Movies and TvShows featuring "eastern-block" theme.

A fake Fabergé egg recovered from a fellow British secret service agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation headed by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base. Bond infiltrates Khan's palace in Rajasthan, defeats him in a game of backgammon, and escapes with the real Fabergé egg fitted with tracking devices. Bond discovers that Khan is working with Soviet general Orlov to expand Soviet control in Europe. Bond teams up with Octopussy to deactivate a nuclear warhead primed to explode during a circus show at a US Air Force base.

Distant Lights is a German drama film that tells the story of various characters whose lives intersect in the context of cigarette smuggling and illegal immigration. Set in the border region of Germany, the film explores the lives of an architect, a shopkeeper, a taxi driver, and others who are involved in this illicit world. The story delves into themes of despair, jealousy, and the struggles faced by immigrants seeking a better life.

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 are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found themselves. Across the rails of change and transformation, documenting a time that has not been before and will not repeat again. Heroes of the film have very different fates and experiences, but they are all connected by the place they found themselves in - the post-industrial and post-apocalyptic city, which becomes a part of their story and a hero of its own. Students, transport, quaters, youth, revolution, local apocalypse, changes and turns - they all mix in a documentary kaleidoscope 'Across the Rails'.