Name some movies that you would think of if someone asked you to name “cold war movies” -
These are the ones I came up with -
Dr. Strangelove
Manchurian Candidate
Fail Safe
One Two Three
The Russians are Coming
Matinee
and a friend added
Iron Giant.
What are we forgetting?
Many science fiction movies from the Fifties, like Them and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, were really metaphorically about the Cold War and the Red Scare as well. I don’t know if you want to include them or restrict this thread to the more literal ones.
Also, would you count Red Dawn?
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Ice Station Zebra
Strategic Air Command
The Bedford Incident
War Games
The Ipcress File (Len Deighton’s low key classic)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (The other great Brit spy novelist has a go)
Z (Honestly it’s about world politics although ot seems localised)
Three Days of the Condor (It’s Cold War and I really, really like it)
The Man Inside (convoluted political thriller, I think I enjoyed it)
Night Crossing (Good performances in a movie about people escaping from East Berlin)
One Two Three (Pepsi plus communists from Godlike Billly Wilder, pretty damn funny)
I Am Cuba (Rarely seen documentary that makes you think that maybe Fidel isn’t as bad as you thought. Portrait of a country begging for a revolution)
Radio Bikini (this will scare the shit out evryone who hasn’t seen it)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent (more about the Kennedy assasination but worth a look)
Don’t Drink The Water (Low key. I think the Jackie Gleason original was better but you can’t get it so I’m trusting my memory)
The Fourth War (Ordinary and cliched but Cold War none the less)
I was a Communist for the FBI
My Son John
In addition to the blatent From Russia With Love, many of the James Bond pictures were based on the premise that a third party could rise to power if they could get the US and USSR to go at each other since they were already poised at the brink… You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, etc.
Hunt for Red October
White Nights
Letter to Brezhnev
Spies like Us
I think Red Dawn definitely counts.
13 Days
No Way Out.
North By Northwest
Red Heat
Rambo
Iron Eagle
The Package
The Day The Earth Stood Still
On The Beach.
Little Nikita
Top Gun
Telefon
Seven Days in May
Red Dawn
Company Business
The Fourth Protocol
The Falcon and the Snowman
Firefox
The Osterman Weekend
Atomic Cafe of course.
One of the earliest ones was “The Red Danube”
An MST3K favorite:
Rocket Attack, USA
If SF movies are allowed, then two major ones :
Invasion of the Body Snatchers and,
The Thing from Another World