SOME OF THE BEST RUSSIAN MOVIES (TOP 50)
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1. 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: 16,244
2. 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: 14,824
3. Well, Just You Wait! (1969–2017)
TV-G | 10 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
A long-years odyssey of Wolf to catch Hare. Comprehensive changes in the Soviet Union pass in the background.
Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Klara Rumyanova, Igor Khristenko, Olga Zvereva
Votes: 6,249
4. Kak Vitka Chesnok vyoz Lyokhu Shtyrya v dom invalidov (2017)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Hoping to claim his newly-vacated apartment, a young man travels across Russia with his aging gangster father to admit him into a nursing home.
Director: Aleksandr Khant | Stars: Evgeniy Tkachuk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Andrey Smirnov, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 3,954 | Gross: $0.00M
5. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976 TV Movie)
TV-G | 192 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night - New Year's celebration.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev, Aleksandr Shirvindt
Votes: 13,535
6. 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: 7,279
7. Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
PG-13 | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Yakovlev, Levan Gabriadze
Votes: 13,765
8. Heart of a Dog (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev
Votes: 9,096
9. Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
74 min | Comedy, Family
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova, Ilya Rutberg, Lidiya Smirnova
Votes: 3,468
10. 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: 18,467
11. Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
TV-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and care.
Director: Aleksandr Seryy | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin, Saveliy Kramarov, Radner Muratov
Votes: 12,884
12. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Sergey Podgornyy, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev
Votes: 5,772
13. Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
TV-PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia.
Directors: Francesco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Antonia Santilli, Alighiero Noschese
Votes: 6,338
14. 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: 5,096
15. 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: 13,533
16. Chapaev (1934)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev | Stars: Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit
Votes: 1,439
17. Ostrov Sokrovishch (1988)
G | 72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cartoon adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous adventure novel.
Director: David Cherkasskiy | Stars: Valeriy Bessarab, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Viktor Andrienko, Vyacheslav Dubinin
Votes: 4,350
18. Winnie-the-Pooh (1969)
11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A Soviet version of Winnie-the-Pooh. His first adventure is a desperate attempt to get to honey in a bee hollow. He is ready to take decisive action.
Director: Fyodor Khitruk | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina, Vladimir Osenev
Votes: 4,817
19. White Sun of the Desert (1970)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
Director: Vladimir Motyl | Stars: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze
Votes: 7,843
20. The Girls (1962)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
Several romance stories - part funny, part sadly - set in a remote logging camp.
Director: Yuriy Chulyukin | Stars: Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Nikolay Rybnikov, Lyusena Ovchinnikova, Inna Makarova
Votes: 4,513
21. Carnival Night (1956)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov, Georgiy Kulikov
Votes: 3,096
22. Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog (1982)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two lonely souls met: a dog outcast by his owners, and a poor wolf living in the woods.
Director: Eduard Nazarov | Stars: Georgiy Burkov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Eduard Nazarov
Votes: 4,219
23. The Very Same Munchhausen (1980 TV Movie)
142 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man with imagination opposes a society without it. Society forces him to betray his freedom-loving spirit, but imagination is immortal.
Director: Mark Zakharov | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Inna Churikova, Elena Koreneva, Igor Kvasha
Votes: 3,947
24. The Garage (1980)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Meeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Alla Budnitskaya, Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Tsvetkova, Mikhail Kokshenov
Votes: 4,303
25. Twelve Chairs (1977)
305 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Two scoundrels try to find twelve dining room chairs, into one of which a fortune in jewellery was sewn.
Stars: Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov, Rolan Bykov, Georgiy Vitsin
Votes: 5,226
26. Three from Prostokvashino (1978)
17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.
Director: Vladimir Popov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talyzina, Mariya Vinogradova, Boris Novikov
Votes: 3,742
27. Tri plyus dva (1963)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Three men vacation on a deserted beach near The Black Sea, trying to get away from women and society. However, two women arrive and try to claim the vacation spot as their own. The groups scheme to run each other off the beach.
