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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: 10,713
2. 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: 8,473
3. 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: 936
4. 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: 1,902
5. 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: 553
6. 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: 8,647
7. 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: 2,894
8. 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: 7,032
9. 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: 6,423
10. 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: 905
11. 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: 1,173
12. 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
13. 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: 1,047
14. All My Good Countrymen (1969)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska
Votes: 1,096
15. 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: 1,730
16. 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: 2,459
17. 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: 1,440
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: 2,342
19. The Power of Nonsense (2017 Video)
Documentary, Short
Kraut and Tea explains why nonsense can be a powerful tool against repressive regimes, but a sinister bludgeon when wielded by the bullies themselves.
Director: Kraut and Tea | Stars: Chanty Binx, Hillary Clinton, Adolf Hitler, Kraut and Tea
20. The Glass of Harmonica! (1968)
19 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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: 505
21. 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: 335
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: 1,470
23. 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: 827
24. 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: 118
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: 1,056
26. 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: 887
27. 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: 713
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: 451 | Gross: $0.02M
29. 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: 1,950
30. 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: 137
31. 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: 594
32. 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: 138
33. 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: 167
34. 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
35. 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: 146
36. 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: 154
37. 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: 1,357
38. 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: 108
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: 42
40. 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: 338
41. 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: 234
42. 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: 304
43. 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: 228
44. 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
45. They Wanted Peace (1938)
73 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Konstantin Myuffke, Mikheil Gelovani, B. Poltavtsev, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 46
46. 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: 285
47. 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: 104
48. We Are from Kronstadt (1936)
88 min | Drama, War
In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary ... See full summary »
Director: Efim Dzigan | Stars: Vasiliy Zaychikov, Georgi Bushuyev, Nikolay Ivakin, Oleg Zhakov
Votes: 173
49. Trzy opowiesci (1953)
99 min | Action, Drama
Film divided into three different episodes. In the first one, a saboteur damages the water pipes, which causes flooding of a cement stock. It turns out that the perpetrator is a member of ... See full summary »
Directors: Konrad Nalecki, Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Marian Rulka, Zygmunt Listkiewicz, Adam Kwiatkowski, Ignacy Gogolewski
Votes: 40
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: 52