Top 130 Russian/Soviet Films
by minalex | created - 15 Sep 2011 | updated - 14 hours ago | PublicMost films are directed by Eisenstein (8), Mikhalkov (7), Sokurov (7), Vertov (7), Tarkovsky (6), Kozintsev (5), Barnet (4), Donskoy (4), Muratova (4) and Zvyagintsev (4).
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1. Kino-pravda no. 1 (1922)
10 min | Short, News
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 211
3. Strike (1925)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Votes: 8,632
4. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Votes: 61,476 | Gross: $0.05M
5. Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine (1925)
Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short, History
A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 275
6. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,070
7. By the Law (1926)
80 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband ... See full summary »
Director: Lev Kuleshov | Stars: Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel, Pyotr Galadzhev
Votes: 1,233
8. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
68 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 593
9. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,861
10. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,454
11. The Girl with the Hat Box (1927)
Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhaylov, Vladimir Fogel, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Votes: 813
12. Storm Over Asia (1928)
74 min | Drama, War
After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: I. Inkizhinov, I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Votes: 2,311
13. Dom na Trubnoy (1928)
Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy
A girl Parasha Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. This is a story about the house and its inhabitants.
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Voytsik, Vladimir Fogel
Votes: 730
14. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 28,007
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. Arsenal (1929)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman
Votes: 2,337
17. The New Babylon (1929)
120 min | Drama, History
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 935
18. Fragment of an Empire (1929)
78 min | Drama
A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Yakov Gudkin, Ursula Krug
Votes: 513
19. Turksib (1929)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary
Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia... See full summary »
Director: Victor A. Turin
Votes: 461
20. 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: 6,407
21. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,051
22. Road to Life (1931)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
Director: Nikolai Ekk | Stars: Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 476
23. Okraina (1933)
98 min | Drama, War
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 1,123
24. Chapaev (1934)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev | Stars: Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit
Votes: 1,439
25. Happiness (I) (1935)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
Director: Aleksandr Medvedkin | Stars: Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, Mikhail Gipsi, Viktor Kulakov
Votes: 1,201
26. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
71 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Two best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.
Directors: Boris Barnet, Samad Mardanov | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Lev Sverdlin, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Alexei Dolinin
Votes: 1,162
27. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov
Votes: 12,265
28. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
98 min | Biography, Drama
A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy, Elizaveta Alekseeva
Votes: 779
29. New Horizons (1939)
92 min | Drama
In the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is appointed to nationalize a bank ,he has discussions with both Lenin and Stalin.
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Zharov, Natalya Uzhviy
Votes: 174
30. Gorky 3: My Universities (1940)
90 min | Biography, Drama
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Nikolai Plotnikov
Votes: 239
31. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 10,869
32. The Rainbow (1944)
87 min | War, Drama
A bitter anti-Nazi film, The Rainbow details of the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Natalya Uzhviy, Nina Alisova, Elena Tyapkina, Valentina Ivashova
Votes: 254
33. The Turning Point (1945)
108 min | Drama, War
Released after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev, Andrei Abrikosov
Votes: 237
34. Girl No. 217 (1945)
91 min | Drama, War
The story of one of the Soviet women transported to Germany after the Nazi invasion in World War II for forced labor, this one forced to become a household drudge.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Anna Lisyanskaya, Vasiliy Zaychikov, Nikolai Komissarov
Votes: 112
35. The Vow (1946)
98 min | Drama
In 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, carries a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him of the Kulak brigands that roam the land, spreading death and misery. The ... See full summary »
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, A. Mansvetov, Aleksey Gribov, Nikolai Ryzhov
Votes: 114
36. The Young Guard (1948)
135 min | Drama, War
The film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Gerasimov | Stars: Vladimir Ivanov, Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Sergei Gurzo
Votes: 333
37. The Fall of Berlin (1950)
167 min | Drama, War
A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Vladimir Savelev, Marina Kovalyova
Votes: 551
38. The Forty-First (1956)
88 min | War, Drama, Romance
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak
Votes: 1,720
39. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
Votes: 19,790 | Gross: $0.02M
40. Don Kikhot (1957)
PG | 110 min | Drama
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Serafima Birman, Svetlana Grigoreva
Votes: 939
41. Dorogoy tsenoy (1957)
98 min | Drama
An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Vera Donskaya, Yuri Dedovich, Ivan Tverdokhleb, Olga Petrova
Votes: 138
42. 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: 8,057
Completed in 1946, released in 1958
43. Poem of the Sea (1958)
95 min | Drama
Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Boris Livanov, Boris Andreyev, Mikhail Tsaryov, Mikhail Romanov
Votes: 202
44. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 11,292
45. The Lady with the Dog (1960)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
Director: Iosif Kheifits | Stars: Iya Savvina, Aleksey Batalov, Nina Alisova, Dmitriy Zebrov
Votes: 1,126
46. Nine Days of One Year (1962)
111 min | Drama
Nuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov
Votes: 1,264
47. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,954
48. I Am Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 10,676
49. Hamlet (1964)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuriy Tolubeev
Votes: 2,974
50. Father of a Soldier (1964)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War
An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
Director: Rezo Chkheidze | Stars: Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev
Votes: 4,570
51. War and Peace (1965)
GP | 393 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava
Votes: 8,352 | Gross: $0.13M
52. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 8,458
53. The First Teacher (1965)
102 min | Drama
Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Bolot Beyshenaliev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev, Darkul Kuyukova
Votes: 615
54. Triumph Over Violence (1965)
R | 82 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Mikhail Romm, Martin Bormann, Willy Brandt, Aristide Briand
Votes: 2,065
55. I Am Twenty (1965)
189 min | Drama
Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.
