Nika Awards (U.S.S.R.)
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1. The Long Farewell (1971)
97 min | Drama
A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Yuriy Kayurov, Svetlana Kabanova
Votes: 1,010
2. The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
87 min | Drama
Nikita, haunted by the civil war, meets Luba, who is as deeply moral and lonely as he is.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Vladimir Degtyarev, Vladimir Gladyshev, Tatyana Goryacheva, Andrey Gradov
Votes: 737
3. Mournful Unconcern (1987)
110 min | Drama
Family and friends gather in a decadent house to party. Despite their delusive distinction a raw passion for sex and violence comes to light.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alla Osipenko, Irina Sokolova, Tatyana Yegorova
Votes: 331
4. Repentance (1984)
PG | 153 min | Drama
Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze
Votes: 4,901 | Gross: $0.22M
5. The Black Monk (1988)
88 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.
Director: Ivan Dykhovichnyy | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Stanislav Lyubshin, Pyotr Fomenko, Lyubov Selyutina
Votes: 148
6. Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (1966)
99 min | Drama, Romance
About gentle, tender and proud love of Asya, a lame woman, and the driver Stepan who is a good-for-nothing person.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Iya Savvina, Lyubov Sokolova, Aleksandr Surin, Gennady Yegorychev
Votes: 642
7. The Commissar (1967)
110 min | Drama, War
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Director: Aleksandr Askoldov | Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Lyudmila Volynskaya
Votes: 1,687 | Gross: $0.39M
8. Zhena kerosinshchika (1989)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy
One of the brothers operated on a boy. Another assisted him. It took a blood transfusion. Expensive for a moment, the surgeon did not check the material submitted by the assistant and ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy | Stars: Vytautas Paukste, Aleksandr Baluev, Anna Myasoyedova, Sergey Veksler
Votes: 172
9. Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi (1990)
131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 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.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Mikhail Rozanov, Aleksandr Zbruev
Votes: 764
10. Ashik Kerib (1988)
73 min | Drama
A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.
Directors: Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze | Stars: Yuri Mgoyan, Sofiko Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 2,247
11. Zakat (1990)
88 min | Drama
Mendel Krik, is the owner of a small transport company. He lives with his two sons and his sister and no longer follows the precepts of his religion for a long time. Her dream is to leave everything and live with her young mistress.
Director: Aleksandr Zeldovich | Stars: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Viktor Gvozditsky, Zinovi Korogodsky, Marina Mayko
Votes: 34
12. Poyezdka v Visbaden (1990)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A young traveler Dmitriy Sanin, staying in Frankfurt, falls in love with an Italian girl Jemma whose mother was a café owner. Jemma reciprocates with love and young people decide to get ... See full summary »
Director: Evgeniy Gerasimov | Stars: Sergey Zhigunov, Yelena Seropova, Natalya Lapina, Zinoviy Gerdt
Votes: 43
13. 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: 1,994 | Gross: $0.17M
14. Unizhennye i oskorblennye (1991)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.
Director: Andrey Eshpay | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasia Viazemskaya, Sergey Perelygin
Votes: 213
15. Dom pod zvyozdnym nebom (1991)
121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The fantastic components allow Solovev to create displaced references between the cinematic narrative and the historical chaos during the last year of the Soviet empire.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Alla Parfanyak, Aleksandra Turgan, Mariya Anikanova
Votes: 233
16. Pasport (1990)
103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Votes: 1,218
17. Nelyubov (1991)
94 min | Drama
Director: Valeri Rubinchik | Stars: Kseniya Kachalina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Dmitriy Roshchin, Genrietta Yegorova
Votes: 28
18. Moscow Parade (1992)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, History
Set in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin's secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler.
Director: Ivan Dykhovichnyy | Stars: Aleksandr Feklistov, Ute Lemper, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Yekaterina Ryzhikova
Votes: 217
19. Nad temnoy vodoy (1993)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
Director: Dmitriy Meskhiev | Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Kseniya Kachalina, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Tatyana Lyutaeva
Votes: 98
20. La delegazione (1994)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Aleksandr Galin | Stars: Inna Churikova, Luca Barbareschi, Ekaterina Grabbe, Tamara Kotikova
Votes: 109
21. 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: 163
22. Tri sestry (1994)
106 min | Drama
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Olga Belyayeva, Kseniya Kachalina, Elena Korikova, Sergei Agapitov
Votes: 49
23. Limita (1995)
89 min | Drama
Director: Denis Evstigneev | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Evgeniy Mironov, Kristina Orbakaite, Maksim Sukhanov
Votes: 167
24. Katya Ismailova (1994)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A bored young wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair. Suffocated by a life with her meek husband and domineering mother-in-law, Katya starts a deadly liaison with the intense Sergei.
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Aleksandr Feklistov, Alisa Freyndlikh
Votes: 427
25. Lady Into Lassie (1995)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love story that begins as a girlish joke. Liza is eager to get to know her young neighbour but ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey Sakharov | Stars: Elena Korikova, Dmitriy Shcherbina, Leonid Kuravlyov, Vasiliy Lanovoy
Votes: 355
26. ...Pervaya lyubov (1995)
80 min | Drama, History, Romance
First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Turgenev. The main character is a 15-year old boy spending his summer in the countryside with his parents. When a family moves in next door he becomes infatuated with a beautiful neighbor.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Andrey Ishchenko, Marina Neyolova, Anna Mikhalkova, Aleksandr Abdulov
Votes: 32
27. Musulmanin (1995)
110 min | Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Aleksandr Baluev, Nina Usatova, Ivan Agafonov
Votes: 547
28. Letnie lyudi (1995)
89 min | Drama
Based on Gorky's play "Dachniki" the story tells about different people and their thoughts in a single day in the beginning of 20th century.
Director: Sergey Ursulyak | Stars: Irina Kupchenko, Sergey Makovetskiy, Svetlana Ryabova, Sergey Koltakov
Votes: 51
29. Nauchnaya sektsiya pilotov (1996)
113 min | Mystery, Thriller
Director: Andrey I. | Stars: Maryanna Tsaregradskaya, Viktor Pavlov, Anatoli Krupnov, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina
Votes: 140
30. Tri istorii (1997)
105 min | Comedy, Crime
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel... See full summary »
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Leonid Kushnir, Zhan Daniel, Renata Litvinova
Votes: 824
31. 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: 5,625 | Gross: $1.13M
32. 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: 4,227
33. Malenkaya printsessa (1997)
88 min | Drama, Family
The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Grammatikov | Stars: Anastasiya Meskova, Lyanka Gryu, Igor Yasulovich, Alla Demidova
Votes: 122
34. Igra v brasletakh (1998)
102 min
Handcuffs are a game. They contain the temptation of fate. A sense of endless freedom. They have a deeply hidden secret desire to break the law. In them - repentance. The sweetness of repentance. And therefore - permissiveness.
Director: Nikita Khubov | Stars: Kazbek Bokoyev, Levan Dzhakeli, Aleksandr Grave, Elizaveta Oliferova
Votes: 28
35. Day of the Full Moon (1998)
93 min | Drama
The heroes of the film are "new Russians" and an old Uzbek, a lucky killer and a popular DJ, a beautiful princess and a mysterious monk, a foreign diplomat and a great poet .
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Anna Germ, Andrey Panin, Elena Koreneva, Vladimir Ilin
Votes: 364
36. 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: 4,345
37. Mu-Mu (1998)
101 min | Drama
Director: Yuri Grymov | Stars: Irina Apeksimova, Aleksandr Baluev, Andrey Khalimon, Elena Korikova
Votes: 143
38. Barak (1999)
110 min | Drama
Director: Valeriy Ogorodnikov | Stars: Irina Senotova, Yuliya Svezhakova, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Nina Usatova
Votes: 134
39. Nebo v almazakh (1999)
110 min | Comedy, Crime
The protagonist of the comedy action movie, Anton Chekhov, grew up in an orphanage and dreams of becoming a writer, but he is engaged in robbing safes. The fantastic book he wrote was the beginning of an affair with the girl Vika.
Director: Vasili Pichul | Stars: Nikolay Fomenko, Anzhelika Varum, Alla Sigalova, Aleksandr Semchev
Votes: 134
40. 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: 2,263
41. Nezhnyy vozrast (2000)
130 min | Drama
Ivan 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.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Dmitriy Solovev, Yelena Kamayeva, George Anton, Nikolay Chindyaykin
Votes: 528
42. Russkiy bunt (2000)
130 min | Drama, History, Romance
A historical drama based on the novel of the same name.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Mateusz Damiecki, Vladimir Ilin, Sergey Makovetskiy
Votes: 370
43. 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
44. Kollektsioner (2001)
100 min | Thriller
The Collector (Petrenko) is using his massive collection of curiosities and arts to provoke and manipulate people into a different state of mind. The Collector's daughter is building her ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Grymov | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Irina Mazurkevich, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Karen Badalov
Votes: 106
45. Taurus (2001)
104 min | Drama
Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Natalya Nikulenko
Votes: 1,049
46. Prevrashchenie (2002)
80 min | Drama
Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.
Director: Valeri Fokin | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Igor Kvasha, Tatyana Lavrova, Avangard Leontev
Votes: 365
47. 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: 5,409
48. V dvizhenii (2002)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Modern 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.
Director: Filipp Yankovskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Oksana Fandera, Elena Perova, Mikhail Efremov
Votes: 562
49. Koktebel (2003)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's ... See full summary »
Directors: Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Evgeniy Sytyy, Vera Sandrykina
Votes: 1,861
50. Magnitnye buri (2003)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Vadim Abdrashitov | Stars: Maksim Averin, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Lyubava Aristarkhova, Sergei Pokrovsky
Votes: 103
51. 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: 47,502 | Gross: $0.50M
52. Nastroyshchik (2004)
154 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Georgiy Deliev, Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Nina Ruslanova
Votes: 1,224
53. Vremya zhatvy (2004)
67 min | Drama
Winner of a Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival "for its complex and poetic evocation of an ambiguous period in Soviet history," Marina Razbezhkina's debut film ... See full summary »
Director: Marina Razbezhkina | Stars: Lyudmila Motornaya, Vyacheslav Batrakov, Dmitri Yakovlev, Dmitri Yermakov
Votes: 231
54. Svoi (2004)
111 min | Action, Drama, War
With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide. An old man offers to help them because one of them, the sniper, is his son.
Director: Dmitriy Meskhiev | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Garmash, Ben Perino, Mikhail Evlanov
Votes: 1,361
55. Garpastum (2005)
116 min | Drama
Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Evgeniy Pronin, Danila Kozlovskiy, Dmitriy Vladimirov, Aleksandr Bykovsky
Votes: 678
56. Krasnoe nebo. Chyornyy sneg (2005)
122 min | Drama, War
Director: Valeriy Ogorodnikov | Stars: Pyotr Semak, Elena Panova, Elena Kalinina, Aleksey Devotchenko
Votes: 24
57. Rabbit Over the Void (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
Once upon a time, in the seventy-first year of the last century, the relived two bureaucrats in Moldova: the First Secretary and the SecondSecretary of the Communist party. The Second ... See full summary »
Director: Tigran Keosayan | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Sergey Gazarov, Vladimir Ilin, Yuriy Stoyanov
Votes: 275
58. 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
59. 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: 12,565
60. 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: 8,996
61. Dikoe pole (2008)
108 min | Drama
A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...
Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Stars: Oleg Dolin, Roman Madyanov, Yuriy Stepanov, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 698
62. Paper Soldier (2008)
118 min | Drama, Romance
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Merab Ninidze, Chulpan Khamatova, Anastasiya Shevelyova, Aleksandr Glebov
Votes: 948
63. 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
64. Tale in the Darkness (2009)
72 min | Drama
Angelina lives in a big city on the sea cost, where handsome men and beautiful women are strolling the streets with only one purpose: to have fun, flirt and love. But Angelina, being pretty... See full summary »
Director: Nikolay Khomeriki | Stars: Alisa Khazanova, Boris Kamorzin, Yuriy Safarov
Votes: 296
65. Chelovek, kotoryy znal vsyo (2009)
106 min | Drama
Alexander tries to commit suicide but suddenly finds the ability to get answers to any question. He becomes a good game for all - women, criminals and even international intelligence.
Director: Vladimir Mirzoev | Stars: Egor Beroev, James Derrick, Vasiliy Fursenko, Igor Gasparyan
Votes: 218
66. 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: 1,286
67. Silent Souls (2010)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Romance
Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Igor Sergeev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 2,451
68. 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: 6,996 | Gross: $0.01M
69. 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: 3,235
70. 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
71. Target (2011)
Not Rated | 158 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2020, a group of wealthy Muscovites traveling to a complex of abandoned astrophysics, where rumors say they have enough power to stop the aging process.
Director: Aleksandr Zeldovich | Stars: Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Danila Kozlovskiy
Votes: 706
72. 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: 15,213 | Gross: $0.02M
73. 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: 3,335 | Gross: $0.01M
74. Expiation (2012)
123 min | Drama, War
The film 'Expiation' is the story about difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Karina Andolenko, Sergey Dreyden, Natalya Gandzyuk, Dmitriy Kulichkov
Votes: 136
75. 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: 5,761 | Gross: $0.06M
76. The Horde (2012)
Not Rated | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the 14th century, a Russian bishop is forced to go on a journey inside the Horde.
Director: Andrey Proshkin | Stars: Maksim Sukhanov, Roza Khayrullina, Innokenti Dakaiarov, Aleksandr Yatsenko
Votes: 1,104
77. Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (2012)
106 min | Drama
23 short stories about the Mari women. Stories joyful and sad, ridiculous and terrible. It is the movie ornament, the movie calendar telling about philosophy, traditions and today of the Mari people.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Nadezhda Smirnova, Yana Esipovich, Roman Mishin, Olga Degtyaryova
Votes: 719
78. Metro (I) (2013)
TV-14 | 133 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.
Director: Anton Megerdichev | Stars: Sergey Puskepalis, Anatoliy Belyy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anfisa Vistingauzen
Votes: 7,862
79. Test (2014)
96 min | Drama
A mischievous father and his gentle, beautiful daughter live a quiet life in a vast plain until two young men fall for the girl. The love triangle leads to a wholly unexpected turn of ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Elena An, Danila Rassomakhin, Karim Pakachakov, Narinman Bekbulatov-Areshev
Votes: 599
80. 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: 6,366
81. 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: 56,907 | Gross: $1.09M
82. Angels of Revolution (2014)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Together with five Soviet avant-garde artists, hero of the Russian revolution Polina Schneider travels to Siberia to 'civilize' the native Khanty and Nenets tribes, for whom interaction ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Irina Ermolova, Polina Aug, Konstantin Balakirev, Pavel Basov
Votes: 360
83. 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
84. Under Electric Clouds (2015)
138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Episodic, spiritual and existentialistic look at the state the Russia is in in 2017, exactly one hundred years after the communist-led Russian Revolution. The future looks gloomy, since the world is on the brink of yet another world war.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Louis Franck, Viktoriya Korotkova, Merab Ninidze, Chulpan Khamatova
Votes: 885
85. The End of a Beautiful Epoch (2015)
98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The movie is shot based on the biographic story of Sergey Dovlatov "Compromise", tells about an era in which created, despite bans, had sex which "wasn't", and fought for the right to be ... See full summary »
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Ivan Kolesnikov, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Fyodor Dobronravov, Boris Kamorzin
Votes: 443
86. 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: 6,073 | Gross: $0.00M
87. Paradise (2016)
130 min | Drama, War
Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jakob Diehl, Peter Kurth, Yuliya Khlynina, Yuliya Vysotskaya
Votes: 2,029 | Gross: $0.01M
88. The Duelist (2016)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In the times of Imperial Russia, a former military man of honor makes his own way in life participating in the deadly fights for other people as professional duelist.
Director: Aleksey Mizgiryov | Stars: Pyotr Fyodorov, Vladimir Mashkov, Yuliya Khlynina, Yuri Kolokolnikov
Votes: 3,304
89. Mathilde (I) (2017)
130 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the twilight of Imperial Russia, prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya becomes the mistress of three Grand Dukes.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Lars Eidinger, Luise Wolfram, Danila Kozlovskiy
Votes: 2,348
90. Salyut-7 (2017)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 12,240
91. 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: 35,555 | Gross: $0.57M
92. 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: 6,142
93. 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: 7,938
94. Van Goghs (2018)
103 min | Drama
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Livnev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Daniel Olbrychski, Elena Koreneva, Polina Agureeva
Votes: 407
95. Anna's War (2018)
74 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a little girl is left without parents and is forced to hide from the Nazis, taking care of herself on her own. Day after day.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Marta Kozlova, Lyubov Vorozhtsova, Vladimir Sapin, Aleksandr Vakhov
Votes: 618
96. A Russian Youth (2019)
PG-13 | 72 min | Drama, War
A simple village boy goes to front of First World war with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals.
Director: Alexander Zolotukhin | Stars: Vladimir Korolev, Mikhail Buturlov, Artyom Leshchik, Danil Tyabin
Votes: 812
97. Sin (2019)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jakob Diehl, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Orso Maria Guerrini, Toni Pandolfo
Votes: 1,370
98. 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: 12,252
99. Dear Comrades! (2020)
121 min | Drama, History
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Votes: 5,885
100. A Siege Diary (2020)
118 min | Drama
Leningrad, World War II. An Olga is walking through the whole city to her father. She has just buried her husband and is sure she is going to die soon out of hunger. Olga wants to see her father one last time to say goodbye.
Director: Andrey Zaytsev | Stars: Olga Ozollapinya, Sergey Dreyden, Andrey Shibarshin, Sergey Pirnyak
Votes: 126
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