russian
List activity
112 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
46 titles
- DirectorIvan VyrypaevStarsAleksey FilimonovKarolina GruszkaVarvara VoetskovaTwo people play out a story of love.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsAndrei KostrichkinAntonina EremeevaAndrei KaplerOne of the most acknowledged film interpretations of classic short story "The Overcoat" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol, describing a fate of a "small person".
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana SamoylovaVasiliy LivanovFour geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.
- 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.
- DirectorLeonid KvinikhidzeStarsSergey ShakurovAnatoliy RomashinViktor UralskiyLooking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid of the dog, but that won't be an easy task.
- DirectorLeonid MenakerStarsNatalya GundarevaSergey ShakurovLarisa UdovichenkoA woman who cleans toilets has dreams of meeting a lover and finding happiness.Will these dreams, in the winter of a USSR in its last years, come true?
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsNatan EidelmanAnatoly SlivnikovGerman ShorrASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
- 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.
- DirectorDmitriy MeskhievStarsKonstantin KhabenskiySergey GarmashBen PerinoWith the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide. An old man offers to help them because one of them, the sniper, is his son.
- DirectorMikhail PtashukStarsEvgeniy MironovVladislav GalkinYuri KolokolnikovThe movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
- DirectorDenis SkvortsovStarsSvyatoslav AstramovichIgor DenisovAleksandr EfremovPartially based on General Konstantin Rokossovsky role in the first months of the eastern front in the Second World War.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- 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.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsAleksey GuskovAleksandr GalibinDmitriy MulyarBased on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself.
- DirectorViktor ShamirovStarsGosha KutsenkoViktor ShamirovAleksandra Petrova31th of December. Moscow impossible traffic jams. Haste without results, help from which no one becomes easier. Conversations about the endless little things in which life passes - and maybe already passed. About the father, to whom nothing is left, and nothing can be done. About the plans of a thirteen-year-old girl to live: you can become an oncologist, you can - a food designer. About what was, and what now.
- DirectorOksana BychkovaStarsEkaterina FedulovaEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey BarabashLyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maksim, who have to decide what to do.
- DirectorOksana BychkovaStarsMadlen DzhabrailovaJethro SkinnerVladimir IlinAfter a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoEvgeniy SytyyPyotr Zaychenko"Free Floating" is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad from an ordinary provincial town like many in Russia, with just one kindergarten, one school, one factory. As a result, one grows up here never facing the alternative as to what to choose, for everything is preordained. Leonid is an ordinary lad who, like his peers, goes to discos, dances with girls and picks fights with the local riff-raff later. Everything is going well for him, as his life is totally predictable. But one day the factory closes down and he becomes disoriented. For the first time ever, he is to make a choice on his own and think seriously about what he would like to do... His life begins to develop as he encounters a chain of different people. Leonid starts looking for a job and finds several without much effort, each apparently promising and offering a world of its own. But for different, seemingly haphazard, reasons Leonid won't stick to any job he seems initially attracted to. He only stays as an apprentice in a brigade of road workers, as the brigade-leader Roslov seems an affable and even extraordinary man. Yet, the idol turns out to be a virtuoso crook who cons everybody around him and does not shy away from stealing and doing illegal business. Leonid tries to oppose this semi-criminal, proving himself a hero. To punish him, Roslov and his brigade beat him within an inch of his life. And he loses yet another job... Leonid's search for his life's work is combined with his first love. He comes across his former classmate nicknamed Piggy, and the first romance in their lives flares up - and flickers out in the sudden coming of autumn. Summer, love, and job are all gone, and Leonid is almost in despair. But one day a quaint barge with wheels and a drive from an old tractor turns up out of nowhere and takes Leonid away from this town. Here on board of this homemade tub he works for peanuts by the riverside but he has finally succeeded in finding his life's work and acquiring real friends.
- DirectorViktor ShamirovStarsGosha KutsenkoKseniya RadchenkoPavel SavinkovHaving experienced mad youthful hopes, people usually agree to a role of the participant of a mass meeting. But some all life feel in themselves a force and mission from above. And something is done, done, done. Create. Or steal-kill, but in improbable scales. In this history heroes don't steal and don't kill. They go, play a performance, go, play, fly, play, drink, quarrel, go, are reconciled, drink, love, hate, live, live, play, live.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey PaninDmitriy DyuzhevNikita MikhalkovThis movie is about the stern gangster customs of one of the Russian provincial cities in the mid-90s . And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers".
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsRenata LitvinovaAleksandr YatsenkoDmitriy DyuzhevThree young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsNikolay StotskiySvetlana PismichenkoAnvar LibabovMostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.
- DirectorMark ZakharovStarsNodar MgaloblishviliElena ValyushkinaAleksandr MikhaylovA young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...
- DirectorSergey LobanStarsPyotr MamonovVera StrokovaAleksey PodolskiyA Cyberwanderer, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea is the first part of Sergei Loban's absurdist dilogy.
- DirectorSergey LobanMarina PotapovaStarsAleksey PodolskiyPyotr MamonovGleb MikhaylovThe genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which people live. Dust is a common misconception, the natural clogging up of the brain. Specks of dust how scientists perceive people, scientists who think they know more than anyone else about the universe.
- DirectorSergey LobanStarsJim AvignonStas BaretskiyDmitriy BogdanThe father establishes contact with his son, and Viktor Tsoi's double goes on a tour of the Crimea. Continuation of Sergei Loban's dilogy.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsVakhtang KikabidzeFrunzik MkrtchyanElena ProklovaLocal Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsOleg BasilashviliNatalya GundarevaMarina NeyolovaMiddle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsSergo ZakariadzeVakhtang KikabidzeSofiko ChiaureliA young happy-go-lucky village doctor lives a leisurely life as comic events unfold around him.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsEvgeniy LeonovIya SavvinaNina GrebeshkovaA kind, cheerful man suddenly turns into a sullen, angry grumbler. All around begins to annoy him, and he mercilessly destroys his family, job, entire life. It was caused by an evil magic mirror, and only human tears can heal it.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsEvgeniy LeonovNonna MordyukovaInna ChurikovaA rough factory worker of a distant rural town of Russia becomes a national celebrity, when it's discovered that his mouth bears 33 teeth. He is brought to Moscow, where he discovers a new world for him.
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsFedor BondarchukIvan OkhlobystinAnna BuklovskayaThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
- DirectorAleksandr GornovskiyKaren ShakhnazarovStarsVladimir IlinAleksey VertkovAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyySimultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsIvan MikolaychukLidiya BelozyorovaFyodor StrigunA Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsOleg TabakovYuriy BogatyryovElena SoloveySt. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.
- DirectorSergey SnezhkinStarsSvetlana KryuchkovaAleksey PetrenkoMariya ShukshinaA small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukVyacheslav TikhonovLyudmila SavelevaIt explores the aftermath of The Battle of Borodino.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsVasiliy ShukshinVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukJuly 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr PalamishevAleksandra ZhivovaEvgeniya KryukovaIn nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsGordon PinsentKevin DuhaneyYôji MatsudaAn old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.