Perestroika / Перестройка

by LittleBelarus | created - 20 Apr 2018 | updated - 20 Oct 2021 | Public

Perestroika has brought a fresh breath to the Soviet cinematography (1985-1991)

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1. Courier (1986)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili, Inna Churikova

Votes: 5,619

soviet youth of the 80, breakdance, sparent-child relationship

молодёжь 80-х, брейк-данс, отношения родителей и детей

2. Assa (1987)

153 min | Crime, Drama, History

ASSA 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.

Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov

Votes: 3,163

soviet youth of the 80s, soviet rockers, Crimea

молодёжь 80-х, рок-музыканты, Крым

3. Repentance (1984)

PG | 153 min | Drama

Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.

Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze

Votes: 4,905 | Gross: $0.22M

overcoming the past

преодоление прошлого

4. Zabavy molodykh (1988)

81 min | Drama

A group of college students due to truancies was eliminated from physical education classes and lost the opportunity to get credit. In order to correct the situation, the guys come up with a prank: a pretty student should charm the teacher.

Director: Evgeniy Gerasimov | Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Marina Zudina, Nina Ruslanova, Valentina Telichkina

Votes: 79

soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship, relations between students and teachers, school

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, отношения между учениками и учителями, романтические отношения между студенткой и престарелым учителем, школа

5. Gospodin oformitel (1987)

109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

Director: Oleg Teptsov | Stars: Viktor Avilov, Anna Demyanenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Ivan Krasko

Votes: 1,084

6. The Needle (1988)

81 min | Drama, Thriller

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ... See full summary »

Director: Rashid Nugmanov | Stars: Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov

Votes: 2,937

soviet youth of the 80s, soviet rockers, drug dependence

молодёжь 80-х, наркомания

7. Little Vera (1988)

Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.

Director: Vasili Pichul | Stars: Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva

Votes: 2,164 | Gross: $1.26M

soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей

8. Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya' (1990)

94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Irina Feofanova, Spartak Mishulin, Roman Madyanov

Votes: 552

a satire on the era, crime

сатира на эпоху, преступность

9. Avariya - doch menta (1990)

99 min | Drama

Her life motto is: "I like everything that you don't like." She protests everything. But under her "metal" shell - a lonely and suffering soul. Saving his daughter, the guardian of the law takes justice into his own hands.

Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili | Stars: Oksana Arbuzova, Vladimir Ilin, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Nikolai Pastukhov

Votes: 541

soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship, relations between students and teachers, school

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, отношения между учениками и учителями, школа

10. Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989)

88 min | Drama, History

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

Director: Yuriy Kara | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Sergey Nikonenko

Votes: 215

overcoming the past

преодоление прошлого

11. Intergirl (1989)

151 min | Drama, Romance

A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.

Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Larisa Malevannaya, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

Votes: 1,477

prostitution in the USSR, female share, prince from abroad

проституция в СССР, принц из-за границы, женская доля

12. Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi (1990)

131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In fact, people who then appear around Mitya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Mikhail Rozanov, Aleksandr Zbruev

Votes: 764

abstraction, overcoming the past, a satire on the era

абстракция, преодоление прошлого, сатира на эпоху

13. Zerograd (1988)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Going 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.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Votes: 2,566

abstraction, mysticism

абстракция, мистика, предзнаменование перемен

14. Ono (1990)

124 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.

Director: Sergei Ovcharov | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Natalya Gundareva, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Elena Sanaeva

Votes: 230

15. Taxi Blues (1990)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova

Votes: 1,998 | Gross: $0.17M

confrontation between the Soviet world and the New world

противостояние старого советского мира и зарождающегося нового

theatre, actors community, artist-imitator, parody, nuthouse, Ukraine

театр, актёрское сообщество, артист-имитатор, пародии, сумасшедший дом, Украина

17. Bakenbardy (1990)

100 min | Comedy

A small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and ... See full summary »

Director: Yuri Mamin | Stars: Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksandr Medvedev, Artur Vakha, Vladlen Biryukov

Votes: 476

18. Rebro Adama (1991)

79 min | Comedy, Drama

In a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses ... See full summary »

Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich | Stars: Inna Churikova, Yelena Bogdanova, Svetlana Ryabova, Mariya Golubkina

Votes: 391 | Gross: $0.24M

female share, relationship between older single people, teenage pregnancy

женская доля, отношения между взрослыми одинокими людьми, подростковая беременность

