Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Plot
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.
Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov
Plot
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
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.
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.
Movie | Documentary, War | Ukraine, USA | Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Mstyslav Chernov
Writer
Mstyslav Chernov
Cast
Liudmyla Amelkina, Mstyslav Chernov, Roman Golovanov
Plot
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
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.
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.
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.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Russia | 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.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Sweden, Denmark | 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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vakhtang Kikabidze, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Elena Proklova
Plot
Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ...
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.
Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli
Plot
Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
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...
Movie | Drama, Fantasy | 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.
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...
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...
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Zhil-byl pyosaka Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog(1982)
Movie | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Eduard Nazarov
Writer
Eduard Nazarov
Cast
Georgiy Burkov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Eduard Nazarov
Plot
Two lonely souls met: a dog outcast by his owners, and a poor wolf living in the woods.
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
Plot
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 and wife, subdue the killer but are then f...
During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
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...
Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Plot
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Plot
A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
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.
Movie | Drama, Fantasy | Russia, Germany | Russian, Persian
Director
Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer
Boris Khaimsky, Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina
Cast
Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Plot
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
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 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.
Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Plot
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.
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.
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.
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 decorated hero in the World War I and late...
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...
Movie | Comedy, Romance | Russia | 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.
A schoolboy finds a time machine and he helps Alisa, a scientist of the future, to save a mind-reading device from space pirates. Chased by the pirates and followed by Alisa he saves the device and takes it back to his own time.
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".
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.
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 tamer form of Republicanism. How could the...
Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Plot
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: family loyalty vs. personal desire, national...
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.
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.
