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- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsIssei OgataRobert DawsonKaori MomoiThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsMalcolm McDowellOleg YankovskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanOver seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsLeonid MozgovoyMariya KuznetsovaSergey RazhukJoseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
- DirectorYevgeni GolubenkoKira MuratovaStarsNikolai ShatokhinIrina KovalenkoNatalya RallevaAn ordinary post-Soviet policeman finds a baby in the garden and wants to adopt it; this 'adventure' turns his life upside down. After the 'shock therapy' of The Asthenic Syndrome.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsGeorgiy DelievAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaA young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsSergey MakovetskiyElena MayorovaIrina MetlitskayaA peaceful poet going mad possessing a gun.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsEvgeniy MironovEvgeniy TsyganovIrina PegovaA story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsSergey PuskepalisLeonid BronevoySvetlana KamyninaA dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
- DirectorAleksandr BashirovStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei DyachkovEvgeniy FyodorovNikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy.
- DirectorIgor Voloshin
- DirectorPavel Medvedev
- DirectorNataliya MeshchaninovaStarsDarya SavelevaPolina ShaninaMaksim StoyanovSveta is eager to escape from Norilsk. It's even more of a dream because Maxim is out there in the far-away southern town of Temryuk waiting for her (or so she thinks). Nadya is the essence of everything that Sveta hates about Norilsk. The situation becomes even worse as Sveta's friends shamelessly and perpetually use Nadya's sexual services. When the disgusting dispatcher and prostitute gets an opportunity to leave Norilsk, Sveta's hatred reaches its climax. 'She has stolen my dream!'
- DirectorBakur BakuradzeStarsMikhail BarskovichTatyana ShapovalovaGera AvdochenokFarmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Ivan doesn't notice it at first, but something begins to change.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksandr MosinOleg GarkushaYuriy MatveevSanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage to a "bell-tower of happiness".
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsOleg TabakovAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaAt the heart of this story there are Him and Her, two former schoolmates who haven't crossed paths for a long time . One day, he arrives into Her town and right away, from the threshold, to ask her advice about a mess he's got into: he's sincerely in love with two women at once . .
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsElena AnDanila RassomakhinKarim PakachakovA mischievous father and his gentle, beautiful daughter live a quiet life in a vast plain until two young men fall for the girl. The love triangle leads to a wholly unexpected turn of events in an astounding story that incorporates unimaginable beauty with a strong social message.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsFranziska PetriDejan LilicAlbina DzhanabaevaA romance between two strangers who discover that their partners are lovers.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsNikolay SpiridonovMariya KuznetsovaNikolay ReutovSet in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
- DirectorRoman VolobuevStarsDarya CharushaAleksandr MolochnikovSvetlana UstinovaSasha and Ilya, a bored young couple on a verge of breakup, are spending a New Year's Eve at a secluded beach house in Northern France then a carcass of an unidentified creature is washed ashore nearby. Later that day on his way back from a local bar Ilya meets Masha, a lost Russian girl, who seems to have gotten off the train at the wrong station and has nowhere to spend the night.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsJean-Luc JulienThere are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past - factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public and receive thousands of tourists every year. The film's title refers to the eponymous novel written by W.G. Sebald, dedicated to the memory of Holocaust. This film is an observation of the visitors to a memorial site that has been founded on the territory of a former concentration camp. Why do they go there? What are they looking for?
- DirectorIndar DzhendubaevStarsMatvey LykovMariya PoezzhaevaStanislav LyubshinIn the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island.
- DirectorElla ManzheevaStarsEvgeniya MandzhievaSergey AdianovLyubov Ubushieva"Only the wind, the sand, the reed and a desire to live not worse than the others..." - these words served as a base for the atmosphere of this story, and they are incredibly precise as a definition of the real world in these places. The Seagulls are a parable on the background of modern Kalmykia. It is about love, with the characters intuitively fulfilling forgotten traditions. Their love is silent and their sorrow is without tears - The seagulls are souls of dead fishermen, broken boats - a hope. Elza the fisherman's wife lives in a seaside town in Kalmykia. She wants to leave her husband but cannot take this step because she is afraid of uncertainty. Suddenly her husband dies. Because of his death, Elza has to think everything over and reconsider her views on life, on happiness, on liberty.
