Top 200 Russian & Soviet Films
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1. Kino-pravda no. 1 (1922)
10 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 211
2. Kino-pravda no. 2 (1922)
10 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 145
3. Kino-pravda no. 3 (1922)
7 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 142
4. Kino-pravda no. 4 (1922)
7 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 134
5. Kino-pravda no. 5 (1922)
7 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 135
6. Kino-pravda no. 6 (1922)
13 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 122
7. Kino-pravda no. 7 (1922)
11 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 105
8. Kino-pravda no. 8 (1922)
13 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 85
9. Kino-pravda no. 9 (1922)
12 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 89
10. Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution (1922)
20 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 107
11. Kino-pravda no. 15 (1923)
16 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 112
12. Kino Pravda No. 16: Spring Kino-Pravda. A Picturesque, Lyrical Newsreel (1923)
24 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 77
13. Kino-Pravda No. 17: For the First Soviet Agricoltural, Handicraft, and Industrial Exhibition (1923)
14 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 116
14. Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie Camera Race Over 299 Meters and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality (1924)
13 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 111
15. Kino-pravda no. 19 - Chernoe more - Ledovityi okean - Moskva (1924)
16 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 133
16. Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda (1924)
14 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 100
17. 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: 8,632
18. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Votes: 61,479 | Gross: $0.05M
19. Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine (1925)
Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short, History
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 276
20. Kino-pravda no. 22 - Krestianskaia Kino-pravda (1925)
17 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 108
21. Kino-pravda no. 23 - Radio pravda (1925)
17 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 107
22. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,070
23. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,862
24. Storm Over Asia (1928)
74 min | Drama, War
After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: I. Inkizhinov, I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Votes: 2,312
25. 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: 8,455
26. Dom na Trubnoy (1928)
Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy
A girl Parasha Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. This is a story about the house and its inhabitants.
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Voytsik, Vladimir Fogel
Votes: 730
27. Zvenigora (1928)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy
An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Nikolai Nademsky, Semyon Svashenko, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy, Polina Sklyar-Otava
Votes: 1,167
28. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 28,010
29. 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: 1,726
30. 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: 2,337
31. 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: 935
32. 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: 6,408
33. Life Is Beautiful (1930)
96 min | Romance
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina, Mariya Belousova, Andrei Gorchilin
Votes: 102
34. 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: 1,051
35. Road to Life (1931)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
Director: Nikolai Ekk | Stars: Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 476
36. Okraina (1933)
98 min | Drama, War
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 1,123
37. 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: 1,439
38. Moscow Laughs (1934)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
A musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov | Stars: Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova, Elena Tyapkina
Votes: 1,075
39. Happiness (I) (1935)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
Director: Aleksandr Medvedkin | Stars: Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, Mikhail Gipsi, Viktor Kulakov
Votes: 1,201
40. Yunost Maksima (1935)
92 min | Drama, History, War
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Stepan Kayukov
Votes: 303
41. Strogiy yunosha (1935)
100 min | Drama
The characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
Director: Abram Room | Stars: Dmitri Dorlyak, Olga Zhizneva, Yuri Yuryev, Maksim Shtraukh
Votes: 264
42. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
71 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Two best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.
Directors: Boris Barnet, Samad Mardanov | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Lev Sverdlin, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Alexei Dolinin
Votes: 1,162
43. 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
44. Peter the First (1937)
96 min | Biography, Drama, History
A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Alla Tarasova, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 239
45. Baltic Deputy (1937)
107 min | Drama
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few ... See full summary »
Directors: Iosif Kheifits, Aleksandr Zarkhi | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Mariya Domashyova, Boris Livanov, Oleg Zhakov
Votes: 140
46. The Lonely White Sail (1937)
92 min | Adventure
Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.
Director: Vladimir Legoshin | Stars: Igor But, Boris Runge, Aleksandr Melnikov, Nikolai Plotnikov
Votes: 95
47. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov
Votes: 12,266
48. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
98 min | Biography, Drama
A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy, Elizaveta Alekseeva
Votes: 779
49. Conquest of Peter the Great (1938)
96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The second part of the story is about the life and state activity of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina
Votes: 153
50. New Horizons (1939)
92 min | Drama
In the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is appointed to nationalize a bank ,he has discussions with both Lenin and Stalin.
