With Dovzhenko Film Studios (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 5,742
2. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 717
3. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches to newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Sergei Podgornyj, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev
Votes: 4,433
4. Vavilon XX (1980)
100 min | Drama
The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.
Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk | Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Les Serdyuk, Yaroslav Gavrilyuk
Votes: 161
5. Za dvoma zaytsiamy (1961)
77 min | Comedy, Musical
Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kiev about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.
Director: Viktor Ivanov | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko, Anna Kushnirenko
Votes: 794
6. Lileia (1959)
126 min | Drama, Music
Directors: Vasili Lapoknysh, Nikolai Topchiy, Vakhtang Vronsky | Stars: Yevgenia Yershova, Robert Klyavin, A. Podgaynyy, A. Kononenko
7. Andromeda Nebula (1967)
77 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book "Tumannost Andromedy" by Ivan Efremov.
Director: Evgeniy Sherstobitov | Stars: Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina
Votes: 252
8. Volny chernogo morya (1976– )
540 min | Drama
Stars: Vadim Kuznetsov, Oleg Tabakov, Ada Rogovtseva, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 15
9. Belye tuchi (1968)
68 min | Drama
Director: Rollan Sergienko | Stars: Yuriy Dubrovin, Yuriy Nazarov, Laimonas Noreika, Vladimir Olekseyenko
Votes: 5
10. Nina (1971)
82 min
Directors: Vitaly Kondratov, Aleksei Shvachko | Stars: Irina Zavadskaya, Valeriy Zubarev, Valentina Starzhinskaya, Ivan Dmitriev
11. Lisova pisnya. Mavka (1981)
83 min | Fantasy
Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Viktor Kremlyov, Mayya Bulgakova, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 158
12. Takaya pozdnyaya, takaya tyoplaya osen (1981)
88 min | Drama
Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk | Stars: Petro Mikhnevych, Gregory Hlady, Galina Sulima, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 35
13. Na kievskom napravlyenii (1968)
89 min | War
German Army Group South is attacking the city of Kiev (Kyiv) in the Ukraine. The citizens and Soviet Army prepare to defend their capital during August and September, 1942.
Director: Vladimir Denisenko | Stars: Anatoli Barchuk, Vitali Rosstalnoy, Stepan Oleksenko, Viktor Mizinenko
Votes: 9
14. Legenda o knyagine Olge (1984)
170 min | Drama, History
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the start of the 11th century.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Les Serdyuk, Ivan Ivanov, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 107
15. Lisova pisnya (1961)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Mavka loves Lukash,. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses Mavka.
Director: Viktor Ivchenko | Stars: Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Volodymyr Sydorchuk, Pyotr Vesklyarov, Vladimir Rudin
Votes: 22
16. The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)
71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman, Dmitri Franko
Votes: 292
17. Ovod (1980 TV Movie)
210 min | Drama
Historical drama about Italian struggle for independence in 19th century, centers around young revolutionaries and the difficult choices they have to make. Very emotionally charged plot.
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Andrey Kharitonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Ada Rogovtseva
Votes: 143
18. Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1977)
87 min | Drama, War
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Vladimir Konkin, Elena Shanina, Leonid Bakshtaev
Votes: 809
19. Novye priklyucheniya yanki pri dvore korolya Artura (1989)
164 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The plane of the American pilot has got lost in time. The pilot has got to an era of the nice king Artur. Here he is fated to meet legendary knights of the Round table and artful to Morgan ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Gres | Stars: Sergey Koltakov, Albert Filozov, Elena Finogeeva, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 83
20. More zovyot (1956)
95 min | Drama
Director: Vladimir Braun | Stars: Grigoriy Kozachenko, Ivan Matveyev, Nikolay Pishvanov, Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Votes: 6
21. Blagie namereniya (1984)
82 min | Drama
Director: Andrey Benkendorf | Stars: Marina Yakovleva, Yuri Platonov, Mariya Bolenko, Alyona Mushchitskaya
Votes: 10
22. Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
73 min | Drama, History
Three unconnected episodes united by a common theme: the establishment of the Soviet rule in Russia during the civil war of the early 1920s. Depicts dramatic events in simple lives of peasants and soldiers.
Directors: Genrikh Gabay, Larisa Shepitko, Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Leonid Kulagin, Sergei Volf, Georgiy Burkov, Nikolay Gubenko
Votes: 197
23. Pilgrim's Captain (1987)
119 min | Adventure
Director: Andrei Prachenko | Stars: Vyacheslav Khodchenko, Nodar Mgaloblishvili, Albert Filozov, Tatyana Parkina
Votes: 57
24. Tayna, izvestnaya vsem (1981)
140 min | Family
Director: Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | Stars: Seryozha Alekseev, Nikolay Grinko, Yura Prokhoda, Zinovi Vysokovsky
25. Ukrainskaya vendetta (1991)
96 min | Drama, War
Director: Vladimir Krajnev | Stars: Vladimir Berelet, Lyudmila Chinshevaya, Aleksandr Denisenko, Yelena Dranysh
26. Tsyganka Aza (1987)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Grigoriy Kokhan | Stars: Olga Zhemchuzhnaya, Elena Ponomarenko, Igor Krikunov, Aleksandr Bondarenko
Votes: 16
27. The Lost Letter (1972)
79 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Lidiya Belozyorova, Fyodor Strigun, Zemfira Tsakhilova
Votes: 676
28. Kapel (1981)
89 min | Romance
Director: Andrey Benkendorf | Stars: Tatyana Doronina, Maksim Puchkov, Aleksandr Arzhilovsky, Leonid Yanovskiy
Votes: 10
29. Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
88 min | Drama, War
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Olga Reus-Petrenko, Yevgenia Miroshnichenko, Eduard Koshman, Yuriy Gulyayev
Votes: 130
30. The White Bird Marked with Black (1971)
99 min | Drama, War
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka, Yuri Mikolajchuk
Votes: 310
31. Devushka s mayaka (1957)
74 min
In the center of the film is the love of the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and a young womanizer, the son of the port's chief.
