Life Is Beautiful
IMDb: 6.4 1979 101 min 435 views
Life is Beautiful, also known as Betrayed, is a joint Soviet-Italian film production directed by Grigory Chukhray. The main character of the ...
Othello
IMDb: 6.9 1956 107 min 262 views
Othello is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare play, featuring Sergei Bondarchuk playing Othello himself and his wife, Irina Skobtseva, playing ...
Uncle Vanya
IMDb: 7.3 1970 104 min 664 views
While the deep Russian soul is in many ways immeasurable and undefinable, there are still those who can show it. Watch this beautiful rendition ...
The Red Snowball Tree
IMDb: 7.7 1974 110 min 365 views
The Red Snowball Tree is a heart-warming story about the ex-convinct, Yegor Prokudin, who tries to get his life back together and be a good man ...
The Russian Question
IMDb: 6.4 1948 91 min 580 views
The Russian Question is a classic Soviet film by Mikhail Romm that throws audiences back to the dawn of the Cold War. Based on a play by ...
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
IMDb: 8.3 1979 392 views
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed is a Soviet five-part television film based on the Weiner brothers’ story The Era of Mercy. The show ...
The Red Tent
IMDb: 7.0 1969 158 min 1120 views
The Red Tent is a joint Soviet-Italian film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and featuring Sean Connery and Peter Finch. As such, it’s a ...
Viy
IMDb: 7.4 1967 77 min 1237 views
Viy is generally considered the most famous Russian horror film – really one of the few in a country that has experienced far too much real ...
Mister Designer
IMDb: 7.1 1988 103 min 556 views
Mister Designer is an exciting and a little eerie mystical drama about a sculptor who dreams of breathing life into his magnificent mannequin ...
The Captivating Star of Happiness
IMDb: 7.2 1975 167 min 573 views
The Captivating Star of Happiness is a beautiful film by ace director, Vladimir Motyl, that tells the story of the famous Decembrist uprising ...
Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead
IMDb: 6.4 1991 81 min 756 views
The film, Daddy, Father Frost is Dead, released the year of the collapse of the USSR, reflects the problems of perestroika and the feeling of ...
Winter Evening in Gagry
IMDb: 7.3 1985 88 min 912 views
Winter Evening in Gagra became a classic almost immediately after its release. This Karen Shakhnazarov’s film (the acclaimed director of ...
Jolly Fellows
IMDb: 7.0 1934 96 min 521 views
Jolly Fellows, also known as Moscow Laughs, was the first Soviet musical film. Director, Grigori Aleksandrov, wowed not just domestic audiences, ...
Cheburashka Goes to School
IMDb: 7.4 1983 10 min 1063 views
This is the final of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, the Crocodile Gena realizes that Cheburashka ...
Shapoklyak
IMDb: 7.7 1974 20 min 906 views
This is the third of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, Cheburashka and the Crocodile Gena leave by ...
Cheburashka
IMDb: 8.0 1972 19 min 4937 views
This is the second of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, Crocodile Gena is celebrating his birthday. ...
Gena the Crocodile
IMDb: 7.9 1969 20 min 1426 views
This is the first of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, we are introduced to the series’ two main ...
We’re from Jazz
IMDb: 7.2 1983 89 min 627 views
We’re from Jazz or Jazzman is all about the difficult path the formation of jazz took in the Soviet Union. Kostya Ivanov is a student in a ...
Cherry Town
IMDb: 6.8 1963 88 min 605 views
Once upon a time “Cherry Town” was the name of a small village near Moscow. Today, however, thousands of Muscovites live there and it ...
Aerograd
IMDb: 6.1 1935 82 min 857 views
Aerograd is a 1930s film from influential director, Alexander Dovzhenko. Set in the Far East region of Russia, the movie centers on the struggle ...
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
IMDb: 7.1 1978 68 min 725 views
A miracle descends on the quiet, sleepy village of Bersenevka. A man appears to whom the young Tanya is ready to give her heart. Komarov is a ...
Come Tomorrow…
IMDb: 7.5 1962 98 min 1489 views
Come Tomorrow tells the story of a young talented woman’s journey from the Siberian taiga to the music conservatory in Moscow. Frosya has ...
Karlson Returns
IMDb: 8.1 1970 20 min 804 views
Karlson Returns is the sequel to the beloved Russian cartoon, Junior and Karlson. The housekeeper, Freken Bock, appears in Junior’s ...
A Necklace for My Beloved
IMDb: 6.7 1971 75 min 843 views
A Necklace for My Beloved (Samkauli satrposatvis) is a 1971 lyrical comedy by legendary Georgian director, Tengiz Abuladze. It is based on the ...
Brief Encounters
IMDb: 7.4 1967 96 min 1712 views
Brief Encounters is a beautiful rom-com by famed director, Kira Muratova. In the film, Nadia leaves her village for the big city where she meets ...
