Chechen conflict

by antonivakin | created - 27 Sep 2016 | updated - 10 Oct 2018 | Public

First Chechen War and Second Chechen War, Chechen terrorism, post war syndrome, life in destroyed region.

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1. Blokpost (1999)

85 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Russian platoon sweeps a village, avoiding two mishaps. At a remote check-post they play cards with bullets as stakes. A village girl pimps her deaf-mute sister for bullets. A shifty enemy sniper keeps strafing, causing a tragedy.

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Roman Romantsov, Kirill Ulyanov, Ivan Kuzmin, Denis Kirillov

Votes: 865

2. Home (2012)

26 min | Documentary, Short, History

Man perseveres amid the violence in Grozny. Impressively framed, factually based story about the will to survive. Beautiful, contained, documentary-style drama in Chechnya. An old man tries... See full summary »

Director: Ruslan Magomadov

3. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Snipers ordered to protect a gas pipeline from terrorists suspect a security breach when they're targeted by a ghost shooter who knows their location.

Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Chad Michael Collins, Billy Zane, Dennis Haysbert, Nick Gomez

Votes: 5,262

4. Act of Valor (2012)

R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

40 Metascore

An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.

Directors: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh | Stars: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Rorke Denver

Votes: 71,808 | Gross: $70.01M

5. Moy svodnyy brat Frankenshteyn (2004)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama

A touching story of a soldier who doesn't understand how to live a peaceful life. Kinotaur 2004 Grand-prix and Golden Eagle Award for Best Director to Valery Todorovsky. 2004

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Leonid Yarmolnik, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Elena Yakovleva, Artyom Shalimov

Votes: 350

6. Vasha (2009)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur - a Chechen man, hell bent on revenging ... See full summary »

Director: Hannu Salonen | Stars: Mehmet Kurtulus, Mart Müürisepp, Tim Seyfi, Adnan Maral

Votes: 190

7. Nezhnyy vozrast (2000)

130 min | Drama

Ivan is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war.

Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Dmitriy Solovev, Yelena Kamayeva, George Anton, Nikolay Chindyaykin

Votes: 528

8. Brother (1997)

99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova

Votes: 24,549

9. Brat 2 (2000)

122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Arriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Irina Saltykova

Votes: 17,348

10. The Great Man (2014)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama

73 Metascore

Markov and Hamilton are fellow French Legionnaire's at the end of their posting in Afghanistan. An ambush results in an abdication of duty-despite it stemming from an act of fidelity. ... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Leonor | Stars: Jérémie Renier, Surho Sugaipov, Ramzan Idiev, Daniel Fassi

Votes: 160 | Gross: $0.01M

11. Desantura (2009)

51 min | Action, History, War

Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Chechnya are our heroes where others cannot pass. The war has reached the very borders of Russia. The former republics of the Union are on fire. But there are landing... See full summary »

Stars: Yakov Efimov, Orgil Makhaan, Yan Tsapnik, Nikita Melchikov

Votes: 84

12. Okkupert (2015–2020)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Thriller

In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union because the newly-elected environmentally-friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.

Stars: Henrik Mestad, Ane Dahl Torp, Eldar Skar, Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Votes: 9,832

13. Target of Opportunity (2005)

R | 88 min | Action, Drama

Two former CIA operatives must test the bonds of their childhood friendship when one of them is accused of stealing state secrets and jailed in a foreign prison.

Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Dean Cochran, Todd Jensen, Nadia Konakchieva, Bashar Rahal

Votes: 244

14. The Sum of All Fears (2002)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

45 Metascore

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.

Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt

Votes: 124,455 | Gross: $118.91M

15. The Peacemaker (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

43 Metascore

A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev

Votes: 62,450 | Gross: $41.26M

16. Extraction (II) (2013)

Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Thriller

A US Black Ops team is sent to a Chechen underground prison to get 'the brain of terrorism' for intel. It doesn't go as planned.

Director: Tony Giglio | Stars: Jon Foo, Falk Hentschel, Vinnie Jones, Joanne Kelly

Votes: 1,264

17. A Most Wanted Man (2014)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

73 Metascore

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.

Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl, Robin Wright

Votes: 80,204 | Gross: $17.24M

18. Black Sea Raid (2000)

R | 82 min | Action, Drama

Renegade CIA agent Rick Halsey assembles a team of special forces operatives to rescue a Russian nuclear scientist held in a fortified mental institution behind enemy lines.