Director: Grigori Krikun | Stars: Iya Arepina, Yuri Chekulayev, Fyodor Braychenko, Sergei Romodanov
32. Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
92 min | Drama
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Ivanova
Votes: 902
33. Krov lyudskaya: ne voditsa (1960)
90 min | Drama
Director: Nikolai Makarenko | Stars: Evgeniy Bondarenko, Genrikh Ostashevsky, Karina Shmarinova, Anatoliy Solovyov
34. Styozhki-dorozhki (1964)
66 min | Comedy, Romance
The dreamer and inventor at heart, Roman Kalinka, received the prestigious specialty of an accountant. But Roman does not have a soul for accounting and the office. He is a "techie", an engineer.
Directors: Oleg Borisov, Artur Vojtetsky | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Evgeniy Vesnik, Boris Bibikov, Lyubov Strizhenova
Votes: 10
35. A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers (1980)
88 min | Drama, Family
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Yura Madzhula, Aleksei Cherstvov, Regimantas Adomaitis, Lyudmila Efimenko
Votes: 21
36. Gde 042? (1969)
77 min | Action
Director: Oleg Lentsius | Stars: Anatoli Salimonenko, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Aleksandr Zbruev, Yakov Kozlov
Votes: 23
37. Vkhodyashchaya v more (1965)
15 min | Short
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Tanya Malysh, Antonina Leftiy, Zoya Nedbay, Gennadiy Yukhtin
Votes: 28
38. Kak zakalyalas stal (1973 TV Movie)
202 min | Drama, History
Fictionalized autobiography of a young Bolshevik fighter taking part in the Russian civil war.
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Vladimir Konkin, Konstantin Stepankov, Fyodor Panasenko, Natalya Sayko
Votes: 115
39. Bumbarash (1972 TV Movie)
135 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Private Bumbarash is considered dead after air balloon scouting incident gone awry. When he, alive and well, returns home, he has to stay alive and regain the girl he loves in the harsh yet tragicomic circumstances of Russian Civil War.
Directors: Abram Naroditsky, Nikolai Rasheyev | Stars: Valeriy Zolotukhin, Yuri Smirnov, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Votes: 264
40. The Bay of Death (1991)
127 min | Action, Crime
Directors: Grigoriy Kokhan, Timofei Levchuk | Stars: Oleg Stefan, Igor Krikunov, Bimbulat Vatayev, Oksana Fomichyova
Votes: 24
41. A Well for the Thirsty (1965)
70 min | Drama
The old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Dmitri Milyutenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Feodosiya Litvinenko, Nina Alisova
Votes: 255
42. Vsyudu yest nebo (1968)
67 min | Drama
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Svetlana Nagornaya, Inna Vykhodtseva, Evgeniy Gvozdev, Alim Fedorinsky
43. Forsaken Beach (1990)
69 min | Drama
Director: Nataliya Kirakozova | Stars: Viktor Merezhko, Andrey Ponomaryov, Yelena Vnukova, Aleksey Guskov
Votes: 18
44. Imitator (1990)
96 min | Comedy
Director: Oleg Fialko | Stars: Igor Sklyar, Natalya Lapina, Aleksey Zharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko
Votes: 64
45. Khrani menya, moy talisman (1986)
74 min | Drama
A stranger intrudes into life of a lovely couple. It doesn't take a lot of efforts from him to ruin their happiness.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksandr Zbruev
Votes: 151
46. Svadba (1973)
91 min | Drama, War
Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Director: Radomir Saranovic | Stars: Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Vladimir Popovic, Zurab Kapianidze, Valentin Nikulin
Votes: 28
47. Return from Orbit (1984)
89 min | Sci-Fi
An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
Director: Aleksandr Surin | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Vitali Solomin, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Tamara Akulova
Votes: 40
48. Pervyy paren (1959)
81 min | Drama
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Tamara Alexeeva, Andrei Andrienko-Zemskov, Varvara Chayka, Grigori Karpov
Votes: 82
49. Bolshie khlopoty iz-za malenkogo malchika (1968)
67 min
Directors: Aleksandr Muratov, V. Vasilkovsky | Stars: Pyotr Shelest, Marina Loveiko, Tatyana Pelttser, Vladimir Olekseyenko
Votes: 5
50. Chyornaya kuritsa, ili Podzemnye zhiteli (1981)
74 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
In the St. Petersburg board for Alyosha life has begun new, without habitual parental attention. Being homesick, the boy has created in the imagination the fantastic world of underground ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Gres | Stars: Vitali Sidletsky, Larisa Kadochnikova, Aristarkh Livanov, Albert Filozov
Votes: 86