Tag Archives: Modern Russia

The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Человек, который удивил всех) is a Russian film about a Siberian hunter who tries to cheat death by recreating a ...

Sleepless Beauty (Я не сплю) is a Russian horror movie about chilling experimented conducted on a kidnapped woman. Mila is a young woman who ...

The Enemies (მთებრი) is a recent Georgian film set during the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, part of the Russo-Georgian War of 2008. While ...

Elephant (Слон) is a charming Russian film about a circus elephant. Behind the scenes of a popular Russian circus arena, the audience’s ...

Son of Sofia (Ο Γιος της Σοφίας) is an interesting Russian-Greek co-production about a young Russian boy who visits his mother in Athens during ...

Shopping Tour (Шопинг-тур) is a chilling pseudo-documentary horror film created jointly by Russia and Finland. The movie covers a group of ...

Queen of Spades (Дама Пик) is a modern film adaptation of the famous short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. Created by the great ...

My Dad Baryshnikov (Мой папа – Барышников) is a fun Russian comedy about a young dance student who is convinced that his father is the ...

Paradise (Рай) is a a brilliant historical drama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. The film was highly acclaimed in the festival circuit upon its ...

Forgotten by God (Апостасия) is a historical drama about successive generations of a Russian family living and dying through brutal wartime. ...

Yes & Yes (Да и да) is a provocative Russian film from 2014. The movie follows Sasha, an intrepid young girl from Moscow who falls in love, ...

Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass (Пиковая дама: Зазеркалье) is a thrilling Russian horror movie about a murderous ghost at an old ...

Battery Number One (Единичка) is a patriotic Russian military drama from the creators of Fortress of War, aka Brest Fortress. The film is set in ...

Tanks for Stalin (Танки) is a Russian movie about WWII from Kim Druzhinin, the director who gave us Panfilov’s 28 Men. The year is 1940 and ...

Salyut-7 (Салют-7) is an exciting recent Russian sci-fi film that dramatizes the true story behind the most daring space rescue mission ...

The Find (Находка) is a 2015 Russian drama film based on the story of the same name by the outstanding Soviet writer, Vladimir Tendryakov. The ...

Dark Planet 2: Rebellion (Обитаемый остров. Схватка), also known as The Inhabited Island: Rebellion, is the exciting sequel to the popular ...

Dark Planet (Обитаемый остров), also known as The Inhabited Island is an excellent Russian sci-fi film based on a novel by the Strugatsky ...

A Rough Draft (Черновик) is the long-awaited screen version of one of the most famous novels by Sergei Lukyanenko, author of Night Watch and Day ...

The Conquest Of Siberia (Тобол) is a recent Russian historical movie about imperial Russia’s expansion east into Siberia.  The film’s ...

Vamps (Вурдалаки), also known as Ghouls, is a Russian gothic horror film set in the Carpathian Mountains by Transylvania in the 18th century. The ...

Guardians (Защитники) is a Russian superhero blockbuster film from 2017. Set during the Cold War, Guardians tells the story of a secret ...

Break (Отрыв) is a tense thriller about a group of friends who get trapped in a funicular in the middle of winter. It’s New Year’s ...

Battle for Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь) is an excellent recent Russian movie about World War Two. Set during the Siege of Sevastopol over ...

Attraction 2: Invasion (Вторжение) is the exciting sequel to the 2017 blockbuster, Attraction. Two years have passed since an alien space ship ...

Attraction (Притяжение) is a Russian sci-fi blockbuster that was one of the main events of Russian cinema in 2017. In this exciting film, an ...

Icebreaker (Ледокол) is an exciting film that recounts the true story of a Russian icebreaker that faced a disastrous collision at sea. The year ...

On December 7th 1988, the devastating Spitak earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000 people and laying waste to many towns. On the day of the ...

During 1943 a young platoon commander refuses to follow an order of frontal attack; he doesn’t want to send his soldiers against the enemy ...

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 is a parable based on the Last Judgement coming to Russia in the mid-1990s. This important film by Konstantin Lopushansky is up ...

Whispering Pages is an existential drama based on Russian prose of the 19th century, in particular, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The ...

On August 12, 2000, the world was shocked to receive the news that a Russian submarine, “Kursk,” had sunk. The film, 72 Meters, tells ...

In Silver Heads scientists embark on a secret experiment to fuse man and tree. The purpose of this fantastic experiment is to create man-tree ...

Anna Karenina. Vronsky’s Story is an interesting new take on Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Director and current chairman of Mosfilm, ...

The Stroll is a true cult classic creation by rock star director, Alexei Uchitel. It shines a romantic light on St. Petersburg like no other. ...

The Edge is another exciting drama from masterful director, Alexei Uchitel. The film takes place right after WWII. Ignat, a victorious but ...

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 ...

To Live is a thrilling movie and the first feature by acclaimed director, Yuri Bykov. It’s a film that reminds us to think about the real ...

The Game is a fun comedy about the Russian football team’s adventures during the World Cup. Russia is hosting the competition and its team ...

Relations is a movie all about being torn between love and duty. Two happily married parents find they can’t help but have an affair. Ilya and ...

I’ll Be Around is a 2012 Russian drama directed by Pavel Ruminov. It won the main prize at the Kinotavr festival. I’ll Be Around is ...

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 ...

Enemies is a piercing and believable drama set in a small Belarussin village during WWII. Local villagers live side-by-side with German soldiers ...

The Major is a piercing drama by acclaimed director, Yuri Bykov. It tells the story of a senior police officer, Sergei Sobolev, and the moral ...

The Dry Valley (Суходол) is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ivan Bunin. It tells the story of a village named “Dry ...

Dreaming of Space is a 2005 Russian drama directed by acclaimed director, Alexei Uchitel. It won the prize for the best film at the Moscow ...

Captive is a Russian-Bulgarian film by acclaimed director, Alexei Uchitel. It is based on the novel by Vladimir Makanin, “Prisoner of the ...

Bite the Dust (Отдать концы) is 2013 Russian comedy directed by Remove term: Taisiya Igumentseva. It tells the story of what a group of isolated ...

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 ...

The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being ...

Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short ...

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 ...

Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993 Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.

Misha finally decided to confess his love to Lena. But the girl’s father interrupts him. He decided to take revenge in the old game with ...

Dunno on the Moon is a fun sci-fi fairy tale about half-adults, half-children who do whatever it is they love. The film is based on the novel by ...

The movie is set in the brig, the walls of which are painted in a poisonous green color. There fall into two junior officers, Sergei ...

The Old Man and the Sea is a gorgeous paint-on-glass short film by master animator, Aleksandr Petrov. The film is an adaptation of the short ...

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the ...

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 ...