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1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Votes: 61,437 | Gross: $0.05M
2. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov
Votes: 12,262
3. Que Viva Mexico (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, Western
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Votes: 1,881
4. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,446
5. Lenin in October (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
The movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.
Directors: Mikhail Romm, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Boris Shchukin, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Vasili Vanin, Nikolai Svobodin
Votes: 413
6. Lenin in 1918 (1939)
130 min | Drama
Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.
Directors: Mikhail Romm, Yefim Aron, Isidor Simkov | Stars: Boris Shchukin, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Aleksandr Shatov, Vasiliy Markov
Votes: 305
7. Lenin in Poland (1966)
98 min | Drama, History
Following the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Lenin is imprisoned in Poland on suspicions he could be a Russian spy. In his cell, he reflects over world politics, the war, and the common Poles he has met during his two years in the country.
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Maksim Shtraukh, Anna Lisyanskaya, Antonina Pavlycheva, Ilona Kusmierska
Votes: 103
8. Lenin in Paris (1981)
106 min | Drama
1910 lernen sich Lenin und Inès Armand in Paris kennen. Inès Armand war dorthin aus der Verbannung (Archangelsk) geflohen und gründete mit Lenin die Parteischule von Longjumeau. In ... See full summary »
Directors: Leonid Ejdlin, Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Yuriy Kayurov, Valentina Svetlova, Claude Jade, Vladimir Antonik
Votes: 157
9. Skanderbeg (1953)
95 min | Action, Drama, History
This is the true story of the National Hero of Albanians, George Kastrioti Scanderbeg, from his birth to his death. 1405-1468. Based mainly upon the monk writer Marin Barleti, the movie ... See full summary »
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Adivie Alibali, Semyon Sokolovsky
Votes: 777
10. Ukraine in Flames (1943)
56 min | Documentary, War
Depicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
Directors: Yakov Avdeyenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Oleksiy Fyodorov, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 164
11. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,979
12. Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 882
13. Arsenal (1929)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman
Votes: 2,335
14. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 10,863
15. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Not Rated | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 8,052
16. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,858
17. Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
160 min | Adventure, History, War
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski, Hanka Bielicka
Votes: 1,783
18. The Deluge (1974)
287 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Votes: 3,181
19. Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930)
83 min | Comedy
Satire of religious charlatanry where priests, police, and stock market officials conspire to fleece pilgrims who've come to see relics of a supposed saint. A pair of con men hatch a scheme... See full summary »
Directors: Yakov Protazanov, Porfiri Podobed | Stars: Igor Ilyinsky, Anatoli Ktorov, Mariya Strelkova, Mikhail Klimov
Votes: 266
20. With Fire and Sword (1999)
175 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Aleksandr Domogarov, Jacek Rozenek
Votes: 5,436
21. The Detached Mission (1986)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama
Much of the movie's dialogue is in English with Russian dubbed over it.
Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili | Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin, Aleksandr Fatyushin, Sergey Nasibov, Nartay Begalin
Votes: 250
22. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,237
23. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,713 | Gross: $0.23M
24. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,047 | Gross: $0.10M
25. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary
Documentary on the making of "The Sacrifice."
