Top Russian Movies
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1. Stalker(1979) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Mystery|Sci-Fi|Thriller | Release Date:16 Apr 1979 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Language:Russian | Rating:NR |
Description:A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars:
Alisa Freyndlikh
, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
, Nikolay Grinko
Tags:
Based On Book Post Apocalypse Alien Family Relationships Minimal Cast
2. Solaris(1972)Original Title: Soljaris |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Mystery|Sci-Fi|Adventure | Release Date:20 Mar 1972 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Languages:Russian | German | Rating:PG |
Description:A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars:
Natalya Bondarchuk
, Donatas Banionis
, Jüri Järvet
, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Tags:
Alien Cult Film Investigation Based On Novel
3. Battleship Potemkin(1925)Original Title: Bronenosets Potyomkin |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|History | Release Date:24 Dec 1925 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Language:Russian | Rating:UR |
Description:Battleship Potemkin is the classic silent masterpiece from director Sergej Eisenstein from 1925. The film is based on the true events of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and was a masterful example of montage editing.
Director:
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Stars:
Aleksandr Antonov
, Vladimir Barsky
, Grigori Aleksandrov
, Ivan Bobrov
4. Leviathan(2014)Original Title: Leviafan |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:24 Sep 2014 |
| Country: Russia | Language:Russian | Rating:R |
Description: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
, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
, Roman Madyanov
Tags:
Friendship Between Men Courtroom Missing Person
5. Come and See(1985)Original Title: Idi i Smotri |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Drama|War|History | Release Date:01 Jul 1985 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Languages:Belarusian | Russian | German | Rating:NR |
Description:After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director:
Elem Klimov
Stars:
Aleksey Kravchenko
, Olga Mironova
, Liubomiras Laucevicius
, Vladas Bagdonas
Tags:
Crime Against Humanity War Crime Violence Nazi Occupation World War Two Family Relationships Tragedy Horrors Of War Revenge Insanity
6. The Return(2003)Original Title: Woswraschtschenije |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Mystery|Thriller | Release Date:25 Jun 2003 |
| Country: Russia | Language:Russian | Rating:UR |
Description:A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Director:
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars:
Vladimir Garin
, Ivan Dobronravov
, Konstantin Lavronenko
, Nataliya Vdovina
Tags:
Coming Of Age Family Relationships
7. Andrei Rublev(1966)Original Title: Andrey Rublyov |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography|History | Release Date:16 Dec 1966 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Languages:Russian | Italian | Tatar | Rating:NR |
Description:The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars:
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
, Ivan Lapikov
, Nikolay Grinko
, Nikolay Sergeev
Tags:
Violence Creativity Family Relationships Betrayal Medieval Times Politics Voice Over Narration Innocence
8. The Mirror(1975)Original Title: Zerkalo |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography|History | Release Date:07 Mar 1975 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Languages:Russian | Spanish | Rating:NA |
Description:A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars:
Margarita Terekhova
, Oleg Yankovskiy
, Filipp Yankovskiy
, Ignat Daniltsev
Tags:
Coming Of Age World War Two Nonlinear Timeline Family Relationships Childhood
10. Dersu Uzala(1975)Original Title: Derusu Uzara |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Drama|Adventure|Biography | Release Date:01 Jul 1975 |
| Countries: Soviet Union| Japan | Languages:Russian | Chinese | Rating:G |
Description:A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Stars:
Yuriy Solomin
, Maksim Munzuk
, Mikhail Bychkov
, Vladimir Khrulev
Tags:
Based On Book Survival Based On True Story First Person Narration Friendship
11. Nostalgia(1983)Original Title: Nostalghia |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:01 May 1983 |
| Countries: Italy| Soviet Union | Languages:Italian | Russian | Rating:NR |
Description:The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, ...
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars:
Oleg Yankovskiy
, Erland Josephson
, Domiziana Giordano
, Patrizia Terreno
12. Brother(1997)Original Title: Brat |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Drama|Romance|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:01 Jan 1997 |
| Country: Russia | Languages:English | Russian | French | Rating:NA |
Description:Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone.
Director:
Aleksey Balabanov
Stars:
Sergey Bodrov Jr.
, Viktor Sukhorukov
, Svetlana Pismichenko
, Mariya Zhukova
Tags:
Violence Gangster Mafia Organized Crime Revenge Hitman Betrayal
13. Burnt by the Sun(1994)Original Title: Utomlyonnye Solntsem |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|History | Release Date:21 May 1994 |
| Countries: Russia| France | Languages:Russian | French | Rating:R |
Description:Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things...
Director:
Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars:
Oleg Menshikov
, Nikita Mikhalkov
, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Tags:
Family Relationships Tragedy Revenge Friendship Politics
14. The Cranes Are Flying(1957)Original Title: Letyat Zhuravli |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|War | Release Date:12 Oct 1957 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Language:Russian | Rating:NR |
Description:Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director:
Mikhail Kalatozov
Stars:
Tatyana Samoylova
, Aleksey Batalov
, Vasiliy Merkurev
, Aleksandr Shvorin
Tags:
World War Two Black And White Based On Play Heartbreak True Love
15. The Diamond Arm(1969)Original Title: Brilliantovaya ruka |
| Runtime: | Genres:Comedy|Adventure|Crime | Release Date:27 Apr 1968 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Language:Russian | Rating:NA |
Description:Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise with a smuggler on board. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for the gang of smugglers.
Director:
Leonid Gayday
Stars:
Yuriy Nikulin
, Nina Grebeshkova
, Andrey Mironov
, Anatoliy Papanov
16. The Barber of Siberia(1998)Original Title: Sibirskiy tsiryulnik |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|Comedy | Release Date:13 Oct 1998 |
| Countries: Russia| France| Italy| Czech Republic | Languages:English | German | Russian | French | Rating:NA |
Description:Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, ...
Director:
Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars:
Julia Ormond
, Oleg Menshikov
, Aleksey Petrenko
, Richard Harris
17. Kin-dza-dza!(1986) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Comedy|Sci-Fi | Release Date:01 Jan 1986 |
| Country: Soviet Union | Languages:Georgian | Russian | Rating:NA |
Description:Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
Director:
Georgiy Daneliya
Stars:
Stanislav Lyubshin
, Evgeniy Leonov
, Yuriy Yakovlev
, Levan Gabriadze
Tags:
Steampunk Time Travel Cult Film Satire
18. The Island(2006)Original Title: Ostrov |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:23 Nov 2006 |
| Country: Russia | Languages:German | Russian | Rating:NA |
Description:Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
Director:
Pavel Lungin
Stars:
Pyotr Mamonov
, Viktor Sukhorukov
, Dmitriy Dyuzhev
, Yuriy Kuznetsov
19. The Fool(2014)Original Title: Durak |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:09 Aug 2014 |
| Country: Russia | Language:Russian | Rating:NA |
Description:The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Director:
Yuriy Bykov
Stars:
Artyom Bystrov
, Natalya Surkova
, Yuriy Tsurilo
, Boris Nevzorov
Tags:
Violence Family Relationships
