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1. Black Widow (2021)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 427,211 | Gross: $183.65M
2. Red Notice (2021)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
An Interpol agent successfully tracks down the world's most wanted art thief with help from a rival thief. But nothing is as it seems as a series of double-crosses ensues.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Ritu Arya
Votes: 318,687 | Gross: $0.18M
4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 80,988 | Gross: $74.89M
5. The Way Back (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Dragos Bucur
Votes: 122,112 | Gross: $2.70M
6. The Shoes of the Fisherman (I) (1968)
G | 162 min | Drama
After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen
Votes: 4,179
7. Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
Director: James Bobin | Stars: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Steve Whitmire
Votes: 37,087 | Gross: $51.18M
8. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Director: Felix Herngren | Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer
Votes: 42,679 | Gross: $1.08M
9. Beyond Utopia (2023)
PG-13 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
Director: Madeleine Gavin | Stars: Hyeonseo Lee, Sung-eun Kim, So-yeon Lee, Sue Mi Terry
Votes: 3,482
10. Superman: Red Son (2020 Video)
PG-13 | 84 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
What if baby Kal-El's rocket landed not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader, Vanessa Marshall
Votes: 16,914
11. 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: 3,240
12. Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia (1977)
R | 85 min | Horror
In 1953, nestled deep in the unforgiving Siberian tundra, the Stalinist Gulag 14 is a purgatory under the command of the brutally seductive tormentor, Ilsa. More than two decades later, the camp's sole survivor still thirsts for revenge.
Director: Jean LaFleur | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Michel Morin, Jean-Guy Latour, Michel Maillot
Votes: 1,988
13. 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: 2,270
14. East/West (1999)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,147 | Gross: $2.78M
15. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
TV-G | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
Director: Hardy Martins | Stars: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Michael Mendl
Votes: 8,102
16. Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985 TV Movie)
200 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron
Votes: 431
17. Gulag (1985 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama
Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, David Suchet, Warren Clarke
Votes: 793
18. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
G | 100 min | Drama
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during ... See full summary »
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland, Frimann Falck Clausen
Votes: 626 | Gross: $0.67M
19. Knight Without Armor (1937)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, History
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas
Votes: 1,461
20. Within the Whirlwind (2009)
90 min | Biography, Drama
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Benjamin Sadler
Votes: 1,111
21. Eternal Winter (2018)
110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
Director: Attila Szász | Stars: Marina Gera, Sándor Csányi, Laura Döbrösi, Diána Magdolna Kiss
Votes: 1,995
22. The Soviet Story (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History, War
The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
Director: Edvins Snore | Stars: Jon Strickland, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Lenin, Norman Davies
Votes: 3,449
23. Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
181 min | Drama, History, War
A look at the horrors of the Eastern Front of World War II from the points of view of repressed soldier of penal battalion and his young daughter, who stayed behind enemy lines.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Sergey Makovetskiy
Votes: 4,488
24. Lost in Siberia (1991)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
A political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.
Director: Aleksandr Mitta | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Vladimir Ilin, Elena Mayorova, Irina Mikhalyova
Votes: 358
25. The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
Director: Viesturs Kairiss | Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Edvins Mekss, Ivars Krasts, Guna Zarina
Votes: 932
26. Where We Disappear (2019)
73 min | Drama
A story of survival about a woman's first night in a Soviet prison camp.
Director: Simon Fink | Stars: Georgina Haig, Jolene Andersen, Katharine Isabelle, Vera Cherny
Votes: 309
27. Larks on a String (1969)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská
Votes: 2,192
28. Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
60 min | Documentary
Filmed in wartime and edited under candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterwork tells of his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was arrested by KGB, at the height of ... See full summary »
Directors: Mikhail Vartanov, Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Sergei Parajanov, Mikhail Vartanov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 227
29. Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
76 min | Adventure, Drama
An independent young boy living in a prison-like state children's home escapes multiple times, searching for his imprisoned father.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Borisov, Aleksandr Bureyev, Svetlana Gaytan
Votes: 336
30. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 935
31. Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
98 min | Drama
Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Kingsbury | Stars: Lana Gulevich, Andrey Vasilyev, Angelika Reyn, Romeo Visca
Votes: 62
32. Cannibal Island (2011 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
In 1933, Joseph Stalin ordered 6,000 unwanted citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to be sent to the desolate Siberian island of Nazino. Almost a century later, we remember this horrifying event, and pay homage to those who lost their lives.