The Communist
IMDb: 7.1 1958 105 min 2695 views
The Communist is an ideology-ridden, but also beautifully created film. Hugely popular in the Soviet Union, the movie also won its director, Yuli ...
Rock
IMDb: 7.0 1988 80 min 1185 views
Rock (Рок) is a cult documentary by acclaimed director, Alexei Uchitel. Better than any other film, it shows the life of the underground rock ...
Ashik Kerib
IMDb: 7.4 1988 73 min 2597 views
Ashik Kerib is a Georgian film that is acclaimed director, Sergei Parajanov’s final work. Parajanov dedicated the film to his good friend, ...
The Legend of Suram Fortress
IMDb: 7.4 1985 83 min 2496 views
The Legend of Suram Fortress is legendary director, Sergei Parajanov’s first film since his release from the Soviet Gulag prison system. ...
Fragment of an Empire
IMDb: 7.3 1929 96 min 821 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 ...
No Path Through Fire
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 1859 views
No Path Through Fire is acclaimed director Gleb Panfilov’s first feature film. It tells the interesting story of a talented nurse trying to ...
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 ...
There Will Be No Leave Today
IMDb: 6.5 1959 46 min 2146 views
This short film is a stylishly constructed thriller that will appeal to a wide range of viewers. It tells the story of a small Soviet town that ...
Boule de suif
IMDb: 7.4 1934 70 min 1290 views
Boule de Suif (Пышка) is a 1934 Soviet drama by Mikhail Romm. An adaptation of the eponymous short story by Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif is a ...
Trial on the Road
IMDb: 7.9 1971 96 min 3495 views
Trial on the Road (Проверка на дорогах) is the directorial debut of acclaimed director, Aleksey German. In English, it is also sometimes known as ...
My Grandmother
IMDb: 7.5 1929 65 min 1656 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 ...
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 ...
The Killers
IMDb: 6.6 1956 19 min 3454 views
The Killers (Убийцы) was Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film. He co-directed this short film along with his classmates, Alexander Gordon and ...
Bezhin Meadow
IMDb: 6.7 1968 31 min 1160 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 ...
Somebody else’s wife and a husband under the bed
IMDb: 7.2 1984 67 min 1342 views
An older official has long suspected his wife of infidelity. His worst fears are justified on the anniversary of their wedding, when he comes ...
Beginning of an Unknown Era
IMDb: 6.9 1967 73 min 1421 views
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the ...
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry
IMDb: 7.4 1966 99 min 1881 views
A pregnant young woman wants to settle down with a good-for-nothing villager but is wooed by a suitor from the city.
Migrants
IMDb: 6.1 1991 102 min 1894 views
Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they ...
Mother
IMDb: 6.9 1990 200 min 2315 views
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, ...
Assassin of the Tsar
IMDb: 6.9 1991 104 min 1985 views
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes ...
The Shining Path
IMDb: 6.2 1940 96 min 1365 views
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She ...
Boris Godunov
IMDb: 6.7 1986 130 min 1521 views
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander ...
Anna Karenina
IMDb: 7.1 1967 145 min 4068 views
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Alexei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of ...
Shine, Shine, My Star
IMDb: 7.6 1969 94 min 1579 views
This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and ...
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
IMDb: 8.3 1972 21 min 2707 views
This is the third and final episode in the three-part Russian Winnie-the-Pooh series. In this episode, Pooh searches for a tail for his friend, ...
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
IMDb: 8.3 1971 10 min 1921 views
This is the second episode in the three-part Russian Winnie-the-Pooh series. In this episode, Pooh and Piglet visit Rabbit for a meal with honey. ...
Winnie-the-Pooh
IMDb: 8.3 1969 11 min 8646 views
This is the first episode in the three-part Russian Winnie-the-Pooh series. In this episode, Pooh attempts to take honey from a beehive with the ...
Triumph Over Violence
IMDb: 8.2 1965 138 min 5422 views
Romm’s “Ordinary Fascism” pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into ...
Tchaikovsky
IMDb: 6.6 1970 157 min 1687 views
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, ...
The Dog In Boots
IMDb: 7.5 1981 20 min 1067 views
The Dog in Boots by is yet another interpretation of the immortal Dumas novel, “The Three Musketeers.” What makes it special, beyond ...
The Canterville Ghost
IMDb: 7.6 1970 20 min 1003 views
The Canterville Ghost is a cartoon adaptation of the Oscar Wilde short story of the same name.
A Flying Ship
IMDb: 8.0 1979 18 min 1040 views
A story about the young princess Zabava and a poor chimney sweep named Ivan. The two are in love, but their different social status stands in ...
Fate of a Man
IMDb: 8.0 1959 103 min 4451 views
The film debut of famed director, Sergei Bondarchuk, Fate of a Man tells the gripping story of a man who lost everything. Based on the book of ...
Waterloo
IMDb: 7.3 1970 128 min 1730 views
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused ...
Moscow Strikes Back
IMDb: 6.9 1942 55 min 3586 views
This movie, the Soviet Union’s first Academy Award, is still the only Russian-language winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The ...
