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- DirectorKamen KalevStarsChristo ChristovOvanes TorosianSaadet AksoyThrough Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
- DirectorJames X. LoftusStarsWilliam HopeTeodora DuhovnikovaMilena MihaylovaTrade Routes A political thriller exploring the ineptitude of U.S. Intelligence and cynicism of the global "democracy business." Set against an Eastern European election, multiple story lines revolve around Sarah, a young law student who joined the CIA to "contribute something" following September 11. Five years later, she's about to discover the cost.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsIgor SergeevAleksey PoluyanMikhail VasserbaumDepiction of "troika" type of mass murder trials and it's influence on those who carried out plans to mass murder million of people. Somehow Russia was able to produce such movie, which easily could be documentary about actual events.
- DirectorWarren BeattyStarsWarren BeattyDiane KeatonEdward HerrmannA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
- DirectorPaul FeigStarsBen TibberJim CaviezelJoan PlowrightA twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark.
- DirectorDick ClementStarsKirk DouglasMarlène JobertTrevor HowardAndrej (Kirk Douglas), a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travellers to transport the contraband out of the country.
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsChristopher JonesPia DegermarkRalph RichardsonFrom the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
- DirectorNicolae MargineanuStarsRemus MargineanuValentin VoicilaDorel Visan'Someplace in the East' is among the first movies made in Romania after the fall of the Communism, dealing with one of the troubled period at the beginning of the Communist rule in Romania. It describes the forced expropriation of land by the Communists and the formation of the Communist farms, which was a real tragic episode in the Romanian history.
- DirectorGabriel AchimStarsGabriel SpahiuDoru AnaOzana OanceaAdalbert's Dream mines the Romanian communist past for a dryly funny tale of ordinary people just getting on with their lives.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAlexandru PapadopolAnca AndroneSamuel TastetOccident is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the growing tendency of Eastern European youth to migrate west. When the amicable Luci (Alexandru Papadopol) and his beautiful lover Sorina (Anca Androne) are evicted from their apartment, Sorina decides they must visit her father's grave and ask for a "sign". Seconds later, Luci is hit in the head by a bottle and taken to the hospital by a Frenchman. Despite her love for Luci, Sorina believes a life with security takes precedence over romance, and moves in with the good samaritan. Meanwhile, a jilted bride (Tania Popa) and her mother (Coca Bloos) enlist the help of of a private agency to find a proper husband for her, but the wealthy Italian man they select has more than a couple of undesirable traits. Later, Michaela's (Popa) father, a police captain, finds out that Luci's cousin is dead, prompting him to remember when the two boys fled from Romania by swimming across the Danube on an inflatable doll. The cousin had made it across, but Luci had been arrested and thrown into prison.
- StarsTatiana PauhofováJaroslava PokornáPetr StachBased on real characters and events, this drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Buresová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonor Palach's sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaMarek KondratCezary PazuraIn the good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from the secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to a new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz will soon find out that some of his friends are on the other side.
- DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsJan Josef LiefersSebastian UrzendowskyClaudia MichelsenA look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advantages under the system. The Hoffmans gather often with family and friends for warm dinner parties rich with derisive political banter, live classical music, and spirited discussions, holding out for a better future. But even as Richard has high hopes and strict demands for studious Christian, he hides a passionate double life and shocking secrets that come back to haunt him. Against this tense climate of fear and mistrust, with the secret police lurking ominously in the background, choices are made and actions taken that have devastating repercussions.
- DirectorTomas MasinStarsKrystof HádekKarolina GruszkaMartin HubaA 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he writes lyrics for many of the underground rock band hits by 'The Plastic People of the Universa', a group heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground.
- DirectorAlexander ZahnStarsWolfgang DahlThomas DorlDirk FeinermannA satire on the political and spiritual conditions in GDR by the end of the 80s.
- DirectorAnnekatrin HendelStarsPaul GratzikSascha AndersonRenate BiskupOnce with the Stasi, always with the Stasi? Once you were in the agent controller's grasp you could never escape - that's what they say, anyway. Writer Paul Gratzik was an unofficial informer for the GDR State Security Service for twenty years, broke with them in the 80's and exposed his identity. 'Vaterlandsverraeter' ('Traitors to the Fatherland') is a portrait of an exceptional man whose tumultuous life was propelled to extremes. Now more than 20 years after the end of the GDR, this is a story that was never told before.
