6.6
Aelita: Queen of Mars
IMDb: 6.6 1924 111 min 6127 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 3300 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 2675 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 ...
6.9
Thunderstorm
IMDb: 6.9 1934 85 min 3750 views
The cinematic adaptation of “The Storm” play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive ...
7.1
By the Bluest of Seas
IMDb: 7.1 1936 71 min 3644 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 ...
6.7
The Youth of Maxim
IMDb: 6.7 1935 90 min 2974 views
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism ...
6.5
Three Songs About Lenin
IMDb: 6.5 1934 59 min 3143 views
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
7.3
Moscow That Weeps and Laughs
IMDb: 7.3 1927 86 min 2751 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 2378 views
Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
7.2
Dream
IMDb: 7.2 1941 100 min 2938 views
The spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
7.5
Happiness
IMDb: 7.5 1935 95 min 2821 views
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other ...
6.6
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
IMDb: 6.6 1965 96 min 4519 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 ...
7.6
Strike
IMDb: 7.6 1925 89 min 4949 views
Strike is director, Sergei Eisenstein’s first feature film and is a true masterpiece of world cinema. In it, Eisenstein gave full vent to ...
7.2
Kino Eye
IMDb: 7.2 1924 78 min 2962 views
This landmark documentary by cinematic visionary, Dziga Vertov, promotes his then new filmmaking movement of the same name – Kino Eye ...
6.8
The Overcoat
IMDb: 6.8 1926 63 min 2917 views
Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories “Nevsky Prospekt” and “The Overcoat”.
7.2
The Magic Weaver
IMDb: 7.2 1959 74 min 3517 views
In The Magic Weaver, two illustrious Soviet storytellers – writer, Yevgeny Schwartz, and director, Alexander Rou – have come together ...
6.9
General Suvorov
IMDb: 6.9 1941 100 min 2883 views
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine ...
7.1
Kutuzov
IMDb: 7.1 1943 95 min 3671 views
Kutuzov is a biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the Russian Field marshal who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée in a brutal war of ...
6.9
Masquerade
IMDb: 6.9 1941 100 min 2858 views
Taken from a Lermentov play, Sergey Gerasimov’s Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ...
6.9
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
IMDb: 6.9 1924 78 min 2415 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 ...
6.6
My Universities
IMDb: 6.6 1940 90 min 4233 views
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s “Maxim Gorki” trilogy. Having ...
7.5
Mashenka
IMDb: 7.5 1942 66 min 4195 views
The tumultuous life of a young telegraph operator during the war years.
7.0
The Secret of the Iron Door
IMDb: 7.0 1971 69 min 2868 views
The Secret of the Iron Door is a film about your wishes being granted – something we all desire. One day, a bad boy fourth-grader named Tolya ...
7.1
Storm Over Asia
IMDb: 7.1 1928 127 min 2605 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 ...
7.0
Road to Life
IMDb: 7.0 1931 108 min 3070 views
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one ...
7.4
The New Babylon
IMDb: 7.4 1929 120 min 2615 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.
7.2
Kashchey the Immortal
IMDb: 7.2 1944 73 min 2808 views
A beautiful maiden, Marya Morevna, gives her prospective husband, the mighty warrior Nikita Kozhemyaka, three riddles to solve before ...
6.8
My Apprenticeship
IMDb: 6.8 1939 100 min 2612 views
My Apprenticeship (V lyudyakh) was the second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy’s “Maxim Gorki” trilogy. Picking up where ...
6.9
The Last Attraction
IMDb: 6.9 1929 71 min 2425 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 ...
7.0
The Invincible
IMDb: 7.0 1983 72 min 3084 views
The Invincible is a fun Russian movie dedicated to the memory of the legendary Russian wrestling sport – Sambo. The film is dedicated to the ...
6.9
The Scarlet Flower
IMDb: 6.9 1978 66 min 4025 views
The Scarlet Flower is a charming, family-friendly fantasy well worth watching. Once upon a time in the fairy tale Russia of hundreds of years ...
7.4
Vassilisa the Beautiful
IMDb: 7.4 1940 72 min 2631 views
Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. ...
6.7
The Golden Key
IMDb: 6.7 1939 72 min 3009 views
The Golden Key, a 1939 movie combining live action and stop-motion animation.
