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- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA 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.
- DirectorPyotr LutsikStarsYuriy DubrovinNikolay OlyalinAleksei PushkinThe hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri JärvetA psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
- DirectorRoman KachanovGlenn StantonStarsOlga GromovaVsevolod LarionovYuriy VolyntsevZoologist professor Steel, his small daughter Christine and captain Green leave Earth in search for rare space animals. The journey turns into adventurous and dangerous mission involving space pirates and a missing captain of a ship.
- DirectorBakhyt KilibayevStarsViktor StepanovIvan MartynovYekaterina KmitGroup of Cossacks are coming to Moscow to buy an ox. Moscow turns out to be a devilish hole crowded with witches. Some local witch seduces Kol'ka Smagin (one of the Cossacks) and robs him of his brown eyes, giving him alien blue ones instead. Now Kol'ka and his uncle Zarubin are ready to go to any length in order to get the eyes back. The quest begins.
- DirectorSergei OvcharovStarsRolan BykovNatalya GundarevaSvetlana KryuchkovaThe bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.
- DirectorOleg TeptsovStarsViktor AvilovAnna DemyanenkoMikhail KozakovA famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
- DirectorVasili MassStarsAurelija AnuzhiteLiubomiras LauceviciusAlgirdas PaulaviciusA young woman agrees to model for an artist as Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsStanislav LyubshinEvgeniy LeonovYuriy YakovlevTwo Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
- StarsIgor KostolevskiyMikk MikiverYuriy NazarovInvestigator Muromtsev, investigating the malfeasance of a local police officer, goes to the dealers of the shadow economy.
- DirectorKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey GlazyrinA 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.
- DirectorDmitriy SvetozarovStarsYuriy KuznetsovMikhail ZhigalovSergey KokovkinA group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.
- DirectorSergey LivnevStarsEvdokiya GermanovaLyubov GermanovaAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyyThe most popular singer Zhanna Plavskaya turns into a drug addict - concerts, filming, recordings are disrupted. At the provincial doubles competition, the producer of the star finds a dreamy girl, brings her to the capital.
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsTatyana DrubichStanislav LyubshinPyotr FomenkoMan who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.
- DirectorGennadiy VasilevStarsKakhi KavsadzeIgor TalkovLarisa ShakhvorostovaThe reign of Ivan the Terrible was a time of glory, luxury and cruelty, a time when all concepts were perverted, baseness was called virtue, and betrayal was included in the law.
- DirectorDmitriy MeskhievStarsMikhail BezverkhnyNina RuslanovaIrina RozanovaThe musical tragicomedy based on the story of A. I. Kuprin of the same name. Beginning of the 20th century. In the southern seaside city the vegetable marrow "Gambrinus" is known by all. Here it is always possible to receive a mug of fresh beer, to meet with friends, to be thrown by a nifty with the hostess of an institution madam Ivanova and of course to listen to unique game of the violinist Sashka.
- 19812 epsTV-PG8.5 (6.5K)TV Mini SeriesStarsVasiliy LivanovVitali SolominRina ZelyonayaWhen Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
- DirectorNikita KhubovStarsAlla KlioukaMaksim BelyakovAndrey ZhigalovSvetlana and Nikolay loved each other to the envy of the whole village. The matter went to the wedding - And everything collapsed at one moment due to the usual gossip.
- StarsSergey ShakurovAnna KamenkovaVladimir SamoylovThe apartment of the famous violin player Lev Polyakov has been robbed. Among other things, thieves took a violin made by Antonio Stradivari, which is a priceless masterpiece. Inspector Tikhonov have to investigate this crime. Also, Antonio Stradivari's life story is told.
- DirectorRudolf FruntovStarsValeri RyzhakovKlara LuchkoEmmanuil VitorganPolice captain Vladimir Lyusin investigates mysterious disappearance of antique dealer Vincent Savigny, who arrived in Leningrad from France. The roots of the incident go back to the events of the 13th century.
- DirectorSergey SnezhkinStarsYuriy KuznetsovNikolay YeryomenkoYuriy OskinDark, tormented by civil war, hungry and devoid of any political prospects Moscow of supposed future. The protagonist tries to get out of the sticky web of KGB recruitment. The story focuses on the misgivings of the troubled future 90s.
