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- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsLena KostyukRoma BurlakaZhan DanielTwo young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
- DirectorNatalya NovikStarsMarat BasharovAleksey GorbunovVitaliy KhaevMeet the Solntsevo family - three crazy kids with no parental supervision, living in a hovel in the middle of Nowhere-on-the-Black-Sea. When their shack blows up, what can they do? Flee to Moscow in search of food, love, happiness and Mom - with one of their fathers locked in the trunk and the police close behind. Take this scenic road trip, Russian-style, starring some of the cutest soon-to-be-international stars and a hairless dog.
- DirectorFeliks MikhaylovStarsVille HaapasaloDanila KozlovskiyIvan NikolaevVeselchaki is a movie centered on a Moscow nightclub owned by Rosa; he performs as part of the drag revue in the club. The movie starts with five cross-dressing men sharing their stories with a reporter. The movie is a comedy-drama from a Russian writer. It is thought provoking, has complex and funny characters, and is worth watching!
- DirectorSergey DebizhevStarsAleksey SerebryakovNikolay MartonViktor VerzhbitskiyA Russian producer Alexander happened to see an old magazine photo from Cambodia; to his surprise he looks at his grandfather, who had been considered dead during The Great Patriotic War. The photo was taken in the French Indochina, and Alexander decides to lead an investigation and eventually finds out that his grandfather stored a statue of the golden Buddha. Mysticism, free masons, pursuits and adventures will change Alexander's life forever.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsOleg TabakovAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaAt the heart of this story there are Him and Her, two former schoolmates who haven't crossed paths for a long time . One day, he arrives into Her town and right away, from the threshold, to ask her advice about a mess he's got into: he's sincerely in love with two women at once . .
- DirectorLyubov ArkusThe film tells about Anton Kharitonov, a young man with autism whose mother, Rinata, dies of cancer, after which he has to live in social shelters, where he is not provided with adequate assistance.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoAnna KotovaVladimir KorobeynikovSascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and tolerate his clandestine love-affair with Anya.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsKseniya RappoportRoman ShmakovYevgeniya KuznetsovaA mother loses her son during a winter visit to a remote town.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsFranziska PetriDejan LilicAlbina DzhanabaevaA romance between two strangers who discover that their partners are lovers.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsKonstantin LavronenkoMaria BonnevieAleksandr BaluevA trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsMarat BasharovMariya MironovaAndrey PaninThe beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVladas BagdonasInga Strelkova-OboldinaKaren BadalovThe conductor goes with the orchestra to Jerusalem to execute the oratorio "Passion according to St.Matthew". But tours are wrapped in the tragedy. The black sun of Jerusalem unmasks with main the hero of the successful artist, forces to see itself in ruthless nakedness of egoism and cruelty. Sometimes in 3 days of people can overestimate and rethink the life completely. To change never late.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MashkovChulpan KhamatovaA novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.
- DirectorOleg StepchenkoStarsJason FlemyngAndrey SmolyakovAleksey ChadovAn eighteenth century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Romanian forest.
- DirectorBakur BakuradzeStarsMikhail BarskovichTatyana ShapovalovaGera AvdochenokFarmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Ivan doesn't notice it at first, but something begins to change.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsNikolay SpiridonovMariya KuznetsovaNikolay ReutovSet in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsOleg YankovskiyErland JosephsonDomiziana GiordanoA Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 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.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsVladimir MashkovAnjorka StrechelYuliya PeresildIn 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey RozinWhen a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
- 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.
- DirectorAleksandr VeledinskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElena LyadovaAleksandr RobakThe ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.
- DirectorAlyona ZvantsovaStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMikhail PorechenkovIngeborga DapkunaiteLawyers Andrew and Benjamin are friends who share a lot, but their work puts them on opposite sides. Their trials do not occur in this life but in the afterlife. They are members of the Sky Court deciding where a human soul should go after death- Heaven or Hell. Unexpectedly in one case personal interests of Andrew interfere: the man who made the proposal to his widow is on trial.
- DirectorLevan GabriadzeStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMilla JovovichIvan UrgantA school teacher from a small Russian town falls for a beautiful Moscow woman who is engaged to be married.
