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1. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
Votes: 214,833 | Gross: $122.01M
2. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,211 | Gross: $4.45M
3. The White Crow (2018)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Votes: 7,029 | Gross: $1.83M
4. The Russia House (1990)
R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox
Votes: 17,548 | Gross: $23.00M
5. Telefon (1977)
PG | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly
Votes: 6,252
6. Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 6,016
7. Fit to Kill (1993)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In this follow up to Hard Hunted (1992), international arms dealer Kane seeks a Russian imperial diamond which was stolen by a Nazi officer from a Leningrad museum during WWII.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Dona Speir, Roberta Vasquez, Bruce Penhall, Geoffrey Moore
Votes: 1,366
8. Leto (2018)
Not Rated | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History
A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum, Teo Yoo, Filipp Avdeev
Votes: 7,941
9. Saraband (2003)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Votes: 8,518 | Gross: $0.65M
10. In Tranzit (2008)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov.
Director: Tom Roberts | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich, Daniel Brühl
Votes: 2,662
11. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976 TV Movie)
TV-G | 192 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night - New Year's celebration.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev, Aleksandr Shirvindt
Votes: 13,534
12. Leningrad (2009)
R | 110 min | Drama, War
Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.
Director: Aleksandr Buravskiy | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 4,797
13. Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
TV-PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia.
Directors: Francesco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Antonia Santilli, Alighiero Noschese
Votes: 6,337
14. The Rape of Europa (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 1,658
15. Intergirl (1989)
151 min | Drama, Romance
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Larisa Malevannaya, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Votes: 1,477
16. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,002 | Gross: $0.30M
17. Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
46 min | Documentary, Biography
A definitive account of Putin's power and how it changed the modern world.
Stars: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Mark Galeotti, Gleb Pavlovsky, Mikhail Fishman
Votes: 685
18. WWII from Space (2012 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
The events of World War II from 1941 onward are depicted from the perspective of space.
Director: Simon George | Stars: Corey Johnson, Kevin Farrell, Geoffrey Wawro, Conrad Crane
Votes: 495
19. Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960)
Not Rated | 68 min | Thriller
An American secret agent tries to stop the Soviets from launching an intercontinental missile at the mainland United States.
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Monica Davis, John McKay, Phillip St. George, Edward Czerniuk
Votes: 1,166
20. The Printing (1990)
137 min | Drama
A story of religious persecution against Christians in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and the illegal printing of Bibles.
Director: Tim Rogers | Stars: David Burke, Richard Rupp, Edward Panosian, Lonnie Polson
Votes: 67
21. 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: 593
22. Afrika (2022)
54 min | Drama, Family, History
1943 On the outskirts of besieged Leningrad, in a deserted village, three children and their mother, who is too weak to go to the forest in search of food, remain. One day, the sons set off... See full summary »
Directors: Darya Binevskaya, Nadya Slavetskaya | Stars: Oleg Chugunov, Andrey Garkunov, Ekaterina Guseva, Denis Kazandaykin
Votes: 30
23. Vzlomshchik (1987)
90 min | Drama
13-year-old Semyon is stuck in between of lifestyles of his father, who has a drinking problem, and nonconformity of his older brother, rock musician.
Director: Valeriy Ogorodnikov | Stars: Oleg Elykomov, Konstantin Kinchev, Yuriy Tsapnik, Svetlana Gaytan
Votes: 149
24. Blokada: Leningradskiy metronom, Operatsiya Iskra (1977)
170 min | Action, Drama, History
"Iskra" is the code name of the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. Between Lake Ladoga and the front line formed a corridor 8-11 km wide.
Director: Mikhail Yershov | Stars: Yuriy Solomin, Evgeniy Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Vladislav Strzhelchik
Votes: 110
25. 900 Days (2011)
78 min | Documentary
Documentary about the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities.
Director: Jessica Gorter
Votes: 129
26. Leningrad Symphony (1957)
92 min | Drama, War
During the brutal siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, musicians are able to stage a public performance of the Seventh Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich.
Director: Zakhar Agranenko | Stars: Mark Pertsovskiy, Olga Malko, Yelena Stroyeva, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 44
27. Happy Loser (1993)
88 min | Comedy
The film is set in Leningrad in the 1930s. A young pioneer lives in a community apartment on Vasilievsky Island.
