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1. Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Completed

Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff is on a mission to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world.

Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott

2. Happiness (1998)

NC-17 | 134 min | Comedy, Drama

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker

Votes: 74,456 | Gross: $2.81M

3. I Am Love (2009)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher

Votes: 23,999 | Gross: $5.01M

4. We Own the Night (2007)

R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian Mafia hitmen.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Danny Hoch

Votes: 93,015 | Gross: $28.56M

5. Moscow on the Hudson (1984)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Russian saxophonist visiting New York City with a USSR circus troupe suddenly decides to defect in Bloomingdale's.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey

Votes: 13,118 | Gross: $25.10M

6. St. Vincent (2014)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.

Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell

Votes: 108,549 | Gross: $44.13M

7. Paulie (1998)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A talking parrot named Paulie recounts his travels to look for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.

Director: John Roberts | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison

Votes: 16,255 | Gross: $27.01M

8. W.E. (2011)

R | 119 min | Drama, History, Romance

The affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Director: Madonna | Stars: Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac

Votes: 13,628 | Gross: $0.58M

9. Ballet Shoes (2007 TV Movie)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Family, Musical

In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.

Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Emilia Fox

Votes: 9,177

10. The Whales of August (1987)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern

Votes: 5,294 | Gross: $1.34M

11. The Chosen (1981)

PG | 108 min | Drama

In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller

Votes: 2,408

12. One Dark Night (1982)

PG | 89 min | Horror

As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.

Directors: Tom McLoughlin, Michael Schroeder | Stars: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights

Votes: 3,756

13. Gunfight at Rio Bravo (2023)

80 min | Action, Drama, Western

A mysterious Russian gunslinger aids a marshal and a sheriff in a standoff with a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town.

Director: Joe Cornet | Stars: Alexander Nevsky, Olivier Gruner, Joe Cornet, Matthias Hues

Votes: 2,494

14. The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)

172 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to... See full summary »

Stars: Justine Waddell, Michael Weatherly, Matthew Settle, Colin Friels

Votes: 1,034

15. Agent 38-24-36 (1964)

110 min | Comedy

A Russian spy is supposed by the British Secret Service to steal some faked orders, but he is too stupid to succeed. His girlfriend tries to help him, but it seems he is too foolish to succeed.

Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Grégoire Aslan, Jean-Marc Tennberg

Votes: 464

16. Minyan (2020)

Unrated | 118 min | Drama

A young Jewish man is caught between thrilling private trysts and his repressive family in this thoughtful drama set in 1980s Brooklyn.

Director: Eric Steel | Stars: Samuel H. Levine, Ron Rifkin, Christopher McCann, Mark Margolis

Votes: 1,113

17. Dagger Eyes (1983)

84 min | Horror, Thriller

Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.

Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Carole Bouquet, Phil Coccioletti, Duilio Del Prete, John Steiner

Votes: 282

18. The Song of Sway Lake (2018)

R | 94 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Music collector Ollie Sway recruits his only friend, a rowdy Russian drifter, to help him steal a 78 record from his own family's estate.

Director: Ari Gold | Stars: Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, Isabelle McNally, Mary Beth Peil

Votes: 703

19. The Public Eye (1992)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In the early 1940s, an infamous New York paparazzo gets an assignment from a club owner to do a background search on a mysterious gangster, which leads him down a very dangerous path.

Director: Howard Franklin | Stars: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle, Bryan Travis Smith

Votes: 4,427 | Gross: $3.07M

20. Despair (1978)

119 min | Drama, History

In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler

Votes: 2,723

21. Operation Odessa (2018)

TV-MA | 92 min | Documentary, Crime

In the early 1990s, three friends set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime.

Director: Tiller Russell | Stars: Ludwig Fainberg, Juan Almeida, Nelson Yester, Kristy Galeota

Votes: 6,922

22. Midnight Ride (1990)

R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin Mckay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.

Director: Bob Bralver | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Savina Gersak, Robert Mitchum

Votes: 1,147

23. The Washing Machine (1993)

Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla,

Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Philippe Caroit, Ilaria Borrelli, Katarzyna Figura, Barbara Ricci

Votes: 888

24. Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)

Unrated | 78 min | Animation, Comedy

Jóska, a Hungarian immigrant in Los Angeles is sharing an apartment with the Russian Vladislav. In their search for the "American Dream" they get into all kinds of troubles, wild adventures... See full summary »

Director: Gabor Csupo | Stars: Hank Azaria, Ahmed Ahmed, Jen Alexander, Jack Angel

Votes: 884

25. Filth and Wisdom (2008)

Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A comedy centered on three flatmates living desperate lives in London.

Director: Madonna | Stars: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant

Votes: 2,631 | Gross: $0.02M

26. In Old Arizona (1928)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Western

A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.

Directors: Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess, Henry Armetta

Votes: 1,295 | Gross: $2.83M

27. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh

Votes: 2,334

28. The Elder Son (2006)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

A story of a Russian clarinetist living in Los Angeles, whose life changes when a young local car thief passes himself off as his long-lost son.

Director: Marius Vaysberg | Stars: Shane West, Leelee Sobieski, Eric Balfour, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 502

29. Keeping Rosy (2014)

89 min | Drama, Thriller

All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. When Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger.

