Russian movies you might have missed
by nsmokov | created - 10 Mar 2017 | updated - 03 Oct 2018 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Target (2011)
Not Rated | 158 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2020, a group of wealthy Muscovites traveling to a complex of abandoned astrophysics, where rumors say they have enough power to stop the aging process.
Director: Aleksandr Zeldovich | Stars: Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Danila Kozlovskiy
Votes: 706
2. Slide (2013)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The main characters are above the law. They are a group of police investigators wallowed in criminal activities. But the criminal scheme worked out by the experienced d team begins to fail.... See full summary »
Director: Anton Rozenberg | Stars: Vladislav Abashin, Olga Filimonova, Aleksey Ignatev, Vladimir Lukyanchikov
Votes: 131
3. The Edge (2010)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 3,238
4. 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: 16,355 | Gross: $2.62M
5. Pro lyuboff (2010)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Vlad, a Russian businessman, who is going to participate in the elections for deputies, has got some problems with the articulation and he hires a speech therapist, Dasha - the poor girl of... See full summary »
Director: Olga Subbotina | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Juozas Budraitis, Oksana Fandera, Andrey Kuzichyov
Votes: 297
6. 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: 15,221 | Gross: $0.02M
7. 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: 16,444
8. Zoology (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.
Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova, Irina Chipizhenko
Votes: 1,217
9. In the Fog (2012)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, History, War
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov, Nikita Peremotov
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.01M
10. 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: 15,221 | Gross: $0.02M
11. Volchok (2009)
88 min | Drama
The six-year-old girl had never seen her mother in her life. But, once appearing to soon leave again, the mother gave the girl a small ridiculous toy - a spinning top. This name is the best fit for the girl herself.
Director: Vasiliy Sigarev | Stars: Polina Pluchek, Yana Troyanova, Veronika Lysakova, Marina Gapchenko
Votes: 1,288
12. 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: 56,934 | Gross: $1.09M
13. Territoriya (2015)
157 min | Adventure, Drama
It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Melnik | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Egor Beroev, Evgeniy Tsyganov
Votes: 1,199
14. 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: 7,000 | Gross: $0.01M
15. War (2002)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,414
16. The Student (2016)
Unrated | 118 min | Drama
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Votes: 6,079 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Collector (2016)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
Inventive debt collector Arthur finds himself in a trap.
Director: Aleksey Krasovskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Polina Agureeva, Kseniya Buravskaya, Tatyana Lazareva
Votes: 2,719
18. Morphine (2008)
110 min | Drama
A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko
Votes: 4,067
19. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
R | 126 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun, Honglei Sun
Votes: 49,216 | Gross: $5.70M
20. Taras Bulba (2009)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Igor Petrenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Magdalena Mielcarz
Votes: 3,412
21. Expiation (2012)
123 min | Drama, War
The film 'Expiation' is the story about difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Karina Andolenko, Sergey Dreyden, Natalya Gandzyuk, Dmitriy Kulichkov
Votes: 136
22. 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: 12,809
23. East/West (1999)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,146 | Gross: $2.78M
24. Brother (1997)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
Votes: 24,560
25. Potseluy babochki (2006)
105 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Li has nothing, she does not even have a name. They love each other madly, but they belong to system.
Director: Anton Sivers | Stars: Andrey Astrakhantsev, Sergey Bezrukov, Leni Lan Crazybarby, Anna Dubrovskaya
Votes: 404
26. The Student (2016)
Unrated | 118 min | Drama
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Votes: 6,079 | Gross: $0.00M
27. 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: 4,811
28. Soulless (2012)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about things that are really important in life.
Director: Roman Prygunov | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Mariya Andreeva, Artyom Mikhalkov, Nikita Panfilov
Votes: 3,958
29. Brat 2 (2000)
122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Arriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Irina Saltykova
Votes: 17,352
30. Zhila-byla odna baba (2011)
150 min | Drama, History, War
A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
Director: Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Darya Ekamasova, Nina Ruslanova, Vladislav Abashin, Roman Madyanov
Votes: 850
31. Kremen (2007)
84 min | Crime, Drama
A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.
Director: Aleksey Mizgiryov | Stars: Evgeniy Antropov, Dmitriy Kulichkov, Anastasiya Bezborodova, Sergey Shekhovtsov
Votes: 645
32. Two Days (2011)
76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pyotr Drozdov, a high-ranking government official from Moscow, is summoned by the local governor to a provincial museum of a half-forgotten classical writer.
Director: Avdotya Smirnova | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Kseniya Rappoport, Evgeniy Muravich, Irina Rozanova
Votes: 922
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