80s: The best movies that nobody watched

One morning after a night out, an engineer discovered in his bed a woman (very young and very pretty), who, as it turned out, he had stopped from going to Odessa, and he invited the girl to a road trip.

A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

It is based on real historical events related to the defense of Leningrad by the Red Army and the subsequent blockade of the city by the troops of the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. In the autumn of 1941, under the fire of German artillery and air raids, a small Soviet detachment delivered gunpowder necessary for the defense of the city from Kronstadt to Leningrad.

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the start of the 11th century.

A family of swimmers distinguish themselves in sport but run into trouble with Stalin's police, in this period portrait of how even the light side of life was poisoned by terror.

A man is living in his own world. People call him Trouble Carrier.

A lawyer defends a wealthy woman accused of murder. She claims it was self-defense. The lawyer is not sure.

In 1946 Kazakhstan, breeding pigeons is one of the ways to escape from the grim post-war reality. When a fine white pigeon appears in the small town, teenager Ivan goes to great lengths to get it.

One of the brothers operated on a boy. Another assisted him. It took a blood transfusion. Expensive for a moment, the surgeon did not check the material submitted by the assistant and poured the blood of the wrong group to the patient. The baby is dead. The life of the brothers has changed dramatically. One became a kerosene worker, the other became the chairman of the city council.

Plumbum in translation from Latin means lead - it is Ruslan Chutko's nickname who decided to become a "sanitary assistant of society." But while being taken away by his role of fighting against evil, he goes beyond the limits of child's game and mercilessly intrudes into other people's fates. This film is a sharp detective story dealing with deep and actual moral problem...

The film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.

Sick of the system he works in, an engineer stops the train in the middle of nowhere. The passengers decide to spend time in a local cafe, where their arguments lead to violence.

A well-meaning man tries to convince the inhabitants of a small village who are busy gossiping about the new girl in the village to support his plan to build a tunnel that would connect their village to the sea. Things go horribly wrong.

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in an unusual Paris.

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

In late 14th century medieval Serbia becomes the target of Ottoman invaders. One of their renegade gangs burns the castle and takes young wife of Banovic Strahinja, respected Serbian noble. Banovic Strahinja begins long and almost futile quest for his wife despite everybody else's doubts in her fidelity.

A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.