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- DirectorHoratiu MalaeleStarsMeda Andreea VictorAlexandru PotoceanValentin TeodosiuIn a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- DirectorIstván BujtorStarsIstván BujtorLászló KozákAndrás KernHungarian action comedy taking place in 1991. This film is part of the series written, directed and starred by Istvan Bujtor which are loosely connected to each other by the main characters: investigators Dr Kardos and Csopi Otvos. The plot starts in Athens with a murder that soon turns into an investigation after a European drug cartell across Greece, Hungary and Germany. The main character of the film is given by the dialogues reflecting stereotypes of the Hungarian mindset in the 1990s post-systemic change world.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsVeriko AnjaparidzeTamari TsitsishviliDudukhana TserodzeA film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
- DirectorAnatoliy GranikStarsLeonid BykovNikolay YakovchenkoAleksandr BorisovMaxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsÁrpád BesencziIldikó BokorRóbert BollaDivided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who are only half-human, one being half-bird, the other half-bear.
- DirectorGábor ReiszStarsÁron FerenczikKatalin TakácsZsolt KovácsA trip to Lisbon helps a nerdy guy who is quickly approaching 30 finally get his mojo back.
- DirectorKároly Ujj MészárosStarsMónika BalsaiSzabolcs Bede FazekasDavid SakuraiLiza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?
- DirectorFrancesco ProsperiEldar RyazanovStarsAndrey MironovNinetto DavoliAntonia SantilliThe mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia.
- 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.
- DirectorNikolai LitusAleksei MishurinStarsNadezhda RumyantsevaAndrei SovaAleksey KozhevnikovThanks to her kindness and optimism, a young girl turns a neglected gas station into a significant landmark.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsLudek MunzarJaroslav MouckaChristian BrücknerA young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.
- DirectorIlya FrezStarsTatyana AksyutaNikita MikhaylovskyElena SoloveyAdults try to interfere with the relationship of two teenagers.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- DirectorHanno HöferRazvan MarculescuCristian MungiuStarsDiana CavalliotiRadu IacobanVlad IvanovSeveral urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAlexandru PapadopolAnca AndroneSamuel TastetOccident is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the growing tendency of Eastern European youth to migrate west. When the amicable Luci (Alexandru Papadopol) and his beautiful lover Sorina (Anca Androne) are evicted from their apartment, Sorina decides they must visit her father's grave and ask for a "sign". Seconds later, Luci is hit in the head by a bottle and taken to the hospital by a Frenchman. Despite her love for Luci, Sorina believes a life with security takes precedence over romance, and moves in with the good samaritan. Meanwhile, a jilted bride (Tania Popa) and her mother (Coca Bloos) enlist the help of of a private agency to find a proper husband for her, but the wealthy Italian man they select has more than a couple of undesirable traits. Later, Michaela's (Popa) father, a police captain, finds out that Luci's cousin is dead, prompting him to remember when the two boys fled from Romania by swimming across the Danube on an inflatable doll. The cousin had made it across, but Luci had been arrested and thrown into prison.
- DirectorGyörgy KovásznaiStarsAlbert AntalffyKati BontovitsKatalin DobosOn his wedding day, eccentric 40-something shop decorator Zsolt Mohai visits Anna Parádi, asking her to call off his marriage to Klára Horváth. Drama and musical numbers follow as they discuss romance, loyalty, ambition.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyörgy CserhalmiAnikó NagyErzsi PártosA traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyula BalázsiPéter BenköÁgnes BertalanAdam's and Eve's epic journey throughout history trying to find the meaning of human life. Do we grow in wisdom as centuries pass, or just drift towards an inevitable doom?
- DirectorAndrey VolginStarsIvan ZhvakinLukerya IlyashenkoNikita VolkovMoscow, 2070s. In a sealed bunker in the post-apocalyptic ruins of Moscow, young people struggle against each other in a deadly dancing tournament. Only the winners will live.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsMarián BielikJana BelákováOlga SalagováOldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
- DirectorLadislav SmoljakStarsZdenek SverákValérie KaplanováPetr CepekCzech comedy film about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminologist, poet, writer and philosopher).
- DirectorHanns Heinz EwersStellan RyeStarsPaul WegenerGrete BergerLyda SalmonovaBalduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsJirí SovákVáclav LohniskýIva JanzurováOlder group of workers are forced to attend the high school and finish it.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsIgor SavkinMargarita VolodinaVladimir KenigsonA group of train passengers are thrown together an actor A doctor young women and a Bolshivic commander trying to Get to the city. They have to run the gauntlet of the White Russians Who have cut off most of the roads.
