Russia (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Love Machine (2016)
79 min | Drama, Romance
Director Pavel Ruminov wanted to break up with his girlfriend. But she had a different opinion on the matter and refused to leave the flat, insisting their story was not over yet.
Director: Pavel Ruminov | Stars: Natalya Anisimova, Pavel Ruminov, Maria Lavrova, Rafael Durnonyan
Votes: 677
2. Iron Mask (2019)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Early 1700: Cartographer Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng) from Forbidden Empire (2014) is back to map the Russian Far East. He's forced on to China, where he confronts the Dragon Master et al. The iron masked Russian Czar escapes the Tower of London to a Russian ship.
Director: Oleg Stepchenko | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Xingtong Yao, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Votes: 7,236
3. Persian Lessons (2020)
127 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish man pretends to be Iranian to avoid being executed in a concentration camp.
Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, David Schütter
Votes: 9,443
4. Hardcore Henry (2015)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.
Director: Ilya Naishuller | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett, Danila Kozlovskiy
Votes: 97,257 | Gross: $9.25M
5. To the Lake (I) (2019– )
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A terrible plague strikes and a group decides to risk their lives. Humanity struggles to survive as they face the end of their civilization.
Stars: Kirill Käro, Maryana Spivak, Natalya Zemtsova, Eldar Kalimulin
Votes: 13,579
6. Vernost (2019)
82 min | Drama
Midwife Lena, a loving wife, is driven towards a string of infidelities after her husband continues to neglect her.
Director: Nigina Sayfullaeva | Stars: Evgeniya Gromova, Aleksandr Pal, Marina Vasileva, Aleksey Agranovich
Votes: 2,376
7. Project 'Gemini' (2022)
Unrated | 98 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A sci-fi thriller about a space mission sent to terraform a distant planet. However, the mission encounters something unknown that has its own plan for the planet.
Director: Serik Beyseu | Stars: Egor Koreshkov, Alyona Konstantinova, Samoukov Kostya, Dmitriy Frid
Votes: 3,098
8. Better Than Us (2018–2019)
52 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A family on the brink of splitting up become the owners of a cutting-edge robot being sought by a corporation, homicide investigators and terrorists.
Stars: Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Käro, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Olga Lomonosova
Votes: 9,348
9. The Guardians (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan | Stars: Anton Pampushnyy, Sanjar Madi, Sebastien Sisak, Alina Lanina
Votes: 13,931
10. Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)
136 min | Action, Drama, History
A story about a heroic fireman who worked as one of Chernobyl liquidators.
Director: Danila Kozlovskiy | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Oksana Akinshina, Filipp Avdeev, Ravshana Kurkova
Votes: 9,547
11. I Am Dragon (2015)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island.
Director: Indar Dzhendubaev | Stars: Matvey Lykov, Mariya Poezzhaeva, Stanislav Lyubshin, Petr Romanov
Votes: 5,604
12. The Blackout (2019)
TV-MA | 127 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe.
Director: Egor Baranov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Lukerya Ilyashenko
Votes: 9,492
13. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
R | 126 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun, Honglei Sun
Votes: 47,467 | Gross: $5.70M
14. Pinocchio: A True Story (2021)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Young Pinocchio runs away from his genius creator Jepetto accompanied by the horse Tibalt to see the world and joins the traveling circus run by hustler Modjafocco.
Director: Vasiliy Rovenskiy | Stars: Jon Heder, Pauly Shore, Tom Kenny, Dmitriy Iosifov
Votes: 1,521
15. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 54,475 | Gross: $1.09M
16. The Darkest Hour (2011)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race who have attacked Earth via our power supply.
Director: Chris Gorak | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor
Votes: 61,861 | Gross: $21.43M
17. Sputnik (2020)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Director: Egor Abramenko | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev
Votes: 24,972
18. T-34 (2018)
TV-14 | 139 min | Action, War
SS Panzer Division uses T-34 manned by Soviet POWs as a target in their training field, but the prisoners plot a daring maneuver.
Director: Aleksey Sidorov | Stars: Alexander Petrov, Irina Starshenbaum, Viktor Dobronravov, Vinzenz Kiefer
Votes: 12,898
19. Stalingrad (2013)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 17,125 | Gross: $1.01M
20. Superdeep (2020)
115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.
Directors: Arseny Syuhin, Sergey Torchilin | Stars: Milena Radulovic, Sergey Ivanyuk, Nikolay Kovbas, Vadim Demchog
Votes: 4,735
21. Russkaya Lolita (2007)
93 min | Drama, Romance
The events of the controversial novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov pick up in modern day Russia.
Director: Armen Oganezov | Stars: Valeria Nemchenko, Marina Zasimova, Vladimir Sorokin, Sasha Durpfen
Votes: 658
22. Invasion (2020)
Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Sci-Fi
With the fall of the alien ship Julia's life changed, now three years later mankind is about to experience new encounter.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov, Yuriy Borisov
Votes: 5,532
23. Loveless (2017)
R | 127 min | Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 33,783 | Gross: $0.57M
24. Silver Skates (2020)
TV-MA | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Matvey, the fastest courier on the frozen canals of 19th century St. Peteresburg is recruited by a group of pickpockets working the winter markets.
Director: Michael Lockshin | Stars: Fedor Fedotov, Sonya Priss, Yuriy Borisov, Kirill Zaytsev
Votes: 6,550
25. Coma (I) (2019)
TV-MA | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After a mysterious accident, a young architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world. He must find out the exact laws and regulations of it while he fights for his life and keeps looking for an exit to the real world.
