7.6
The Foundling
IMDb: 7.6 1940 68 min 1504 views
The Foundling (Подкидыш) is a Soviet comedy from 1940 directed by Tatyana Lukashevich. This movie is a childhood classic for many Russians from ...
5.2
Sadko
IMDb: 5.2 1953 80 min 1414 views
Sadko (Садко), also known as The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, is a wonderful Russian fantasy film from 1953 that received global acclaim. The ...
4.6
The Keepers
IMDb: 4.6 1991 114 min 1635 views
As announced in our Russian movie blog, The Keepers (Khraniteli) is a long lost, but now joyously rediscovered Soviet TV film adaptation of ...
6.7
A Nest of Gentry
IMDb: 6.7 1969 111 min 3279 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 ...
5.5
The Sword and the Dragon
IMDb: 5.5 1956 93 min 2371 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 ...
6.4
Life Is Beautiful
IMDb: 6.4 1979 101 min 3812 views
Life is Beautiful, also known as Betrayed, is a joint Soviet-Italian film production directed by Grigory Chukhray. The main character ...
6.9
Othello
IMDb: 6.9 1956 107 min 2152 views
Othello is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare play, featuring Sergei Bondarchuk playing Othello himself and his wife, Irina Skobtseva, playing ...
7.3
Uncle Vanya
IMDb: 7.3 1970 104 min 5274 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 ...
7.7
The Red Snowball Tree
IMDb: 7.7 1974 110 min 2918 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 ...
6.4
The Russian Question
IMDb: 6.4 1948 91 min 2880 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 ...
8.3
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
IMDb: 8.3 1979 3005 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 ...
7.0
The Red Tent
IMDb: 7.0 1969 158 min 5083 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 ...
7.4
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Viy
IMDb: 7.4 1967 77 min 7509 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 ...
7.1
Mister Designer
IMDb: 7.1 1988 103 min 3023 views
Mister Designer is an exciting and a little eerie mystical drama about a sculptor who dreams of breathing life into his magnificent ...
7.2
The Captivating Star of Happiness
IMDb: 7.2 1975 167 min 3312 views
The Captivating Star of Happiness is a beautiful film by ace director, Vladimir Motyl, that tells the story of the famous Decembrist ...
6.4
Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead
IMDb: 6.4 1991 81 min 2964 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 ...
7.3
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Winter Evening in Gagry
IMDb: 7.3 1985 88 min 3847 views
Winter Evening in Gagra became a classic almost immediately after its release. This Karen Shakhnazarov’s film (the acclaimed director of ...
7.0
Jolly Fellows
IMDb: 7.0 1934 96 min 2697 views
Jolly Fellows, also known as Moscow Laughs, was the first Soviet musical film. Director, Grigori Aleksandrov, wowed not just domestic audiences, ...
7.4
Cheburashka Goes to School
IMDb: 7.4 1983 10 min 5826 views
This is the final of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, the Crocodile Gena realizes that Cheburashka ...
7.7
Shapoklyak
IMDb: 7.7 1974 20 min 4880 views
This is the third of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, Cheburashka and the Crocodile Gena leave by ...
8.0
Cheburashka
IMDb: 8.0 1972 19 min 12582 views
This is the second of four episodes in the beloved Cheburashka / Чебурашка series. In this episode, Crocodile Gena is celebrating his birthday. ...
7.9
Gena the Crocodile
IMDb: 7.9 1969 20 min 6116 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 ...
7.2
We’re from Jazz
IMDb: 7.2 1983 89 min 2487 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 ...
6.8
Cherry Town
IMDb: 6.8 1963 88 min 2487 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 ...
6.1
Aerograd
IMDb: 6.1 1935 82 min 3363 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 ...
7.1
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
IMDb: 7.1 1978 68 min 2778 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 ...
7.5
Come Tomorrow…
IMDb: 7.5 1962 98 min 5158 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 ...