Director: Michal Leszczylowksi | Stars: Brian Cox, Susan Fleetwood, Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist
Votes: 880
26. Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Andrej Tarkowskijs Exil und Tod (1988)
131 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary on the final years of the great director Andrei Tarkovsky while living outside his native USSR and going to an exile on Italy to film "Nostalghia" (1983) and then a visit to a... See full summary »
Director: Ebbo Demant | Stars: Erland Josephson, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Andrey A. Tarkovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
Votes: 83
27. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,926
28. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,401
29. Life in Bloom (1949)
81 min | Biography, Drama
The heroic life of a Ukrainian agronomist who becomes world famous and who the Bolshevik Revolution allows to cultivate new species of fruit trees as part of a project to transform nature.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Vladimir Solovyov, Grigori Belov, Aleksandra Vasilyeva, Nikolai Shamin
Votes: 152
30. Ivan (1932)
83 min | Drama
A young farmer and his lazy father try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: K. Bondarevsky, Dmitri Golubinsky, Elena Golki, Maksim Gornatko
Votes: 331
31. The Sacrifice (1986)
PG | 149 min | Drama
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Votes: 30,974 | Gross: $0.30M
32. Death Day (1934)
17 min | Documentary, Short, History
Footage from a Mexican "Death Day" celebration compiled and subtitled by Sergei Eisenstein.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Votes: 131
33. La destrucción de Oaxaca (1931)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Votes: 201
34. Strike (1925)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Votes: 8,622
35. General Suvorov (1941)
Passed | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many ... See full summary »
Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Nikolay P. Cherkasov, Aleksandr Khanov, Mikhail Astangov, Apollon Yachnitskiy
Votes: 221
36. Time of the Gypsies (1988)
R | 142 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic
Votes: 32,705 | Gross: $0.28M
37. Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
Admiral Pavel Nakhimov, one of the most acclaimed admirals in Russian history, fights the Turkish fleet during the Crimean War of 1853.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Aleksei Dikij, Evgeniy Samoylov, Vladimir Vladislavskiy, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Votes: 153
38. Zhukovsky (1950)
90 min | Biography, Drama
Biopic on Nikolay Zhukovsky, a scientist, mathematician and engineer who is considered the father of Russian aviation.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Yuri Yurovsky, Ilya Sudakov, Vladimir Belokurov, Vladimir Druzhnikov
Votes: 55
39. Minin i Pozharskiy (1939)
110 min | Drama, History
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Aleksandr Khanov, Boris Livanov, Boris Chirkov, Anatoliy Goryunov
Votes: 118
40. In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
94 min | Drama
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Elena Tyapkina, Mikhail Zharov, Maria Pastukhova
Votes: 72
41. Yunyi Frits (1943)
25 min | Short
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: Maksim Shtraukh, Lidiya Atmanaki, Yanina Zheymo, Mikhail Vysotsky
Votes: 43
42. The New Babylon (1929)
120 min | Drama, History
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 934
43. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,068
44. Vasili's Return (1953)
102 min | Drama
A man comes home from World War II and tries to readjust to civil life.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Sergei Lukyanov, Natalya Medvedeva, Nikolai Timofeyev, Anatoli Chemodurov
Votes: 104
45. Mother and Sons (1938)
85 min | Drama
Soviet followup to several Hollywood aviation films of the 1930s.3 Russian test pilots risk their lives making a round-the-world, non-stop flight on "Pobeda-1" ["Victory-1"]. Their ... See full summary »
Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Sergey Ostroumov, Vladimir Solovyov, Nikoloz Sanishvili
Votes: 45
46. An Hour with Chekhov (1929)
64 min | Comedy
Based on three short stories written by Anton Chekhov: "Anna on the Neck", "The Death of a Government Clerk" and "The Chameleon".
Directors: Yakov Protazanov, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Mikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Strelkova, N. Shcherbakov, Andrey Petrovsky
Votes: 67
47. Shors (1939)
92 min | Biography, Drama, War
Biography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
Directors: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Evgeniy Samoylov, Ivan Skuratov, Luka Lyashenko, Yu. Titov
Votes: 228
48. Old and New (1929)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov
Votes: 1,724
49. The Diamond Arm (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov
Votes: 16,231
50. The Code (2002)
R | 116 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Either you make decisions or life makes them for you. For an ex-con struggling to go straight, the temptation of money, women and power prove too much, especially when his best friend promises him an easy heist.
Director: Manuel Boursinhac | Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Samy Naceri, Clotilde Courau, Marie Guillard
Votes: 1,100 | Gross: $0.01M
51. The Conquest of Siberia (2019)
TV-14 | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young officer, Ivan Demarin, is sent to the depths of Siberia. Here Ivan meets his first love and, together with his regiment, finds himself drawn into a conspiracy by local princes, who are hunting for Yarkand's gold.
Director: Igor Zaytsev | Stars: Vladimir Afanasyev, Andrey Burkovskiy, Yerkebulan Daiyrov, Evgeniy Dyatlov
Votes: 1,289
52. Ukraine on Fire (2016)
95 min | Documentary
Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014's Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? "Ukraine on Fire" by Igor Lopatonok ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Lopatonok | Stars: Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yanukovich, Vitaliy Zakharchenko
Votes: 4,228
53. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
R | 126 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun, Honglei Sun
Votes: 49,183 | Gross: $5.70M
54. Ghetto (2005)
110 min | History, War
In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate... See full summary »
Director: Audrius Juzenas | Stars: Heino Ferch, Sebastian Hülk, Erika Marozsán, Andrius Zebrauskas
Votes: 1,321
55. Ekskursante (2013)
110 min | Action, Drama
The story of a ten year old girl who escapes from a deportee train and goes on a 6000 km long journey back to her homeland.
Director: Audrius Juzenas | Stars: Anastasija Marcenkaite, Igor Savochkin, Kseniya Rappoport, Raisa Ryazanova
Votes: 1,623
56. Owl Mountain (2018)
128 min | Drama
Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and... See full summary »
Director: Audrius Juzenas | Stars: Aldona Bendoriute, Monika Biciunaite, Daumantas Ciunis, Arnas Danusas
Votes: 662
57. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
68 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 593
58. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,049
59. The Eleventh Year (1928)
59 min | Documentary
This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 375
60. Kino Eye (1924)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls,... See full summary »
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,198
61. Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
119 min | Documentary
The history of the October revolution told in images, starting from the uprising of 25 February up to the first anniversary of the revolution. The uprisings, the civil wars and the soviet life and leaders are shown in panoramic images.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Aleksandr Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotskiy
Votes: 161
62. The Diplomatic Pouch (1927)
50 min | Thriller
The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Mattea Buyukli, A. Klymenko, Heorhii Zelondzhev-Shypov, Ida Penzo
Votes: 182
63. Proshchay, Amerika! (1949)
70 min | Drama
Anna Bedford, a young and idealistic girl from Pennsylvania, accepts a State Department assignment to serve in the US Embassy in Moscow shortly after the allied victory over fascist Germany... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Vyacheslav Gostinsky, Liliya Gritsenko, Nikolai Gritsenko, Grigori Kirillov
Votes: 90
64. Native Land (1945)
58 min | Documentary
A documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, supervised by the Soviet Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
Directors: Gurgen Balasanyan, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Levon Isahakyan, G. Zargaryan | Star: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Votes: 34
65. Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoy Ukraine i izgnanie nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predely ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel (1945)
73 min | Documentary, War
Describes the Russian attack against the Germans, which drove them away from the Dneiper river, and finally out of Ukraine.
Directors: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva | Star: Leonid Khmara
Votes: 104
66. Osvobozhdeniye (1940)
62 min | Documentary
The liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian lands from the yoke of Polish landlords and the reunification of the sister nations into a single family.
Directors: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva | Star: Olev Eskola
Votes: 82
67. Frontier (1935)
82 min | Drama
A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shagaida, Sergey Stolyarov, Stepan Shkurat, G. Tsoi
Votes: 481
68. Zvenigora (1928)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy
An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Nikolai Nademsky, Semyon Svashenko, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy, Polina Sklyar-Otava
Votes: 1,166
69. Nezabyvaemoe (1967)
118 min | Drama, War
About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A ... See full summary »
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Evgeniy Bondarenko, Zinaida Dekhtyaryova, Irina Korotkova, Yuri Fisenko
Votes: 121
70. Enchanted Desna (1964)
81 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
An abstract depiction of the childhood of Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Evgeniy Samoylov, Vladimir Goncharov, Evgeniy Bondarenko, Zinaida Kirienko
Votes: 223
71. Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
91 min | Drama, War
In early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not... See full summary »
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Boris Andreyev, Sergei Lukyanov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Nikolay Vingranovskiy
Votes: 159
72. Poem of the Sea (1958)
95 min | Drama
Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Boris Livanov, Boris Andreyev, Mikhail Tsaryov, Mikhail Romanov
Votes: 202
73. Gromkaya svyaz (2019)
96 min | Comedy
Seven friends, having gathered in a country house, begin to play the game in a joke - participants must read out aloud all messages that come to them, and answer calls only via speakerphone... See full summary »
Director: Alexey Nuzhny | Stars: Anastasiya Ukolova, Leonid Barats, Irina Gorbacheva, Rostislav Khait
Votes: 1,462
74. Dersu Uzala (1975)
G | 142 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulyov
Votes: 33,506
75. Nomad: The Warrior (2005)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes.
Directors: Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer | Stars: Kuno Becker, Jason Scott Lee, Jay Hernandez, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov
Votes: 3,975 | Gross: $0.08M
76. White Sun of the Desert (1970)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
Director: Vladimir Motyl | Stars: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze
Votes: 7,833
77. Taras Bulba (1962)
Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 4,475 | Gross: $7.41M
78. Taras Bulba (2009)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Igor Petrenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Magdalena Mielcarz
Votes: 3,408
79. The Rising Hawk (2019)
Not Rated | 125 min | Action, Drama, History
The Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains.