- DirectorBakur BakuradzeStarsMarko NikolicMisa TirindaMiso NenezicRevolves around the last year of the Balkan War general, just before his arrest and surrender to the Hague Tribunal.
- DirectorAlina RudnitskayaA metaphysical trip into the deepest reaches of Russia.
- DirectorMarina StepanskaStarsLeonid AndriyenkoTimur GimadiyevIgor LinshitsThe 37-year-old man is working for a Corporation, which is engaged in illegal occupation of rural land. Leaving for another "object", he discovers a huge unfinished cathedral at the infinite field. He needs to decide what to do with the cathedral, as well as to subdue a farmer who rightfully owns the land.
- DirectorKlim KozinskiyStarsTommy SimpsonA comics about superhero philosophers, who get involved in various predicaments and try to utter God's name.The movie is made up of eight episodes, each in its own genre. There are detective stories, a Western, a thriller, a conspiracy movie, horrors, and comedies - It is a fantastic voyage through the jungle of reason.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsValeriu AndriutaLiya AkhedzhakovaRoza KhayrullinaA woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
- DirectorNatasha MerkulovaAlexey ChupovStarsEvgeniy TsyganovNatalya KudryashovaYuriy KuznetsovWhen a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyStarsTeodor CurrentzisYouriy AlekseevRadmila ShegolevaBiographical film, epically depicting the life of the famous scientist Lev Landau.
- DirectorDmitrii DavydovStarsValentina Romanova-ChyskyyrayNikolai IvanovAnatoly StruchkovPeople avoid and fear her but make their way to her door, because only she can resolve problems problems of all kinds. She is a healer, a hermit, a holy fool and a drinker. She knows the saving grace she administers is destroying her.
- DirectorBoris AkopovStarsYura BorisovStasya MiloslavskayaAleksandr Samsonov1997. Russia is finding it tough in the wake of the USSR, a fact reflected in local criminal gangs. Bull is leader of one such. He ends up at the police station, where he s asked pull off a risky mob-job in return of imprisonment.
- DirectorAleksandr LunginStarsAleksandr KuznetsovAleksey FilimonovFyodor LavrovGreat Poetry is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They're young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. Dreaming, they attend a poetry class at their local cultural center, and watch cock fights at a dorm for migrant workers. Attempts to find poetry in the prosaic world that surrounds them lead the heroes to the conclusion that the only poetic move they can make is to rob a bank. Paul Claudel wrote that a person lives their life intimately and poetically, and in our film there is a lot of poetry. But the film isn't about words or rhymes. It's about friendship and betrayal, and about our vicious and alien world in which anyone who tries to be honest and consistent ends up looking naive and cruel. It's about the ever-present and incomprehensible force that no matter what makes our life so frantic, strange, and lonely.
- DirectorNataliya MeshchaninovaStarsStepan DevoninDmitriy PodnozovYana SeksteEgor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.
- DirectorAvdotya SmirnovaStarsAleksey SmirnovFilipp GurevichEvgeniy KharitonovThe shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsAnna SlyuDenis VlasenkoDaniil SteklovYoung Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.
- DirectorGrigoriy KonstantinopolskiyStarsIvan MakarevichLyubov AksyonovaYuliya AugContemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsNatalya TsvetkovaYan TsapnikFilipp AvdeevMany years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natasha returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsGundaDocumentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
- DirectorAnastasiya PalchikovaStarsAnya ChipovskayaDenis DonskoySergey Dvoynikov13-year-old Masha grows in the 90s in Russia between the boxing ring and the street. Her friends occasionally kill and rob people. The whole town hates and fears them, but for Masha they are the best people in the world who love and protect her. She sings jazz and dreams of becoming a singer. One day, Masha finds out who her friends really are and what they have done to her life and family. Having matured, she leaves her small hometown for Moscow, trying to break away from the past. But it overtakes her and brings her back to the place where her childhood passed away.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMerab NinidzeAnna MikhalkovaRoza KhayrullinaFollows a Russian professor who takes to social media to criticize his city's administration. He soon finds himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest.
