mylong) has a daughter (Rensing) who is an ardent communist. She loves Mills, who comes from a liberal family headed by his professor-father, Hoyt. The lovers are kept apart by their politics. "The Beast" in the title is Milton, who portrays the real man who kept an iron hand on the Hungarians.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsSilvana ManganoVan HeflinViveca LindforsIn 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.