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1. 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, War
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Director: Mstyslav Chernov | Stars: Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Liudmyla Amelkina, Roman Golovanov
Votes: 20,182
2. 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: 57,069 | Gross: $0.10M
3. 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: 56,918 | Gross: $1.09M
4. 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: 4,820
5. 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
6. Blind Man's Bluff (2005)
111 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
This movie is about the stern gangster customs of one of the Russian provincial cities in the mid-90s . And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers".
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Panin, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Votes: 8,854
7. The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Veteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Anna Sinyakina, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 4,866
8. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976 TV Movie)
TV-G | 192 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night - New Year's celebration.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yuriy Yakovlev, Aleksandr Shirvindt
Votes: 13,532
9. A Couple (2022)
63 min | Drama
The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Star: Nathalie Boutefeu
Votes: 158
10. 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: 8,056
11. The Island (2006)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Yuriy Kuznetsov
Votes: 12,568
12. The Terrible (2020)
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Ivan the Terrible is the most discussed Character in the Russian history. At the same time, Ivan is the most unsolved mystery of the Russian Czars. The scale of his political achievements ... See full summary »
Stars: Tanya Lialina, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 110
13. Bumer (2003)
110 min | Crime, Drama
Corrupted cops, street gangs, "bratki" on "bummers" and "merins", angry truck drivers, beautiful women and death are what four friends on a black bummer who set up on mission from one ... See full summary »
Director: Pyotr Buslov | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Andrey Merzlikin, Maksim Konovalov, Sergey Gorobchenko
Votes: 7,826
14. 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
15. Gospodin oformitel (1987)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Director: Oleg Teptsov | Stars: Viktor Avilov, Anna Demyanenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Ivan Krasko
Votes: 1,084
16. 1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (2007)
Not Rated | 144 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles.
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Pyotr Kislov, Michal Zebrowski, Artur Smolyaninov, Violetta Davydovskaya
Votes: 2,295
17. Swan Lake (2012)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A modern interpretation of Tchaikovsky's classic tale of love, caution and fidelity.
Directors: Ross MacGibbon, Matthew Bourne | Stars: Richard Winsor, Dominic North, Nina Goldman, Madelaine Brennan
Votes: 255
18. Luna Park (1992)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
Andrei leads a group of nationalist skinheads. They've taken over a Luna Park depot. They indulge in violence and racketeering against Jews, homosexuals and the marginalized.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Gutin, Natalya Egorova, Nonna Mordyukova
Votes: 527
19. Gorko! (2013)
100 min | Comedy
In a Russian coastal town, Natasha is forced by her stepfather to celebrate her wedding with Roma in the restaurant. They plan to celebrate by the sea and decide to spend their dream wedding in secret from conservative families.
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov | Stars: Evgeniya Agenorova, Yuliya Aleksandrova, Dmitriy Burenkov, Anastasiya Dobakhova
Votes: 3,119
20. Mama, I'm Home (2021)
104 min | Drama
Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is said that has been killed in action but Tonya refuses that there's a mistake and believes that her son is still alive.
Director: Vladimir Bitokov | Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Yura Borisov, Ekaterina Shumakova, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Votes: 291
21. Gulag: The History (2019– )
167 min | Documentary, History
Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Gary Whitaker, James Hogg
Votes: 221
22. Ganavim Ba Hok (2010)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary film from 2010 tries to give a picture of Russian organized crime not only by describing this system, but also by interviewing some of involved persons, a number of which are currently wanted by Interpol.
Director: Alexander Gentelev | Stars: Leonid Bilunov, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, Vitaly Demochka, Vladimir Ovshinsky
Votes: 424
23. Vory v zakone (1988)
95 min | Crime, Thriller
This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.
Director: Yuriy Kara | Stars: Anna Samokhina, Valentin Gaft, Vladimir Steklov, Boris Shcherbakov
Votes: 303
24. Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1981)
87 min | Biography, Romance
A biographical romance about the famous Russian writer.
Director: Aleksandr Zarkhi | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Evgeniya Simonova, Ewa Szykulska, Nikolai Denisov
Votes: 141
25. Peter the First (1937)
96 min | Biography, Drama, History
A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Alla Tarasova, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 239
26. Tsar Ivan Groznyy (1991)
137 min | Drama, History
The reign of Ivan the Terrible was a time of glory, luxury and cruelty, a time when all concepts were perverted, baseness was called virtue, and betrayal was included in the law.
Director: Gennadiy Vasilev | Stars: Kakhi Kavsadze, Igor Talkov, Larisa Shakhvorostova, Stanislav Lyubshin
Votes: 93
27. My Perestroika (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world ... See full summary »
Director: Robin Hessman
Votes: 690 | Gross: $0.24M
28. Zavist bogov (2000)
135 min | Drama, Romance
1983 Television editor Sonya and French translator Andre met in Moscow and fell in love. Sonya has a teenage son and a husband, a successful writer. Andre also has family in Paris. And ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Menshov | Stars: Vera Alentova, Anatoliy Lobotskiy, Aleksandr Feklistov, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 364
29. Yunost Petra (1980)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.
Director: Sergey Gerasimov | Stars: Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova, Natalya Bondarchuk, Nikolay Yeryomenko
Votes: 217
30. On vam ne Dimon (2017)
50 min | Documentary
Don't call him Dimon is a 2017 Russian documentary film about the corrupt affairs of Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. According to the film, Dmitry Medvedev has stolen property estimated to be worth about $1.2 billion.
