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1. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 488,596 | Gross: $44.59M
2. Red Sparrow (2018)
R | 140 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 201,472 | Gross: $46.87M
3. Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 49,250 | Gross: $2.44M
4. Cold War (2018)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 61,896 | Gross: $4.57M
5. Smiley's People (1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance.
Stars: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal
Votes: 4,762
6. The Russia House (1990)
R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox
Votes: 17,534 | Gross: $23.00M
7. The Salisbury Poisonings (2020)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Three episode, fact based drama from the BBC, about the 2018 Novichok poisoning crisis in the city of Salisbury.
Stars: Rafe Spall, Anne-Marie Duff, Annabel Scholey, Judah Cousin
Votes: 7,290
8. The White Crow (2018)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Votes: 7,019 | Gross: $1.83M
9. Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Not Rated | 102 min | Thriller
Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi
Votes: 7,777
10. Deutschland 89 (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller
Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Corinna Harfouch
Votes: 3,340
11. Yahsi Bati (2009)
112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In 1881, two Ottoman Secret Agents travel to the USA, at the Sultan's request, to deliver a valuable diamond as a gift for the President.
Director: Ömer Faruk Sorak | Stars: Cem Yilmaz, Ozan Güven, Demet Evgar, Zafer Algöz
Votes: 38,297
12. Night People (1954)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
During the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam
Votes: 1,511
13. 23 (1998)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp
Votes: 7,285
14. Potato Dreams of America (2021)
TV-MA | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An autobiographical dark comedy about a gay boy growing up in the Soviet Union, his mail-order-bride mother, and their adventurous escape to America.
Director: Wes Hurley | Stars: Jonathan Bennett, Lauren Tewes, Lea DeLaria, Dan Lauria
Votes: 765
15. Cold War (1998)
47 min | Documentary, History
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev
Votes: 1,038
16. Intergirl (1989)
151 min | Drama, Romance
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Larisa Malevannaya, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Votes: 1,473
17. East Side, West Side (1949)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner
Votes: 2,509
18. East/West (1999)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,142 | Gross: $2.78M
19. The Man Between (1953)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In 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.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone
Votes: 2,521
20. Preis der Freiheit (2019)
300 min | Drama, History
The life of three sisters shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Stars: Nadja Uhl, Barbara Auer, Nicolette Krebitz, Godehard Giese
Votes: 214
21. The Legend of Rita (2000)
103 min | Drama, History, Romance
The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 2,469 | Gross: $0.67M
22. Go West!
Comedy | Announced
1976. With a goal of emigrating to America, the Myshkins divorce and marry their respective Jewish neighbors, but get stranded in Vienna, Austria.
Director: Alexander Hahn | Stars: Adam Rose, Stephen Baldwin, Steve Guttenberg, Geraldine Chaplin
23. Man on a String (1960)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 496
24. Westler (1985)
94 min | Drama
Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening.... See full summary »
Director: Wieland Speck | Stars: Sigurd Rachman, Rainer Strecker, Andy Lucas, Frank Rediess
Votes: 432
25. West (2013)
R | 102 min | Drama
She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz
Votes: 1,035
26. Behind the Wall (2011)
71 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Behind The Wall documents what life was like on both sides of The Berlin Wall through the eyes of ordinary citizens from East and West Germany. They give an in-depth and overlooked ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Patrick Kelly | Stars: Thomas Bar, Wolfgang Bradler, Lothar de Maizière, Barbara Degner
Votes: 22
27. The Detached Mission (1986)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama
Much of the movie's dialogue is in English with Russian dubbed over it.
Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili | Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin, Aleksandr Fatyushin, Sergey Nasibov, Nartay Begalin
Votes: 250
28. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Documentary, History, War
A look back to the end of the second World War, where the world was struggling to recover after the death and destruction caused by the six-year global conflict.
Stars: Curtis Roosevelt, François Kersaudy, André Kaspi, Robert Franck
Votes: 37
29. Sugar Sand (2017 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the ... See full summary »
Director: Dirk Kummer | Stars: Tilman Döbler, Valentin Wessely, Katharina Marie Schubert, Christian Friedel
Votes: 187
30. Der Schnüffler (1983)
91 min | Comedy
The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put him the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert ... See full summary »
Director: Ottokar Runze | Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Catherine Alric, Tilo Prückner, Anton Diffring
Votes: 440
31. Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein (1976)
92 min | Thriller
1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Klick | Stars: Heinz Domez, Catherine Allégret, Georg Marischka, Günter Pfitzmann
Votes: 102
32. The Man on the Wall (1982)
105 min | Drama
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Julie Carmen, Towje Kleiner, Patricia von Miseroni
Votes: 83
33. Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959)
60 min | Documentary
Footage of Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev in the USA during his 1960 visit. Which includes meeting Frank Sinatra on the set of his film Can-Can.
