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Russian Tsars and the Romanov Family

by t-xy • Created 8 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
Biographical and fictionalized films and TV productions about Russian Tsars and members of the Romanov family.

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  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

    1. Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    19441h 35mNot Rated
    7.7 (11K)
    During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
    DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima Birman
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1946)

    2. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    19461h 28mNot Rated
    7.7 (8.5K)
    As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
    DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel Kadochnikov
  • The Romanovs (2013)

    3. The Romanovs

    20138 epsTV Series
    8.2 (502)
    This history of the Romanov dynasty, the family that ruled Russia from 1613 until the October Revolution of 1917.
    StarIlya Sherbinin
  • The Romanoffs (2018)

    4. The Romanoffs

    20188 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    7.0 (6.8K)
    Anthology of eight stories about people who believe themselves to be descendant of the Russian Royal family.
    CreatorMatthew WeinerStarsDiane LaneJJ FeildAaron Eckhart
  • Peter the Great (1986)

    5. Peter the Great

    19864 epsTV Mini Series
    7.7 (844)
    Biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.
    StarsMaximilian SchellVanessa RedgraveOmar Sharif
  • Aleksandr Baluev, Sergey Makovetskiy, Irina Rozanova, and Elizaveta Boyarskaya in Petr Pervyy. Zaveshchanie (2011)

    6. Peter the Great

    2011– TV Series
    7.8 (16)
    The tale of the 18th century Russian Tsar Peter the Great's demise.
  • The Scarlet Empress (1934)

    7. The Scarlet Empress

    19341h 44mApproved
    7.5 (7.7K)
    A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
    DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichJohn LodgeSam Jaffe
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones in Catherine the Great (1995)

    8. Catherine the Great

    19951h 40mTV Movie
    6.1 (1.4K)
    Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
    DirectorsMarvin J. ChomskyJohn GoldsmithStarsCatherine Zeta-JonesPaul McGannIan Richardson
  • Catherine the Great (2015)

    9. Catherine the Great

    2015–202424 epsTV Series
    6.8 (430)
    The story of Catherine the Great from the time she came to Russia as the bride of the heir to the Russian throne.
    StarsYulia SnigirPavel DerevyankoViktoriya Agalakova
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Elisabeth Bergner in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

    10. The Rise of Catherine the Great

    19341h 35mNot Rated
    6.3 (815)
    Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
    DirectorsPaul CzinnerAlexander KordaStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elisabeth BergnerFlora Robson
  • Catherine the Great (2005)

    11. Catherine the Great

    20052hTV Movie
    7.0 (178)
    Drama documentary reconstructing the life and times of Catherine the Great of Russia.
    DirectorsPaul BurgessJohn-Paul DavidsonStarsEmily BruniDiana DumbravaDan Chiriac
  • Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

    12. Nicholas and Alexandra

    19713h 3mPG57Metascore
    7.2 (6K)
    Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsMichael JaystonJanet SuzmanRoderic Noble
  • Patrick Stewart, Barry Foster, Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay, and Laurence Naismith in Fall of Eagles (1974)

    13. Fall of Eagles

    197413 epsTV Mini Series
    8.1 (733)
    The collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
    CreatorJohn ElliotStarsMichael HordernCharles KayBarry Foster
  • Anastasia (1956)

    14. Anastasia

    19561h 45mApproved
    7.0 (9.9K)
    An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
    DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsIngrid BergmanYul BrynnerHelen Hayes
  • Great Catherine (1968)

    15. Great Catherine

    19681h 39mG
    5.3 (365)
    Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.
    DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter O'TooleZero MostelJeanne Moreau
  • Secrets d'histoire (2007)

    16. Secrets d'histoire

    Episode: 

    Catherine II: Nuits blanches à Saint Petersbourg

    (2009)
    2007– TV Episode
    About the life of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg.
    DirectorDavid JankowskiStarsStéphane BernCyrille BoulayPhilippe Brenot
  • Secrets d'histoire (2007)

    17. Secrets d'histoire

    Episode: 

    Nicolas II, le dernier tsar de Russie

    (2014)
    2007– TV Episode
    About Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian empire, and the end of the ill-fated Romanov dynasty.
    DirectorAntoine De MeauxStarsStéphane BernGrand Duchess AnastasiaGrand Duchess Maria
  • Romy Schneider and Curd Jürgens in Adorable Sinner (1959)

    18. Adorable Sinner

    19591h 31m
    5.9 (506)
    Czar Alexander II meets a schoolgirl called Katia. Realizing that he loves her, he attempts to push her away but to no avail. She becomes his mistress. With Katia's help, Alexander is working on a liberal constitution.
    DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsRomy SchneiderCurd JürgensPierre Blanchar
  • Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)

    19. Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

    19862 epsTV-PGTV Mini Series
    6.6 (1.3K)
    Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only "surviving" child of the last Czar and Czarina of Russia.
    StarsAmy IrvingOlivia de HavillandJan Niklas
  • Lucy Worsley in Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley (2016)

    20. Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

    20163 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    7.6 (1.1K)
    British historian Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to investigate the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty.
    StarsLucy WorsleyJanet HartleySimon Dixon
  • Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya (2000)

    21. Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya

    20002h 20m
    7.2 (386)
    The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
    DirectorGleb PanfilovStarsAleksandr GalibinLynda BellinghamVladimir Grachyov
  • The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)

    22. The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    19271h 30mNot Rated
    6.4 (360)
    In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
    DirectorEsfir ShubStarsMikhail AlekseyevAlexei BrusilovNikolai Chkheidze
  • Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976)

    23. Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil

    19761h 40m
    7.2 (537)
    Loosely based on Peter the Great's Negro, Alexander Pushkin's unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia.
    DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsVladimir VysotskiyAleksey PetrenkoIvan Ryzhov
  • Emil Jannings in Peter the Great (1922)

    24. Peter the Great

    19221h
    6.4 (14)
    Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.
    DirectorDmitriy BukhovetskiyStarsEmil JanningsDagny ServaesBernhard Goetzke
  • Peter the First (1937)

    25. Peter the First

    19371h 36m
    7.2 (265)
    A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
    DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovNikolay CherkasovAlla Tarasova

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