Russian cinema is distinguished by its epic scale, philosophical depth, and innovative visual language. It often explores history, ideology, and the human psyche, with a tradition of psychological realism and artistic experimentation. Russian cinema contributed revolutionary theories of editing and later a spiritual approach to film language. It remains known for combining formal experimentation with profound explorations of endurance and belief.

Nikolay Grinko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, and Anatoliy Solonitsyn in Stalker (1979)

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Aleksey Kravchenko in Come and See (1985)

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

A writer's novel is banned and play canceled. He then conceives a satirical novel where a devil-like character metaphorically revenges those responsible. Knowing it cannot be published, his muse Margarita pushes him to write it anyway.

My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow

Julia Loktev documents independent journalists in Moscow facing government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for speech amid risks of being branded "foreign agents" and the country's drift towards authoritarianism.

My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024)

Director Pavel Ruminov wanted to break up with his girlfriend. But she had a different opinion on the matter and refused to leave the flat, insisting their story was not over yet.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe.

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

Julia Ormond and Oleg Menshikov in The Barber of Siberia (1998)

Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.

Midwife Lena, a loving wife, is driven towards a string of infidelities after her husband continues to neglect her.

Aleksandr Pal and Evgeniya Gromova in Vernost (2019)

A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

Pavel Talankin and David Borenstein in Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

In defiance of Russia's anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin's radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

A ecology student destroys a construction head's plans for an old forest park. Intrigued, he bets seven romantic days with her; if she leaves, he will give up his plans for the park. She accepts, but finds he challenges her preconceptions.

Anastasiya Reznik and Alexander Petrov in Naughty (2023)

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

A man wakes up in a white room empty other than buttons on the walls, he must find out which button to push to get what he wants.

A wealthy girl yearns for adventure and secretly joins a modeling contest in Dubai, only to be trapped in a sex trafficking ring. She escapes and befriends girls pursuing rich men in Moscow.

Svetlana Ustinova, Yuliya Khlynina, and Anna Adamovych in Buy Me (2018)

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

An SS Panzer Division uses a T-34 manned by Soviet POWs as a training target, but the prisoners plot a daring maneuver.

Mara, an ancient pagan spirit, hunts a group of teenagers taking their body parts to be reborn. A disillusioned and desperate investigator has to face his deepest fears to save the teenagers.

An explorer is sent on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness and makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.

With the fall of the alien ship Julia's life changed, now three years later mankind is about to experience new encounter.

The late 1980s. While parents fight for survival in a changing world, children fight for the territory. Two 14-year-old boys, Andrey and Marat, are seeking protection and support amid violence and poverty - and find it on the streets.

The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt (2023)

16 people come to shoot an extreme reality TV show in a remote place with no cellular reception. A large cash prize will go to a participant who will reach the end and stay human. The film crew disappears and a real survival game starts.

Igor Vernik and Vladimir Veryovochkin in Igra na vyzhivanie (2020)

A family on the brink of splitting up become the owners of a cutting-edge robot being sought by a corporation, homicide investigators and terrorists.

While investigating the mysterious death of a teacher, a grizzled detective gets caught up in the world of a high-stakes virtual reality game.

What will happen, when, as a result of a Biological War, almost the entire human population dies? Women will cry and then create a new and better world.

Psychologist Artyom uses provocative therapy but faces chaos when accused of causing a patient's suicide. Released from prison, he reopens his practice, aiming to prove his innocence while helping clients and navigating personal struggles.

A terrible plague strikes and a group decides to risk their lives. Humanity struggles to survive as they face the end of their civilization.

Vera, a lonely girl, lives by studying and caring for her sixteen-year-old brother. Vera tries to replace both her mother and father, who have been missing for several years, for a difficult teenager. As a gift from fate, an adult man, a successful businessman and builder, bursts into her life. Passion and high romantic flight turn into a tragedy for Vera: businessman Maksim turns a large-scale financial scam around the girl, after which she becomes the main person involved in the criminal case.

Maksim "Max" Lavrov wants to become a great chef. But he finds out that the kitchen isn't the place for an easy career. And in restaurant "Claude Monet" this job looks even harder and much more complicated than just cooking.

In the Ural Mountains, nine students go on a ski hike, but never return. Local investigators must piece together what happened to them when their bodies are found a month later.