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Zharov, Natalya Uzhviy
Votes: 174
51. Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship (1939)
100 min | Biography, Drama
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores, but while reading could end his depression. After hard working experience, he was ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Yelizaveta Lilina
Votes: 287
52. Gorky 3: My Universities (1940)
90 min | Biography, Drama
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Nikolai Plotnikov
Votes: 239
53. One Day in Soviet Russia (1941)
56 min | Documentary
On August 24th of 1940 a group of cameramen cross the immense territory of the Soviet Union, before it was attacked by Nazi Germany, and capture multiple aspects of life in this new world.
Directors: Roman Karmen, Mikhail Slutsky | Star: Quentin Reynolds
54. Moscow Strikes Back (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Documentary, War
A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders,... See full summary »
Directors: Ilya Kopalin, Leonid Varlamov | Stars: N. Dubravin, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 293
55. The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad (1943)
78 min | Documentary, War
Stalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.
Director: Leonid Varlamov | Stars: Yuriy Levitan, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 89
56. Ukraine in Flames (1943)
56 min | Documentary, War
Depicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
Directors: Yakov Avdeyenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Oleksiy Fyodorov, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 164
57. The Rainbow (1944)
87 min | War, Drama
A bitter anti-Nazi film, The Rainbow details of the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Natalya Uzhviy, Nina Alisova, Elena Tyapkina, Valentina Ivashova
Votes: 254
58. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 10,870
59. The Turning Point (1945)
108 min | Drama, War
Released after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev, Andrei Abrikosov
Votes: 237
60. Girl No. 217 (1945)
91 min | Drama, War
The story of one of the Soviet women transported to Germany after the Nazi invasion in World War II for forced labor, this one forced to become a household drudge.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Anna Lisyanskaya, Vasiliy Zaychikov, Nikolai Komissarov
Votes: 112
61. The Fall of Berlin (1945)
PG-13 | 70 min | Documentary, History, War
Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Hermann Göring
Votes: 154
62. Native Land (1945)
58 min | Documentary
A documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, supervised by the Soviet Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
Directors: Gurgen Balasanyan, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Levon Isahakyan, G. Zargaryan | Star: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Votes: 34
63. The Vow (1946)
98 min | Drama
In 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, carries a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him of the Kulak brigands that roam the land, spreading death and misery. The ... See full summary »
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, A. Mansvetov, Aleksey Gribov, Nikolai Ryzhov
Votes: 114
64. The Stone Flower (1946)
89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Obsessed with perfecting his craft, young gemcutter Danilo visits the mystical Copper Mountain to uncover the secret behind its infamous attraction - the Stone Flower, a stone carving so captivating that no one can leave after seeing it.
Director: Aleksandr Ptushko | Stars: Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy
Votes: 508
65. Elu tsitadellis (1947)
90 min | Drama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport | Stars: Hugo Laur, Aino Talvi, Gunnar Kilgas, Lia Laats
Votes: 69
66. The Village Teacher (1947)
97 min | Drama
A young lady goes to Siberia to teach. People there gape at her desktop globe. The Soviet revolution happens. Her husband is Lenin's compatriot. In her lifelong teaching, her students become professor, school teacher and awarded military.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Vera Maretskaya, Daniil Sagal, Pavel Olenev, Vladimir Maruta
Votes: 195
67. The Young Guard (1948)
135 min | Drama, War
The film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Gerasimov | Stars: Vladimir Ivanov, Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Sergei Gurzo
Votes: 333
68. Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke (1948)
96 min | Drama, War
Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Stolper | Stars: Pavel Kadochnikov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Aleksei Dikij, Vasiliy Merkurev
Votes: 282
69. The Victors and the Vanquished (1949)
81 min | Drama, War
A large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Aleksei Dikij, Maksim Shtraukh, Viktor Khokhryakov, Mikheil Kvarelashvili
Votes: 165
70. Life in Bloom (1949)
81 min | Biography, Drama
The heroic life of a Ukrainian agronomist who becomes world famous and who the Bolshevik Revolution allows to cultivate new species of fruit trees as part of a project to transform nature.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Vladimir Solovyov, Grigori Belov, Aleksandra Vasilyeva, Nikolai Shamin
Votes: 152
71. 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: 551
72. Cossacks of the Kuban (1950)
112 min | Comedy, Musical
In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Pyrev | Stars: Sergei Lukyanov, Marina Ladynina, Aleksandr Khvylya, Vladlen Davydov
Votes: 436
73. Mussorgsky (1950)
120 min | Biography, Drama
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Roshal | Stars: Aleksandr Borisov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Vladimir Balashov, Yuri Leonidov
Votes: 79
74. The Inspector-General (1952)
132 min | Comedy, Crime
Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Igor Gorbachyov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Tamara Nosova
Votes: 281
75. Man of Music (1952)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biographical film about the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka who lived in the 19th century.
Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov | Stars: Boris Smirnov, Lev Durasov, Vladimir Savelev, Lyubov Orlova
Votes: 69
76. Heroes of Shipka (1955)
90 min | Drama, History, War
Epic historical drama. The Russo - Turkish War of Liberation of 1878 and the role of the Bulgarian Volunteer Gorps.
Director: Sergey Vasilev | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Viktor Avdyushko, Georgiy Yumatov, Konstantin Sorokin
Votes: 306
77. The Forty-First (1956)
88 min | War, Drama, Romance
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak
Votes: 1,720
78. Chveni ezo (1956)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lyrical story about the people of neighborhood in Tbilisi.
Director: Rezo Chkheidze | Stars: Sofiko Chiaureli, Giorgi Shengelaia, Leila Abashidze, Leo Pilpani
Votes: 93
79. Othello (1956)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Votes: 351
80. Patvi hamar (1956)
80 min | Drama
The daughter can't stand the disgrace when learns that his father millionaire had stoled the fortune of his former companion.
Director: Artashes Hay-Artyan | Stars: Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Varduhi Varderesyan, Artyom Karapetyan
Votes: 36
81. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
Votes: 19,793 | Gross: $0.02M
82. Don Kikhot (1957)
PG | 110 min | Drama
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Serafima Birman, Svetlana Grigoreva
Votes: 939
83. Dorogoy tsenoy (1957)
98 min | Drama
An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Vera Donskaya, Yuri Dedovich, Ivan Tverdokhleb, Olga Petrova
Votes: 138
84. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Not Rated | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 8,058
Completed in 1946, released in 1958
85. Poem of the Sea (1958)
95 min | Drama
Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Boris Livanov, Boris Andreyev, Mikhail Tsaryov, Mikhail Romanov
Votes: 202
86. Rasskazy o Lenine (1958)
115 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Maksim Shtraukh, Maria Pastukhova, Anna Lisyanskaya, Oleg Efremov
Votes: 50
87. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 11,294
88. The Destiny of a Man (1959)
103 min | Drama, War
A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko, Pavel Volkov
Votes: 3,711
89. The Overcoat (1959)
G | 75 min | Drama
A story about a government clerk who has his precious new overcoat stolen. No-one seems willing to help him retrieve his prized possession, a fact that continues to concern him even when he is beyond the grave.
Director: Aleksey Batalov | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina, Elena Ponsova
Votes: 334
90. Foma Gordeev (1959)
94 min | Drama
Thomas Gordeiev is the son of a rich grain merchant. As a child and a young man, he lives a protected life, embellished by the privileges of his social class. Affected very early on by the ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Georgi Yepifantsev, Sergei Lukyanov, Pavel Tarasov, Alla Labetskaya
Votes: 50
91. The Lady with the Dog (1960)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
Director: Iosif Kheifits | Stars: Iya Savvina, Aleksey Batalov, Nina Alisova, Dmitriy Zebrov
Votes: 1,126
92. Gyvieji didvyriai (1959)
80 min | Drama
Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.
Directors: Balys Bratkauskas, Marijonas Giedrys, Vytautas Zalakevicius, Arunas Zebriunas | Stars: Bronius Babkauskas, Balys Bratkauskas, Vytautas Buizys, Eduardas Cepulis
Votes: 82
93. Nine Days of One Year (1962)
111 min | Drama
Nuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov
Votes: 1,265
94. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,955
95. 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: 10,678
96. Hamlet (1964)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuriy Tolubeev
Votes: 2,974
97. Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
74 min | Comedy, Family
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova, Ilya Rutberg, Lidiya Smirnova
Votes: 3,472
98. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 8,459
99. The First Teacher (1965)
102 min | Drama
Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Bolot Beyshenaliev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev, Darkul Kuyukova
Votes: 615
100. Father of a Soldier (1964)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War
An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
Director: Rezo Chkheidze | Stars: Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev
Votes: 4,570
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