Hell and High Water
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
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1968★ 6.3
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The Hunt for Red October
1990★ 7.4
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1972★ 6.1
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K-19: The Widowmaker
2002★ 6.6
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U-571
2000★ 6.5
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1958★ 6.9
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