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The Ipcress File 1965

7.2 /10

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

Run Time: 109 Min . MMPA: 11 . Release: Mar 18, 1965

Director: Director: Sidney J Furie,

Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson,

No Way Out 1987

7.1 /10

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

Run Time: 114 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Aug 14, 1987

Director: Director: Roger Donaldson,

Stars: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff,

Tetris 2023

7.4 /10

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.

Run Time: 117 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Mar 15, 2023

Director: Director: Jon S Baird,

Stars: Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones,

Ishtar 1987

4.6 /10

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: May 15, 1987

Director: Director: Elaine May,

Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston,

Despite the Falling Snow 2016

5.8 /10

New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.

Run Time: 94 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Jan 29, 2016

Director: Director: Shamim Sarif,

Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Oliver JacksonCohen,

Superman: Red Son 2020

6.4 /10

Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.

Run Time: 84 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Feb 24, 2020

Director: Director: Sam Liu,

Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader, Vanessa Marshall, Phil Morris,

Blast from the Past 1999

6.7 /10

Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.

Run Time: . MMPA: 13 . Release: Feb 12, 1999

Director: Director: Hugh Wilson,

Stars: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Nathan Fillion,

Atomic Blonde 2017

6.7 /10

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.

Run Time: 115 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Jul 26, 2017

Director: Director: David Leitch,

Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan, Toby Jones,

October Sky 1999

7.8 /10

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.

Run Time: 108 Min . MMPA: 10 . Release: Feb 19, 1999

Director: Director: Joe Johnston,

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Chad Lindberg,

Ginger & Rosa 2012

6.2 /10

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

Run Time: 89 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Oct 18, 2012

Director: Director: Sally Potter,

Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Spall,

Bad Timing 1980

6.9 /10

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.

Run Time: 123 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Mar 02, 1980

Director: Director: Nicolas Roeg,

Stars: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey,

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002

7 /10

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Run Time: 113 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Dec 31, 2002

Director: Director: George Clooney,

Stars: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer,