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1. Palma (2021)
110 min | Drama, Family
The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Domogarov | Stars: Liliya, Viktor Dobronravov, Leonid Basov, Valeriya Fedorovich
Votes: 1,094
2. Sputnik (2020)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Director: Egor Abramenko | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev
Votes: 27,268
3. Odin vdokh (2020)
97 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Following her divorce, Marina Gordeeva (40) thinks she'll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she'll find the love of her life in free diving, one of the most extreme ... See full summary »
Director: Elena Hazanova | Stars: Viktoriya Isakova, Maksim Sukhanov, Vladimir Yaglych, Filipp Ershov
Votes: 468
4. White Snow (2020)
127 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A biographical sports drama about cross-country skier Yelena Välbe who became Olympic Champion and for the first time ever won 5 out 5 Gold medals at 1997 World Championship in Trondheim, Norway.
Director: Nikolay Khomeriki | Stars: Olga Lerman, Fyodor Dobronravov, Nadezhda Markina, Anna Ukolova
Votes: 183
5. Ten zvezdy (2020)
91 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
The popular rapper comes on tour to St. Petersburg. He is adored and awaited by fans, he is at the peak of fame, but those around him do not suspect that the poet is in a deep creative ... See full summary »
Director: Dmitry Gubarev | Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy, Kirill Nagiev, Alexandra Cherkasova-Sluzhitel, Yuliya Dzutseva
Votes: 44
6. Dad (I) (2021)
76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This is the story of the protagonist's eventful journey to his Dad, a typical Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the 1990s and raised his son according to all-Soviet traditions.
Director: Dmitriy Efimovich | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Elena Lyadova, Stanislav Starovoytov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 1,527
7. Schastye v konverte (2020)
103 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Three amazing stories about love and friendship, about belief in a dream and connection between generations, about how not to betray yourself and remain human in any life situation.
Director: Svetlana Sukhanova | Stars: Anastasiya Bibartseva, Evgeniya Glotova, Varvara Gusinskaya, Yefim Kamenetsky
Votes: 125
8. Feedback (2020)
100 min | Comedy
Sequel to 'Loud Connection' by Kvartet I comedy theater. On December 31, seven friends gather again in a country house to celebrate New Year's Eve and play an unusual game that gives them a night full of surprises and revelations.
Director: Alexey Nuzhny | Stars: Leonid Barats, Irina Gorbacheva, Rostislav Khait, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 726
9. Russkiy Reyd (2020)
103 min | Action
Nikita, a former Russian Spetsnaz operative, is hired to neutralize the large private security force at a local factory so that his shady employer can extort the business from the factory ... See full summary »
Director: Denis Kryuchkov | Stars: Ilya Antonenko, Vladimir Chuprikov, Sergey Grab, Nikita Kologrivyy
Votes: 621
10. Deeper! (2020)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A young ambitious stage director moves to the porn industry, where he strives to work on his own terms.
Director: Mikhail Segal | Stars: Aleksandr Pal, Lyubov Aksyonova, Oleg Gaas, Igor Ugolnikov
Votes: 1,315
11. Ice 2 (2020)
132 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Figure skater Nadya and hockey player Sasha got married and more than anything, they dream of a child. However, the price that they will have to pay for this dream is unimaginably high.
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov | Stars: Alexander Petrov, Mariya Aronova, Aglaya Tarasova, Vitaliya Kornienko
Votes: 905
12. V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
118 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.
Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy, Pavel Chinaryov, Evgeniy Serzin, Aleksey Filimonov
Votes: 645
13. Silver Skates (2020)
TV-MA | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Matvey, the fastest courier on the frozen canals of 19th century St. Peteresburg is recruited by a group of pickpockets working the winter markets and falls for high-ranking official's daughter, Alisa.
