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1. Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili Na Brayton-Bich opyat idut dozhdi (1993)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Kelly McGrill, Andrey Myagkov, Mikhail Kokshenov

Votes: 2,052

2. Alyaska, ser! (1992)

100 min | Adventure, Musical

The action takes place in Lwów (L'viv) on the eve of World War II. A former White Army officer (Vladimir Mashkov) after the defeat of the Whites in the civil war in Russia emigrated to ... See full summary »

Director: Vyacheslav Rebrov | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Yelena Romanova, Aleksey Zharkov, Lev Lyubetskiy

Votes: 40

3. Byron: Ballad for a Daemon (1992)

138 min | Biography, Drama

Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.

Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Manos Vakousis, Vera Sotnikova, Vasilis Laggos, Igor Yasulovich

Votes: 136

4. White King, Red Queen (Russians) (1993)

86 min | Romance

1990s. A trade union delegation headed by Yekaterina, arrives in a small Swiss town. Grandmaster Aleksey Goryunov, who stayed in the West 20 years ago and who has hopelessly loved Katerina all his life, is staying at the same hotel.

Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: André Dussollier, Tatyana Vasileva, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Ilin

Votes: 52

10. Nash amerikanskiy Borya (1992)

88 min | Comedy

Russian immigrant Boris returns to Moscow to visit his aunt. After reporter wrote article in local newspaper about Boris seeking candidates for wife, Boris immediately became a star but he isn't really appreciate such "popularity".

Director: Boris Bushmelev | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Valentina Talyzina, Tatyana Vasileva, Marina Ignatova

Votes: 21

13. Patrioticheskaya komediya (1992)

109 min | Comedy, Fantasy

There is a secret door leading to a hidden dungeon with a magical room able to transport you into any capital in the world.

Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Larisa Guzeeva, Aleksey Serebryakov, Leonid Okunyov, Sergey Makovetskiy

Votes: 95

14. Moscow Parade (1992)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, History

Set in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin's secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler.

Director: Ivan Dykhovichnyy | Stars: Aleksandr Feklistov, Ute Lemper, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Yekaterina Ryzhikova

Votes: 217

16. Tartuffe (1992 TV Movie)

100 min | Comedy

Tartuffe is hidden behind a mask of humility and fear of God. And there's a lot of people to believe that he's truly like that.

Director: Yan Frid | Stars: Mikhail Boyarskiy, Aleksandr Alekseev, Olga Belyavskaya, Igor Dmitriev

Votes: 108

18. Black and White (1992)

Drama, Romance

Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that... See full summary »

Director: Boris Frumin | Stars: Veronica Alicino, Stephen C. Batts, Hayward Boling, Bernard Caunchy

Votes: 25

19. Pechalnyy Ray (1992)

75 min | Drama

Cristina got acquainted with Russian puppeteer Boris, when he was hitchhiking nearby Montauban. Several years later she met him once again in Moscow.

Director: Arkadiy Krasilshchikov | Stars: Yuriy Dormidontov, Carole Escudié, Jean-Pierre Fritos, Timofey Sopolev

20. Tayna (1992)

106 min | Mystery

Private detective Sam Patrick investigates the mystery of disappeared jewel-box in house of Garry Shtemmer. Trail of murders makes this case more and more embarrassed.

Director: Gennadi Beglov | Stars: Povilas Gaidys, Lyudmila Arinina, Natalya Fateeva, Irina Garkusha

22. Alaska Kid (1993)

675 min | Adventure, Western

During the gold rush days, a young man with his best friend go through lots of interesting adventures in Alaska from races to dangerous trips.

Stars: Mark Pillow, Donovan Scott, Igor Kharlamov, John Tremaine

Votes: 83

24. Doroga v ray (1993)

110 min | Drama

Moscow, 1957, World Festival of Youth and Students. "Universal Friendship" is carried out under the watchful supervision of the all-powerful KGB. Igor Sinitsky, a student at Moscow State ... See full summary »

Director: Vitaliy Moskalenko | Stars: Ivan Volkov, Natalya Petrova, Bogdan Stupka, Aleksey Guskov

Votes: 31

26. Zoloto (1992)

91 min | Drama, History

When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal violence.

Director: Fabio Bonzi | Stars: Franco Nero, Vittoria Belvedere, Aleksandr Abdulov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Votes: 75

29. Kodeks beshchestiya (1993)

148 min | Mystery

An auditor is going to the city of Zurich, to the branch of a Soviet bank through which the money of the CPSU is transferred. The almighty director of the Central Bank, nicknamed the ... See full summary »

Director: Vsevolod Shilovskiy | Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Shcherbakov, Leonid Kuravlyov, Veronika Izotova

Votes: 55

31. Nastya (1994)

89 min | Comedy, Romance

A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.

Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Polina Kutepova, Irina Markova, Valeriy Nikolaev, Evgeniy Leonov

Votes: 594

32. Window to Paris (1993)

PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Nikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the ... See full summary »

Directors: Yuri Mamin, Arkadiy Tigay | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Agnès Soral, Viktor Mikhailov, Nina Usatova

Votes: 1,612 | Gross: $0.26M

33. Otryad «D» (1993)

77 min | Action, Adventure

Special unit of police and border guards are fighting against foreign smugglers in Far East of Russia in early 90s.

Director: Vladimir Plotnikov | Stars: Vladimir Antonik, Anatoly Vedyonkin, Vladimir Nosik, Vladimir Plotnikov

39. Russkiy biznes (1993)

78 min | Comedy

An old tamer uncle Vasya with an old bear Gosha and their friends manage "Russian safari" for strangers where the bear must stay alive.

Directors: Mark Ayzenberg, Mikhail Kokshenov | Stars: Mikhail Kokshenov, Semyon Farada, Saveliy Kramarov, Irina Feofanova

Votes: 164

42. The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1994)

158 min | Action, History

The 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

Director: Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich | Stars: Mikhail Boyarskiy, Alisa Freyndlikh, Dmitriy Kharatyan, Ivar Kümnik

Votes: 308

43. Ty u menya odna (1993)

92 min | Drama

Listening to the sweet sound of the song "You are the only one" Eugene can't choose which shore to join - America or Russia.

Director: Dmitriy Astrakhan | Stars: Aleksandr Zbruev, Mark Goronok, Marina Neyolova, Mariya Lobachova

Votes: 463

45. The Nick of Time (1993)

94 min | Comedy

A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He ... See full summary »

Directors: Mikhail Fishgojt, Edward Staroselsky | Stars: Nikolay Karachentsov, Olga Bachurikhina, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Irena Dubrovskaya

Votes: 10

46. Kolorado (1993)

Romance

American woman occasionally gets to wild taiga in the Urals. Oddish forester agrees to take her to nearest city on his flying trike. But soon he falls in love with her and suggests to fly on his trike to Colorado.

Director: Yevgeniy Novikov | Stars: Maksim Glushkov, Irina Primanchuk, Sergey Lepikhin

47. The Wizard of the Emerald City (1994)

63 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The evil witch Gingemma conjures up a cyclone to take little Elli away from her mother, and is crushed for her wickedness. Upon landing in the Magic Land, Elli's dog, Totoshka, becomes a ... See full summary »

Director: Pavel Arsenov | Stars: Yekaterina Mikhaylovskaya, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Evgeniy Gerasimov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

Votes: 82

49. The Castle (1994)

120 min | Drama

Mostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov, Viktor Sukhorukov

Votes: 937

52. Mute Witness (1995)

R | 95 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.

Director: Anthony Waller | Stars: Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Oleg Yankovskiy

Votes: 6,681 | Gross: $1.20M

53. Peshawar Waltz (1994)

86 min | War

A violent action thriller, which launched the career of successful Russian genre auteur Timur Bekmambetov, in which prisoners try to make an escape.

Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Gennadiy Kayumov | Stars: O. Chernyshev, Gennadiy Kayumov, Barry Kushner, K. Lyaschenko

Votes: 129

58. Three Hundred Years After (1994)

92 min | Comedy

American police, bemoaning the dominance of the "Russian Mafia," send a young cop to Russia to gain experience in fighting organized crime.

