Top five '80s Cold War movies

i've seen only The Falcon and the Snowman, 31 years ago, which i didn't think was too bad despite a notably annoying Penn performance.

for some reason in my early teens i loved the book Firefox and goddamn is that one boring movie

man what thoughtless writing. yeah, no outrageous comedies or or exaggerated dramas about the cold war before the 80s!

wargames beats all of these because it actually attempts to say something about the cold war. it may be a hamhanded moral play and its observations about everyday suburbanites living with the Bomb are not profound, but it doesn't just accept an absurd and nihilistic status quo as backdrop for a thriller or screwball comedy. it makes it the subject matter. i am sure there are still better films that go that same route, but wargames is the right 'kind' of movie for a list like this so leaving it out in favor of 'spies like us' seems particularly dopey.

Red Dawn is definitely attempting to say something about the Cold War

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Fun fact

'you must think in russian'

Lee Marvin as an American bad guy working with the Sovietd in Gorky Park:

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