The Red Snowball Tree
IMDb: 7.7 1974 110 min 365 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 Captivating Star of Happiness
IMDb: 7.2 1975 167 min 573 views
The Captivating Star of Happiness is a beautiful film by ace director, Vladimir Motyl, that tells the story of the famous Decembrist uprising ...
Inseparable
2013 118 min 1368 views
Inseparable is feature film cut of the original Ukrainian TV series about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (you can watch the series here). The ...
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
IMDb: 7.1 1978 68 min 725 views
A miracle descends on the quiet, sleepy village of Bersenevka. A man appears to whom the young Tanya is ready to give her heart. Komarov is a ...
Come Tomorrow…
IMDb: 7.5 1962 98 min 1489 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 ...
A Necklace for My Beloved
IMDb: 6.7 1971 75 min 843 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 5270 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 1712 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 Edge
IMDb: 6.5 2010 115 min 3496 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 2956 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 ...
His Wife’s Diary
IMDb: 7.0 2000 110 min 2089 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 ...
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry
IMDb: 7.4 1966 99 min 1881 views
A pregnant young woman wants to settle down with a good-for-nothing villager but is wooed by a suitor from the city.
Love in the USSR
IMDb: 5.5 2012 89 min 7032 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 ...
Anna Karenina
IMDb: 7.1 1967 145 min 4068 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 1579 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 Barber of Siberia
IMDb: 7.8 1998 180 min 7626 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 ...
Vanished Empire
IMDb: 6.8 2008 105 min 2787 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 ...
About Love. Adults Only
IMDb: 6.1 2017 108 min 18871 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 7261 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. ...
Star
IMDb: 7.0 2014 128 min 3045 views
Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his ...
Two Days
IMDb: 7.0 2011 90 min 3296 views
A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.
Five Brides
IMDb: 6.6 2011 104 min 3155 views
May, 1945… A young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a ...
Inadequate People
IMDb: 7.4 2010 106 min 9139 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 ...
Ice
IMDb: 6.9 2018 113 min 7611 views
Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets ...
I Am Dragon
IMDb: 6.9 2015 110 min 9248 views
I Am Dragon is an exciting Russian take on the Beauty and the Beast-style genre of romantic fantasy. In the film, the young Princess ...
War and Peace
IMDb: 8.3 1966 422 min 12333 views
War and Peace (Война и мир / Voyna i mir) is a historical epic shot between 1961-1967 and released over 1965–67. This Soviet movie, co-written ...
Ballad of a Soldier
IMDb: 8.2 1959 89 min 6930 views
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате / Ballada o soldate) is a 1959 film directed by World War Two veteran, Grigoriy Chukhray. It’s one ...
The Seagull
IMDb: 7.3 1972 100 min 1927 views
A story based on the famous play by Anton Chekhov.
Lady with the Dog
IMDb: 7.4 1960 83 min 3149 views
Lady with the Dog, a famous film adaptation of the well-known Chekhov story of the same name, is essential viewing. It describes how a fateful ...
Exchange Wedding
IMDb: 4.9 2011 90 min 2476 views
Sonya, a popular super model, proposes to Sasha in order to irritate her boyfriend, a famous TV star Ruslan – and adventures begin…
Hipsters
IMDb: 7.1 2008 130 min 4205 views
In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, ...
By the Bluest of Seas
IMDb: 7.1 1936 71 min 1615 views
Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailor on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working has sailor and mechanic for the fishboats of ...
Moscow That Weeps and Laughs
IMDb: 7.3 1927 86 min 1086 views
Young and beautiful girl (Anna Sten), lives near Moscow, earning a living making hats for a fashion store in Moscow. Due to the requirements of ...
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
IMDb: 6.9 1924 78 min 960 views
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim ...
Mashenka
IMDb: 7.5 1942 66 min 1864 views
The tumultuous life of a young telegraph operator during the war years.
An Easy Life
IMDb: 7.3 1964 95 min 1419 views
After graduating from the Institute of Chemical Industry, Bochkin decides to stay in Moscow and get a job as a dry cleaning manager. Doing a lot ...
The Big Space Travel
IMDb: 6.2 1975 66 min 1335 views
Based on the play by Sergei Mikhalkov, The Big Space Travel tells the enchanting story of three Soviet schoolchildren who win a competition to ...
Different Fortunes
IMDb: 7.2 1956 107 min 1158 views
Different Fortunes is a movie about young Leningraders during the 1950s. The film’s young heroes are just leaving high school and entering ...
Three Plus Two
IMDb: 7.4 1963 100 min 1565 views
In Three Plus Two, three male best friends go on an annual seaside camping trip only to have to compete over their favorite spot with two ...
The Little Mermaid
IMDb: 7.1 1976 77 min 3369 views
This film adaptation of The Little Mermaid by Vladimir Bychkov breathed new life into the classic story by Hans Christian Andersen. A touching ...
Father Frost
IMDb: 6.5 1964 79 min 2952 views
Father Frost is a traditional Russian fairy tale classic by director, Alexander Rou. The film tells the story of a conceited young man and a ...
Scarlet Sails
IMDb: 7.1 1961 88 min 1787 views
A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: “… it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail ...
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
IMDb: 7.4 1987 134 min 1233 views
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell ...
A Hunting Accident
IMDb: 7.4 1978 105 min 2268 views
An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov’s story.
Tractor Drivers
IMDb: 6.5 1939 88 min 1243 views
The story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving ...
Cossacks of the Kuban
IMDb: 6.7 1949 112 min 1498 views
In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of ...
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven
IMDb: 7.5 1976 101 min 5320 views
This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and ...
The Height
IMDb: 7.1 1957 94 min 1479 views
For the construction of the plant comes a team of ironworkers, they will carry out the installation of the blast furnace according to the new ...
Аutumn
IMDb: 7.1 1974 93 min 2228 views
A quiet drama offers an in-depth, realistic look at the attempts of two old-flames who reunite to see if they were meant to be together; the ...
The Most Charming and Attractive
IMDb: 7.5 1985 89 min 2213 views
Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn’t really love, but who is the ...
14+
IMDb: 7.0 2015 102 min 21003 views
14+ is a Russian movie by Andrei Zaitsev. It was shot in 2013 and released in 2015. Of note is that Zaitsev cast inexperienced teenagers that he ...
The Key That Should Not Be Handed On
IMDb: 7.1 1976 99 min 1018 views
Kirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the ...
The Blonde Around the Corner
IMDb: 6.5 1983 83 min 1430 views
An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce ...
Tiger Girl
IMDb: 7.2 1954 101 min 1467 views
The story is about heiress of the circus family who organizes show “Let’s get married” right in the cage for the tigers.
The Headless Horseman
IMDb: 6.6 1973 100 min 1534 views
Based on the famous novel of a novel by Thomas Mayne Reid.
Other People’s Relatives
IMDb: 7.2 1955 99 min 1116 views
A young Komsomol member has troubles adopting to his wife family.
Love by Request
IMDb: 7.3 1982 89 min 1646 views
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete living aimlessly and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, a dowdy librarian, try to find their luck by planning ...
Amphibian Man
IMDb: 7.1 1962 82 min 2557 views
People living at the seashore town are frightened by reports about the unknown creature called “the sea devil.” Nobody knows what it ...
Wedding in Malinovka
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 1575 views
The movie takes place during Russia’s civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young ...
The Princess and the Pea
IMDb: 6.8 1976 89 min 1896 views
In The Princess and the Pea screenwriter Felix Mironer has bundled together several Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales. Watch to enjoy a ...
Little Vera
IMDb: 7.0 1988 128 min 4729 views
Little Vera – a film you could call the Soviet Union’s Saturday Night Fever. No, not because of amazing dance scenes. Rather, ...
Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later
IMDb: 7.3 1981 77 min 2016 views
The lyrical comedy, Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later, tells the story of a large Soviet family. The Kruglov family has ten children and ...
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
IMDb: 6.9 1967 84 min 1552 views
Aladdin’s Magic Lamp is a wonderful Soviet interpretation of a classic Arabian tale. In the gorgeous city of Agrab, the life of many people ...
Piter FM
IMDb: 7.1 2006 85 min 8241 views
How to watch Piter FM with English subtitles I have good news – you can 100% watch Piter FM with English subtitles! Here are four options. ...
Spring on Zarechnaya Street
1956 96 min 2036 views
Spring on Zarechnaya Street is a touching romance that become a cult film in the Soviet Union. The movie’s plot unfolds sometime in the ...
July Rain
IMDb: 7.7 1967 107 min 2430 views
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late ...
Cinderella
IMDb: 7.7 1947 80 min 2183 views
Based on a classic fairytale “Cinderella” brilliantly adapted by Yevgeni Shvarts.
Oblomov
IMDb: 7.7 1980 140 min 3173 views
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, ...
Tenderness
IMDb: 7.3 1967 74 min 1973 views
Three interrelated stories of thwarted young love in summertime Tashkent.
Domestic Circumstances
IMDb: 7.8 1977 137 min 2022 views
Multiple love stories are going around this young family, including the newlyweds, the parents, and their grandmother too.
Officers
IMDb: 7.8 1971 96 min 3062 views
Officers is a movie about two friends’ love for their motherland, for life itself, and, of course, for a woman. Through the lifelong ...
The Beginning
IMDb: 7.8 1970 91 min 1923 views
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play ...
When the Trees Were Tall
IMDb: 7.8 1961 95 min 1753 views
This piercing Soviet drama tells the story of two unfortunate strangers who, by the will of fate, become one family. Lovers of Soviet comedy will ...
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
IMDb: 7.8 1961 69 min 3216 views
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a fun, holiday time film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s story, The Night Before Christmas. Directed by ...
One Hundred Days After Childhood
IMDb: 7.9 1975 94 min 2939 views
A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets ...
The Last Relic
IMDb: 7.9 1969 86 min 3902 views
The Last Relic (Viimne reliikvia) is a 1969 Estonian film based on a historical novel by Eduard Bornhöhe. The film was extremely popular when it ...
Falling Leaves
IMDb: 7.9 1966 91 min 2147 views
Falling Leaves (Giorgobistve) is a gorgeous 1966 Georgian film directed by Otar Iosseliani. It was first released in Moscow theaters on June 24, ...
Walking the Streets of Moscow
IMDb: 7.9 1964 78 min 2853 views
“I Am Walking Along Moscow” aka “Ya Shagayu Po Moskve” (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in ...
A Man from Boulevard des Capucines
IMDb: 7.9 1987 98 min 2116 views
Really funny, sweet, and moving take on the American western done by a soviet female director. Mr. First comes to a small town in the wild west ...
Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street
IMDb: 7.9 1967 79 min 1854 views
Three Poplars at Plyushchikha is a legendary Soviet melodrama about a simple village woman who, once in Moscow, changes her worldview and life. ...
Letter Never Sent
IMDb: 7.9 1960 97 min 2543 views
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put ...
Station for Two
IMDb: 7.9 1982 141 min 2354 views
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty ...
The Courier
IMDb: 8.0 1986 88 min 2587 views
Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he’s not in college, and the ...
The Girls
IMDb: 8.0 1961 93 min 9654 views
The Girls is one of the most popular Soviet movies from the 1960s. This heartwarming movie is sometimes likened to Cinderella in the rural ...
Love and Lies
IMDb: 8.0 1980 90 min 2350 views
Love and Lies (also called Could One Imagine?) is a cute teen romantic melodrama about first love. On September 1st, a new student joins ...
Afonya
IMDb: 8.0 1975 92 min 3031 views
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya “Afonya” was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character “Afonya” Borshev ...
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
IMDb: 8.1 1965 97 min 3490 views
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a 1965 Ukrainian film by Soviet-Armenian filmmaker, Sergei Parajanov, that is based on the novel by Ukrainian ...
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
IMDb: 8.1 1980 142 min 22602 views
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is a classic, Oscar-winning Soviet movie. It’s said to depict the famous Russian soul better than any ...
Love and Pigeons
IMDb: 8.1 1984 107 min 2997 views
Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New ...
A Cruel Romance
IMDb: 8.1 1984 142 min 3845 views
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Noble but poor widow seeks to arrange marriage for ...
We’ll Live Till Monday
IMDb: 8.1 1968 106 min 2142 views
We’ll Live Till Monday is a piercing Soviet melodrama by Stanislav Rostotsky that tells the tale of three days in the life of an ordinary ...
Nostalgia
IMDb: 8.1 1983 120 min 7522 views
Nostalgia is a timeless masterpiece of cinema. You can feel Tarkovsky pushing the boundaries of cinema as well as cementing his own unique style ...
Little Tragedies
IMDb: 8.2 1980 240 min 1779 views
A masterpiece of Soviet cinematography based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin.
Formula of Love
IMDb: 8.2 1984 90 min 2741 views
A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family’s country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his ...
The Pokrovsky Gates
IMDb: 8.2 1982 140 min 2232 views
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow’s communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while ...
Nameless Star
IMDb: 8.2 1978 140 min 1845 views
“Stars never leave their orbits”. The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was ...
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
IMDb: 8.3 1975 184 min 21297 views
The Irony of Fate – Russia and the former Soviet Union’s favorite New Year’s movie! The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (Ирония судьбы, ...
Office Romance
IMDb: 8.4 1977 159 min 12916 views
Office Romance (Служебный роман / Sluzhebnyj roman) is a 1977 Soviet rom-com directed by Eldar Ryazanov. It is based on the play, Co-workers ...
Ordinary Miracle
IMDb: 8.4 1978 137 min 2684 views
An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо / Obyknovennoye chudo) is a 1978 Soviet film based on a play by Yevgeniy Shwartz. It’s a movie by ...
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
IMDb: 8.4 1967 82 min 6302 views
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница / Kavkazskaya plennitsa) is a 1967 Soviet comedy by prolific director, Leonid Gaidai. The title ...