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1. I Am Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 10,595
2. Strike (1925)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Votes: 8,578
3. Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolay Batalov
Votes: 2,883
4. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,427
5. Nunta muta (2008)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
Director: Horatiu Malaele | Stars: Meda Andreea Victor, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Teodosiu, Alexandru Bindea
Votes: 6,998
6. Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
In the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
Director: Ilinca Calugareanu | Stars: Irina Margareta Nistor, Teodor Zamfir, Mircea Cojocaru, Vlad Craioveanu
Votes: 2,454
7. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,372
8. Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
116 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best of friends in pre-World War II Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Germans and their cronies, the idyllic city ... See full summary »
Director: Lordan Zafranovic | Stars: Frano Lasic, Milan Strljic, Tanja Poberznik, Boris Kralj
Votes: 1,035
9. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 899
10. Old and New (1929)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov
Votes: 1,714
11. The Fall of Berlin (1950)
167 min | Drama, War
A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Vladimir Savelev, Marina Kovalyova
Votes: 546
12. The New Babylon (1929)
120 min | Drama, History
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 928
13. Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
TV-MA | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic, Miodrag Andric
Votes: 1,886
14. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 815
15. The Glass of Harmonica! (1968)
19 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A musician playing a glass harmonica comes to a town governed by bureaucracy and corruption. Can the melodies he plays defeat the powers governing this seemingly indifferent group of people?
Director: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
Votes: 490
16. Hotel Jugoslavija (2017)
78 min | Documentary, History
A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija
Director: Nicolas Wagnières | Stars: Slobodan Milosevic, Boris Tadic, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolas Wagnières
Votes: 171
17. The Crabs (1976)
12 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots - crabs, based on the ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Mergl
Votes: 112
18. Arsenal (1929)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman
Votes: 2,325
19. Chapaev (1934)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev | Stars: Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit
Votes: 1,433
20. Liberation (2019)
103 min | Drama, War
Based on real life events, the film is set in January 1949 and focuses around a group of soldiers involved in the final stages of the Battle of Pingjin
Directors: Xiaoyang Chang, Shaohong Li | Stars: Yiwei Zhou, Wallace Chung, Elane Zhong, Xun Wang
Votes: 76
21. The Republic of ShKID (1966)
G | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Gang boys from the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia are being tamed and educated at SHKID - Dostoevsky School.
Director: Gennadi Poloka | Stars: Sergey Yurskiy, Yuliya Burygina, Pavel Luspekayev, Aleksandr Melnikov
Votes: 1,161
22. The Emperor and the Golem (1952)
110 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Emperors baker and Bakers emperor - it refers to the fact that in movie just a regular young baker gets switched with real old Emperor which leaves everyone thinking that emperor did get younger by drinking the potion of youth.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová, Bohus Záhorský
Votes: 1,463
23. Leaves From Satan's Book (1920)
TV-14 | 167 min | Drama
In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere, Hallander Helleman
Votes: 1,353
24. Red Kiss (1985)
110 min | Drama, Romance
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" ... See full summary »
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 334
25. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,044
26. Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
The second part of the Ernst Thälmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thälmann's murder in 1944. It shows Thälmann's battle to achieve a united front with all German ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Karla Runkehl, Paul R. Henker
Votes: 133
27. Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 881
28. Letter from Masanjia (2018)
75 min | Documentary
When a desperate SOS letter penned by a political prisoner turns up in Halloween decorations sold in Oregon, it sparks a nail-biting chain of events that exposes appalling human rights ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Lee | Stars: Anonymous, Julie Keith, Fu Ning, Yi Sun
Votes: 449 | Gross: $0.02M
29. Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954)
124 min | Biography, Drama, War
This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Erich Franz, Erika Dunkelmann
Votes: 144
30. The Statue of Liberty (1985)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary, History
Documentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Paul Roebling
Votes: 710
31. Lenin in 1918 (1939)
130 min | Drama
Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.
Directors: Mikhail Romm, Yefim Aron, Isidor Simkov | Stars: Boris Shchukin, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Aleksandr Shatov, Vasiliy Markov
Votes: 303
32. What Will You Do When You Catch Me? (1978)
99 min | Comedy
What Will You Do When You Catch Me? is a parody of comunist times in Poland. A state-owned company director is having an afair during his delegation. Later on, his mistress turns out to be ... See full summary »
Director: Stanislaw Bareja | Stars: Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bronislaw Pawlik, Stanislaw Tym, Ewa Wisniewska
Votes: 1,937
33. Tir (1979)
Not Rated | 21 min | Animation, Short
A desperately unemployed American youth finds work from an insane employer.
