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1. Catherine the Great (2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.
Stars: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Gina McKee, Kevin McNally
Votes: 6,508
2. Navalny (2022)
R | 99 min | Documentary, Biography
Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
Director: Daniel Roher | Stars: Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Christo Grozev, Dasha Navalnaya
Votes: 30,029
3. HyperNormalisation (2016)
166 min | Documentary
Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum
Votes: 7,391
4. The Putin Interviews (2017)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography
Academy Award-winning film-maker Oliver Stone interviews Russian president Vladimir Putin about divisive issues related to U.S.-Russia relations.
Stars: Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Chudinov, Fernando Sulichin
Votes: 5,271
5. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky | Stars: His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Said Ismagilov, Bishop Agapit, Archbishop Petro Malchuk
Votes: 20,656
6. 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: 2,205
7. Putin vs the West (2023–2024)
60 min | Documentary
From the 2014 seizure of Crimea to the invasion of Ukraine, this is the inside story of a decade of clashes - as told by the Western leaders who traded blows with Putin's Russia.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andrey Kelin, Jens Stoltenberg, Caroline Catz
Votes: 470
8. Rasputin (1981)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh
Votes: 1,687
9. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama, History
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 1,958
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: 8,073
11. The Russian Revolution (2017)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History
A brief yet comprehensive documentary overview of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, from the terrible acts and subsequent hanging of his brother to his own hunger for a revolution.
Director: Cal Seville | Stars: Daniel Beer, Helen Rappaport, Donald Rayfield, Victor Sebestyen
Votes: 713
12. A Palace for Putin. The Story of the Biggest Bribe (2021)
113 min | Documentary
This documentary investigates allegations of how a palace, on the coast of the Black Sea, is allegedly controlled by Russian president Putin, and how its construction was financed through corruption and a network of close associates.
Director: Alexei Navalny | Stars: Alexei Navalny, Georgy Alburov, Vyacheslav Gimadi, Alina Kabaeva
Votes: 2,498
13. 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: 1,613
14. Boris Godounov (1989)
118 min | Musical, Drama
The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort, Paul Plishka
Votes: 379
15. The Rape of Europa (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 1,661
16. F@ck This Job (2021)
104 min | Documentary, News
In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.
Director: Vera Krichevskaya | Stars: Natalia Sindeeva, Aleksandr Vinokurov, Vera Krichevskaya, Anna Forshtreter
Votes: 568
17. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Documentary, Drama, War
'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, Vitali Klitschko, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Votes: 123
18. The Possessed (1988)
116 min | Drama
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier
Votes: 671
19. Spinning Boris (2003 TV Movie)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Boris Lee Krutonog
Votes: 1,316
20. Revealing Ukraine (2019)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
"Revealing Ukraine" by Igor Lopatonok continues investigations on of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis following "Ukraine on Fire". In addition, it analyzes the current political backstage and its dangerous potential for the world.
Director: Igor Lopatonok | Stars: Oliver Stone, Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 2,917
21. Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
46 min | Documentary, Biography
A definitive account of Putin's power and how it changed the modern world.
Stars: Arkady Ostrovsky, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Mikhail Fishman, Mark Galeotti
Votes: 686
22. Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Follows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.
Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin | Stars: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Andrey Tolokonnikov
Votes: 2,030
23. Putin's Witnesses (2018)
102 min | Documentary
A rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power.
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, Anatoliy Chubays, Mikhail Gorbachev
Votes: 1,509
24. The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes (2016)
152 min | Documentary
What started as a docu-drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, became an investigation of a ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Nekrasov | Stars: Viktoria Apanasenko, Anna Avramenko, Katerina Bashkina-Zlenko, Marieluise Beck
Votes: 157
25. Khodorkovsky (2011)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Tuschi | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya, Lena Khodorkovskaya
Votes: 978 | Gross: $0.03M
26. Vremya pokazhet (2014– )
210 min | News, Talk-Show
The social and political program on Channel One, Russia. Usually, there are either two or three presenters in the frame, but there were periods when one person led the program. Experts, ... See full summary »
Stars: Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy, Ekaterina Strizhenova, Artyom Sheynin, Aleksandr Yakovlev
Votes: 36
27. Putin, Russia and the West (2011)
60 min | Documentary
Four-part documentary exploring how Russia has been resurrected by Vladimir Putin.
Stars: Rupert Graves, Condoleezza Rice, Sergei Ivanov, Sergei Prikhodko
Votes: 427
28. The Man Putin Couldn't Kill (2021 TV Movie)
86 min | Documentary
The incredible story of Alexei Navalny and the Russian plot to kill him.
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Marcel Theroux, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin, Kira Yarmysh
Votes: 697
29. 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: 181
30. Putin's Kiss (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
Masha Drokova joins Nashi, a Russian ultra nationalist youth group, at the age of 16 and rapidly ascends its ranks, famously garnering a medal and the opportunity to kiss Vladimir Putin. The film details her growing disillusion with the group's leaders and her falling in with the anti-Putin opposition, especially a journalist and blogger named Oleg Kashin, who gets brutally attacked.
Director: Lise Birk Pedersen | Stars: Masha Drokova, Oleg Kashin, Viktoria Drokova, Garry Kasparov
Votes: 761 | Gross: $0.01M
31. Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2007)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary follows ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko from his forced exile from Russia, to his death from poisoning in November of 2006.
