TOP 55 Soviet/Russian Movies
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- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovValentina VladimirovaMikhail DadykoA white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.Dog drama. A Scottish Setter in search of its lost owner. Heartbreaking story that makes everyone cry.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA 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.War drama. First collaboration between an Oscar-winning director and a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Russian soldier has to go through hell during the Great Patriotic War.
- DirectorVladimir ChebotaryovGennadiy KazanskiyStarsVladimir KorenevAnastasiya VertinskayaMikhail KozakovPeople living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiandr can live underwater. This gives him certain advantages, but creates a lot of problems.Science fiction/romance. A scientist awarded his dying son with shark gills, thus turning him into amphibian man. Visually stunning film about ocean, love and greed.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.Drama. Arguably the best adaptation of several Chekhov's stories mixed into one beautiful, melancholic film.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.Drama. Despite only the first half of the book was screened, it is still by far the best adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinAt the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.Red Western. A soldier with a kettle is stuck in the middle of Asian desert. He is ordered to protect a harem from the leader of local bandits. Quotable to extreme.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.History/biopic/drama. Medieval Russia during a troubled period trough the eyes of the greatest icon painter. Violent and historically inaccurate, but still very authentic.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring 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.History/biopic/drama. The most famous and - no doubt - the best movie about the first Russian Tsar Ivan IV during his first 30 years of ruling.
- StarsStanislav LyubshinAlla DemidovaValentina TitovaThe title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.Spy movie. Russian spy moves up the career ladder in the heart of Nazi intelligence agency. Very smart and realistic spy film written/directed by WWII veterans.
- StarsVasiliy LivanovVitali SolominRina ZelyonayaPicking up from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Acquaintance (1980) adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue as they oppose a fierce crime syndicate in one of their greatest challenges.Mystery. The famous Soviet set of films about Sherlock Holmes really starts off with this brilliant trilogy where the duo confronts Professor Moriarty.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsMikhail NozhkinNikolay OlyalinMikhail UlyanovThis five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.This 5-part war epic from a team of war veterans is among the best WWII movies ever created. It has everything: grand battles, political intrigues and personal dramas.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsPyotr GlebovElina BystritskayaZinaida KirienkoAn epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.Historical drama. Absolutely the best adaptation of Mikhail Sholokhov's Nobel Prize-winning novel about the lives of Don Cossacks during the 1910-1920s.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsNikita MikhalkovVitali SolominSergey ShakurovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.Historical drama. A breathtaking epic about a small Siberian village from the start of the XX century till the 1970s.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.Drama. A story of a middle-aged woman who served as a flying ace during the war. Now a head teacher, a town's deputy and a well-regarded person, she doesn't seem to find her place in life, dreaming of planes and the man she lost.
- StarsIgor VolkovOleg MenshikovNatalya SaykoA biographical epic about the legendary Russian scientist, historian, linguist and writer Mikhailo Lomonosov and his lifelong search for truth.Biopic/history. Physicist, chemist, astronomer, geographer, geologist, inventor, writer, founder of Moscow State University, an ardent patriot - that's all Lomonosov. Long, hard way from a peasant boy to one of the greatest minds.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovSergey PodgornyySergei IvanovDuring World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.War drama. During the Great Patriotic War a singing squadron of young pilots fight under the command of war veterans, play music, fall in love and die. Based on true events.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving 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.Cult Russian action film full of wit, a sequel to Brother where the action moves from S. Petersburg to the criminal world of Chicago. Russian ex-soldier is here seeking justice.
- DirectorYuri YegorovStarsNonna MordyukovaMikhail UlyanovDaniil IlchenkoA simple story about a young widow who becomes the head of the local collective farm and tries to change everything, including her personal life.Romance/drama. Heartbreaking story that takes place shortly after the war. A lonely widow is chosen the head of kolkhoz (collective farming). And immediately falls in love.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina MaksimovaYoung Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.War drama/road movie. War in this film is very subtle, yet it follows every step of the main hero who is returning home to see his mother. Written/directed by war veterans.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsVladimir ZeldinTatyana DrubichAleksandr KaydanovskiyA psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.Mystery/thriller. Arguably the best adaptation of the original Agatha Christie novel, full of thrills and suspense.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsElena SoloveyRodion NakhapetovAleksandr KalyaginA fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.Romance/drama. 1918. A team of filmmakers troubled by Reds and Whites is trying to finish a very bad film. Inspired by Vera Kholodnaya, early star of Russian cinema.
