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  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

    1. Ballad of a Soldier

    19591h 28mNot Rated
    8.2 (12K)
    Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
    DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina Maksimova
  • The Return (2003)

    2. The Return

    20031h 50mNot Rated82Metascore
    7.9 (49K)
    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.
    DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin Lavronenko
  • A Short Film About Killing (1988)

    3. A Short Film About Killing

    19881h 24mNot Rated
    8.0 (23K)
    A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsMiroslaw BakaKrzysztof GlobiszJan Tesarz
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vlastimil Brodský in Jacob the Liar (1974)

    4. Jacob the Liar

    19741h 40m
    7.1 (1.4K)
    A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
    DirectorFrank BeyerStarsVlastimil BrodskýErwin GeschonneckHenry Hübchen
  • Na malkiya ostrov (1958)

    5. Na malkiya ostrov

    19581h 34m
    8.3 (101)
    The film is a bitter parable about the slow maturing of the idea of freedom - both collective and personal. The characters's deaths are absurd, with no pathos.
    DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsIvan KondovStefan PejchevKonstantin Kotsev
  • Slantzeto i syankata (1962)

    6. Slantzeto i syankata

    19621h 15m
    7.7 (88)
    The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness.
    DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsGeorgi NaumovAnna PrucnalGustaw Holoubek
  • Poster by Dimitar Tashev

    7. The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes

    19791h 25m
    7.6 (358)
    This is a story of lifetime. A story full of spiritual power biography, behind which stays a whole age in the national development of Bulgaria.
    DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsSlavka AnkovaEmiliya MyrynskaIvan Stoychev
  • An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013)

    8. An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

    20131h 15m
    6.8 (1.4K)
    A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy, cooks, bakes and cares for their two small daughters. One day, she feels a sharp pain in her abdomen. At the hospital she is told there is something wrong with the baby she is carrying: "They say it's dead." She is at risk of septicaemia and they must operate immediately. But Senada has no medical insurance; since the operation will cost much more than the family can afford the hospital's head refuses to treat her. A race against time together with a mounting sense of hopelessness played by a cast of non-professional actors re-enacting an episode from their own lives. Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix and the Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlin Film Festival 2013.
    DirectorDanis TanovicStarsNazif MujicSenada AlimanovicSemsa Mujic
  • When Father Was Away on Business (1985)

    9. When Father Was Away on Business

    19852h 16mR
    7.7 (10K)
    A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
    DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana Karanovic
  • Vinci (2004)

    10. Vinci

    20041h 48m
    6.9 (4.1K)
    After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous 'Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci. Cuma is contracted to steal the painting. He invites his former partner Julian to join the team, not knowing that his best friend is now a policeman and will do anything to prevent the heist. Julian seeks cooperation with an old forger Hagen and a beautiful young art student Magda.
    DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsRobert WieckiewiczJózef PaleczkaBorys Szyc
  • Luna Lozic in Grbavica (2006)

    11. Grbavica

    20061h 30m71Metascore
    7.2 (7.1K)
    A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
    DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna LozicLeon Lucev
  • Hanussen (1988)

    12. Hanussen

    19882h 20mR
    7.2 (2K)
    A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
    DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerErland JosephsonIldikó Bánsági
  • Mephisto (1981)

    13. Mephisto

    19812h 26mUnrated
    7.7 (12K)
    In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
    DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna Janda
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer in Colonel Redl (1985)

    14. Colonel Redl

    19852h 24mR
    7.4 (3.5K)
    Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
    DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-Stahl
  • Mirror (1975)

    15. Mirror

    19751h 47mNot Rated82Metascore
    7.9 (55K)
    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.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat Daniltsev
  • Nadezhda Markina in Elena (2011)

    16. Elena

    20111h 49mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.3 (16K)
    When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
    DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey Rozin
  • The Belgrade Phantom (2009)

    17. The Belgrade Phantom

    20091h 22mNot Rated
    6.7 (1.6K)
    The film is about Vlada Vasiljević, a citizen of Belgrade, who in 1979 stole a white Porsche 911 Targa S, and for about ten evenings taunted the police with his reckless driving.
    DirectorJovan B. TodorovicStarsMilutin MilosevicRadoslav 'Rale' MilenkovicMarko Zivic
  • Ya (2009)

    18. Ya

    20091h 28m
    6.2 (461)
    A young man who writes avant-garde plays in the Russian province tells the story of how he voluntarily let himself be admitted to a psychiatric ward to avoid military service.
    DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsArtur SmolyaninovAndrey KhabarovOksana Akinshina
  • Swinki (2009)

    19. Swinki

    20091h 34m
    6.4 (645)
    14-year-old Tomek falls in love with Marta. Being poor he seeks ways of earning money so as to please her. He approaches a man who was seeking people for work. Not realizing the man is a pimp, Tomek has no idea of what awaits him.
    DirectorRobert GlinskiStarsFilip GarbaczBogdan KocaDorota Wierzbicka-Matarrelli
  • The Deluge (1974)

    20. The Deluge

    19744h 47m
    7.7 (3.4K)
    During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
    DirectorJerzy HoffmanStarsDaniel OlbrychskiMalgorzata BraunekTadeusz Lomnicki
  • The Destiny of a Man (1959)

    21. The Destiny of a Man

    19591h 43m
    7.9 (3.9K)
    A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
    DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida Kirienko
  • Four Nights with Anna (2008)

    22. Four Nights with Anna

    20081h 27m
    6.8 (1.9K)
    A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
    DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsArtur SterankoKinga PreisJerzy Fedorowicz
  • Nikolay Grinko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, and Anatoliy Solonitsyn in Stalker (1979)

    23. Stalker

    19792h 42mNot Rated85Metascore
    8.0 (151K)
    A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy Solonitsyn
  • The Christening (2010)

    24. The Christening

    20101h 26m
    6.7 (732)
    Janek comes to Warsaw to become the godfather of his good old friend's baby. During the week before the ceremony the lives of Janek, Michal and his wife Magda change dramatically as the men's criminal past haunts them mercilessly.
    DirectorMarcin WronaStarsWojciech ZielinskiTomasz SchuchardtNatalia Rybicka
  • International Poster

    25. Generation P

    20111h 52m65Metascore
    6.7 (4.5K)
    A chronicle of the rise of the advertising industry in Post-Soviet Russia.
    DirectorVictor GinzburgStarsVladimir EpifantsevMikhail EfremovAndrey Fomin

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