The Foundling
IMDb: 7.6 1940 68 min 68 views
The Foundling (Подкидыш) is a Soviet comedy from 1940 directed by Tatyana Lukashevich. This movie is a childhood classic for many Russians from ...
Sadko
IMDb: 5.2 1953 80 min 300 views
Sadko (Садко), also known as The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, is a wonderful Russian fantasy film from 1953 that received global acclaim. The ...
The Keepers
IMDb: 4.6 1991 114 min 836 views
As announced in our Russian movie blog, The Keepers (Khraniteli) is a long lost, but now joyously rediscovered Soviet TV film adaptation of ...
A Nest of Gentry
IMDb: 6.7 1969 111 min 1837 views
A stunning film adaptation by Andrei Konchalovsky of the novel of the same name by Ivan Turgenev. The story depicts life of the landed gentry in ...
The Sword and the Dragon
IMDb: 5.5 1956 93 min 1299 views
The Sword and the Dragon is a wonderful Russian film based on the folk story about Ilya Muromets. At the beginning of the tale, Ilya is unable to ...
Life Is Beautiful
IMDb: 6.4 1979 101 min 2649 views
Life is Beautiful, also known as Betrayed, is a joint Soviet-Italian film production directed by Grigory Chukhray. The main character ...
Othello
IMDb: 6.9 1956 107 min 1272 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 3726 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 1912 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 ...
The Russian Question
IMDb: 6.4 1948 91 min 1906 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 1973 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 3714 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 5056 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 2036 views
Mister Designer is an exciting and a little eerie mystical drama about a sculptor who dreams of breathing life into his magnificent ...
The Captivating Star of Happiness
IMDb: 7.2 1975 167 min 2186 views
The Captivating Star of Happiness is a beautiful film by ace director, Vladimir Motyl, that tells the story of the famous Decembrist ...
Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead
IMDb: 6.4 1991 81 min 1998 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 2649 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 1658 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 3924 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 3141 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 10456 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 4289 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 1662 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 1637 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 2265 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 1923 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 3876 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 2250 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 1764 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 3299 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 4216 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 2216 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 4304 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 4250 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 1542 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 3180 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 8135 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 6720 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 3352 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 2355 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 5494 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 2900 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 2547 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 4840 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 1954 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 2225 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 2603 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 3266 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 3351 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 4399 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 3514 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 2352 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 2966 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 7893 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 2839 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 4378 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 2956 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 12152 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 9157 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 3075 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, ...
