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51. The Stoker (2010)
87 min | Crime, Drama
The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Mikhail Skryabin, Yuriy Matveev, Aleksandr Mosin, Aida Tumutova
Votes: 2,730
52. The Forty-First (1956)
88 min | War, Drama, Romance
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak
Votes: 1,726
53. Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
TV-PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia.
Directors: Francesco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Antonia Santilli, Alighiero Noschese
Votes: 6,354
54. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Mystery
Just when Agent 47, a former high-target hitman for an international contractor, has decided to reform himself and retire, he becomes engulfed in an elaborate conspiracy as an anonymous organization kidnaps his friend, the resident priest.
Stars: Massimo Agostinelli, Anilla Akbar, Usman Akbar, David Bateson
Votes: 3,475
55. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,009 | Gross: $0.30M
56. Piter FM (2006)
Open | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maksim, who have to decide what to do.
Director: Oksana Bychkova | Stars: Ekaterina Fedulova, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Aleksey Barabash, Irina Rakhmanova
Votes: 3,698
57. The Night Before Christmas (1961)
68 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Surreal Soviet-era Christmas fantasy movie.
Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov, Lyudmila Khityaeva
Votes: 2,076
58. The Russian Revolution (2017)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History
A brief yet comprehensive documentary overview of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, from the terrible acts and subsequent hanging of his brother to his own hunger for a revolution.
Director: Cal Seville | Stars: Daniel Beer, Helen Rappaport, Donald Rayfield, Victor Sebestyen
Votes: 713
59. Gospodin oformitel (1987)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Director: Oleg Teptsov | Stars: Viktor Avilov, Anna Demyanenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Ivan Krasko
Votes: 1,085
60. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,082
61. Rasputin (2011)
87 min | Biography, Drama, History
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Directors: Josée Dayan, Irakli Kvirikadze | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov, Filipp Yankovskiy
Votes: 963
62. Perilous (2000 TV Movie)
95 min | Thriller
A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous world of jewel thieves and gangsters.
Director: James Bruce | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Catherine Oxenberg, Dainius Kazlauskas, Saulis Siparis
Votes: 185
63. Soulless (2012)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about things that are really important in life.
Director: Roman Prygunov | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Mariya Andreeva, Artyom Mikhalkov, Nikita Panfilov
Votes: 3,964
64. The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (2004 Video)
G | 82 min | Animation, Family
Based on E.T.A. Hoffman's classic story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouseking" is the tale of a spoiled prince who lives in a magnificent palace with his magician uncle, Drosselmeier.
Directors: Tatyana Ilina, Michael G. Johnson | Stars: Wolfgang Völz, Rufus Beck, Hannes Jaenicke, Florence Joy
Votes: 356
65. Transe (2006)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual ... See full summary »
Director: Teresa Villaverde | Stars: Ana Moreira, Viktor Rakov, Robinson Stévenin, Iaia Forte
Votes: 579
66. Statskiy sovetnik (2005)
127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but ... See full summary »
Director: Filipp Yankovskiy | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Mashkov
Votes: 3,221
67. Great Catherine (1968)
G | 99 min | Comedy
Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 305
68. The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Adventure, History, Romance
A Russian courier struggles to deliver a message to the troops fighting Tartar invaders.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame
Votes: 266
69. Scorpion (II) (2018)
94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An agent of the Uzbek special services, Timur Saliev, is conducting an operation to seize the Scorpion terrorist group when he learns that his brother, whom he considered dead, is alive and belongs to this very organization.
Director: Mukhlisa Azizova | Stars: Farkhad Makhmudov, Akbar Rasulov, Murat Yildirim, Vyacheslav Razbegaev
Votes: 73
70. The Red Dance (1928)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Note: Contains Spoilers
The story, set in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, focuses on the relationship between three characters: Tasia (Dolores del Rio), a peasant girl; ... See full synopsis »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Charles Farrell, Ivan Linow, Boris Charsky
Votes: 168
71. The Last Soviet Movie (2003)
80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
"My dear Aleksandrs, we filmmakers are all sitting in the same train. Unfortunately there are very few seats. I will leave the train, so that you can take my place." These words by the late... See full summary »
Directors: Aleksandrs Petukhovs, Alexander Hahn | Stars: Dzintars Belogrudovs, Evgeniya Kryukova, Igor Klass, Larisa Shakhvorostova
Votes: 135
72. 2 Brothers & a Bride (2003)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minded wife.
Director: Helmut Schleppi | Stars: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Emily Mortimer, Lois Smith
Votes: 1,125 | Gross: $0.03M
73. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary focusing on the life of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and originator of the Objectivist philosophy.
Director: Michael Paxton | Stars: Sharon Gless, Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Sylvia Bokor
Votes: 651 | Gross: $0.21M
74. Balalaika (1939)
Approved | 102 min | Musical, Romance
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan
Votes: 358 | Gross: $0.25M
75. The Iris Effect (2005)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Ten years ago Sarah Hathaway's gifted and troubled son, Thomas, ran away from their home in Los Angeles. Unable to deal with the doubt and guilt, Sarah's life slowly disintegrates ending in... See full summary »
Director: Nikolay Lebedev | Stars: Anne Archer, Kip Pardue, Agnes Bruckner, Mia Kirshner
Votes: 524
76. The Overcoat (1926)
84 min | Drama
One of the most acknowledged film interpretations of classic short story "The Overcoat" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol, describing a fate of a "small person".