- DirectorIrma TarkovskayaStarsIgor KostolevskiyAleksandr LazarevAleksandr GalibinBased on Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tale "Frozen" about the coal miner Peter Munch, who sold his heart for a bag of gold, the retelling of which is the second storyline.
- DirectorDmitri TalankinIgor TalankinStarsValentinas MasalskisIngeborga DapkunaiteAlvis HermanisIn a vacation spot north of Moscow where technocrats and intellectuals gather, a woman fools around with different men including a computer scientist and a screenwriter, the resulting squabbling and back stabbing end tragically.
- DirectorAnatoliy BobrovskiyStarsVsevolod SanaevVladislav DvorzhetskiyOleg BasilashviliInspired by actual events in the days of cold war, an escaped convict steels "Saint Luke" painting from a museum which he tries to sell to a foreign tourist. Police colonel Zorin is to save the work of art from the hands of the criminal.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovVladimir KhotinenkoAleksandr KhvanStarsAnna SyomkinaAleksandr KaydanovskiyAleksey ZhirovThe film consists of 4 short stories: "The Wedding March" - A non-classical love triangle: the father is a film director, the son is a student, the father's mistress is also the son's bride. "Exercise No. 5" - A movie is being made. The group is waiting for the weather. Someone drinks coffee, someone tries to rehearse, someone solves personal problems or indulges in adultery. And all this is watched dispassionately by a camera that they forgot to turn off. "Trofim" - Ordinary Russian history. The man became jealous of his wife and brother, killed him with an ax and went on the run to the capital city of St. Petersburg. Then they took him - lukewarm - in a brothel. "The Road" - Two refugees wander through the capital's train stations: she sings Russian songs, he is the organizer and accompanist. In addition to casual listeners, one of the "new Russians" listens to them.
- DirectorNijole AdomenaiteStarsYelena ShiffersYelena ShachkovaYuri AstafyevA slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad.
- DirectorAndrey I.Armen PetrosyanStarsAnna SyomkinaEngineering Red is a Russian surrealist film released in 1993, directed by Andrei I and animator Armen Petrosyan. The script is based on Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain and idea of creating artificial people in the Soviet Union.
- DirectorAleksandr OrlovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyAleksandr FeklistovAnatoliy AdoskinDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorDmitriy MeskhievStarsAleksandr AbdulovKseniya KachalinaYuriy KuznetsovLeningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
- DirectorKhodzha Kuli NarliyevStarsMaya-Gozel AimedovaNurberdy AllaberdyyevMaysa AlmazovaThe film is about a Turkmen who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsVasiliy BochkaryovEvgeniya GlushenkoOlga StarostinaMixture of social satire and fantasy, in which a worker at a science research facility uses his newfound ability to transmit his dreams and sets up a business to sell them to a sleeping audience.
- DirectorGeorgi Yungvald-KhilkevichStarsNikolay FedortsovRaisa NedashkovskayaSaveliy KramarovYoung scientist Vladimir Bantikov (Nikolai Fyodortsov) from the Institute for Intractable Problems is working on a rainbow formula. In order not to be distracted by numerous unnecessary and boring meetings, he creates his twin - the robot Yashu. After a while, the proud robot escapes from its creator. His search is complicated by the fact that, thanks to the ingenious device he created, the "plasticizer", he was able to change his appearance (however, a little later this device was lost). However, the robot, with all the impeccable logic of its actions, still has characteristic distinctive features: it is soulless in relations with people, thinks straightforwardly and is completely devoid of a sense of humor. To Volodya's surprise, similar qualities were inherent in many people who met him during the search, so sometimes it was impossible to determine who was in front of you - a robot or a living person. In the end, Yasha is found - the director of the institute Kozdolevsky appoints him as an instructor at one of the seaside sports bases, where many funny adventures happened to him. Since Yasha's superpowers do not make it possible to just catch him, he is caught by deception - using his propensity for formal and direct execution of instructions, he is lured into the sea, where he has a short circuit. After this, the robot, through the efforts of Bantikov, after reprogramming, is appointed to the position of the institute doorman.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsAndrei BoltnevNina RuslanovaAndrey MironovRussian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
- DirectorValeriy OgorodnikovStarsAleksandr RomantsovPavel RudakovIrina TsyvinaA Tv actor-director of the Gorbachev generation makes a film about 1949: the narrative shifts between fantasies and realities, the past and the present.
- DirectorSergey BaranovVladimir BortkoViktor ButurlinStarsViktor BychkovOlga SamoshinaYuri AroyanAn almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories «Pause in Major».