7.3
The End of St. Petersburg
IMDb: 7.3 1927 80 min 3241 views
The End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, translit. Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod ...
7.3
An Easy Life
IMDb: 7.3 1964 95 min 3587 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 ...
7.1
Traffic Officer
IMDb: 7.1 1982 79 min 4531 views
Traffic Officer (Инспектор ГАИ) is a fun Soviet comedy about on a perpetual feud between a traffic policeman and a powerful businessman. One day, ...
6.9
Dima Gorin’s Career
IMDb: 6.9 1961 94 min 2782 views
Dima Gorin’s Career is a touching and light tragicomedy that reveals the everyday lives of hard-working Siberians. Shot in the the ...
7.2
Outskirts
IMDb: 7.2 1933 98 min 3663 views
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced ...
7.0
Minin and Pozharsky
IMDb: 7.0 1939 110 min 2813 views
Minin and Pozharsky is a historical epic created by rock stars of the Soviet cultural establishment. The creator of the story, Viktor Shklovsky, ...
7.0
The Queen of Spades
IMDb: 7.0 1916 63 min 3478 views
While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once ...
7.1
St. Jorgen’s Day
IMDb: 7.1 1930 83 min 2430 views
The thief, Korkis, escapes from prison right on the eve of the church holiday, St. Jorgen’s Day. Together with his accomplice, Schulz, he ...
7.5
Bed and Sofa
IMDb: 7.5 1927 95 min 3594 views
Russian writer/director Abram Room never again made anything as good–or as highly individual–as his 1927 silent film Bed and Sofa. In ...
7.3
Earth
IMDb: 7.3 1930 75 min 2762 views
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
6.8
Volga-Volga
IMDb: 6.8 1938 104 min 4090 views
Grigory Alexandrov’s musical comedy, Volga-Volga, has long become a classic of Soviet cinema. Most famously, it’s known to have been ...
6.3
The Turning Point
IMDb: 6.3 1945 108 min 4439 views
The Turning Point is a classic Soviet war film released in 1945 that told the story of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. For five long, cold ...
7.3
Chapaev
IMDb: 7.3 1934 93 min 5953 views
Chapaev (Чапаев) is known as one of the finest cinematic works of the Socialist Realism movement. Based on a real life Red Army commander, ...
7.3
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Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
IMDb: 7.3 1969 81 min 4832 views
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair is another fun family, fantasy film by prolific director, Aleksandr Rou. The film tells the story of Tsar ...
6.6
The Village Teacher
IMDb: 6.6 1947 100 min 2412 views
A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to ...
6.8
The Children of Captain Grant
IMDb: 6.8 1936 83 min 3469 views
The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter ...
7.4
The Commissar
IMDb: 7.4 1967 110 min 8016 views
Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordyukova) serves as a political officer – a Commissar – in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Her ...
6.9
Cosmic Journey
IMDb: 6.9 1936 70 min 2949 views
Soviet cinematographers created a progressively realistic image of a journey to the moon in these early days of special effects. Scientist Pavel ...
6.8
Moscow-Cassiopeia
IMDb: 6.8 1974 85 min 5398 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 ...
6.0
The 1002nd Ruse
IMDb: 6.0 1915 18 min 2384 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 3782 views
‘Rusalka’ – or, ‘Mermaid.’ Based on Pushkin, an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a ...
7.0
The Youth of Peter
IMDb: 7.0 1980 140 min 3813 views
The Youth of Peter is an epic film adaptation of Alexei Tolstoy’s novel, Peter the First. It tells the story of the rise of Russia’s first ...
6.2
The Big Space Travel
IMDb: 6.2 1975 66 min 3402 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 ...
7.2
The Anna Cross
IMDb: 7.2 1954 3094 views
The Anna Cross (or Anna on the Neck) is a film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov. In the story, the beautiful ...
7.2
Different Fortunes
IMDb: 7.2 1956 107 min 3071 views
Different Fortunes is a movie about young Leningraders during the 1950s. The film’s young heroes are just leaving high school and entering ...
7.4
Three Plus Two
IMDb: 7.4 1963 100 min 4610 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 ...
7.2
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Arsenal
IMDb: 7.2 1929 87 min 3876 views
Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having ...