The Iron Petticoat
Sep 01, 1956 | IMDB 5.8
87 min Watch NowComedy
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Anbe Sivam
You I Love
The Twelve Chairs
Balkan Spy
Miss and Mrs Sweden
The Cruise
Miracle
Vampires, Ghouls
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Striped Trip
The Witness
Red Diaper Baby
The Ideal Couple
The Experts
Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
Love at Zero Degrees
The Barber of Siberia
The Scoundrel
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
The Pokrovsky Gates
SIMILAR MOVIES
Anbe Sivam
IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 2003
Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.You I Love
IMDB 4.1 | Feb , 2004
Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a love triangle.The Twelve Chairs
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1970
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.Balkan Spy
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 1984
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events.Miss and Mrs Sweden
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1969
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.The Cruise
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1970
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.Miracle
IMDB 5.6 | May , 2018
Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.Vampires, Ghouls
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1992
In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized the power. The new rulers do justice according to their personal interests. This is the beginning of the era of Communism in Bulgaria - spiritual poverty, expropriation, destroying of the intelligentsia. In this chaos the main character, an actress fallen on hard times, wants to preserve her social status with every available means. She claims to be a Communist activist and, in order to gain access to the theater even shows a photo with the Bulgarian communist revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov's dog However, in order to survive, she has to resort to betrayal.WR: Mysteries of the Organism
IMDB 6.1 | May , 1971
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.Striped Trip
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 1961
A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.The Witness
IMDB 8.1 | Jun , 1979
Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician.Red Diaper Baby
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2004
Monolinguist Josh Kornbluth's meditation on growing up as the child of Communist parents.The Ideal Couple
IMDB 1 | Jun , 1992
Two married couples are getting into big troubles while participating in the reality show on TV.The Experts
IMDB 4.4 | Jan , 1989
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they've actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training, is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies, and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2014
A funny story about the adventures of a two hairy friends familiar from the "Six Degrees of Celebration" series.Love at Zero Degrees
IMDB 7 | Sep , 1964
A comedy love story that takes place at a ski resort during romanian communism time!The Barber of Siberia
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1998
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.The Scoundrel
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2017
Julia is beautiful, mysterious and... hopelessly lonely. She lives with her mother in a house where the cult of her late military father, a very harsh man and – apparently – a rare idiot, reigns supreme. None of the men Julia has met meets such a high standard. But mom is determined to get her daughter married. And then one day a handsome man in a military dress uniform appears in their family. The only trouble is, he's not exactly who they think he is... or not at all.Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
IMDB 6.8 | Jan , 1980
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.The Pokrovsky Gates
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1983
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.