Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Leonid Gaidai

1. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)

TV-G | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

8.2

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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: 18,469

2. The Diamond Arm (1969)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

8.3

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An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov

Votes: 16,248

3. Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

TV-G | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

8.5

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Three stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Mikhail Pugovkin, Aleksei Smirnov, Vladimir Basov

Votes: 14,825

4. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

TV-13 | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

8.3

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A young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush, Frunzik Mkrtchyan

Votes: 13,533

5. Twelve Chairs (1971)

PG-13 | 153 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

8.2

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Two gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

Votes: 7,279

6. Bootleggers (1962)

19 min | Short, Comedy

7.9

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Three criminals contrive the entire moonshine facility inside a wilderness hut. Their law-abiding dog is going to stop that outrage.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Evgeniy Morgunov, Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin, Vladimir Pitsek

Votes: 5,096

7. Pyos Barbos i neobychnyj kross (1961)

10 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

7.7

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Three friends and a dog jog in Russian woodlands.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin, Evgeniy Morgunov

Votes: 2,887

8. Sportloto-82 (1982)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

6.8

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Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Algis Arlauskas, Svetlana Amanova, Mikhail Pugovkin, Mikhail Kokshenov

Votes: 2,332

9. It Can't Be! (1975)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

7.7

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Three stories about a marriage - its betrayal, its boredom, its absurd.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Mikhail Pugovkin, Nina Grebeshkova, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mikhail Svetin

Votes: 2,295

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

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

6.0

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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: 2,055

11. Business People (1963)

84 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

7.6

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Two bandits learn that kidnapping is a very profitable business. So they decide to kidnap local rich person's son in hope to get a substantial ransom.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Rostislav Plyatt, Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin, Aleksei Smirnov

Votes: 1,319

12. Za spichkami (1980)

100 min | Adventure, Comedy, History

6.8

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In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected.

Directors: Leonid Gaidai, Risto Orko | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Rita Polster, Ritva Valkama

Votes: 1,250

13. Opasno dlya zhizni! (1985)

93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

6.4

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Spartak Molodtsov is a man who can not pass through. Because of this he always gets into trouble.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Leonid Kuravlyov, Larisa Udovichenko, Tatyana Kravchenko, Georgiy Vitsin

Votes: 673

14. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (2014)

95 min | Comedy

1.2

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Journalist Shurik comes to the Caucasus to film a report about the local beauty and tradition, and into the Gorski, fiefdom of the local city mayor George Gadzhievich Saakhov. Those ... See full summary »

Director: Maksim Voronkov | Stars: Gennadiy Khazanov, Anastasiya Zadorozhnaya, Dmitry Sharakois, Ararat Keshchyan

Votes: 630

15. Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya' (1990)

94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

5.3

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The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Irina Feofanova, Spartak Mishulin, Roman Madyanov

Votes: 552

16. Absolutely Seriously (1961)

68 min | Comedy

7.2

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An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

Directors: Eduard Abalov, Leonid Gaidai, Eldar Ryazanov, Vladimir Semakov, Naum Trakhtenberg, Eduard Zmoyro | Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Sergey Filippov, Serafim Anikeyev, Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Votes: 457

17. Zhenikh s togo sveta (1958)

51 min | Comedy

6.9

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Petukhov S.D., one of local authorities, gets into tickler upon arriving from 3 days trip.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Rostislav Plyatt, Georgiy Vitsin, Vera Altayskaya, Rina Zelyonaya

Votes: 404

18. Inkognito iz Peterburga (1978)

91 min | Comedy, Crime, History

6.5

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In the 19th century, corrupt authorities of provincial town horrified by the news that inspector from a capital coming to them for inspection.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Anatoliy Papanov, Sergey Migitsko, Nonna Mordyukova, Olga Anokhina

Votes: 307

19. Po ulitsam komod vodili... (1978)

68 min | Comedy

6.0

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An omnibus of comical shorts.

Directors: Mark Genin, Nikolai Kovalsky | Stars: Igor Yasulovich, Valeriy Nosik, Vladimir Ivashov, Evgeniy Vesnik

Votes: 282

20. Navazhdenie (1965)

31 min | Short, Comedy

8.1

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Student Shurik has a few hours left before the exam, and he doesn't even have lectures. By chance, in the crowd, he sees a notebook with the necessary entries and ties in with the owner of the precious material.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Zoya Fyodorova, Georgiy Georgiu, Natalya Gitserot

Votes: 210

21. Davana vientulai sievietei (1973)

Comedy, Crime, Music

7.2

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In order to catch some thieves a beautiful detective comes up with a plan. An old lady wins a car and the thieves get excited.

Director: Eriks Lacis | Stars: Vija Artmane, Leons Krivans, Egons Maisaks, Helena Romanova

Votes: 208

22. Fuse (cinema journal) (1962–2008)

10 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy

6.3

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«Fuse» is a satirical feature film magazine produced by various feature film studios in the USSR from 1962 to 1991 and the CIS from 1992 to 2003. The magazine's issues consisted of ... See full summary »

Stars: Artyom Karapetyan, Vera Orlova, Ivan Lyubeznov, Igor Ilyinsky

Votes: 163

23. Dolgiy put (1956)

80 min | Drama, History, Romance

5.6

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After many long years of political repression, beloved ones meet again, but only for a few minutes.

Directors: Leonid Gaidai, Valentin Nevzorov | Stars: Sergey Yakovlev, Kyunna Ignatova, Leonid Gubanov, Vladimir Belokurov

Votes: 132

24. Trizhdy voskresshiy (1960)

80 min | Comedy, Drama, History

5.3

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A story of one ship, which fate is bound with a tragic history of Russia in the 20th century.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Alla Larionova, Georgiy Kulikov, Natalya Medvedeva, Vsevolod Sanaev

Votes: 113

25. Lyana (1955)

78 min | Comedy, Musical

6.2

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Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovian collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly withheld as their farm output is low. So they refuse to play in the all-USSR finals and ask the 2 girls to abstain. This strains a romance.

Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Kyunna Ignatova, Aleksandr Shvorin, Muza Krepkogorskaya, Radner Muratov

Votes: 55

26. Ubezhat, dognat, vluybitsya (2015)

Comedy

4.7

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Boris escapes from his Austrian bride to the North Caucasus, where he becomes a music teacher for local girl Nina. She tries to delay her wedding and Boris in order to help her kidnaps Nina according to the local custom.

Director: Mikhail Shevchuk | Stars: Lyubov Aksyonova, Vladimir Etush, Konstantin Kryukov, Vladimir Zeldin

Votes: 53