Movies about the Cold War

There are a lot of movies about the Cold War. So to help you to chose some good movies, here is a small list of some popular and good movies :

The Hunt for Red October

 

Summary : The action takes place in 1984, in the USSR. The Soviet Union has invented a revolutionary submarine and the Americans are worried. A Soviet captain executes the political officer respponsible for the surveillance of the ship and goes to the United States. The marine of both major powers are in his pursuit, and nobody knows his intentions : revenge, provocation, gesture of insanity or peace?

Casting : Sean Connery
                   Alec Baldwin
                   Scott Glenn
                   Sam Neill 

Directed by John Mc Tiernan in 1990.

From Russia with Love

 

Summary : From Russia with Love is a spy movie, the second in the James Bond series.The story begins when a Russian secretary of the consulate of Istanbul suggests in the MI6 bringing them a machine of top secret decoding. For that purpose, they have to help her to flee the East.

In reality, she was hired without knowing it by Rosa Klebb, important member of the SPECTRE and the former colonel of the KGB, to eliminate James Bond, who is the cause of the fall of one of their best elements, the doctor No.

Casting :  Sean Connery
                    Daniela Bianchi
                    Pedro Armendariz
                    Lotte Lenya
                    Robert Shaw
                    Bernard Lee

Directed by Terence Young in 1963 in Great-Britain. 

Good Bye, Lenin!

 

Summary : Alex is a young German. He lives east of the Berlin Wall. One day, his mother is  victim of an infarct and is in the coma. She wakes up after the fall of the wall, while the life which she knew doesn't exist anymore. To avoid the shock of all these changes to his mother, Alex decide to hide her the truth. Alex takes advantage of her confinement to bed to reconstitute an environment which is familiar to her and to restore the former GDR. 

Casting : Daniel Brühl
                   Katrin Sass
                   Chulpan Khamatova

Directed by Wilfgang Becker in Germany in 2003.