The Lives of Others (2006), One, Two, Three (1961), Cold War (2018), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Barbara (2012), Stage Fright (1950), Man on a Tightrope (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Iron Curtain movies.
Storyline: Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia (Ethel Barrymore), Nicobar, and his military aides Major John "Twingo" McPhimister (Peter Lawford) and Audrey Quail (Dame Angela Lansbury), become involved in the plight of young ballerina Olga Alexandrova (Janet Leigh), who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: train station, freedom, guard, iron curtain, post world war two, prisoner, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Michael Parker (Rock Hudson) is a prominent surgeon, who unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife Lisa (Cornell Borchers), who he thought was dead. Victor (George Sanders), an artist (and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend), berate Dr. Parker for killing her. This story is told in flashback to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake which may have cost him his family.—hiphats
Plot Keywords: surgeon, remake, arrest, daughter, doctor, family reunion, hit by a truck ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British Secret Service are naturally keen to learn if these notebooks are the genuine article. To this end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British publisher Barley Blair, who has plenty of experience with Russia and Russians. Barley, an unconventional character who doesn't respond well to authority, finds himself in a game more complex than he first thought when he digs into the origin of the notebooks.
Plot Keywords: cia, may december romance, older man younger woman relationship, cia agent, mi6, moscow russia, unsubtitled foreign language ...
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