

The Hunt for Red October
Invisible. Silent. Stolen.
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $30M
- Box office
- $200.5M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- submarine
- cold war
- intelligence
- u.s. navy
- defection
- jack ryan
- ex military
- 1980s
- political thriller
- nuclear submarine
- soviet/russian navy
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United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTT15 Sept 1990
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-132 Mar 1990
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG20 Apr 1990
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG5 Apr 1990
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG2 Mar 1990
- TheatricalDigital Film Festival9 Feb 2011
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical10 May 1990
BrazilBR
- Theatrical20 Jul 1990
- Physical12DVD/VHS CIC Video9 Feb 2001
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical25 Apr 1990
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1531 Aug 1990
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-127 Sept 1990
FranceFR
- Theatrical1229 Aug 1990
- TVRTL99 Apr 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany8 Aug 1990
Frequently asked questions
The Hunt for Red October was released on 2 March 1990.
Audience reviews
3- W7/10
Wuchak
5/30/2023
**_Submarine strategies with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn_** Just before Gorbachev’s rise to power in the USSR, a notable naval commander (Connery) takes a technologically advanced submarine on its maiden voyage to conduct missile drills off of America's east coast. Something happens to draw the ire of the Soviet brass while a CIA analyst (Baldwin) believes the captain might be defecting. James Earl …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/24/2024
When British intelligence sends some photographs to CIA analyst "Jack Ryan" (Alec Baldwin) he immediately races to his boss (James Earl Jones) with what seems like a fantastic tale about a submarine that uses a hydro-dynamic drive. That renders it almost silent to traditional sonar and therefore a threat to NATO. Next thing we know, the Soviet's have mobilised their Atlantic fleet and it occurs to "Ryan" that they co…
- K8/10
kevin2019
5/9/2025
"The Hunt for Red October" is an extremely well paced film throughout and it never leaves us in any doubt that Jack Ryan's assumptions about captain Marko Ramius are unfailingly correct and if anything could have sapped the interest and made this nothing more than an overlong and water logged exercise in boredom then this is it, so it is amazing this never actually happens and indeed the opposite just happens to be t…
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