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- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsDmitriy SolovevYelena KamayevaGeorge AntonIvan is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war.
- DirectorAndrey KavunStarsAleksandr BaluevYury BelyayevBogdan BenyukBased on the true story of five Russian pilots captured by the Taliban. They are forced to spend three-hundred-seventy-eight days in hell, while facing questions of loyalty, survival and planing their treacherous escape route home.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsEvgeniy MironovAleksandr BaluevNina UsatovaA Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians. Our hero turns out as the only sober and hard-working member of the community. However, his attachment to his new faith soon provokes the hatred and rejection of everyone else, including his own family.
- DirectorEvgeniy MatveevStarsGalina PolskikhEvgeniy MatveevValentina TitovaMukhin leaves his wife and starts working as a farmer with another woman. He meets two couples who also want to be farmers like him. However, the three couples are threatened by a group of bandits.
- DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsOlga SutulovaMariya ShalayevaArtur SmolyaninovYoung Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.
- DirectorFilipp YankovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyOksana FanderaElena PerovaModern Russian take on Felinni's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsAllison WhitbeckVladimir MashkovMariya ShukshinaA lonely Russian man is trying to see his daughter who lives with her mother far away in the USA.
- DirectorEldar SalavatovStarsAleksey SerebryakovFedor BondarchukPyotr FyodorovRussia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed.
- DirectorMargarita KasymovaNikolay YeryomenkoStarsVera AlentovaAleksey BuldakovAndrey DudarenkoA successful Moscow doctor who has his own clinic comes to his father in Minsk. His father was once one of the leading doctors in the city, but now he has turned out to be unnecessary and forgotten. The son helps him start a new business. But it turns out that the worst enemy of the father is his most reliable girlfriend.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsChulpan KhamatovaDina KorzunMaksim SukhanovAlyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.
- DirectorMaksim PezhemskiyStarsGosha KutsenkoEvgeniy SidikhinNikolay ChindyaykinThe Sailor was having fun at the wedding. A Tourist started to molest the bride. The Sailor punched him and the punch proved fatal. Now witnesses, police and elite hitmen are looking for him... 1997
- DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsAnatoliy ZhuravlyovOlga PonizovaMark GoronokRussian tragic comedy about forming post USSR society.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsValeriy GarkalinVera AlentovaInna ChurikovaA Russian crook steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
- 19931h 31mNot Rated6.0 (2.1K)DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsDmitriy KharatyanKelly McGrillAndrey MyagkovWhen mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
- DirectorYaroslav ChevazhevskiyStarsAnastasiya DobryninaDina KorzunDmitriy DyuzhevA woman and a young girl in different cities are struggling to find their way in this world. Will their paths intersect and will that change their destinies?
- DirectorIgor MaslennikovStarsElena SafonovaNina RuslanovaLarisa UdovichenkoOlga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhSergey YurskiyGrigoriy DityatkovskiyA semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
- DirectorOleg TeptsovStarsViktor AvilovAnna DemyanenkoMikhail KozakovA famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksandr MosinOleg GarkushaYuriy MatveevSanja 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".
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsViktor NemetsVladimir GolovinAleksey VertkovA 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.
- DirectorMikhail BelikovStarsSergey ShakurovTatyana KochemasovaStanislav Stankevich1986. Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergei PopovOlga AntonovaGalina ZakhurdaevaIn the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- DirectorPetra CostaStarsLi AnElena AndradePetra CostaElena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.
- 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.
- DirectorJoseph VilsmaierStarsDominique HorwitzThomas KretschmannJochen NickelThe story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsSergey MakovetskiySergey GarmashApti MagamaevTwelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsRenata LitvinovaAleksandr YatsenkoDmitriy DyuzhevThree 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...
- DirectorOksana BychkovaStarsEkaterina FedulovaEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey BarabashLyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maksim, who have to decide what to do.
- DirectorYuri MaminStarsMikhail TarabukinKaterina KsenyevaAleksey DevotchenkoA poetic story, inspired by an oriental parable, tells of an enterprising young man who yearns for wealth, but gets something more valuable in the end after meeting three unusual people in a dirty basement.
- DirectorAvdotya SmirnovaStarsAnna MikhalkovaYana TroyanovaAnna ParmasProvincial Vika travels by train to St. Petersburg, where she meets a scientific employee of the Kunstkammer - Lisa. Lisa invites her temporarily stay at her home. Vicka will turn the life of Lisa into a series of endless parties.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsDenis ShvedovYuriy BykovIrina NizinaIn a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.