Director: Michael Lockshin | Stars: Fedor Fedotov, Sonya Priss, Yura Borisov, Kirill Zaytsev
Votes: 7,639
14. The Last Frontier (2020)
136 min | Action, Drama, War
A film about the feat of the Podolsk cadets in October 1941 near Moscow. The cadets of the Podolsk artillery-infantry schools are ordered to take up defenses on the Ilyinsky line.
Director: Vadim Shmelyov | Stars: Artyom Gubin, Lubov Konstantinova, Igor Yudin, Aleksey Bardukov
Votes: 1,876
15. Korporatsiya Ad Libitum (2021)
87 min | Thriller
Do you dream of true love? So that my head is spinning and I want to live passionately, so that all my feelings are sharp as in 16 years, and my loved one excites me to the depths of my ... See full summary »
Director: Polina Oldenburg | Stars: Kristina Babushkina, Karen Badalov, Darya Belousova, Viktoriya Chernysheva
Votes: 64
16. The Relatives (2021)
98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to take his family to the Grushinsky Festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms ... See full summary »
Director: Ilya Aksyonov | Stars: Sergey Burunov, Irina Pegova, Sergey Shakurov, Sam Treskunov
Votes: 591
17. Kalashnikov (2020)
110 min | Biography, Drama, War
Wounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault rifle.
Director: Konstantin Buslov | Stars: Yura Borisov, Olga Lerman, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 4,823
18. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 97,338
19. Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)
136 min | Drama, History
A story about a heroic fireman who worked as one of Chernobyl liquidators.
Director: Danila Kozlovskiy | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Oksana Akinshina, Filipp Avdeev, Ravshana Kurkova
Votes: 10,531
20. Invasion (2020)
Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Sci-Fi
With the fall of the alien ship Julia's life changed, now three years later mankind is about to experience new encounter.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Alexander Petrov, Yura Borisov
Votes: 6,049
21. The Blackout (2019)
TV-MA | 127 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe.
Director: Egor Baranov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Lukerya Ilyashenko
Votes: 10,643
22. Attraction (2017)
R | 132 min | Action, Drama, Romance
After a spaceship crash-lands in the center of Moscow, a young woman finds herself torn between loyalty to her seemingly normal life and the allure of a new state of being promised by one of the aliens.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, Oleg Menshikov
Votes: 14,155
23. Petrov's Flu (2021)
Unrated | 145 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov
Votes: 3,031
24. Superdeep (2020)
115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.
Director: Arseny Syuhin | Stars: Milena Radulovic, Sergey Ivanyuk, Nikolay Kovbas, Vadim Demchog
Votes: 5,492
25. Stalingrad (2013)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 17,718 | Gross: $1.01M
26. The Guardians (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan | Stars: Anton Pampushnyy, Sanjar Madi, Sebastien Sisak, Alina Lanina
Votes: 14,562
27. Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021)
TV-14 | 136 min | Action, Crime
Supercop Grom fights crime in St. Petersburg - an uphill battle. A vigilante starts killing the powerful, who escaped justice.
Director: Oleg Trofim | Stars: Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Lyubov Aksyonova, Sergei Goroshko, Aleksey Maklakov
Votes: 13,589
28. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In 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.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 56,923 | Gross: $1.09M
29. The White Crow (2018)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos
Votes: 7,028 | Gross: $1.83M
30. I Am Dragon (2015)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island.
Director: Indar Dzhendubaev | Stars: Matvey Lykov, Mariya Poezzhaeva, Stanislav Lyubshin, Petr Romanov
Votes: 6,271
31. Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
110 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
Director: Sergey Mokritskiy | Stars: Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Oleg Vasilkov, Nikita Tarasov
Votes: 13,956
32. The Last Warrior (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When Ivan meets his new friends in another place called Belogorie, his quest on the new country begins with sparkling immortals effect within love in the pass from his childhood up on his time .
Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko | Stars: Viktor Khorinyak, Mila Sivatskaya, Ekaterina Vilkova, Konstantin Lavronenko
Votes: 3,418
33. Soldier Boy (2019)
86 min | Drama, War
Based on a true story, these are the exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - a hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. Sergei loses all of... See full summary »
Director: Viktoria Fanasiutina | Stars: Andrey Andreev, Viktor Dobronravov, Darya Ursulyak, Andrey Novik
Votes: 840
34. Why Don't You Just Die! (2018)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Andrei, 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..
Director: Kirill Sokolov | Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor
Votes: 5,302
35. The Fool (II) (2014)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo, Boris Nevzorov
Votes: 16,434
36. Super Bobrovs (2016)
95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An average Russian family suddenly acquires superpowers after a meteor falls on their house after which they plan to rob a bank.
Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Karpilovskiy, Aleksey Khardikov
Votes: 763
37. Rasputin (2011)
87 min | Biography, Drama, History
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Directors: Josée Dayan, Irakli Kvirikadze | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov, Filipp Yankovskiy
Votes: 962
38. On the Road to Berlin (2015)
82 min | Drama, War
The film is based on a novella by the well-known Soviet writer who served at the front, Emmanuil Kazakevich "Two in the Steppe" and the war diaries of Konstantin Simonov.
Director: Sergei Popov | Stars: Amir Abdykalov, Yura Borisov, Maksim Demchenko, Andrey Deryugin
Votes: 931
39. White Tiger (2012)
Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Votes: 4,896
40. The Red Ghost (2020)
99 min | Action, History, Horror
A detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
Director: Andrey Bogatyrev | Stars: Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yura Borisov, Polina Chernyshova
Votes: 2,149
41. Salyut-7 (2017)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 12,246
42. The Barber of Siberia (1998)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, History
At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris
Votes: 12,807
43. The Last Warrior: Root of Evil (2021)
121 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Peace and tranquility have set in Belogorie. The evil was defeated and Ivan is now enjoying his well-deserved fame. He is surrounded by his family, friends and small wonders from the modern... See full summary »
Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko | Stars: Viktor Khorinyak, Mila Sivatskaya, Ekaterina Vilkova, Elena Yakovleva
Votes: 1,436
44. Spacewalk (2017)
137 min | Drama, History
Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
Director: Dmitriy Kiselev | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov
Votes: 8,082
45. Ice (2018)
113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again.
Director: Oleg Trofim | Stars: Aglaya Tarasova, Alexander Petrov, Milos Bikovic, Mariya Aronova
Votes: 3,600
46. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary
A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
Director: David France | Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov
Votes: 3,140
47. Metro (I) (2013)
TV-14 | 133 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.
Director: Anton Megerdichev | Stars: Sergey Puskepalis, Anatoliy Belyy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anfisa Vistingauzen
Votes: 7,864
48. Compartment Number 6 (2021)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
Director: Juho Kuosmanen | Stars: Seidi Haarla, Yura Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Yuliya Aug
Votes: 15,459
49. Beanpole (2019)
Unrated | 130 min | Drama, War
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Votes: 12,258
50. Loveless (2017)
R | 127 min | Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 35,569 | Gross: $0.57M
51. Dear Comrades! (2020)
121 min | Drama, History
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Votes: 5,898
52. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A 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.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,521
53. Elena (2011)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin, Elena Lyadova
Votes: 15,216 | Gross: $0.02M
54. Leto (2018)
Not Rated | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History
A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum, Teo Yoo, Filipp Avdeev
Votes: 7,940
55. State Funeral (2019)
135 min | Documentary, History
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov
Votes: 1,256
56. The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010)
140 min | Musical
Very much like the other two Bolshoi versions choreographed by Grigorovich. However, this is the only one of the three versions shot on widescreen and HD, so the colors are far more vivid ... See full synopsis »
Director: Vincent Batallion | Stars: Andrei Bolotin, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Morikhiro Iwata, Nina Kaptsova
Votes: 29
57. Citizen K (2019)
Not Rated | 126 min | Documentary
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky
Votes: 1,608
58. Bad Roads (2020)
105 min | Drama
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
Director: Natalya Vorozhbit | Stars: Igor Koltovskyy, Andrey Lelyukh, Volodymyr Hurin, Anna Zhurakovskaya
Votes: 859
59. The Man Who Saved the World (2014)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
Director: Peter Anthony | Stars: Stanislav Petrov, Kevin Costner, Sergey Shnyryov, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 2,576
60. Siren Head (2020)
52 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The ancient monster named Siren Head terrorizes Russian land. No one knows who is it and what is it want. Mysteriously disappearances of people, unsolved murders and other things happening in the locations of this monster. Who will next?
