In the vidstore where I work, I’ve instituted a series of monthly features. This month it’s Midnight Movies; recent features have been anything from Documentaries to Tough Broads.
Next month we’re doing Cold War Movies. Rather than tax my lazy brain, I thought that this month I’d turn to youse folks to make up my list for me. I need about a hundred, ideally, to fill out the feature section.
Have at it please. List any cold war movie you can think of, mainstream to obscure. (I’m leaving it intentionally vague because in these sections vague is OK; I included Thelma and Louise and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the Love on the Lam feature.)
*Ice Station Zebra * is my favorite, but more action-y than you may want. The Hunt for Red October.
John Wayne in Jet Pilot.
Anything made from a John LeCarre novel (The Spy Who …)
James Bond in From Russia With Love
But most of all, try The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!
Red Dawn
The Day After
On the Beach
All the James Bond Movies with Russian bad guys
Rocky II (or whatever the one is where he fights the Russian boxer)
Hunt for the Red October
The Manchurian Candidate
Don’t forget The Good Shepherd, an excellent movie set during the Cold War! Also, the other good ‘Good’ movie released around the same time, The Good German, is set right at the very beginning of the Cold War.
Huh? The Birds is only about the Cold War if you think the Soviets had feathers – it’s pointedly mysterious and does not refer to any political events. Same for Them!; I know it’s glibly fashonable to call it a reaction to the atomic bomb (but not the Cold War), but it’s really no different from any any other monster movie, before or since.
Both of which were set during WWII, not the Cold War. :rolleyes: Maybe they were produced during the Cold War, but you could include thousands of films in that category.
A good choice i Thirteen Days, a tense retelling of the Cuban missile crisis. Matinee makes some explidit connections between horror and the Cuban missile crisis, though that’s only part of the film.
I’d be interested in the cold war parallels in The Birds, too, OtakuLuki. I get that it’s not a straightforward movie, but I always interpreted it as a movie about Freudian sexual repression.
The Birds is only about the Cold War if you think the Soviets had feathers – it’s pointedly mysterious and does not refer to any political events. Same for Them!; I know it’s glibly fashonable to call it a reaction to the atomic bomb (but not the Cold War), but it’s really no different from any any other monster movie, before or since.