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1. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
TV-13 | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush, Frunzik Mkrtchyan
Votes: 13,471
2. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)
TV-G | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Saveliy Kramarov
Votes: 18,389
3. Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
TV-G | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Mikhail Pugovkin, Aleksei Smirnov, Vladimir Basov
Votes: 14,755
4. Twelve Chairs (1971)
PG-13 | 153 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Two gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Votes: 7,236
5. The Diamond Arm (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov
Votes: 16,173
6. Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili Na Brayton-Bich opyat idut dozhdi (1993)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Kelly McGrill, Andrey Myagkov, Mikhail Kokshenov
Votes: 2,047
7. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (2014)
95 min | Comedy
Journalist Shurik comes to the Caucasus to film a report about the local beauty and tradition, and into the Gorski, fiefdom of the local city mayor George Gadzhievich Saakhov. Those ... See full summary »
Director: Maksim Voronkov | Stars: Gennadiy Khazanov, Anastasiya Zadorozhnaya, Dmitry Sharakois, Ararat Keshchyan
Votes: 623
8. Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya' (1990)
94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Irina Feofanova, Spartak Mishulin, Roman Madyanov
Votes: 552
9. Pyos Barbos i neobychnyj kross (1961)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Three friends and a dog jog in Russian woodlands.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin, Evgeniy Morgunov
Votes: 2,876
10. Business People (1963)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Two bandits learn that kidnapping is a very profitable business. So they decide to kidnap local rich person's son in hope to get a substantial ransom.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Rostislav Plyatt, Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin, Aleksei Smirnov
Votes: 1,310
11. Bootleggers (1962)
19 min | Short, Comedy
Three criminals contrive the entire moonshine facility inside a wilderness hut. Their law-abiding dog is going to stop that outrage.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Evgeniy Morgunov, Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin, Vladimir Pitsek
Votes: 5,076
12. Za spichkami (1980)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected.
Directors: Leonid Gaidai, Risto Orko | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Rita Polster, Ritva Valkama
Votes: 1,243
13. Davana vientulai sievietei (1973)
Comedy, Crime, Music
In order to catch some thieves a beautiful detective comes up with a plan. An old lady wins a car and the thieves get excited.
Director: Eriks Lacis | Stars: Vija Artmane, Leons Krivans, Egons Maisaks, Helena Romanova
Votes: 207
14. Sportloto-82 (1982)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Algis Arlauskas, Svetlana Amanova, Mikhail Pugovkin, Mikhail Kokshenov
Votes: 2,318
15. It Can't Be! (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Three stories about a marriage - its betrayal, its boredom, its absurd.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Mikhail Pugovkin, Nina Grebeshkova, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mikhail Svetin
Votes: 2,280
16. Inkognito iz Peterburga (1978)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, History
In the 19th century, corrupt authorities of provincial town horrified by the news that inspector from a capital coming to them for inspection.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Sergey Migitsko, Nonna Mordyukova, Olga Anokhina
Votes: 305
17. Zhenikh s togo sveta (1958)
51 min | Comedy
Petukhov S.D., one of local authorities, gets into tickler upon arriving from 3 days trip.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Rostislav Plyatt, Georgiy Vitsin, Vera Altayskaya, Rina Zelyonaya
Votes: 404
18. Fuse (1962–2008)
10 min | Comedy
"Fuse" was a popular Soviet/Russian satirical/comedy newsreel magazine series shown in cinemas before the start of the main feature. A new issue appeared monthly from from 1962 to 2008 ... See full summary »
Stars: Artyom Karapetyan, Vera Orlova, Ivan Lyubeznov, Igor Ilyinsky
Votes: 163
19. Absolutely Seriously (1961)
68 min | Comedy
An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.
Directors: Eduard Abalov, Leonid Gaidai, Eldar Ryazanov, Vladimir Semakov, Naum Trakhtenberg, Eduard Zmoyro | Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Sergey Filippov, Serafim Anikeyev, Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Votes: 456
20. The Wind (1959)
99 min | Drama, War
A film about the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, that followed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and it's aftermath.
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Eduard Bredun, Tamara Loginova, Elza Lezhdey, Aleksandr Demyanenko
Votes: 46
21. Navazhdenie (1965)
31 min | Short, Comedy
Student Shurik has a few hours left before the exam, and he doesn't even have lectures. By chance, in the crowd, he sees a notebook with the necessary entries and ties in with the owner of the precious material.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Zoya Fyodorova, Georgiy Georgiu, Natalya Gitserot
Votes: 202
22. Dolgiy put (1956)
80 min | Drama, History, Romance
After many long years of political repression, beloved ones meet again, but only for a few minutes.
Directors: Leonid Gaidai, Valentin Nevzorov | Stars: Sergey Yakovlev, Kyunna Ignatova, Leonid Gubanov, Vladimir Belokurov
Votes: 131
23. Po ulitsam komod vodili... (1978)
68 min | Comedy
An omnibus of comical shorts.
Directors: Mark Genin, Nikolai Kovalsky | Stars: Igor Yasulovich, Valeriy Nosik, Vladimir Ivashov, Evgeniy Vesnik
Votes: 278
24. Lyana (1955)
78 min | Comedy, Musical
Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovian collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly withheld as their farm output is low. So they refuse to play in the all-USSR finals and ask the 2 girls to abstain. This strains a romance.
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Kyunna Ignatova, Aleksandr Shvorin, Muza Krepkogorskaya, Radner Muratov
Votes: 55
25. Risk - blagorodnoe delo (1978)
81 min | Drama, Sport
Director: Yakov Segel | Stars: Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Liliya Aleshnikova, Vadim Zakharchenko, Aleksandr Lazarev
Votes: 32
26. Trizhdy voskresshiy (1960)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A story of one ship, which fate is bound with a tragic history of Russia in the 20th century.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Alla Larionova, Georgiy Kulikov, Natalya Medvedeva, Vsevolod Sanaev
Votes: 111
27. Opasno dlya zhizni! (1985)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Spartak Molodtsov is a man who can not pass through. Because of this he always gets into trouble.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Leonid Kuravlyov, Larisa Udovichenko, Tatyana Kravchenko, Georgiy Vitsin
Votes: 670
28. Ubezhat, dognat, vluybitsya (2015)
Comedy
Boris escapes from his Austrian bride to the North Caucasus, where he becomes a music teacher for local girl Nina. She tries to delay her wedding and Boris in order to help her kidnaps Nina according to the local custom.
Director: Mikhail Shevchuk | Stars: Lyubov Aksyonova, Vladimir Etush, Konstantin Kryukov, Vladimir Zeldin
Votes: 53
29. Familnaya dragotsennost (1981)
3 min | Short
About life insurance and the cost of his wife.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Leonid Kuravlyov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Yelena Valayeva
Votes: 13
30. V puti (1961 TV Movie)
28 min | Drama
Director: Meri Anjaparidze | Stars: Olga Krasina, Elza Lezhdey, Vsevolod Sanaev, Yelena Maksimova
31.
Fuse (1962–2008)
Episode:
High spot/The unfinished tale/Metamorphosis
(1983)
Comedy
Directors: Ivan Aksenchuk, Leonid Gaidai, Sh. Sharipov | Stars: Artyom Karapetyan, Mikhail Kokshenov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Viktor Uralskiy
32.
Fuse (1962–2008)
Episode:
Bitter!
(1987)
3 min | Comedy
A satirical video directed by Leonid Gaidai about the excesses of the anti-alcohol campaign.
Director: Leonid Gaidai