Directors: Sergey A., Ivan Lachance, Mike Lachance, Alexander Mirokhanov, Eduard Naf, Mikhail Ryabkov, Anton Savosin, Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Sergey A., Ramil Albekov, Ivan Lachance, Mike Lachance
Votes: 1,335
61. Paradise (2016)
130 min | Drama, War
Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jakob Diehl, Peter Kurth, Yuliya Khlynina, Yuliya Vysotskaya
Votes: 2,030 | Gross: $0.01M
62. How I Ended This Summer (2010)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.
Director: Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Artyom Tsukanov
Votes: 6,997 | Gross: $0.01M
63. Kukhnya v Parizhe (2014)
106 min | Comedy, Romance
The restaurant team comes to grief and is forced to relocate to Paris, where Chef and Max face dangerous rivals. The team must feed the Presidents and overcome obstacles million à la française .
Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko | Stars: Dmitriy Nazarov, Mark Bogatyryov, Elena Podkaminskaya, Oleg Tabakov
Votes: 2,780
64. Ayka (2018)
100 min | Drama
A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy | Stars: Samal Yeslyamova, Sergey Mazur, Zhipara Abdilaeva, David Alaverdyan
Votes: 2,253
65. Garage People (2020)
95 min | Documentary
In Russia's north, garages stretch out into endlessness. Behind rusty doors everything can be found, except cars. They are the refuge of the Russian man, the vanishing point out of bleak daily life and a signal of hope for big dreams.
Director: Natalija Yefimkina
Votes: 201
66. Home Games (2018)
86 min | Documentary
Home Games is a broken fairytale depicting a crucial moment in the life of Alina, a 20-year-old "million dollar baby" from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty.
Director: Alisa Kovalenko | Star: Alina Shilova
Votes: 50
67. Golden Voices (2019)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Raya and Victor have built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film voice actors. As the USSR collapses, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent themselves to find new jobs.
Director: Evgeny Ruman | Stars: Mariya Belkina, Vladimir Friedman, Evelin Hagoel, Uri Klauzner
Votes: 641
68. The Forgotten (2019)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Ukrainian language schoolteacher and a rebellious teenage student, both from the eastern city of Luhansk, fall for each other during the tumultuous time of the city's occupation by pro-Russian separatists.
Director: Daria Onyshchenko | Stars: Maryna Koshkina, Vasiliy Kukharskiy, Danylo Kamenskyi, Serhiy Smiyan
Votes: 241
69. The Postman's White Nights (2014)
100 min | Drama
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko, Viktor Kolobkov
Votes: 2,100
70. Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (2019)
97 min | Documentary
The documentary recounts Tarkovsky's life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence.
Director: Andrey A. Tarkovskiy | Star: Andrei Tarkovsky
Votes: 913
71. The Major (I) (2013)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Denis Shvedov, Yuriy Bykov, Irina Nizina, Ilya Isaev
Votes: 4,806
72. Legend No. 17 (2013)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death.
Director: Nikolay Lebedev | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Oleg Menshikov, Svetlana Ivanova, Vladimir Menshov
Votes: 6,201
73. Inadequate People (2010)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Thirty-year-old young man Vitaly, running away from annoying problems and mental discomfort, leaves the provincial town of Serpukhov and moves to Moscow, hoping to find harmony with his own "I" here.