Director: Viktor Volkov | Stars: Nikolay Tonsky, Yuriy Duvanov, Igor Vorobyov, Boris Shuvalov

Votes: 30

60. American Daughter (1995)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

A lonely Russian man is trying to see his daughter who lives with her mother far away in the USA.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Allison Whitbeck, Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Shukshina, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Votes: 620

61. Vsyo budet khorosho (1995)

100 min | Comedy

Russian tragic comedy about forming post USSR society.

Director: Dmitriy Astrakhan | Stars: Anatoliy Zhuravlyov, Olga Ponizova, Mark Goronok, Aleksandr Zbruev

Votes: 479

62. Moskovskie kanikuly (1995)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

A wealthy Italian woman, Luciana Farini, travels to Russia, to the homeland of her ancestors, where she wants to bury her beloved dog. Light detective intrigue, the absurdities of Russian ... See full summary »

Director: Alla Surikova | Stars: Jackie, Irina Seleznyova, Leonid Yarmolnik, Natalya Gundareva

Votes: 237

64. Koroleva Margo (1996)

48 min | Biography, Drama, History

The history of the decline of the reign of the French Valois dynasty, full of drama, religious contradictions, palace and love intrigues.

Stars: Mikhail Efremov, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Sergey Yurskiy

Votes: 245

66. A Chef in Love (1996)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the ... See full summary »

Director: Nana Dzhordzhadze | Stars: Pierre Richard, Nino Kirtadze, Micheline Presle, Jean-Yves Gautier

Votes: 818 | Gross: $0.60M

68. Vino iz oduvanchikov (1997– )

208 min | Adventure, Fantasy

Based on "Dandelion Wine", a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury.

Stars: Andrei Novikov, Sergei Kuznetsov, Vera Vasileva, Vladimir Zeldin

Votes: 89

69. Grafinya de Monsoro (1997– )

1,352 min | Drama, History, Romance

France during the times of Henry III. Religious wars and political intrigues mixed with the tragic love story between Count Louis de Bussy and Countess Diana de Monsoreau.

Stars: Gabriella Tkach, Aleksandr Domogarov, Rafael Kotanjyan, Andrei Dubovsky

Votes: 288

71. Malenkaya printsessa (1997)

88 min | Drama, Family

The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Grammatikov | Stars: Anastasiya Meskova, Lyanka Gryu, Igor Yasulovich, Alla Demidova

Votes: 122

72. Don't Play the Fool... (1997)

98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

One day a man went to pull logs from the river to store fuel for the winter and fished out a 200-liter barrel of alcohol. The village went on a spree... This unexpected holiday was given to... See full summary »

Director: Valeri Chikov | Stars: Mikhail Evdokimov, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Sergei Agapitov, Lev Durov

Votes: 214

73. Politseiskiye i vory (1998)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be the director of a Russian-American pasta... See full summary »

Director: Nikolay Dostal | Stars: Gennadiy Khazanov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Elena Tsyplakova, Evgeniya Glushenko

Votes: 119

74. The Barber of Siberia (1998)

180 min | Comedy, Drama, History

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris

Votes: 12,804

75. The Stringer (1998)

88 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in ... See full summary »

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Anna Friel, Vladimir Ilin, Robert Knepper

Votes: 563

77. Khochu v tyurmu (1999)

94 min | Comedy

Semyon Lyamkin, the developer and designer of the Zaporozhets, easily overtaking the Mercedes and floating no worse than a motor boat, got into an unpleasant story. When a bank was robbed ... See full summary »

Director: Alla Surikova | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Natalya Gundareva, Alla Kliouka, Mikhail Petrovsky

Votes: 479

78. Chyornyy okean (1998)

94 min | Action

Russian and American Navy are working together in a sea rescue operation, trying to prevent a major ecological catastrophe. The disaster may be caused by the nuclear reactor, that was ... See full summary »

Director: Ivan Solovov | Stars: Vladimir Konkin, Andrey Rostotskiy, Viktor Pavlov, Igor Ledogorov

Votes: 20

79. Bobaka Saskerviley (1998)

65 min | Comedy, Mystery

A parody on famous "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Directors: Igor Perepech, Yevgeniy Rumyantsev | Stars: Aleksei Lebedinsky, Yuriy Galtsev, Dmitriy Nagiev, Viktoriya Besklubova

81. Tranzit dlya dyavola (2002)

312 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

FSB and Interpol join their forces to stop drug traffic through Russia to Japan.

