Sputnik
IMDb: 6.4 2020 113 min 755 views
Sputnik is the biggest Russian film release of 2020. Set in 1983, the movie begins with a Soviet cosmonaut, Veshnyakov, surviving a mysterious ...
T-34
IMDb: 6.6 2018 139 min 800 views
T-34 is a recent Russian WWII movie about a group of Russian soldiers who escape from the Nazis in a T-34 tank. It’s available to stream ...
Life Is Beautiful
IMDb: 6.4 1979 101 min 398 views
Life is Beautiful, also known as Betrayed, is a joint Soviet-Italian film production directed by Grigory Chukhray. The main character of the ...
Othello
IMDb: 6.9 1956 107 min 238 views
Othello is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare play, featuring Sergei Bondarchuk playing Othello himself and his wife, Irina Skobtseva, playing ...
Uncle Vanya
IMDb: 7.3 1970 104 min 614 views
While the deep Russian soul is in many ways immeasurable and undefinable, there are still those who can show it. Watch this beautiful rendition ...
The Red Snowball Tree
IMDb: 7.7 1974 110 min 330 views
The Red Snowball Tree is a heart-warming story about the ex-convinct, Yegor Prokudin, who tries to get his life back together and be a good man ...
The Russian Question
IMDb: 6.4 1948 91 min 553 views
The Russian Question is a classic Soviet film by Mikhail Romm that throws audiences back to the dawn of the Cold War. Based on a play by ...
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
IMDb: 8.3 1979 351 views
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed is a Soviet five-part television film based on the Weiner brothers’ story The Era of Mercy. The show ...
Russian Symphony
IMDb: 6.4 1994 115 min 724 views
Russian Symphony is a parable based on the Last Judgement coming to Russia in the mid-1990s. This important film by Konstantin Lopushansky is up ...
Whispering Pages
IMDb: 6.9 1994 77 min 417 views
Whispering Pages is an existential drama based on Russian prose of the 19th century, in particular, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The ...
The Red Tent
IMDb: 7.0 1969 158 min 1048 views
The Red Tent is a joint Soviet-Italian film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and featuring Sean Connery and Peter Finch. As such, it’s a ...
Viy
IMDb: 7.4 1967 77 min 1161 views
Viy is generally considered the most famous Russian horror film – really one of the few in a country that has experienced far too much real ...
Mister Designer
IMDb: 7.1 1988 103 min 514 views
Mister Designer is an exciting and a little eerie mystical drama about a sculptor who dreams of breathing life into his magnificent mannequin ...
The Captivating Star of Happiness
IMDb: 7.2 1975 167 min 543 views
The Captivating Star of Happiness is a beautiful film by ace director, Vladimir Motyl, that tells the story of the famous Decembrist uprising ...
72 Meters
IMDb: 6.7 2004 117 min 1706 views
On August 12, 2000, the world was shocked to receive the news that a Russian submarine, “Kursk,” had sunk. The film, 72 Meters, tells ...
Silver Heads
IMDb: 6.2 1999 84 min 1042 views
In Silver Heads scientists embark on a secret experiment to fuse man and tree. The purpose of this fantastic experiment is to create man-tree ...
Winter Evening in Gagry
IMDb: 7.3 1985 88 min 877 views
Winter Evening in Gagra became a classic almost immediately after its release. This Karen Shakhnazarov’s film (the acclaimed director of ...
Inseparable
2013 118 min 1317 views
Inseparable is feature film cut of the original Ukrainian TV series about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (you can watch the series here). The ...
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
IMDb: 6.8 1979 80 min 668 views
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel is a 1979 Estonian sci-fi film based on the novel of the same name by the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky brothers. ...
Cherry Town
IMDb: 6.8 1963 88 min 593 views
Once upon a time “Cherry Town” was the name of a small village near Moscow. Today, however, thousands of Muscovites live there and it ...