19. Lokh pobeditel vody (1991)

86 min | Crime, Thriller

The protagonist, a talented geek, avenges a gang of racketeers for killing a best friend, using his extensive knowledge in various fields of technology. He traces them, collects material ... See full summary »

Director: Arkadiy Tigay | Stars: Sergei Kuryokhin, Larisa Borodina, Andrey Ponomaryov, Vladimir Eryomin

Votes: 162

racket, crime

рэкет, преступность

20. Migranty (1991)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama

Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter ... See full summary »

Director: Valeriy Priyomykhov | Stars: Oksana Arbuzova, Andrey Andreev, Nina Ruslanova, Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Votes: 48

21. The Chekist (1992)

93 min | Drama

Depiction of "troika" type of mass murder trials and it's influence on those who carried out plans to mass murder million of people. Somehow Russia was able to produce such movie, which easily could be documentary about actual events.

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isavnin

Votes: 1,149

overcoming the past

преодоление прошлого

22. Kiks (1992)

95 min | Adventure, Drama

The 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.

Director: Sergey Livnev | Stars: Evdokiya Germanova, Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Aleksandr Sirin

Votes: 135

The Prince of darkness is trying to seduce three married women in a southern resort

Князь тьмы пытается соблазнить трёх замужних женщин на южном курорте

24. Noga (1991)

88 min | Action, Drama, War

Surreal drama based on the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The first Russian film on the war in Afghanistan and Afghan syndrome.

Director: Nikita Tyagunov | Stars: Ivan Okhlobystin, Pyotr Mamonov, Ivan Zakhava, Natalya Petrova

Votes: 260

war in Afghanistan, Afghan syndrome, phantom pain, hallucinations

война в Афганистане, афганский синдром, фантомные боли, галлюцинации

25. Deystvuy, Manya! (1992)

110 min | Comedy, Fantasy

To fight mafia, a biologist and a programmer create a superman robot. An unexpected amendment to the calculations of one of the creators is made by erotic fantasies: superman turned out to be an exact copy of a photo model from a poster.

Director: Roman Ershov | Stars: Sergey Bekhterev, Yuliya Menshova, Evgeniy Vesnik, Aleksandr Slastin

Votes: 102

female cyborg, racket, crime

трэш-комедия, женщина-киборг, рэкет, преступность

26. The Promised Heaven (1991)

125 min | Comedy, Drama

Many of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Liya Akhedzhakova, Olga Volkova, Valentin Gaft, Leonid Bronevoy

Votes: 1,018

27. Plumbum, or Dangerous Game (1987)

97 min | Drama

Plumbum in translation from Latin means lead - it is Ruslan Chutko's nickname who decided to become a "sanitary assistant of society." But while being taken away by his role of fighting ... See full summary »

Director: Vadim Abdrashitov | Stars: Anton Androsov, Yelena Dmitriyeva, Elena Yakovleva, Zoya Lirova

Votes: 480

soviet youth of the 80s, teen plays detective, militsiya, crime

молодёжь 80-х, подросток играет в детектива, милиция, преступность

28. Menya zovut Arlekino (1988)

134 min | Crime, Drama

A guy called Arlekino and his company, who call themselves "wolves", live at a stop near the city, where they often go to "relax" - in search of thrills. And they're not just bullies, at ... See full summary »

Director: Valeri Rybarev | Stars: Oleg Fomin, Svetlana Kopylova, Lyudmila Gavrilova, Vladimir Pozhidayev

Votes: 207

soviet youth of the 80s, lyubery (hooligans), Belarus

молодёжь 80-х, повествование от лица гопника, любера, мажоры, рокеры, хиппи, кришнаиты, фильмы на видеокассетах, белорусская провинция

29. Do pervoy krovi (1989)

87 min | Drama, Family

Some kids in camp playing Soviet game zarnitsa ("capture-the-flag"-like). But with every minute kids become more cruel and heartless. After some time it comes to war crimes: torture, mutilation and looting.