Miho, from a renowned tank warfare family, enrolls in Oorai High to avoid Senshado. However, the student council president recruits her to lead their team and win the tournament to prevent the school's closure.

After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Servant of the People (2015)

They call him the Sniffer. He's the proud owner of an acute sense of smell, he knows things about you even you don't and would rather keep to yourself.

A special squad mysteriously dies while undergoing training in the mountains, where a group of smugglers are hiding. Andrey must come out of retirement to investigate.

Nizhniy Novgorod, 2004. A man doesn't remember his name, who he is, or where he's from - he just woke up one day in a hospital with multiple injuries and no memory. Now he's forced to wander around the city, sleep wherever he can, and eat whatever he can get. Despite all this, he hasn't lost his human appearance or dignity, as far as it's possible in his situation. The kids nicknamed him Kompot for his special love for the drink from their school cafeteria, where a compassionate cook feeds him. A group of high school friends decide to help Kompot, find out the truth, and try to get his real life back.

Grigoriy Stolbov, Illarion Marov, Khetag Khinchagov, Vasilisa Korostyshevskaya, and Alexander Petrov in Kambek (2025)

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.

A fantasy drama infused with music and horror fables based on the real story of the «King and Jester», a cult Russian punk rock band, enormously popular in the 1990-2000s.

Konstantin Plotnikov, Evgeniy Tkachuk, and Vlad Konoplyov in Korol i Shut (2023)

Fifteen-year-old Gosha from Moscow turns to stand-up comedy to deal with his many problems: clashes at school, unhappy love and misunderstanding in the family.

Makar Khlebnikov in My Mother's Penguins (2021)

Twelve hour-long documentary depicting World War II's major Eastern Front events/battles. Combines CGI, reenactments and archival footage to illustrate the war's history.

A retired circus bear settles into the woods and prepares for a quiet new life surrounded by peace and tranquility until he is introduced to an adventurous little girl named Masha.

An animal psychologist who studies foxes saves the life of a strange autistic girl, Dina, but becomes a suspect in the murder of her friend. He is forced to begin an independent investigation, and to do this, establish contact with the savage Dina, far from social norms and restrictions. Gradually, he finds out that teenage girls have been disappearing in the area for more than 20 years, and only Dina can give the keys to catching the criminal, who is also her own father.

Brigada is a group of four friends, who grew up together and formed a most powerful gang in Moscow. Initially they made business together, but an unplanned murder transformed them. Now their lives are at risk and there is no way back.

An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.

A lawyer is obsessed with the idea of unmasking a real estate mafia that has robbed dozens of families of their homes. Timur has no idea that the path he has chosen will cause him to lose his family.

Roman Polyanskiy, Lyubava Greshnova, and Vlad Nikityuk in Fate Triangle (2021)

The story of an unusual businessman Aleksandr Shmidt, nicknamed Magic, who is ready to fulfill the most daring and explicit sex fantasies of his clients.

1986. In the area of government dachas on Rublevsky Highway, one teenager after another is killed.

Lyokha, a former police sniper with post-traumatic stress disorder, in the midst of an alcoholic binge learns about the fatal illness of his sister Katya. Katya does not want her daughter to be sent to an orphanage after death, and asks Lyokha to take up her head so that he becomes a guardian for an eight-year-old girl. Lyokha has already lost many close people in his life, so he does everything to help his sister: he picks up old connections and gets a job at the police station. The area turns out to be difficult. The criminals that Lyokha must catch are fairy-tale characters: the Serpent Gorynych, Baba Yaga and other evil spirits. And if the former sniper does not have problems with the capture of villains, then attempts to become a good guardian become a real test for Lyokha.

Elite talents showcase mystical abilities in a competition. After proving their worth, they face tougher challenges. A three-tier evaluation system includes jury, audience and contestants, with TNT viewers voting each episode.

The life of Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German-born princess who came to Russia as the wife of Peter III, chosen by her aunt Elizabeth, and who, once in power, transformed the Russian empire.

After a billionaire's death, his family members and ex-partner vie for control of his assets, forming alliances and betrayals amid settling old scores and redistributing wealth.

Aleksei Guskov, Lidiya Velezheva, Igor Vernik, Yulia Snigir, and Pavel Popov in Zolotoe dno (2023)

In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

A fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.

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