# The best Cold War movies

Atom bombs, spy swaps and the Cuban Missile Crisis: the best films about the Cold War, based on the Moviepilot and Suche Filme rankings.

- 36 votes · 13 items
- Jun 6, 2020 · popcorn_frankfurt
- https://even.best/en/l/4174/the-best-cold-war-movies

## Top 10

1. **Dr. Strangelove (1964)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Kubrick's black satire about nuclear war.
2. **The Hunt for Red October (1990)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A Soviet submarine commander wants to defect.
3. **Thirteen Days (2000)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
4. **The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A British agent on one last job, from John le Carré.
5. **Fail Safe (1964)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — A false alarm sends bombers towards Moscow.
6. **Cold War (2018)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — A love story between Poland and Paris, by Paweł Pawlikowski.
7. **One, Two, Three (1961)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A Coca-Cola executive in Berlin before the Wall, by Billy Wilder.
8. **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — George Smiley hunts for a mole in MI6.
9. **Atomic Blonde (2017)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — An MI6 agent in 1989 Berlin.
10. **The Manchurian Candidate (1962)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A brainwashed war hero.
11. **The Day After (1983)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Kansas town after a nuclear attack.
12. **Bridge of Spies (2015)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A lawyer negotiates a spy swap, by Spielberg.
13. **The Shape of Water (2017)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A cleaner and an amphibious creature in a 1962 laboratory.

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