- DirectorAleksandr ProshkinStarsEkaterina Davydova-TongurKonstantin KhabenskiyVitaliy KishchenkoA drama based on an alleged incident in 1956 Samara, where a young woman who danced with a religious icon was frozen into immobility.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorYiannis TypaldosStarsOleg YankovskiyPyotr MamonovTatyana LyutaevaWhen a friend of his dies, an isolated writer decides to abandon his solitude and look into the reasons for the loss of his friend. This decision will force him to face the people around him and finally achieve redemption.
- DirectorNikita TyagunovStarsIvan OkhlobystinPyotr MamonovIvan ZakhavaSurreal drama based on the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The first Russian film on the war in Afghanistan and Afghan syndrome.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsIssei OgataRobert DawsonKaori MomoiThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsLeonid MozgovoyMariya KuznetsovaSergey RazhukJoseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsElena RufanovaEva MattesLeonid MozgovoyIn 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksei AnanishnovGudrun GeyerA man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksandr CherednikElizaveta KorolevaSergey BarkovskiyA hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsPyotr AleksandrovNadezhda RodnovaTamara TimofeevaA man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsGalina VishnevskayaVasily ShevtsovRaisa GichaevaAn elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.
- DirectorSergei BorchukovStarsYuriy ChursinKseniya IlyasovaDenis YakovlevThis is a tough love triangle story, but not just cheating. Here, love coexists alongside death, and real life is intertwined with mysticism. And you still need to figure out where what is happening is reality, and where is just a figment of the fantasies of the protagonist. A young man is constantly on the verge between life and death, love and friendship, morality and immorality. An endlessly painful choice.
- DirectorPyotr BuslovAleksey German Jr.Boris KhlebnikovStarsIrina ButanaevaYuriy ChursinIvan DobronravovFive short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.
- DirectorVladimir VinogradovStarsMaksim AverinDenis RozhkovAleksey SerebryakovTwo childhood friends, Sergey Glukharev and Denis Antoshin, work at the same police station. An evening out with friends brings a terrible shock. They happen to get into a fight with another patron at the restaurant, and in the morning he is found dead. Glukharev and Antoshin are wanted as dangerous criminals. They are hunted not only by their former colleagues but also by a professional hitman hired by the victim's family.
- DirectorNikolay DostalStarsSergey TaramaevIrina RozanovaPolina KutepovaA small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
- DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsArtur SmolyaninovAndrey KhabarovOksana AkinshinaA young man who writes avant-garde plays in the Russian province tells the story of how he voluntarily let himself be admitted to a psychiatric ward to avoid military service.
- DirectorAndrey KavunStarsAleksandr BaluevYury BelyayevBogdan BenyukBased on the true story of five Russian pilots captured by the Taliban. They are forced to spend three-hundred-seventy-eight days in hell, while facing questions of loyalty, survival and planing their treacherous escape route home.
- DirectorRoman PrygunovStarsDanila KozlovskiyMariya AndreevaArtyom MikhalkovA story about things that are really important in life.
- DirectorNick DreydenStarsVitaliy KovalenkoAleksey MorozovEmiliya SpivakSpy drama set in 1924. An officer of the Soviet secret police is sent to Konevets island, between Russia and Finland, to assassinate an unnamed target. While on the island he undergoes a religious conversion.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsLeonid FilatovOleg BasilashviliVladimir MenshovGoing on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
- 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.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaIgor TalankinStarsBoris BarkhatovSergey BondarchukIrina SkobtsevaThe mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei BekhterevAleksandra SvenskayaThis celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality--if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
- DirectorViktor ShamirovStarsIrina ApeksimovaGosha KutsenkoDmitriy MaryanovThree provincial men, pushing 40, and friends since university, gather at one of their bachelor pads for a get-together to play a game of truth with their former university lady crush Maya Kovalevskaya.
- DirectorAnton MegerdichevStarsSergey PuskepalisAnatoliy BelyySvetlana KhodchenkovaTerror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsDenis ShvedovYuriy BykovIrina NizinaIn a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.
- DirectorAleksandr MindadzeStarsAnton ShaginSvetlana Smirnova-MartsinkevichStanislav RyadinskiyA group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.