- DirectorAlexey ChupovNatasha MerkulovaStarsYura BorisovTimofey TribuntsevAleksandr YatsenkoFast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fyodor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in the USSR.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsPolina AgureevaIlya BarinovIlya DelIlya stutters a lot, and this interferes with everything - his personal life, communication with the child, work. In desperation, he enrolls in the course of the famous doctor Cherkasova.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsViktor NemetsVladimir GolovinAleksey VertkovA few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsOleg MenshikovSergey BodrovSusanna MekhraliyevaTwo Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsDmitriy SolovevYelena KamayevaGeorge AntonIvan is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war.
- 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.
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsFedor BondarchukIvan OkhlobystinAnna BuklovskayaThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
- DirectorNikolay KhomerikiStarsAleksandr YatsenkoKlavdiya KorshunovaNatalya BatrakKostya works as a train driver. One day a doctor tells him that he has a heart condition and could die at any moment. He decides not to tell anyone and live his life as before, but more and more often he thinks about the meaning of life.
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsAleksandr FeklistovUte LemperEvgeniy SidikhinSet in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin's secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler.
- DirectorVadim AbdrashitovStarsAndrey EgorovYuriy StepanovSergey GarmashEvents are unfolding in one of the hot spots of the Russia. The heroes of the film returned from the war. They are winners and losers, because they have forgotten how to live in peace. The war is over, but it is close and still kills. And they want to live so passionately. But how?
- DirectorAleksandr VartanovStarsRuslan NazarenkoAleksandr UserdinYuliya AugBullet Collector follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsOlga LapshinaMarina GavrilovaSasha GavrilovaThe heroes of the film are not ready to put up with their losses. They challenge fate, declare war on it and reach the human limit in it. And they go on, winning in their own way .
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsJoseph StalinNikita KhrushchevLavrenti BeriaThe enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
- DirectorVadim PerelmanStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartLars EidingerJonas NayA young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsTinatin DalakishviliEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey VertkovFor the sake of her future with the father of her two children, she commits a crime so grave that he withdraws from her. Feeling betrayed she tries to fill the void with sex and religion; but resentment drives her to revenge.
- DirectorAleksandr KhantStarsIgor IvanovJenia VinogradovaOlga SakhanovaSasha and Danny, both 15, have sex for the first time. When Sasha's parents find out she has lost her virginity, all hell breaks loose. Her policeman stepfather forbids her to set foot outside the family home. Sasha has no intention of obeying. Danny and she run away together in protest against their parents and society as a whole. Their sudden freedom goes to their heads. Danny, who is normally quiet and unassuming, runs wild. Sasha's stepfather takes command of the search efforts. Once he catches the couple, he is determined to put Danny in juvenile prison. A harmless adventure escalates into an operation to arrest armed criminals.
- DirectorReka ValerikStarsRuben FrancqKhavaj, a young MMA (mixed martial art) fighter, fled Chechnya when his brother discovered his homosexuality and promised to kill him, under the persecution of Kadyrov's regime. In Brussels, facing the shock of exile, he is struck mute. The only link that he keeps with Chechnya are the vocal messages that his mother sends him. The film traces Khavaj's first months in Belgium. Forced to live in total anonymity to escape the Chechen diaspora, he will try to build a new identity.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsIgor GromovVakhtang KuchavaLothar DeegA civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.
- DirectorGrigoriy KonstantinopolskiyStarsAleksandr GorchilinVladimir EpifantsevAleksandr KuznetsovA young Moscow music video maker Grisha blazes his way to fame through the dashing nineties
- DirectorRuslan BratovStarsIrina DenisovaSergey GayterovAleksey IlinCaucasus, City of Cherkessk. Soslanov Sasha or how friends are used to call him Sos is never dejected. Expelled from the University, nowhere to spend the night, a love of life Nina leaving the city - it's all rubbish. Sos is loyal to his fortune. One day, out of boredom, Sasha desperately gambles an "Express" wage - the bet is starting to win. However, Sos has lost the money-receiving card and now he has only 3 days to find his "Express". Cherkessk Odyssey has begun.
