Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet movies
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1. Leto (2018)
Not Rated | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History
A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum, Teo Yoo, Filipp Avdeev
Votes: 7,944
2. Dovlatov (2018)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovskiy, Helena Sujecka, Eva Gerr
Votes: 2,224
3. Sella Turcica (2017)
75 min | Drama
Director: Yusup Razykov | Stars: Vitali Daushev, Sergey Genkin, Ilya Kovrizhnykh, Valeri Maslov
Votes: 69
4. Yazichniki (2017)
93 min | Drama
Director: Lera Surkova | Stars: Elena Nesterova, Valentin Samokhin, Vitaliya Enshina, Tatyana Vladimirova
Votes: 125
5. 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: 3,956 | Gross: $0.00M
6. Middleground (2017)
91 min | Drama, Romance
She's always sitting there with her husband. He's always getting up to take a meeting. The other man always comes and sits, the stranger, who always insists on his account of their past affair, and every time he does, it's more convincing.
Director: Alisa Khazanova | Stars: Marisa Ryan, Noah Huntley, Rob Campbell, Fabrizio Brienza
Votes: 131
7. Arrhythmia (2017)
116 min | Drama
A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber, Maksim Lagashkin
Votes: 6,147
8. A Gentle Creature (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina, Vasilina Makovtseva
Votes: 2,495
9. 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: 3,298
10. Loveless (2017)
R | 127 min | Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 35,579 | Gross: $0.57M
11. Good Boy (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?
Director: Oksana Karas | Stars: Sam Treskunov, Ieva Andrejevaite, Anastasiya Bogatyreva, Vasiliy Butkevich
Votes: 903
12. My Killer (2016)
105 min | Crime, Mystery
A young detective in the Northern Russian region of Yakutia is dealing with a seemingly simple murder case. The investigation becomes a dangerous journey into the world of illegal mining and gold trafficking in which life has no value.
Director: Kostas Marsan | Stars: Vyacheslav Lavernov, Galina Tikhonova
Votes: 183
13. Eyo zvali Mumu (2016)
96 min | Drama
A young Russian woman, trying to make it in the big city, is hired for an off-the-books government operation, which involves seducing and later exposing a number of prominent political opposition figures.
Director: Vladimir Mirzoev | Stars: Irina Vilkova, Evgeniy Buslakov, Yuriy Sysoev, Olga Lysak
Votes: 68
14. Zoology (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.
Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova, Irina Chipizhenko
Votes: 1,217
15. Collector (2016)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
Inventive debt collector Arthur finds himself in a trap.
Director: Aleksey Krasovskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Polina Agureeva, Kseniya Buravskaya, Tatyana Lazareva
Votes: 2,719
16. The Student (2016)
Unrated | 118 min | Drama
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Votes: 6,079 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Rag Union (2015)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of friends founded a group and struggles to find an ideology for it.
Director: Mikhail Mestetskiy | Stars: Artyom Anisimov, Danila Astakhov, Denis Astakhov, Pyotr Buslov
Votes: 595
18. The Land of Oz (2015)
100 min | Comedy
New Year in Russian - controlled and ruthless element. While residents preparing for a major national holiday, Lenka Shabadinova works at kiosk till midnight. She does not even know that ... See full summary »
Director: Vasiliy Sigarev | Stars: Yana Troyanova, Gosha Kutsenko, Andrey Ilenkov, Aleksandr Bashirov
Votes: 1,797
19. Parallelnye pryamye peresekayutsya v beskonechnosti (2015)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
Sasha is stalking a man. They seem to have a common past, which Sasha can't let go. This leads her into dark territory. For he is an uncompromising photographer, who is obsessively trying ... See full summary »
Director: Avruzki Lika | Stars: Anna Tsukanova-Kott, Egor Koreshkov, Aleksandr Grabbe, Mariya Krylova
Votes: 43
20. Orlean (I) (2015)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Proshkin | Stars: Elena Lyadova, Viktor Sukhorukov, Vitaliy Khaev, Oleg Yagodin
Votes: 661
21. Corrections Class (2014)
98 min | Drama
Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves... See full summary »
Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Stars: Mariya Poezzhaeva, Filipp Avdeev, Nikita Kukushkin, Olga Lapshina
Votes: 1,216
22. 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: 56,934 | Gross: $1.09M
23. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)
Not Rated | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.