- DirectorLutz KonermannStarsAnneke Kim SarnauChristoph BachHans Werner MeyerIn 1989 more and more GDR citizens fled to the West German embassy in Prague
- DirectorSimon LangtonStarsMichael CaineJames FoxNigel HaversA 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 to be impenetrable.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsCliff RobertsonDina MerrillLuther AdlerAn American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineOscar HomolkaPaul HubschmidSent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsMichael CaineKarl MaldenEd BegleyBritish spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
- DirectorDouglas JacksonStarsMichael CaineJason ConneryYuri LimontySpy-turned-detective Harry Palmer is tasked with recovering a consignment of stolen plutonium in Saint Petersburg.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsYul BrynnerHenry FondaDirk BogardeA Soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsSean ConneryMichelle PfeifferRoy ScheiderA British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.
- StarsEdward WoodwardIan CharlesonJoss AcklandA tense tale of Cold War espionage and betrayal. A Russian agent enters England to force a hidden British agent high in the KGB to reveal himself.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsMichael CaineLaurence OlivierSusan GeorgeAn MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBibi AnderssonRichard BooneNigel GreenDuring the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsMartin SheenSam NeillBrigitte FosseyA C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsTom SkerrittMax von SydowHelen MirrenThe C.I.A. hears of a K.G.B. scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner (Tom Skerritt), an agent retired for ten years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policymakers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna (Dame Helen Mirren), a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
- DirectorReg TravissStarsEd StoppardTom SchillingBernadette HeerwagenA teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.
- DirectorNikolai RozantsevStarsYuri GusevNikolai TimofeyevNikolai GritsenkoA spy is detected and followed in Leningrad.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- CreatorToby WhithouseStarsTom HughesJonathan ArisVictoria HamiltonA Cold War spy thriller that tells the story of invisible wars fought by MI5.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMark RylanceAlan AldaDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
- DirectorShamim SarifStarsRebecca FergusonCharles DanceAnthony HeadIn Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsHenry CavillArmie HammerAlicia VikanderIn the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.
- DirectorSusanna WhiteStarsCarlos AcostaRadivoje BukvicStellan SkarsgårdA couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.
- It's the story of a former spy, his former lover - and the mysterious young woman sent to kill them both.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsAndrew ScottRomola GaraiCharlie CoxSet in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsRoy ScheiderJürgen ProchnowTim ReidCold 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.
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsKristoffer JonerAne Dahl TorpAnne RygA drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era dominated by Marxism and Leninism.
- DirectorBenjamin BondarStarsJoshua M. BottJohn HerzogNikita BogolyubovDuring the height of the Soviet Union expansion, fear of nuclear war lead both the KGB and the CIA to deploy spies for reconnaissance, espionage, and assassination. Apart from Cold War tensions, the Soviet Union was already fighting a war of its own, a war against Christianity; as it desperately tried to replace faith in God with faith in mankind. After a long career of following questionable orders and pursuing the Soviet Union's atheist agenda, KGB Chairman Shelepin searches for common ground with another zealous government agent from the opposite side, CIA agent Garver. However, while imprisoned by the Soviets for assassination and hoping for extradition; Garver discovers a Bible amongst the dead corpses in his cell and begins to transform into an even bigger enemy of the Soviet Union.
- StarsPeter HaberMaria GripSture DjerfSomeone is killing off Swedish military officers and making it look like the works of Soviet agents. Hamilton has to crack the case before all hell breaks loose and there is a full scale spy-war with the soviets.
- DirectorChris GerolmoStarsStephen ReaDonald SutherlandMax von SydowDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
- DirectorGreydon ClarkStarsSusan BlakelyBarry BostwickE.G. MarshallWhen Susan Dennison, an American woman traveling in Russia, tires to smuggle priceless artifacts out of the country, her entire tour group suffers the repercussions. Not only does the Russian government suspect her companions of criminal behavior, but an unidentified killer starts stalking them. Susan witnesses a murder and uncovers that her tour group may not be as blameless as they seem.
- CreatorAnna WingerJörg WingerStarsJonas NayMaria SchraderUlrich NoethenMartin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.