Aerograd
IMDb: 6.1 1935 82 min 840 views
Aerograd is a 1930s film from influential director, Alexander Dovzhenko. Set in the Far East region of Russia, the movie centers on the struggle ...
Come Tomorrow…
IMDb: 7.5 1962 98 min 1449 views
Come Tomorrow tells the story of a young talented woman’s journey from the Siberian taiga to the music conservatory in Moscow. Frosya has ...
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
IMDb: 7.8 1970 77 min 1336 views
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird is a beautiful film by director, Otar Iosseliani. It tells the story of a day in the life of a young, carefree ...
A Necklace for My Beloved
IMDb: 6.7 1971 75 min 828 views
A Necklace for My Beloved (Samkauli satrposatvis) is a 1971 lyrical comedy by legendary Georgian director, Tengiz Abuladze. It is based on the ...
Anna Karenina. Vronsky’s Story
IMDb: 6.1 2017 138 min 5165 views
Anna Karenina. Vronsky’s Story is an interesting new take on Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Director and current chairman of Mosfilm, ...
Brief Encounters
IMDb: 7.4 1967 96 min 1690 views
Brief Encounters is a beautiful rom-com by famed director, Kira Muratova. In the film, Nadia leaves her village for the big city where she meets ...
The Communist
IMDb: 7.1 1958 105 min 2648 views
The Communist is an ideology-ridden, but also beautifully created film. Hugely popular in the Soviet Union, the movie also won its director, Yuli ...
The Stroll
IMDb: 7.3 2003 90 min 2091 views
The Stroll is a true cult classic creation by rock star director, Alexei Uchitel. It shines a romantic light on St. Petersburg like no other. ...
The Edge
IMDb: 6.5 2010 115 min 3428 views
The Edge is another exciting drama from masterful director, Alexei Uchitel. The film takes place right after WWII. Ignat, a victorious but ...
The Sea
IMDb: 5.1 2013 82 min 2910 views
The Sea is an elegant drama by Alexandra Strelyanaya, also director of The Dry Valley. It tells the story of carefree love by the endless sea. A ...
To Live
IMDb: 7.2 2010 74 min 3213 views
To Live is a thrilling movie and the first feature by acclaimed director, Yuri Bykov. It’s a film that reminds us to think about the real ...
Relations
IMDb: 5.6 2006 1977 views
Relations is a movie all about being torn between love and duty. Two happily married parents find they can’t help but have an affair. Ilya and ...
I’ll Be Around
IMDb: 6.8 2012 1718 views
I’ll Be Around is a 2012 Russian drama directed by Pavel Ruminov. It won the main prize at the Kinotavr festival. I’ll Be Around is ...
His Wife’s Diary
IMDb: 7.0 2000 110 min 2057 views
His Wife’s Diary is one of the best films by Russian director, Alexei Uchitel. It tells the story of the last years of the life of the ...
Enemies
IMDb: 5.8 2007 78 min 3562 views
Enemies is a piercing and believable drama set in a small Belarussin village during WWII. Local villagers live side-by-side with German soldiers ...
Ashik Kerib
IMDb: 7.4 1988 73 min 2554 views
Ashik Kerib is a Georgian film that is acclaimed director, Sergei Parajanov’s final work. Parajanov dedicated the film to his good friend, ...
The Major
IMDb: 7.3 2013 99 min 5585 views
The Major is a piercing drama by acclaimed director, Yuri Bykov. It tells the story of a senior police officer, Sergei Sobolev, and the moral ...
The Dry Valley
IMDb: 6.3 2012 2124 views
The Dry Valley (Суходол) is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ivan Bunin. It tells the story of a village named “Dry ...
Dreaming of Space
IMDb: 6.7 2005 90 min 1017 views
Dreaming of Space is a 2005 Russian drama directed by acclaimed director, Alexei Uchitel. It won the prize for the best film at the Moscow ...
