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- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsKonstantin LavronenkoMaria BonnevieAleksandr BaluevA trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
- 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 ...
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsMaryana SpivakAleksey RozinMatvey NovikovA couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
- DirectorSergey BodrovStarsOksana AkinshinaKatya GorinaRoman AgeevTwo young girls, Sveta and Dina, go on the run to avoid being kidnapped by the former associates of Dina's recently released gangster father.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsLeonid BichevinIngeborga DapkunaiteAndrey PaninA drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorOleg FominStarsLeonid BaratsRostislav KhaitAleksandr DemidovRadio station gets the task to achieve an election victory for a mysterious client.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsMikhail UlyanovAnna SinyakinaAleksandr PorokhovshchikovVeteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsJulia OrmondOleg MenshikovAleksey PetrenkoAt the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
- DirectorRezo GigineishviliAnna MelikyanPavel RuminovStarsRavshana KurkovaAleksandr PalRano KubaevaSeveral love stories in Moscow.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsOleg ZhakovNatalya BelokhvostikovaVasiliy ShukshinEarly 70s environmentalist drama centers on a tension between the love a professor's daughter feels for an industrialist whose scheme risks pollution of Lake Baikal, and her father's devotion toward preservation of natural beauty.
- DirectorRaimondas VabalasGediminas KarkaStarsLeon StaneviciusValdas Mikolas JatautisBirute ZibaiteDirected by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsVitalijus PuodziukaitisAudrone BajerciuteStasis PetronaitisIn a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsBronius BabkauskasVytautas PauksteEugenija BajoryteCaesar, a former Nazi concentration camp prisoner, sifts through his traumatic experiences against the background of the new modern buildings of Vilnius, and become even stronger when he learns of the death of a friend and fellow traveler.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsEugenija PleskyteKostas SmoriginasVytautas PauksteIn the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsKostas SmoriginasEugenija SulgaiteAleksandr KaydanovskiyPranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRuta StaliliunaiteJuozas BudraitisLeonid FilatovA film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusAvtandil KvirikashviliVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsVladimir BoginVidas PetkeviciusVytautas PauksteIt is the summer of 1944 and two prisoners of war - a Lithuanian teacher and a Russian Navy officer - make an impulsive escape attempt and end up on a Baltic seaside resort for SS officers.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsKazimieras VitkusRegimantas AdomaitisBruno O'Ya1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. One after another, four village council chairmen were killed. Now old Lokis is dead. At the funeral, his four sons swear to destroy the Brownie gang. And Vaitkus, a former "forest brother", was forcibly put in place of Lokis.
- DirectorBalys BratkauskasMarijonas GiedrysVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsBronius BabkauskasBalys BratkauskasVytautas BuizysFour different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsDmitriy ZolotukhinTamara MakarovaNatalya BondarchukBased on the novel by A. N. Tolstoy "Peter I" (1945). Continuation of the film "Peter's Youth" (1980). At the end of the XVII century, Russia suffered huge losses in trade, as it had no access to the sea. The young Peter I begins the construction of the Russian fleet in Voronezh and takes the Azov fortress. At this time, dissatisfaction with the rule of the young monarch is brewing among the courtiers.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynLyubov VirolaynenTamara MakarovaA movie novel about young architects building a new city in Siberia, their anxieties, worries and victories.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsGalina PolskikhYuriy VasilevNadezhda FedosovaA journalist tries to verify an accusation.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsNikolay YeryomenkoTamara MakarovaZhanna BolotovaA man returning to his family in the USSR of the 1960s revisits his past in flashbacks: his time with the Germans during WWII and after,and his time in Argentina.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsPyotr GlebovElina BystritskayaZinaida KirienkoAn epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsNikolai MordvinovTamara MakarovaMikhail SadovskyThe story begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing who she is, gives it to an ardent cavalry officer admirer at the ball. This officer had earlier spent the evening learning how to gamble from Nina's husband Arbenin (Mordvinov). When the young officer shows the bracelet to Arbenin, he starts to suspect that he has been betrayed by his wife. The film depicts the effects of Arbenin's jealousy on everyone around the couple, leading to a quarrel with and calculated humiliation of the officer, Arbenin poisoning his wife, and finishing with a strange out of left field "I told you so" from someone who Arbenin had injured a decade earlier.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsBoris ChirkovTamara MakarovaLyudmila ShabalinaA young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young neighbor Agrafena Shumilina.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsTamara MakarovaIvan NovoseltsevPavel VolkovIn 1932, thousands of Komsomol members went to the Far East to build the "city of youth" - Komsomolsk-on-Amur. There is a saboteur among the builders. Soon, fuel depots explode at the new factories of Komsomolsk.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsNikolay BogolyubovTamara MakarovaIvan NovoseltsevOn a desert island in the Arctic arrived six wintering. After a farewell salute the ship disappears below the horizon, and winterers begin to unpack cargo. To his surprise and horror in one of the boxes they find Arctic "hare" - Peter Moliboga. Manly wintering becomes seven. The difficulties operation under winter helps to carry speed and cheerful disposition of its members. And, in particular, constantly comic Peter Moliboga behavior.
