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1. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,840 | Gross: $0.04M
2. Faust (III) (2011)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich
Votes: 5,768 | Gross: $0.06M
3. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.
Stars: Mark Cousins, Juan Diego Botto, Aleksandr Sokurov, Norman Lloyd
Votes: 4,834
4. Mother and Son (1997)
73 min | Drama
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
Votes: 4,235
5. Closeness (2017)
118 min | Drama
In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac
Votes: 3,302
6. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,005 | Gross: $0.30M
7. The Sun (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History
Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shirô Sano
Votes: 2,973 | Gross: $0.08M
8. Alexandra (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov
Votes: 2,746
9. Father and Son (2003)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Neymyshev, Aleksandr Razbash, Fyodor Lavrov
Votes: 2,643 | Gross: $0.04M
10. Moloch (1999)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Elena Rufanova, Eva Mattes, Leonid Mozgovoy, Peter Fitz
Votes: 2,598
11. Aquarela (I) (2018)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
Water and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Votes: 1,632 | Gross: $0.19M
12. Days of Eclipse (1988)
139 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Votes: 1,109
13. Taurus (2001)
104 min | Drama
Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Natalya Nikulenko
Votes: 1,051
14. A Russian Youth (2019)
PG-13 | 72 min | Drama, War
A simple village boy goes to front of First World war with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals.
Director: Alexander Zolotukhin | Stars: Vladimir Korolev, Mikhail Buturlov, Artyom Leshchik, Danil Tyabin
Votes: 813
15. The Second Circle (1990)
92 min | Drama
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Pyotr Aleksandrov, Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeeva, Aleksandr Bystryakov
Votes: 778
16. The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
87 min | Drama
Nikita, haunted by the civil war, meets Luba, who is as deeply moral and lonely as he is.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Vladimir Degtyarev, Vladimir Gladyshev, Tatyana Goryacheva, Andrey Gradov
Votes: 738
17. Whispering Pages (1994)
77 min | Drama
A hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksandr Cherednik, Elizaveta Koroleva, Sergey Barkovskiy, Galina Nikulina
Votes: 648
18. Fairytale (2022)
78 min | Fantasy
A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Igor Gromov, Vakhtang Kuchava, Lothar Deeg, Tim Ettelt
Votes: 574
19. Elegiya dorogi (2001)
48 min | Drama, Fantasy
From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by 'Pieter Jansz Saenredam', 'Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers', Hendrikus van de Sande ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 455
20. Moskovskaya elegiya (1990)
88 min | Documentary
A film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 386
21. The Stone (1992)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy
A caretaker encounters Anton Chekov and spends a lonely night and day in his company.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Leonid Mozgovoy, Pyotr Aleksandrov, Vadim Semyonov
Votes: 347
22. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
23. Mournful Unconcern (1987)
110 min | Drama
Family and friends gather in a decadent house to party. Despite their delusive distinction a raw passion for sex and violence comes to light.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alla Osipenko, Irina Sokolova, Tatyana Yegorova
Votes: 331
24. Vostochnaya elegiya (1996)
45 min | Drama
A short film by Aleksandr Sokurov which provides a surreal visual experience.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 321
25. Save and Protect (I) (1989)
Not Rated | 167 min | Drama, History
Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Robert Vaap, Cécile Zervudacki, Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksandr Cherednik
Votes: 318
26. Agnes Varda: From Here to There (2011)
Not Rated | 235 min | Documentary
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
Stars: Agnès Varda, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 297
27.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Episode:
The Golden Age of World Cinema
(2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
1918-1932, the great rebel filmmakers around the world. Novel and remarkable experiments in silent cinema; French impressionism and surrealism, German expressionism, Soviet, Japanese and Chinese cinematic innovation.