Director: Alexei Navalny | Stars: Georgy Alburov, Dmitry Medvedev, Alexei Navalny, Alisher Usmanov
Votes: 3,999
31. The Case Is Solved. I Know Everyone Who Tried to Kill Me (2020)
52 min | Documentary
Investigation into the attempted murder of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Director: Alexei Navalny | Stars: Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 1,550
32. Russia - A Thousand Years of History (2021 TV Movie)
93 min | Documentary, History
An exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a tale that set the scene for one of the world's most enigmatic figures, and his vision of modern Russia.
Director: Alice Lee | Star: Fiona Shaw
Votes: 30
33. Russia, Land of the Tsars (2003– )
120 min | Documentary
The history of the Russian Tsars.
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Michelle Maryk, Ronnie Farer, Henry Strozier
Votes: 180
34. Ivan Groznyy (2009)
44 min | Drama, History
XVI century. The film depicts the life of Ivan from his earliest years to the last days of his reign.
Stars: Vitaliy Lenskiy, Pasha Sol, Vladimir Fenchenko, Aleksandr Demidov
Votes: 56
35. Conquest of Peter the Great (1938)
96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The second part of the story is about the life and state activity of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina
Votes: 153
36. The Wagner Group: Russia's Blackwater (2020 TV Special)
9 min | Documentary, News
From Ukraine to Syria to the Central African Republic, the Wagner Group/Gruppa Vagnera/PMC Wagner is a mercenary outfit waging secret wars on Russia's behalf. A Russian paramilitary ... See full summary »
Director: Faisal Ali | Stars: Maria Ramos, Alexander Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 9
37. The Inspector-General (1952)
132 min | Comedy, Crime
Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Igor Gorbachyov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Tamara Nosova
Votes: 281
38. InterNYET: A History of the Russian Internet (2019)
Documentary, History
Andrey Loshak takes a look at the development of the Russian Internet, or RuNet, and how it has changed over time. From the start, RuNet's development has reflected social and political ... See full summary »
Stars: Andrey Loshak, Artemiy Lebedev, German Klimenko, Galina Timchenko
Votes: 97
39. All About Men (2016)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
This is a story about how different men can be. That men are, first of all, difficult decisions and real actions. About what men can be strong, and in what comic. About why they can and should be loved.
Director: Mikhail Zhernevskiy | Stars: Dmitriy Nagiev, Igor Vernik, Sergey Belogolovtsev, Anna Khilkevich
Votes: 155
40. God Save Russia (2018)
TV-14 | 56 min | Documentary
The Russian Church has experienced a resurgence with the help of Vladimir Putin, who believes the church can strengthen Russian solidarity, and can also play a pivotal role in re-enforcing key social and diplomatic views and beliefs.
Director: Alice Cohen | Stars: Mahmoud Abbas, Alexander Agadjanian, Alexander Baunov, Cyrille Bret
41. Weiße Raben - Alptraum Tschetschenien (2005)
92 min | Documentary, War
Directors: Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Tamara Trampe
Votes: 41
42. Opasnye druzya (1980)
97 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Vladimir Shamshurin | Stars: Lev Prygunov, Pyotr Velyaminov, Gurgen Tonunts, Afanasiy Trishkin
Votes: 29
43. Raiders (2014)
90 min | Documentary
Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law - the 'Raiders'
Director: Alexander Gentelev
Votes: 20 | Gross: $0.07M
44. The Russian Soul (2014)
72 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Russia is a highly developed, wired, and educated nation, but endures third-world levels of corruption and a repressive, autocratic government. Many Russians explain this paradox by citing ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Hamilton | Stars: Ellen Barry, Lee Bollinger, Sergei Guriev, Andrei Illarionov
Votes: 182
45. My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1968)
9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
On harvest day, a little girl called Varya dreams about her picturesque little Russian village merrily celebrating the holiday. She then looks for her mother, whom she sees as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Director: Chris Jenkyns | Star: Pat Carroll
Votes: 7
46. Khleb - imya sushchestvitelnoe (1988)
580 min | Drama, History, Romance
Epic film about life of three generations in central Russia on the Volga river.
Director: Grigori Nikulin | Stars: Nikolai Voloshin, Andrey Dudarenko, Sergey Nikonenko, Nina Ruslanova
Votes: 168
47. Zolotoye bezumiye. Real'nyye fotografii dvortsa Putina (2022)
44 min | Documentary, Short
A sequel to the 2021 documentary presenting allegations that a Black Sea palace belongs to Russian president Putin, now with photos documenting the interior, as well as the blueprints for a second building.
Stars: Maria Pevchikh, Georgy Alburov, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 42
48. Russian death (2019)
60 min | Documentary, Horror
What is the Russian death? Author of the film walking at different cemeteries and search answer at this question.
Director: Sergey A. | Star: Sergey A.
Votes: 160
49. Oligarkhi (2004)
Documentary
Director: Alexander Gentelev | Stars: Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, Yuri Luzhkov
50. A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008)
TV-G | 105 min | Documentary
Fate granted Anna Akhmatova immense poetic talent, beauty, fame and a brilliant generation. Then came the executions of her loved ones, hunger, wars, revolutions, Soviet terror, isolation, ... See full summary »
Director: Helga Landauer | Star: Anatoly Naiman
Votes: 14