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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 114,030 | Gross: $8.05M
2. Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 6,036
3. Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
88 min | Documentary, History
Explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Director: Ziga Virc | Stars: Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Votes: 3,655
4. Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
R | 93 min | Comedy
A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.
Director: Tom Bussmann | Stars: Stuart Saunders, Graeme Garden, Marc Smith, Loretta Swit
Votes: 1,022
5. Assignment: Paris (1952)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Cold war intrigue in France and Hungary.
Directors: Robert Parrish, Phil Karlson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
Votes: 693
6. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Documentary, History
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
Votes: 990
7. Total Trust (2023)
97 min | Documentary
Two families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.
Director: Jialing Zhang | Stars: Zijuan Chen, Tutu, Wenzu Li, Quanzhang Wang
Votes: 216
8. The Rat Savior (1976)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's ... See full summary »
Director: Krsto Papic | Stars: Ivica Vidovic, Mirjana Majurec, Relja Basic, Fabijan Sovagovic
Votes: 921
9. North Korea: Michael Palin's Journey (2018– )
45 min | Documentary
As diplomatic relations between DPRK and South Korea begin to slightly thaw after decades of hostility, comedian and world traveler Michael Palin is allowed to visit North Korea for two weeks and, to a limited extent, explore the country.
Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 976
10. The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, War
A gripping, award-winning documentary about an irradiated Ukrainian artist's search for the truth about Chernobyl and his prescient and powerful warnings about Putin's plans for a coming Russian invasion.
Director: Chad Gracia | Stars: Andrei Alexandrovich, Fedor Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich, Natalia Barabovskaya
Votes: 1,489
11. Brisani prostor (1985)
50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to ... See full summary »
Stars: Slobodan Aligrudic, Miralem Zupcevic, Bogdan Diklic, Predrag Ejdus
Votes: 69
12. The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
PG | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.
Directors: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope | Stars: Edward Asner, Sally Field, Ben Kingsley, Igor Paramonov
Votes: 233
13. Bitter Money (2016)
152 min | Documentary
Furiously developing Eastern China has been inhabited by enlarging number of immigrants. In search for better tomorrow, they become violent and corrupted.
Director: Wang Bing | Star: Ling Ling
Votes: 182
14. Generatia Desenelor Animate (2008)
26 min | Documentary, Short
No-budget independent documentary about the Romanian cartoon lovers of the late 1980s and early 1990s and the significance of the genre for the communist and post-communist generations.
Director: Alexandru Stanescu | Stars: Viorica Bucur, Mihai Cabel, Georgeta Chira, Irina Margareta Nistor
Votes: 7
15. Amerykanin w PRL-u (2009)
42 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Directors: Ryszard Kaczynski, Piotr Morawski | Stars: Robert F. Kennedy, Adam Tkaczyk
Votes: 6
16. Zhadnost: The People's Party (1995 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy, Game-Show
Darkly comical party game. Zhadnost is a popular game show on the state run TV in Bizzarnia, a parody of communist Russia. The kidnapped contestants are brought to compete in various pop quiz categories to win their freedom.
Directors: Jim Eisenstein, Dana Beard | Stars: Ed Arter, Lyssie Powell, Chris Fairbanks, Jeff Hendricks
17.
Fox Mystery Theater (1984)
Episode:
Czech Mate
(1984)
73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Vicky's ex-husband, John, invites her on a trip to communist Prague. First John disappears, then her passport. Vicky finds herself alone and penniless in Prague and becomes a tragic pawn caught in a web of espionage and murder.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Susan George, Patrick Mower, Richard Heffer, Peter Vaughan
Votes: 160
18.
Danger (1950–1955)
Episode:
Borderline Affair
(1950)
30 min | Drama
An American man and his wife from an unnamed Communist country exit her country via the train, she with a phony passport. When a ten-year-old girl enters their compartment, the couple fears that the child will turn them in.
19.
Supergirl (2015–2021)
Episode:
The House of L
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of Lex Luthor's return, the show flashes back to what he's been doing for the last two years and how his secret machinations and plans have affected Supergirl and Lena.
Director: Carl Seaton | Stars: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath
Votes: 1,519