The Best Russian Movies (I've Seen)

The secluded investigator Faina is trying to solve a case of a disappeared girl. Everyone has given up on finding her, but she keeps going, feeling that the girl is still alive.

In the same world two sisters live. One of which was largely unlucky at the very beginning of life: Ulyana is a "gable child" who, by the age of thirty, had preserved the outlook, behavior and reactions of a ten-year-old girl. The second - Lisa - was not even luckier. She is a healthy person whose life is completely dependent on a disabled sister who voluntarily or involuntarily destroys the plans of her ambitious sister actress.

Many of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.

A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Natalie was lonely in her loveless marriage until she met Sergei.

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.

A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.

A very good film shot by Y. Moroz with 3 pretty girls Dasha Moroz, Anna Ukolova and Vika Isakova. The film is about life of several tarts who live on outskirts of ukrainian provincial town Makeevka. We see all grisly reality of this country, the cruel rules of survival on streets of Makeevka (home city of one of the girls) and Moskow ghettos, it's inhuman customs and cops plunged in crime up to their ears.. This movie is one of the best modern russian action movies, and one of few. And this movie is also a good one for getting a short course of new modern russia's life that is for majority of people not so different since the time of changes

A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

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.

A drama based on an alleged incident in 1956 Samara, where a young woman who danced with a religious icon was frozen into immobility.

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

Three women, three states of mind, three eternal themes: love, death, and the search for happiness. And one angel of death, accompanying to another world the souls of those who are able to love.

A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.

Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.

Learn to forgive others, and get forgiveness to yourself. In the forgotten taiga village lives a gloomy and unsociable Trofim Rusanov, senior fishing inspector. He is used to the fact that each day is filled with routine. But one day, on his usual round through the wood, Trofim faces a shocking discovery. He finds a baby in an abandoned forest house. For several days he wanders around the severe uninhabited taiga, fighting both for his life and the life of the little child. Finally, Trofim finds the way home... He wants to find a woman who left a baby in the forest. It takes for him a superhuman effort to find the baby's mother. But this long quest leads him to another, completely different find.

The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.