Director: Andrey Nekrasov | Stars: Alexander Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko, Walter Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya
Votes: 394 | Gross: $0.00M
32. Puppets (1994–2002)
12 min | Comedy, Drama
Entertaining satirical television program on the hot topics of Russian politics.
Stars: Aleksandr Gruzdev, Boris Shuvalov, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Malenko
Votes: 24
33. The Term (2014)
83 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
The film is a view from the inside on how it is to be in opposition in Russia of Putin. Attempts, mistakes, political tricks, seen through the eyes of the opposition leaders.
Directors: Pavel Kostomarov, Aleksey Pivovarov, Aleksandr Rastorguev | Stars: Kseniya Sobchak, Ilya Yashin, Alexei Navalny, Maksim Vitorgan
Votes: 266
34. 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: 4,005
35. Poutine, le retour de l'ours dans la danse (2022 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
In February 2007, at the Munich Conference for World Security, Vladimir Putin denounced the unilateralism of the United States and announced the end of a unipolar world. Although virulent, ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Tonolli | Stars: Saskia Weber, Cornelia Schönwald, Christian Le Peutrec, Jean-Yves Huchet
Votes: 57
36. Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
119 min | Documentary
The history of the October revolution told in images, starting from the uprising of 25 February up to the first anniversary of the revolution. The uprisings, the civil wars and the soviet life and leaders are shown in panoramic images.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Aleksandr Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotskiy
Votes: 161
37. Delo Sobchaka (2018)
117 min | Documentary, Biography
A biography of the first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg and the political mentor of Vladimir Putin, told by his daughter Ksenia Sobchak.
Director: Vera Krichevskaya | Stars: Anatoliy Sobchak, Anatoliy Chubays, Andrey Konstantinov, Aleksandr Korzhakov
Votes: 100
38. 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
39. Whoismisterputin (2015)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
The film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin's private wealth and subsequent rise to power after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad's KGB, and mafia groups.
Director: Valeriy Balayan | Stars: Yuri Makarov, Vladimir Putin, Marina Salye, Aleksandr Anikin
Votes: 23
40. Miroporyadok-2018 (2018)
93 min | Documentary
Directors: Darya Bylinushkina, Mikhail Chervyakov, Saida Medvedeva, Violetta Sergeeva, Vladimir Solovyov | Stars: Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Solovyov, Shinzo Abe, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Votes: 46
41. Yeltsin (2023)
Documentary
As the fall of the USSR has gone, Boris Yeltsin takes his way to Russia to their colleagues and broke a new home on our new journey back to Russia.
Director: Yan Vizinberg | Stars: Tony Blair, Gennadiy Burbulis, Anatoliy Chubays, Bill Clinton
42. Kadyrov, Ubu dictateur de Tchétchénie (2018 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
The life style, self-staging and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are thematized in this documentation.
Directors: Daisy D'Errata, Karl Zéro | Stars: Nicolas Anelka, Hillary Clinton, Gérard Depardieu, Ronaldinho Gaúcho
Votes: 29
43. Putin: The New Tsar (2018)
59 min | Documentary
This documentary will provide the first authoritative account of who Vladimir Putin actually is. What drives him, what does he fear, who does he love and hate?
Director: Patrick Forbes | Stars: Patrick Forbes, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 176
44. 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: 1,551
45. The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017)
75 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, arrested by the Russian FSB in Crimea and sentenced to 20 years in prison on contrived charges.
Director: Askold Kurov | Stars: Oleh Sentsov, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yanukovich, Agnieszka Holland
Votes: 251
46. Hunting the KGB Killers (2017)
PG-13 | 54 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
The inside story of Alexander Litvinenko's murder in London and the subsequent international manhunt that led to the Kremlin, told in full for the first time, with exclusive access to key individuals.
Director: Chris Malone | Stars: Eddie Marsan, Andrew Byron, Hubert Hanowicz, Jon Foster
Votes: 134
47. 1996, hold-up à Moscou (2021 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
In 1996, Boris Yeltsin, ill and hated, ran for a second term as President of Russia. Facing him was a Communist candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, who was praised by those who had been forgotten ... See full summary »
Director: Madeleine Leroyer | Stars: Howard Bonsor, Tatjana Borissowna Jumaschewa, Anatoliy Chubays, Aleksandr Korzhakov
Votes: 26
48. The Turkish Gambit (2006)
206 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
The titular adviser Erast Fandorin takes part in hostilities during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. As a Serbian volunteer, Erast Petrovich meets a charming young lady - Varvara ... See full summary »
Stars: Egor Beroev, Olga Krasko, Aleksandr Baluev, Aleksandr Lykov
Votes: 105
49. Zima, ukhodi! (2012)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Ten young directors did not part from their cameras for two months. The result was a chronicle of Russia's winter protests.
Directors: Elena Khoreva, Denis Klebleev, Dmitriy Kubasov, Askold Kurov, Nadezhda Leonteva, Anna Moiseenko, Madina Mustafina, Zosya Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Aleksei Zhiryakov | Stars: Matvei Krylov, Olga Romanova, Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny
Votes: 164
50. America's Greatest Threat: Vladimir Putin (2018 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
Delving into the mind of the Russian Federation's President, "America's Greatest Threat: Vladimir Putin," reveals how this cunning puppeteer manipulated U.S. elections to become one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Rudy Bednar | Stars: Evgeniya Albats, Stanislav Belkovsky, Philip Breedlove, John O. Brennan
Votes: 70