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1. Citizen X (1995 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
Director: Chris Gerolmo | Stars: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 22,336
2. The Russia House (1990)
R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox
Votes: 17,563 | Gross: $23.00M
3. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, War
In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 16,364 | Gross: $2.62M
4. Cargo 200 (2007)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov
Votes: 11,407
5. A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler
Votes: 7,051 | Gross: $0.29M
6. Dovlatov (2018)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovskiy, Helena Sujecka, Eva Gerr
Votes: 2,224
7. Intergirl (1989)
151 min | Drama, Romance
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Larisa Malevannaya, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Votes: 1,480
8. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,409
9. Evilenko (2003)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.
Director: David Grieco | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Ruby Kammer
Votes: 3,544
10. The Russian Five (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Sport
In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings worked to finally break their decades long Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Soviet Union, and in the process, changed the way North American hockey is played.
Director: Joshua Riehl | Stars: Scotty Bowman, Don Cherry, Michael Chovich, Jeff Daniels
Votes: 1,425 | Gross: $0.49M
11. Ottepel (2013)
50 min | Drama
1961. Cameraman Viktor Khrustalev and director Egor Myachin are trying to shoot a movie based on the script of their friend, who tragically died.
Stars: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anya Chipovskaya, Viktoriya Isakova
Votes: 663
12. Trotsky (2017)
50 min | Biography, Drama, History
A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev, Evgeniy Stychkin
Votes: 2,204
13. The Red Danube (1949)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, War
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 717
14. Autumn Marathon (1979)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Oleg Basilashvili, Natalya Gundareva, Marina Neyolova, Evgeniy Leonov
Votes: 3,660
15. Old and New (1929)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov
Votes: 1,726
16. Go West!
Comedy | Announced
1976. With a goal of emigrating to America, the Myshkins divorce and marry their respective Jewish neighbors, but get stranded in Vienna, Austria.
Director: Alexander Hahn | Stars: Adam Rose, Steve Guttenberg, Stephen Baldwin, Geraldine Chaplin
17. Born in the USSR (1991– )
Documentary
Born in the USSR: Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.
Stars: James McAvoy, Seva Novgorodtsev, Anton, Rita
Votes: 151
18. 1941 (2009)
44 min | War
June, 1941. A small Russian village at the border is living its everyday life - people work, love, squabble, make plans for the future. The war changes all plans, tears families apart, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Sergey Strelnikov, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Hilmar Eichhorn, Johannes Gabriel
Votes: 54
19. Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959)
60 min | Documentary
Footage of Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev in the USA during his 1960 visit. Which includes meeting Frank Sinatra on the set of his film Can-Can.
Stars: June Allyson, Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Maurice Chevalier
Votes: 38
20. 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
21. Karosta: Life After the USSR (2008)
50 min | Documentary, History
A portrait of the demise and fall of the Soviet Empire as seen through the eyes of the people who endured it. The film explores the power of human spirit in its battle against adversity.
Director: Peter King
Votes: 199
22. The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Flora Litvinova, Graham Haley
Votes: 134
23. One Day, the Nile (1972)
105 min | Drama
About the friendship of the Soviet people and Arabs working to build the gigantic Aswan Dam.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Zulfikar, Suad Husni, Imad Hamdi, Igor Vladimirov
Votes: 106
24. Moy luchshiy drug, general Vasiliy, syn Iosifa (1991)
102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The film is based on a true story of a sport star Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasili, the son of Stalin.
Director: Viktor Sadovsky | Stars: Boris Shcherbakov, Vladimir Steklov, Andrei Boltnev, Irina Malysheva
Votes: 206
25. Deti Arbata (2004– )
705 min | Drama, Romance, War
Based on the trilogy of books by Anatoly Rybakov: "Deti Arbata", "Strakh", and "Prach I Pepel". The events circle the 1930's to 1940's. The film leads the viewer into the Kremlin offices, ... See full summary »
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Evgeniya Simonova, Maksim Sukhanov
Votes: 260
26. Der Uranberg (2010 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, History
Kurt Meinel returns from his Soviet POW camp to his native mining village, hating Hitler enough for wrecking Europe to support the Russian regional occupation commander Bursky, in charge of... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Bobyleva, Henry Hübchen, Christian Redl
Votes: 62
27. Encore, Once More Encore! (1992)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a distant garrison, officers and soldiers are influenced by their love affairs.
