My Movies : must-see RUSSIAN
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1. 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
2. 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: 9,000
3. Innocent Saturday (2011)
99 min | Drama
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
Director: Aleksandr Mindadze | Stars: Anton Shagin, Svetlana Smirnova-Martsinkevich, Stanislav Ryadinskiy, V. Gusov
Votes: 648
4. 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: 47,509 | Gross: $0.50M
5. 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: 15,214 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Close to Eden (1991)
PG | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Baoyinhexige
Votes: 3,845
7. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, War
In 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.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 16,348 | Gross: $2.62M
8. Grecheskie kanikuly (2005)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Ippolit and Sonya are Moscow students. In search of adventure, they go on vacation to Athens, where they make a living by portraying "living sculptures" in the street.
Director: Vera Storozheva | Stars: Anna Arlanova, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Mikhail Efremov, Agis Emmanouil
Votes: 72
9. Ida (2013)
PG-13 | 82 min | Drama
A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela
Votes: 60,710 | Gross: $3.83M
10. Vodka Factory (2010)
90 min | Documentary
Working at the assembly line, bringing up children alone, dreaming of happiness - women's lives in the Russian provinces. Filmed like fiction and imbued with the gorgeous melancholy of ... See full summary »
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
Votes: 93
11. Land of Oblivion (2011)
108 min | Drama
Chernobyl, 1986: a few hours before the disaster, Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
Director: Michale Boganim | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Andrzej Chyra, Ilya Iosifov, Sergey Strelnikov
Votes: 919
12. 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: 56,914 | Gross: $1.09M
13. Zvezda (2014)
128 min | Comedy, Drama
Young Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Melikyan | Stars: Tinatin Dalakishvili, Severija Janusauskaite, Pavel Tabakov, Andrey Smolyakov
Votes: 1,084
14. House of Fools (2002)
R | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 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.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Evgeniy Mironov
Votes: 2,901 | Gross: $0.06M
15. The Postman's White Nights (2014)
100 min | Drama
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko, Viktor Kolobkov
Votes: 2,099
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: 6,075 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Locust (2014)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
First erotic thriller In Russia. Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage ... See full summary »
Director: Egor Baranov | Stars: Anastasiya Akatova, Paulina Andreeva, Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Sergey Frolov
Votes: 704
18. Ayka (2018)
100 min | Drama
A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy | Stars: Samal Yeslyamova, Sergey Mazur, Zhipara Abdilaeva, David Alaverdyan
Votes: 2,252
19. 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: 7,939
20. Vernost (2019)
82 min | Drama
Midwife Lena, a loving wife, is driven towards a string of infidelities after her husband continues to neglect her.
Director: Nigina Sayfullaeva | Stars: Evgeniya Gromova, Aleksandr Pal, Marina Vasileva, Aleksey Agranovich
Votes: 2,971
21. Chiki (2020)
47 min | Comedy, Drama
Four Russian small-town girls open a fitness club, humorously struggling at first. The show explores the difficulties uneducated women face in a traditional religious society with gender inequality and maltreatment.<
Stars: Irina Gorbacheva, Alyona Mikhaylova, Irina Nosova, Varvara Shmykova
Votes: 1,400
22. Beanpole (2019)
Unrated | 130 min | Drama, War
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Votes: 12,257
23. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,064 | Gross: $0.10M
24. Mirror (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 52,264 | Gross: $0.18M
25. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
Votes: 19,780 | Gross: $0.02M
26. Nostalghia (1983)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno
Votes: 30,088 | Gross: $0.01M
27. An Ordinary Woman (2018–2021)
TV-MA | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
39 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.
Stars: Anna Mikhalkova, Yuliya Melnikova, Tatyana Dogileva, Evgeniy Grishkovets
Votes: 890
28. 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: 4,229
29. Protect the Boss (2012)
45 min | Comedy
Zhenya is a strong and independent girl. During her school years she was a master of sports in kickboxing, a local activist, and the terror of the thugs of their block. Also Zhenya would do... See full summary »
Stars: Alexey Shramenko, Anastasiya Stezhko, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Ilya Iosifov
Votes: 7
30. Living (2012)
119 min | Drama
The heroes of the film are not ready to put up with their losses. They challenge fate, declare war on it and reach the human limit in it. And they go on, winning in their own way .
