7.3
Fragment of an Empire
IMDb: 7.3 1929 96 min 2240 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 ...
7.5
My Grandmother
IMDb: 7.5 1929 65 min 4021 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 ...
6.7
Bezhin Meadow
IMDb: 6.7 1968 31 min 2824 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 ...
6.6
Aelita: Queen of Mars
IMDb: 6.6 1924 111 min 5793 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 ...
7.3
The House on Trubnaya
IMDb: 7.3 1928 85 min 2958 views
The House on Trubnaya is one of the finest silent films to come out of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. It’s a prime example of the ...
7.2
The General Line
IMDb: 7.2 1929 121 min 2420 views
Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian ...
7.3
Moscow That Weeps and Laughs
IMDb: 7.3 1927 86 min 2506 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 ...
5.9
The Murder of General Gryaznov
IMDb: 5.9 1921 50 min 2112 views
Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
7.2
Kino Eye
IMDb: 7.2 1924 78 min 2681 views
This landmark documentary by cinematic visionary, Dziga Vertov, promotes his then new filmmaking movement of the same name – Kino Eye ...
6.9
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
IMDb: 6.9 1924 78 min 2170 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 ...
7.1
Storm Over Asia
IMDb: 7.1 1928 127 min 2360 views
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from ...
7.4
The New Babylon
IMDb: 7.4 1929 120 min 2389 views
In the early days of the industrial revolution, a young shop worker falls in love with a soldier before he goes off to war.
6.9
The Last Attraction
IMDb: 6.9 1929 71 min 2179 views
A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The ...
7.3
The End of St. Petersburg
IMDb: 7.3 1927 80 min 2975 views
The End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, translit. Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod ...
6.0
The 1002nd Ruse
IMDb: 6.0 1915 18 min 2139 views
To thwart the underhand practises of his young and seductive wife, an old man found an invaluable book, ‘One Thousand and One Feminine ...
5.3
The Mermaid
IMDb: 5.3 1910 9 min 3466 views
‘Rusalka’ – or, ‘Mermaid.’ Based on Pushkin, an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a ...
5.9
The Captain’s Daughter
IMDb: 5.9 1928 86 min 2771 views
An adaptation of Pushkin’s historical novel about the Pugachev’s Rebellion in 1773–1774.
7.4
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
IMDb: 7.4 1928 94 min 3628 views
October is Sergei M. Eisenstein’s docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in ...
7.5
Mother
IMDb: 7.5 1926 89 min 3349 views
Mother is an early revolutionary cinema classic by famed director, Vsevolod Pudovkin. The film tells the story of a family split apart by a ...
7.2
Father Sergius
IMDb: 7.2 1918 112 min 3120 views
The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.
7.8
By the Law
IMDb: 7.8 1926 80 min 2674 views
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two ...
7.8
Salt for Svanetia
IMDb: 7.8 1930 55 min 3309 views
An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.
8.0
Battleship Potemkin
IMDb: 8.0 1926 75 min 8586 views
Battleship Potemkin (Броненосец «Потёмкин» / Bronenosets Potyomkin) is a 1925 Soviet film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It is widely considered ...
6.9
After Death
IMDb: 6.9 1915 46 min 3585 views
After Death (После смерти / Posle smerti) is among the earliest Russian feature films, created in 1915 by Yevgeni Bauer. It’s a silent film based ...