Director: Vladimir Fokin | Stars: Andrey Nekrasov, Pavel Kulakov, Viktor Matin, Konstantin Yefremov

Votes: 234

Battle Royale in kids summer camp, Crimea

дети в пионерском лагере играют в войну (показана психология настоящей войны в аллегорической форме), Крым

31. Mordashka (1990)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of a young man who made a life bet on his attractive appearance. His appearance is so charming that the hero has an idea to use it for social and financial growth. Working at a ... See full summary »

Director: Andrei Razumovsky | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Mariya Zubareva, Marina Zudina, Tatyana Mukha

Votes: 101

gigolo, female share, pop music

жиголо, женская доля, поп-музыка

32. Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Three school boys and one school girl visited their old schoolmarm on her birthday. But their intentions were horrible.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Marina Neyolova, Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Dmitriy Maryanov

Votes: 769

soviet youth of the 80s, relations between students and teachers

молодёжь 80-х, отношения между учениками и учителями, мажоры

33. Budni i prazdniki Serafimy Glyukinoy (1988 TV Movie)

144 min | Drama

An employee of the Museum of Musical Instruments Serafima Glukina falls in love with a hockey player experiencing life's problems.

Director: Rostislav Goryayev | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Nikolay Yeryomenko, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolai Alekseyev

Votes: 37

female share, relationship between older single people

женская доля, отношения между взрослыми одинокими людьми

34. Raz na raz ne prikhoditsya (1988)

77 min | Comedy, Crime

A crew of builders in charge of demolition of old buildings in Moscow find hidden treasure inside one of the houses scheduled for demolition. The plot evolves around their attempts to bypass the Soviet authorities and cash the gold.

Director: Ara Gabrielyan | Stars: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Leonid Kuravlyov, Borislav Brondukov, Lyubov Polishchuk

Votes: 178

35. Isklyuchenie bez pravil (1986 TV Movie)

95 min | Comedy

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories «Pause in Major».

Directors: Sergey Baranov, Vladimir Bortko, Viktor Buturlin, Valery Naumov, Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Viktor Bychkov, Olga Samoshina, Yuri Aroyan, Aleksandr Vidgop

Votes: 44

36. Gde nakhoditsya Nofelet? (1988)

82 min | Comedy

Pasha is a very shy and quiet person. He is almost 40 but is not married yet and cannot even find courage to ask a woman for a date. His best friend Gena on the contrary is a womanizer. His... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Bezhanov | Stars: Vladimir Menshov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Valentina Telichkina, Lyudmila Shagalova

Votes: 611

37. Nash bronepoyezd (1989)

130 min | Drama

Events of the movie take place in the first May days 1966. The honored veteran of the WWII, the former camp security guard Nikolay Kuznetsov happens upon one of the former prisoners. This ... See full summary »

Director: Mikhail Ptashuk | Stars: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Filippenko

Votes: 57

overcoming the past

преодоление прошлого

38. Vory v zakone (1988)

95 min | Crime, Thriller

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.

Director: Yuriy Kara | Stars: Anna Samokhina, Valentin Gaft, Vladimir Steklov, Boris Shcherbakov

Votes: 303

39. The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova

Votes: 2,550

Gulag, overcoming the past

лагеря, преодоление прошлого

40. Heart of a Dog (1988 TV Movie)

PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 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.

Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev

Votes: 9,093

unexpectedly successful film version of the classic book by Bulgakov

неожиданно удачная киноверсия классической книги Булгакова

41. Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili Na Brayton-Bich opyat idut dozhdi (1993)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Kelly McGrill, Andrey Myagkov, Mikhail Kokshenov

Votes: 2,053

a satire on the era, American-Soviet relations, russian mafia in the USA

глумление над СССР, сатира на эпоху

42. A Man from Boulevard des Capucines (1987)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

Director: Alla Surikova | Stars: Andrey Mironov, Alexandra Yakovleva, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Oleg Tabakov

Votes: 3,585

43. Ten Little Indians (1987)

137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov

Votes: 3,115

44. Cloud-Paradise (1990)

76 min | Drama

In a dreary Russian village, over-enthusiastic and underappreciated Kolya spontaneously announces that he has plans to leave for the far-east today, garnering far more attention and support than he anticipated.

Director: Nikolay Dostal | Stars: Andrey Zhigalov, Sergey Batalov, Irina Rozanova, Alla Kliouka

Votes: 806

45. Komediya strogogo rezhima (1992)

78 min | Comedy

The action is set in 1970 as the Soviet Union (and the entire progressive world) are preparing to celebrate Lenin's centenary. Not to be outdone, the camp commander decides to have the ... See full summary »

Directors: Mikhail Grigorev, Vladimir Studennikov | Stars: Viktor Sukhorukov, Ivan Krivoruchko, Nadezhda Zharikova, Yury Vyushin

Votes: 309

46. Deja vu (1990)

108 min | Comedy, Crime, History

During the Prohibition, Chicago mob send a hitman after a traitor. The only problem is that his traces lead to Odessa, and no one hitman can overcome the hardcore Soviet bureaucracy.