- DirectorOlav NeulandStarsRudolf AllabertNelli TaarArvo IhoA speechless stranger comes to a poor family tearing by partisan's and government's interests.
- DirectorVaris BraslaStarsAndris BerzinsAivars KalnarajsIlze VazdikaThe romantic relationship of two people depends on the choice - to stay together or divorce, as two sisters children come to the custody of women.
- DirectorKaljo KiiskStarsTõnu KarkRudolf AllabertAarne ÜkskülaAfter WW-2 the Estonian forests are full of armed groups - the forest-brothers who carry on the fight against communism. Soviet secret police sends spies among them. The spies are sent under top secrecy, so no-one actually knows who is who. This is a game of cat and mouse, waiting a weaker to make a mistake. For remark, this is a Soviet spy film with adequate moral.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsMarina NeyolovaNatalya ShchukinaFyodor DunayevskyThree school boys and one school girl visited their old schoolmarm on her birthday. But their intentions were horrible.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLeonid FilatovTatyana DogilevaIrina KupchenkoA former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLyudmila GurchenkoOleg BasilashviliNikita MikhalkovA waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsEvgeniy LeonovOleg BasilashviliIrina MazurkevichIn the 19th century Russia, the life of entire provincial town changes both comedic and dramatically after the arrival of high-ranked secret police officer, investigating an anonymous accusation of state treason.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAlla BudnitskayaEldar RyazanovLyudmila TsvetkovaMeeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAndrey MyagkovSvetlana NemolyaevaThe life of entire statistical bureau becomes crazy when an ordinary worker, a shy man, falls in love with a boss, a strict woman.
- DirectorFrancesco ProsperiEldar RyazanovStarsAndrey MironovNinetto DavoliAntonia SantilliThe mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsYuriy NikulinEvgeniy EvstigneevOlga ArosevaAn old detective thinks that he is too young for retiring. With the help of his friends, he plans to commit 'the crime of the century' and then quickly solve it. But being a criminal is much more harder than being a policeman.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLarisa GolubkinaYuriy YakovlevIgor IlyinskyA young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsIgor IlyinskyLyudmila GurchenkoYuri BelovA new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyOleg EfremovLyubov DobrzhanskayaA very good cop tries to catch a very insidious and extremely clever serial car thief. The bitter irony is that the thief is not very clever, absolutely not insidious, and a virtuous person and his friend.
- DirectorValeri KremnyovStarsDonatas BanionisNatalya GundarevaYaroslav EsinovskiyA middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in no hurry to reciprocate a fan.
- DirectorValeri KremnyovStarsAleksandr VdovinAleksei UdovikIrina BorisovaIn the last holidays of his school childhood, ninth-grader Boris decides to work in a fishing port. Danila, Boris's younger brother, a well-known young artist in their small town, is a local celebrity. Boris has to put up with the fact that everyone around him perceives him not as a separate person, but as the brother of a child prodigy. The time Boris spent away from home allowed him to take a fresh look at the relationship with his parents, a girl classmate and his famous brother. As it turned out, in order to be just a good person, you also need talent, sometimes no less than the talent of an artist. The film was shot in the Crimea, in particular, Yalta and in the vicinity of Sudak on Cape Alchak.
- DirectorViktor IvchenkoIsaak ShmarukStarsEkaterina LitvinenkoNikolai GritsenkoTatyana KonyukhovaMarina awaits the return of her husband, who has gone to Kiev for university. When he returns, though, he divorces her for being too uneducated, leaving Marina to throw herself into caring for their daughter and resuming her own studies.
- DirectorViktor IvchenkoStarsAleksandr AnurovMikhail KuznetsovVyacheslav TikhonovThe crew of a soviet cargo falls prey to an act of piracy in waters between China and Taiwan, and are taken to Taiwan where they are pressured into stating they chose to go into the free world.
- DirectorViktor IvchenkoStarsRaisa NedashkovskayaVolodymyr SydorchukPyotr VesklyarovMavka loves Lukash,. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses Mavka.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsViktor AvdyushkoAleksandr DemyanenkoStanislav KhitrovOn the last day of World War II in Europe (May 8th, 1945) three Soviet soldiers are assigned the thankless task of taking a frightened pregnant German woman, whom they are unable to communicate with, to a hospital.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsLyudmila SavelevaAleksey BatalovMikhail UlyanovThe defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and Paris. The Russian Civil War and emigration is shown through the eyes of the defeated Tsarist Generals - Vrangel, Khludov, Charnota, as well as intellectuals and aristocracy. Amidst the chaos of emigration rough generals Khludov and Charnota become involved in the unfolding love story of professor Golubkov and Serafima. While General Khludov is having hallucinations about the Civil War, General Charnota is more tough and practical. He goes to Paris to frame a wealthy Russian tycoon Korzukhin to support his former wife Serafima and other suffering Russian emigrants.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsLembit UlfsakNatalya BelokhvostikovaEvgeniy LeonovA story of two orphans growing up in Flemish town at the time of witch-hunts, fear and ever present chance to get caught and been tortured and killed with or without a reason.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsRostislav PlyattGeorgiy VitsinYuriy NikulinTwo bandits learn that kidnapping is a very profitable business. So they decide to kidnap local rich person's son in hope to get a substantial ransom.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoMikhail PugovkinAleksei SmirnovThree stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoNatalya VarleyVladimir EtushA young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsArchil GomiashviliSergey FilippovMikhail PugovkinTwo gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsMikhail PugovkinNina GrebeshkovaVyacheslav NevinnyyThree stories about a marriage - its betrayal, its boredom, its absurd.
