Most Popular Josef Stalin Movies and TV Shows
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1. Utomlennye solntsem (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, History, War
In the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin's repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life's downfall is already running.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 13,948 | Gross: $2.62M
2. Archangel (2005 TV Movie)
R | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A British college professor, working in Russia, investigates certain mysteries surrounding the life and death of Joseph Stalin.
Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Daniel Craig, Yekaterina Rednikova, Gabriel Macht, Lev Prygunov
Votes: 5,099
3. Jian guo da ye (2009)
138 min | Drama, History, War
Inspired by true events, Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Directors: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang | Stars: Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu, Jin Liu
Votes: 2,973
4. Amen. (2002)
132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 13,247 | Gross: $0.27M
5. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
98 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Votes: 6,571
6. W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971)
18+ | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
Votes: 4,409
7. Khrustalyov, mashinu! (1998)
147 min | Comedy, Drama
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementev, Aleksandr Bashirov
Votes: 1,476
8. Nunta muta (2008)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
Director: Horatiu Malaele | Stars: Meda Andreea Victor, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Teodosiu, Alexandru Bindea
Votes: 5,342
9. The Inner Circle (1991)
137 min | Biography, Drama, History
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Bob Hoskins, Aleksandr Zbruev
Votes: 1,874 | Gross: $0.58M
10. 1920 Bitwa Warszawska (2011)
115 min | Drama, History, Musical
Different strata of Polish society oppose communist aggression from Soviet Russia. Love lives on a par with war.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Natasza Urbanska, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Bonczak
Votes: 1,742
11. Robert Reborn (2019)
85 min | Horror
In 1951 USSR, infamous killer doll Robert battles Stalin's henchmen on board a plane.
Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Dennis Farrin, Lee Bane, John R. Walker, David Lenik
Votes: 317
12. Apocalypse: Staline (2015)
157 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand
Votes: 747
13. Dreszcze (1981)
106 min | Drama, History
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
Director: Wojciech Marczewski | Stars: Tomasz Hudziec, Teresa Marczewska, Marek Kondrat, Zdzislaw Wardejn
Votes: 351
14. Nancy Astor (1982)
55 min | Biography, Drama
Virginia-born Lady Astor is the first woman to sit in Parliament. Her outspokenness in unpopular causes leaves her open to heartbreak, public and private.
Stars: Lisa Harrow, Lise Hilboldt, James Fox, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 42
15. 1. April 2000 (1952)
105 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Waltraut Haas, Judith Holzmeister
Votes: 190
16. Karla (1965)
128 min | Drama, Romance
East German romance about a non conformist young school teacher and a disenchanted journalist turned fisherman.
Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Jutta Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter Pleßow, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Inge Keller
Votes: 135
17. Under Jakob's Ladder (2011)
103 min | Drama, War
Jakob, a former teacher who lost his job due to the new Communist system, can only stand by and watch as the world around him slowly disintegrates, and fear and suspicion rule the day. Like... See full summary »
Director: Mann Munoz | Stars: Jeff Stewart, Christopher Elliott, Sal Rendino, Quentin McCuiston
Votes: 43
18. Deti Arbata (2004– )
705 min | Drama, Romance, War
Based on the trilogy of books by Anatoly Rybakov: "Deti Arbata", "Strakh", and "Prach I Pepel". The events circle the 1930's to 1940's. The film leads the viewer into the Kremlin offices, ... See full summary »
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Evgeniya Simonova, Maksim Sukhanov
Votes: 210
19. Cwal (1996)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. In spite of harsh Stalinist times, they are both fascinated by horses.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Maja Komorowska, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Karolina Wajda, Piotr Adamczyk
Votes: 268
20. Shtrafbat (2004)
550 min | Action, Drama, War
The authors of the television series studied archival materials and military chronicles. The last series ends with a demonstration of the list of penalty parts, which from 1942 to 1945 fought on the Soviet fronts.
Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Yuriy Stepanov, Aleksandr Chernyavskiy, Aleksandr Bashirov
Votes: 1,264
21. Syn ottsa narodov (2013)
53 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the story about the son of one of the greatest tyrants of the Twentieth Century- Joseph Stalin's flesh and blood, Vasily.
Stars: Gela Meskhi, Vasiliy Prokopev, Anatoliy Dzivaev, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 75
22. Ich war neunzehn (1968)
115 min | Biography, Drama, War
April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was eight, he is confronted ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov, Aleksey Eybozhenko, Dieter Mann
Votes: 824
23. Red Monarch (1983 TV Movie)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Carroll Baker, Virginia Balfour, Colin Blakely, Susan Carpenter
Votes: 208
24. Testimony (1987)
157 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the great Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith
Votes: 227
25. Le tombeau d'Alexandre (1993)
120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova, Viktor Dyomin
Votes: 592
26. In Europa (2007–2020)
40 min | Documentary, History, War
Writer Geert Mak travels around Europe to visit the places where history was made. He speaks with eye witnesses, relatives and experts. One hundred years of European history in 35 episodes.
