russian films to watch

A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.

When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...

A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.

Two young girls, Sveta and Dina, go on the run to avoid being kidnapped by the former associates of Dina's recently released gangster father.

A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

Radio station gets the task to achieve an election victory for a mysterious client.

Arriving 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.

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Veteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.

Several love stories in Moscow.

Early 70s environmentalist drama centers on a tension between the love a professor's daughter feels for an industrialist whose scheme risks pollution of Lake Baikal, and her father's devotion toward preservation of natural beauty.

Directed by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.

Caesar, a former Nazi concentration camp prisoner, sifts through his traumatic experiences against the background of the new modern buildings of Vilnius, and become even stronger when he learns of the death of a friend and fellow traveler.

In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."

Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor.

A film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself.

It is the summer of 1944 and two prisoners of war - a Lithuanian teacher and a Russian Navy officer - make an impulsive escape attempt and end up on a Baltic seaside resort for SS officers.

1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. One after another, four village council chairmen were killed. Now old Lokis is dead. At the funeral, his four sons swear to destroy the Brownie gang. And Vaitkus, a former "forest brother", was forcibly put in place of Lokis.

Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.

Based on A. N. Tolstoy's novel "Peter I" (1945) and continuation of the film "Peter's Youth" (1980). At the end of the 17th century, Russia suffered huge losses in trade because it had no access to the sea. The young Peter I begins the construction of the Russian fleet in Voronezh and takes the Azov fortress. At this time, dissatisfaction with the rule of the young monarch is brewing among the courtiers.

A movie novel about young architects building a new city in Siberia, their anxieties, worries and victories.