Captive
IMDb: 5.8 2008 80 min 1597 views
Captive is a Russian-Bulgarian film by acclaimed director, Alexei Uchitel. It is based on the novel by Vladimir Makanin, “Prisoner of the ...
The Legend of Suram Fortress
IMDb: 7.4 1985 83 min 2455 views
The Legend of Suram Fortress is legendary director, Sergei Parajanov’s first film since his release from the Soviet Gulag prison system. ...
Fragment of an Empire
IMDb: 7.3 1929 96 min 800 views
Fragment of an Empire is an extraordinarily impressive classic and the epitome of the Soviet propaganda film. It tells the a story of a Russian ...
No Path Through Fire
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 1835 views
No Path Through Fire is acclaimed director Gleb Panfilov’s first feature film. It tells the interesting story of a talented nurse trying to ...
Dead Man’s Letters
IMDb: 7.6 1986 83 min 4785 views
Dead Man’s Letters is the first feature film of the masterful director, Konstantin Lopushansky. It deals with a popular theme of the late ...
A Visitor to a Museum
IMDb: 7.3 1989 128 min 3750 views
A Visitor to a Museum is a 1989 film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky. Like his earlier 1986 work, Dead Man’s Letters, it explores what a ...
There Will Be No Leave Today
IMDb: 6.5 1959 46 min 2132 views
This short film is a stylishly constructed thriller that will appeal to a wide range of viewers. It tells the story of a small Soviet town that ...
Boule de suif
IMDb: 7.4 1934 70 min 1276 views
Boule de Suif (Пышка) is a 1934 Soviet drama by Mikhail Romm. An adaptation of the eponymous short story by Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif is a ...
Trial on the Road
IMDb: 7.9 1971 96 min 3462 views
Trial on the Road (Проверка на дорогах) is the directorial debut of acclaimed director, Aleksey German. In English, it is also sometimes known as ...
My Grandmother
IMDb: 7.5 1929 65 min 1642 views
The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on ...
Days of Eclipse
IMDb: 7.1 1988 139 min 1422 views
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he ...
The Killers
IMDb: 6.6 1956 19 min 3426 views
The Killers (Убийцы) was Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film. He co-directed this short film along with his classmates, Alexander Gordon and ...
Indestructible
IMDb: 5.2 2018 90 min 6275 views
The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being ...
Bezhin Meadow
IMDb: 6.7 1968 31 min 1145 views
Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by ...
Somebody else’s wife and a husband under the bed
IMDb: 7.2 1984 67 min 1323 views
An older official has long suspected his wife of infidelity. His worst fears are justified on the anniversary of their wedding, when he comes ...
Beginning of an Unknown Era
IMDb: 6.9 1967 73 min 1401 views
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the ...
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry
IMDb: 7.4 1966 99 min 1841 views
A pregnant young woman wants to settle down with a good-for-nothing villager but is wooed by a suitor from the city.
Migrants
IMDb: 6.1 1991 102 min 1870 views
Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they ...
Day of the Full Moon
IMDb: 6.8 1998 93 min 2199 views
Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short ...
Mother
IMDb: 6.9 1990 200 min 2276 views
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, ...
Love in the USSR
IMDb: 5.5 2012 89 min 6958 views
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same ...
Assassin of the Tsar
IMDb: 6.9 1991 104 min 1962 views
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes ...
The Shining Path
IMDb: 6.2 1940 96 min 1346 views
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She ...
Boris Godunov
IMDb: 6.7 1986 130 min 1497 views
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander ...
Anna Karenina
IMDb: 7.1 1967 145 min 4000 views
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Alexei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of ...
Shine, Shine, My Star
IMDb: 7.6 1969 94 min 1566 views
This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
IMDb: 8.1 1980 3665 views
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into ...
Dobrinya and the Dragon
IMDb: 7.1 2006 65 min 1343 views
Dobrinya Nikitich goes on a quest to save the royal niece and finds out whether his old friend Zmey Gorinich is loyal to him. During the ...