Director: Jenõ Hódi | Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Marina Mogilevskaya, Aleksei Begas, Michail Bekoev

Votes: 124

19. The Lobster's Cry (2012)

30 min | Short, Drama, War

A Russian soldier returns from war service in Chechnya. Though greeted warmly by his family, he seems unable to adjust.

Director: Nicolas Guiot | Stars: Jana Bittnerová, Tatiana Gontcharova, Anton Kouzemin, Miglen Mirtchev

Votes: 81

20. Ulvenatten (2008)

90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Under a live TV debate a group of Chechen takes several hostages, and demands that it is shown live across the world. We follow the dram from 22 at night to 08 next morning.

Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Anneke von der Lippe, Dejan Cukic, Jørgen Langhelle, Christian Skolmen

Votes: 624

21. The Fourth State (2012)

115 min | Thriller

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Kasia Smutniak, Max Riemelt, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 2,436

22. The November Man (2014)

R | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

38 Metascore

An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high-level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich

Votes: 70,569 | Gross: $24.98M

23. Rusuli samkudhedi (2007)

121 min | Thriller

A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of ... See full summary »

Director: Aleko Tsabadze | Stars: Artyom Tkachenko, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Pyotr Mironov, Mikhail Zhonin

Votes: 187

24. Proof of Life (2000)

R | 135 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

45 Metascore

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed

Votes: 58,917 | Gross: $32.60M

25. Beyond Borders (2003)

R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

32 Metascore

The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache, Teri Polo

Votes: 29,058 | Gross: $4.43M

26. The Search (III) (2014)

135 min | Drama, War

37 Metascore

A French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev

Votes: 2,999

27. Spetsnaz II (2003)

208 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Another dangerous missions of Russian special forces.

Stars: Aleksandr Baluev, Igor Botvin, Valentin Bukin, Vladislav Galkin

Votes: 99

28. 12 (2007)

PG-13 | 159 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

72 Metascore

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev, Nikita Mikhalkov

Votes: 15,365 | Gross: $0.13M

33. Antikiller 2: Antiterror (2003)

89 min | Action, Crime

Colonel Fox is in charge of a counter terrorism group that will now have the complicated mission to help the police to prevent a dangerous Chechen terrorist organization that wants to free ... See full summary »

Director: Egor Konchalovskiy | Stars: Gosha Kutsenko, Lyubov Tolkalina, Aleksey Serebryakov, Sergey Veksler

Votes: 744

34. House of Fools (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

52 Metascore

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Evgeniy Mironov

Votes: 2,901 | Gross: $0.06M

35. Law of the Lawless (2002)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Brigada is a group of four friends, who grew up together and formed a most powerful gang in Moscow. Initially they made business together, but an unplanned murder transformed them. Now their lives are at risk and there is no way back.

Stars: Sergey Bezrukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Pavel Maykov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Votes: 11,621

36. Zhivoy (2006)

98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind.

Director: Aleksandr Veledinskiy | Stars: Olga Arntgolts, Aleksey Chadov, Andrey Chadov, Vladimir Epifantsev

Votes: 818

37. Grozovye vorota (2006)

208 min | Drama, War

Based on the book "Company" by writer Aleksander Tamonikov. Russian special forces vs Chechen terrorists.

Stars: Mikhail Porechenkov, Vyacheslav Razbegaev, Anatoliy Pashinin, Andrey Krasko

Votes: 1,052

39. Chistilishche (1998 TV Movie)

120 min | War

A military drama based on true events - a battle on the First Chechen War during the winter of 1994-1995. A story covers attacking a local hospital where Russian military forces placed. The film is full of violence scenes.

Director: Aleksandr Nevzorov | Stars: Aleksandr Baranov, Sergey Bogdanov, Zed Korshoonoff, Aleksandr Makarov

Votes: 864

40. War (2002)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Sergey Bodrov

Votes: 5,414

41. Marsh-brosok (2003)

116 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A young man who was raised in a children's home wants to go to the Chechen war. He believes in his heart that he belongs there and that in those difficult conditions he will make himself ... See full summary »

Director: Nikolai Stambula | Stars: Vladimir Volga, Olga Chursina, Evgeniy Kosyrev, Fyodor Smirnov

Votes: 207

42. Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)

R | 99 min | Drama, War

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Bodrov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva, Jemal Sikharulidze

Votes: 4,754 | Gross: $0.66M

44. Plennyy (2008)

Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Drama

The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war.

Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vyacheslav Krikunov, Pyotr Logachev, Irakli Mskhalaia, Yuliya Peresild

Votes: 392

46. Uboynaya sila (2000–2005)

Action, Comedy, Crime

Cops from the homicide department are trying to take criminals off the streets, while not forgetting about the simple joys of life.

Stars: Andrey Fedortsov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Koshonin, Aleksandr Tyutryumov

Votes: 715

47. Lichnyy nomer (2004)

100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A terrorist organization know as "Ansar Allah" is preparing to turn the city of Rome into a City of Dead. But the heroism of Smolin, professionalism of Catherine Stone, help of Umar (from ... See full summary »

Director: Evgeniy Lavrentev | Stars: Aleksey Makarov, Louise Lombard, Vyacheslav Razbegaev, Viktor Verzhbitskiy

Votes: 639

49. Spetsnaz (2002– )

150 min | Action, War

A team of Russian special forces fights terrorists in Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksandr Baluev, Vladislav Galkin, Igor Lifanov

Votes: 311

50. Alexandra (2007)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War

85 Metascore

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov

Votes: 2,745

51. Strelok (2012– )

Action

Andrei Makarov is back. He will have to expose the conspiracy of foreign intelligence services, bring to light the big corrupt officials and save their loved ones. This time he will be ... See full summary »

Stars: Armen Greyg, Adam Ayvazyan, Evgeniy Berezovskiy, Viktor Falaleev

Votes: 13

52. Strelok-2 (2014– )

Action

Andrey Makarov is an intelligence officer. He is part of a team hunting down terrorists from the east. Andrei is hard of hearing after an accident that happened to him in childhood, but he ... See full summary »

Stars: Mikayel Abazyan, David Katsarava, Stanislav Erklievskiy, Yuliya Borisova

54. Strike Back (2010–2020)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.

Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes, Daniel MacPherson

Votes: 33,511

56. Zhazhda (2013)

102 min | Drama, War

Young Chechnya war veteran alienates himself from his friends and family because of his burned face. When he has to help find his war-time friend, he manages to get back to life again.

Director: Dmitriy Tyurin | Stars: Mikhail Grubov, Sergey Lavygin, Nikita Ostrikov, Aleksey Guskov

Votes: 182

57. Doktor (2014)

25 min | Short, Drama, War

The First Chechen War. Civilians, both Russian and Chechen have fled from the city. Mikhail, a surgeon, is one of the few Russians, who stayed in Grozny. Mikhail's friend, a Chechen, ... See full summary »

Director: Anna Goroyan | Star: Kirill Käro

Votes: 10

58. Marines (2003 Video)

R | 90 min | Action, War

Enlisting the aid of a group of Russian soldiers, a marine colonel must capture a Russian terrorist.

Director: Mark Roper | Stars: Brant Cotton, Frank Sallo, Lawrence Monoson, Andrew Bowen

Votes: 409

61. Wolves of Chechnya (2004)

20 min | Short, Drama, War

A Russian soldier goes AWOL in the Chechen wilderness.

Director: Gregory Cahill | Stars: Kevin Cirone, Jenny Grace, John Reilly Sackman, Nathan Hadlock

Votes: 12

62. Marsho (2003)

38 min | Short, War

Elder son lives family in the morning to join group of Chechen partisans in their patrol in mountains.

Director: Murad Mazayev | Stars: Natalia Goliashvili, Malika Gorgishvili, Adim Isaev, Nino Koberidze

64. Russkaya zhertva (2009)

95 min | War

It's the story of battle for height 776 on 29 February - 1 March 2000. A company of paratroopers of the 76th Airborne Division from Pskov was attacked by superior forces of Chechen ... See full summary »

Directors: Mikhail Dobrynin, Elena Lyapicheva, Irina Meletina | Stars: Evgeniy Berezovskiy, Viktor Falaleev, Konstantin Isaev, Aristarkh Livanov

Votes: 12

65. Proryv (2006)

84 min | Drama, War

Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains and accept uphill battle with no chance to survive. Based on Battle for Height 776.

Director: Vitaliy Lukin | Stars: Ildus Abrahmanov, Andrey Abramov, Andrei Bogdanov, Anton Borisov

Votes: 82

67. Dzhonik (2006– )

90 min | Drama

Young woman leaves work and two children and goes to Caucasus to meet her husband, who is serving in Chechnya.