Stars: Evgeniy Zharikov, Anatoly Vedyonkin, Vladimir Nosik, Gennadi Oreshkin

82. Brat 2 (2000)

122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Arriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Irina Saltykova

Votes: 17,338

84. Vospominanie o Sherloke Kholmse (2000)

52 min | Crime, Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle is a successful writer and a good doctor. He is happy to live in his own big house, with his wife and children. The only thing that upsets him is that his books about ... See full summary »

Stars: Marina Levtova, Gennadiy Bogachyov, Larisa Udovichenko, Anatoliy Gorin

Votes: 309

85. Zavist bogov (2000)

135 min | Drama, Romance

1983 Television editor Sonya and French translator Andre met in Moscow and fell in love. Sonya has a teenage son and a husband, a successful writer. Andre also has family in Paris. And ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Menshov | Stars: Vera Alentova, Anatoliy Lobotskiy, Aleksandr Feklistov, Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 364

87. Rytsarskiy roman (2000 TV Movie)

135 min | Drama

The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Inshakov | Stars: Sergey Bezrukov, Irina Bezrukova, Aleksandr Inshakov, Vasiliy Lanovoy

Votes: 43

88. The Quickie (2001)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.

Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Bakke, Dennis Bendersky

Votes: 885

89. Iskusheniye Dirka Bogarda (2001)

Biography

It's a story of actors and directors of golden age of European cinema. The main character is famous actor and writer Dirk Bogarde.

Director: Kirill Mozgalevskiy | Stars: Igor Vasilev, Anton Yakovlev, Alyona Yakovleva, Tatyana Rudina

90. Rasstavayas s Moskvoy (2002)

115 min | Comedy, Drama

James works in Russian office of international company, but one day finds himself alone, jobless and penniless in Moscow.

Director: Shane McGaffey | Stars: Shane McGaffey, Natalya Aristova, Yuri Avsharov, Viktoriya Belova

92. Lyubovnitsa iz Moskvy (2001)

63 min | Comedy

Two Russian immigrants who live in Miami decide to order a mistress from Moscow, but everything is not going as it should.

Director: Anatoly Eyramdzhan | Stars: Arkadiy Ukupnik, Ekaterina Zinchenko, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Irina Shmelyova

Votes: 19

93. Parizhskiy antikvar (2001– )

150 min | Crime

Paris, France. An intelligence officer dies under suspicious circumstances of S.V.R. An investigation is conducted by Russian secret agent Aleksei Solovyev. At the same time foreign ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Evgeniy Kindinov, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Igor Shavlak

Votes: 16

96. The Dark Night (2001)

98 min | Drama, War

Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.

Director: Oleg Kovalov | Stars: Larisa Zharkova, Ilya Shakunov, Sergey Koshonin, Alla Sergiyko

Votes: 117

97. Yady, ili vsemirnaya istoriya otravleniy (2001)

106 min | Comedy

The theater actor Oleg Volkov is worried about his wife's unfaithfulness. He meets a pensioner, Ivan Petrovich, who advises poisoning his unfaithful wife and her lover.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Oleg Basilashvili, Ignat Akrachkov, Aleksey Alekseev, Aleksandr Bashirov

Votes: 424

99. War (2002)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Sergey Bodrov

Votes: 5,409

100. Red Serpent (2003)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Action

A powerful drug cartel in Moscow wants to use American businessman Steve Nichols in a smuggling scheme and ensures his cooperation by kidnapping his daughter. So Nichols solicits the help of a former KGB agent.

Director: Gino Tanasescu | Stars: Michael Paré, Roy Scheider, Oleg Taktarov, Irina Apeksimova

Votes: 613



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