Director: Juliusz Machulski | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Galina Petrova, Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Golovin

Votes: 1,543

47. Lyubov s privilegiyami (1989)

135 min | Drama, Romance

USSR, late 80s. Former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Kozhemyakin comes to rest in Yalta. Irina, who works as a van driver, was asked to meet him at the station. A casual ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Kuchinsky | Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Tabakov, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina

Votes: 134

48. Bespredel (1989)

102 min | Crime, Drama

A drama from the life of the prisoners in a regular jail in Soviet Union.

Director: Igor Gostev | Stars: Andrey Tashkov, Anton Androsov, Aleksandr Mokhov, Lev Durov

Votes: 1,390

49. Vzlomshchik (1987)

90 min | Drama

13-year-old Semyon is stuck in between of lifestyles of his father, who has a drinking problem, and nonconformity of his older brother, rock musician.

Director: Valeriy Ogorodnikov | Stars: Oleg Elykomov, Konstantin Kinchev, Yuriy Tsapnik, Svetlana Gaytan

Votes: 149

soviet youth of the 80s, soviet rockers, breakdance

молодёжь 80-х, рок-музыканты, брейк-данс

50. Fanat (1989)

81 min | Action

The invincible "Kid" is a fan of karate, full of bright plans for the future. However, involuntary complicity in the robbery, and only by a miracle instead of prison, he enters the army. ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Feoktistov | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Yuriy Gorobets, Oleg Kantemirov, Fyodor Sukhov

Votes: 254

51. Sobachiy pir (1990)

112 min | Drama

A 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?

Director: Leonid Menaker | Stars: Natalya Gundareva, Sergey Shakurov, Larisa Udovichenko, Anna Polikarpova

Votes: 105

devastation, alcoholism, all poorly

всё плохо, падение морали, алкоголизм

52. Is It Easy to Be Young? (1986)

83 min | Documentary, Drama

Portrayal of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.

Director: Juris Podnieks

Votes: 422

soviet youth of the 80s, documentary

документальный фильм о советской молодёжи снятый в Прибалтике

53. Steklyannyy labirint (1990)

97 min | Drama

After celebrating a birthday, the students of a vocational school went looking for adventure. Later that night, in a drunken frenzy, they climbed into the zoo and accidentally killed a deer - and sobered up. Now they are facing prison.

Director: Mark Osepyan | Stars: Oleg Fomin, Boris Shuvalov, Yevgeniy Titov, Gennady Sayfulin

Votes: 27

soviet youth of the 80s, Era of Stagnation

молодёжь начала 80-х, брежневский застой, птушники

54. Tragediya v stile rok (1989)

167 min | Crime, Drama

A conflict of generations when a father, connected to organized crime, is sentenced for embezzlement and his son turns to drugs and a spectacular suicide in a car accident.

Director: Savva Kulish | Stars: Aleksei Shkatov, Olga Alyoshina, Aleksey Maslov, Sergei Karlenkov

Votes: 103

soviet youth of the 80, sparent-child relationship, overcoming the past, drug use, totalitarian sect, crime, motorcycle sport, soviet rockers

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, преодоление прошлого, наркомания, секты, преступность, мотоспорт, рок-музыканты

55. Luna Park (1992)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama

Andrei leads a group of nationalist skinheads. They've taken over a Luna Park depot. They indulge in violence and racketeering against Jews, homosexuals and the marginalized.

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Gutin, Natalya Egorova, Nonna Mordyukova

Votes: 527

soviet youth of the 80s, lyubery (hooligans), chauvinism, homophobia, anti-semitism, jew anti-semite

молодёжь 80-х, повествование от лица быдла, любера, шовинизм, гомофобия, антисемитизм, еврей-антисемит

56. Limited Life (1989)

75 min | Drama

A strange group of people lives in an old house slated for demolition. One of them is a sweet provincial girl named Masha who failed her university exams and doesn't want to go home to her ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksey Rudakov | Stars: Marina Zudina, Oleg Menshikov, Evdokiya Germanova, Sergey Gazarov

Votes: 46

female share, hippie, drugs, inner emigration

лимитчики, женская доля, хиппи, наркотики, внутренняя эмиграция

soviet youth of the 80, sparent-child relationship, relations between students and teachers, militsiya, joyride, prom, road movie

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, отношения между учениками и учителями, милиция, угон автомобиля, птушники, выпускной

soviet youth of the 80, sparent-child relationship, good boy and bad friends, militsiya, breakdance

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, хороший мальчик связывается с плохой компанией, милиция, брейк-данс

59. A Little Doll (1988)

135 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

After receiving a serious injury, a young gymnast is forced to stop performing. This traumatizes her not only physically but also morally.