Stars: Ilya Bogatyryov, Andrey Egorov, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Yuriy Kruglov

68. Sadovnik (2012)

19 min | Short, Drama, War

The story tells how contemporary war mutilates souls of young men and breaks their lives.

Director: Andrey Zozulya | Stars: Vladislav Abashin, Sultan Islamov, Denis Kulyutnikov, Stanislav Salnikov

70. Osobiy sluchay (2000– )

199 min | Action

American journalist Diana and her Russian operator Nikolay go to Chechnya for an interview with Chechen warlord Amir, but suspicious rebels' leader takes them as hostages.

Stars: Dmitriy Shevchenko, Irina Malysheva, Igor Guzun, Olga Mashnaya

71. Katarsis (2013)

107 min | Drama, Thriller, War

Russian special task force group is ambushed in North Caucasus. Survived soldier Gleb, his commander and their captive find asylum in forsaken house, but it turns out to be a mysterious trap.

Director: Aleksandr Kondratenko | Stars: Timofey Budin, Artyom Denke, Yuriy Grigoryev, Aleksandr Kondratenko

72. The Grid (2004)

266 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell who's operating on a global level.

Stars: Jemma Redgrave, James Remar, Piter Marek, Silas Carson

Votes: 827

73. The Prisoner (III) (2012)

97 min | Drama, History, Thriller

An NGO nurse is captive in the southern mountains of Russia and she discovers the unusual culture of the mountaineers. Is she a prisoner of the mountains or of Love?

Director: Mohy Quandour | Stars: Julie Cox, Andrey Chernyshov, James Wallace, Said Dashuk-Nigmatulin

75. Prikaz 2. Ni shagu nazad (2015)

39 min | Short, War

Colonel of special forces receives a task to find a vicious criminal Dzibrail in mountains of North Caucasus. He suggests Major Frolov to head a new team.

Director: Yuriy Yermyakov | Stars: Igor Yermyakov, Dinar Faskhiyev, Suren Arutyunyan, Kirill Astafyev

76. NCIS: Los Angeles (2009–2023)
Episode: Zero Days (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While Eric and a buddy, Ira, play an online game, a sniper opens fire on Ira's pad, and thugs break in; the G team look into security involving Russia and Chechnyan separatists; the team safely work out everything. Kensi remains in trouble.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Barrett Foa

Votes: 306

77. Psy voyny (2010)

19 min | Short, War

Mother comes to Chechnya to take home her son, serving in army. But the day before her son has shown the white feather, and that has set his fellows against him.

Director: Yuriy Merzlyakov | Stars: Sergey Zaikin, Irina Ermolova, Andrey Kylosov, Valeriy Smirnov

78. Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt (2006 TV Movie)

95 min | Action

Retired Colonel Matveev takes on an unofficial assignment to revenge his friend's death and catch one of the most dangerous terrorists who managed to escape to America during a failed operation in Chechnya.

Director: Georgiy Gavrilov | Stars: Igor Kostolevskiy, Elena Korikova, Michael Pinkhas, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

Votes: 27

79. Berlin Station (2016–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Follows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.

Stars: Leland Orser, Michelle Forbes, Mina Tander, Rhys Ifans

Votes: 10,482

80. Crossing Lines (2013–2015)

TV-14 | 1,530 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A special crime unit investigates serialized crimes that cross over European borders, to hunt down criminals and bring them to justice.

Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Donald Sutherland, Lara Rossi, William Fichtner

Votes: 13,807

81. Tatort (1970– )
Episode: Kriegssplitter (2017)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Tobias Ineichen | Stars: Johanna Bantzer, Joel Basman, Brigitte Beyeler, Natalia Bobyleva

Votes: 73

83. Forgotten by God (2017)

TV-14 | 110 min | Drama, Family, War

The story of a Russian family living and dying through four wars: the Russian Civil War in 1920, the Great Patriotic War in 1942, the First Chechen War in 1996, and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine in 2017.

Director: Aleksey Muradov | Stars: Mikael Amirkhanov, Dmitriy Arbenin, Alina Babak, Dmitriy Bogdan

Votes: 31

84. Nashla kosa na kamen (2017)

80 min | Drama

The family has a wake for their youngest son, he died during the Chechen war. The elder brother Anton fulfills the last wish of the deceased. Meanwhile, Vika, who is in love with Anton, is raped, and her mother commits murder.

Director: Anya Krays | Stars: Kseniya Kutepova, Aleksey Solonchev, Rovert Vaab, Ekaterina Vinogradova

Votes: 58



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