- DirectorIgor PoplauhinStarsEkaterina ErmishinaMaksim KozlovGeorgiy KudrenkoIn a forest river, hunters find the body of a young singer named Yanka Diaghilev. From this moment begins the intricate chronicle of the last day in the girl's life, during which she will make a long journey - from the city to the dacha, and then into the thicket to the river. On this day, Yanka will have time to see and talk with many people, real and imaginary, even with those who are no longer alive. It seems that Yanka's next step is about to shed light on the circumstances of her mysterious death: hopeless love, disputes with loved ones, disagreements with herself, strange meetings with strangers in the forest.
- StarsAnna MikhalkovaTaisiya VilkovaElizaveta IshenkoAlyssa is only 15, and her teachers are tired of calling her mother into school. She later learns that soon she will go blind. She vows to live to the fullest while she can and decides that it would be stupid to waste time on school.
- DirectorDmitriy FyodorovStarsVitaliy AbdulovAleksandr AblyazovIvan FedotovThe simple working guy Lyokha gets acquainted with the beautiful Masha. She shows him photos that he cannot remember.
- DirectorMikhail MestetskiyStarsEldar KalimulinAnastasiya TalyzinaYuliya RomashinaThe dreamer Filipp is full of wild and utopian ideas. But the pregnancy of his girlfriend Marina forces him to "grow up" dramatically: to find a stupid job, to give up ridiculous fantasies. However, in this form, he is unloved and no one needs. As a result, difficult childbirth makes it clear: one cannot do without his imagination.
- DirectorIlya PovolotskyStarsMaria LukyanovaGela ChitavaDaro AkimidzeIn Russia, an introverted father and his teenage daughter live on the road in a van that contains their entire life, including the equipment for a travelling cinema: the source of their meager income.
- DirectorStepan BurnashevStarsInnokenty LukovtsevAndrey FominGeorgiy BessonovOne of the Russian villages. Police officer Athanasius becomes a suspect in a serious crime. The locals are ready for a lynching. Investigator Sirditov faces a difficult task: on the one hand, he understands that such a crime should not go unpunished, on the other hand, it is necessary to find out all the details of the incident.
- DirectorBaybulat BatullinStarsRabit BatullaNurbek BatullinSiren BayramovTo hide the sudden death of his parents from his grandson, 70-year-old grandfather Rasim begins to play with him the legendary game "Take it and remember it" to make wishes come true. At first, his wife Sufiya does not like this idea, but gradually the game changes both the life of this family and the life and dreams of the whole village in the most incredible way.
- DirectorLyubov MulmenkoStarsTatiana BelousovaLyudmila ChirkovaDaria KonyzhevaVanya is a young man with oddities. He works at the Hunter and Fisherman's store, lives in an old-fashioned granny apartment, and calls all women "Frau." Everything changes when he meets Kristina, a ballerina of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater and begins to court her in his own original manner.
- DirectorRezo GigineishviliStarsIgor ChernevichInna ChurikovaOlga DzyuraLate USSR. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official.
- DirectorNataliya MeshchaninovaStarsAleksandra AbrameytsevaAnastasiia ArtamonovaStepan DevoninFourteen-year-old Mira wants to spend New Year's Eve with her friend Lera. Initially, her stepfather disagrees. But, after a tense family dinner, she is given permission.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsEkaterina AndreevaMariya BerdinskikhFyodor ButinA simple worker of a Perm chocolate factory begins to hear the voices of extraterrestrial civilizations.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsMakar KhlebnikovOleg SavostyukAleksandr RobakThe battered seiner "Bullfinch" is home to a gang of sea vagrants. They are all different, but there is something in common - the desire to take a richer catch, earn money, return home alive. Two newcomers, Nikita and Maxim, become part of this world. Ice waves, hard labor on a rusty ship, tons of stinking fish and a team of grumpy losers - this was not how they saw this summer voyage. With a video for a blog, you will have to wait a little and keep your dissatisfaction to yourself. The sea is changeable, and the storm is not the main test that awaits the ship's crew.
- StarsYuriy StoyanovArtyom TkachenkoOlga MedynichGrandpa Slava is the oldest of the Midland vampire family. They live quietly. They live by the law. They never kill humans - ever. But when some corpses are found in a birch grove near Smolensk - their peaceful life falls under threat.