Last 33 years: 33 underrated movies

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

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.

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.

This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.

The daughter of Alyona Pavlovna, the chairman of the city executive committee is abducted. The crime is committed by a seemingly handsome young man named Vitaliy. He continues to live, as if nothing had happened, demanding ransom. He is vicious and is not afraid of retribution. What kind of life did Vitaliy lead? Why, and what prompted him to such a terrible act?

The crippled Sarkis is the true king of Carbio. But it's Azazel who usurps the throne after having killed the former king, Sarkis' brother. Azazel proclaims a three-day feast of total freedom, chaos ensues, and Azazel asks Sarkis for help.

A descendant of Ukrainians immigrants who once emigrated overseas, Orest is being thrown into the Ukrainian village by a fierce wind. In fact, this is the element of history itself that has scattered Ukrainians around the world.

A jockey and a circus performer meet in a hospital, and then we see not so much a consistent plot but a mosaic of human passions. The true nature of passion itself revealed in this bright and beautiful movie.

While on his honeymoon, a man sees a judge who sentenced him to seven years in jail and begins plotting his revenge.

King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

Events are unfolding in one of the hot spots of the Russia. The heroes of the film returned from the war. They are winners and losers, because they have forgotten how to live in peace. The war is over, but it is close and still kills. And they want to live so passionately. But how?

Psychiatrist Cora is facing a professional crisis as two of her patients have fallen for each other. Stanislaus Nagy visits her practice, a peculiar young man who claims to be possessed by Maria Callas.

An attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.

A hitchhiker takes two kids on the ride of their dreams, but they soon learn that their newfound hero is just as capable of delivering nightmares.

Kira Muratova's "Checkhovskie motivy", adapted from a couple of works by the famous writer, concerns a man who, in the middle of his wedding, notices that in the audience is his deceased ex-lover.

A small village in the Russian campaign is inhabited only by few old women and a boy. When a family of refugees arrives they are at first opposed by the community, but eventually they'll be accepted and help revive the village.

Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".

A group of drop-outs, losers and criminals are travelling in a stolen Mercedes seemingly aimlessly along numerous derelict houses and impassable roads to eventually end up on an old decaying state farm in Crimea, the southern tip of the former Soviet Union, where the mother, wife and daughter of one of them live. The men kill time with smoking, drinking and staring in front of them, but an undercurrent tension is brewing. On the last night they have a party that is equally destructive as their life.

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power.

Georges's life is turned upside-down when he meets Yamina and decides to help her. While she seems to be persecuted and living in hiding, Georges's reality is rooted in a daily routine without any surprises. Yamina's stories fascinate him: her happy childhood under the rhythm of a song, the massacres in the 1990s in the Great South, as well as her difficulties in Algeria and then in France. Georges spends more and more time with Yamina and is totally disorientated the day she disappears without a word. As his search for her unfolds, Georges realizes that he knows nothing about her and that every person he meets who knew Yamina seems to have a different version of the young woman's life. Convinced that he must go to Algiers to save her, Georges abandons everything and sets out on a journey without any concrete destination. His quest finally leads him to an oasis in the Sahara, a desert that spreads as widely as this love story between Bonnevoie and Tabelbala.

A wrong phone number intertwines three stories.

Angelina lives in a big city on the sea cost, where handsome men and beautiful women are strolling the streets with only one purpose: to have fun, flirt and love. But Angelina, being pretty, intelligent, and nice, finds herself lonely. She is police officer and her job is helping abandoned kids, orphans, and troubled youngsters. One day one of her charges, a little boy, explains Angelina how lonely, dull and useless she is. Those words have been bothering her ever since, and she decides to change herself.. Angelina starts her way through the darkness.

A drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.

Marina, an upper-class social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself after having been raped by three policemen.