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The Mitten
IMDb: 7.8 1967 10 min 4518 views
The Mitten is an award-winning stop motion animation by Roman Kachanov. A clear and simple story, this short film is all about a little girl, ...
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Salt for Svanetia
IMDb: 7.8 1930 55 min 3629 views
An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.
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The Outskirts
IMDb: 7.9 1998 95 min 3236 views
Set on the Russian steppes and filmed in black-and-white, it is the story of a group of peasants seeking revenge against the oil company that ...
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A Summer to Remember
IMDb: 7.9 1960 80 min 3962 views
Based on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationships between 8-years boy and his new stepfather.
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One Hundred Days After Childhood
IMDb: 7.9 1975 94 min 6176 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 ...
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
IMDb: 7.9 1992 20 min 6846 views
This phantasmagorical animated short is a superb adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story of the same name. A man is on the verge of ...
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The Republic of ShKID
IMDb: 7.9 1966 103 min 4789 views
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters – Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the ...
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The Last Relic
IMDb: 7.9 1969 86 min 8080 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 ...
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On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians
IMDb: 7.9 1973 18 min 4833 views
In the steps of Bremen Town Musicians is the sequel of the The Bremen Town Musicians. These cartoons are based on the old German fairy tale ...
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Katerina Izmailova
IMDb: 8.0 1967 118 min 2725 views
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich’s long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored ...
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Walking the Streets of Moscow
IMDb: 7.9 1964 78 min 7003 views
“I Am Walking Along Moscow” aka “Ya Shagayu Po Moskve” (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in ...
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Scarecrow
IMDb: 7.9 1984 127 min 5108 views
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the ...
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A Man from Boulevard des Capucines
IMDb: 7.9 1987 98 min 4969 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 ...
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Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street
IMDb: 7.9 1967 79 min 4665 views
Three Poplars at Plyushchikha is a legendary Soviet melodrama about a simple village woman who, once in Moscow, changes her worldview and life. ...
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Crime and Punishment
IMDb: 7.9 1970 221 min 11000 views
This is truly the greatest film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s classic, Crime and Punishment, there is. Directed by Lev Kulidzhanov and ...
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Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
IMDb: 7.9 1961 14 min 5122 views
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What’s more fun: fishing with worms, or ...
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Letter Never Sent
IMDb: 7.9 1960 97 min 7435 views
Four geologists are searching for a diamond mine in the wilderness of Siberia. After locating the mine, they set out to deliver their findings to ...
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I Am Twenty
IMDb: 7.9 1965 189 min 7566 views
I Am Twenty is a coming-of-age film from the 1960s that demonstrates the differences between the Soviet wartime generation and that which came ...
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Ten Little Indians
IMDb: 7.9 1987 137 min 4379 views
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark ...
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Twenty Days Without War
IMDb: 7.9 1977 101 min 3895 views
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the ...
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Station for Two
IMDb: 7.9 1982 141 min 5670 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 ...
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Assa
IMDb: 7.9 1987 153 min 14440 views
Assa (Асса) is a classic Soviet crime film from 1987 that retains a cult status in Russia to this day. The movie is credited with bringing ...
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Cloud Heaven
IMDb: 8.0 1990 76 min 3805 views
In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just ...
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At War as at War
IMDb: 8.0 1969 90 min 5208 views
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting ...
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Tears Were Falling
IMDb: 8.0 1982 89 min 3147 views
Tears Were Falling is a beautiful fairy tale for adults. Prolific actor, Evgeni Leonov, plays Vasin, a loving husband, father, and all-round ...
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Travels of an Ant
IMDb: 8.0 1983 10 min 3472 views
Travels of an Ant tells the story of an injured ant who gets blown by the wind far from home. Desperately trying to return home before sundown, ...
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The Story of the Voyages
IMDb: 8.0 1983 99 min 4938 views
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a ...
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The Bremen Town Musicians
IMDb: 8.0 1969 20 min 9793 views
The Bremen Town Musicians is a musical cartoon based on the fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. The cartoon is a cult hit in the former ...
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The Plea
IMDb: 8.0 1967 77 min 4776 views
The Plea is the first movie in Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy that includes The Wishing Tree and Repentance. The film is a romantic drama based ...
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I Am Cuba
IMDb: 8.0 1964 141 min 12929 views
An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film’s four ...
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Two Comrades Were Serving
IMDb: 8.0 1968 99 min 4866 views
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, ...
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Tale of Tales
IMDb: 8.0 1979 29 min 6289 views
Tale of Tales (Сказка сказок, Skazka skazok) is a masterpiece by the great animator, Yuri Norstein. Like another Norstein classic, Hedgehog in ...