Director: Aleksandr Veledinskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elena Lyadova, Aleksandr Robak, Evgenia Brik
Votes: 5,807
24. 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: 6,373
25. Rol (2013)
132 min | Drama, History
"The Role" is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life -- the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age,... See full summary »
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Maksim Sukhanov, Dmitriy Sutyrin, Maria Järvenhelmi, Anastasiya Shevelyova
Votes: 436
26. Intimate Parts (2013)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
"Intimate Parts" is an ironic melodrama about middle-class Muscovites. Each of them has a personal secret, hidden from others - the "intimate part". The main character, a scandalous ... See full summary »
Directors: Natasha Merkulova, Alexey Chupov | Stars: Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuliya Aug, Olesya Sudzilovskaya, Ekaterina Shcheglova
Votes: 786
27. A Long and Happy Life (2013)
77 min | Drama
Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and tolerate his clandestine love-affair with Anya.
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anna Kotova, Vladimir Korobeynikov, Sergey Nasedkin
Votes: 505
28. In the Fog (2012)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, History, War
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov, Nikita Peremotov
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.01M
29. Delhi Dance (2012)
90 min | Drama
Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi
Director: Ivan Vyrypaev | Stars: Igor Gordin, Karolina Gruszka, Kseniya Kutepova, Arina Marakulina
Votes: 356
30. Me Too (2012)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
Sanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage to a "bell-tower of happiness".
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksandr Mosin, Oleg Garkusha, Yuriy Matveev, Alisa Shitikova
Votes: 2,257
31. Zhila-byla odna baba (2011)
150 min | Drama, History, War
A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
Director: Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Darya Ekamasova, Nina Ruslanova, Vladislav Abashin, Roman Madyanov
Votes: 850
32. 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: 5,763 | Gross: $0.06M
33. Atlantika (2011)
7 min | Short, Drama
On April 15, 1912, Jack L., radio operator on a military vessel, reported an SOS signal from the Titanic. He was ordered by command control not to reveal this information. Later in ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Voloshin | Stars: Marc Barbé, Denis Lavant, Egor Simonov
Votes: 33
34. Elena (2011)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin, Elena Lyadova
Votes: 15,221 | Gross: $0.02M
35. Generation P (2011)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A chronicle of the rise of the advertising industry in Post-Soviet Russia.
Director: Victor Ginzburg | Stars: Vladimir Epifantsev, Mikhail Efremov, Andrey Fomin, Sergey Shnurov
Votes: 4,312 | Gross: $0.01M
36. The Stoker (2010)
87 min | Crime, Drama
The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Mikhail Skryabin, Yuriy Matveev, Aleksandr Mosin, Aida Tumutova
Votes: 2,723
37. The Edge (2010)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 3,238
38. My Joy (2010)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Gotsdiner
Votes: 2,624 | Gross: $0.01M
39. How I Ended This Summer (2010)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.
Director: Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Artyom Tsukanov
Votes: 7,000 | Gross: $0.01M
40. Buben, baraban (2009)
105 min | Drama
Katya, 45 year old head of the library, falls in love with a sailor. However, he goes on Katie to her best friend. Having inherited from his father's apartment, Kate is ready to give it to ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey Mizgiryov | Stars: Natalya Negoda, Elena Lyadova, Dmitriy Kulichkov, Sergey Neudachin
Votes: 331
41. Korotkoe zamykanie (2009)
92 min | Romance
Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are ... See full summary »
Directors: Pyotr Buslov, Aleksey German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev | Stars: Irina Butanaeva, Yuriy Chursin, Ivan Dobronravov, Aleksey Filimonov
Votes: 561
42. Volchok (2009)
88 min | Drama
The six-year-old girl had never seen her mother in her life. But, once appearing to soon leave again, the mother gave the girl a small ridiculous toy - a spinning top. This name is the best fit for the girl herself.
Director: Vasiliy Sigarev | Stars: Polina Pluchek, Yana Troyanova, Veronika Lysakova, Marina Gapchenko
Votes: 1,288
43. Sumasshedshaya pomoshch (2009)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy
Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings... Criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from companions and leaves him alone without money and ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Evgeniy Sytyy, Sergey Dreyden, Anna Mikhalkova, Igor Chernevich
Votes: 473
44. Hipsters (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Young people struggle to do things their way in the 1950s.
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgenia Brik, Maksim Matveev
Votes: 5,311
45. Morphine (2008)
110 min | Drama
A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko
Votes: 4,067
46. Cargo 200 (2007)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov
Votes: 11,394
47. Prostye veshchi (2007)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
Director: Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Sergey Puskepalis, Leonid Bronevoy, Svetlana Kamynina, Dinara Kutuyeva
Votes: 484
48. The Banishment (2007)
150 min | Drama, Romance
A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Maria Bonnevie, Aleksandr Baluev, Dmitriy Ulyanov
Votes: 9,005
49. Mne ne bolno (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Renata Litvinova, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov
Votes: 1,985
50. Svobodnoe plavanie (2006)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
"Free Floating" is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad from an ordinary provincial town like many in Russia, with just one kindergarten, one school, one factory. As a ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Evgeniy Sytyy, Pyotr Zaychenko, Boris Petrov
Votes: 538
51. The Island (2006)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Somewhere 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.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Yuriy Kuznetsov
Votes: 12,572
52. Euphoria (2006)
74 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic triangle leads to both joy and sorrow in this drama, Pavel (Maxim Ushakov) is a goat rancher who has fallen in love with beautiful Vera (Polina Agureeva) from afar.
Director: Ivan Vyrypaev | Stars: Polina Agureeva, Maksim Ushakov, Mikhail Okunev, Yaroslavna Serova
Votes: 1,333 | Gross: $2.21M
53. Belaya gvardiya (2012)
47 min | Drama, War
The protagonist, Alex Turbin - military medic, who had seen and lived through a lot in three years of World War I. He is one of the thousands of officers who, after the revolution faced a difficult choice.
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Evgeniy Dyatlov, Andrey Zibrov
Votes: 303
54. Kosmos kak predchuvstvie (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Irina Pegova, Elena Lyadova
Votes: 737
55. Blind Man's Bluff (2005)
111 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
This movie is about the stern gangster customs of one of the Russian provincial cities in the mid-90s . And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers".
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Panin, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Votes: 8,859
56. The Return (2003)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 47,524 | Gross: $0.50M
57. Posledniy poezd (2003)
82 min | Drama, War
In early winter of 1944, as the Nazi army flees the Soviet advance, two Germans, a doctor and a postmaster, wander as refugees in inhospitable territory, surrounded by the enemy, including rampaging partisans.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Pavel Romanov, Pyotr Merkurev, Aleksey Devotchenko, Aleksandr Tyurin
Votes: 255
58. Progulka (2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A look at Saint Petersburg at the dawn of the 21st century.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Irina Pegova, Pavel Barshak, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Evgeniy Grishkovets
Votes: 2,041
59. Reka (2002)
50 min | Drama
A story of jealous love and betrayal that end up decimating a small group of outcaste lepers who have been banished from participation in Yakut community life.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Vasilii Borisov, Spartak Fedotov, Anna Flegontova, Mariya Kanaeva
Votes: 385
60. War (2002)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
During 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.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,414
61. The Cuckoo (2002)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Mikhail Korobochkin
Votes: 7,989 | Gross: $0.24M
62. Dnevnik ego zheny (2000)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
An attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Andrey Smirnov, Galina Tyunina, Olga Budina, Evgeniy Mironov
Votes: 620
63. Mama (1999)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.
Director: Denis Evstigneev | Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Vladimir Mashkov, Oleg Menshikov, Evgeniy Mironov
Votes: 467
64. The Stringer (1998)
88 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in ... See full summary »
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Anna Friel, Vladimir Ilin, Robert Knepper
Votes: 564
65. East/West (1999)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,146 | Gross: $2.78M
66. Okraina (1998)
95 min | Drama
The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources.
Director: Pyotr Lutsik | Stars: Yuriy Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksei Pushkin, Aleksey Vanin
Votes: 864
67. Of Freaks and Men (1998)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 4,349
68. Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Not Rated | 147 min | Comedy, Drama
Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Jüri Järvet Jr., Mikhail Dementev
Votes: 2,264
69. Country of the Deaf (1998)
105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun, Maksim Sukhanov, Nikita Tyunin
Votes: 1,552
70. Blokpost (1999)
85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Russian platoon sweeps a village, avoiding two mishaps. At a remote check-post they play cards with bullets as stakes. A village girl pimps her deaf-mute sister for bullets. A shifty enemy sniper keeps strafing, causing a tragedy.
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Roman Romantsov, Kirill Ulyanov, Ivan Kuzmin, Denis Kirillov
Votes: 865
71. The Thief (1997)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama
A woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...