Director: Genrikh Oganisyan | Stars: Natalya Kustinskaya, Natalya Fateeva, Andrey Mironov, Evgeniy Zharikov
Votes: 2,114
28. The Fair Barbara (1970)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A Czar who attempts to trick a creature that demands tribute from him into taking a fisherman's baby instead of his newborn heir. Complications arise when the daughter of the creature, Barbara, requests a human suitor to find true love.
Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Mikhail Pugovkin, Georgiy Millyar, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Lidiya Korolyova
Votes: 1,093
29. Karlson Returns (1970)
20 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Karlsson-on-the-Roof returns to stands against a stern housekeeper. Fun will never surrender.
Director: Boris Stepantsev | Stars: Faina Ranevskaya, Vasiliy Livanov, Klara Rumyanova
Votes: 2,934
30. Come Tomorrow (1962)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Young girl from the country come to Moscow, she wants to get into University, but it's too late. Anyway, she won't give up and will do everything to get a meeting with dean and sing for him.
Director: Evgeniy Tashkov | Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Ekaterina Savinova, Boris Bibikov, Antonina Maksimova
Votes: 633
31. The Foundling (1940)
68 min | Comedy, Drama
Old woman came to have a drink of water. Then apartment owners looked around - no piano. And many other adventures of Natasha and her friends.
Director: Tatyana Lukashevich | Stars: Veronika Lebedeva, Faina Ranevskaya, Pyotr Repnin, Rostislav Plyatt
Votes: 805
32. Sem starikov i odna devushka (1969 TV Movie)
81 min | Comedy, Musical
A young graduate of the Institute of Physical Education Elena Velichko is sent to work as a coach in a sports club. But instead of promising athletes she is given six elderly men.
Director: Yevgeni Karelov | Stars: Anatoliy Adoskin, Boris Novikov, Nikolay Parfyonov, Aleksei Smirnov
Votes: 343
33. Winnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit (1971)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet visit their friend the rabbit. After a hearty breakfast of honey, Pooh finds it hard to leave.
Director: Fyodor Khitruk | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina, Anatoliy Shchukin, Vladimir Osenev
Votes: 3,843
34. Winter in Prostokvashino (1984)
16 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Continuing adventures of little Fyodor and his talking cat friend.
Director: Vladimir Popov | Stars: Mariya Vinogradova, Valentina Talyzina, Zinaida Naryshkina, Oleg Tabakov
Votes: 3,059
35. 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: 2,887
36. The Golden Antelope (1954)
31 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A poor Indian boy saves a magic antelope that can produce gold with its hooves. After a greedy Raja learns about it, he orders to bring him the antelope - or die.
Director: Lev Atamanov | Stars: Valentina Sperantova, Nina Nikitina, Ruben Simonov, Aleksandr Gruzinsky
Votes: 1,517
37. Goal! Goal! (1964)
21 min | Animation, Short, Sport
Two teams, quite different by their techniques, meet in a hockey match.
Director: Boris Dyozhkin
Votes: 952
38.
38 Parrots (1976–1991)
Episode:
38 popugaev
(1976)
8 min | Animation
Parrot, Monkey and Elephant are excited to understand how long their friend Boa is. They finally arrive to the result, though it is measured in quite a strange fashion.
Director: Ivan Ufimtsev | Stars: Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Mikhail Kozakov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vsevolod Larionov
Votes: 1,146
39. The Flying Carpet (1957)
G | 86 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Nikolay Volkov, Aleksei Litvinov, Gennadi Khudyakov, Lev Kovalchuk
Votes: 1,487
40. Cipollino, the Onion Boy (1961)
38 min | Animation, Short, Action
An oppressed vegetables and fruits rebel against tyranny leading by Chipollino, an onion boy.
Director: Boris Dyozhkin | Stars: Nina Gulyaeva, Erast Garin, Sergey Martinson, Grigoriy Shpigel
Votes: 1,253
41. Gena the Crocodile (1969)
20 min | Animation, Short, Family
Cheburashka is a creature unknown to science. After the zoo rejects him, he becomes lonely and wants friends. Meanwhile, a crocodile named Gena is in the same boat and seeks friendship. The two meet and build a house for the lonely.