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
IMDb: 7.2 2004 72 min 1690 views
Alesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an ...
Tchaikovsky
IMDb: 6.6 1970 157 min 1659 views
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, ...
The Green Elephant
IMDb: 5.4 1999 87 min 2391 views
The movie is set in the brig, the walls of which are painted in a poisonous green color. There fall into two junior officers, Sergei ...
Fate of a Man
IMDb: 8.0 1959 103 min 4384 views
The film debut of famed director, Sergei Bondarchuk, Fate of a Man tells the gripping story of a man who lost everything. Based on the book of ...
Waterloo
IMDb: 7.3 1970 128 min 1719 views
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused ...
The Old Man and the Sea
IMDb: 8.1 1999 22 min 1914 views
The Old Man and the Sea is a gorgeous paint-on-glass short film by master animator, Aleksandr Petrov. The film is an adaptation of the short ...
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
IMDb: 7.0 1981 151 min 4293 views
Agony is a two-part feature film about one of the most notorious personalities in Russian history, Grigory Rasputin. This beautiful and ...
The Barber of Siberia
IMDb: 7.8 1998 180 min 7522 views
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the ...
Dust
IMDb: 7.2 2005 107 min 1728 views
The genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which ...
Dersu Uzala
IMDb: 8.3 1975 141 min 7867 views
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one ...
Bastards
IMDb: 6.1 2006 97 min 3754 views
A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous ...
The Asthenic Syndrome
IMDb: 6.8 1989 153 min 1002 views
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it’s termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, ...
Chekist
IMDb: 7.1 1992 91 min 6564 views
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten ...
Dead Souls
IMDb: 9 1984 2510 views
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small ...
American Daughter
IMDb: 6.3 1995 98 min 2161 views
A lonely Russian man is trying to see his doughter who lives with her mother far away in the USA.
Vanished Empire
IMDb: 6.8 2008 105 min 2764 views
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same ...
Ward No. 6
IMDb: 6.3 2009 83 min 2183 views
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own ...
Anna Karenina
2017 3919 views
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count ...
The Fall of Berlin
IMDb: 6.1 1949 167 min 4093 views
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The “Little Father of the ...
Decision: Liquidation
IMDb: 5.4 2018 96 min 5747 views
The ruthless extremist Bazgaev responsible for terrorist attacks which lead to deaths of hundreds of civilians, among them school children, is ...
About Love. Adults Only
IMDb: 6.1 2017 108 min 18542 views
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the ...
About Love
IMDb: 6.4 2015 115 min 7148 views
What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. ...
Mermaid
IMDb: 7.3 2007 115 min 2323 views
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief ...
Star
IMDb: 7.0 2014 128 min 3013 views
Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his ...
Panfilov’s 28 Men
IMDb: 6.8 2016 105 min 12567 views
This is a pretty recent Russian WWII movie well worth checking out. It’s based on the Soviet legend about a group of 28 Red Army soldiers ...
The Ghost
IMDb: 7.0 2008 145 min 1774 views
A novelist struggling with writer’s block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration — fully unaware that he is being set up ...
Two Days
IMDb: 7.0 2011 90 min 3257 views
A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.
Live and Remember
IMDb: 6.6 2008 100 min 2068 views
Based on Valentin Rasputin’s story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return ...
Dead Daughters
IMDb: 4.0 2007 123 min 1761 views
In present-day Moscow ghosts of three little girls killed by their insane mother randomly pick a person to watch over for a three days. If during ...
Heavenly Judgement
IMDb: 7.1 2012 2216 views
Chas pik
IMDb: 6.3 2006 1278 views
Marathon
IMDb: 5.6 2013 101 min 1979 views
Tolik didn’t succeed in life, sports career did not work, his wife left him. Unsuccessful, unloved, hopeless, he has lost faith in himself. ...
Inadequate People
IMDb: 7.4 2010 106 min 8961 views
Adequacy is relative. Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling ...