With Lenfilm Studio (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Dead Man's Letters (1986)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Sabinin
Votes: 3,420
2. The Blue Bird (1976)
G | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl (Patsy Kensit) and her brother Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland), are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness (Nedezhda Pavlova) by the Fairy... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner
Votes: 1,177 | Gross: $0.89M
3. Heart of a Dog (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev
Votes: 8,212
4. No Path Through Fire (1968)
95 min | Drama, War
A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Mikhail Kononov
Votes: 441
5. White Sun of the Desert (1970)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
Director: Vladimir Motyl | Stars: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze
Votes: 7,354
6. The Beginning (1970)
GP | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck... See full summary »
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov
Votes: 974
7. 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: 2,807
8. Amphibian Man (1962)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
People 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai Simonov
Votes: 2,527
9. Young Catherine (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Plummer, Franco Nero, Marthe Keller
Votes: 1,105
10. The Third Planet (1991)
99 min | Sci-Fi
A father takes his daughter to the zone where doctors can heal her ailment.
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Anna Matyukhina, Boris Sokolov, Svetlana Mikhalchenko, Konstantin Polyansky
Votes: 130
11. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Acquaintance (1980)
67 min | Crime, Mystery
Doctor Watson moves in with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes and they get a case to solve. A young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances.
Stars: Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Mariya Solomina
Votes: 3,926
12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
TV-PG | 154 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
Stars: Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Irina Kupchenko
Votes: 6,129
13. Zhizn Klima Samgina (1988)
100 min | Drama, History
40 years of the turbulent life of the Russian intellectual Klim Samgin, from the 1881 association of Alexander II to the 1917 February Revolution.
Stars: Andrey Rudenskiy, Leonid Gorelik, Elena Solovey, Ernst Romanov
Votes: 132
14. Striped Trip (1961)
87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.
Director: Vladimir Fetin | Stars: Aleksey Gribov, Ivan Dmitriev, Margarita Nazarova, Evgeniy Leonov
Votes: 2,456
15. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
100 min | Drama
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov
Votes: 2,475
16. 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: 896
17. King Lear (1970)
PG | 140 min | Drama
A Soviet adaptation of a world-famous tragedy about an aged king and how cruelly he lose his illusions.
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro | Stars: Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek, Valentina Shendrikova
Votes: 1,592
18. Twenty Days Without War (1977)
101 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova
Votes: 1,459
19. Don César de Bazan (1989 TV Movie)
133 min | Musical, Comedy
The impoverished nobleman and freethinker don César de Bazan was sentenced to death. Before his death, the king's minister, Don José, asks for his favor - to marry a stranger and give her his noble title.
Director: Yan Frid | Stars: Mikhail Boyarskiy, Anna Samokhina, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Natalya Lapina
Votes: 252
20. Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983– )
155 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's ... See full summary »
Stars: Galina Belyaeva, Lina Buldakova, Sergey Shakurov, Vsevolod Larionov
Votes: 238
21. Chapayev (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: 1,339
22. Taxi Blues (1990)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova
Votes: 1,876 | Gross: $0.17M
23. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 888
24. Vsadnik bez golovy (1973)
100 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
In the middle of the 19th century, after bloody war with Mexico, Americans have begun conquest of the huge territory of Texas. At the new owner of a hacienda of Kasa-del-Korvo of business ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Vaynshtok | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Eslinda Núñez, Enrique Santisteban, Oleg Vidov
Votes: 302
25. Trial on the Road (1986)
96 min | Drama, War
The Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Oleg Borisov
Votes: 2,391
26. The Gadfly (1955)
94 min | Action, Drama, History
Against the background of Italian Patriots struggle for independence of his homeland, is three people by the tragic destiny of stops. Arthur who has evolved in the revolutionary, cardinal Montanelli and his love Gemma.
Director: Aleksandr Faintsimmer | Stars: Oleg Strizhenov, Marianna Strizhenova, Nikolai Simonov, Vladimir Etush
Votes: 195
27. Days of Eclipse (1988)
139 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Votes: 1,050
28. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Picking 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.
Stars: Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Borislav Brondukov
Votes: 1,201
29. Geniy (1991)
162 min | Comedy, Crime
He is overly intelligent. He is genius. And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.
Director: Viktor Sergeev | Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Larisa Belogurova, Yuriy Kuznetsov
Votes: 786
30. The Return of Maxim (1937)
105 min | Drama
Maxim, now a Marxist agitator going by the name of Fyodor, organizes strikes against the production of military equipment, culminating in open revolt against the Czarist forces.
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
Votes: 169
31. Zhavoronok (1965)
91 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany.
Directors: Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker | Stars: Vyacheslav Gurenkov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Valeriy Pogoreltsev, Valentins Skulme
Votes: 226
32. The Second Circle (1990)
92 min | Drama
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Pyotr Aleksandrov, Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeeva, Aleksandr Bystryakov
Votes: 740
33. The Snow Queen (1967)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
An adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen".
Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Valeri Nikitenko, Elena Proklova, Slawa Zjupa, Yevgeniya Melnikova
Votes: 910
34. The Seventh Companion (1968)
89 min | Drama, War
The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Aronov, Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Popov, Aleksandr Anisimov, Georgiy Shtil, Pyotr Chernov
Votes: 526
35. Neokonchennaya povest (1955)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A female doctor and a male patient begin to develop feelings for each other, while the doctor's male colleague is infatuated with her as well.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Elina Bystritskaya, Sergey Bondarchuk, Sofiya Giatsintova, Evgeniy Samoylov
Votes: 95
36. Save and Protect (I) (1989)
Not Rated | 167 min | Drama, History
Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Robert Vaap, Cécile Zervudacki, Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksandr Cherednik
Votes: 299
37. The Flying Carpet (1957)
G | 86 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Nikolay Volkov, Aleksei Litvinov, Gennadi Khudyakov, Lev Kovalchuk
Votes: 1,377
38. Malchik i devochka (1966)
69 min | Drama
On a shore, a young tourist falls in love with a waitress. When he leaves the hotel, she must face his absence and a bigger issue.
Director: Yuliy Fayt | Stars: Natalya Bogunova, Nikolay Burlyaev, Antonina Bendova, Tamara Konovalova
Votes: 55
39. Katerina Izmailova (1967)
118 min | Drama, Music
Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.
Director: Mikhail Shapiro | Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Artyom Inozemtsev, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Aleksandr Sokolov
Votes: 76
40. Goya - oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis (1971)
136 min | Drama
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Tatyana Lolova
Votes: 367
41. 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, Galina Barysheva
Votes: 1,057
42. Torpedo Bombers (1983)
96 min | Drama, War
In 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksey Zharkov, Andrei Boltnev, Stanislav Sadalskiy
Votes: 395
43. Nights of Farewell (1965)
130 min | Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Jean Dréville, Isaak Menaker | Stars: Gilles Ségal, Oleg Strizhenov, Jacques Ferrière, Natalya Velichko
Votes: 20
44. Zimnyaya vishnya (1985)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.
Director: Igor Maslennikov | Stars: Elena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko, Vitali Solomin
Votes: 337
45. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches (1987)
85 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Retired Sherlock Holmes and practicing Dr. Watson come back together to solve a puzzle in the beginning of the 20th century.
Stars: Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Borislav Brondukov, Boris Klyuev
Votes: 2,743
46. V moey smerti proshu vinit Klavu K. (1980)
76 min | Drama, Romance
Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather... See full summary »
Directors: Nikolay Lebedev, Ernest Yasan | Stars: Nadezhda Gorshkova, Vladimir Shevelkov, Yelena Khopshonosova, Olga Ozeretskovskaya
Votes: 420
47. The Last Inch (1959)
88 min | Adventure, Drama
A boy must reach civilization on a plane for saving his wounded father.
Directors: Nikita Kurikhin, Teodor Vulfovich | Stars: Nikolai Kryukov, Vladislav Muratov, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Äliagha Aghayev
Votes: 260
48. Snegurochka (1969)
90 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
A Russian fairy tale about a maiden named Snegurochka, who is made out of snow.
Director: Pavel Kadochnikov | Stars: Eugenia Filonova, Evgeniy Zharikov, Irina Gubanova, Boris Khimichev
Votes: 255
49. Starshiy syn (1976 TV Movie)
140 min | Drama
Late for the last commuter train and reluctant to spend the night outdoors, two young men trick a family into letting them stay in their apartment: one of them insists that he's the illegitimate son of the man who owns the apartment.
Director: Vitaliy Melnikov | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Natalya Egorova, Vladimir Izotov, Nikolay Karachentsov
Votes: 1,155
50. Proshu slova (1976)
145 min | Drama
When Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Nikolay Gubenko, Ekaterina Volkova, Leonid Bronevoy
Votes: 188