- DirectorEdmond KeosayanStarsVasiliy VasilevViktor KosykhValentina KurdyukovaTeenagers take revenge on cruel chieftains during the civil war. Soviet blockbuster in the best traditions of the western
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNonna MordyukovaSvetlana KryuchkovaYuriy BogatyryovA woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsLabina MitevskaJitka SchneiderováSasa RasilovRobert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to Prague from Macedonia because it is according to her the best place for UFOs to land, but her real reason for coming is somewhat different... Hanka is followed by the crazy Ondrej, until then a respected brain surgeon, and married with two kids. Through him she meets Jacob, who uses copious amounts of weed in order to be constructive in this gloomy world. On the other hand, this destroys his short-term memory - and he forgets that he already has a girlfriend. The disappointed Hanka runs to her parents, only to find some twenty-odd Japanese tourists watching her parents eat their dinner...
- DirectorSadyk Sher-NiyazStarsElina Abai KyzyNasira MambetovaJamal SeidakmatovaThe relevant epic story of the strong-willed, courageous and independent woman before her time, Kurmanjan, who is revered to this day for her diplomacy for saving her nation from complete destruction when the Russians invaded.
- DirectorNikita ArgunovStarsRinal MukhametovLyubov AksyonovaAnton PampushnyyAfter a mysterious accident, a young architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world. He must find out the exact laws and regulations of it while he fights for his life and keeps looking for an exit to the real world.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsAndrea DrahotaGyöngyi BürösErzsi CserhalmiSet in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsAndrás KozákSergey NikonenkoBéla BarsiIn the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.
- DirectorNejc GazvodaStarsNina RakovecMia JexenNatasa Barbara GracnerWhen a plane is forced to land in a Slovenian airport the Danish girl Iben happens to meet Slovenian Tina. Unable to understand each other, the two girls quickly discover that they can meet the needs of each other.
- DirectorIgor SeregiStarsRene BitorajacMatija KacanMarko CindricSeries of events leading to football fans war on the streets of Belgrade.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorKirill SokolovStarsAleksandr KuznetsovVitaliy KhaevEvgeniya KregzhdeAndrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsSergo OrjonikidzeSesilia TakaishviliAleksandre JorjolianiGrandma Olgha up-brings orphan Zurikela in poverty. Their struggle for life is being relieved by support of their kind neighbors, Iliko and Ilarion, whose merit is the exceptional sense of humor.
- DirectorSrdjan VuleticStarsSasa PetrovicDaria Lorenci FlatzDamir SavicTaxi driver Fudo wants a happy life with his wife an son. But he has debts. He decides to plan a last coup with his gangster friends.
- DirectorDarko StanteStarsMatej ZemljicTimon SturbejGasper MarkunAfter being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Zeljko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
- DirectorRok BicekStarsIgor SamoborNatasa Barbara GracnerTjasa ZeleznikRelations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late... (based on true events)
- DirectorRadivoje AndricStarsSergej TrifunovicMarija KaranNebojsa GlogovacDuring one peculiar night, the lives of several interconnected people are changed, as they rapidly experience love, disappointment, joy, greed and remorse.
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsAleksey KopashovAndrey MerzlikinPavel DerevyankoA war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsRamaz GiorgobianiVasil KakhniashviliTeimuraz ChirgadzeAn author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsSenne RouffaerBeata TyszkiewiczHector CamerlynckGovert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran's graduation, Govert decides that he needs to tell her.
- DirectorAlejo MoguillanskyStarsMaría VillarWalter JakobMargarita FernándezAndersen's "Little Match Girl", Bresson's donkey, the relationship between a German guerrilla and an Argentine pianist, and Helmut Lachenmann trying to stage an opera with the orchestra of the Teatro Colón on strike. In the middle of all that, Marie and Walter try to survive with their daughter.
- DirectorSaara CantellStarsRosa SalomaaToni LeppeJenni Banerjee
- DirectorPetr KankaStarsHanus BorIlona SvobodováZuzana Vejvodová
- DirectorJirí VejdelekStarsVica KerekesJirí MachácekPetra HrebíckováWhen a father teaches his son in-law about the perks of cheating, things take unexpected turns...
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsPetra MorzéAndreas PattonHary PrinzThree stories revolve around the love lives of an adulterous woman, a checkout girl and a single mother.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsAlexandra BorbélyGéza MorcsányiRéka TenkiWhen slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it's difficult in real life.
- DirectorTamás OltCsaba VékesStarsDániel BenedekCsaba FándlyRóbert KoltaiA father runs to the doctor when birth is happening earlier. All the elements are against him while he has fantasies about how his daughter will live as an adult. Early Wedding is a folk custom in Eastern Europe. When a young girl dies without a husband the family organize a wedding and they marry her to death.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsSeidi HaarlaYura BorisovDinara DrukarovaAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
- DirectorNigina SayfullaevaStarsEvgeniya GromovaAleksandr PalMarina VasilevaMidwife Lena, a loving wife, is driven towards a string of infidelities after her husband continues to neglect her.
- DirectorKira KovalenkoStarsMilana AguzarovaAlik KaraevSoslan KhugaevAda is stuck. Living in a dead-end town in North Ossetia, she is caught in the tight grip of the men in her life. But when her older brother returns home and her father suddenly falls ill, Ada finally sees a possible path to freedom.