Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Mikhail A. Bulgakov
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. The Master and Margarita (2023)
157 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A writer's novel is banned and play canceled. He then conceives a satirical novel where a devil-like character metaphorically revenges those responsible. Knowing it cannot be published, his muse Margarita pushes him to write it anyway.
Director: Michael Lockshin | Stars: August Diehl, Yulia Snigir, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Claes Bang
Votes: 2,342
2. A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012–2013)
TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.
Stars: Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe, Rosie Cavaliero, Adam Godley
Votes: 16,544
3. Master i Margarita (2005)
500 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
The devil and his attendants visit Moscow at the times of the Stalin regime. Official atheistic ideology confronts with a series of supernatural events.
Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vano Miranyan, Semyon Furman
Votes: 4,767
4. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
5. Morphine (2008)
110 min | Drama
A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko
Votes: 4,056
6. Master i Margarita (2006)
125 min | Drama, Fantasy
Interwoven are a satire of the 1930's under Stalin, the inner struggle of Pontius Pilate around the execution of Jesus, and the love story between a writer in Moscow and his lover Margarita.
Director: Yuriy Kara | Stars: Viktor Rakov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Nikolay Burlyaev, Mikhail Ulyanov
Votes: 705
7. Heart of a Dog (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev
Votes: 9,075
8. Television Theater (1953– )
Drama
Series of television plays.
Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert
Votes: 90
9. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)
TV-G | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Saveliy Kramarov
Votes: 18,448
10. The Master and Margaret (1972)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A writer and his assistant are working on a biblical story about Pontius Pilate who convicted Jesus of Nazereth, while the Satan (here called Woland) and his lieutenants are harassing the writer duo in various ways.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer, Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 791
11. Theatre Night (1985–1990)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 58
12. The Master and Margarita
Drama | Announced
A darkly comedic takedown of Soviet society, an audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, and a thrilling love story.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
13. Cuore di cane (1976)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Max von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf, Gina Rovere
Votes: 370
14. Beg (1971)
196 min | Drama, History, War
The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ... See full summary »
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach
Votes: 1,257
15. The Master and Margarita (1990)
350 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Devil has arrived in Moscow and, along with his demons and a large black cat, he carves a trail of chaos and destruction through Soviet society.
Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski, Mariusz Benoit, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Votes: 125
16. Belaya gvardiya (2012)
47 min | Drama, War
The protagonist, Alex Turbin - military medic, who had seen and lived through a lot in three years of World War I. He is one of the thousands of officers who, after the revolution faced a difficult choice.
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Evgeniy Dyatlov, Andrey Zibrov
Votes: 302
17. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
60 min | Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett
Votes: 131
18. TV teatar (1956– )
Drama
Live transmissions of theater plays.
Stars: Mihailo 'Misa' Janketic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Predrag Ejdus, Miodrag Radovanovic
Votes: 16
19. A Mester és Margarita (2005 TV Movie)
26 min | Drama
A short film presenting Bulgakov's novel in Hungary's "The Big Read".
Director: Ibolya Fekete | Stars: Sergey Grekov, Judit Hernádi, Grigori Lifanov, Zoltán Mucsi
Votes: 27
20. The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man comes to London, uses a strange force to take over different men's identities, and creates chaos.
Director: Ben Hopkins | Stars: Tom Fisher, Ian McNeice, Tony Maudsley, Will Keen
Votes: 1,194
21. Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag (1972 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Kreczmar, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Lapicki
Votes: 179
22. Master and Margarita (2021)
95 min | Music
Edward Clug directs the Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in an original dance adaptation of "Master and Margarita", the foremost of Soviet satires, which combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy.
Directors: Marco Japelj, Edward Clug | Stars: Artemy Belyakov, Semion Chudin, Ekaterina Krysanova, Vladislav Lantratov
23. Rokovye yaytsa (1996)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the rate of formation and development of ... See full summary »
Director: Sergei Lomkin | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Andrey Tolubeev, Nina Usatova, Irina Senotova
Votes: 166
24. Master i Margarita. Roman (2012)
49 min | Animation, Action, History
This film is an adaptation of 'The master and Margarita' novel by M. Bulgakov. This adaptation is an attempt to have every word of the novel illustrated, to show every mentioned place or ... See full summary »
Director: Terentij Oslyabya | Star: Terentij Oslyabya
Votes: 19
25. Dni Turbinykh (1976 TV Movie)
223 min | Drama
Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".
Director: Vladimir Basov | Stars: Andrey Myagkov, Andrey Rostotskiy, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Vladimir Basov
Votes: 424
26. The White Guard (2011)
Director: Andrew Upton | Stars: Jonathan Biggins, Patrick Brammall, Yure Covich, Alan Dukes
27. Incident in Judaea (1992 TV Movie)
Drama
Pontius Pilate's internal struggle before during and after the conviction and execution of Jesus of Nazareth.
Director: Paul Bryers | Stars: Frank Baker, Rosalind Bennett, Jason Carter, Jim Carter
Votes: 17
28. Mistrz i Malgorzata (2019 Podcast Series)
1,009 min | Drama
A mysterious foreigner unexpectedly interferes in a conversation between two Moscow writers. This event begins a series of many unexplained phenomena that will take place in the capital of ... See full summary »
Director: Dariusz Blaszczyk | Stars: Magdalena Rózczka, Andrzej Chyra, Krzysztof Banaszyk, Krzysztof Wakulinski
29. Master and Margarita (2015 Video)
Unrated | Short, Drama
Margarita makes the pact with the devil spirit Azazello to save her beloved Master.
Director: Mariya Pyter | Stars: Theresa Ireland, Adyr Villavicencio
31. Master and Margarita
Drama | Announced
An Faustian story of eternal love and sacrifice by Margarita who becomes the Witch Queen at the Devil's ball of 100 Kings to save her beloved writer Master from obscurity and receive an eternal refuge granted by God
32. Teatralnyy roman (2003 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Directors: Oleg Babitsky, Yury Goldin | Stars: Igor Larin, Maksim Sukhanov, Nikolay Chindyaykin, Valeriy Zolotukhin
Votes: 39
33. Uova fatali (1977– )
Sci-Fi
Based on 1925 Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs, a zoologist finds a way to accelerate embryo growth in chicken eggs to help feed the population after the war. An unfortunate logistical accident makes the country swarmed with dangerous reptiles.
Stars: Gastone Moschin, Santo Versace, Mario Brusa, Ugo Gregoretti
Votes: 25
34. Zapiski yunogo vracha (1991 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama, History
Director: Mikhail Yakzhen | Stars: Andrei Nikitinskikh, Aleksandr Maslov, Yelena Kucherenko, Olga Onishchenko
Votes: 23
35. Mistrz i Malgorzata. Prezent (2005)
10 min | Short, Drama
Director: Bartosz Dombrowski | Stars: Jerzy Gralek, Roman Gancarczyk, Sebastian Lach, Dariusz Starczewski
36. Hogyan akarta megmenteni Pilátus Júdást? (1972 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: János Dömölky | Stars: Iván Darvas, Péter Haumann, József Madaras, Tamás Major
37. La fuite (1971 TV Movie)
Drama, History, War
An adaptation of the Russian play about the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, the evacuation of Sevastopol and the emigration of the Whites who had lost to the Reds.
Director: Philippe Joulia | Stars: Alfred Adam, Daniel Gélin, Martine Sarcey, Pierre Pernet
38. I giorni dei Turbin (1969 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Edmo Fenoglio | Stars: Ruggero Miti, Mariano Rigillo, Leda Negroni, Renzo Palmer
39. Margarita (1997 TV Short)
2 min | Animation, Short
The impudent young animators dared to touch Bulgakov.
Directors: Natalya Berezovaya, Svetlana Petrova, Rozaliya Zelma
Votes: 19
40. Pilát Pontský, onoho dne (1991 TV Movie)
65 min
Director: Oldrich Danek | Stars: Ludek Munzar, Ondrej Vetchý, Jan Fulín, Frantisek Herzog
Votes: 11
41. Krasnyy ostrov (1991)
77 min
The writer who woke up from a hangover writes a suicide note, about to shoot himself, but then Mephistopheles appears to him in the form of an editor and asks to let him read the manuscript of the new novel.
Director: Aleksandr Fenko | Stars: Grazina Baikstyte, Andrei Boltnev, Semyon Farada, Aleksandr Feklistov
Votes: 15
42. Vsego neskolko slov v chest gospodina de Molyera (1973 TV Movie)
108 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Anatoli Efros | Stars: Yuriy Lyubimov, Lev Kruglyy, Aleksandr Shirvindt, Olga Yakovleva
Votes: 7
43. Khorosho zabytoe staroe (2003)
25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A kind of fantasy in the retro style, based on the motives of science fiction literature of the 20s of the 20th century, warning about the danger of using scientific discoveries to the detriment of humanity.
Director: Efim Gamburg | Stars: Irina Muravyova, Aleksandr Pozharov, Evgeniy Vesnik, Pavel Vinnik
Votes: 21
44. The Master and Margarita - Chapter 1 (2010)
33 min | Animation, Short
This film is an adaptation of "The master and Margarita" novel by M. Bulgakov. This adaptation is an attempt to have every word of the novel illustrated, to show every mentioned place or ... See full summary »
Director: Terentij Oslyabya
45. Zoykina kvartira (1988)
180 min | Comedy, Drama
Adaptataion of Mikhail Bulgakov's play "Zoyka's Apartment".
Stars: Antonina Venediktova, Sergey Perelygin, Igor Lagutin, Olga Semyonova
Votes: 10
47. Puskin utolsó napjai (1987 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Péter Havas | Stars: József Bars, Emma Bessenyei, Ildikó Bánsági, Tamás Cser
48. Molière (1987 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
This television play takes a look at the life of a famous French playwright and focuses on his last days.
Director: Milos Pietor | Stars: Ctibor Filcík, Alzbeta Pietorová, Judita Vargová, Jozef Adamovic
49. Ivan's Westchesterrible Adventure (2011)
30 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
This screwball comedy puts a new spin on the story of a Soviet classic entitled 'Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions.' How does Ivan the Terrible end up in West Chester? And what happens ... See full summary »
Directors: Alice Speh, Joseph Watts | Stars: Aaron Busansky, Greg Christiansen, Ashley Clemente, E J Crawford
50. Bekstvo (1968 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
Director: Zdravko Sotra | Stars: Neda Spasojevic, Stevo Zigon, Ratko Saric, Milivoje 'Mica' Tomic
Votes: 5