Director: Nikita Argunov | Stars: Rinal Mukhametov, Lyubov Aksyonova, Anton Pampushnyy, Milos Bikovic
Votes: 10,643
26. Big Trip 2: Special Delivery (2022)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two friends, bear Patrick and rabbit Oscar, accidentally get to take care of a grizly bear cub. Together they go on an adventure in order to deliver the baby bear to it's meant to be mama and papa.
Directors: Natalya Nilova, Vasiliy Rovenskiy | Stars: Daniel Medvedev, Bernard Jacobsen, Stephen Thomas Ochsner, Liza Klimova
Votes: 218
27. Beanpole (2019)
Unrated | 130 min | Drama, War
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Votes: 11,488
28. Attraction (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
An alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence, while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, Oleg Menshikov
Votes: 13,305
29. Forbidden Empire (2014)
Not Rated | 130 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
An eighteenth century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Romanian forest.
Director: Oleg Stepchenko | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskyte
Votes: 6,089 | Gross: $34.59M
30. Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021)
TV-14 | 136 min | Action, Crime
Supercop Grom fights crime in St. Petersburg - an uphill battle. A vigilante starts killing the powerful, who escaped justice.
Director: Oleg Trofim | Stars: Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Lyubov Aksyonova, Sergei Goroshko, Aleksey Maklakov
Votes: 12,640
31. Life of a Mistress (2018– )
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Stars: Tatyana Babenkova, Vladislav Abashin, Maksim Merkulov, Katharina Spiering
Votes: 157
32. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 20,874 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Happy End (2021– )
40 min | Comedy, Drama
The series depicts a young couple's journey who have decided to turn their relationship into a sexual attraction for the whole world through the Webcam.
Stars: Lena Tronina, Denis Vlasenko, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Lyubov Tolkalina
Votes: 522
34. Cheburashka (2023)
113 min | Comedy, Family
What if Cheburashka really exists? What if he is not a plush toy, but quite a real furry animal that lives in an orange grove in a distant country?
Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko | Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Ekaterina Cherednik, Fyodor Dobronravov, Konstantin Fadeev
Votes: 565
35. Finnick (2022)
85 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Finnick is a young Finn, who doesn't seem to care about his responsibility of making a home out of his house. Everything changes when a new family comes to his house and Finnick's tricks do not work at all.
Director: Denis Chernov | Stars: Artur Babich, Paul Castro Jr., Clifford Chapin, Emily Cramer
Votes: 262
36. The Return (2003)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 46,046 | Gross: $0.50M
37. Brother (1997)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
Votes: 22,213
38. Petrov's Flu (2021)
Unrated | 145 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov
Votes: 2,473
39. Night Watch (2004)
R | 114 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Mariya Poroshina, Valeriy Zolotukhin
Votes: 54,388 | Gross: $1.49M
40. 14+ (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage boy feels infatuation for the first time.
Director: Andrey Zaytsev | Stars: Gleb Kalyuzhnyy, Ulyana Vaskovich, Olga Ozollapinya, Dmitry Barinov
Votes: 1,939
41. Dead Mountain (2020)
54 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In the Ural Mountains, nine students go on a ski hike, but never return. Local investigators must piece together what happened to them when their bodies are found a month later.
Stars: Andrey Dobrovolskiy, Andrey Arzyaev, Polina Chernyshova, Georgiy Bessonov
Votes: 2,751
42. Cosmoball (2020)
118 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
An enormous spaceship hovers over Earth-this is a stadium, which hosts sports events that resemble soccer but at mind-boggling speeds. The name of the game is cosmoball.
Director: Dzhanik Fayziev | Stars: Viktoriya Agalakova, Georgiy Bestaev, Khristina Blokhina, Valeriya Bukhina
Votes: 2,390
43. Sobibor (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Felice Jankell, Dainius Kazlauskas
Votes: 5,303
44. Hard to Be a God (2013)
Not Rated | 177 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like, planet.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov
Votes: 5,968
45. The Fool (II) (2014)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo, Boris Nevzorov
Votes: 14,976
46. Philosophy of a Knife (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 266 min | Drama, Horror
A graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.
Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Tetsuro Sakagami, Tomoya Okamoto, Yukari Fujimoto, Manoush
Votes: 1,582
47. Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022)
143 min | Biography, Drama
Tumultuous relationship between Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the most famous Russian composer of all time, and his wife Antonina Miliukova.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Alyona Mikhailova, Odin Lund Biron, Miron Fedorov, Yuliya Aug
Votes: 308
48. Abigail (I) (2019)
TV-14 | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed because of an epidemic and Abby's father was one of the sick. Going against the authorities to find her father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic.
Director: Aleksandr Boguslavskiy | Stars: Tinatin Dalakishvili, Eddie Marsan, Rinal Mukhametov, Ravshana Kurkova
Votes: 4,531
49. Viking (2016)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Drama, History
Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maksim Sukhanov, Igor Petrenko
Votes: 4,833
50. The Big Trip (2019)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A goofy stork mistakenly delivers a baby panda to the wrong door. A bear, a moose, a tiger and a rabbit set on an arduous but fun filled adventure through wilderness to return the panda to its rightful home.
Directors: Vasiliy Rovenskiy, Natalya Nilova | Stars: Drake Bell, Pauly Shore, Danila Medvedev, Jonathan Salway
Votes: 1,303