Sputnik
IMDb: 6.4 2020 113 min 836 views
Sputnik is the biggest Russian film release of 2020. Set in 1983, the movie begins with a Soviet cosmonaut, Veshnyakov, surviving a mysterious ...
Russian Symphony
IMDb: 6.4 1994 115 min 739 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 ...
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
IMDb: 6.8 1979 80 min 701 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. ...
Subject Delta
IMDb: 4.9 2018 13 min 3168 views
Subject Delta is an interesting short by up-and-coming filmmaker, Ivan Rassadin. In it you’ll find a crisp foray into the murky world of ...
Dead Man’s Letters
IMDb: 7.6 1986 83 min 4844 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 3812 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 ...
Days of Eclipse
IMDb: 7.1 1988 139 min 1447 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 ...
Dust
IMDb: 7.2 2005 107 min 1750 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 ...
Planet of Storms
IMDb: 6.5 1962 72 min 3265 views
A game-changing Soviet sci-fi movie directed by Pavel Klushantsev. Often included in American film school curricula, the film has influenced ...
Calculator
IMDb: 4.5 2014 120 min 5716 views
Calculator takes place in the distant future. Ten prisoners are sentenced to life-long exile from their home planet. To establish a new life, ...
Aelita: Queen of Mars
IMDb: 6.6 1924 111 min 3393 views
Aelita: Queen of Mars (Аэлита) is a 1924 Soviet sci-fi film directed by Yakov Protazanov. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Alexi ...
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
IMDb: 6.6 1965 96 min 1816 views
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin is a rip-roaring communist, sci-fi adventure from 1965. It is based on the novel by Aleksey Tolstoy. The ...
Cosmic Journey
IMDb: 6.9 1936 70 min 1171 views
Soviet cinematographers created a progressively realistic image of a journey to the moon in these early days of special effects. Scientist Pavel ...
Moscow-Cassiopeia
IMDb: 6.8 1974 85 min 2328 views
This Soviet sci-fi classic by Richard Viktorov is all about a team of teenage astronauts on a cosmic journey to find intelligent life. The reason ...
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 ...
To The Stars By Hard Ways
IMDb: 5.8 1980 148 min 1746 views
To The Stars By Hard Ways (aka Through Thorns to the Stars) is a 1980s Soviet sci-fi film about an intergalactic rescue expedition. It’s ...
The Monk and the Demon
IMDb: 6.8 2016 115 min 7200 views
Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.
The Testament of Professor Dowell
IMDb: 6.0 1984 91 min 1371 views
The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent ...
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 ...
Teens in the Universe
IMDb: 6.9 1975 80 min 1856 views
What did Soviet children dream of in the 1970s? Of course, they dreamed about space flights and cosmic journeys to distant uncharted planets. ...
The Purple Ball
IMDb: 6.0 1987 77 min 1589 views
The Purple Ball is a fun fantasy movie that is the second sci-fi adventures featuring Alisa Seleznyova, after the TV series, Guest from the ...
The Master and Margarita
IMDb: 6.8 2005 5066 views
The Master and Margarita is a Russian TV adaption of Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s eponymous novel. The adaption’s director and ...
City Zero
IMDb: 7.6 1989 103 min 2263 views
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions ...
Stalker
IMDb: 8.2 1979 162 min 18871 views
Stalker (Сталкер) is a brilliant 1979 Soviet sci-fi film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Loosely based on the Strugatsky Brothers’ 1972 novel, ...
Solaris
IMDb: 8.1 1972 167 min 14300 views
Solaris – a film about people’s erotic problems in outer space. Or so you’ll see… Unfortunately, the free version of the ...
Kin-dza-dza!
IMDb: 8.2 1986 135 min 9694 views
The story takes place on the desert planet “Pluke” in the “Kin-dza-dza” galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously ...
Guest from the Future
IMDb: 8.3 1985 2641 views
Guest from the Future is a cult Soviet sci-fi film that children of the 80s remember fondly to this day. Featuring battling space pirates and ...
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
IMDb: 8.4 1973 93 min 10170 views
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (Иван Васильевич меняет профессию / Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu) is a 1973 Soviet sci-fi film ...
Heart of a Dog
IMDb: 8.8 1988 136 min 12173 views
Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце / Sobachye syerdtsye) is a Soviet film directed by Vladimir Bortko in 1988. The film immediately achieved ...