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The Island
IMDb: 8.0 2006 112 min 8568 views
The Island is an incredibly powerful film that wrestles with the ideas of sin and atonement. In a cold, secluded island in northern Russia, ...
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Autumn Marathon
IMDb: 8.0 1979 89 min 5849 views
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. ...
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An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
IMDb: 8.0 1977 103 min 5371 views
At the dilapidated country estate of Anna Petrovna Voinitseva, a group of feckless Russian aristocrats whiles away a summer afternoon. ...
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Is It Easy to Be Young?
1986 83 min 5080 views
Is it easy to be young? (Vai viegli būt jaunam?) is a cult classic, Latvian documentary from 1986. The film describes the lives and problems the ...
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The Courier
IMDb: 8.0 1986 88 min 5840 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 ...
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The Fool
IMDb: 8.0 2014 116 min 18241 views
The Fool is another masterpiece by director, Yuri Bykov. The movie tells the story of a simple, honest plumber who goes up against an entire ...
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Days of the Turbins
IMDb: 7.9 1976 223 min 4461 views
Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov’s brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, “White Guard”), “Days of the ...
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The Girls
IMDb: 8.0 1961 93 min 17642 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 ...
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Love and Lies
IMDb: 8.0 1980 90 min 6179 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 ...
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Battleship Potemkin
IMDb: 8.0 1926 75 min 8921 views
Battleship Potemkin (Броненосец «Потёмкин» / Bronenosets Potyomkin) is a 1925 Soviet film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It is widely considered ...
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The White Sun of the Desert
IMDb: 7.9 1970 83 min 10056 views
White Sun of the Desert is one of the very best Soviet Westerns, or “Osterns” there is. The film revolves around the adventures of a ...
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The Flight
IMDb: 8.0 1970 196 min 4713 views
The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn’t have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral ...
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Afonya
IMDb: 8.0 1975 92 min 6567 views
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya “Afonya” was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character “Afonya” Borshev ...
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Chasing Two Hares
IMDb: 8.1 1961 77 min 3987 views
Based on the vaudeville by M. Staritsky Svirid Petrovich Golokhvasty had his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after ...
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Junior and Karlson
IMDb: 8.1 1968 19 min 5902 views
Junior and Karlson is a Soviet cult cartoon based on the Swedish story by writer, Astrid Lingren (of Pippi Longstocking fame). In this cartoon, a ...
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Wings, Legs and Tails
IMDb: 8.1 1986 4 min 3826 views
A beautiful animation about a vulture who tries to teach an ostrich how to fly. Of course, this is not possible. And so, the story serves to ...
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To Kill a Dragon
IMDb: 8.1 1988 123 min 5151 views
Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only ...
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
IMDb: 8.1 1965 97 min 8138 views
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a 1965 Ukrainian film by Soviet-Armenian filmmaker, Sergei Parajanov, that is based on the novel by Ukrainian ...
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Stalker
IMDb: 8.2 1979 162 min 36325 views
Stalker (Сталкер) is a brilliant 1979 Soviet sci-fi film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Loosely based on the Strugatsky Brothers’ 1972 novel, ...
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Solaris
IMDb: 8.1 1972 167 min 27946 views
Solaris – a film about people’s erotic problems in outer space. Or so you’ll see… About Solaris Solaris (Солярис / ...
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Siberiade
IMDb: 8.1 1979 275 min 9769 views
The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families from opposing classes.
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They Fought for Their Country
IMDb: 8.1 1975 137 min 13374 views
Sergei Bondarchuk’s They Fought for Their Country has often been called the best film about WWII. In the summer of 1942, the Soviet Union ...
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
IMDb: 8.1 1980 142 min 43780 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 ...
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Love and Pigeons
IMDb: 8.1 1984 107 min 6815 views
This charming rom-com gives a window onto life in a remote Siberian village. Vasia, who has never left the village, comes to spend a summer ...
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Ivan’s Childhood
IMDb: 8.1 1962 95 min 12329 views
Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. The first feature film of ...
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Mirror
IMDb: 8.1 1975 106 min 24428 views
Mirror (Зеркало) is one the most beautiful movies by acclaimed arthouse director, Andrei Tarkovsky. This semi-autobiographical film describes the ...
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A Cruel Romance
IMDb: 8.1 1984 142 min 9004 views
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Noble but poor widow seeks to arrange marriage for ...
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We’ll Live Till Monday
IMDb: 8.1 1968 106 min 6803 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 ...