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Cold War Spy Movies

Name: Cold War Spy Movies
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Spy films set during the Cold War — nuclear tension, defectors, and espionage between East and West.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock	8	Thriller, Adventure	United States of America	136	Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
The Lives of Others	2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	8	Drama, Thriller	Germany	137	In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Tetris	2023	Jon S. Baird	7.6	Thriller, History, Drama	United Kingdom	118	In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
The Hunt for Red October	1990	John McTiernan	7.4	Action, Thriller	United States of America	135	A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he...
Bridge of Spies	2015	Steven Spielberg	7.2	Thriller, Drama	United States of America	141	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 his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping...
The Courier	2020	Dominic Cooke	7	Thriller, History, Drama	United Kingdom	112	Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Pawn Sacrifice	2015	Edward Zwick	6.8	Thriller, Drama	United States of America	115	During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	2011	Tomas Alfredson	6.6	Drama, Thriller, Mystery	Germany	127	George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The San...
Charlie Wilson's War	2007	Mike Nichols	6.5	Comedy, Drama, History	Germany	102	A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.
Atomic Blonde	2017	David Leitch	6.4	Action, Adventure, Thriller	Germany	115	An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
The Good Shepherd	2006	Robert De Niro	6.3	Drama, Thriller, History	United States of America	167	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 the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does...

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