Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "moscow-soviet-union"

1. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

M | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert

Votes: 10,241

2. Gorky Park (1983)

R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen

Votes: 15,912 | Gross: $15.90M

3. Zappa (2020)

Not Rated | 129 min | Documentary, Biography, History

An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.

Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Frank Zappa, Lonnie Lardner, Patrice Zappa, Carl Zappa

Votes: 3,612

4. Jack Strong (2014)

Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.

Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov

Votes: 5,371

5. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)

TV-G | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Saveliy Kramarov

Votes: 18,525

6. Dawn of War (II) (2020)

100 min | History, Thriller

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

Director: Margus Paju | Stars: Priit Võigemast, Kaspars Znotins, Agnese Budovska, Elmo Nüganen

Votes: 1,248

7. Within the Whirlwind (2009)

90 min | Biography, Drama

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Benjamin Sadler

Votes: 1,113

8. Man on a String (1960)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby

Votes: 499

9. Gde nakhoditsya Nofelet? (1988)

82 min | Comedy

Pasha is a very shy and quiet person. He is almost 40 but is not married yet and cannot even find courage to ask a woman for a date. His best friend Gena on the contrary is a womanizer. His... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Bezhanov | Stars: Vladimir Menshov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Valentina Telichkina, Lyudmila Shagalova

Votes: 616

10. Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Three school boys and one school girl visited their old schoolmarm on her birthday. But their intentions were horrible.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Marina Neyolova, Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Dmitriy Maryanov

Votes: 772

11. Forgotten Tune for the Flute (1987)

134 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Dogileva, Irina Kupchenko, Vsevolod Sanaev

Votes: 896 | Gross: $0.09M

12. The Reagan Show (2017)

TV-PG | 74 min | Documentary

Made up entirely of archival news and White House footage, this documentary captures the pageantry, absurdity, and mastery of the made-for-TV politics of Ronald Reagan.

Directors: Sierra Pettengill, Pacho Velez | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush

Votes: 484

13. Vodkaa, komisario Palmu (1969)

100 min | Comedy, Crime

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Leo Jokela, Matti Ranin, Anna-Leena Mäki-Penttilä

Votes: 966

14. Shofyor ponevole (1958)

93 min | Comedy

Ivan Petrovich Pastukhov at the end of the summer goes from Moscow on vacation to Sochi on his own Volga car, but does not know how to drive well and travels with a personal chauffeur - a ... See full summary »

Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova | Stars: Antoni Khodursky, Mariya Mironova, Sergey Filippov, Liliya Gritsenko

Votes: 90

15. Povorot (1979)

100 min | Drama

Returning to Moscow from their honeymoon, a young couple strike and kill an elderly pedestrian. The husband must stand trial, but is it fair, he thinks. She was old and negligent and poor. Why should his life be ruined?

Director: Vadim Abdrashitov | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Irina Kupchenko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyubov Strizhenova

Votes: 171

16. 100 gramm dlya khrabrosti (1977)

76 min | Comedy

The movie consists of three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness. The stories are "Such an imprudence!," "According to the laws of hospitality," "100 grams for bravery".

Directors: Boris Bushmelev, Anatoli Markelov, Georgi Shchukin | Stars: Igor Yasulovich, Yuriy Kuzmenkov, Vladimir Basov, Georgi Kavtaradze

Votes: 193

17. Shapka (1990)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Konstantin Voinov | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Oleg Efremov

Votes: 105

18. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Barbarossa: June-December 1941 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

After dominating southeastern Europe through force or intrigue, Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Walter Warlimont, Albert Speer, Grigori Tokaty

Votes: 516

19. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Campaign in the Balkans (2004)

105 min | Documentary, History, War

We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch

Votes: 12

20. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Siege of Leningrad (2000)

Documentary, History, War

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels

Votes: 7

21. The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode: End Game (2020)

TV-MA | 68 min | Drama

A visit from an old friend forces Beth to reckon with her past and rethink her priorities, just in time for the biggest match of her life.

Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Votes: 13,469

22. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode: Money Changes Everything (2021)

71 min | Documentary, History

The story of how in the 1970s those in power set out to create a world free of the dangerous big ideas of the past. They banished the grand dreams of changing the world. And replaced them ... See full summary »

Stars: Lin Biao, Reid Bryson, Harry Caudill, Adam Curtis

Votes: 112

23. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode: La Lutte décisive (2021)

Documentary, History, War

October 1941: as Hitler believes his triumph imminent, his men and tanks are freezing where they stand. Meanwhile, the Red Army consolidates his positions.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Lavrenti Beria

Votes: 35

24. Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
Episode: Le piège (2021)

Documentary, History, War

Nine months after the onset of World War II, Hitler attacks the West - Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain - with intense violence.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Fernand Bignon

Votes: 38

25. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157

26. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 146

27. Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode: Barbarossa Unleashed (2021)

45 min | Documentary, History, War

More than three million Axis soldiers, the largest invading force in history, storm across the Soviet Union border as if it didn't exist in June 1941.

Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Richard John Evans, Donald Rayfield

Votes: 6

28. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Soviet General Who Switched Sides (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Arguably the greatest spy for the West during the Cold War, Dimitriy Polyakov was a Russian Military Intelligence General who turned on Russia. He was run by the CIA and FBI and betrayed by both Ames and Hanssen.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Eva Dillon, James M. Olson, Paul Joyal, Oleg Kalugin

29. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: France's Man in Moscow (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Vladimir Vetrov was a KGB officer who worked for the French intelligence service. The "Farewell Document," shared with President Reagan included Soviet intelligence gained by Vetrov.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Eric Raynaud, David Charney, Calder Walton, Sergey Kostin

30. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Gentleman Spy: George Blake (2022)

Documentary, History, War

While a prisoner in North Korea, George Blake was recruited by the Soviets to spy on the British. He was caught and sentenced to prison but escaped to the Soviet Union.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Roger Hermiston, Mark Stout, David Major, Mark Kelton

31. TRIGGERnometry (2018– )
Michael Malice: Take the White Pill (2023 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

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Stars: Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, Michael Malice

32. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: The Waffen-SS (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Masqueraded as military excellence, the reality was very different. Recruits were poorly trained and remorse was nonexistent, as SS troops killed mercilessly.

Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Richard John Evans, Jean-Luc Leleu, Bastian Hein, Jochen Böhler

33. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: Le Possédé (2015)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Episode covers Joseph Stalin's early life and his early political activities which resulted in his rose to power with the help of Lenin. October Revolution and Lenin's construction of new ... See full summary »

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Inessa Armand

Votes: 94

34. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: L'Homme rouge (2015)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

1942.After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Svetlana Alliluyeva

Votes: 79

35. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: Le Maître du Monde (2015)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

1944: the Soviets continue on the path to towards liberation. On the road to Berlin, they discover the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transformed his country using every means at his disposal.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Olga Balykina

Votes: 77

36. The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode: Of Soviets and Saviors (2016)

TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary, History

Cuba and the Soviet Union become allies, and Soviet nuclear missiles are set up on the island. When the US finds out, the world is at the brink of nuclear war.

Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Dariel Alarcón Ramirez, Ahmed Ben Bella, Fidel Castro

Votes: 86