Russian (post-Soviet) movies you should watch
List of best (in my opinion) postsoviet russian films. Soviet cinematography was legendary epic and modern russian cinematography is in crisis, but from time to time there are still good movies are being made in Russia. Check them.
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- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin LavronenkoIn the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.One of the best European movie of the decade and probably the best post-Soviet Russian movie.
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsAleksey KopashovAndrey MerzlikinPavel DerevyankoA war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.Simply the best post-Soviet Russian WW2 war movie.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.Funny and weird independent film.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsGordon PinsentKevin DuhaneyYôji MatsudaAn old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.Oscar for best short animated film of 1999.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsNikolay SpiridonovMariya KuznetsovaNikolay ReutovSet in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.Dramatic story of orphan child.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovViktor SukhorukovDmitriy DyuzhevSomewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.If you are interested in Russian Orthodoxy - must see.
- DirectorMikhail PtashukStarsEvgeniy MironovVladislav GalkinYuri KolokolnikovThe movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.Great WW2 spy movie.
- StarsEvgeniy MironovIgor IvanovMarietta MelrosePrince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.In my opinion, best post-Soviet Russian TV show. Adaptation of Dostoevsy's "Idiot".
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.Cult Russian film.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.Sequel of "Brat".
- DirectorPyotr BuslovStarsVladimir VdovichenkovAndrey MerzlikinMaksim KonovalovCorrupted cops, street gangs, "bratki" on "bummers" and "merins", angry truck drivers, beautiful women and death are what four friends on a black bummer who set up on mission from one region of Russia to another are about to face. Don't forget that the main four characters are far from angels themselves...Lifelike gungster movie.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 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.One single shot movie filmed in Hermitage museum.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAleksey BuldakovViktor BychkovSemyon StrugachyovThe men go fishing. Russian men.Russian "Hangover", if you please
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MenshovMariya PoroshinaA fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.Vampires, witches and *beep*
- DirectorDmitriy DyachenkoStarsLeonid BaratsAleksandr DemidovKamil LarinFour long-time friends take a two day road trip from Moscow to Odessa to attend a friend's party. While traveling, they discuss with one another the negatives about being married men.Best Russian comedy of recent years. Good choice for sausage party.
- DirectorRoman KarimovStarsIlya LyubimovIngrid OlerinskayaEvgeniy TsyganovThirty-year-old young man Vitaly, running away from annoying problems and mental discomfort, leaves the provincial town of Serpukhov and moves to Moscow, hoping to find harmony with his own "I" here.Love story of troubled teen girl and depressed young man who lost his wife in car accident.
- DirectorDzhanik FayzievStarsEgor BeroevOlga KraskoMarat BasharovThe film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion...Adaptation of Russian Sherlock adventures (Erast Fandorin).
- DirectorFilipp YankovskiyStarsOleg MenshikovNikita MikhalkovKonstantin KhabenskiyThird film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...Another film about Erast Fandorin.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsIrina PegovaPavel BarshakEvgeniy TsyganovA look at Saint Petersburg at the dawn of the 21st century.Youth, friendship and love.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.Another cult Balabanov's movie. Young Russian soldier and British actor trying to rescue actor's fiancee from Chechen captivity.
- DirectorNikolay LebedevStarsDanila KozlovskiyOleg MenshikovSvetlana IvanovaBiopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death.Story of soviet hockey legend Valery Harlamov.
- StarsDanila KozlovskiyAndrey TerentyevVladimir YaglychFour present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.4 treasure hunters being transported back into the WWII in Russia.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.Young plumber fighting the corruption in local Russian town. It is way better than "Leviathan".
- DirectorPavel ParkhomenkoStarsYaroslav ZhalninMikhail FilippovVladimir SteklovOn April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.Story of first ever man in space - Yuri Gagarin. A little childish but realy cute movie
- DirectorIlya NaishullerStarsSharlto CopleyTim RothHaley BennettHenry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.First person perspective action movie. With Sharlto Copley and Tim Roth. Yes, it is crazy and good!
- StarsVladimir MashkovMikhail PorechenkovAleksandr ChernyavskiyWide-scale operation against criminality turning into something more dangerous in post-WWII Odessa.I love this detective TV show about postwar Odessa (Soviet Odessa, of course).
- DirectorDmitriy KiselevStarsEvgeniy MironovKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir IlinTrying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.Story of first ever spacewalk.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsMariya ShalayevaEvgeniy TsyganovMariya SokovaIn Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.