Director: Marlen Khutsiev | Stars: Valentin Popov, Nikolay Gubenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, Marianna Vertinskaya
Votes: 1,625
56. 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: 57,084 | Gross: $0.10M
57. Falling Leaves (1966)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze, Aleksandre Omiadze
Votes: 1,004
58. Wings (1966)
85 min | Drama
A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the ... See full summary »
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov
Votes: 2,240
59. Anna Karenina (1967)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.
Director: Aleksandr Zarkhi | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Yuriy Yakovlev
Votes: 1,012
60. Brief Encounters (1967)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A maid works for the estranged wife of a geologist who once visited her village and whom she loves.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Kira Muratova, Lidiya Bazilskaya
Votes: 1,055
61. Ne goryuy! (1968)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A young happy-go-lucky village doctor lives a leisurely life as comic events unfold around him.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Sergo Zakariadze, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Votes: 1,336
62. The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Gogi Gegechkori
Votes: 13,579
63. Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A carefree young percussionist roams the streets of Tbilisi, interacting with friends and strangers alike, and tries to avoid responsibilities.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze, Irine Jandieri
Votes: 1,295
64. The Beginning (1970)
GP | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck... See full summary »
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov
Votes: 1,057
65. King Lear (1970)
PG | 140 min | Drama
A Soviet adaptation of a world-famous tragedy about an aged king and how cruelly he lose his illusions.
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro | Stars: Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek, Valentina Shendrikova
Votes: 1,688
66. The Long Farewell (1971)
97 min | Drama
A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Yuriy Kayurov, Svetlana Kabanova
Votes: 1,012
67. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,325
68. Kalina krasnaya (1974)
110 min | Drama
A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
Director: Vasiliy Shukshin | Stars: Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Vasiliy Shukshin, Ivan Ryzhov, Mariya Skvortsova
Votes: 2,012
69. Mirror (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 52,294 | Gross: $0.18M
70. Dersu Uzala (1975)
G | 142 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulyov
Votes: 33,536
71. Four Seasons (1975)
29 min | Documentary, Short
The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 928
72. A Slave of Love (1976)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Elena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Oleg Basilashvili
Votes: 1,795
73. Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977)
103 min | Drama
In Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko, Antonina Shuranova
Votes: 3,777
74. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,120
75. Twenty Days Without War (1977)
101 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova
Votes: 1,580
76. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,871 | Gross: $0.23M
77. Siberiade (1979)
190 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko
Votes: 2,317
78. The Tale of Tales (1979)
29 min | Animation, Short
Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Aleksandr Kalyagin
Votes: 4,137
79. Que Viva Mexico (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, Western
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Votes: 1,886
Re-edited from material filmed in 1931
80. Five Evenings (1979)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, Valentina Telichkina, Larisa Kuznetsova
Votes: 1,428
81. A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980)
Unrated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, History
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov
Votes: 2,562
82. Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (1980)
75 min | Drama
Mikhail helps out Nikolay and Lyuba by giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Nina Ruslanova, Sergei Popov, Aleksey Zharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko
Votes: 329
83. Nostalghia (1983)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno
Votes: 30,103 | Gross: $0.01M
84. Farewell (1983)
121 min | Drama
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the ... See full summary »
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko, Leonid Kryuk
Votes: 765
85. Repentance (1984)
PG | 153 min | Drama
Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze
Votes: 4,912 | Gross: $0.22M
86. Favourites of the Moon (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in an unusual Paris.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala
Votes: 883
87. A Cruel Romance (1984)
142 min | Drama, Romance
A bitter story about tender love and its cruel betrayal set in Russia of the 19th century.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 3,988
88. 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: 97,419
89. Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985)
100 min | Drama
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov
Votes: 2,651
90. The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
88 min | Drama
A 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.
Directors: Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze | Stars: Veriko Anjaparidze, Tamari Tsitsishvili, Dudukhana Tserodze, Dodo Abashidze
Votes: 2,173
91. Dead Man's Letters (1986)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Sabinin
Votes: 3,830
92. Eine murul (1987)
25 min | Animation, Short
Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
Director: Priit Pärn
Votes: 327
93. Little Vera (1988)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.
Director: Vasili Pichul | Stars: Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva
Votes: 2,167 | Gross: $1.26M
94. Days of Eclipse (1988)
139 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Votes: 1,108
95. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
153 min | Drama
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko
Votes: 1,404
96. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 933
97. Taxi Blues (1990)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova
Votes: 1,999 | Gross: $0.17M
98. Tsareubiytsa (1991)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History
Over 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.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov
Votes: 974
99. Belovy (1992)
60 min | Documentary
"Belovy (the Belovs)" is a breathtaking portrait of a troubled peasant family. It's poetry in the form of a documentary that won many prizes. Beautifully shot in vintage black and white, ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Kossakovsky | Stars: Anna Fyodorovna Belova, Mikhail Fyodorovich Belov, Vasiliy Fyodorovich Belov, Sergey Fyodorovich Belov
Votes: 396
100. 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: 16,354 | Gross: $2.62M
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