Director: Steve Reeves | Stars: Maxine Peake, Brooke Skylar Baptist, Delta Storm Baptist, Sam Hoare

Votes: 1,137

30. Kojak: The Belarus File (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Lieutenant Theo Kojak teams up with Dana Sutton, a comely federal agent, to uncover a conspiracy reaching back to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Telly Savalas, Suzanne Pleshette, Max von Sydow, Herbert Berghof

Votes: 308

31. The Young Lieutenant (2005)

Unrated | 110 min | Crime, Drama

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey

Votes: 2,639

32. Coming In (2014)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Notoriously-hip Berlin-based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty-parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: Katja Riemann, Andreja Schneider, Aylin Tezel, Max Felder

Votes: 770

33. Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance (1996 TV Movie)

96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jack Reed is investigating a mass murder that occurred in a cemetery in broad daylight. Most individuals at the cemetery and the victims are Russian immigrants and they either fear or don't... See full summary »

Director: Brian Dennehy | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan, Michael Talbott

Votes: 269

34. Russendisko (2012)

100 min | Comedy

Following Russian immigrant narrator Wladimir as he and his friends navigate Berlin around the time of German Reunification, Russendisko holds plotlines pertaining to the lives and relationships of himself and those close to him.

Director: Oliver Ziegenbalg | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Christian Friedel, Peri Baumeister

Votes: 1,803

35. The Dinner (2020)

78 min | Drama

Emma and Gregory, Russian immigrants, are having a hard time adapting in Israel. They cross paths with Alon, an amateur artist and owner of a high-tech company who is in crisis with his wife Yael.

Directors: Matti Harari, Arik Lubetzki | Stars: Ishai Golan, Oleg Levin, Oded Menaster, Keren Peles

Votes: 17

36. Across the Sea of Time (1995)

G | 51 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Low | Stars: Peter Reznick, John McDonough, Avi Hoffman, Victor Steinbach

Votes: 314 | Gross: $15.98M

37. Laissons Lucie faire! (2000)

91 min | Comedy, Romance

Lucie sells swimsuits that she created on the beaches. His companion becomes an apprentice secret agent, which poses a problem in their love life, especially when a young woman asks him to introduce him to sensual pleasures.

Director: Emmanuel Mouret | Stars: Marie Gillain, Emmanuel Mouret, Dolores Chaplin, Georges Neri

Votes: 260

38. Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009)

86 min | Documentary

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas shares stories about his life, his family, his work, and his philosophy after living 92 years.

Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anne Douglas, Diana Douglas, Eric Douglas

Votes: 81

39. Love & Dance (2006)

95 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Chen, a young kid, is battling a cultural conflict between his Russian born mother and Israeli father. She is cultured and used to the finer things in life, including theater and fine ... See full summary »

Director: Eitan Anner | Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Avi Kushnir, Oksana Korostyshevskaya, Kirill Safonov

Votes: 297

40. Cargo (I) (2011)

R | 85 min | Drama

A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, must fight for her life in order to derail the traffickers' plans.

Director: Yan Vizinberg | Stars: Natasha Rinis, Sayed Badreya, Philip Willingham, Raul Torres

Votes: 532

41. De zeemeerman (1996)

111 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Tony is really handsome, but he smells. A scientist gives him a potion that should get rid of his fishy smell. Unfortunately, there are some serious side effects.

Director: Frank Herrebout | Stars: Daniël Boissevain, Gonny Gaakeer, Angelique de Bruijne, Frans van Deursen

Votes: 538

42. Red Line (2018)

80 min | Crime, Thriller

1992, Roman Rédl a Military Prosecutor at the height of his career must prevent General Ference, the last chief of the State Security (StB) to escape in the midst of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

Stars: Ondrej Sokol, David Novotný, Martin Hofmann, Roman Polák

Votes: 196

43. Farewell to Harry (2002)

103 min | Drama

A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.

Director: Garrett Bennett | Stars: Joe Flanigan, William Hall Jr., Lysette Anthony, Joseph Franklin

Votes: 168

44. The Poker Club (2008)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.

Director: Tim McCann | Stars: Johnny Messner, Michael Risley, Jana Kramer, Lenny Levi

Votes: 432

45. Victoria Day (2009)

88 min | Drama

Over the course of one week in 1988, the search for a missing teammate, parental expectations, a burgeoning sexual awakening and the rock concert of the century all threaten to jolt a 16-year-old into adulthood.

Director: David Bezmozgis | Stars: Mark Rendall, Sergiy Kotelenets, Nataliya Alyexeyenko, Holly Deveaux

Votes: 153

46. Beyond the Ocean (2000)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

A young pregnant Russian woman heads to New York to find father of her child in this brooding drama. The film alternates scenes from Pitsee's experiences in America with flashbacks to her ... See full summary »

Director: Tony Pemberton | Stars: Dasha Volga, Tatyana Kamina, Rita Kamina, Rik Nagel

Votes: 51

47. The Daughters of Fortune (1999)

119 min | Drama

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.

Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Olga Drozdova, Jan Nowicki, Masza Petraniuk, Olaf Lubaszenko

Votes: 153

48. Crime Unlimited (1935)

TV-G | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An undercover policeman infiltrates a notorious ring of jewel thieves headed by a man no one has ever seen.

Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Esmond Knight, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, George Merritt

Votes: 299

49. My Name Is Sasha

Short, Drama | Post-production

In modern Los Angeles, Sasha, a conflicted teen in a family of conservative Russian immigrants, seeks her purpose in life. Until one night she meets Bella, a young adult film actress, who shows Sasha what kind of life she can have.

Director: Alexander Tsays | Stars: Natasha Goubskaya, Dimitry Rozental, Suzanna Katalana, Camila Doring

50. Vkus Ameriki (2014)

112 min | Drama

Artist of Russia moved to New York. And womanizer, Alex wants to conquer the world famous bohemian metropolis. Despite serious illness, it has filed the first signals that it is full of energy and desire to live, swirl the passion of love.

Director: Yefim Gribov | Stars: Semyon Strugachyov, Yekaterina Golubeva, Yuliya Svezhakova, Natasha Gregson Wagner

Votes: 16