Directors: John Wynn, Akhtem Seitablaev | Stars: Robert Patrick, Tommy Flanagan, Poppy Drayton, Alex MacNicoll
Votes: 4,511
80. War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, War
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn
Votes: 2,116
81. War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1965)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Natasha Rostova, a young Russian aristocrat, meets prince Andrey Bolkonskiy at a ball and immediately falls in love with him.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn
Votes: 1,819
82. War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, History, War
Giant film epic based on novel of the great Russian writer Lev Tolstoy.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Lyudmila Saveleva, Boris Zakhava
Votes: 1,798
83. War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
An epic film based on the novel by Lev Tolstoy "War and Peace".
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Lyudmila Saveleva, Viktor Stanitsyn
Votes: 1,679
84. Boris Godunov (1986)
130 min | Drama, History
Based on the Alexander Pushkin's play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Alyona Bondarchuk, Gennadi Mitrofanov, Valeriy Storozhik
Votes: 287
85. Boris Godounov (1989)
118 min | Musical, Drama
The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort, Paul Plishka
Votes: 378
86. Viking (2016)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Drama, History
Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maksim Sukhanov, Igor Petrenko
Votes: 5,065
87. Admiral (2008)
Not Rated | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov
Votes: 8,608
88. The Battle of Neretva (1969)
G | 105 min | Drama, History, War
World War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 4,042
89. Taras Shevchenko (1951)
118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biopic about a national hero of the Ukraine.
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Igor Savchenko | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Ivan Pereverzev, Pavel Shpringfeld, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 172
90. Othello (1956)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Votes: 351
91. Ivan Franko (1956)
98 min | Biography, Drama
A political biography of Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko of Galicia in the early 20th century. He promoted Ukrainian rights and also Marxism.
Director: Timofei Levchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Yaroslav Gelyas, Vladimir Balashov, Irina Skobtseva
Votes: 59
92. Waterloo (I) (1970)
G | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 12,616 | Gross: $3.05M
93. Red Bells Part II: Ten Days That Shook the World (1982)
139 min | Drama, Western
The last of a two-part film centered on the life and career of John Reed, the revolutionary communist journalist.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Anatoli Ustyzhaninov, Franco Nero, Sydne Rome, Bogdan Stupka
Votes: 176
94. Red Bells (1982)
135 min | Drama, Western
A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Franco Nero, Ursula Andress, Jorge Luke, Blanca Guerra
Votes: 224
95. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Experience the chronicle adventures of Mr. West and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible and evil Bolsheviks.
Director: Lev Kuleshov | Stars: Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Votes: 1,120
96. Zakhar Berkut (1971)
97 min | Drama, History
The film tells about the participation of Carpathian farmers and hunters led by Zakhar Berkut in the fight against the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus.
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Vasyl Symchych, Ivan Gavrilyuk, Antonina Leftiy, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 160
97. Michael the Brave (1971)
203 min | Action, Biography, Drama
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu
Votes: 6,566
98. Proud Heritage (1989)
136 min | Action, Drama, History
After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Sergiu Nicolaescu, Serban Ionescu, Adrian Pintea, Vlad Nemes
Votes: 849
99. Carol I (2009)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
The last days of the first romanian king, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the tough decisions he had to make in the summer of 1914 in order to please both Romanian Parliament and his relatives from the German Empire.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Sergiu Nicolaescu, Razvan Vasilescu, Cristian Motiu, Andreea Macelaru
Votes: 318
100. Stephen the Great - Vaslui 1475 (1975)
137 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Gheorghe Cozorici, Gheorghe Dinica, Violeta Andrei, Toma Dimitriu
Votes: 745
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