Director: Pavel Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Mikhail Filipchuk, Dima Chigaryov
Votes: 5,627 | Gross: $1.13M
72. 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: 24,558
73. Russian Symphony (1994)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy
Parable on the Last Judgement which comes to Russia of our days. Everything appeared not so simply as behind all events a certain ambiguity, some game was read. There was a terrible ... See full summary »
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Ilin, Valentin Golubenko, Kira Kreylis-Petrova
Votes: 197
74. The Castle (1994)
120 min | Drama
Mostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 938
75. Limita (1995)
89 min | Drama
Director: Denis Evstigneev | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Evgeniy Mironov, Kristina Orbakaite, Maksim Sukhanov
Votes: 168
76. Deti chugunnykh bogov (1993)
80 min | Drama
The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is ... See full synopsis »
Director: Tamás Tóth | Stars: Evgeniy Sidikhin, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yuriy Yakovlev, Nikolai Karnaukhov
Votes: 164
77. The Chekist (1992)
93 min | Drama
Depiction of "troika" type of mass murder trials and it's influence on those who carried out plans to mass murder million of people. Somehow Russia was able to produce such movie, which easily could be documentary about actual events.
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin
Votes: 1,149
78. An Independent Life (1992)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama
Little Valerka has become a real teenager. He discovers love.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Toshihiro Vatanabe, Elena Popova
Votes: 205
79. Happy Days (1991)
86 min | Drama
The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Viktor Sukhorukov, Anzhelika Nevolina, Evgeniy Merkurev, Georgiy Teykh
Votes: 744
80. Anna Karamazoff (1991)
125 min | Drama
The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.
Director: Rustam Khamdamov | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Elena Solovey, Natalya Leble, Viktor Sibilyov
Votes: 151
81. Taxi Blues (1990)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova
Votes: 2,000 | Gross: $0.17M
82. Gospodin oformitel (1987)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Director: Oleg Teptsov | Stars: Viktor Avilov, Anna Demyanenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Ivan Krasko
Votes: 1,085
83. Visitor of a Museum (1989)
136 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum ... See full summary »
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Irina Rakshina
Votes: 1,366
84. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 933
85. The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova
Votes: 2,551
86. Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three school boys and one school girl visited their old schoolmarm on her birthday. But their intentions were horrible.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Marina Neyolova, Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Dmitriy Maryanov
Votes: 770
87. Ranshe bylo drugoe vremya (1987)
17 min | Short
The story unfolding during one day, tells about meanness and eternally difficult female share - The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group "Nautilus Pompilios"
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Vyacheslav Butusov, Igor Nezlobinskiy, Nadezhda Ozerova, Nastya Poleva
Votes: 117
88. Gost (1987)
85 min | Drama
Mystical drama based on the story of Borges "The Gospel of Mark".
Director: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy | Stars: Levan Abashidze, Leo Pilpani, Nikolai Ispolatov, N. Koundoukhov
Votes: 45
89. Mirror for a Hero (1987)
139 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Two casual acquaintances, Sergey Pshenichnyy and Andrey Nemchinov, are transferred almost 40 years ago by the will of mysterious circumstances. This day - May 8, 1949 - begins to repeat itself for them with inexorable constancy.
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Boris Galkin, Feliks Stepun
Votes: 733
90. Assa (1987)
153 min | Crime, Drama, History
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov
Votes: 3,167
91. 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: 13,769
92. Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985)
100 min | Drama
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov
Votes: 2,651
93. Dead Man's Letters (1986)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Sabinin
Votes: 3,832
94. The Sacrifice (1986)
PG | 149 min | Drama
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Votes: 31,007 | Gross: $0.30M
95. A Cruel Romance (1984)
142 min | Drama, Romance
A bitter story about tender love and its cruel betrayal set in Russia of the 19th century.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 3,988
96. Vremya zhelaniy (1984)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A strong willed woman aims to make connections so that she along with her husband can have the more fashionable and materially comfortable lifestyle she desires. Catastrophe awaits.
Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Vera Alentova, Anatoliy Papanov, Tatyana Yegorova, Vladislav Strzhelchik
Votes: 149
97. Torpedo Bombers (1983)
96 min | Drama, War
In 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksey Zharkov, Andrei Boltnev, Stanislav Sadalskiy
Votes: 416
98. Posleslovie (1984)
98 min | Drama
The elderly Alexey Borisovich arrives in Moscow to visit his daughter. He discovers that she is away on a business trip. Alexey has to spend time with his son-in-law, Vladimir Shvyrkov, until she returns.
Director: Marlen Khutsiev | Stars: Rostislav Plyatt, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 256
99. Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
92 min | Drama
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Ivanova
Votes: 1,367
100. Istintaq (1979)
91 min | Crime, Drama
The investigator Seifi Ganiev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds.Abiyev is also accused of ... See full summary »
Director: Rasim Ojagov | Stars: Aleksandr Kalyagin, Häsän Mämmädov, Shafiga Mammadova, Rasim Balayev
Votes: 200
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