Director: Isaakas Fridbergas | Stars: Svetlana Zasypkina, Irina Metlitskaya, Vladimir Menshov, Ervand Arzumanyan

Votes: 345

soviet youth of the 80, relations between students and teachers, sport, school

молодёжь 80-х, отношения между учениками и учителями, школа, спорт

60. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)

153 min | Drama

In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.

Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko

Votes: 1,404

abstraction, all poorly

абстракция, всё плохо

children's fairy-tale film with scenes of nudity

детский фильм-сказка со сценами обнажённой натуры

62. The Guard (1990)

96 min | Drama

This docudrama of harsh conditions in the Soviet army focuses on a military man, angered by the corruption of the system, who shoots six of his fellow soldiers.

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Aleksey Buldakov, Sergei Kupriianov, Aleksey Poluyan, Aleksandr Smirnov

Votes: 180

63. Life Is a Woman (1991)

Drama

Madina in a trance for a loved one commits a crime, goes to prison, and then in the women's prison. Many of the women prisoners to "break" obstoyateltstva. Ho, there are those who, even in ... See full summary »

Director: Zhanna Serikbayeva | Stars: Lyudmila Baranova, Olga Kalmykova, Tatyana Orlova

Votes: 19

64. Dom pod zvyozdnym nebom (1991)

121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The fantastic components allow Solovev to create displaced references between the cinematic narrative and the historical chaos during the last year of the Soviet empire.

Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Alla Parfanyak, Aleksandra Turgan, Mariya Anikanova

Votes: 233

65. Mirror for a Hero (1987)

139 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Two casual acquaintances, Sergey Pshenichnyy and Andrey Nemchinov, are transferred almost 40 years ago by the will of mysterious circumstances. This day - May 8, 1949 - begins to repeat itself for them with inexorable constancy.

Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Boris Galkin, Feliks Stepun

Votes: 733

time travel, Stalin's Soviet Union, miners, Donbass, overcoming the past

путешествие во времени, сталинский СССР, шахтёры, Донбасс, преодоление прошлого

66. Eto bylo u morya ... (1989)

97 min | Drama

Teenage drama that takes place in a boarding school for kids with spinal problems. School ways are harsh, the stronger kids are always at the top and adult staff supports it. The striking contrast to the plot is seaside town scenery.

Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva | Stars: Nina Ruslanova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Nika Turbina, Yekaterina Politova

Votes: 63

soviet youth of the 80, relations between students and teachers, female collective, first love, problems with the spine

молодёжь 80-х, отношения между учениками и учителями, женский коллектив, первая любовь, проблемы с позвоночником

67. Obnazhyonnaya v shlyape (1992)

68 min | Adventure, Comedy

A promising erotic photographer Kostya Telegin is kidnapped and his friends-journalists decide to find him with the aid of his last photo, "A hatted nude".

Director: Aleksandr Polynnikov | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Anna Nazareva, Evelina Arkhangelskaya, Oleg Stefan

Votes: 92

erotica, detective, journalism, beach, dancing, Baltic republics

эротика, детектив, журналистика, пляж, танцы, Прибалтика

68. Tantsuyushchiye prizraki (1992)

Drama, Comedy

Choreographic school, young talents are gathered here. After eight years of study there are three months to the final performance. And, at last, Giselle is appointed, the roles are assigned... See full summary »

Directors: Yuriy Korotkov, Efim Reznikov | Stars: Aleksey Yasulovich, Anna Ponomaryova, Nina Siyanko, Mariya Vinogradova

Votes: 48

soviet youth of the 80, relations between students and teachers, female collective, ballet, dancing, country life

молодёжь 80-х, отношения между учениками и учителями, женский коллектив, балет, танцы, деревенская жизнь, Залдастанов-Хирург

69. Dukhov den (1991)

117 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Ivan Khristoforov discovers the strange property of involuntarily blowing up surrounding objects. Trying to understand the reason and meaning of this unusual ability, he turns to family ... See full summary »

Director: Sergey Selyanov | Stars: Yuriy Shevchuk, Boris Golyatkin, Gennadiy Garbuk, Viktor Semyonovsky

Votes: 125

70. Primorskiy bulvar (1988 TV Movie)

Comedy, Musical

The events of the movie take place in the city of Odessa. A guy named Sasha sees a beautiful girl on the street and, following her, inadvertently causes a car crash. The driver of the car ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Polynnikov | Stars: Valentina Talyzina, Aleksandr Buyanov, Oleg Fedulov, Oksana Fomichyova

Votes: 124

71. Den lyubvi (1990)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In a small Russian town, a mafia boss is planning a big operation to illegally sell trucks. In order to distract police attention he orders a gang "Motalka" that works for him to commit ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Polynnikov | Stars: Andrei Boltnev, Sergey Gazarov, Andrey Smolyakov, Anna Nazareva

Votes: 116

72. Tak zhit nelzya (1990)

115 min | Documentary

Documentary film about a crisis in Soviet society and causes, which led to this.

Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Stanislav Govorukhin, Aleksandr Nevzorov, Olya Dvoretskaya, Maximilian Schell

Votes: 136

documentary, devastation, all poorly

документальный фильм, падение морали, всё плохо

73. V gorode Sochi tyomnye nochi (1989)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Romance

Vehicle for Little Vera star Natalya Negoda, here a young student who meets a 50 year old con artist (he'd tried to dupe her mother into a fake apartment swap) and lands up in a Black Sea hotel room with him and the corpse of a policeman.

Director: Vasili Pichul | Stars: Aleksey Zharkov, Natalya Negoda, Aleksandr Mironov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya

Votes: 90

romantic relationship with a big age difference, love triangle, soviet wedding, scammers

отношения с большой разницей в возрасте, любовный треугольник, советская свадьба, аферисты

soviet youth of the 80, soviet rockers, breakdance, school, relations between students and teachers, girl fight

молодёжь 80-х, рок-музыканты, брейк-данс, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, девчачья драка

TV propaganda, journalism, Communist party

телепропаганда, журналистика, номенклатура, КПСС

76. Shut (1988)

99 min | Drama

Taking advantage of his intellectual superiority, the teenager Valya Uspensky subtly and mercilessly takes revenge on others for small and big offenses. The young mathematics teacher Igor ... See full summary »

Director: Andrey Eshpay | Stars: Dmitri Vesensky, Marina Mayevskaya, Igor Kostolevskiy, Genrietta Yegorova

Votes: 122

soviet youth of the 80, school, relations between students and teachers, parent-child relationship, psychology

молодёжь 80-х, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, отношения родителей и детей, психология

soviet youth of the 80, school, relations between students and teachers, first love, detective story, militsiya

молодёжь 80-х, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, первая любовь, милиция, детектив

78. Naerata ometi (1985)

85 min | Drama

A sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.

Directors: Leida Laius, Arvo Iho | Stars: Monika Järv, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Tauri Tallermaa, Katrin Tamleht

Votes: 282

soviet youth of the 80, orphanage, first love, Estonia

молодёжь 80-х, детский дом, первая любовь, Эстония

79. Dama s popugaem (1988)

99 min | Comedy, Romance

A 40-year-old womanizer is resting on vacation by the warm sea. The sea, the beach , beautiful naked women, and it would seem, what else is needed? But a strange woman with a parrot ... See full summary »

Director: Andrei Prachenko | Stars: Aleksey Zharkov, Svetlana Smirnova, Dmitri Kopp, Tatyana Yerisova

Votes: 86

soviet youth of the 80, school, relations between students and teachers, parent-child relationship, girl fight

молодёжь 80-х, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, отношения родителей и детей, мажоры, девчачья драка

81. Byla ne byla (1986)

64 min | Drama, Music

A teenage boy gets into trouble flirting with a pretty teacher, then redeems himself defending a girl attacked by goons in a park. He falls for another teacher's daughter, a dancer, and meets the hot teacher under different circumstances.