Director: Vladimir Tarasov
Votes: 136
34. Great Citizen (1938)
114 min | Drama
In the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement of popular Leningrad leader Kirov, who was killed in 1934,and creates a portrait of political discussions and struggles during the 30s.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov, Zoya Fyodorova
Votes: 107
35. The East is Red (1965)
117 min | Musical
The evolution of the People's Republic of China is told in this spectacular song and dance production, 'Dongfang hong' or 'The East is Red'. Vast, solemn, and glorifying the progress ... See full summary »
Director: Ping Wang
Votes: 137
36. Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen (1971)
69 min | Documentary
It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration ... See full summary »
Directors: Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash, Susumu Iwabuchi
Votes: 164
37. Dovolená s Andelem (1953)
76 min | Comedy
Strict and always dissatisfied grumbler Mr. Angel gets a voucher for summer recreation. He rejects it at first but he eventually decides to use it and spend 14 days in unionist hut Jezerka together with other merited co-workers.
Director: Borivoj Zeman | Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Pehr, Josef Kemr, Vladimír Ráz
Votes: 225
38. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
68 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 590
39. Klíc (1971)
97 min | Drama, History, War
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Director: Vladimír Cech | Stars: Frantisek Vicena, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Zdenek Kampf, Vlasta Vlasáková
Votes: 41
40. Pavel Korchagin (1957)
102 min | Drama
The sacrifice of a young proletarian hero during the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution is told in flashback.
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Vasiliy Lanovoy, Elza Lezhdey, Tatyana Stradina, Vladimir Marenkov
Votes: 113
41. Hroch (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's... See full summary »
Director: Karel Steklý | Stars: Oldo Hlavácek, Helga Cocková, Svatopluk Matyás, Helena Blehárová
Votes: 38
42. Lenin in Poland (1966)
98 min | Drama, History
Following the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Lenin is imprisoned in Poland on suspicions he could be a Russian spy. In his cell, he reflects over world politics, the war, and the common Poles he has met during his two years in the country.
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Maksim Shtraukh, Anna Lisyanskaya, Antonina Pavlycheva, Ilona Kusmierska
Votes: 102
43. Black and White (1932)
3 min | Animation, Short
The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in ... See full summary »
Directors: Leonid Amalrik, Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Star: Konstantin Eggert
Votes: 140
44. The Millionaire (1963)
Not Rated | 11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A dog inherits a fortune and become a influential capitalist snob in the human world.
Directors: Vitold Bordzilovskiy, Yuriy Prytkov | Stars: Emmanuil Kaminka, Yuriy Khrzhanovskiy
Votes: 153
45. Tractor Drivers (1939)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An example of a popular genre in 1930s Soviet film, the musical comedy exalting the economic and social success of Communism, inspired by but in competition with the Hollywood musicals of the same era.
Director: Ivan Pyrev | Stars: Marina Ladynina, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Boris Andreyev, Stepan Kayukov
Votes: 278
46. The Vow (1946)
98 min | Drama
In 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, carries a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him of the Kulak brigands that roam the land, spreading death and misery. The ... See full summary »
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, A. Mansvetov, Aleksey Gribov, Nikolai Ryzhov
Votes: 114
47. Sovetskie igrushki (1924)
Not Rated | 11 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
The first animated movie in the Soviet Union. A bloated caricature of a Capitalist devouring a massive heap of food and drink.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 335
48. Immer bereit (1950)
66 min | Documentary
At the first German meeting, which took place in Berlin in 1950, domestic and foreign delegations expressed their desire for global peace. Particular emphasis was placed on the ... See full summary »
Directors: Kurt Maetzig, Feodor Pappe | Stars: Enrico Berlinguer, Friedrich Ebert, Otto Grothewohl, Stephan Hermlin
49. Mezhplanetnaya revolyutsiya (1924)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
A tale about Comrade Kominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet. The film is a parody on the famous SF film "Aelita" from the same year.
Directors: Nikolay Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko, Youry Merkulov
Votes: 230
50. Krasnaya ploshchad (1970)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
Dramatizes, in an official Soviet government release, the rise of the Red Army and the revolution that they eventually won.
Director: Vasili Ordynsky | Stars: Aleksandr Kutepov, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Stanislav Lyubshin, Sergey Yakovlev
Votes: 51