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Valentin Gaft, Irina Rozanova, Evgeniy Mironov, Elena Yakovleva
Votes: 338
28. An Ordinary Execution (2010)
105 min | Drama, History
Moscow, 1952. Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to cure Stanlin himself. She needs to keep the secret at all costs and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple with Vassilli tumbles.
Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Edouard Baer, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 585
29. Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy: Fallen Idol (2009 Video)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history in space may not have happened at all?
Directors: Denny Hooten, Samuel Oldham | Stars: Gordon Feller, Yuri Gagarin, Elliott Gould, Elliott Haimoff
Votes: 24
30. Pokhorony Stalina (1990)
109 min | Drama, Romance
This is the day of Stalin's funeral. Huge crowds gather in Moscow to attend it. One of the attendees is Zhenya. His life is about to change.
Director: Yevgeniy Yevtushenko | Stars: Denis Konstantinov, Yevgeny Platokhin, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Todd
Votes: 209
31. Poltory komnaty ili Sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na Rodinu (2009)
130 min | Animation, Biography
A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Director: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola
Votes: 570
32. Soviets (1991– )
Documentary
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
Votes: 24
33. Zaveshchanie Lenina (2007)
44 min | Drama
Short stories from the life of the man who's spent seventeen years of his life in Stalin labor camps in Kolyma and survived.
Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Elena Lyadova, Tatyana Orlova, Darya Charusha
Votes: 120
34. ENSV: Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik (2010– )
30 min | Comedy
The everyday-life of a normal family in Soviet Estonia in the 1980s.
Stars: Laine Mägi, Mait Malmsten, Tiit Sukk, Liisa Pulk
Votes: 134
35. Svetlana About Svetlana (2008)
Not Rated | 44 min | Documentary, Short
A story about one Svetlana searching for another in the quest to find answers on the questions that bothered her since she was 10.
Director: Lana Parshina | Stars: Svetlana Alliluyeva, Steve Fode, Lana Parshina, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 16
36. Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii (1989)
90 min | Documentary
This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexey Rybin
Votes: 62
37. Bolshaya lyubov (2006)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1962 Soviet Union. A Soviet Army general (Porechenkov) is manipulated by his aging mother into marrying someone in a hurry. After meeting and sleeping with several women the general ... See full summary »
Director: Dmitriy Fiks | Stars: Mikhail Porechenkov, Yuliya Menshova, Inna Makarova, Anatoliy Vasilev
Votes: 116
38. Roter Stern über Deutschland (2001– )
45 min | Documentary
Stars: Hubertus Bengsch, Rif Akhmedganeev, Ulla Soyka, Detlef Bruns
39. A Man Has Returned from Space (1961)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Film about flight of Yuriy Gagarin in space of April, 12, 1961.
Director: Yekaterina Vermishyova | Star: Yuri Gagarin
Votes: 24
40. Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog (1967)
108 min | Drama
Liberation of Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Marga Legal, Helmut Schellhardt, Kaspar Eichel
Votes: 23
41. Finale van het E.K. '88 (1988 TV Special)
110 min | Sport
Stars: Sergey Aleynikov, Sergei Baltacha, Franz Beckenbauer, Igor Belanov
Votes: 9
42.
Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019)
Episode:
The Tightening
(2017)
TV-MA | 54 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Red senses trouble, but the others are convinced she's just paranoid. Taystee and Black Cindy enlist an unlikely ally, and two old friends clash.
Director: Erin Feeley | Stars: Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks
Votes: 1,562