Director: Vasiliy Sigarev | Stars: Olga Lapshina, Marina Gavrilova, Sasha Gavrilova, Yana Troyanova
Votes: 1,782
31. Frenchman (1988)
78 min | Drama, Comedy
Director: Galina Daneliya-Yurkova | Stars: Sergey Shakurov, Evgeniya Simonova, Leonid Yarmolnik, Semyon Farada
Votes: 95
32. Rol (1993)
81 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Elena Rayskaya | Stars: Valeriy Garkalin, Evgeniya Simonova, Nina Drobysheva, Andrei Kalashnikov
Votes: 12
33. Nauchis tantsevat (1986)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Eager to impress his picky girlfriend, the young apprentice street-races causing an accident and a serious injury to the passenger of other car. Now he has to realize the tragic ... See full summary »
Director: Leonid Martynyuk | Stars: Oleg Skoblya, Yekaterina Golubeva, Milena Poselonova, Aleksandr Prodan
Votes: 15
34. Yurev den (2008)
137 min | Drama, Mystery
A mother loses her son during a winter visit to a remote town.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Roman Shmakov, Yevgeniya Kuznetsova, Sergey Sosnovskiy
Votes: 860
35. Pereviznytsya (2024– )
Drama, War
During the first days and weeks of the Russian war on Ukraine, therapist Lydia uses her car to get civilians to safer places.
Stars: Anastasiya Karpenko, Igor Koltovskyy, Kateryna Hryhorenko, Nadiya Levchenko
Votes: 97
36. Olga (II) (2021)
85 min | Drama, Sport
A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland, who is working to secure a place at the country's National Sports Center. When the Euromaiden revolt breaks out in the country, anxieties rise as her family gets involved.
Director: Elie Grappe | Stars: Anastasiia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio, Théa Brogli
Votes: 1,167
37. The Editorial Office (2024)
127 min | Drama
While searching for marmots, young biologist Yura sees arson on the Cherson steppe. His attempts to publicize his discovery draw him into surreal political and media matters.
Director: Roman Bondarchuk | Stars: Dmytro Bahnenko, Zhanna Ozirna, Rimma Zyubina, Andrii Kyrylchuk
Votes: 42
38. The Concert (2009)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Thirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitriy Nazarov, François Berléand
Votes: 18,649 | Gross: $0.66M
39. Dva holma (2022– )
30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
What will happen, when, as a result of a Biological War, almost the entire human population dies? Women will cry and then create a new and better world.
Stars: Pelageya Nevzorova, Nikita Kologrivyy, Andrey Skorokhod, Zhanna Epple
Votes: 492
40. My Love (2006)
26 min | Animation, Short, Drama
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Stars: Aleksandr Palamishev, Aleksandra Zhivova, Evgeniya Kryukova, Nina Ruslanova
Votes: 1,641
41. We Can't Live Without Cosmos (2014)
16 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 2,070
42. He Can't Live Without Cosmos (2019)
16 min | Animation, Short
A mother deals with her son who is so determined to become a cosmonaut that he refuses to ever take of his space suit.
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 98
43. At the Ends of the Earth (1999)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, ... See full summary »
Director: Konstantin Bronzit | Stars: Konstantin Bronzit, Loïc Burckhardt
Votes: 1,293
44. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (2017)
Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The classic story told from the wolf's point of view.
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 5
45. 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: 3,478
46. Three heroes and the King of the Sea (2017)
75 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Having relaxed without feats and having lost their former strength, the bogatyrs go to China for a magical dragon's tooth. Kiev turns out to be flooded by the Sea King, who also falls in love with the wife of Dobryni Nikitich.
Director: Konstantin Feoktistov | Stars: Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Sergei Glezin, Oleg Kulikovich
Votes: 669
47. Tsikady (2023)
43 min | Drama
Six friends are just starting their adult life. They fall in love, dream, and make plans for the future. When a tragedy strikes troubling issues and secrets are revealed, and their parents wonder if they know their children at all.
Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Grigoriy Vernik, Sofya Arzhanykh, Ilya Vinogorskiy
Votes: 149
48. My Good Hans (2015)
110 min | Drama, War
It is a story of love and friendship, proclaiming the triumph of the universal human values. Unaware of the approaching war, Russian and German engineers find themselves united by one common goal at the glass manufacturing plant in USSR.
Director: Aleksandr Mindadze | Stars: Sebastian Anton, Andryus Daryala, Jakob Diehl, Marc Hosemann
Votes: 213
49. Parquet (2020)
90 min | Drama
The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.
Director: Aleksandr Mindadze | Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Chyra, Taavi Eelmaa
Votes: 68
50. Do You Love Me? (2023)
90 min | Drama
Kira is living her life with the teenage confidence that the world revolves around her. Born and raised in the late Soviet Ukraine, she sees her life predictable and clear. But it doesn't last long.
Director: Tonya Noyabrova | Stars: Karyna Khymchuk, Maksim Mikhaylichenko, Natalia Lazebnikova, Oleksandr Zhyla
Votes: 256
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