Ivan Ivanov Movies

The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect. The CIA, aware that the Red October was about to embark on an evasive mission to demonstrate its ability to avoid detection and fire its nuclear missiles upon U.S. installations, believes that Ramius is insane, and that he plans to start World War III. To cover their own behinds, the Russians back up the CIA's suspicion. Only Jack Ryan believes that Ramius' mission is not as apocalyptic as it seems -- and it is Ryan who is assigned to infiltrate the Red October to prove his theory. The sort of film that in an earlier era would have been called a "thinking man's thriller," The Hunt for Red October ushered in a new series of Hollywood-produced post-Cold War adventure films, including 1995's Crimson Tide. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

It is 1944 in this theatrical war drama, and the lead singer in a nightclub in Sofia continues on with her job without thinking very much about the war -- it is due to end soon, as everyone knows, yet the state police are still hunting down resistance fighters. When a notoriously vicious state's attorney is murdered in the nightclub by a resistance fighter, the police come in and immediately round everyone up for interrogation -- including the orchestra. Since the lead singer unwittingly had helped the murderer escape, she is particularly vulnerable even though innocent. Once the brutal police are finished with the "interrogation," their methods leave death and agony in their wake - and a completely new group of resistance fighters are born in what used to be a neutral lead singer and her orchestra. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide