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

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

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

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

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

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

51. The Return (2003)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

82 Metascore

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

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

59 Metascore

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

76 Metascore

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

74 Metascore

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

87 Metascore

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

78 Metascore

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

65 Metascore

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

93 Metascore

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

92 Metascore

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

76 Metascore

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

52 Metascore

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

55 Metascore

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

86 Metascore

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

69 Metascore

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

65 Metascore

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

85 Metascore

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

82 Metascore

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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