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: Andrei Kostrichkin, Antonina Eremeeva, Andrei Kapler, Emil Gal
Votes: 405
77. The Seventh Companion (1968)
89 min | Drama, War
The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Aronov, Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Popov, Aleksandr Anisimov, Georgiy Shtil, Pyotr Chernov
Votes: 565
78. Saint Petersburg (2010)
120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A newly released prisoner and an ostensibly rich youth become aware of the place of the Russian Tsar's long lost treasure by a twist of fate.
Director: Behruz Afkhami | Stars: Peyman Ghassemkhani, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Bahareh Rahnama, Shila Khodadad
Votes: 4,582
79. The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron
Votes: 270
80. Window to Paris (1993)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Nikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the ... See full summary »
Directors: Yuri Mamin, Arkadiy Tigay | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Agnès Soral, Viktor Mikhailov, Nina Usatova
Votes: 1,618 | Gross: $0.26M
81. Last of the Czars (1996– )
Documentary
Cycle of record films about life and death of the last Russian monarchs.
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Alex Kingston, Linda Kenyon, David Chavchavadze
Votes: 62
82. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,867
83. Die Gezeichneten (1922)
105 min | Drama
Based on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja, Sylvia Torf
Votes: 556
84. School of Seduction (2019)
95 min | Documentary
'School of Seduction' follows the three Russian women, Diana, Lida and Vica, who are on the same mission. They're searching for security, a higher social status, and plain, simple happiness... See full summary »
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya | Stars: Lida, Vika, Diana, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 183
85. Navodneniye (1993)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Minaiev | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Boris Nevzorov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mariya Lipkina
Votes: 153
86. 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
87. The Parent (2021)
115 min | Drama
The struggle for a daughter addicted to heroin makes her father get to know the shadow life of St. Petersburg. Not trusting the police, together with a friend, they begin to unravel the ... See full summary »
Director: Vlad Furman | Stars: Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Anisimov, Oksana Bazilevich, Aleksandr Bolshakov
Votes: 70
88. Agent natsionalnoy bezopasnosti (1999)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Russian detective serial about adventures of the special agent Aleksey Nikolaev.
Stars: Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrey Tolubeev, Andrey Krasko, Vadim Yakovlev
Votes: 240
89. Russian Holiday (1993)
PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Susan Dennison, an American woman traveling in Russia, tires to smuggle priceless artifacts out of the country, her entire tour group suffers the repercussions. Not only does the ... See full summary »
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Susan Blakely, Barry Bostwick, E.G. Marshall, Jeff Altman
Votes: 270
90. Peterburgskie tayny (1994–1998)
55 min | Drama, History
Petersburg Secrets is a Russian drama television series based on the novel Petersburg Slums by Vsevolod Krestovsky (1867). The action of the adventurous melodrama takes place in St. ... See full summary »
Stars: Nikolay Karachentsov, Viktor Rakov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Vladimir Steklov
Votes: 142
91. The Virtuous Sin (1930)
80 min | Drama, Romance, War
Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I.
Directors: George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna, Jobyna Howland
Votes: 307
92. Anastasia: Adventures with Pooka and Bartok (1997 Video Game)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Point and click adventure based on the 1997 animated movie Anastasia. Over the course of five scenarios based on the movie, Rasputin's bat Bartok tries to throw Anastasia's little dog Pooka, who's looking for ways to help her, off course.
Stars: Meg Ryan, Hank Azaria, Jamie Goferman, Summer Litwin
Votes: 64
93. The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, History, Romance
A male Polish secret agent and a female Russian secret-police spy smuggle messages to St. Petersburg in candlesticks. While chasing after stolen candlesticks they discover each other's identity and fall in love.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 831
94. Keto and Kote (1948)
89 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Using a marriage broker,a Prince in dire financial straits plans to marry the wealthy daughter of a merchant, The girl is in love with the nephew of the prince. Forced by her father into ... See full summary »
Directors: Vakhtang Tabliashvili, Shalva Gedevanishvili | Stars: Medea Japaridze, Batu Kraveishvili, Tamari Chavchavadze, Meri Davitashvili
Votes: 217
95. Italians (2009)
116 min | Comedy
Fortunato is a trucker who specializes in the transport of luxury vehicles, especially Ferraris, in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Tired of a life away from home and in the process ... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Remo Girone, Makram Khoury
Votes: 1,215
96. We, the Children of the 20th Century (1994)
84 min | Documentary
A collage of interviews with the youth of troubled post Communist Russia: drug addicts, petty thieves, even murderers.They talk of their alcoholic family members who brought them up, and are encouraged by the interviewer to sing.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Vitali Kanevsky, Pavel Nazarov
Votes: 76
97. Elefant (II) (2019)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
The writer, Valentin Shubin, the author of the world-famous series of books about the Elephant Bear, going through a creative crisis.
Director: Aleksey Krasovskiy | Stars: Aleksey Guskov, Polina Agureeva, Gennadiy Smirnov, Ingrid Olerinskaya
Votes: 60
98. The Crimean War (1997)
150 min | Documentary, History, War
The devastating details of a long ago war are eloquently presented in this documentary. "The Crimean War" is a well-researched look into the conflict that shook Europe during the years 1853... See full summary »
Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Dominic Lieven, Andrew Lambert, Alain Gouttman
Votes: 72
99. Les nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg (1938)
85 min | Drama
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Jean Yonnel, Jacques Erwin, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 36
100. Princess Romanoff (1915)
Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Princess Fedora Romanoff, a wealthy, beautiful St. Petersburg widow, is betrothed to Vladimir Boroff, a young man of high social position in the Russian capital. On the eve of their wedding... See full summary »
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Nance O'Neil, Clifford Bruce, Stuart Holmes, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 26