Director: Valeri Bychenkov | Stars: Elena Anisimova, Nora Gryakalova, Mikhail Kabatov, Mariya Kapitskaya
Votes: 28
28. One Day, the Nile (1972)
105 min | Drama
About the friendship of the Soviet people and Arabs working to build the gigantic Aswan Dam.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Zulfikar, Suad Husni, Imad Hamdi, Igor Vladimirov
Votes: 106
29. Nad temnoy vodoy (1993)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
Director: Dmitriy Meskhiev | Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Kseniya Kachalina, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Tatyana Lyutaeva
Votes: 98
30. Sobachiy pir (1990)
112 min | Drama
A woman who cleans toilets has dreams of meeting a lover and finding happiness.Will these dreams, in the winter of a USSR in its last years, come true?
Director: Leonid Menaker | Stars: Natalya Gundareva, Sergey Shakurov, Larisa Udovichenko, Anna Polikarpova
Votes: 105
31. Proisshestviye, kotorogo nikto ne zametil (1968)
66 min | Romance
Nastya is a young girl, she is beautiful, but modest, and therefore she considers herself ugly and lonely. She works in an ordinary Soviet grocery store and dreams of a prince who will love... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Volodin | Stars: Zhanna Prokhorenko, Vitali Solomin, Zinaida Slavina, Georgiy Shtil
Votes: 61
32. Mister Twister (1963)
Not Rated | 16 min | Animation, Short
When a rich racist American family visits the Soviet Union and balks at sharing a hotel with a black man, its concierge decides to teach them a lesson.
Director: Anatoliy Karanovich
Votes: 80
34.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943
(1974)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of the Red Army, mobilization of Soviet production, the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet partisans, and the Battle of Kursk.
Director: Martin Smith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Olga Rybakova, Vsevolod Klokov, Nikolai Volkov
Votes: 426
35.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Siege of Leningrad
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 6
36.
Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
Episode:
The Rise of Putin
(2020)
TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary, Biography
Putin escapes poverty by joining the KGB, his reinvention as a political fixer in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and how he gets into position to take over from President Yeltsin.
Director: Nick Green | Stars: Bashar al-Assad, Tony Brenton, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Fishman
Votes: 77
37.
World War II in Numbers (2019)
Episode:
Road to stalingrad
(2019)
Documentary
Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Vasiliy Chuikov, Mary Fulbrook, Max Hastings, Jeremy Hicks
Votes: 5
38.
Totems (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.8
(2022)
Drama, Thriller
As the orbital bomb is about to crash, Francis, Lyudmila and Anne risk capture and death. Yemelin, through powerful allies in France, will do anything to get the numbers back, as well as the list.
Director: Frédéric Jardin | Stars: Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 38
39.
Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode:
Conquérir l'Espace Vital
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
June 1941, Hitler invades the USSR: he wants to conquer this "Living space" of which he dreams for his Reich, and conquer the largest country in the world.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Martin Bormann
Votes: 35
40.
Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode:
La Lutte décisive
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
October 1941: as Hitler believes his triumph imminent, his men and tanks are freezing where they stand. Meanwhile, the Red Army consolidates his positions.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Lavrenti Beria
Votes: 33
41.
Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode:
Time is Blood
(2021)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
After a terrible winter, 1942 starts badly for Stalin due to a ruthless Nazi campaign that leaves millions of Soviets captive and without food.
Directors: Lyndy Saville, Cal Seville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Klaus Schmider, Richard John Evans
42.
The Great War (2010–2012)
Episode:
The Siege of Leningrad
(2011)
47 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Leningrad, a vital and large Baltic sea port, is facing the entire weight of Army Group North. The Soviets have no reserves to spare as the Battle of Moscow is about to begin. Wilhelm von ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Grazhdan | Stars: Anatoliy Bogush, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini
Votes: 10
43.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
Le Possédé
(2015)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Episode covers Joseph Stalin's early life and his early political activities which resulted in his rose to power with the help of Lenin. October Revolution and Lenin's construction of new ... See full summary »
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Inessa Armand
Votes: 92
44.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
L'Homme rouge
(2015)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
1942.After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Svetlana Alliluyeva
Votes: 77
45.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
Le Maître du Monde
(2015)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
1944: the Soviets continue on the path to towards liberation. On the road to Berlin, they discover the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transformed his country using every means at his disposal.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Olga Balykina
Votes: 76