Movies, Based on Russian Novels, Stories, etc
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1. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 82,094 | Gross: $111.72M
2. Dunja (1955)
95 min | Drama
Beautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories about life in St. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Eva Bartok, Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Richter
Votes: 30
3. The Last Station (2009)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 19,162 | Gross: $6.62M
4. The Sea Gull (1968)
G | 141 min | Drama, Romance
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner
Votes: 1,087
5. War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, War
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn
Votes: 2,117
6. Taras Bulba (2009)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Igor Petrenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Magdalena Mielcarz
Votes: 3,408
7. Le fils de Tarass Boulba (1962)
96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.
Directors: Ferdinando Baldi, Henri Zaphiratos | Stars: Vladimir Medar, Lorella De Luca, Jean-François Poron, Fosco Giachetti
Votes: 35
8. Taras Bulba (1962)
Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 4,476 | Gross: $7.41M
9. Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1913)
41 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Based on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some... See full summary »
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Obolenskaya, Lidiya Tridenskaya, Petr Lopukhin
Votes: 326
10. Formula of Love (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count... See full summary »
Director: Mark Zakharov | Stars: Nodar Mgaloblishvili, Elena Valyushkina, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Elena Aminova
Votes: 2,730
11. Boris Godounov (1989)
118 min | Musical, Drama
The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort, Paul Plishka
Votes: 378
12. War & Peace (2016)
TV-14 | 63 min | Drama, History, Romance
As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.
Stars: Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson
Votes: 26,634
13.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
The Seagull
(1975)
Not Rated | 120 min | Music, Musical
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental ... See full summary »
Director: John J. Desmond | Stars: Blythe Danner, Frank Langella, Lee Grant, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 93
14. Cara ligava (1964)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama
Director: Vladimir Gorikker | Stars: Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Natalya Rudnaya, Otar Koberidze, Georgi Shevtsov
Votes: 35
15. Beg (1971)
196 min | Drama, History, War
The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ... See full summary »
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach
Votes: 1,258
16. Cold Souls (2009)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.
Director: Sophie Barthes | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun, Armand Schultz
Votes: 10,226 | Gross: $0.90M
17. The Steppe (1962)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Charles Vanel, Daniele Spallone, Cristina Gaioni, Pavle Vuisic
Votes: 31
18. Boris Godunov (1954)
110 min | Drama, Music
Action happens at the end of the 16th century, on the eve of "time of troubles". The main character of this historical tragedy - the Russian tsar Boris Godunov who has ascended to a throne ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Stroyeva | Stars: Aleksandr Pirogov, Nikandr Khanayev, Georgi Nelepp, Maksim Mikhaylov
Votes: 90
19. Cuore di cane (1976)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Max von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf, Gina Rovere
Votes: 370
20. Resurrection (1931)
81 min | Drama
Country girl Katusha is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov who, years later, finds himself on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime to which he now realizes that his actions ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: John Boles, Lupe Velez, Nance O'Neil, William Keighley
Votes: 25
21. Crime & Punishment (2002 TV Movie)
200 min | Crime, Drama
Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pretermit morality in the pursuit of something greater.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: John Simm, Ian McDiarmid, Shaun Dingwall, Geraldine James
Votes: 940
22. Crime and Punishment (1970)
221 min | Drama
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention ... See full summary »
Director: Lev Kulidzhanov | Stars: Georgiy Taratorkin, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Bedova, Viktoriya Fyodorova
Votes: 1,361
23. Crime & Punishment (I) (2015)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When reason fails, the devil helps.
Director: Andrew O'Keefe | Stars: Lee Mason, Anna Samson, Christopher Bunworth, John Orcsik
Votes: 52
24. Crime & Punishment, USA (1959)
96 min | Crime, Drama
A Californian law student murders a pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: George Hamilton, Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes
Votes: 289
25. Crime and Punishment (1935)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell
Votes: 2,234
26.
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988)
Episode:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
(1988)
Documentary, Biography
Director: David Hinton | Stars: Katy Behean, Vas Blackwood, John Challis, Mair Coleman
Votes: 9
27. August (1996)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Phillips, Kate Burton, Gawn Grainger
Votes: 870
28. The Cherry Orchard (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Madame Ranevsky is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, ... See full summary »
Stars: Marian Spencer, Irmgard Spoliansky, Patricia Hilliard, Richard Hurndall
29. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 3,056
30.
Performance (1991–1998)
Episode:
Uncle Vanya
(1991)
128 min | Drama
When Vanya's brother-in-law declares his intention to sell the family's house, polite facades begin to crumble and long repressed feelings start to emerge with devastating consequences.
