Cultural Moment
1947-1991Cold War Paranoia
Films reflecting nuclear anxieties, espionage fears, and ideological conflict
14
Total Films
5
Primary Examples
4.9
Avg Arcplot Score
1959-2023
Year Range
Primary - Central to the film's identity
Secondary - Notable influence
Reference - Touches on theme
Primary Examples(5)
5.1
Bridge of Spies
2015 • Steven Spielberg
U-2 incident and spy exchange
4
The Lives of Others
2006 • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
East German surveillance state
3.8
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 • Stanley Kubrick
Ultimate Cold War satire
5.2
Oppenheimer
2023 • Christopher Nolan
Birth of nuclear age
2.9
The Iron Giant
1999 • Brad Bird
1950s atomic age anxiety
Secondary Influences(6)
4.5
The Thing
1982 • John Carpenter
Paranoia and mistrust
5.4
A Beautiful Mind
2001 • Ron Howard
Nash's work during Cold War; paranoid delusions
7.7
Asteroid City
2023 • Wes Anderson
Atomic age setting and anxieties
3.3
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 • Stanley Kramer
Cold War context for WWII reckoning
6.7
North by Northwest
1959 • Alfred Hitchcock
Spy intrigue and mistaken identity
6.1
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 • Stanley Kubrick
Space race context; technology anxiety