Director: Cédric Condon | Stars: Fabrice Pierre, Natalia Dufraisse, Andrei Zayats, Anton Yakovlev
Votes: 197
33. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004)
124 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of Tulse Luper, whose life is reconstructed through the evidence from 92 suitcases. He is the author and project manager, and constantly end up in prisons around the world.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: JJ Feild, Roger Rees, Stephen Billington, Nur Al Levi
Votes: 481
34. In the Crosswind (2014)
90 min | Drama, History
"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families ... See full summary »
Director: Martti Helde | Stars: Laura Peterson-Aardam, Tarmo Song, Mirt Preegel, Ingrid Isotamm
Votes: 1,709
35. 100 Minutes (2021)
104 min | Drama
Thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only 'crime' was to get caught. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Filipp Yankovskiy, Inna Churikova, Artur Beschastnyy, Stepan Abramov
Votes: 227
36. Coming Out of the Ice (1982 TV Movie)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His ... See full summary »
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: John Savage, Willie Nelson, Francesca Annis, Ben Cross
Votes: 218
37. Syphon Filter 2 (2000 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Mystery
The sequel to Syphon Filter (1999) takes place right after the first one. The Agency has apparently betrayed Gabe Logan and framed him for the Khazakstani ICBM missile launch containing the Syphon Filter virus that was destroyed by him.
Stars: John Chacon, Zoe Galvez, Shannon Tilton, Peter Kepler
Votes: 620
38. Gulag Magadan (2017)
113 min | Drama, History, Thriller
USSR Gulag dissidents Larisa, Pyotr and Elizabeta begin to discover the real reasons they were put in the GULAG death camp. They undergo powerful changes in Self-Hate, Shame, Pride.
Director: Michael Kingsbury | Stars: Kendall Morris, Katherine Galanova, Andrey Vasilyev, Elizabet Nenova
Votes: 56
39. Kharms (2017)
95 min | Biography
The film tells the story of the life of Daniil Yuvachev, known to the world as Daniil Kharms.
Director: Ivan Bolotnikov | Stars: Wojciech Urbanski, Grigoriy Chaban, Aiste Dirziute, Darius Gumauskas
Votes: 159
40. Gulag: The History (2019– )
167 min | Documentary, History
Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Gary Whitaker, James Hogg
Votes: 222
41. Gulag Barashevo (2015)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama
Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Dissidents, Husbands and Wives, in the Marxist USSR GULAG camps of Barashevo and Vorkuta, suffer in and survive their Gulag death camps. It is a ultimately a spiritual struggle.
Director: Michael Kingsbury | Stars: Tanya Raisa, Haydn Winston, Lana Gulevich, Gunita Jansone Black
Votes: 58
42. Ulzhan (2007)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Ayanat Ksenbai, David Bennent, Maximilien Muller
Votes: 657
43. Once My Mother (2013)
75 min | Family, History, War
Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
Director: Sophia Turkiewicz | Stars: Zofia Wichlacz, Karolina Porcari, Wenanty Nosul, Artur Urbanski
Votes: 59
44. Women of the Gulag (2018)
53 min | Documentary
The film tells the story of the last known group of women who survived being held in the Soviet-era forced labor camps called Gulag. The Gulag was a brutal system of repression and terror ... See full summary »
Director: Marianna Yarovskaya
Votes: 67
45. And the Wind Returneth (1992)
133 min | Biography, Drama
The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before leaving for Israel in 1971. The film intertwines chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of films by Mikhail Kalik.
Director: Mikhail Kalik | Stars: Alla Balter, Borislav Brondukov, Vladimir Valov, Emmanuil Vitorgan
Votes: 46
46. Fobos. Klub strakha (2010)
78 min | Horror, Thriller
Rainy summer evening... Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos which is still under construction. Or re-construction - since it's a former bomb shelter which is ... See full summary »
Director: Oleg Asadulin | Stars: Pyotr Fyodorov, Pyotr Tomashevskiy, Agniya Kuznetsova, Alex Sparrow
Votes: 603
47. Zaveshchanie Lenina (2007)
44 min | Drama
Short stories from the life of the man who's spent seventeen years of his life in Stalin labor camps in Kolyma and survived.
Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Elena Lyadova, Tatyana Orlova, Darya Charusha
Votes: 120
48. #Hommes: True Story of the Thieves' World (2015)
134 min | Documentary
It is a unique project that changes radically our ideas about 'Vory v zakone' - Russian mobsters. Never before had a camera penetrated so deeply in the heart of a transnational criminal organization.
Director: Sa Nia | Stars: Nikolay Chernyshev, Vassia Diamond, Gogi Ishkhneli, Heraclius Ishkhneli
Votes: 9
49. In the Shadow of Hermes (2009)
119 min | Documentary, History
The 1917 Bolshevik takeover of Russia has catastrophic consequences for the Russian people.
Director: Jüri Lina | Stars: Lars Adelskogh, Christer Holmgren, Erik Reutersward
Votes: 22
50. Odna voyna (2009)
89 min | Drama
May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Glagoleva | Stars: Aleksandr Baluev, Michael Khmurov, Fyodor Koposov, Natalya Kudryashova
Votes: 166