- StarsAndrey MironovAnatoliy PapanovRolan BykovTwo scoundrels try to find twelve dining room chairs, into one of which a fortune in jewellery was sewn.
- DirectorIvan RassomakhinStarsPetr ShelokhonovMikhail KhrabrovGalina FilimonovaTV adaptation based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev. Set in the Soviet Union in 1941, during the Second World War, Sergeant Vaskov of the Red Army is stationed at a remote artillery post. Vaskov is in charge of five young women recruited for military training. One day they are surrounded by a group of German paratroopers who were dropped into Soviet territory behind the front lines. Now Vaskov and his trainees must stop the enemy in an unequal fight.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovIrina PechernikovaNina MenshikovaA school teacher faces a moral crisis.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsMaya MengletSvetlana DruzhininaVyacheslav TikhonovTake care of your husband attentively, even if you are the best woman in your village. Otherwise another woman from a town will take him immediately. And other advice on how to save your husband from the desperate zootechnician Tonya.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsAleksandr SusninTatyana BedovaSergey BystritskiyStory of life of Fyodor Kuzkin, who shared all the burdens of the 30s Stalins terror and after, WW2 and post-war years. For now Kuzkin decides to leave his collective farm (rus: kolkhoz)
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsAndrey MartynovIrina DolganovaElena DrapekoDuring World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovValentina VladimirovaMikhail DadykoA white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.
- DirectorVladimir BasovStarsAndrey MyagkovAndrey RostotskiyVasiliy LanovoyMasterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaSergey BondarchukVyacheslav TikhonovNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaSergey BondarchukVyacheslav TikhonovNatasha Rostova, a young Russian aristocrat, meets prince Andrey Bolkonskiy at a ball and immediately falls in love with him.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukVyacheslav TikhonovLyudmila SavelevaIt explores The Battle of Borodino through the eyes of Pierre.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukVyacheslav TikhonovLyudmila SavelevaIt explores the aftermath of The Battle of Borodino.
- DirectorGrigoriy AronovStarsRoman MadyanovLarisa MalevannayaNikolay PenkovThe world sometimes plays "shifters" with everyone. What was seen in one way can suddenly open up from a completely different side. ... In the center of attention in the film based on the novel by Vladimir Tendryakov "Spring Shifters" is the maturation of the main character Dyushka Tyagunov (Roman Madyanov), the formation of his character. A teenager has a keen sense of injustice, courage and determination, at the same time the ability to perceive beauty is alive in him.
- DirectorMikhail ShvejtserStarsNikolay RybnikovNonna MordyukovaNikolay SergeevA conflict flares up between the Komsomol member, the advanced collective farmer Fyodor and the parents of his young wife, ardent opponents of collective farm life.
- DirectorGenrikh GabayStarsVladimir BuyanovskyViktor PivnenkoVladimir ShibankovFor 49 days, four young soldiers drifted on a barge that was blown out to sea by a storm. Only by the end of the seventh week they were discovered by American pilots.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsNikita MikhalkovAleksei LoktevGalina PolskikhYoung Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Volodya and Kolya's friend Sasha adventure their love interests in their own way, while Kolya sets out to help them.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsLarisa LuzhinaSofiya PilyavskayaMargarita StrunovaThe simple Russian girl Svetlana arrived in a back-water small town to the darling. But begun war, Igor did not have met Svetlana, and she determined on staying : to wait his return and war end.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovVladimir KonkinElena ShaninaThe families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovSergey PodgornyySergei IvanovDuring World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovOlga KrasinaIgor GorbachyovA shy, kind and brave theatrical make-up artist refuses to put up with stupidity and cruelty of the authorities.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsDmitri MilyutenkoLarisa KadochnikovaFeodosiya LitvinenkoThe old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBoris KhmelnitskiyLarisa KadochnikovaYefim FridmanPiotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a deal.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLarisa KadochnikovaIvan MikolaychukBogdan StupkaColourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village band, but as the battles between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviets go on, their band loses one player after another.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLyudmila EfimenkoViktor KremlyovMayya BulgakovaMavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLes SerdyukPylyp IllienkoSergey PodgornyyVasyl Vilhota raised two sons. One died for his country on the World War II, and the other, a policeman, was killed by a people's avenger. Vilhota himself helped the Nazis and carefully hide it, but there is a man who knows the truth
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLyudmila EfimenkoLes SerdyukIvan IvanovThe film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the start of the 11th century.