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Soviets and Nazi and North Koreans OH MY!

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1. The Rescue (1988)
A group of teenagers infiltrate a North Korean prison to rescue their Navy SEAL fathers.

Bad Guys: the North Koreans

Tag Line: "An elite U.S. Navy special forces team is imprisoned behind North Korean lines. The Pentagon calls them expendable. Five young heroes call them Dad. Now they'll risk their lives to bring them home."




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People who added this item 44  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 5.2  IMDB Rating
2. Little Nikita (1988)
A teenager's life is on the line when he discovers his all-American parents are Soviet sleeper spies.

Bad Guys: The Russians and KGB agent Karpov

Tag Line: "He went to bed an all-American kid and woke up the son of Russian spies."





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People who added this item 16  Average listal rating (7 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 5.2 
3. Russkies (1987)
Three buddies sneak off to their secret fort and to their surprise discover a Russian sailor, Mischa, hiding there. The boys eventually decide to help poor Mischa make it back to his home.

Tagline: ‘Sometimes even the worst of enemies can become the best of friends’






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People who added this item 257  Average listal rating (175 ratings) 6.2  IMDB Rating 6.1 
4. Red Dawn (1984)
During WWIII, Russian invaders overrun America's heartland and take over the country. Eight small-town teenagers, calling themselves the Wolverines, hide out in the rugged countryside and fight the Russians.

Bad Guys: the Russians and Cubans

Tag Line: "In our time, no foreign army has ever occupied American soil. Until now."






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People who added this item 561  Average listal rating (387 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating
5. WarGames (1983)
A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?

Bad Guy: the computer!

Tag Line: "To David Lightman, "Global Thermonuclear War" will just be one hell of a game. To everybody else, it will be hell waiting to happen."




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People who added this item 1040  Average listal rating (727 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 6.4 
6. Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky Balboa, heavyweight champion of the world, is the trainer for Apollo Creed in an exhibition match against Ivan Drago, a "superman" boxer from the Soviet Union. When Apollo is killed in the ring by the brutal Drago, Balboa blames himself and promises to avenge his friend's death in the ring.

Bad Guys: the Russians, Captain Ivan Drago and his wife Ludmilla Vobet Drago

Tag Line: "He Could Have Stopped The Fight. He Could Have Saved His Best Friend's Life. But Now, The Only Thing He Can't Do Is Walk Away..."






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People who added this item 417  Average listal rating (298 ratings) 5.7  IMDB Rating 5.9 
7. Red Heat (1988)
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him.

Bad Guy: Russian drug kingpin Viktor Rostavili

Tag Line: "Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners."




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People who added this item 1046  Average listal rating (696 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.6 
8. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
When a Soviet nuclear sub headed toward American waters drops off U.S. scanners, the Yanks scramble to take defensive steps. But CIA analyst Jack Ryan convinces the brass that the sub's commander has something other than a first strike in mind.

Bad Guys: the Russians and Captain Viktor Tupolev

Tag Line: "Invisible. Silent. Stolen. The hunt is on."






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People who added this item 312  Average listal rating (206 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.6 
9. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
During WWII, a small group of Allied commandos must rescue an American general held by the Nazis in a castle in the Bavarian Alps.

Bad Guys: the Nazis and their double agents

Tag Line: "They look like Nazis but . . . The Major is British . . . The Lieutenant is American . . . The Beautiful Frauleins are Allied Agents!"






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People who added this item 1834  Average listal rating (1135 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.9 
10. The Sound of Music (1965)
A feisty postulant named Maria is sent to care for the unruly, motherless Von Trapp children. She soon tames them -- and finds herself falling for their stern father.

Bad Guys: the Nazis and Hans Zeller, Gauleiter, an enforcer of the Third Reich and Rolf the Nazi messenger boy


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People who added this item 404  Average listal rating (259 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 6.8 
11. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
During World War II, eccentric, self-styled witch Eglantine Price aims to use her new-found powers to ward off a Nazi incursion of England. But she's saddled with a trio of refugee siblings from London who need her protection, too.

Bad Guys: the Nazis

Tag Line: "You'll beWITCHED! You'll beDAZZLED! You'll be swept into a world of enchantment BEYOND ANYTHING BEFORE!"






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People who added this item 14  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 6.2 
12. Night Crossing (1982)
Night Crossing tells the incredible true-life story of two intrepid East German families who hatch a plan (during the Cold War, of course) to escape and head west by using hot-air balloons.

Bad Guys: the Nazis

Tag Line: "The East German border: 836 miles of barbed wire walls, automated machine guns, armed guards, and deadly land mines. On September 15, 1979 two families tried to cross it."




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People who added this item 3758  Average listal rating (2555 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.3 
13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.

Bad Guys: the Nazis and General Vogel

Tag Line: "Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses"







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People who added this item 4247  Average listal rating (2878 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
14. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ar... (1981)
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

Bad Guys: the Nazis and Major Arnold Toht






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People who added this item 310  Average listal rating (218 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 6.2 
15. Spies Like Us (1985)
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People who added this item 481  Average listal rating (331 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 6.8 
16. Stripes (1981)
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17. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

Bad Guys: the Nazis

Tag Line: "A basterd's work is never done."






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People who added this item 1135  Average listal rating (715 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 7.1 
18. Valkyrie (2008)
In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan.

Bad Guys: the Nazis

Tag Line: "Many saw evil. They dared to stop it."





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Remember the old Iron Curtain? These are movies I loved before everyone became friends.

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Comments

Posted: 2 years ago at Apr 27 2:13
Couple suggestions if you like:
Nazis-- Notorious (1946)
Soviets-- The Abyss
Posted: 6 months, 4 weeks ago at Oct 23 21:21
Very nice list! Good to see The Rescue on here.
Posted: 6 months, 4 weeks ago at Oct 23 21:30
I think I watched Russkies when I was very young. I might have to watch it just because of that. Great list.

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