Director: Valeri Fedosov | Stars: Grigoriy Kataev, Tina Laptev, Aleksey Zharkov, Valentina Telichkina

Votes: 11

soviet youth of the 80, school, relations between students and teachers, parent-child relationship, militsiya, school play, first love, breakdance, Odessa

молодёжь 80-х, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, отношения родителей и детей, милиция, школьная театральная постановка, первая любовь, брейк-данс, Одесса

82. Na okraine, gde-to v gorode... (1988)

84 min | Drama

A mother, tired and dumbed down by her son's hopeless grades, a stepfather, habitually threatening to send his son to a vocational school, a teacher trying to reach the heart of every student, kids who don't know where to put their energy.

Director: Valeriy Pendrakovskiy | Stars: Aleksandr Larionov, Andrei Manannikov, Anton Sheremetyev, Yelena Zajtseva

Votes: 15

soviet youth of the 80, school, relations between students and teachers, parent-child relationship, militsiya, difficult teenager, hooligans

молодёжь 80-х, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, отношения родителей и детей, милиция, трудный подросток, хулиганы

soviet youth of the 80, orphanage, female collective, shooting process

молодёжь 80-х, детский дом, женский коллектив, киносъёмочный процесс

soviet youth of the 80, school, relations between students and teachers, detective story, komsomol

молодёжь 80-х, школа, отношения между учениками и учителями, детектив, комсомол

first love

первая любовь _________ Кадры из этого фильма присутствуют в клипе "Одинокий голубь" певицы Яны

a parody of the totalitarian society on the example of schools

пародия на тоталитарное общество на примере школы

politics, elections, nomenclature, mafia, crime

политика, выборы, номенклатура, мафия, преступность

time travel, UFO, psychics, hypnosis, Ukraine

путешествие во времени, НЛО, экстрасенсы, гипноз, Украина

91. Bryunetka za 30 kopeek (1991)

85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

In the fictional provincial town of Valuisk, the mayor is worried about the state of the economy. To save the city budget, he is ready to take a decisive step - to open a brothel in the ... See full summary »

Director: Sergey Nikonenko | Stars: Sergey Nikonenko, Anna Samokhina, Viktor Ilichyov, Aleksandr Bespalyy

Votes: 44

92. Damskiy portnoy (1990)

89 min | Drama

Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar.

Director: Leonid Gorovets | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Vasileva, Yelena Kozelkova, Nele Savicenko

Votes: 49

93. Shchenok (1988)

103 min | Drama

A tenth-grader wrote a letter to the central newspaper, in which he described the outrages going on and how the authorities were bound together by close ties of corruption and impunity. When the letter was published, he became an outcast.

Director: Aleksandr Grishin | Stars: Sergei Rozhentsev, Fyodor Gavrilov, Vladimir Shevelkov, Akhat Zhabbarov

Votes: 16

soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship, relations between students and teachers, school, journalism, komsomol

молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, отношения между учениками и учителями, школа, журналистика, провинция, комсомол

94. Stervyatniki na dorogakh (1990)

133 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Alexander and Anatoly work as truck drivers in Minsk on MAZ-6422 and MAZ-64228 in a firm that deals with international transportation. As true friends, they always help each other, no matter what happens on the road.

Director: Samvel Gasparov | Stars: Oleg Fomin, Nina Ruslanova, Natalya Vavilova, Marina Yakovleva

Votes: 35

trucks, motorcycles, soviet youth of the 80s, crime, militsiya, revenge, Belarus

грузовики, мотоциклы, молодёжь 80-х, преступность, милиция, месть, белорусская провинция

96. Afghan Breakdown (1992)

140 min | War

The events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.

Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Michele Placido, Tatyana Dogileva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Filipp Yankovskiy

Votes: 560

war in Afghanistan

война в Афганистане

97. Karavan smerti (1992)

79 min | Action

Soviet troops are no longer in Afghanistan and some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of border guards in Tadzhikistan.

Director: Ivan Solovov | Stars: Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Boris Khmelnitskiy, Elena Kondulaynen, Viktor Pavlov

Votes: 67

war in Afghanistan

война в Афганистане

war in Afghanistan

война в Афганистане

99. His Nickname Is Beast (1990)

88 min | Action, Crime

Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.

Director: Aleksandr Muratov | Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Tatyana Skorokhodova, Boris Shcherbakov, Yuriy Nazarov

Votes: 234

100. Ne pokiday... (1989 TV Movie)

140 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The fairy tale-play based on which the film was made was written by Georgi Polonsky in 1984 based on the fairy tale "The Rose and the Ring" by William Thackeray.

Director: Leonid Nechaev | Stars: Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Varvara Vladimirova, Igor Krasavin

Votes: 209



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