- DirectorKirill LavrovIvan PyrevMikhail UlyanovStarsMikhail UlyanovLionella PyryevaKirill LavrovThree brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.Drama. The last - and greatest novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky made into a powerful, if a bit overdramatic movie.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsAndrey MartynovIrina DolganovaElena DrapekoDuring World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.War drama. Several young girls headed by an old soldier have to fight off Nazis. One of the most beloved war movies written and directed by two war veterans.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsIvan PereverzevBoris LivanovSergey BondarchukHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.Biopic/history/war. Political intrigues and grand sea battles in this historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander Fyodor Ushakov, defender of Crimea and Napoleon's nightmare. Followed by Attack from the Sea.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsMaksim MunzukYuriy SolominMikhail BychkovThe Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.Adventure. Kurosawa's Oscar-winning epic based on the diaries of Vladimir Arsenyev, a Russian explorer of the Far East, and his encounter with a Nanai hunter.
- StarsSergey ZhigunovDmitriy KharatyanVladimir ShevelkovThree naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...Adventure/history/romance. Russian Three Musketeers with a woman's touch. Three naval cadets (Gardes-Marine) serve Queen Elizabeth, test their honour and friendship.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring 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.Action/war. The most realistic film about the Chechen War shot by the Afghanistan war veteran, honest and brutal, unlike the made-for-oscars Prisoner of the Mountains.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.An autobiographical art film about Tarkovsky's dreamlike past and present. Good luck figuring it out.
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsBoris AndreyevShukur BurkhanovAndrei AbrikosovA mythical knight goes on an epic journey and fights barbarian hordes in an ancient land.Folk tale. The original movie is an authentic adaptation of Russian legends about a mighty knight who fights off Tatars during their intervention. Avoid other versions!
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.War and peace. This expensive Oscar-winning adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's famous novel needs no introduction.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in RussiaRed Western/civil war drama. Suspenseful, yet poetic film about true friendship that takes place during unfriendly times, when the Civil War only seemed to have ended.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.History/war. Historical epic that depicts one of the famous battles of Russian history - the Battle on the Ice.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Sci-fi/drama. A spiritual journey of three people through the post-apocalyptic Zone.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai TsereteliEngineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.Science fiction/silent. One of the pioneers of space voyages (to Mars) and a great depiction of futuristic dystopian society. Inspired Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
- StarsVladimir VysotskiyVladimir KonkinSergey YurskiyIn post-war Moscow, two dissimilar police detectives follow the trail of a ruthless gang.Crime/mystery. Cult Soviet mini-series about two detectives who haunt an elusive crime band in the post-war Moscow.
- DirectorAleksandr MuratovStarsOleg MenshikovVladimir GostyukhinLyudmila NilskayaCaptain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.War/historical drama. Durig the WWI a Russian naval officer, a true man of honour, is doing everything to mobilise his crew already corrupted by defeatism and Bolshevism.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaIgor TalankinStarsBoris BarkhatovSergey BondarchukIrina SkobtsevaThe mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.Drama. A touching story about a 5-year-old boy and his new father who turns into Seryozha's best friend.
- StarsVladislav GalkinKirill PletnyovAleksey BardukovTwo young intelligence officers headed by a tough captain are assigned various secret missions on the Nazi-occupied territories.Spy/war movie. Excellent action-packed mini-series about a team of Soviet intelligence officers who are tasked with special operations missions against Nazis.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsLeonid FilatovOleg BasilashviliVladimir MenshovGoing on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.Mystery/thriller. Russian Twin Peaks. An ordinary man is trapped in a far-away town where nothing makes sense. Deciphering the movie is a mystery of its own.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsValentin PopovNikolay GubenkoStanislav LyubshinFollowing three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.Drama. A Soviet New Wave film about the daily life of three friends in Moscow at the start of the 1960s. One of the symbols of the Khrushchev's thaw, full of signs of its time.