Stars: Geert Mak, Richard Hufschmid, Georg von Hohenberg, Maarten Bakker
Votes: 140
27. De rode ziel (2017)
90 min | Documentary
The Red Soul lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions. In a country where hardly any family escaped the hunger, fear and violence resulting from ... See full summary »
Director: Jessica Gorter
Votes: 49
28. Living Colour: Cult of Personality (1988 Video)
4 min | Short, Music
The music video for Living Colour's "Cult of Personality."
Director: Drew Carolan | Stars: Living Colour, Will Calhoun, Corey Glover, John F. Kennedy
Votes: 18
29. Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994)
106 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilin, Valeriy Zolotukhin
Votes: 499
30. Tanets s sablyami (2019)
93 min | Biography, Drama
Cold autumn of 1942. Second year of war. Former Molotov city, which was renamed after the war to Perm. The Leningrad Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Kirov is evacuated here and ... See full summary »
Director: Yusup Razykov | Stars: Ambartsum Kabanyan, Aleksandr Ilin, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Veronika Kuznetsova
Votes: 33
31. V kruge pervom (2006– )
440 min | Drama
"V kruge pervom" is a ten-episode TV-series based on the autobiographical book 'The First Circle' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Film is set in 1949-1950, in Moscow and in a prison-laboratory ... See full summary »
Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Sergey Karyakin, Aleksey Kolubkov
Votes: 269
32. Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
105 min | Drama, History
Moscow, 1952. Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to cure Stanlin himself. She needs to keep the secret at all costs and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple with Vassilli tumbles.
Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Edouard Baer, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 440
33. The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Flora Litvinova, Graham Haley
Votes: 117
34. Brigands, chapitre VII (1996)
129 min | Comedy, Drama
King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Amiran Amiranashvili, Davit Gogibedashvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Nino Orjonikidze
Votes: 297
35. Stalin (1990– )
Biography, History
The story of Stalin's life and terrible career, told mainly in interviews with survivors of his terror.
Stars: Ian Holm, Yuri Aichewald, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Valentin Astrov
Votes: 26
36. Napló apámnak, anyámnak (1990)
119 min | Biography, Drama
Direct follow-up to "Diary for my lovers". Juli and the people who she knew throughout her life have to face the events of the 1956 failed revolution in Hungary.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Jan Nowicki, Mari Töröcsik, Ildikó Bánsági
Votes: 93
37. Khachaturian (2003)
83 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Director: Peter Rosen | Stars: Eric Bogosian, Aram Khachaturyan
Votes: 43
38. Petya po doroge v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe (2009)
97 min | Drama
In the small town of Kandalaksha, Petya lives out a fantasy life as a traffic cop. He has a holster, a wooden gun, and the locals humor him by following his "orders." When a convict escapes... See full summary »
Director: Nikolay Dostal | Stars: Egor Pavlov, Aleksandr Korshunov, Roman Madyanov, Svetlana Timofeyeva-Letunovskaya
Votes: 165
39. Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989)
88 min | Drama, History
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Director: Yuriy Kara | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 168
40. The Last Days of World War II (1995 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
The end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.
Stars: Bill Ratner, Konstantin Akinsha, Kenneth Alford, Tom Allen
Votes: 78
41. Oborona Tsaritsyna. 1 seriya: Pokhod Voroshilova (1942)
95 min | Drama, War
Historical film about the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.
Directors: Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Mikhail Zharov, Varvara Myasnikova
Votes: 30
42. Stalingradskaya bitva II (1949)
94 min | War, Drama
A costly blockbuster with a large cast, made after World War II to celebrate the decisive role of Stalin's leadership in the victory over the Nazis at Stalingrad.
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Aleksei Dikij, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikheil Kvarelashvili, Yuriy Tolubeev
Votes: 68
43. Esli vrag ne sdayotsya... (1983)
80 min | Action, Drama, War
The film recreated the events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. The Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy battle was a brilliantly conducted operation by the Soviet General Staff, with which ... See full summary »
Director: Timofei Levchuk | Stars: Yakov Tripolsky, Mikhail Ulyanov, Vladimir Menshov, Anatoli Pazenko
Votes: 45
44. Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1995 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
The events and circumstances leading to the U.S. decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of World War II.
Star: Ian Holm
Votes: 25
45. Battle for Korea (2001 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
A detailed military history of the Korean War and preceding events, from 1945 to 1953.
Star: Gavin MacFadyen
Votes: 20
46. People of Russia (1942)
10 min | Documentary, Short
The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) is the largest geographically unbroken political unit in the world, covering one-sixth of the world's land mass. The people are a determined ... See full summary »
Director: James A. FitzPatrick | Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 37
47. Byl jazz (1983)
96 min | Drama, Music
Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc... See full summary »
Director: Feliks Falk | Stars: Bozena Adamek, Michal Bajor, Andrzej Grabarczyk, Kazimierz Wysota
Votes: 31
48. Slike iz sjecanja (1990)
12 min | Animation, Short, War
With fast changing visuals and moods, an artist presents his family's twentieth-century story. Although Stalin's sour image is in the background, a boy's childhood is a dreamlike world of ... See full summary »
Director: Nedeljko Dragic
49. Soviets (1991– )
Documentary
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
Votes: 14
50. Jnjevatz demqer (1987)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Documents the stories of victims of the Stalin era persecutions through the testimony of one 90 year old survivor.
Director: Mikhail Vartanov
Votes: 9