TOP 55 Soviet/Russian Movies
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- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovValentina VladimirovaMikhail DadykoA white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.Dog drama. A Scottish Setter in search of its lost owner. Heartbreaking story that makes everyone cry.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA 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.War drama. First collaboration between an Oscar-winning director and a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Russian soldier has to go through hell during the Great Patriotic War.
- DirectorVladimir ChebotaryovGennadiy KazanskiyStarsVladimir KorenevAnastasiya VertinskayaMikhail KozakovPeople living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiandr can live underwater. This gives him certain advantages, but creates a lot of problems.Science fiction/romance. A scientist awarded his dying son with shark gills, thus turning him into amphibian man. Visually stunning film about ocean, love and greed.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.Drama. Arguably the best adaptation of several Chekhov's stories mixed into one beautiful, melancholic film.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.Drama. Despite only the first half of the book was screened, it is still by far the best adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinAt the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.Red Western. A soldier with a kettle is stuck in the middle of Asian desert. He is ordered to protect a harem from the leader of local bandits. Quotable to extreme.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.History/biopic/drama. Medieval Russia during a troubled period trough the eyes of the greatest icon painter. Violent and historically inaccurate, but still very authentic.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring 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.History/biopic/drama. The most famous and - no doubt - the best movie about the first Russian Tsar Ivan IV during his first 30 years of ruling.
- StarsStanislav LyubshinAlla DemidovaValentina TitovaThe title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.Spy movie. Russian spy moves up the career ladder in the heart of Nazi intelligence agency. Very smart and realistic spy film written/directed by WWII veterans.
- StarsVasiliy LivanovVitali SolominRina ZelyonayaPicking up from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980) adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue as they oppose a fierce crime syndicate in one of their greatest challenges.Mystery. The famous Soviet set of films about Sherlock Holmes really starts off with this brilliant trilogy where the duo confronts Professor Moriarty.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsMikhail NozhkinNikolay OlyalinMikhail UlyanovThis five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.This 5-part war epic from a team of war veterans is among the best WWII movies ever created. It has everything: grand battles, political intrigues and personal dramas.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsPyotr GlebovElina BystritskayaZinaida KirienkoAn epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.Historical drama. Absolutely the best adaptation of Mikhail Sholokhov's Nobel Prize-winning novel about the lives of Don Cossacks during the 1910-1920s.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsVladimir SamoylovVitali SolominYevgeny PerovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.Historical drama. A breathtaking epic about a small Siberian village from the start of the XX century till the 1970s.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.Drama. A story of a middle-aged woman who served as a flying ace during the war. Now a head teacher, a town's deputy and a well-regarded person, she doesn't seem to find her place in life, dreaming of planes and the man she lost.
- StarsIgor VolkovOleg MenshikovNatalya SaykoA biographical epic about the legendary Russian scientist, historian, linguist and writer Mikhailo Lomonosov and his lifelong search for truth.Biopic/history. Physicist, chemist, astronomer, geographer, geologist, inventor, writer, founder of Moscow State University, an ardent patriot - that's all Lomonosov. Long, hard way from a peasant boy to one of the greatest minds.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovSergey PodgornyySergei IvanovDuring World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.War drama. During the Great Patriotic War a singing squadron of young pilots fight under the command of war veterans, play music, fall in love and die. Based on true events.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.Cult Russian action film full of wit, a sequel to Brother where the action moves from S. Petersburg to the criminal world of Chicago. Russian ex-soldier is here seeking justice.
- DirectorYuri YegorovStarsNonna MordyukovaMikhail UlyanovDaniil IlchenkoA simple story about a young widow who becomes the head of the local collective farm and tries to change everything, including her personal life.Romance/drama. Heartbreaking story that takes place shortly after the war. A lonely widow is chosen the head of kolkhoz (collective farming). And immediately falls in love.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina MaksimovaYoung Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.War drama/road movie. War in this film is very subtle, yet it follows every step of the main hero who is returning home to see his mother. Written/directed by war veterans.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsVladimir ZeldinTatyana DrubichAleksandr KaydanovskiyA psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.Mystery/thriller. Arguably the best adaptation of the original Agatha Christie novel, full of thrills and suspense.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsElena SoloveyRodion NakhapetovAleksandr KalyaginA fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.Romance/drama. 1918. A team of filmmakers troubled by Reds and Whites is trying to finish a very bad film. Inspired by Vera Kholodnaya, early star of Russian cinema.
- DirectorKirill LavrovIvan PyrevMikhail UlyanovStarsMikhail UlyanovLionella PyryevaKirill LavrovThree 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.Drama. The last - and greatest novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky made into a powerful, if a bit overdramatic movie.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsAndrey MartynovIrina DolganovaElena DrapekoDuring World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.War drama. Several young girls headed by an old soldier have to fight off Nazis. One of the most beloved war movies written and directed by two war veterans.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsIvan PereverzevBoris LivanovSergey BondarchukHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.Biopic/history/war. Political intrigues and grand sea battles in this historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander Fyodor Ushakov, defender of Crimea and Napoleon's nightmare. Followed by Attack from the Sea.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsMaksim MunzukYuriy SolominMikhail BychkovThe Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.Adventure. Kurosawa's Oscar-winning epic based on the diaries of Vladimir Arsenyev, a Russian explorer of the Far East, and his encounter with a Nanai hunter.