- DirectorGennadi GlagolevStarsStanislav TerentyevNatalya BoldyrevaValeriy LeontevDue to a brain injury sustained in a street fight, Hera Romanov began to periodically fall into "parallel worlds", where he died painfully every time. The picture of the paranormal phenomena of the human psyche is solved in the genre of adventure fiction, replete with tricks, chases, shootouts and hand-to-hand fights.
- DirectorSergei OvcharovStarsNikolay StotskiyVladimir GostyukhinLeonid KuravlyovIn a genre of the Russian popular print the movie retells the known baize about talent of the armorer Levsha and his restless soul.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnna MatyukhinaBoris SokolovSvetlana MikhalchenkoA father takes his daughter to the zone where doctors can heal her ailment.
- DirectorIvan OkhlobystinStarsAleksandr SolovyovRolan BykovIvan OkhlobystinChaos and lawlessness reigns in the city of "N", justice is managed by the hired executioner by nickname "Arbitr". The skilled investigator, and his workmate, the young militia lieutenant, decide to catch the mysterious murderer of "Arbitr". During the investigation it becomes clear that the murderer not the professional criminal, but the person, once fallen a victim.
- DirectorVladimir MaslovEvgeniy YufitStarsSergey ChernovVasili DeryaginValeri KrishtapenkoThe necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experiment
- DirectorRichard ViktorovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyVasiliy MerkurevLev DurovSeveral children go to a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.
- DirectorRichard ViktorovStarsMisha YershovAleksandr GrigoryevVladimir SavinContinuation of the film "Moscow-Cassiopea": cosmonauts-schoolchildren fly to an extraterrestrial civilization in distress.
- DirectorValeri RubinchikStarsBoris PlotnikovElena DimitrovaAlbert FilozovA mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- DirectorVladimir BraginStarsAndrey Shcherbovich-VecherVita GrebnevaNadezhda ButyrtsevaHalf-wolf, half-man, 7 feet tall. He came from mountains to rewrite the "Red Riding Hood" story.
- DirectorVladimir AlenikovStarsNikolay KochegarovTatyana NovikVictor RepnikovIn Middle-Age Russia, a Christian preacher arrives, proposing a new order. He threatens those who take part in a pagan festival with the flames of hell. But when strange crimes start to happen, local leaders decide to investigate.
- DirectorAlbert S. MkrtchyanLeonid PopovStarsVladislav DvorzhetskiyGeorgiy VitsinOleg DalThe exiled settler Alexander Ilyin persuades the goldmines owner Trifon Perfilyev to sponsor the expedition dedicated to the searches of "Sannikov Land", a legendary warm land behind the Polar circle.
- DirectorNikolay LebedevStarsEkaterina GusevaOlga OstroumovaEvgeniy MironovThe town where Dina, a student of the Pedagogical Institute, comes to practice, is paralyzed with fear. A series of mysterious murders of outwardly similar girls makes residents think that a real maniac is operating in the city.
- DirectorGennadiy KlimovIgor ShavlakStarsYelena KaradzhovaYuriy Katin-YartsevVsevolod KhabarovA newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around.
- DirectorAndrey KharitonovStarsEvgeniy BakharMikhail DolgopolovIgor KostolevskiyThe heroine has no name. She is passion itself, materialized in her sick imagination. Yielding to the will of the patient, the doctor falls in love with her.
- DirectorIgor TalankinStarsAlla DemidovaAndrei PopovKonstantin BaranovThe film is based on the autobiographical book "Day Stars" published in 1959 by the Leningrad writer Olga Bergholz, who survived the most difficult years of the siege in the besieged city. It was during this period that she created some of her best works, including poems dedicated to the defense of Leningrad.
- DirectorChristo ChristovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyVania TzvetkovaYevgeniya BarakovaIn this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of harmony and happiness. The delicate, pretty, sensitive Dorotea and the sedate middle-aged composer Antoni meet by chance. He gives her shelter in his house. Famous composer falls under the spell of young Dorothea: A pretty, thin-skinned, though quite an eccentric girl. Antoni becomes the witness of a series of strange and wonderful events. She is maintaining she is able to fly, drawing him into her half real world, when miracles are worked. It turns out that Dorotea has the supernatural gift of divining and forecasting people thoughts and intentions. Gradually Antoni overcomes his initial confusion and becomes used to the parapsychological states of the girl. He penetrates her acutely sensitive inner world where the supernatural becomes natural and the impossible possible. And when he learns that Dorotea can fly, he joins her and flies with her. During this experiment he feels a surge of creativity and happiness for the first time in many years. Is all this real or imaginary? Embarrassed, as he is, he leaves on a short trip, and when finally resolved to come back to her, it is too late. Why is it that Dorotea is found dead apparently having fallen after one of her flights?
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsSergey KoltakovViktor SmirnovNatalya Akimova1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a wealthy peasant Mokey Zhlobin, unwilling to give away his hided corn. The only one person, backing up Fyodor is a local self-made inventor, living in the outskirts with his beloved beauty-wife, having equipped his house with electricity, power-saw bench and other gimmicks. The inventor takes him as a close friend and his young wife falls in love with Fyodor. The love triangle appears, but their ideals are above all. Together they manage to find the hidden corn and survive in uneven battle with bandits who rushed into a village.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsVladimir DegtyarevVladimir GladyshevTatyana GoryachevaNikita, haunted by the civil war, meets Luba, who is as deeply moral and lonely as he is.
- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsJózef DuriaszEdmund FettingGustaw LutkiewiczA pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.
- DirectorAleksandr RouStarsPyotr AleynikovMarina KovalyovaVeniamin GutSurreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse.
- DirectorAleksandr RouStarsGeorgiy MillyarSergey StolyarovLev PotyomkinThe younger brother from the common people intends to fight for a salvation of the exiled princess, suffering from a dark magic curse.
- DirectorFyodor PetrukhinStarsYanina LisovskayaTatyana SkorokhodovaAristarkh LivanovDina's father, a district doctor, mysteriously disappears. After this event, Dinu is visited at night by a ghost predicting misfortune for his fellow villagers. Dina tries to warn trouble, but they do not believe her.
- DirectorNikolai ChirukStarsAnatoliy VasilevEvgeniy ZharikovOlga Nedovodina-FinneyAn ordinary Soviet man named Chekrygin works as an engineer at one of the enterprises. But few people know that in fact he is a vampire, and sucks blood at night. So he would have lived for himself, if not for his lovely colleague Tatyana, with whom he passionately fell in love .
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsVladimir KonstantinovIvan YudinIvan BobrovWhile hearing the story of "Gulliver's Travels", a young Russian boy dreams that he is the title character on the island of Lilliput.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLeonid FilatovTatyana DogilevaIrina KupchenkoA former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaOlga VolkovaValentin GaftMany of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorGrigori KromanovStarsUldis PucitisJüri JärvetLembit PetersonPolice gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsElena AminovaMikhail DerzhavinNikolay GrinkoA musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials.
- DirectorDmitriy SvetozarovStarsSergey BekhterevZinaida SharkoYuriy KuznetsovIn a gloomy communal flat in St. Petersburg, a man - local bully and alcoholic - was murdered. Each of the tenants hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But all have a cast-iron alibi.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsViktor MikhaylovVera MayorovaVadim LobanovIn a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum buried under the sea which can only be accessed during low tide.
- DirectorGennadiy VasilevStarsVyacheslav VoskresenskySvetlana OrlovaMikhail KononovThe film was loosely based on the fairy-tale with the same name by I. Shestakov and was dedicated to the memory of fairy-tale film director Aleksander Rou.
- DirectorMariano BainoStarsLouise SalterVenera SimmonsMariya KapnistA girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVladimir TolokonnikovBoris PlotnikovIn the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
- DirectorMark ZakharovStarsAleksandr AbdulovOleg YankovskiyEvgeniy LeonovDragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people.
- DirectorAleksey BatalovIosif ShapiroStarsLina BraknytePyotr ArtemyevAleksey BatalovBased on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsMiroslav MachácekTomás PalatýStepánka CervenkováA group of teenagers are mysteriously invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder.
- DirectorIgor ShevchenkoStarsMikhail PakhomenkoAleksandr BaluevMarina StarykhThe middle-aged journalist Kovalev finally gets the chance to become the chief editor of the newspaper. Not wanting to tempt fate, the hero turns to the party organizer for support. And then something unexpected happens - Kovalev is bitten in the ankle by a dog, and he becomes a werewolf. Turning into a terrible dog at night, Kovalev has been prowling around the city ever since and instilling fear in his readers.