8.1
Karlson Returns
IMDb: 8.1 1970 20 min 3320 views
Karlson Returns is the sequel to the beloved Russian cartoon, Junior and Karlson. The housekeeper, Freken Bock, appears in Junior’s ...
6.7
A Necklace for My Beloved
IMDb: 6.7 1971 75 min 2530 views
A Necklace for My Beloved (Samkauli satrposatvis) is a 1971 lyrical comedy by legendary Georgian director, Tengiz Abuladze. It is based on the ...
7.4
Brief Encounters
IMDb: 7.4 1967 96 min 4521 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 ...
7.1
The Communist
IMDb: 7.1 1958 105 min 5162 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 ...
7.0
Rock
IMDb: 7.0 1988 80 min 2944 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 ...
7.4
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Ashik Kerib
IMDb: 7.4 1988 73 min 5260 views
Ashik Kerib is a Georgian film that is acclaimed director, Sergei Parajanov’s final work. Parajanov dedicated the film to his good friend, ...
7.4
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The Legend of Suram Fortress
IMDb: 7.4 1985 83 min 5248 views
The Legend of Suram Fortress is legendary director, Sergei Parajanov’s first film since his release from the Soviet Gulag prison system. ...
7.3
Fragment of an Empire
IMDb: 7.3 1929 96 min 2159 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 ...
7.5
No Path Through Fire
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 3965 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 ...
7.6
Dead Man’s Letters
IMDb: 7.6 1986 83 min 9952 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 ...
7.3
A Visitor to a Museum
IMDb: 7.3 1989 128 min 8218 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 ...
6.5
There Will Be No Leave Today
IMDb: 6.5 1959 46 min 4196 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 ...
7.4
Boule de suif
IMDb: 7.4 1934 70 min 3290 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 ...
7.9
Trial on the Road
IMDb: 7.9 1971 96 min 6612 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 ...
7.5
My Grandmother
IMDb: 7.5 1929 65 min 3908 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 ...
7.1
Days of Eclipse
IMDb: 7.1 1988 139 min 3297 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 ...
6.6
The Killers
IMDb: 6.6 1956 19 min 5755 views
The Killers (Убийцы) was Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film. He co-directed this short film along with his classmates, Alexander Gordon and ...
6.7
Bezhin Meadow
IMDb: 6.7 1968 31 min 2730 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 ...
7.2
Somebody else’s wife and a husband under the bed
IMDb: 7.2 1984 67 min 2846 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 ...
6.9
Beginning of an Unknown Era
IMDb: 6.9 1967 73 min 3432 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 ...
7.4
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry
IMDb: 7.4 1966 99 min 4165 views
A pregnant young woman wants to settle down with a good-for-nothing villager but is wooed by a suitor from the city.
6.1
Migrants
IMDb: 6.1 1991 102 min 4157 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 ...
6.9
Mother
IMDb: 6.9 1990 200 min 5611 views
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, ...
6.9
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Assassin of the Tsar
IMDb: 6.9 1991 104 min 4648 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 ...
6.2
The Shining Path
IMDb: 6.2 1940 96 min 3155 views
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She ...
6.7
Boris Godunov
IMDb: 6.7 1986 130 min 3937 views
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander ...
7.1
Anna Karenina
IMDb: 7.1 1967 145 min 9895 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 ...
7.6
Shine, Shine, My Star
IMDb: 7.6 1969 94 min 3620 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 ...
8.3
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
IMDb: 8.3 1972 21 min 5559 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, ...
8.3
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
IMDb: 8.3 1971 10 min 3774 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. ...
8.3
Winnie-the-Pooh
IMDb: 8.3 1969 11 min 14227 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 ...
8.2
Triumph Over Violence
IMDb: 8.2 1965 138 min 10633 views
Romm’s “Ordinary Fascism” pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into ...
6.6
Tchaikovsky
IMDb: 6.6 1970 157 min 4676 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, ...