- 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.
- StarsAnna MikhalkovaYuliya MelnikovaTatyana Dogileva39 years old Marina runs her own small business, a flower shop. She has a normal family with everyday worries. Everything about her life seems right, but behind this facade of success there are some terrible secrets lurking there.
- DirectorDarya ZhukStarsAlina NasibullinaIvan MulinYura BorisovIn 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorZhora KryzhovnikovStarsDmitriy NagievYuliya AleksandrovaOlga SeryabkinaFor a successful DPS officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star.
- DirectorAleksandr GorchilinStarsFilipp AvdeevAleksandr KuznetsovRoza KhayrullinaAcid is a silent manifesto of the generation of twenty-year-old. They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to eventually learn not to listen but to hear, not to look but to see. And to find their way. Sacha and Petya live the crazy life of young musicians in modern-day Moscow: loud parties, ups and downs, the wheel of unstable relationships with others and themselves. Knowing the importance of love, family, and opportunity, but feeling lonely and disconnected, has left them both with a sense that they are corroding from the inside. Suddenly an event occurs in their lives that requires them both to take an honest look at themselves.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsMikhail UlyanovAnna SinyakinaAleksandr PorokhovshchikovVeteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.
- DirectorZhora KryzhovnikovStarsEvgeniya AgenorovaYuliya AleksandrovaDmitriy BurenkovIn a Russian coastal town, Natasha is forced by her stepfather to celebrate her wedding with Roma in the restaurant. They plan to celebrate by the sea and decide to spend their dream wedding in secret from conservative families.
- StarsAleksandr DomogarovLev BorisovKirill LavrovThief in law Yuri Mikheev, nicknamed Baron, together with his partner, robs the apartment of Mikhail Monakhov, a banker and deputy assistant close to the gangster structures, filled with antiques. Together with the jewels, they bring out Rembrandt's painting Aegina. The baron tells his partner that this is a good copy, realizing that in fact it is the original, stolen from the Hermitage. Soon the Baron ends up in prison, where he bequeaths to the journalist Andrei Seregin, who writes on criminal topics, to take the painting from his woman and return it to the Hermitage. Seregin takes on the investigation alone. The bandits, fearing that a story with a fake hanging in the Hermitage may come up, are trying with all their might to prevent this.
- StarsAleksey SerebryakovDmitriy PevtsovOlga DrozdovaDetective Sergei Chelishchev leaves the police to find the real murderer of his parents. Everything changes when he meets his long-lost friend, a war veteran who joined local mafia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsJulia OrmondOleg MenshikovAleksey PetrenkoAt the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsMikhail UlyanovAlla ParfanyakAleksandra TurganThe fantastic components allow Solovev to create displaced references between the cinematic narrative and the historical chaos during the last year of the Soviet empire.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey PaninDmitriy DyuzhevNikita MikhalkovThis 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".
- DirectorYuri MaminStarsViktor SukhorukovAleksandr MedvedevArtur VakhaA small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and convinced of their own moral rectitude. However, this cosy state of affairs is upset by the arrival of two strangers dressed like Pushkin, the famous early 19th century Russian poet, who proceed to found their own organisation, dedicated ostensibly to the memory of the great writer and the "salvation of Russia". Gradually, they begin to assume control of the town...
- 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.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsElena YakovlevaTomas LaustiolaLarisa MalevannayaA hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsDarya ZhovnerAtrem CipinNazir ZhukovIn 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.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsIrina PegovaPavel BarshakEvgeniy TsyganovA look at Saint Petersburg at the dawn of the 21st century.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaOlga VolkovaValentin GaftMany of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsMaryana SpivakAleksey RozinMatvey NovikovA couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 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.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVladimir MashkovMariya MironovaAndrey KraskoDuring the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary 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.
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsTatyana DrubichAleksandr AbdulovMikhail RozanovIn fact, people who then appear around Mitya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.
- StarsSergey BezrukovDmitriy DyuzhevPavel MaykovBrigada is a group of four friends, who grew up together and formed a most powerful gang in Moscow. Initially they made business together, but an unplanned murder transformed them. Now their lives are at risk and there is no way back.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey MakovetskiyDinara DrukarovaAnzhelika NevolinaDariya 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.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsVladimir MashkovYekaterina RednikovaMikhail FilipchukA woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovIngeborga DapkunaiteOleg MenshikovIn the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn 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.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaSultan IslamovBryan AdamsIn the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.