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4) Phantom
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Cold War, the world holds its breath when a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles goes missing in the Pacific. On board the vessel, the battle-tested captain and a rogue KGB agent are waging a life-and-death game of cat and mouse. With enemy forces closing in and time running out, the captain fights to keep control with nuclear armageddon hanging in the balance.
5) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent.
8) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
9) Balloon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in 1979 East Germany, two families hatch a plan to escape to the West in a homemade hot air balloon.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
11) Meteor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Science fiction drama about a five-mile-wide meteor on a collision course with Earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.
12) Russkies
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Life around a military base in Florida isn't all that exciting for Danny, Jason and Adam--until they meet a shipwrecked Russian sailor named Mischa who's injured and needs their help. In their adventures they learn that old enemies can become friends.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A compilation of documentary and feature films on the theme of war. Includes documentaries The true glory, which follows Allied combat from D-Day to the fall of Berlin; Frank Capra's Prelude to war, the Academy Award-winning anti-fascist propaganda film which began Capra's "Why we fight" series; and Memphis Belle, a documentary of the B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft.
14) Firefox
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A retired fighter pilot is sent to the Soviet Union to steal a top-secret stealth warplane.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
In 1981 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S.-Soviet relations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Booster: To stop his brother from getting locked up, a small-time shoplifter will have to take his boosting to a whole new level.
The stray: After hitting a homeless man with her car, the driver dangerously invites the stranger to stay at her home while he heals.
Notorious: The beautiful daughter of a convicted spy is hired by the CIA to take down an arms dealer.
Hidden assassin: A special agent is on a top-secret mission to stop a killer suspected...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fight club: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground 'fight clubs' forming in every town -- until a sensuous and mysterious woman comes between the two men and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special...
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