Director: Gregory Mosher | Stars: David Warner, Ian Holm, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ian Bannen
Votes: 106
31. The First Circle (1991 TV Movie)
180 min | Thriller
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
Director: Sheldon Larry | Stars: Laurent Malet, F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell
Votes: 99
32. Russian Night... 1941 (1982 TV Movie)
55 min | Drama
Adaptation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's story "Incident at Krechtovka Station." A railway station commander encounters a lost soldier during World War II.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Ian Richardson, Nicholas Clay, Emma Piper, Liz Smith
33. Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
Passed | 50 min | Drama, Romance
Miriam, a young Russian girl, has an unfortunate love affair and is threatened with disgrace by having a child out of wedlock. Her father induces Gregor Randor, a young musician, to marry ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Nance O'Neil, Theda Bara, Henry Bergman, William E. Shay
Votes: 27
34. Fear (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In this Americanized retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark to whom he owes money. After the killing,... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Zeisler | Stars: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Francis Pierlot
Votes: 668
35. Irrende Seelen (1921)
Drama about Prince Myschkin - known as The Idiot. His philandering ways makes him discard his lover Nastasja in favor of a younger girl.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Alfred Abel, Maria Connard, Lili Donecker, Eugenia Eduardowa
36. Maschenka (1987)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A story about true love, set in the Berlin of the 1920s. In a shabby lodging-house inhabited by a number of faintly ludicrous characters, the young Russian exile Ganin is unexpectedly confronted with his past.
Director: John Goldschmidt | Stars: Irina Brook, Cary Elwes, Sunnyi Melles, Jonathan Coy
Votes: 63
37. The Proposal (1959 TV Movie)
31 min | Comedy, Romance
Will the arguing stop long enough for Lomov's proposal of marriage to be sealed with a kiss?
Director: Rosemary Hill | Stars: David Bird, Harry Moore, Anne Robson
Votes: 18
38.
Your Favorite Story (1953–1955)
Episode:
The Gambler
(1953)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man becomes obsessed with gambling.
Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Todd Karns, Margaret Field
39. Tarass Boulba (1936)
87 min | Action, Drama, History
Literary adaptation: A Cossack chief leads his forces against Poland. But one of his university trained sons is in love with an enemy daughter.
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Harry Baur, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Larquey
Votes: 48
40. La chauve souris (1923)
Short
Russian ballet company Le Chauve-Souris, led by Nikita Balieff, performs "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", part of their Broadway show.
Director: Lee De Forest | Stars: Nikita Balieff, Tamara Geva
41. The Queen of Spades (1949)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard
Votes: 2,397
42. Anna Karenina (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve, Paul Scofield, Ian Ogilvy
Votes: 371
43. Spring at Marino (1951 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
A comedy by Constance Cox. Suggested by Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons" [Starring] Margaret Rawlings, Derek Farr, Clive Morton Based on John Fernald's production at the Arts Theatre ... See full summary »
Stars: David Bird, Derek Farr, Arthur Hambling, Jenny Laird
44. Anna Karenina (1997)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner
Votes: 6,189 | Gross: $0.79M
45. First Love (1970)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Based on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the ... See full summary »
Director: Maximilian Schell | Stars: John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 398
46. The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)
118 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Roberto Herlitzka, Anita Caprioli
Votes: 337
47. J'ai tué Raspoutine (1967)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Peter McEnery, Robert Hossein, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 146
48. Otets Sergiy (1918)
112 min | Biography, Drama, History
Prince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation.
Directors: Yakov Protazanov, Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Kondorova, V. Dzheneyeva, Vladimir Gajdarov
Votes: 622
49. Crime and Punishment (1935)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Raskolnikov is a Russian man who follows an unusual moral code. A combination of vigilantism and hubris fuels his decision to aid a hapless prostitute by removing her antagonist, a local ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray, Lucienne Le Marchand
Votes: 173
50.
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode:
The Dream
(1956)
30 min | Drama
In 1887 France, a mother is starting to become worried about her young son. He has a recurring dream in which he looks for his dead father. His mother gets worried even more when he tells ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: George Sanders, Sal Mineo, Patricia Morison, John Banner
Votes: 58
51. Resurrection (1918)
50 min | Drama
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove ... See full summary »
Director: Edward José | Stars: Pauline Frederick, Robert Elliott, John St. Polis, Jere Austin
52. Resurrection (1909)
12 min | Drama, Short
Free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel. The subject opens with the return home of Prince Dimitri, who meets the maid Katusha, a little peasant girl, and is instantly charmed with ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, Owen Moore
Votes: 155
53. The Idiot (1951)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Romance
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 5,661
54.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Platonov
(1971)
120 min | Drama
A brilliant fellow, Platonov, and he might be a good husband, too - if only women would let him.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Rex Harrison, Patsy Byrne, Siân Phillips, Clive Revill
Votes: 37
55. A Matter of Conscience (1962 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Harry H. Corbett, Moira Redmond, Renee Houston
56. The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
232 min | Drama
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 941
57. L'idiot (1946)
98 min | Drama
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lampin | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Lucien Coëdel, Jean Debucourt, Sylvie
Votes: 250
58. A Month in the Country (1947 TV Movie)
Comedy
At her husband's country estate, an attractive woman approaching middle age loses her heart (and her common sense) to her ward's handsome tutor.
Stars: James Crabbe, Rita Daniel, Leo de Pokorny, Alec Finter
59. One Russian Summer (1973)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
Based on Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.
Director: Antonio Calenda | Stars: Oliver Reed, John McEnery, Carole André, Ray Lovelock
Votes: 405
60. A Hero of Our Time (1985)
28 min | Short, Western
The film involves a displaced cowboy, a sociopathic record producer and, caught between them, a gum-chewing valley girl who would rather be somewhere else.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Kevin Jarre, Dennis Hopper, Albert Hall, Mina Johnson
Votes: 25
61. Lolita (1962)
Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell
Votes: 108,813 | Gross: $9.25M
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