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara MyasnikovaThis 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 decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.Civil war drama. Cult movie about the fight between the Red commander from a peasants and the White army in 1919. Easy on ideology, hard on action and humour.
- DirectorVasiliy ShukshinStarsLidiya Fedoseeva-ShukshinaVasiliy ShukshinIvan RyzhovA former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.Drama. The pick of Shukshin's career. A former criminal is trying to start a new life with a new woman, but his soul can't rest and his past doesn't let him go.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.War drama/romance. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival. A girl waiting for her fiance who disappeared at war.
- DirectorKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey GlazyrinA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.Horror film. Officially the only horror ever filmed in the USSR adapted from a classical fairy tale by N.V. Gogol.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.Anti-war drama. Russian soldier and Finnish sniper meet at the house of a Saami woman. They don't understand nor trust each other, but they must learn to live together.
- DirectorYevgeni KarelovStarsOleg YankovskiyRolan BykovVladimir VysotskiyTwo soldiers become best friends during the Civil War in Russia in the 1920's.Civil war drama. A rare film that shows both sides objectively. The fates of three people - two very different Red Army soldiers and a White officer - during the last days of war.
- StarsYuriy SolominVladislav StrzhelchikVladimir KozelDuring the civil war Captain Pavel Koltsov, a Red Army secret agent, is sent on a mission to the White Army headquarters.Spy movie. Another film about the Russian Civil War that shows both Reds and Whites as normal people. Based on the memoirs by Pavel Makarov - a nobleman turned a Red spy.
- StarsStepan StarchikovBoris NevzorovAleksandr FatyushinHistorical epic that takes place during the times of Peter the Great. It shows the changes brought to Russia through the fates of three different people.Historical drama. Young Peter the Great in search of talents as he is building the Russian fleet from scratch.
- DirectorAleksandr RouStarsOlga YukinaTatyana YukinaTatyana BaryshevaOlya and Yalo save the people of the looking glass from lies.Fantasy. A girl and her reflection step into a bizarre land of crooked mirrors ruled by an idiot king and his evil ministers. Due to the amazing resemblance to Boris Yeltsin and his "seven bankers" the movie title turned into an idiom during the 1990s.
- StarsGabriella TkachAleksandr DomogarovRafael KotanjyanFrance during the times of Henry III. Religious wars and political intrigues mixed with the tragic love story between Count Louis de Bussy and Countess Diana de Monsoreau.Historical drama. Acclaimed TV series, one of the best Dumas adaptations close to the text and to the epoch.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsVasiliy ShukshinVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukJuly 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.War drama. Another Bondarchuk-Sholokhov collaboration, another film about the fates of people during the war. Half of the cast - including Bondarchuk himself - were there.
- DirectorVladimir VengerovStarsGeorgiy YumatovAleksandr DemyanenkoTamara SyominaA Soviet journalist receives an order - to go to a provincial town and write an article about a "leader of communist labor". Soon it turns out that this guy is not just a 'leader of communist labor' but an ordinary crook. Hard dilemma for a Soviet reporter - he MUST write about how good and wonderful this guy is. Otherwise he has problems with his editor in chief and local communist administration.Drama/thriller. A young journalist arrives to a far-away Siberian village to write a glorifying story about one of the drivers, but soon reveals it's a conspiracy.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsOleg TabakovYuriy BogatyryovElena SoloveySt. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.Drama. Several chapters from Ivan Goncharov's novel make for a lighthearted movie about a goofy, loveable nobleman who doesn't fit with the society and thus... sleeps.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana SamoylovaVasiliy LivanovFour geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.Adventure/drama. A tragic story about a group of geologists lost in Siberian woods. What makes it a true masterpiece is the phenomenal camera work by Sergey Urusevsky.
- StarsAleksey SerebryakovDmitriy PevtsovOlga DrozdovaDetective Sergei Chelishchev leaves the police to find the real murderer of his parents. Everything changes when he meets his long-lost friend, a war veteran who joined local mafia following the fall of the Soviet Union.Cult Russian noir mini-series about an investigator turned a gangster during the fall of Communism. An authentic portrait of post-Soviet mafia, a tale of revenge, love and friendship. Heads above the rest of the entries and other crime movies that followed.