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1. Mr. Jones (2019)
14A | 141 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 3,793
2. The Way Back (I) (2010)
14A | 133 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Dragos Bucur
Votes: 107,485 | Gross: $2.70M
3. The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
14A | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history.
Director: Breck Eisner | Stars: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Votes: 92,274 | Gross: $27.37M
4. 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
5. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
PG | 136 min | Documentary
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 6,046 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Balkanski spijun (1984)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
Directors: Dusan Kovacevic, Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic | Stars: Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Bora Todorovic, Mira Banjac, Sonja Savic
Votes: 10,103
7. The Iron Curtain (1948)
87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 731
8. Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio
Votes: 6,060 | Gross: $0.25M
9. Animal Farm
Drama | Announced
Feature film based on the novel by George Orwell.
Director: Andy Serkis
10. Chung Kuo - Cina (1972)
135 min | Documentary
A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, ... See full summary »
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Star: Giuseppe Rinaldi
Votes: 669
11. Shpion (2012)
108 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In the spring of 1941 German agent Wasser of the Abwehr holds an NKVD commissar hostage. Two soldiers, a boxer and a spy are the NKVD's only hope to rescue him.
Director: Aleksey Andrianov | Stars: Danila Kozlovsky, Fedor Bondarchuk, Anna Chipovskaya, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 1,149
12. World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (2008– )
300 min | Documentary, History, War
A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Bob Gunton, Paul Humpoletz, Samuel West
Votes: 456
13. Singularity (2010 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
A U.S. Marine captain unravels a mysterious conspiracy while investigating a time anomaly on a remote island in former Soviet Union.
Director: Michael McCormick | Stars: Nolan North, Steve Blum, Kari Wahlgren, Graham McTavish
Votes: 734
14. Venchaniye so smertyu (1992)
79 min | Drama, History
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Oleg Savkin, Heorhiy Morozyuk, Georgiy Drozd, Galina Sulima
Votes: 20
15. Zina (1985)
92 min | Biography, Drama
After Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and loses her mind.
Director: Ken McMullen | Stars: Rom Anderson, Ron Anderson, George Antoni, Micha Bergese
Votes: 68
16. Mama's Heart. Gongadze (2017)
100 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Most intimate, heartbreaking and inspiring confessions by and about Lesya Gongadze's life and her son's disappearance that prompted a revolution.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lesya Gongadze, Georgiy Gongadze, Lubomyr Husar, Tamila Alexanian
Votes: 510
17. A temetetlen halott (2004)
127 min | Drama, History
The life story of Imre Nagy is one of the defining stories of 20th century Hungarian history. He was the first communist leader to become the symbol of a national revolution, who, in ... See full summary »
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Jan Nowicki, György Cserhalmi, Marianna Moór, Lili Horváth
Votes: 338
18. The End of America (2008)
74 min | Documentary
"The End of America" details the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism. It's not a "lefty" taught-to-me, but rather a historical look at trends in once-functioning ... See full summary »
Directors: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg | Stars: David Antoon, Vincent Cannistraro, James Cullen, Amy Goodman
Votes: 763
19. History's Verdict (2013– )
Documentary, Biography, History
A group of history experts from London's King's College has created this documentary series that tries to assess the key political figures of WWII.
Star: Jonathan D. Mellor
Votes: 27
20. Women of the Gulag (2018)
53 min | Documentary
The film tells the story of the last known group of women who survived being held in the Soviet-era forced labor camps called Gulag. The Gulag was a brutal system of repression and terror ... See full summary »
Director: Marianna Yarovskaya
Votes: 41
21. Homo Sapiens 1900 (1998)
88 min | Documentary
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race. Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Jan Holmquist, Stephen Rappaport
Votes: 182 | Gross: $0.00M
22. Factory 293 (2014)
25 min | Short, Drama
A blizzard cuts the power to munitions Factory 293, prompting Comrade Grigori to send two of his female machinists into the cold to investigate.
Director: Roderick MacKay | Stars: Myles Pollard, Lizzie Schebesta, Ben O'Toole, Katya Shevtsov
Votes: 17
23. Holodomor: Voices of Survivors - Ukrainian Famine/Genocide (2015 TV Short)
30 min | Documentary, Short, History
The Richest Soil. The Best Harvest. The Biggest Lie. The Best Kept Secret. Millions Perished.
Director: Ariadna Ochrymovych
Votes: 5
24. Yo amo a Hitler (1984)
75 min | Comedy, History
A young German pacifist finds documents in an old castle that prove Hitler didn't kill himself in April 1945, but fled to Spain disguised as a monk, and now works as a comedian in a remote ... See full summary »
Director: Ismael González | Stars: Llàtzer Escarceller, Carole Kirkham, Emilio Linder, Paco Porras
Votes: 15
25. Stalin: Man of Steel (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Peter Adler, Alexander Berkel, Stefan Brauburger, Oliver Halmburger, Ralf Piechowiak | Stars: Edward Herrmann, David Brandenberger, Jonathan Brent, Adolf Hitler
26. Forest Brothers (2014)
82 min | Documentary
The Second World War is over. However, the partisans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, soon forgotten by the world, were still fighting a hopeless battle for their freedom. 4 surviving members tell their story.
Director: Peter Grimm | Stars: Juris Bergmanis, Antonija Brasla, Leon Garkalns, Biruta Rodovica
Votes: 6
27. Fatherland (2018)
15 min | Short
In 2016, on the 63rd anniversary of his death, Stalin's worshippers gather outside his birthplace in Georgia to demand his canonization as a saint. Then something uncanny happens.
Director: George Sikharulidze | Stars: Anzor Gvadzabia, Soso Lagidze, Beka Lemonjava
Votes: 16
28. Zashchitnik Sedov (1988)
42 min | Short, Drama
Director: Evgeniy Tsymbal | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Albina Matveyeva, Tamara Chernova, Tatyana Rogozina
Votes: 92
29. Once My Mother (2013)
75 min | Family, History, War
Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
Director: Sophia Turkiewicz | Stars: Zofia Wichlacz, Karolina Porcari, Wenanty Nosul, Artur Urbanski
Votes: 41
30. Enemy of the People (1998)
Documentary
The smallest of the Soviet republics, Armenia was a microcosm of the Great Terror that swept the entire USSR between the 1930s and Stalin's death in 1953. Finally, after a lifetime of ... See full summary »
Director: Zareh Tjeknavorian | Star: Eric Bogosian
31. Visoki napon (1981)
103 min | Drama, Romance
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. ... See full summary »
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Bozidarka Frajt, Vanja Drach, Milan Strljic, Ljubisa Samardzic
Votes: 60
32. 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
33. Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema (2013)
Documentary, Short, Biography
An inspiring portrait of Dovzhenko, one of the greatest film directors, known as Homer of Cinema.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Serhiy Trymbach, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Aleksandr Muratov
Votes: 75
34. Khrustalev (2017)
Short, Drama
A soviet spy is coerced into assassinating Stalin and must choose between country and family.
Director: Reuben Esson-Parkes | Stars: Gediminas Adomaitis, Anna Danshina, Stacha Hicks, Joseph Kane
35. Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii (1990)
90 min | Documentary
This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexey Rybin
Votes: 49
36. A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008)
105 min | Documentary
Fate granted Anna Akhmatova immense poetic talent, beauty, fame and a brilliant generation. Then came the executions of her loved ones, hunger, wars, revolutions, Soviet terror, isolation, ... See full summary »
Director: Helga Landauer | Star: Anatoly Naiman
Votes: 6
37. In sat la noi (1951)
66 min | Drama, History, Music
The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
Directors: Jean Georgescu, Victor Iliu | Stars: Constantin Ramadan, George Manu, Nana Ianculescu, Aurel Ghitescu
Votes: 23
38. Three Stories of Galicia (2010)
86 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A Jewish man whose family chose to save the life of its worst enemy. A Ukrainian woman who endured the theft of her children to save her country. A Polish priest who risked everything to ... See full summary »
Directors: Sarah Farhat, Olha Onyshko | Star: Ada Rogovtseva
Votes: 30
39. Lenin v 2012 godu (2013)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The spirit of V.I. Lenin talks through a sculpture of him in Donetsk.
Director: Nikolay Yeriomin | Stars: Yaroslav Kozak, Mikhail Bondarev, Leonid Syplyi, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 16
40. Defilada zwyciezcow (2007 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary, History
Directors: Grzegorz Braun, Robert Kaczmarek | Stars: Czeslaw Grzelak, Janusz Odziemkowski, Viktor Suvorov, Pawel Wieczorkiewicz
Votes: 28
41. Russian libertine - Venäjän vapain mies (2012)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Ari Matikainen | Stars: Viktor Erofeyev, Andrey Erofeyev, Vladimir Sorokin
Votes: 32
42. Stealing the Superfortress (2001 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.
Director: Arthur Drooker | Star: Will Lyman
Votes: 18
43. Ivan: The Three Questions
Adventure, History, War | Announced
A Russian Cossack 19th century man deals with the largest 20th century nightmare imaginable.
44. Shostakovich smeyotsa (1993 TV Movie)
20 min | Documentary, History, Music
Documentary movie based on D.Shostakovich's "Anti-Formalist Rayok".
Director: V. Berman | Star: Dmitri Shostakovich
45. Tretiy udar (1948)
108 min | War
One of the first Soviet films made after WWII that, looking back at the conflict (here specifically the counteroffensive to liberate the Crimea and Sevastopol) stresses the supposed role of Stalin in planning every detail of strategy.
Director: Igor Savchenko | Stars: Aleksei Dikij, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Yuri Shumsky, Viktor Stanitsyn
Votes: 30
46. Lady and Bread (2015)
Documentary, Short, Biography
A 95-year-old lady recalls her troubled youth while baking bread: we discover about secrets of her life and surviving the Europe's largest famine, Holodomor.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lidia Myroshnychenko, Vira Konyk
Votes: 70
47. Ithaf (1990)
9 min | Animation, Short
The animation about Stalin's Great Purge and repression victims.
Star: Najiba Huseynova
48. Jedna zena - jedan vek (2011)
110 min | Documentary
A monumental film portrait of the hundred-year-old Dragica Srzentic is composed of conversations, statements, reconstructions and animated images that are sometimes replaced by photos. ... See full summary »
Director: Zelimir Zilnik | Stars: Ljiljana Djakonovic, Dragica Srzentic-Vitolovic
Votes: 20
49. Vlast Solovetskaya. Svidetelstva i dokumenty (1988)
93 min | Documentary
A documentary about the first Soviet labor camp created by Lenin in 1923, that became the "mother of the GULAG" prison system according to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Director: Marina Goldovskaya
Votes: 32
50. The Borderline. Hrubieszów Operation (2019)
52 min | Documentary, Drama, History
What was really happening between Poland and Ukraine during the WWII and after that? The unique guerrilla operation in Hrubieszów highlights a climax of one of the hardest paths the nations had to take during the WWII.
Director: Olesya Morgunets | Stars: Kateryna Bilyk, Kateryna Kachan, Mykhaylo Kukuyuk, Wiktor Lafarowich
Votes: 5