Director: Mark Cousins | Stars: Mark Cousins, Naum Kleiman, Aleksandr Sokurov, Donald Richie
Votes: 274
28. Sonata dlya Gitlera (1989)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Weaves together a bank of images from German and Soviet archive footage, drawing out a psychological dimension from the historical landscape at the end of World War II.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Adolf Hitler
Votes: 256
29. Mariya (II) (1988 TV Movie)
40 min
A two part story of a collective farm worker named Maria which chronicles her life at the time of the initial filming and then returns to her story 9 years later.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Maria Voinova
Votes: 237
30. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 230
31. In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (2003 Video)
44 min | Documentary, Short
Making of Russian Ark (2002), with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.
Director: Knut Elstermann | Stars: Jens Meurer, Tilman Büttner, Ron Holloway, Sergey Dreyden
Votes: 229
32. Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (1995– )
328 min | Documentary
In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces ... See full summary »
Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 214
33. Robert. Schastlivaya zhizn (1997)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 211
34.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Episode:
New Directors, New Form
(2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1965-1969 when New Wave Cinema swept the world and gave rise to a whole new generation of filmmakers. It first looks at the work of ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Cousins | Stars: Mark Cousins, Aleksandr Sokurov, Nagisa Ôshima, Mani Kaul
Votes: 192
35. Pozner (2008– )
60 min | Talk-Show
Famous journalist, the author and host Vladimir Pozner interviews public figures, politicians, artists, scientists, musicians, actors, directors, sportsmen, doctors, magnates and so on. One interview per episode.
Stars: Vladimir Pozner, Tatyana Golikova, Aleksey Kudrin, Fyodor Lukyanov
Votes: 181
36.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Episode:
Cinema Today and the Future
(2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
The Story of Film looks at film in the 2000's and considers innovations that will drive film forward to the future. It looks at the work of documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore, ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Cousins | Stars: Mark Cousins, Roy Andersson, Aleksandr Sokurov, Juan Diego Botto
Votes: 180
37. Altovaya sonata. Dmitriy Shostakovich (1981)
77 min | Documentary
The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet ... See full summary »
Directors: Semyon Aranovich, Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Tamara Alyoshina, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 178
38. Uzel (1998)
188 min | Documentary
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Votes: 174
39. Smirennaya zhizn (1997)
75 min | Documentary
Examing the daily life of an elderly woman in rural Japan allows Sokurov to evoke how folkways (Japanese and Russian) shape our worldview.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 165
40. Sovetskaya elegiya (1990)
35 min | Documentary, Short
In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting Yeltsin had fallen down from the assembly of ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 156
41. Dolce... (2000)
61 min | Documentary
A portrait of the widow of writer Toshio Shimao, living on an isolated island with her disabled daughter, shunning comforts and other company.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Miho Shimao, Maya Shimao
Votes: 156
42. Hermitage. The Power of Art (2019)
90 min | Documentary
History of Hermitage Museum - Winter Palace in St Petersburg.
Director: Michele Mally | Stars: Toni Servillo, Orlando Figes, Irina Sokolova, Evgeniy Anisimov
Votes: 140
43. Soldier's Dream (1995)
Not Rated | 12 min | Documentary, Short, War
This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 132
44. Povinnost (1998– )
260 min | Documentary
This five-episode documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The series reveals the daily duties associated with the ship, but it is ... See full summary »
Star: Aleksandr Borisov
Votes: 119
45. Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006)
101 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Aleksandr Sokurov, Krzysztof Penderecki
Votes: 106
46. Zhertva vechernyaya (1987)
20 min | Short
The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 103
47. Ampir (1987)
32 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Alla Osipenko, Ilya Rivin
Votes: 81
48. Elegy from Russia ...Dreams for Sleep (1993)
68 min | Documentary
Images and sounds are poetic metaphors that transform "Elegy from Russia" into a document that provides a emotional-historical "memory bank" for all.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 74
49. Patience Labour (1987)
10 min | Short, Sport
Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the doc focuses on movement with music, ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 66
50. Chitaem 'Blokadnuyu knigu' (2009 TV Movie)
96 min | Documentary, War
Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Olga Antonova, Boris Averin, Sergey Barkovskiy, Oleg Basilashvili
Votes: 61