Director: Roman Kachanov | Stars: Vasiliy Livanov, Klara Rumyanova, Vladimir Rautbart, Vladimir Kenigson
Votes: 2,434
42. The Adventures of Buratino (1976 TV Movie)
130 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Several adventurers - cruel and cunning, virtuous and brave - sets off on a quest for the Golden Key - a metaphor of happiness.
Director: Leonid Nechaev | Stars: Dmitriy Iosifov, Tatyana Protsenko, Roman Stolkarts, Thomas Augustinas
Votes: 2,245
43. Priklyucheniya Myunkhauzena (1982–1995)
46 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Incredible adventures of the world famous fibber.
Stars: Sergey Tseyts, Garri Bardin, Viktor Sergachyov, Grigoriy Shpigel
Votes: 647
44. Alyosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey (2004)
Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Alesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an opinion on everything), a wise granny, a donkey and a beauty Lyubava.
Director: Konstantin Bronzit | Stars: Oleg Kulikovich, Liya Medvedeva, Dmitriy Vysotskiy, Anatoliy Petrov
Votes: 3,477
45. Dobrinya and the Dragon (2006)
Not Rated | 68 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Dobrinya Nikitich goes on a quest to save the royal niece and finds out whether his old friend Zmey Gorinich is loyal to him. During the adventures, he is accompanied by the royal messenger who's in love with the royal niece.
Director: Ilya Maksimov | Stars: Mikhail Chernyak, Natalya Danilova, Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya, Oleg Kulikovich
Votes: 2,690
46. Ilya Muromets i Solovey Razboynik (2007)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Ilya Muromets has to rescue his trusty horse Burushka and Kiev treasury from the greedy hands of famous bandit, Solovey-Razboynik.
Director: Vladimir Toropchin | Stars: Valeriy Solovyov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya, Oleg Tabakov
Votes: 2,149
47. Vovka in a Far Far Away Kingdom (1965)
19 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A schoolboy gets into a fairy tale with the help of a librarian and DIY book. But life in the magical land is not as easy as it seems.
Director: Boris Stepantsev | Stars: Rina Zelyonaya, Elena Ponsova, Klara Rumyanova, Emiliya Treyvas
Votes: 1,995
48. Yak kozaky v futbol hraly (1970)
18 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 1,496
49. Yak kozaky sil kupuvaly (1975)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks engage in confrontation with a bunch of raiders in order to return stolen salt supplies to the local market.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 1,229
50. How the Cossacks Rescued Brides (1973)
19 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks rescue the brides from the pirates.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 1,103
51. How Cossacks Cooked Kulesh (1967)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks are trying rescue their captured friend from the Arabs.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 916
52. A Match Revenge (1968)
21 min | Animation, Short, Sport
Ice team is fighting hard. We believe in the courage of the desperate guys. Real men play hockey. Coward does not play hockey.
Director: Boris Dyozhkin
Votes: 687
53. 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: 1,250
54. Grandads-Robbers (1972)
92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An old detective thinks that he is too young for retiring. With the help of his friends, he plans to commit 'the crime of the century' and then quickly solve it. But being a criminal is much more harder than being a policeman.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Olga Aroseva, Georgiy Burkov
Votes: 2,219
55. Watch Out for the Automobile (1966)
94 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A very good cop tries to catch a very insidious and extremely clever serial car thief. The bitter irony is that the thief is not very clever, absolutely not insidious, and a virtuous person and his friend.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Efremov, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Olga Aroseva
Votes: 6,058
56. 100 gramm dlya khrabrosti (1977)
76 min | Comedy
The movie consists of three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness. The stories are "Such an imprudence!," "According to the laws of hospitality," "100 grams for bravery".
Directors: Boris Bushmelev, Anatoli Markelov, Georgi Shchukin | Stars: Igor Yasulovich, Yuriy Kuzmenkov, Vladimir Basov, Georgi Kavtaradze
Votes: 190
57. 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: 2,295
58. 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: 1,319
59. Brother (1997)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
Votes: 24,549
60. Brat 2 (2000)
122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Arriving 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.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Irina Saltykova
Votes: 17,348
61. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 56,928 | Gross: $1.09M
62. Hard to Be a God (2013)
Not Rated | 177 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov
Votes: 6,372
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