Director: Roman Karimov | Stars: Ilya Lyubimov, Ingrid Olerinskaya, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Yuliya Takshina
Votes: 4,974
74. Short Stories (2012)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Bribes, rudeness, generation gap. A satirical comedy about the peculiarities of Russian life
Director: Mikhail Segal | Stars: Andrey Merzlikin, Darya Nosik, Andrey Petrov, Igor Ugolnikov
Votes: 1,941
75. U311 Cherkasy (2019)
102 min | Drama, History, War
The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
Director: Tymur Yashchenko | Stars: Dmitriy Sova, Evgeniy Lamakh, Roman Semysal, Ruslan Koval'
Votes: 1,224
76. Sestrenka (2019)
94 min | Drama, Family, War
As far back as Yamil can remember, the war was always. But Yamil is waiting for its end, because then his Father, known to the boy only through photos and letters, will be back home. One ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Galibin | Stars: Arslan Krymchurin, Marta Kessler, Usuf Rakhmetov, Ilgiza Gilmanova
Votes: 492
77. Sibir. Monamur (2011)
102 min | Drama
Siberia. The fates of the characters are intertwined unexpectedly and dramatically. They need to make their choice again and again, discovering in themselves the forgotten humanity and compassion. Mercy is greater than justice.
Director: Vyacheslav Ross | Stars: Pyotr Zaychenko, Mikhail Protsko, Sergey Novikov, Lidiya Bayrashevskaya
Votes: 2,382
78. Gorbachev. Heaven (2020)
100 min | Documentary
An interview with former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most influential figures of the last century, whose rule heralded the end of the Soviet Union. In an intimate setting, he gives his view of Russia then and now.
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Chulpan Khamatova, Evgeniy Mironov, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 397
79. Doctor Lisa (2020)
120 min | Biography, Drama
This is the story of one day in the life of Elizabeth Glinka, the head of "Fair Care" foundation, a philanthropist, a doctor and a human rights activist. As the day starts, Elizaveta and ... See full summary »
Director: Oksana Karas | Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Andrzej Chyra, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Andrey Burkovskiy
Votes: 739
80. Crystal Swan (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.
Director: Darya Zhuk | Stars: Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yura Borisov, Svetlana Anikey
Votes: 1,892
81. Over the Limit (2017)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Sport
An intimate portrait of the world's most outstanding rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun who needs to overcome mental fragility to take part in the Olympic Games.
Director: Marta Prus | Stars: Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun, Irina Viner, Amina Zaripova
Votes: 998 | Gross: $0.00M
82. Living (2012)
119 min | Drama
The 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 .
Director: Vasiliy Sigarev | Stars: Olga Lapshina, Marina Gavrilova, Sasha Gavrilova, Yana Troyanova
Votes: 1,782
84. Zvezda (2014)
128 min | Comedy, Drama
Young Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Melikyan | Stars: Tinatin Dalakishvili, Severija Janusauskaite, Pavel Tabakov, Andrey Smolyakov
Votes: 1,084
85. The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
91 min | Documentary, War
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont | Stars: Oleg Afanasyev, Alexandra Ryabichkina, Jarik
Votes: 648
86. Ostrov - Lost Island (2021)
92 min | Documentary
On the island of Ostrov in the Caspian Sea the inhabitants, left alone by the Russian state after the collapse of the Soviet Union, survive through poaching.
Directors: Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop | Stars: Alina, Anatoly, Anna, Anton
Votes: 78
87. Berenshtein (2021)
105 min | Biography, History, War
The last of the great partisans, who located Hitler's "wonder weapon", returns to the war that took away his feelings and identity, but failed to rob him of his values as a human being.