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
IMDb: 7.0 1981 151 min 4366 views
Agony is a two-part feature film about one of the most notorious personalities in Russian history, Grigory Rasputin. This beautiful and ...
Dersu Uzala
IMDb: 8.3 1975 141 min 7933 views
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one ...
The Fall of Berlin
IMDb: 6.1 1949 167 min 4142 views
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The “Little Father of the ...
War and Peace
IMDb: 8.3 1966 422 min 12333 views
War and Peace (Война и мир / Voyna i mir) is a historical epic shot between 1961-1967 and released over 1965–67. This Soviet movie, co-written ...
Welcome, or No Trespassing
IMDb: 8.1 1964 74 min 5871 views
Bukovina, a Ukrainian Land
IMDb: 5.9 1940 30 min 1225 views
Bukovina, a Ukrainian Land (Буковина, зeмля Українськa / Bukovina, zemlya Ukrainskaya) is a 1940 Soviet propaganda documentary film. It was shot ...
Ballad of a Soldier
IMDb: 8.2 1959 89 min 6930 views
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате / Ballada o soldate) is a 1959 film directed by World War Two veteran, Grigoriy Chukhray. It’s one ...
In the Town of S.
IMDb: 7.1 1967 106 min 1136 views
A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov’s stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
The Seagull
IMDb: 7.3 1972 100 min 1927 views
A story based on the famous play by Anton Chekhov.
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918 – 1948.
IMDb: 7.8 2017 120 min 1559 views
The history of Jewish people in Russia, 1918 – 1948.
Three from Prostokvashino
IMDb: 8.2 1978 17 min 3409 views
Three from Prostokvashino (Трое из Простоквашино / Troye iz Prostokvashino) is a popular Soviet hand-drawn cartoon series. This first episode is ...
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
IMDb: 7.6 1974 97 min 2506 views
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих / Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh) is a 1974 ...
The Marriage
IMDb: 7.1 1977 99 min 1490 views
Deciding that it is time he was married, Podkolyosin, a long-time bachelor (and minor court councillor), engages a matchmaker, Fyokla, to find ...
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 ...
The Dog in the Manger
IMDb: 7.9 1977 138 min 1566 views
A musical comedy based on classical play by Félix Lope de Vega.
Lady with the Dog
IMDb: 7.4 1960 83 min 3149 views
Lady with the Dog, a famous film adaptation of the well-known Chekhov story of the same name, is essential viewing. It describes how a fateful ...
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
IMDb: 7.2 1968 82 min 1525 views
A brilliant continuation of the saga, now in the city. The target of young patriots is a map held in the safe locker in the headquarters of ...
The Elusive Revengers
IMDb: 7.4 1966 78 min 1484 views
Dan’ka’s and Ksanka’s childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer ...
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 House on Trubnaya
IMDb: 7.3 1928 85 min 1069 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 ...
The General Line
IMDb: 7.2 1929 121 min 898 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 ...
Thunderstorm
IMDb: 6.9 1934 85 min 1318 views
The cinematic adaptation of “The Storm” play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive ...
By the Bluest of Seas
IMDb: 7.1 1936 71 min 1615 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 ...
The Youth of Maxim
IMDb: 6.7 1935 90 min 1255 views
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism ...
Three Songs About Lenin
IMDb: 6.5 1934 59 min 1320 views
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Moscow That Weeps and Laughs
IMDb: 7.3 1927 86 min 1086 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 ...
The Murder of General Gryaznov
IMDb: 5.9 1921 50 min 915 views
Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
Dream
IMDb: 7.2 1941 100 min 1081 views
The spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
Happiness
IMDb: 7.5 1935 95 min 1094 views
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other ...
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 ...
Strike
IMDb: 7.6 1925 89 min 2142 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 ...
Kino Eye
IMDb: 7.2 1924 78 min 1149 views
This landmark documentary by cinematic visionary, Dziga Vertov, promotes his then new filmmaking movement of the same name – Kino Eye ...
The Overcoat
IMDb: 6.8 1926 63 min 1118 views
Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories “Nevsky Prospekt” and “The Overcoat”.
The Magic Weaver
IMDb: 7.2 1959 74 min 1370 views
In The Magic Weaver, two illustrious Soviet storytellers – writer, Yevgeny Schwartz, and director, Alexander Rou – have come together ...
General Suvorov
IMDb: 6.9 1941 100 min 1208 views
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine ...
Kutuzov
IMDb: 7.1 1943 95 min 1481 views
Kutuzov is a biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the Russian Field marshal who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée in a brutal war of ...
Masquerade
IMDb: 6.9 1941 100 min 1168 views
Taken from a Lermentov play, Sergey Gerasimov’s Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ...
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
IMDb: 6.9 1924 78 min 960 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 ...
My Universities
IMDb: 6.6 1940 90 min 2084 views
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s “Maxim Gorki” trilogy. Having ...