FR #362 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Japan | Russian, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
FR #441 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Russia, India | Russian, Kannada
Director
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer
Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast
Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov
Plot
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.
FR #654 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Denmark, Sweden | Russian, Swedish
Director
Lukas Moodysson
Writer
Lukas Moodysson
Cast
Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov
Plot
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new ...
FR #659 | Movie | Drama | Russia, USA | Russian, English
Director
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer
Vladimir Moiseenko, Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov
Cast
Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
Plot
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
FR #671 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Russia | Russian
Director
Leonid Gaidai
Writer
Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy
Cast
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush
Plot
A young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
FR #875 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Russia, Mexico | Russian, German
Director
Leonid Gaidai
Writer
Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Vladlen Bakhnov, Leonid Gaidai
Cast
Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko
Plot
An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
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.
FR #914 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | Russian, Turkish
Director
Terence Young
Writer
Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Ian Fleming
Cast
Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
Plot
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre.
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.
FR #928 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Plot
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.
FR #931 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia, UK | Russian, English
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Plot
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.
FR #951 | TV | Animation, Action | Russia | Russian
Writer
Aleksandr Kurlyandskiy, Arkadiy Khayt, Feliks Kamov
Cast
Anatoliy Papanov, Klara Rumyanova, Igor Khristenko
Plot
The series follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic Wolf , trying to catch - and presumably eat Hare. It features additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the Wolf's plans.
Doctor Watson moves in with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes and they get a case to solve. A young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances.
Brigada is a group of four friends, who grew up together and formed a most powerful gang in Moscow. Initially they made business together, but an unplanned murder transformed them. Now their lives are at risk and there is no way b...
FR #1131 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Seryy
Writer
Georgiy Daneliya, Viktoriya Tokareva
Cast
Evgeniy Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin, Saveliy Kramarov
Plot
It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and c...
FR #1139 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Vladimir Bortko
Writer
Nataliya Bortko, Mikhail A. Bulgakov
Cast
Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Plot
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
FR #1216 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | Russian, English
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
Cast
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
Plot
A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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.
FR #1508 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | USA, UAE | Russian, French
Director
Brad Bird
Writer
Bruce Geller, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec
Cast
Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
Plot
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.
FR #1623 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Vladimir Menshov
Writer
Valentin Chernykh, Vladimir Menshov
Cast
Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova
Plot
Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
FR #1687 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Russia | Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko
Writer
Konstantin Ershov, Nikolay Gogol, Georgiy Kropachyov
Cast
Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin
Plot
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
FR #1688 | Movie | Drama | Russia | Russian, English
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer
S. Bakhmetyeva, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya
Plot
Seven-year-old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who wo...
FR #1752 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA, China | Russian, Spanish
Director
Ilya Naishuller
Writer
Derek Kolstad
Cast
Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen
Plot
A docile family man slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled by two petty thieves, which, coincidentally, leads him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
FR #1879 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian
Director
Yuri Norstein
Writer
Sergei Kozlov
Cast
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Plot
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
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.
A boy named Malysh suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children. The acute sense of solitude makes him desperately want a dog, but before he gets one, he "invents" a friend - the very Karlson who lives upon the r...
A very good cop tries to catch a very bad and extremely clever car thief. The irony's that the thief isn't very clever, nor is he a bad person. In fact, he's not just a virtuous person he's also the 'cop's best friend.
Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel), Igor Maslennikov, Yuri Veksler
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Plot
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
FR #1986 | TV | Mystery, Crime | Russia, USA | Russian, English
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Plot
Picking up from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980) adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue as they oppose a fierce crime syndicate in one of their greatest challenges.
50
Ningen No Jokenaka The Human Condition II: Road To Eternity(1959)
FR #2079 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan | Russian, Japanese
FR #2199 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Russia, USA | Russian, English
Director
Mikhail Shvejtser
Writer
Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov, Mikhail Shvejtser
Cast
Sergey Yurskiy, Leonid Kuravlyov, Zinoviy Gerdt
Plot
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs, " now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
Cartoon about the adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a plan how to get the King's confidence.
FR #2393 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia, Turkey | Russian, German
Director
Pavel Lungin
Writer
Dmitriy Sobolev
Cast
Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Plot
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...
Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko
Plot
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
FR #2473 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Russia, Italy | Russian, English
Director
Georgiy Daneliya
Writer
Gennady Shpalikov
Cast
Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh
Plot
Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Volodya and Kolya's friend Sasha adventure their love interests in their own way, while Kolya sets out to help them.
FR #2474 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | Russia | Russian, English
Director
Lev Atamanov
Writer
Georgiy Grebner, Lev Atamanov, Nikolay Erdman
Cast
Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
Plot
A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her friend, who has been taken captive by the Snow Queen and turned cruel by enchanted ice splinters.
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
FR #2716 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia, India | Russian, Tamil
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Writer
Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov
Cast
Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov
Plot
A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
FR #2718 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Egypt | Russian, Arabic
Director
Roman Kachanov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy, Roman Kachanov
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Klara Rumyanova, Vladimir Rautbart
Plot
Cheburashka is a creature unknown to science. After the zoo rejects him, he becomes lonely and wants friends. Meanwhile, a crocodile named Gena is in the same boat and seeks friendship. The two meet and build a house for the lonely.
FR #2892 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Vladimir Menshov
Writer
Vladimir Gurkin
Cast
Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Nina Doroshina, Lyudmila Gurchenko
Plot
Injured on the job Vasily Kuzyakin gets a ticket to the resort. There he meets femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, and once under the charm, moves to live with her. Unfortunately, a new life is not all that sweet as dreamed hapless Vas...
FR #3210 | TV | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian
Writer
Oleg Kuzovkov
Cast
Boris Kutnevich, Alina Kukushkina, Oriana Medina
Plot
A retired circus bear settles into the woods and prepares for a quiet new life surrounded by peace and tranquility until he is introduced to an adventurous little girl named Masha.
FR #3396 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia, Belgium | Russian, French
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Writer
Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov
Cast
Alla Budnitskaya, Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Tsvetkova
Plot
Meeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.
FR #3408 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, USA | Russian, English
Director
King Vidor
Writer
Lev Tolstoy, Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby
Cast
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Plot
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel), Igor Maslennikov (Screenplay)
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Plot
Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love interest for Wat...
FR #3637 | Movie | Action, Drama | Finland, Russia | Russian
Director
Fedor Bondarchuk
Writer
Iskander Galiev, Yuriy Korotkov
Cast
Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov
Plot
A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
FR #3646 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Belarus | Russian
Director
Vladimir Popov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy
Cast
Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talyzina, Mariya Vinogradova
Plot
A six-year-old boy called Uncle Fyodor, because he is very serious, leaves his home after his parents don't let him keep Matroskin, a cat. Uncle Fyodor and Matroskin, with the dog Sharik, set up a home in a village "Prostokvashino".
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 military ideas of service and obedience that sh...
