The Red Tent
IMDb: 7.0 1969 158 min 1048 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 1161 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 ...
Gena the Crocodile
IMDb: 7.9 1969 20 min 1385 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 ...
Cherry Town
IMDb: 6.8 1963 88 min 593 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 ...
Come Tomorrow…
IMDb: 7.5 1962 98 min 1449 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 ...
Brief Encounters
IMDb: 7.4 1967 96 min 1690 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 ...
No Path Through Fire
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 1835 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 ...
Beginning of an Unknown Era
IMDb: 6.9 1967 73 min 1401 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 1841 views
A pregnant young woman wants to settle down with a good-for-nothing villager but is wooed by a suitor from the city.
Anna Karenina
IMDb: 7.1 1967 145 min 4000 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 1566 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
IMDb: 8.3 1969 11 min 8542 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 5348 views
Romm’s “Ordinary Fascism” pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into ...
War and Peace
IMDb: 8.3 1966 422 min 12211 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 5813 views
In the Town of S.
IMDb: 7.1 1967 106 min 1119 views
A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov’s stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
Planet of Storms
IMDb: 6.5 1962 72 min 3224 views
A game-changing Soviet sci-fi movie directed by Pavel Klushantsev. Often included in American film school curricula, the film has influenced ...
Lady with the Dog
IMDb: 7.4 1960 83 min 3106 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 1507 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 1461 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 ...
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
IMDb: 6.6 1965 96 min 1784 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 ...
An Easy Life
IMDb: 7.3 1964 95 min 1393 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 ...
Dima Gorin’s Career
IMDb: 6.9 1961 94 min 1097 views
Dima Gorin’s Career is a touching and light tragicomedy that reveals the everyday lives of hard-working Siberians. Shot in the the ...
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
IMDb: 7.3 1969 81 min 1800 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 ...
The Commissar
IMDb: 7.4 1967 110 min 3289 views
Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordyukova) serves as a political officer – a Commissar – in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Her ...
Three Plus Two
IMDb: 7.4 1963 100 min 1543 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 ...
Through Fire, Water and…Brass Pipes
IMDb: 7.1 1968 86 min 1050 views
Through Fire, Water and…Brass Pipes is one of acclaimed director, Alexander Rou’s charming fairy tale classics. The movie is ...
Father Frost
IMDb: 6.5 1964 79 min 2910 views
Father Frost is a traditional Russian fairy tale classic by director, Alexander Rou. The film tells the story of a conceited young man and a ...
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
IMDb: 7.3 1966 80 min 1264 views
A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
Scarlet Sails
IMDb: 7.1 1961 88 min 1772 views
A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: “… it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail ...
The Cossacks
IMDb: 6.7 1961 97 min 1687 views
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by the great writer Leo Tolstoy, this engrossing drama is set at the turn of the 20th century and involves ...
A Tale of Lost Times
IMDb: 7.2 1964 76 min 1271 views
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want ...
Bootleggers
IMDb: 8.1 1962 19 min 2087 views
This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three ...
A Trip without a Load
IMDb: 7.7 1963 85 min 910 views
A young journalist Sirotkin comes to the siberian timber industry farm to write an essay about the driver-editorial Khromov. Acquainted with the ...
The Snow Maiden
IMDb: 7.1 1968 90 min 1383 views
A fairytale based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show
IMDb: 6.7 1966 90 min 1070 views
Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with a two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals.
An Old, Old Tale
IMDb: 7.5 1968 90 min 980 views
Based on the famous fairytale “The Tinderbox” by Hans Christian Andersen.
The Chief of Chukotka
IMDb: 7.4 1966 66 min 1160 views
Young patriotic young man ends up in the on Chukotka right after the civil war, where he intends to spread ideas of justice and equality among ...
Be Careful, Grandma!
IMDb: 6.8 1961 88 min 1041 views
Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers’ club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much ...
Snow Queen
IMDb: 7.0 1967 85 min 2221 views
Two children, Gerda and Kay, overcome the evil intentions of the Snow Queen with human love and a capacity to fight fear. Based on a story by ...
Amphibian Man
IMDb: 7.1 1962 82 min 2524 views
People living at the seashore town are frightened by reports about the unknown creature called “the sea devil.” Nobody knows what it ...
Striped Trip
IMDb: 7.5 1961 84 min 2627 views
A Soviet cruise ship “Evgeni Onegin” is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, ...
Wedding in Malinovka
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 1559 views
The movie takes place during Russia’s civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young ...
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
IMDb: 6.9 1967 84 min 1524 views
Aladdin’s Magic Lamp is a wonderful Soviet interpretation of a classic Arabian tale. In the gorgeous city of Agrab, the life of many people ...
The Marriage of Balzaminov
IMDb: 7.6 1964 90 min 1313 views
A funny comedy based on classic plays by A.N. Ostrovsky.
Hussar Ballad
IMDb: 7.6 1962 96 min 1902 views
A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
July Rain
IMDb: 7.7 1967 107 min 2405 views
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late ...
The Color of Pomegranates
IMDb: 7.7 1969 80 min 8936 views
The Color of Pomegranates is a breathtaking and unforgettable masterpiece by Armenian director, Sergei Parajanov. Ostensibly, the film is a ...
Tenderness
IMDb: 7.3 1967 74 min 1954 views
Three interrelated stories of thwarted young love in summertime Tashkent.
The Shield and the Sword
IMDb: 8.5 1968 2628 views
The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the ...
Pirosmani
IMDb: 7.7 1969 85 min 2423 views
Pirosmani is a beautiful biographical film about the self-taught Georgian painter, Niko Pirosmani. Pirosmani was the founder of the artistic ...
When the Trees Were Tall
IMDb: 7.8 1961 95 min 1740 views
This piercing Soviet drama tells the story of two unfortunate strangers who, by the will of fate, become one family. Lovers of Soviet comedy will ...
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
IMDb: 7.8 1961 69 min 3178 views
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a fun, holiday time film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s story, The Night Before Christmas. Directed by ...
The Mitten
IMDb: 7.8 1967 10 min 1944 views
The Mitten is an award-winning stop motion animation by Roman Kachanov. A clear and simple story, this short film is all about a little girl, ...
A Summer to Remember
IMDb: 7.9 1960 80 min 1482 views
Based on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationships between 8-years boy and his new stepfather.
The Republic of ShKID
IMDb: 7.9 1966 103 min 2306 views
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters – Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the ...
The Last Relic
IMDb: 7.9 1969 86 min 3869 views
The Last Relic (Viimne reliikvia) is a 1969 Estonian film based on a historical novel by Eduard Bornhöhe. The film was extremely popular when it ...
Katerina Izmailova
IMDb: 8.0 1967 118 min 1218 views
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich’s long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored ...
Falling Leaves
IMDb: 7.9 1966 91 min 2121 views
Falling Leaves (Giorgobistve) is a gorgeous 1966 Georgian film directed by Otar Iosseliani. It was first released in Moscow theaters on June 24, ...
Walking the Streets of Moscow
IMDb: 7.9 1964 78 min 2795 views
“I Am Walking Along Moscow” aka “Ya Shagayu Po Moskve” (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in ...
Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street
IMDb: 7.9 1967 79 min 1822 views
Three Poplars at Plyushchikha is a legendary Soviet melodrama about a simple village woman who, once in Moscow, changes her worldview and life. ...
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
IMDb: 7.9 1961 14 min 1538 views
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What’s more fun: fishing with worms, or ...
Letter Never Sent
IMDb: 7.9 1960 97 min 2514 views
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put ...
I Am Twenty
IMDb: 7.9 1965 189 min 2315 views
I Am Twenty is a coming-of-age film from the 1960s that demonstrates the differences between the Soviet wartime generation and that which came ...
At War as at War
IMDb: 8.0 1969 90 min 2139 views
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting ...
The Bremen Town Musicians
IMDb: 8.0 1969 20 min 4065 views
The Bremen Town Musicians is a musical cartoon based on the fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. The cartoon is a cult hit in the former ...
The Plea
IMDb: 8.0 1967 77 min 2122 views
The Plea is the first movie in Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy that includes The Wishing Tree and Repentance. The film is a romantic drama based ...
I Am Cuba
IMDb: 8.0 1964 141 min 5464 views
An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film’s four ...
Cheburashka
1969 3195 views
Cheburashka is an iconic Soviet cartoon that remains wildly popular in Russia to this day. The series begins with the surprise arrival of ...
Two Comrades Were Serving
IMDb: 8.0 1968 99 min 1998 views
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, ...
The Girls
IMDb: 8.0 1961 93 min 9491 views
The Girls is one of the most popular Soviet movies from the 1960s. This heartwarming movie is sometimes likened to Cinderella in the rural ...
Love and Lies
IMDb: 8.0 1980 90 min 2317 views
Love and Lies (also called Could One Imagine?) is a cute teen romantic melodrama about first love. On September 1st, a new student joins ...
Chasing Two Hares
IMDb: 8.1 1961 77 min 1661 views
Based on the vaudeville by M. Staritsky Svirid Petrovich Golokhvasty had his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after ...
Junior and Karlson
IMDb: 8.1 1968 19 min 2246 views
Junior and Karlson is a Soviet cult cartoon based on the Swedish story by writer, Astrid Lingren (of Pippi Longstocking fame). In this cartoon, a ...
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
IMDb: 8.1 1965 97 min 3372 views
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a 1965 Ukrainian film by Soviet-Armenian filmmaker, Sergei Parajanov, that is based on the novel by Ukrainian ...
Ivan’s Childhood
IMDb: 8.1 1962 95 min 5172 views
Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. You can watch it on Amazon Prime ...
We’ll Live Till Monday
IMDb: 8.1 1968 106 min 2127 views
We’ll Live Till Monday is a piercing Soviet melodrama by Stanislav Rostotsky that tells the tale of three days in the life of an ordinary ...
Beware of the Car!
IMDb: 8.2 1966 94 min 2287 views
An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives ...
Andrei Rublev
IMDb: 8.2 1966 183 min 11826 views
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв) is Andrei Tarkovsky‘s second feature film. It is based on the life and times of 15th-century icon painter, ...
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
IMDb: 8.4 1967 82 min 6197 views
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница / Kavkazskaya plennitsa) is a 1967 Soviet comedy by prolific director, Leonid Gaidai. The title ...
Hamlet
IMDb: 8.4 1964 140 min 4344 views
Hamlet (Гамлет / Gamlet) is a 1964 Soviet adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by ...
Well, Just You Wait!
IMDb: 7.4 1969 3510 views
Nu, pogodi! is a Soviet/Russian animated series produced by Soyuzmultfilm. The series was created in 1969 and became a popular cartoon of the ...
The Diamond Arm
IMDb: 8.5 1970 100 min 5112 views
The Diamond Arm background The Diamond Arm (Бриллиантовая рука / Brilliantovaya ruka) is one of the most beloved Soviet comedies. It’s the ...
Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures
IMDb: 8.6 1965 95 min 14773 views
Operation Y is best known by Russian students as the first Russian movie they experience. It’s prolific director, Leonid Gaidai’s ...
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
IMDb: 7.3 1963 80 min 1964 views
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (Королевство Кривых Зеркал / Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal) is a 1963 film directed by Aleksandr Rou. Like the rest of ...