Director: Roman Shumunov | Stars: Leonid Berenshtein, Yaroslav Kucherenko, Anton Karlinsky, Lilya Ostapovich
Votes: 440
88. Cheburashka (2010)
80 min | Animation, Action, Family
Remake of popular soviet animation movie about Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena.
Directors: Makoto Nakamura, Young-hoon Park | Stars: Garri Bardin, Larisa Brokhman, Jeong-ho Choi, Vladimir Ferapontov
Votes: 333
89. Anton (2019)
102 min | Drama
Anton explores how the universal bonds of childhood friendship are stronger than the prejudices of an adult world torn by hatred and revenge in the wake of the First World War and Russian ... See full summary »
Director: Zaza Urushadze | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Sergey Denga, Vaiva Mainelyte, Regimantas Adomaitis
Votes: 248
90. To Live! (2010)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ordinary hunter accidentally helps a criminal to escape from his accomplices. Two completely different men tries to reach a distant city, but the price of life will be truly terrifying.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Vladislav Toldykov, Denis Shvedov, Sergey Belyaev, Aleksey Komashko
Votes: 2,252
91. 14+ (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage boy feels infatuation for the first time.
Director: Andrey Zaytsev | Stars: Gleb Kalyuzhnyy, Ulyana Vaskovich, Olga Ozollapinya, Dmitry Barinov
Votes: 2,154
92. The Illusion of Control (2022)
94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Entire life Victor perfectly manipulated others in his own interests. This allowed him to control large financial flows. Once, he discovered that since childhood he was a puppet in ... See full summary »
Director: Vladek Zankovsky | Stars: Oleg Fendura, Tatyana Konovalova, Valeriy Bassel, Eugene Bury
Votes: 469
93. Kak Vitka Chesnok vyoz Lyokhu Shtyrya v dom invalidov (2017)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Hoping to claim his newly-vacated apartment, a young man travels across Russia with his aging gangster father to admit him into a nursing home.
Director: Aleksandr Khant | Stars: Evgeniy Tkachuk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Andrey Smirnov, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 3,953 | Gross: $0.00M
94. Something Better to Come (2014)
98 min | Documentary, Biography
Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream: to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin's Russia.
Director: Hanna Polak | Stars: Yula, Hanna Polak
Votes: 590
95. Witch (II) (2018)
60 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
2 YouTube bloggers going to abandoned house in the woods for new YouTube show. Ancient legend says, that in this house witch lives. Everybody will die, if will see her.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Silvia de Satkliff
Votes: 441
96. Roads to Olympia (2019)
98 min | Drama, Sport
Three young athletes face cultural oppression, intolerance and poverty, as they pursue a shared dream: to compete in the Olympic Games.
Director: Ramazan Nanayev | Stars: Daniel Alexander, Pascale Seigneurie, Antônio Carlos, Alexander Rapoport
Votes: 101
97. Immortal (I) (2019)
61 min | Documentary
The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanisms that entice human beings to voluntarily become a resource to the state. Can a person ever be free in an ... See full summary »
Director: Ksenia Okhapkina
Votes: 109
98. The Witch (I) (2020)
90 min | Mystery, Thriller
A hunter for evil spirits follows the trail of a mysterious creature that kills tourists. The investigation leads him to a small village in Karelia, where at this time newlyweds Maxim and ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Pivovarov | Stars: Anastasia Shemyakina, Daniil Muravev, Valentin Vorobyov, Evgeny Tokarev
Votes: 11
99. And Here's What's Happening to Me (2012)
72 min | Comedy, Drama
31th of December. Moscow impossible traffic jams. Haste without results, help from which no one becomes easier. Conversations about the endless little things in which life passes - and ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Shamirov | Stars: Gosha Kutsenko, Viktor Shamirov, Aleksandra Petrova, Olesya Zheleznyak
Votes: 991
100. Sorokin Trip (2019)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary about Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most prominent Russian writers.
Director: Ilya Belov | Star: Vladimir Sorokin
Votes: 186
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