Stars: June Allyson, Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Maurice Chevalier
Votes: 38
34. Genosse Münchhausen (1962)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Wolfgang Neuss | Stars: Wolfgang Neuss, Corny Collins, Ingrid van Bergen, Peer Schmidt
Votes: 23
35. No Way Back (1953)
87 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John
Votes: 95
36. An Affair of States (1966)
94 min | Comedy
Director: Sammy Drechsel | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Pascale Petit, Daniel Gélin
Votes: 80
37. Durchbruch Lok 234 (1963)
85 min | Drama
Based on the real story of an East German machinist, disenchanted by the building of the Wall, who plans to use a train to cross the border with family members and other disaffected citizens.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Erik Schumann, Maria Körber, Rainer Eggers, Ingo Eggers
Votes: 46
38. Letters from the East (1995)
110 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman returns to her native Estonia to unravel the complex mysteries of her family's past. Set in 1989, against the background of the Baltic territory's struggle for peace and independence from the Soviet Union.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ewa Fröling, Mark Womack, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Märta Laurent
Votes: 55
39. Der Stich des Skorpion (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Thriller
Based on a true story, Stephan Wagner's thriller focuses on a man and his fight against the East German secret service. After an escape attempt, Wolfgang Stein is sentenced to ten years in ... See full summary »
Director: Stephan Wagner | Stars: Jörg Schüttauf, Martina Gedeck, Matthias Brandt, Kathrin Kühnel
Votes: 210
40. Die Dubrow Krise (1969 TV Movie)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Satire about an East German village which over night became part of the West.
Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz | Stars: Ruth Winter, Rudolf Beiswanger, Gustav Burmester, Ursula Traun
Votes: 33
41. Zu Gast in der DDR: Kurt Edelhagen mit seinem Orchester (1964 TV Special)
60 min | Music
Stars: Kurt Edelhagen and his Orchestra, Kurt Edelhagen, Sven Jenssen, Mariona
42. Abgehauen (1998 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Peter Lohmeyer, Karoline Eichhorn, Peter Donath, Ann-Kathrin Kramer
Votes: 47
43. Der Blaue (1994)
96 min | Drama
Ex-GDR citizen Dr. Otto Skrodt is about to become an important politician in Bonn when his old friend Karl shows up to ask him for some financial help. Karl had been imprisoned in the GDR ... See full summary »
Director: Lienhard Wawrzyn | Stars: Manfred Krug, Marijam Agischewa, Meret Becker, Ulrich Mühe
Votes: 35
44. Der Boss aus dem Westen (1988 TV Movie)
94 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director: Vivian Naefe | Stars: Alexander Radszun, Barbara Auer, Stefan Reck, Petra Zieser
Votes: 29
45. Mauerkinder (2018 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, History
Director: Karin Reiss | Stars: Elke Bitterhof, Florian Havemann, Monika Joost-Liebich, Sabine Korsukewitz
46. The Road to Peking (2020– )
50 min | Documentary
The stories of five Westerners who had their highlight moments during China's modernization. Their original intentions have long gone, but their lives and their efforts, whether intentionally or not, have left their influence on China.
Stars: Qiushui Zhuang, Zhou Yijun, Zhiyuan Xu, Shen Hao
48. Opening in Moscow (1959)
45 min | Documentary
A documentary of the 1959 American Exhibition in Moscow.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: George R. Nelson, Edward Steichen
Votes: 32
49. Na polputi v Parizh (2001)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
On the road to airport before emigrating to Paris Russian scientist are visiting his native village. There he is meeting with his friends and relatives which cause some funny and sad situations.
Director: Yaropolk Lapshin | Stars: Vladimir Andreyev, Aristarkh Livanov, Yuriy Nazarov, Mikhail Gluzskiy
50. Champagne (2006)
11 min | Short
A Japanese artist's comically surreal encounter with a blonde gallery owner in Amsterdam. Dream or nightmare - everything goes wrong until suddenly, they stumble on a brand new inspiration, or do they?
Directors: Atsushi Ogata, Danyael Sugawara | Stars: Jacob Dijkstra, Saskia Mulder, Atsushi Ogata, Jan van Westerlaak