Movies: Defection

1990
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hunt for Red October
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A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea:...
1966
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Funeral in Berlin
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Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to sm...
2018
The White Crow (2018)
The White Crow
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The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His ...
1966
Where the Spies Are (1966)
Where the Spies Are
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A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent....
1953
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Man on a Tightrope
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The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him....
2016
Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Despite the Falling Snow
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New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow....
1994
Pentathlon (1994)
Pentathlon
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When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ul...
2016
One Summer Night (2016)
One Summer Night
3.72016HD
In the winter of 2013, Yong-jun and Jae-sung, a member of the Korean People’s Army, are caught having sex by a superior. After that, Yong-jun decides to defect from North Korea to the South leaving Jae-sung behind. Yong-jun risks his life to step on ...
1991
Eminent Domain (1991)
Eminent Domain
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A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events....
1983
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
An Englishman Abroad
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Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself....
2013
The Spy Who Went Into the Cold (2013)
The Spy Who Went Into the Cold
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A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R....
1978
The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
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Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It...
2018
Nureyev (2018)
Nureyev
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An insight into the life of the world's most famous male dancer, Rudolf Nureyev....
1969
Guns in the Heather (1969)
Guns in the Heather
2.51969HD
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend ...