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Russian-Language Films

Name: Russian-Language Films
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Top 500 Russian-language films from a catalog of 1,958, ranked by TMDB rating.

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No More Anesthesia	2,006	Aleksandra Sashneva	Romance	10	13	Russian	Russia	In the everyday life of modern St. Petersburg, the heroine unexpectedly encounters a formidable, unknown, mystical force that kills her friends one...
Kolobok	2,012	Eduard Nazarov	Animation	8.9	10	Russian	Russia	A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.
I Take a Step	2,023	Olga Akatyeva	Romance	8.6	16	Russian	Russia	A dyslexic graduate of a pedagogical institute is forced to become a teacher of Russian language and literature in a secondary school. Despite the illness, he manages to establish contact with the students, who in the end will help him keep his job.
Tux and Fanny	2,019	Albert Birney	Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure	8.4	10	Russian	United States of America	Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!
The Cat That Walked by Himself	1,968	Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Animation	8.3	11	Russian	Soviet Union	The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
Come and See	1,985	Elem Klimov	Drama, War	8.2	1,753	Russian	Soviet Union	The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
New	2,024	Zhenia Kazankina	Drama	8.2	25	Russian	Italy	Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish	1,950	Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy	Animation, Fantasy, Family	8.2	18	Russian	Soviet Union	The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
Stalker	1,979	Andrei Tarkovsky	Science Fiction, Drama	8.1	2,435	Russian	Soviet Union	Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
A Dog Named Palma	2,021	Alexandr Domogarov Jr.	Family, Romance	8.1	181	Russian	Russia	The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the dog at the airport. It's a story of amazing adventures, true friendship and unconditional love.
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	1,979	Stanislav Govorukhin	Action, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie	8.1	85	Russian	Soviet Union	Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
Mission «Sky»	2,021	Igor Kopylov	Drama, War	8.1	55	Russian	Russia	In the center of the story are three main characters - Lieutenant Colonel Soshnikov, Captain Muravyov and Major Zakharov. Three ages, three different characters, three different destinies, which are destined to meet at the Khmeimim military base.
Adventures of Mowgli: Akela's Last Hunt	1,969	Roman Davydov	Adventure, Animation, Family	8.1	27	Russian	Soviet Union	Episode 3. Mowgli has grown and in order that he might take his place in the pack he needed to arm themselves. Kaa helped Mowgli find the Iron Tooth in the abandoned cave. It happened just in time because the old enemy tiger Shere Khan raised havoc in the pack was going to overthrow Akela leader of the wolf.
F@ck This Job	2,022	Vera Krichevskaya	Documentary	8.1	15	Russian	United Kingdom	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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles	1,981	Igor Maslennikov	Crime, Adventure, Mystery, TV Movie	8.1	11	Russian	Soviet Union	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.
Mirror	1,975	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama, History	8	1,064	Russian	Soviet Union	A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Andrei Rublev	1,966	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama, History	8	921	Russian	Soviet Union	An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
Fire	2,020	Alexey Nuzhnyy	Action, Drama	8	178	Russian	Russia	Fires are raging in the Moscow region, and the forest protection airbase is on a rotation. However, experienced firefighters are in short supply and team leader Andrey Pavlovich has to take on a new recruit, Roman.
Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog	1,982	Eduard Nazarov	Comedy, Animation, Family	8	156	Russian	Soviet Union	Based on the Ukrainian folktale, the old dog of a village family is not as keen as he once was, and is sent away after he fails to guard their house during a robbery. In the woods, he meets the wolf he protected his masters against long ago, who decides to pay a favor to get his old enemy's rightful place back in the doghouse.
The Golden Calf	1,968	Mikhail Shveitser	Comedy	8	68	Russian	Soviet Union	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.
Ostap Bender: The Final Hustle	2,021	Igor Zaytsev	Adventure, Comedy, Action, Crime	8	51	Russian	Russia	1919, Solnechnomorsk. Talented adventurers have become too unexpected: now they are wanted by the Russian and Turkish police. They go to the south ...
Wow! A Talking Fish!	1,983	Robert Sahakyants	Animation, Family, Fantasy	8	40	Russian	Soviet Union	A fisherman catches a talking fish and spares its life. After that, he meets a grotesque, evil monster in a state of constant change.
Dersu Uzala	1,975	Akira Kurosawa	Adventure, Drama	7.9	604	Russian	Japan	A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
The Cranes Are Flying	1,957	Mikheil Kalatozishvili	Drama, Romance, War	7.9	438	Russian	Soviet Union	Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession	1,973	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy, Science Fiction	7.9	393	Russian	Soviet Union	A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Office Romance	1,977	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy, Romance	7.9	255	Russian	Soviet Union	Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
The Ascent	1,977	Larisa Shepitko	Drama, War	7.9	235	Russian	Soviet Union	Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Ballad of a Soldier	1,959	Grigoriy Chukhray	Drama, Romance, War	7.9	214	Russian	Soviet Union	During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Heart of a Dog	1,988	Vladimir Bortko	Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction	7.9	181	Russian	Soviet Union	"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle	1,973	Leonid Bykov	War, Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.9	124	Russian	Soviet Union	Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
A Sister's Kiss	2,007	Dmitry Gribanoff	Romance, Drama	7.9	26	Russian	Russia	The story takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia. Two Russian schoolgirls suffer crash in natural love. Once they've met each other and fall in love...
Mister Pronka	1,991	Leonid Nosyrev	Animation	7.9	12	Russian	Soviet Union	A rich American comes to Russia with a task from the government to convert some Russians to the "American faith". The American finds a ragged man named Pronka in the marketplace and makes a bet with him: he gives Pronka money and the opportunity to trade, and if he does not wash for 15 years, Pronka can take all the income for himself.
The Mathematician and the Devil	1,972	Semyon Raytburt	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy	7.9	10	Russian	Soviet Union	A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges.
Solaris	1,972	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery	7.8	1,781	Russian	Soviet Union	A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
Ivan's Childhood	1,962	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama, War	7.8	812	Russian	Soviet Union	In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Man with a Movie Camera	1,929	Dziga Vertov	Documentary	7.8	785	Russian	Soviet Union	A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Nostalgia	1,983	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama, Romance	7.8	592	Russian	Italy	Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.
The Diamond Arm	1,969	Leonid Gaidai	Adventure, Comedy, Crime	7.8	318	Russian	Soviet Union	A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
The Fool	2,014	Yury Bykov	Drama	7.8	306	Russian	Russia	The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Gentlemen of Fortune	1,971	Aleksandr Sery	Comedy, Crime, Drama	7.8	254	Russian	Soviet Union	Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.
Afonya	1,976	Georgiy Daneliya	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.8	150	Russian	Soviet Union	The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
Sister	2,019	Aleksandr Galibin	War, Drama	7.8	81	Russian	Russia	How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent girl Oksana with her. Mum transmits the order of his father to take care of Oksana, as if he was a little sister ... A film adaptation of the story “The Joy of Our Home” by the classic of Soviet literature Mustay Karim.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger	1,980	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.8	57	Russian	Soviet Union	Dr. Watson executes Sherlock Holmes' will, who faced death after exposing Moriarty and his gang in the previous episode.
No, You're Stupid	2,016	Anna Zaytseva	Drama	7.8	38	Russian	Russia	Christina wants to take revenge on her blind sister, who wants to take a prize in a popular music television show. She comes up with an evil joke in which she gives out a stage play organized by her friends for a real shoot in the Ostankino television studio. The sister believes what they are trying to convince her of, and Christina's rally becomes more and more like a mockery.
Adventures of Mowgli: Raksha	1,967	Roman Davydov	Adventure, Animation, Family	7.8	25	Russian	Soviet Union	Episode 1. A small child falls into the jungle in the wolf family. He liked the mother wolf Raksha, which gave him the tiger Sher Khan. The wolves raised a human baby named Mowgli. But life in a wolf pack is subject to the law of the jungle. The Council of the pack should decide whether Mowgli live among the beasts or eaten by Shere Khan.
The Magic Ring	1,979	Leonid Nosyrev	Animation, Fantasy	7.8	24	Russian	Soviet Union	Vanya has no money at all, and he gave away his last piece of clothing to save some poor animals. Now he has a cat, a dog, and a snake living in his house. But it turns out that the snake is the king's daughter, so she gave him a magic ring as a gift for saving her. Now Vanya can wish for anything he wants, and his wish will come true!
Adventures of Mowgli: The Fight	1,970	Roman Davydov	Adventure, Animation, Family	7.8	24	Russian	Soviet Union	Episode 4. A terrible threat hanging over the wolf tribe and all living inhabit the jungle. On native places for Mowgli is approaching a huge flock of wild red dogs, destroying everything in its path. It seemed nothing to resist them, but Mowgli comes up with as they confront the red Horde.
Adventures of Mowgli: The Kidnapping	1,968	Roman Davydov	Adventure, Animation, Family	7.8	24	Russian	Soviet Union	Episode 2. Mowgli — the adopted son of a wolf family. He grows quickly and learns from his mentors. The rumor that the wolf pack living human child, comes to banderlogs. The monkey tribe, decided to make Mowgli their leader. They steal Mowgli and transfer it into a towns ruins in the jungle.
Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map	1,987	Davyd Cherkaskyi	Animation, Adventure, TV Movie, Family, Music	7.8	23	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This movie covers the first half of the book.
Kin-dza-dza!	1,986	Georgiy Daneliya	Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure	7.7	278	Russian	Soviet Union	Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style	1,967	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.7	272	Russian	Soviet Union	Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
1942: Unknown Battle	2,019	Igor Kopylov	War, Drama, History	7.7	163	Russian	Russia	WWII 1942: Rzhev, USSR. Stuck in a crucial strategical position, a small company from the Red Army does whatever it takes to fend off the Nazis.
Gena the Crocodile	1,969	Roman Kachanov	Animation, Family	7.7	114	Russian	Soviet Union	First animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena the Crocodile works as a zoo animal at an urban zoo. Every evening, he returns home to his lonely apartment. Gena gets very tired of playing chess against himself and decides to find some friends to play with. Animals and people respond to advertisements that he posts all around the city. First, a girl named Galya comes with a homeless puppy, who is then followed by Cheburashka. They decide to build a house for all the lonely citizens of the city, but a mischievous old lady, Shapoklyak, tries to stop them in different ways.
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross	1,961	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.7	87	Russian	Soviet Union	This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight	1,980	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.7	62	Russian	Soviet Union	After upsetting the criminal underground in 'the Master Blackmailer' case, Sherlock Holmes has to face his archenemy: Prof. Moriarty.
Film, Film, Film	1,968	Fyodor Khitruk	Comedy, Animation	7.7	56	Russian	Soviet Union	The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together.
The Best in Hell	2,022	Andrey Batov	War, Action, Drama	7.7	42	Russian	Russia	Propaganda movie about units of the "whites" (PMC "Wagner") who perform an assault operation to capture buildings. They are opposed by the "yellow" units, which have dug in these buildings and are also ready to fight to the end.
Alice in Wonderland	1,981	Yefrem Pruzhanskyi	Animation, Family, Fantasy	7.7	36	Russian	Soviet Union	Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 1	1,983	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.7	18	Russian	Soviet Union	A girl named Mary Morsten comes to Sherlock Holmes, who asks him and the doctor to help solve the annual receipt of one pearl by her parcel and in the search for her father, who disappeared many years ago. Holmes and Watson do not refuse her help and find out that Miss Mary is the heiress of a huge fortune — the treasures of Agra, which are also claimed by the sons of Major Sholto and Jonathan Small — an escaped convict with a wooden prosthesis instead of a leg, whom the elder Morsten and Sholto deceived (while Sholto also deceived Morsten).
Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Both Usual and Unbelieveable	1,983	Vladimir Alenikov	Comedy, Family	7.7	16	Russian	Soviet Union	Best friends and mischievous third-graders Vasya Petrov and Petya Vasechkin, despite their differences, share a love for adventures. Romantic Vasya falls for his serious, excellent classmate Masha and writes her an anonymous love note. However, the quick-witted Masha identifies Vasya due to his errors and rejects him harshly. Upset, Vasya confides in Petya, who then devises a cunning plan to win Masha over.
Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov	1,981	Vladimir Popov	Mystery, Animation, Family, Comedy	7.7	14	Russian	Soviet Union	A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective.
The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter	1,988	Zinaida Alieva	Comedy	7.7	11	Russian	Soviet Union	Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero.
Island of Mistakes	1,955	Zinaida Brumberg	Animation	7.7	11	Russian	Soviet Union	A short animated film about poor student Kolya Sorokin, who is dragged by two swans to the island of errors. On the island, incorrect solutions cause a lot of problems for Kolya. These trials force the hero to approach his responsibilities in a different way.
The Snow Postman	1,955	Leonid Amalrik	Animation	7.7	10	Russian	Soviet Union	On the eve of the New Year, several children write a letter to Father Frost asking him to send them a Christmas tree for the holiday, and then they make a Snowman who should take the letter to the magic forest. When midnight arrives, under the beat of a clock, the Snowman comes to life and, together with a small yard puppy, nicknamed Druzhok, sets off in search of Father Frost.
Battleship Potemkin	1,925	Sergei Eisenstein	Drama, History, War	7.6	1,266	Russian	Soviet Union	A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	1,980	Vladimir Menshov	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.6	269	Russian	Soviet Union	This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
12 Chairs	1,971	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy, Adventure	7.6	169	Russian	Soviet Union	A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
The Old Man and the Sea	1,999	Aleksandr Petrov	Animation, Adventure, Drama	7.6	164	Russian	Russia	An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.
Love and Pigeons	1,984	Vladimir Menshov	Comedy, Romance	7.6	136	Russian	Soviet Union	One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons.
Beware of the Car!	1,966	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy, Crime	7.6	133	Russian	Soviet Union	An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
Mimino	1,977	Georgiy Daneliya	Comedy, Drama	7.6	121	Russian	Soviet Union	Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.
Welcome, or No Trespassing	1,964	Elem Klimov	Comedy, Family	7.6	119	Russian	Soviet Union	A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
A	2,022	Tatyana Zhukova	Drama	7.6	112	Russian	Unknown	Every person you meet is fighting a battle you don't know anything about. Lena comes to the countryside to collect and take things out of the house she has sold. neighbor igor interferes with her plans. he sits in a tree around the clock and screams driving lena crazy.
Winter in Prostokvashino	1,984	Vladimir Popov	Animation	7.6	97	Russian	Soviet Union	A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter.
The Snow Queen: Mirror Lands	2,018	Robert Lence	Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy	7.6	96	Russian	Russia	A mighty king has lost his family because of the Snow Queen. He finds a way to expel all magic creatures from his world to Mirrorlands. Gerda and Snow Queen, along with all wizards and magicians, have to forget their offenses and disputes to defend their right to exist and not to allow fairytales to disappear from our lives.
Fate of a Man	1,959	Sergey Bondarchuk	Drama, War	7.6	89	Russian	Soviet Union	The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spe...
Guest from the Future	1,984	Pavel Arsenov	Adventure, Family, Science Fiction	7.6	81	Russian	Soviet Union	6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him. Written by Boris Shafir
Adventures of Captain Vrungel	1,980	Davyd Cherkaskyi	Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Action	7.6	71	Russian	Soviet Union	An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers	1,980	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.6	64	Russian	Soviet Union	Mycroft Holmes hands Sherlock Holmes the case of the Master Blackmailer.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra	1,983	Igor Maslennikov	Crime, Mystery, Adventure, TV Movie	7.6	59	Russian	Soviet Union	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 Watson.
Centaur	2,023	Kirill Kemnits	Thriller, Drama, Crime	7.6	48	Russian	Russia	Liza works at night, a taxi ride for her is a moment of much-desired peace. The driver Sasha inspires confidence, he knows the approach to the most demanding client. There are many unexpected turns in the lights of the big city, behind each of which lies a terrible threat. And perhaps the main danger is closer than it seems.
Wish of the Fairy Fish	2,023	Alexander Voitinsky	Fantasy, Adventure, Family	7.6	40	Russian	Russia	If you go fishing, be prepared to draw the fish of your dreams, the magical Pike, which can grant any three wishes. Only Emelya let two wishes down the drain, and decided to save the third. Therefore, in order to achieve the hand of the royal daughter Anfisa, he will have to act without magical power, on his own. And Pike will help him, who without her skin will appear as an ordinary girl Vasilisa.
Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure	1,987	Davyd Cherkaskyi	Animation, Adventure, TV Movie, Family, Music	7.6	28	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This film covers the second half of the book.
The Everlasting Story	2,021	Andrey Kolpin	Animation, Adventure, Family	7.6	25	Russian	Russia	It’s a magical story about the incredible adventures of the young warrior called Koshi. There is only one goal in his life – to defeat the White Shadow, a monster who made him an outcast. But everything changes when Koshi meets a young dryad and circus actress May. By chance the destiny of all fairy creatures ends up in their hands, and now they have to make a tough choice between their own lives and saving the world from Ancient Evil.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures	1,965	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.5	506	Russian	Soviet Union	The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Brother	1,997	Aleksei Balabanov	Drama, Crime	7.5	445	Russian	Russia	Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.
Mira	2,022	Dmitry Kiselev	Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Family	7.5	397	Russian	Russia	Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.
Silver Skates	2,020	Michael Lockshin	Romance, Adventure, Drama, Family	7.5	301	Russian	Russia	1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
War and Peace	1,968	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Drama, War, Romance	7.5	149	Russian	Soviet Union	The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Patriots Time	2,022	Serikbol Utepbergenov	Action, War, Drama	7.5	133	Russian	Kazakhstan	The brothers Sultan and Bekzat Ibrayev are serving faithfully in the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, and at the same time they are in family disagreement. Sultan is a valiant intelligence officer and Bekzat is a talented fighter pilot. While an international terrorist organization prepares a carefully planned attack on the country's strategically important facilities, the brothers have to face not only a mortal threat, but also face a family confrontation related to their dead father. Circumstances force them to unite in order to save human lives, and the brothers eventually understand that their homeland and family are the most valuable thing they have.
Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper	2,019	Vasily Chiginsky	Drama	7.5	126	Russian	Russia	An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day	1,972	Gennadiy Sokolskiy	Family, Animation	7.5	126	Russian	Soviet Union	Another Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eeyore, is sad because he has no tail. Pooh goes in search of one and finds it attached to a bell that hangs from the treehouse of one Owl.
The Girls	1,962	Yuri Chulyukin	Comedy, Romance	7.5	113	Russian	Soviet Union	A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern for...
Vacations in Prostokvashino	1,980	Vladimir Popov	Animation	7.5	100	Russian	Soviet Union	The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.
The Very Same Munchhausen	1,979	Mark Zakharov	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie	7.5	87	Russian	Soviet Union	A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.
Ten Little Indians	1,987	Stanislav Govorukhin	Crime, Mystery	7.5	77	Russian	Soviet Union	Ten strangers are forced to come face-to-face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Formula of Love	1,984	Mark Zakharov	Romance, Comedy	7.5	75	Russian	Soviet Union	A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... t...
Infiltration	2,022	Aleksey Chadov	War, Drama	7.5	74	Russian	Russia	Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex-commander Grey after his capture by ISIS. With the help of U.S. military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and attempts to escape the country while being hunted by terrorists.
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky	1,965	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7.5	73	Russian	Soviet Union	In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 1)	1,984	Valentin Karavaev	Animation	7.5	57	Russian	Soviet Union	Animated series about the adventures of a parrot Kesha, "the hero of our time." The action is concentrated in the city and its surroundings. Kesh lives in the apartment of Vova, a schoolchild, but because of his hot-tempered, arrogant character, he periodically runs away and gets into trouble, eventually returning to Vovka with a confession. The humor of the series is based on the eccentric behavior of Keshi, on recognizable realities, as well as on the multiple quotations used by the parrot.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812	1,967	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7.5	57	Russian	Soviet Union	In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
Obsession	1,965	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.5	37	Russian	Soviet Union	Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.
Goal! Goal!	1,964	Boris Dyozhkin	Animation	7.5	28	Russian	Soviet Union	Two teams, quite different by their techniques, meet in a hockey match.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2	1,981	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.5	20	Russian	Soviet Union	The second part of the Soviet TV adaption.
Artem & Eva	2,023	Evgeny Milykh	Documentary	7.5	18	Russian	Estonia	Artem loves Yulia, Yulia loves Artem. They recently graduated from school, moved to Moscow and began an independent life. In search of part-time jobs, Artem comes up with the idea of creating another image from Yulia - Eva Elfie - and making an amateur video for Pornhub. Suddenly, the video becomes popular, Eva gets more and more job offers, and Artem becomes the boyfriend and producer of a world celebrity. The heroes seem to fall into the "American dream", but in their personal lives there are more and more problems and doubts.
Careful, Monkeys!	1,984	Leonid Shvartsman	Animation	7.5	12	Russian	Soviet Union	Second film. Adventures of little monkeys, secretly from their mother escaped from a zoo to the city.
Hello Monkey	1,978	Ivan Ufimtsev	Animation	7.5	12	Russian	Soviet Union	Boa is in great mood and wants to share it with Monkey. So he sends his best regard to her through Elephant.
This Summer Will End	2,025	Maxim Arbugaev	Drama, Thriller	7.5	11	Russian	Russia	A young man named Kesha returns to his village after a long absence. He has completed a prison term but now simply wants to live a quiet, normal life. His younger brother, only 17, has plans for college. However, the brothers’ perspectives on the future shift dramatically when Kesha joins a gold-mining crew.
Petia and Little Red Riding Hood	1,958	Boris Stepantsev	Family, Comedy, Animation	7.5	11	Russian	Soviet Union	A boy finds his way into the Little Red Riding Hood cartoon in order to save the girl from the Big Bad Wolf.
Leviathan	2,014	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Drama, Crime	7.4	933	Russian	Russia	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.
Balkan Line	2,019	Andrey Volgin	Drama, Action, War	7.4	566	Russian	Russia	After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Kalashnikov AK-47	2,020	Konstantin Buslov	War, History, Drama	7.4	345	Russian	Russia	A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.
Leto	2,018	Kirill Serebrennikov	Music, Drama	7.4	335	Russian	France	Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Hedgehog in the Fog	1,975	Yuri Norstein	Animation, Adventure, Mystery, Family	7.4	258	Russian	Soviet Union	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...
Strike	1,925	Sergei Eisenstein	Drama	7.4	241	Russian	Soviet Union	Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting	1,971	Fyodor Khitruk	Animation, Family	7.4	135	Russian	Soviet Union	The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey.
Bootleggers	1,962	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.4	135	Russian	Soviet Union	This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three fr...
The Secret of the Third Planet	1,981	Roman Kachanov	Animation, Science Fiction, Adventure, Family	7.4	120	Russian	Soviet Union	At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of.
Finnick	2,022	Denis Chernov	Comedy, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Family	7.4	118	Russian	Russia	Not many people know that every house is secretly inhabited by little monsters! These furry creatures take care of a family’s house but cannot be seen. Finnick is a little monster, who doesn’t seem to care about his responsibility of making a home out of the house. But everything changes after a new family comes to his house. When Finn meets 13-year-old Christine, inexplicable events begin to happen in the city and life will never be the same again!
Three Plus Two	1,963	Genrikh Oganisyan	Comedy, Romance	7.4	58	Russian	Soviet Union	Three best friend are going to spend a vacation on a sea shore. But when they arrive to their usual place they suddenly find that the spot is already occupied - by two beautiful girls.
Triumph Over Violence	1,965	Mikhail Romm	Documentary, History, War	7.4	53	Russian	Soviet Union	Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov	1,967	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7.4	52	Russian	Soviet Union	As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he's marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. Part four of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
Mother For Baby Mammoth	1,981	Oleg Churkin	Animation	7.4	49	Russian	Soviet Union	Baby Mammoth is looking for his Mom.
Gas Station Queen	1,963	Aleksey Mishurin	Comedy	7.4	48	Russian	Soviet Union	Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, where her incredible positivity and fiery personality charm everyone around her.
Guest from the Future	2,024	Alexander Andryuschenko	Science Fiction, Adventure, Family	7.4	46	Russian	Russia	Kolya is an ordinary guy: video games, rap and friends. The last thing he cares about is the future. Until one day, he gets into the future himself. And everything is not easy there. The Earth coalition won the intergalactic war and lives quite happily, only the leaders of the defeated pirate forces are secretly preparing a new offensive. To do so, they need to go back in time and change the course of history, and Kolya unwittingly becomes their tool. But most importantly, Kolya meets Alisa, a girl unlike anyone else.
Umka	1,969	Vladimir Pekar	Animation, Family, Comedy	7.4	40	Russian	Soviet Union	White little bear hides from his mother friendship with a human who smells smoke.
Fierce Town	2,025	Konstantin Buslov	Drama, History, Action	7.4	38	Russian	Russia	By the middle of the 12th century, the borders of the Mongolian Empire stretched from the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas in the west to the southern lands of China in the east. The Mongolian army, under Khan Batu’s command, was known for its invisibility, destroying anyone who dared to challenge them. Yet, even within their central territories, some areas refused to bow to the Genghisids. Kozelsk was one of them. The Mongolian armies bypassed the high walls of this small town, considering that "the skin of the wolf was not worth the risk of encountering its teeth".However, one of the Khan’s commanders harbored a grudge against the town's citizens. Now, the people of Kozelsk must face a battle against the strongest army in the world, with no hope of victory. This is a story about people facing their death. Some try to escape, others are willing to do anything to survive, but most are prepared to protect their city from the relentless storms of the Mongolian hordes.
We'll Live Till Monday	1,968	Stanislav Rostotsky	Romance, Drama	7.4	38	Russian	Soviet Union	A respected history teacher, Ilya Semenovich Melnikov, decides to quit his job due to distressing rumors about a colleague who is in love with him. His final week is disrupted when a student's controversial essay on happiness sparks a classroom conflict. Melnikov's intervention in the situation ultimately causes him to reconsider his decision to resign.
Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion	2,019	Dmitry Kiselev	Drama, Mystery	7.4	33	Russian	Russia	In Chernobyl, the Global Kintech Corporation conducts illegal construction. A special interstate commission is trying to interfere with these plans, but right during a press conference, a group of unknown terrorists attacks its leader.
Florence Fight Club	2,015	Stefano Lorenzi	Comedy, Drama	7.4	31	Russian	Italy	Intertwined stories from the gladiator/athletes participating to the Calcio Storico Fiorentino yearly championship.
The Bag Of Apples	1,974	Vitold Bordzilovskiy	Animation	7.4	26	Russian	Soviet Union	Hare carries bag of apples for 4 sonnies and lovely daughter. But along the way he gives all apples to forest dwellers leaving his children hungry.
Children Are Born	2,011	Yuri Harbanov	Thriller, Horror	7.4	22	Russian	Russia	The film tells the story of a man who has just arrived to work in one of the villages as a security guard in an old club. There he meets the employees of the club, and they take turns telling him scary stories. People tend not to believe strange stories. He contradicts everything, expressing his arguments, proofs. But he's wrong. Because everything told has its roots of truth, reality and goes deep into the past times, which can not be returned.
In a Country of Undone Homework	1,969	Yuri Prytkov	Animation, Family, Fantasy	7.4	21	Russian	Soviet Union	A schoolboy meets all the undone by him homework's heroes in their country.
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 1)	1,976	Lev Atamanov	Animation	7.4	14	Russian	Soviet Union	The cartoon tells about the adventures of a kitten with the unusual name of Woof and his friend - the puppy of Sharik. Woof constantly gets into ridiculous situations and finds adventures as soon as he leaves the house. He is sure that it is necessary to go to meet the trouble, because the old cat told him: "You are waiting for some troubles!". He also knows how to properly share sausages, why a secret language is needed and why one should be afraid of thunderstorms together with a friend in the attic.
White Nights	1,960	Ivan Pyryev	Drama, Romance	7.4	14	Russian	Soviet Union	Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it is about a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.
Spice Boyz	2,020	Vladimir Zinkevich	Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Drama	7.4	13	Russian	Belarus	Vasilisa returns to her hometown for the wedding of her school friend Inna. Inna’s groom “Chistiy” with his two friends “Lambada” and “Kolbasa” organize a unplanned bachelor party on the eve of the wedding. Inna and Vasilisa show up unannounced to the party. Based on real events from 2014 in the city of Gomel.
Wind Along the Coast	2,003	Ivan Maximov	Animation	7.4	12	Russian	Russia	A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.
The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 2)	1,987	Aleksandr Davydov	Animation	7.4	10	Russian	Soviet Union	The Cat shows off his new player. Kesha, jealous, returns home and makes a scene for his owner. After that, he leaves home and tries to sell himself for 1,000 rubles. Meeting Vovka's rich neighbor, he goes to live with him. But life turns out to be not so sweet.
Loveless	2,017	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Drama	7.3	799	Russian	Belgium	Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.
The Return	2,003	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Drama, Mystery	7.3	685	Russian	Russia	Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As the journey moves deeper into the wilderness, the fragile bonds between father and sons are pushed to their limits.
Battle for Sevastopol	2,015	Sergey Mokritsky	War, Drama, Romance	7.3	489	Russian	Russia	The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!	1,975	Eldar Ryazanov	TV Movie, Comedy, Romance	7.3	256	Russian	Soviet Union	A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of the...
Ivan the Terrible, Part I	1,944	Sergei Eisenstein	Drama, History	7.3	221	Russian	Soviet Union	Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot	1,958	Sergei Eisenstein	History, Drama	7.3	169	Russian	Soviet Union	This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Winnie-the-Pooh	1,969	Fyodor Khitruk	Animation, Family	7.3	159	Russian	Soviet Union	According to Winnie-the-Pooh himself, bears love honey very much. That's why it always runs out very quickly. And you can't do without honey, so Winnie, along with Piglet, sets off for a tall tree with a beehive hanging from it. Winnie fearlessly climbs up to the beehive on a balloon, singing a song about a little cloud.
Tale of Tales	1,979	Yuri Norstein	Animation	7.3	143	Russian	Soviet Union	Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1	1,981	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, Adventure, Crime, TV Movie	7.3	132	Russian	Soviet Union	The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
Courier	1,986	Karen Shakhnazarov	Drama, Romance, Comedy	7.3	129	Russian	Soviet Union	Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
Three from Prostokvashino	1,978	Vladimir Popov	Animation	7.3	115	Russian	Soviet Union	Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.
The Garage	1,979	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy, Drama	7.3	95	Russian	Soviet Union	An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to r...
The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I	2,025	Igor Voloshin	Fantasy, Family, Adventure	7.3	83	Russian	Russia	Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes.
Ordinary Miracle	1,978	Mark Zakharov	Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy	7.3	81	Russian	Soviet Union	A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?
It Can't Be!	1,975	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.3	72	Russian	Soviet Union	The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
A Plasticine Crow	1,981	Aleksandr Tatarskiy	Animation	7.3	61	Russian	Soviet Union	Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".
A Cruel Romance	1,984	Eldar Ryazanov	Drama, Romance	7.3	61	Russian	Soviet Union	In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open house”, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love.
Hammer	2,016	Nurbek Egen	Action, Drama	7.3	57	Russian	Russia	Victor aka Hammer is an MMA champion with the world title fight ahead. After running into the mobster Shark Hammer gets injured but is still determined to win. Victor doesn't know Shark will stick at nothing to make Victor lose.
The Flying Ship	1,979	Garri Bardin	Animation	7.3	54	Russian	Soviet Union	Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription	1,980	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.3	52	Russian	Soviet Union	Holmes receives a message from Inspector Gregson about a strange case in an abandoned house on Brixton Road: the body of an elderly American was found there, and the word "Revenge" is written in blood on the wall.
Strictly Business	1,963	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy	7.3	45	Russian	Soviet Union	Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson’s stallion, he’s ambushed and killed by “Shark” Dodson, who seizes the entire loot. (2) A thief slips through a third-floor window to steal a stack of bills from a sleeping gentleman’s dressing table. When the homeowner awakens and raises only one hand against the revolver—his other immobilized by a sudden rheumatic attack—the would-be robber reconsiders his plan. (3) Sam and Bill, two small-time grifters short $2,000 for their swindle, decide to kidnap Ebeneger Dorset’s young son. They demand exactly that sum as ransom, setting in motion a desperate bargain.
Ice 2	2,020	Zhora Kryzhovnikov	Drama, Romance	7.3	43	Russian	Russia	What happens in fairy tales after the wedding of the prince and princess? Figure skater Nadia and hockey player Sasha got married and more than any...
The Long Recess	1,972	Aleksei Korenev	Comedy, Romance	7.3	40	Russian	Soviet Union	A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.
Look for a Woman	1,982	Alla Surikova	Comedy, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie	7.3	36	Russian	Soviet Union	The story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche with a knife in his back. When the police detective arrives, Alice recognizes him as her old friend.
Domestic Circumstances	1,977	Aleksei Korenev	Comedy, Romance, TV Movie	7.3	29	Russian	Soviet Union	Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother.
One Breath	2,020	Elena Hazanova	Drama	7.3	27	Russian	Russia	Following her divorce, Marina thinks that she’ll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she’ll find the love of her life in freediving, one of the most extreme sports in existence, built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath. In the vast, mysterious realm of the sea, Marina not only regains her sense of peace and well being, but also redefines her existence.
Celestial Camel	2,015	Yuri Feting	Adventure	7.3	26	Russian	Unknown	When his father sells their baby camel Altynka, his mother, Mara, escapes to be find her calf. Her disappearance is a potential disaster for the family so eldest son, Bayir, takes off to retrieve her. What follows is part road movie, part coming-of-age as Bayr adventures across the Kalmyk steppe.
Alice Through the Looking Glass	1,982	Yefrem Pruzhanskyi	Animation, Family, Fantasy	7.3	26	Russian	Soviet Union	The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.
Braguino	2,017	Clément Cogitore	Documentary	7.3	24	Russian	Finland	In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads there. A long trip on the Ienissei River, first by boat, then by helicopter, is the only way to reach Braguino. Self-sufficient, both families live there according to their own rules and principles. In the middle of the village: a barrier. The two families refuse to speak. In the river sits an island, where another community is being built : that of the children. Free, unpredictable, wild. Stemming from the fear of the other, that of wild beasts, and the joy procured by the immensity of the forest, unravels a cruel tale in which tensions and fear give shape to the geography of an ancestral conflict.
The Enchanted Boy	1,955	Vladimir Polkovnikov	Animation, Fantasy	7.3	23	Russian	Soviet Union	An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2	1,988	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.3	21	Russian	Soviet Union	The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is based on the late and little-known stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, united by the theme of the approaching world war and the struggle of the legendary detective with foreign spies.
Laughter and Grief by the White Sea	1,987	Leonid Nosyrev	Animation, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy	7.3	21	Russian	Soviet Union	A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea.
Off the Rails	2,023	Anton Maslov	Comedy, Adventure, Drama	7.3	19	Russian	Russia	After a series of life troubles Anya decides to completely change her life. She takes out a dusty bicycle, puts her dachshund Kapa in the trailer and sets o! to the most remote town in Russia to reconcile with her mother whom she has not been in touch with for 13 years. A resident of big city, Anya is not tough enough for a 10,000-kilometer road, injured feet, dangers and trials. Will she be able to cope with the di"iculties that a long road full of incredible meetings and amazing landscapes has prepared for her?
Children of Don Quixote	1,966	Yevgeni Karelov	Romance, Comedy, Drama	7.3	18	Russian	Soviet Union	A film about the large family of the head of a maternity hospital. Living by very strict moral standards and nicknamed Don Quixote for this, he brings up his sons in the same spirit. And the sons turn out to be worthy of their father, although they often have to overcome various, both serious and comic, difficulties in life.
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles	2,004	Bruce Gowers	Music, Documentary, TV Movie	7.3	16	Russian	Unknown	A meld of legendary performers and contemporary artists of today who have been influenced by Ray's music perform in this concert extravaganza.
May Calendar	2,022	Viktoriya Fanasyutina	Adventure	7.3	15	Russian	Russia	A story about the fantastic adventures of modern teenagers, whose life, through the fault of one of them, begins to move in the opposite direction. They will not only have to relive the past days, but also experience events that will later change the lives of their loved ones and themselves. Only the act of the protagonist can turn off the mysterious mechanism that determines the course of time.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 2	1,983	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	7.3	15	Russian	Soviet Union	During the investigation of the Agra treasure case, Holmes and Watson recall another case that Holmes had investigated earlier. The King of Bohemia comes to Holmes under a false name, who behaves somewhat arrogantly at first, and then plaintively asks for help.
Kashtanka	1,952	Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy	Family, Animation, Fantasy	7.3	15	Russian	Soviet Union	After getting lost in the street, a dog is adopted by a kindly clown.
R.V.S.	1,978	Oleksii Moroz	Adventure, Family	7.3	14	Russian	Soviet Union	Two friends are helping the wounded Red Army officer hiding from Whites.
The Little Raccoon	1,974	Oleg Churkin	Animation, Family	7.3	14	Russian	Soviet Union	A story about a little raccoon who needs to prove to his mother he's brave enough to go to the pond to gather herbs at night, on his birthday.
Once Cowboy, Twice Cowboy	1,981	Anatoliy Reznikov	Animation, Western, Comedy	7.3	11	Russian	Soviet Union	A bandit wearing a black mask, having shot the train, takes a bag of gold coins from the post car and hides on his horse. The bandit takes refuge in the ranch, driving out the farmer and his cow. The farmer and the cow leave for the nearest town. In the saloon, the farmer sees an announcement of a reward of one thousand coins for catching a bandit in a black mask. Then he tells local cowboys where the bandit is hiding. Cowboys go to catch a bandit, but they return back all wounded.
Russian Ark	2,002	Aleksandr Sokurov	Drama, Fantasy, History	7.2	498	Russian	Germany	A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
I Am Dragon	2,015	Indar Dzhendubaev	Fantasy, Romance	7.2	406	Russian	Russia	In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything behind in the past - family, friends and groom. Now the only things she had were a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman ... but who is he and what is he doing on that island? Miroslava will know the truth too late: loving a dragon will reveal the bitter truth - love is scary.
Elena	2,011	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Drama, Thriller	7.2	269	Russian	Russia	After suffering from a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter, but his titular wife has other plans.
What Men Talk About	2,010	Dmitriy Dyachenko	Comedy	7.2	190	Russian	Russia	Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of work, family and girlfriends to relax in a nightclub run by Slava's friend and to see the popular band B-2 show.
Fortress of War	2,010	Aleksandr Kott	War, Drama, History, Action	7.2	180	Russian	Belarus	The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
The Banishment	2,008	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Drama	7.2	162	Russian	Russia	While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.
The White Sun of the Desert	1,969	Vladimir Motyl	Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War	7.2	160	Russian	Soviet Union	The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in...
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia	1,974	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy, Adventure	7.2	135	Russian	Italy	In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who wer...
Radio Day	2,008	Dmitriy Dyachenko	Comedy, Music	7.2	115	Russian	Russia	It's the day of radio in Russia. The radio station staff decides to invite famous bands, who will perform live for the ship with animals stranded in the Sea of Japan. And something goes wrong!
Last Year's Snow Was Falling	1,983	Aleksandr Tatarskiy	Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy	7.2	86	Russian	Soviet Union	Funny adventures of the clumsy fellow whom his wife dispatched to the forest to bring home a New Year tree...
Walking the Streets of Moscow	1,964	Georgiy Daneliya	Comedy, Romance	7.2	83	Russian	Soviet Union	On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married.
Station for Two	1,982	Eldar Ryazanov	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.2	78	Russian	Soviet Union	Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty min...
Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away	1,965	Boris Stepantsev	Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy	7.2	73	Russian	Soviet Union	A schoolboy gets into a fairy tale with the help of a librarian and DIY book. But life in the magical land is not as easy as it seems.
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka	1,961	Aleksandr Rou	Comedy, Fantasy, Romance	7.2	66	Russian	Soviet Union	The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Bobik Visiting Barbos	1,977	Vladimir Popov	Animation, Comedy	7.2	63	Russian	Soviet Union	Two dogs, one stray the other well-off, become friends.
Old Men: Robbers	1,972	Eldar Ryazanov	Drama, Comedy, Crime	7.2	56	Russian	Soviet Union	An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.
I Am Twenty	1,965	Marlen Khutsiyev	Drama	7.2	52	Russian	Soviet Union	Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
The Cold Summer of 1953	1,988	Aleksandr Proshkin	Action, Crime, Drama	7.2	44	Russian	Soviet Union	In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.
Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street	1,968	Tatyana Lioznova	Drama, Romance	7.2	38	Russian	Soviet Union	A married woman fresh from the countryside meets a charming cab driver on her first day in Moscow. They spend the day together and their fondness f...
Hotsunlight	2,021	Mikhail Vasserbaum	Drama, War, Action	7.2	37	Russian	Russia	Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.
The Mitten	1,967	Roman Kachanov	Animation, Family	7.2	33	Russian	Soviet Union	Short soviet animated movie about a girl who wants a dog, while her mother does not approve. The girl then starts playing with her mitten, pretendi...
Minsk	2,022	Boris Guts	Drama	7.2	32	Russian	Belarus	Minsk, August 2020. Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of peaceful protests. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people are victims of police brutality.
Siberian Sniper	2,021	Sergey Zverev	War, History	7.2	31	Russian	Russia	After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev's battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope for replenishment collapses when the convoy, in which the Soviet snipers were traveling, falls under a German airstrike. A handful of soldiers and a young hunter from Yakutia, Yegor Cheerin, survive.
Liberation: The Fire Bulge	1,968	Yuri Ozerov	Drama, War	7.2	28	Russian	East Germany	The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...	1,976	Leonid Bykov	Drama, War	7.2	25	Russian	Soviet Union	The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything	2,023	Roman Kim	Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure, TV Movie	7.2	22	Russian	Russia	Shurik is trying to bring Tsar Ivan the Terrible home with the help of a time machine. But the VPN on which the miracle machine runs constantly breaks down and moves the would-be inventor and the tsar to different countries and times.
A Match Revenge	1,968	Boris Dyozhkin	Animation	7.2	22	Russian	Soviet Union	Ice team is fighting hard. We believe in the courage of the desperate guys. Real men play hockey. Coward does not play hockey.
Cinderella	1,979	Ivan Aksenchuk	Animation, Fantasy, Family	7.2	21	Russian	Soviet Union	The Cinderella story.
Radio Day	2,003	Unknown	TV Movie	7.2	19	Russian	Russia	One day in the life of a certain mythical radio station called “AS IF RADIO.” Not one of its best days. Everything is falling apart for the characters, and as luck would have it, on this very day the station is hosting a live music marathon.
Breakfast at Dad's	2,016	Mariya Kravchenko	Comedy, Drama, Family	7.2	17	Russian	Russia	Contemporary Moscow. Sasha Titov is a successful executive, reveling in the single life. One day, a ten-year-old girl, Alya, shows up at his penthouse, claiming to be his daughter. Can this incorrigible bachelor learn to be a father?
An Unusual Match	1,955	Boris Dyozhkin	Animation	7.2	17	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet animation about a football match between toys.
Fixies VS Crabots	2,019	Oleg Uzhinov	Animation	7.2	16	Russian	Russia	Professor Eugenius finds both his career and secret friendship with the Fixies in danger when his college sweetheart, Erica, threatens to reveal that Eugenius only beat her out of the University’s Grand Prize in 3D Printing because Fixies were secretly helping him. Erica challenges Eugenius to a rematch to show the world who the better inventor really is! Eugenius will employ his Fixie friends while Erica has little helpers of her own — crabbots, miniature robotic crabs that are faster and stronger than the Fixies.
Aita	2,023	Stepan Burnashev	Drama	7.2	15	Russian	Russia	A heinous crime is committed in a small remote Russian village. Police officer Afonya is a prime suspect. The locals are ready to take matters into their own hands. Investigator Sirditov faces a difficult task: he must find out all of the facts of this case before the villagers decide to execute their own justice. This Yakuti film was made in the Republic of Sakha.
Tzadik	2,023	Sergei Ursuliak	War, Drama, History	7.2	13	Russian	Russia	In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
Elegy of a Voyage	2,009	Aleksandr Sokurov	N/A	7.2	13	Russian	Netherlands	This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.
Tale for Natasha	1,986	Aida Zyablikova	Animation	7.2	13	Russian	Soviet Union	Baba Yaga didn't tolerate Kuzya's escape, so she infiltrated Natasha's apartment to return him into the woods.
The Little Tiger on the Sunflower	1,981	Leonid Nosyrev	Family, Animation	7.2	13	Russian	Soviet Union	Taiga tale about a tiger cub who warmed the seed of sunflower.
Father Frost and the Summer	1,969	Valentin Karavaev	Animation	7.2	13	Russian	Soviet Union	A story about children showing Father Frost butterflies, green grass, in short, Summer.
When Christmas Trees Light Up	1,950	Mstislav Pashchenko	Animation	7.2	13	Russian	Soviet Union	On New Year's Eve, two lost in the woods toys try to prove to wild and hungry predators that they're not good to eat.
18-14	2,007	Andres Puustusmaa	Adventure, History, Mystery	7.2	12	Russian	Russia	Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum.
Priklyucheniya pingvinenka Lolo. Film pervyy	1,986	Gennadiy Sokolskiy	Animation	7.2	11	Russian	Soviet Union	A family cartoon about the amusing adventures of a brave little penguin named Lolo. This charming short film immerses viewers in the world of Antarctic adventures, where little Lolo and his friend Pepe solve puzzles, explore their surroundings, and help other animals. Despite his young age, the penguin chick shows wit and courage.
On the Road with Clouds	1,984	Yuriy Butyrin	Animation	7.2	11	Russian	Soviet Union	Little Tiger is unhappy with the cloudy day: the sky is covered with clouds and the sun is not visible. Cheerful Monkey invites him to go for a walk.
A Little Fact	2,024	Maxim Pechersky	Documentary	7.2	10	Russian	Russia	A jigsaw film assembled from archival footage from the 20s and 30s, preserving memories of the construction of a new and everyday life - the launch of the metro, hard work, cultural life and leisure. By combining two parallel stories - state film chronicles and diary entries - the film attempts to revise the historical archive and the usual perception of the time, bringing to the forefront the collective image of a hero from the crowd.
Air	2,024	Aleksei German Jr.	War, Drama, History	7.2	10	Russian	Russia	Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.
Python's Grandmother	1,977	Ivan Ufimtsev	Animation	7.2	10	Russian	Soviet Union	Boa's grandma came to visit her grandson.
12 Chairs	1,966	Aleksandr Belinsky	Comedy	7.2	10	Russian	Soviet Union	Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander Belinsky, of course, will not suit everyone.
Т-34	2,018	Alexey Sidorov	Action, Drama, History, War	7.1	916	Russian	Russia	In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
Salyut-7	2,017	Klim Shipenko	Action, Drama, Adventure	7.1	494	Russian	Russia	USSR, June 1985. 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. Based on actual events.
Brother 2	2,000	Aleksei Balabanov	Action, Crime, Drama	7.1	304	Russian	Russia	Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
Dear Comrades!	2,020	Andrei Konchalovsky	History, Drama	7.1	156	Russian	Russia	When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
The Steamroller and the Violin	1,961	Andrei Tarkovsky	Drama	7.1	156	Russian	Soviet Union	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 works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment	1,999	Stanislav Govorukhin	Drama, Action, Crime	7.1	130	Russian	Russia	A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.
Elections Day	2,007	Oleg Fomin	Comedy	7.1	123	Russian	Russia	The employees of a radio station in Moscow are forced to organize the elections campaign for a future governor in one of Russia districts.
Letter Never Sent	1,960	Mikheil Kalatozishvili	Drama, Adventure	7.1	118	Russian	Soviet Union	Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.
The Cuckoo	2,002	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Drama, Romance, Comedy	7.1	116	Russian	Russia	September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
Sugar Baby	2,024	Alexander Prost	Romance, Drama	7.1	113	Russian	Russia	Love comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?
The Thief	1,997	Pavel Chukhray	Drama, Crime	7.1	100	Russian	Russia	Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be ...
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines	1,987	Alla Surikova	Comedy, Romance, Western, Music	7.1	100	Russian	Soviet Union	Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Cheburashka	1,971	Roman Kachanov	Animation, Family	7.1	89	Russian	Soviet Union	Second animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Cheburashka wishes Gena the Crocodile a happy birthday and gives him a toy helicopter as a gift. After meeting some pioneers, they decide to be pioneers themselves. They build a playground for the local children and collect scrap metal, after which they become pioneers.
Mother	1,926	Vsevolod Pudovkin	Drama	7.1	79	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
The House Elf	2,019	Evgeniy Bedarev	Fantasy, Family	7.1	74	Russian	Russia	In an ordinary Moscow there is an unusual House — with a strange apartment in which not a single resident has stayed for long. And as soon as an independent mother and her lovely 8-year-old daughter moved there, the new residents find out that their living space is not that ordinary, and that the real House Elf lives there. But the House Elf has long been offended by the whole human race and would do all imaginable filth in order to remain alone in the ill-fated apartment.
Autumn Marathon	1,979	Georgiy Daneliya	Drama, Romance, Comedy	7.1	65	Russian	Soviet Union	Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's mai...
Wedding in Malinovka	1,967	Andrei Tutyshkin	Comedy, Romance	7.1	64	Russian	Soviet Union	The movie takes place during Russia's civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young betrothed couple in the village of Malinovka, caught between the battle lines. Gritsian is the leader of a Menshevik band who are planning to attack the village. Yarinka appeals to the local Bolshevik commander for his faction's help. The Bolsheviks quickly come up with a plan to save the village... but the plan requires Yarinka to enter into a pretend marriage with Gritsian.
My Love	2,006	Aleksandr Petrov	Animation, Drama, Romance	7.1	57	Russian	Russia	In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
Not Like Dad	2,021	Dmitry Efimovich	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.1	56	Russian	Russia	The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!	1,975	Viktor Titov	Comedy, TV Movie	7.1	56	Russian	Soviet Union	A funny comedy based on famous Brandon Thomas' play "Charley's Aunt".
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers	1,968	Edmond Keosayan	Action, Adventure, Family	7.1	54	Russian	Soviet Union	The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the fo...
Hamlet	1,964	Grigori Kozintsev	Drama	7.1	53	Russian	Soviet Union	Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Spring on Zarechnaya Street	1,956	Feliks Mironer	Drama, Romance	7.1	53	Russian	Soviet Union	The story unfolds in an industrial town where a young and charming literature teacher arrives, assigned to teach at an evening school. One of the boys from the metallurgical plant falls in love with the educated girl, but communication between the two young people turns out to be quite challenging.
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century	1,987	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, Crime, Adventure, TV Movie	7.1	51	Russian	Soviet Union	This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches). In this version the entire plot of the story “Bruce-Partington Drawings” was deleted.
White Bim Black Ear	1,977	Stanislav Rostotsky	Drama	7.1	51	Russian	Soviet Union	A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.
The Golden Antelope	1,954	Lev Atamanov	Animation, Family, Adventure	7.1	50	Russian	Soviet Union	It is a screen version of an Indian national fairy tale. Malicious and greedy rajah wishes to get a wonderful antelope who strikes gold coins by hoofs. The country boy rescues an antelope, but rajah, threatening the boy, compels the antelope to serve him but he is severely punished for it.
Officers	1,971	Vladimir Rogovoy	Drama, Romance, War	7.1	49	Russian	Soviet Union	Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
Putin's Palace: History of World's Largest Bribe	2,021	Alexei Navalny	Documentary	7.1	45	Russian	Russia	After surviving poisoning by a Novichok nerve agent, Alexey Navalny made his most important film. Putin's Palace: History of World's Largest Bribe is about the palace near Gelendzhik that presumably belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It also shows vineyards, corruption schemes and more.
Contact	1,978	Vladimir Tarasov	Animation, Science Fiction	7.1	36	Russian	Soviet Union	A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space.
Adventures of Mowgli: Return to Mankind	1,971	Roman Davydov	Adventure, Animation, Family	7.1	35	Russian	Soviet Union	Episode 5. Mowgli stood the leader of the wolf pack. It's time to settle with the main enemy of Mowgli tiger Shere Khan. In addition, the jungle comes the time of renewal, blossom and love. Mowgli feels vaguely disturbing. It's time to leave the jungle and return back to the people.
True Friends	1,954	Mikheil Kalatozishvili	Romance, Comedy	7.1	35	Russian	Soviet Union	Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers.
Wolf and Calf	1,984	Mikhail Kamenetskiy	Animation	7.1	31	Russian	Soviet Union	One day, the Wolf stole the newborn Calf and brought him home to eat, but regretted it and decided not to eat it, but wait until he grows up. The Wolf becomes attached to the Calf, takes care of him, feeds milk, sings lullabies, reads books. For the sake of the Calf, the Wolf keeps cleanliness - "children - they can not grow in the mud." And the Wild Boar, which smokes a cigarette, the Wolf literally drives a rag. Gradually, the Wolf and the Calf are so used to each other that they began to live like a father and son.
Conflict	1,983	Garri Bardin	Animation	7.1	30	Russian	Soviet Union	The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned.
How to Save the Immortal	2,022	Roman Artemyev	Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Family	7.1	28	Russian	Russia	For some reason, forever young and always immaculately dressed, Koschey has been unable to find a bride for three hundred years. He intimidated, and kidnapped, and turned various princesses into frogs, but these courtship did not help the prince of darkness. Meanwhile, the beautiful hero Varvara only does what she fights off in the arena from suitors who covet her dowry. However, having taken possession of the Koshcheev needle, Tsar Peas figure out how to get to Varvara. But he didn’t take into account one thing - although Koshchei’s death is enclosed in a needle, love can still come to life in his heart
The Dog in the Manger	1,977	Yan Frid	Comedy	7.1	27	Russian	Soviet Union	The rich and noble Signora Diana is tormented by doubts: she has to choose between suitors worthy of her hand and her handsome and seductive person...
Puss in Boots	1,968	Valentina Brumberg	Animation, Family, Fantasy	7.1	27	Russian	Soviet Union	Following the death of their miller father, his eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest a cat. While initially disappointed, the lad soon learns not only that the cat can talk but is quite resourceful.
Come Here, Mukhtar!	1,964	Semyon Tumanov	Drama, Mystery	7.1	26	Russian	Soviet Union	Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 3	2,016	Darina Shmidt	Family, Animation, Adventure	7.1	23	Russian	Russia	Prince Ivan, Grey Wolf and Vasilisa set off on a magic carpet ride to new lands as the deputy scarecrow in charge of the kingdom sets new rules.
Liberation: The Last Assault	1,971	Yuri Ozerov	War, Drama	7.1	23	Russian	East Germany	In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Captain Neustroev's company is selected to hoist the Victory Banner atop the Reichstag.
Maria, the Wonderful Weaver	1,959	Aleksandr Rou	Family, Fantasy	7.1	21	Russian	Soviet Union	An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.
The Tolstoy Defence	2,018	Avdotya Smirnova	Drama	7.1	19	Russian	Russia	The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
The Hot Snow	1,972	Gavriil Egiazarov	War, Drama	7.1	19	Russian	Soviet Union	In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.
Khalif the Stork	1,981	Valeriy Ugarov	Animation, Fantasy	7.1	18	Russian	Soviet Union	A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn't laugh.
Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 4	2,019	Darina Shmidt	Animation, Adventure, Family	7.1	16	Russian	Russia	Winter this year in the faraway kingdom happened especially long and cold. Just like last year. And like the year before last. But, lo and behold, spring has come. More precisely – almost came. With a blizzard, frosts and snow. As usual. And our heroes – Ivan, Vasilisa, the Gray Wolf and the Tsar-father would have been completely sad if the news hadn't come along with the almost-spring - the annual all-fairy song contest would be held in the Thirteenth Kingdom. Last year, Georges the hamster won there, and whose voice will be cooler this time? The tsar decided that the Faraway Kingdom would be represented by a scientist Cat. More than one cartoon passed together, and anyway he forgot about the books, yelling, or rather singing all day on the roofs, as befits a cat in March. And, of course, the whole company, led by Ivan and the Wolf, goes to support the fluffy singer.
The Fortress: By Shield and Sword	2,015	Fedor Dmitriev	War, Animation, Adventure	7.1	16	Russian	Russia	In the war-torn countryside, an orphan and his young friend use all their skills to defend their home and people from opposing forces.
Treasure Island	1,982	Vladimir Vorobyov	Adventure, Family	7.1	14	Russian	Soviet Union	Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Twists and Turns	1,987	Garri Bardin	Animation	7.1	13	Russian	Soviet Union	It is a story of the wire man who carried the protection of himself against associates to the point of absurdity, having altered his wife, his dog in a barbed wire, and he fenced off himself from the outwards things.
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 3)	1,979	Lev Atamanov	Animation	7.1	13	Russian	Soviet Union
Demidovy	1,983	Yaropolk Lapshin	Drama, TV Movie, History	7.1	11	Russian	Soviet Union
Secret Magic Control Agency	2,021	Alexey Tsitsilin	Animation, Comedy, Fantasy	7	391	Russian	Russia	The Secret Magic Control Agency sends its two best agents, Hansel and Gretel, to fight against the witch of the Gingerbread House.
Beanpole	2,019	Kantemir Balagov	Drama, War	7	350	Russian	Russia	1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
The Spacewalker	2,017	Dmitry Kiselev	Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller	7	344	Russian	Russia	March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.
Alexander Nevsky	1,938	Sergei Eisenstein	Drama, History, War	7	229	Russian	Soviet Union	When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass	2,019	Alexandr Domogarov Jr.	Horror, Thriller	7	179	Russian	Russia	The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.
Arrhythmia	2,017	Boris Khlebnikov	Drama	7	157	Russian	Finland	Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.
The Barber of Siberia	1,998	Nikita Mikhalkov	Comedy, Drama, Romance, History	7	152	Russian	France	Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet	1,972	Stanislav Rostotsky	Drama, History, War	7	149	Russian	Soviet Union	In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.
The Bremen Town Musicians	1,969	Inessa Kovalevskaya	Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Family	7	109	Russian	Soviet Union	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.
Junior and Karlson	1,968	Boris Stepantsev	Adventure, Animation, Family	7	106	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh ("A Little One") suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children in a Swedish family. 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 roof. So typical for the Russian culture spirit of mischief, which is, actually, never punished, and the notion that relative welfare not necessarily means happiness made the book by Astrid Lindgren and its TV adaptations tremendously popular in the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia and vice versa - somewhat alienated to the Western reader and viewer (see User's comments below). However, both the book and the cartoon are truly universal - entertaining and funny for the children and thought-provoking and somewhat sad for grownups.
Dobrinya and the Dragon	2,006	Ilya Maksimov	Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy	7	104	Russian	Russia	Dobrinya Nikitich goes on a quest to save the royal niece and finds out whether his old friend Zmey Gorinich is loyal to him. During the adventures, he is accompanied by the royal messenger who's in love with the royal niece.
Inadequate People	2,010	Roman Karimov	Comedy, Romance, Drama	7	103	Russian	Russia	Adequacy is relative. Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling and a personal couch doctor, Vitalik looks as adequate as a human can possibly be. Wait till he drinks and drives himself into depression, and after that falls in love with an under-age girl living next door. Who's adequate now?
Karlson Returns	1,970	Boris Stepantsev	Adventure, Animation, Family	7	103	Russian	Soviet Union	The Kid didn't have to miss Carlson for long - one day he landed in his room again. This means that there will be new adventures and pranks! With Carlson's help, the harsh and bossy Freken Bock will be re-educated and become very kind. And then the friends will all put on a costume show with dancing and drink tea with buns.
The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice	2,016	Alexey Tsitsilin	Family, Animation, Fantasy, Comedy	7	85	Russian	Russia	After heroically defeating both the Snow Queen and the Snow King, Gerda still cannot find peace. Her dream is to find her parents who were once taken away from them by the North Wind and finally reunite the family. Thus, Gerda and her friends embark on an exiting journey to find her parents and encounter new challenges along the way: they discover an ancient magical artifact of the trolls, the Stone of Fire and Ice. From that moment on, things don't go according to the initial plan...Will Gerda be able to tame the mighty forces of the magical elements and get her family back? The answer will be reveled in 2016. This is a story which encompasses everything you love about Wizart: kindness, bravery, friendship, mystery, love of one's family, and a happy ending, of course!
On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians	1,973	Vasiliy Livanov	Animation, Adventure, Family	7	75	Russian	Soviet Union	The King, wanting for his daughter to be found and returned to his castle, hires Detective to carry out the task. He successfully kidnaps and returns Princess back to the kingdom, but Troubadour and his animal friends Bremen Town Musicians hurry to release her.
Carnival Night	1,956	Eldar Ryazanov	Music, Comedy, Romance	7	75	Russian	Soviet Union	It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.
The Most Charming and Attractive	1,985	Gerald Bezhanov	Comedy, Romance	7	70	Russian	Soviet Union	Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around.
We Can't Live Without Cosmos	2,014	Konstantin Bronzit	Animation, Drama	7	66	Russian	Russia	Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova	1,966	Sergey Bondarchuk	History, Romance, War, Drama	7	64	Russian	Soviet Union	As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets Andrei. Part two of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
The Red Snowball Tree	1,974	Vasiliy Shukshin	Drama	7	63	Russian	Soviet Union	A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Magicians	1,982	Konstantin Bromberg	Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, TV Movie	7	60	Russian	Soviet Union	In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
To Kill a Dragon	1,988	Mark Zakharov	Drama, Fantasy	7	57	Russian	East Germany	Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins
Old Man Khottabych	1,957	Gennadi Kazansky	Adventure, Fantasy, Family	7	55	Russian	Soviet Union	A boy named Volka discovers an ancient vessel on the bottom of a river. When he opens it, a genie emerges from there. He calls himself Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, or in Russian style Khottabych. Grateful Khottabych is ready to fulfill any of Volka's wishes. But it appears that Volka should use the powers of the genie carefully, for they can have undesirable results.
Could One Imagine?	1,981	Ilya Frez	Drama, Romance	7	53	Russian	Soviet Union	Two high school kids meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano	1,977	Nikita Mikhalkov	Drama	7	53	Russian	Soviet Union	On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
Ballad of a Hussar	1,963	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy, War	7	52	Russian	Soviet Union	A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
Paradise	2,016	Andrei Konchalovsky	Drama, War	7	51	Russian	Germany	The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.
Wings, Legs and Tails	1,986	Igor Kovalyov	Animation	7	51	Russian	Soviet Union	An ostrich is trying to learn how to fly in a dessert.
Kikoriki. Deja Vu	2,018	Denis Chernov	Animation, Family, Comedy	7	50	Russian	Russia	Krash decides to throw his best buddy Barry an unforgettable birthday party. He contacts the DejaVu Agency, which organizes exciting time travel adventures. A cataclysmic accident occurs after the Kikoriki crew fail to follow the rules and scatter the group across time. Krash has to find and retrieve his friends through the ages with the help of his alter ego from another time and place, who materializes out of the rupture in the space-time continuum. Just when you thought the Kikoriki adventures couldn't get wilder, along comes this thrilling time travel adventure suitable for all ages across the globe.
Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament Emperor	2,000	Svetlana Druzhinina	History, Drama	7	50	Russian	Russia	Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody struggle for the crown for a century.
Granit	2,021	Denis Neimand	Action, War	7	45	Russian	Russia	Mozambique requests from Russia is being helped in the fight against militants of the "Islamic State" and a special group led by a commander with the call sign Granit is coming to the country.
Siberiade	1,979	Andrei Konchalovsky	War, Drama, History, Romance	7	42	Russian	Soviet Union	The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
The Cow	1,989	Aleksandr Petrov	Animation, Drama	7	41	Russian	Soviet Union	A boy recalls the story of how his family lost its cow. Based on a short story by Andrei Platonov.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan	1,984	Ivan Ivanov-Vano	Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy	7	41	Russian	Soviet Union	Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit always wins!
Adventure of an Ant	1,983	Eduard Nazarov	Animation	7	35	Russian	Soviet Union	A 1983 short film directed by Eduard Nazarov about an ant who gets blown away with the wind from its home and the adventures it goes through in desperately trying to find its way back.
The Little Mermaid	1,968	Ivan Aksenchuk	Animation, Fantasy, Family	7	33	Russian	Soviet Union	Rusalochka opens in modern day Copenhagen, Denmark. Several tourists gather around the capital's famous mermaid statue, as a tour guide explains its significance. A fish in the water below the tourists scoffs at their foolishness, and then, proceeds to tell about the doomed love of the mermaid. Upon reaching her 15th birthday, the Little Mermaid is allowed to swim up to the surface above. As soon as she does, however, the Mermaid spots a young prince caught up in a dreadful storm. She admires the man's bravery and decides to save him, declaring that, "The beautiful and the brave should not perish." After the mermaid returns to the ocean, she decides that she wants to become human.
Land of Legends	2,022	Anton Megerdichev	History, Romance, Action, Adventure	7	30	Russian	Russia	The history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the conflict of civilizations is the fate of the Russian prince Mikhail, who fell in love with the young Tiche, a witch-lamia capable of taking on the form of a lynx. Passion for the pagan and fidelity to forbidden love, a campaign against the Voguls, bloody battles and a short peace, the battle between Muscovy and Parma, the hero will face trials in which it is not so terrible to part with life as to commit treason.
Once In The Desert	2,022	Andrey Kravchuk	War, Drama	7	27	Russian	Russia	The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. The peacekeeping event can only be held in Palmyra that has been severely damaged by the terrorists only if the ancient city and the roads leading to it are defused. The EOD team clears the way one kilometer at a time. But the closer they get to the center of Palmyra, the more destructive the explosives. Tension grows between the young team Captain and the most experienced of the EOD experts. And yet, despite their differences, when the team falls into an ambush and the Captain goes missing, it’s the experienced sapper that sets out to search for him.
Genius	1,991	Viktor Sergeev	Crime, Comedy	7	25	Russian	Soviet Union	He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.
Love Them All	2,019	Mariya Agranovich	Drama	7	24	Russian	Russia	She always has a plan. For each his own. For everyone another name. One needs Vera (Faith), another Nadezhda (Hope). And almost all need Liubov (Love). She leaves every one at his own time. She finds a reason. But who knows where deceit ends which people buy only for the sake of money, and when genuine feelings begin? And who knows who she is: just a kept woman in the capital, or an artful swindler, or a talented actress, or a woman who is able only to love? To love them all.
Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible	1,984	Vladimir Alenikov	Comedy, Family	7	22	Russian	Soviet Union	In the first part, the students complain that classic works of literature have no bearing on modern life - and find themselves in a situation stran...
Little Gray Neck	1,948	Leonid Amalrik	Family, Animation	7	22	Russian	Soviet Union	Defending a friend, duckling is attacked by fox and must learn to survive.
The Brave Tin Soldier	1,976	Lev Milchin	Animation, Fantasy, Family	7	21	Russian	Soviet Union	A beautiful and touching story based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". A tin soldier without a leg sees a beautiful paper ballerina and falls in love. While trying to reach her, he falls from the window and has to overcome countless obstacles to see her again.
For Marx...	2,013	Svetlana Baskova	Drama, Crime, Thriller	7	17	Russian	Russia	The workers fight for their rights creating independent union. They know that it is the only way to struggle against the owners of the plant.
Without Witness	1,983	Nikita Mikhalkov	Romance, Drama	7	17	Russian	Soviet Union	In visiting his ex-wife’s apartment a man learns that she plans to remarry a scientist named Valentin Shlyakhov. In his past, the man wrote a scathing letter about Shlyakhov which greatly impacted his career. Fearing that this information will come to light when his ex-wife marries Shlyakhov, the man insists that the wedding be called off. What follows is an intimate portrayal of the relationship between a man and a woman (who are never named), whose history as husband and wife plays out during a heated conversation.
Along Unknown Paths	1,982	Mikhail Yuzovskiy	Adventure, Family, Fantasy	7	16	Russian	Soviet Union	Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.
Martinko	1,987	Eduard Nazarov	Animation	7	15	Russian	Soviet Union	Martynko, while in the guardhouse, found a deck of magic cards with which he could easily beat anyone! He made a quick career to the customs minister, robbing all foreigners to the skin right at the border crossing. However, the princess's unrequited feelings led to the end of his career, and he was abandoned in the forest. After eating wonderful apples, he develops a plan of revenge.
Red Silk	2,025	Andrey Volgin	Action, Adventure, Mystery	7	13	Russian	Russia	1927. Trans-Siberian Express. Secret documents that will determine the future of the USSR and China are being transported across Russia. Under the guise of ordinary passengers, foreign intelligence officers and real thugs are hiding, ready to do anything for the sake of documents. A young Red Army soldier and a former Tsarist agent have to team up to uncover a common enemy.
100 Minutes	2,021	Gleb Panfilov	Drama	7	12	Russian	Russia	100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?
Vongozero: The Outbreak	2,019	Pavel Kostomarov	Drama	7	11	Russian	Russia	A deadly virus of unknown origin has decimated Moscow. Sergey, along with his girlfriend and their autistic son are joined by his exwife, their son and several fellows to escape the quarantine zone lest they suffer a slow and painful death. Somewhere far away, on a desert island in Karelia, there is a cabin- their only chance to start all over again. But the journey will not be an easy one as the deadly virus and interpersonal conflict threaten to pull the group apart.
Once Upon a Time	2,017	Eduard Parri	Comedy, Romance	7	11	Russian	Russia	There is an abandoned little town in the middle of nowhere in Russia - only two lonely old men and recently widowed lady living there. One of the men decides to put an end to his loneliness and offer his hand to the widow. However, the other man is not satisfied with the twist and also offers himself as her companion. They wage war at each other.
Who Will Tell A Fable?	1,982	Robert Sahakyants	Animation	7	11	Russian	Soviet Union	"...whoever tells me a story and I say, "It's not true, I don't believe it," will receive half the kingdom as a reward." decided the bored king.
Chagall-Malevich	2,014	Aleksandr Mitta	Drama	7	10	Russian	Russia	The film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall's images, but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying on both, facts and fantasy (as Chagall himself would).The story is based on real events which occurred at the time of Chagall's short-lived period in Vitebskin in 1917-18, during which time he creates the Academy of Modern Art, inspired by his dreams of a bright and beautiful future. Many pictures by Chagall and Malevich are used in the film.
I Give you a Star	1,974	Fyodor Khitruk	Animation	7	10	Russian	Soviet Union
Invasion	2,020	Fyodor Bondarchuk	Science Fiction, Drama, Action	6.9	872	Russian	Russia	Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?
Flight Crew	2,016	Nikolay Lebedev	Action	6.9	290	Russian	Cambodia	A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.
Viy	1,967	Georgi Kropachyov	Drama, Fantasy, Horror	6.9	268	Russian	Soviet Union	A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)	1,928	Grigori Aleksandrov	Drama	6.9	215	Russian	Soviet Union	Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
The Last Warrior	2,017	Dmitriy Dyachenko	Fantasy, Family, Adventure, Action, Comedy	6.9	207	Russian	Russia	Ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. In this parallel universe where characters of Russian...
Burnt by the Sun	1,994	Nikita Mikhalkov	Drama	6.9	197	Russian	Russia	Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and o...
Son of a Rich	2,019	Klim Shipenko	Comedy	6.9	185	Russian	Russia	Grigory, born into an oligarch family, is so spoiled that he believes he's above the law. When he faces jail, his father decides to 'rehabilitate' his son. An abandoned village is reconstructed, 19th century style. Grigory 'goes back in time', reincarnated as a serf, to learn how to appreciate life and to work hard.
Three Seconds	2,017	Anton Megerdichev	Drama	6.9	172	Russian	Russia	The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
The Island	2,006	Pavel Lungin	Drama, Comedy	6.9	159	Russian	Russia	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 and foretell the future.
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon	2,004	Konstantin Bronzit	Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy	6.9	133	Russian	Russia	Alesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an opinion on everything), a wise granny, a donkey and a beauty Lyubava.
Dead Man's Letters	1,986	Konstantin Lopushansky	Drama, Science Fiction	6.9	123	Russian	Soviet Union	In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.
Ice	2,018	Oleg Trofim	Comedy, Romance, Drama	6.9	119	Russian	Russia	Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again.
The Cameraman's Revenge	1,912	Władysław Starewicz	Animation, Comedy	6.9	117	Russian	Russia	A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.
How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home	2,017	Alexandr Khant	Drama, Comedy	6.9	111	Russian	Russia	Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.
The Adventures of Mowgli	1,973	Roman Davydov	Animation, Family	6.9	89	Russian	Soviet Union	Adventures of Mowgli is an animated feature-length story originally released as five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each between 1967 and 1971 in the Soviet Union.
The Big Trip	2,019	Natalya Nilova	Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family	6.9	81	Russian	Russia	A goofy stork mistakenly delivers a baby panda to the wrong door. A bear, a moose, a tiger and a rabbit set on an arduous but fun-filled adventure through the wilderness to return the panda to its rightful home.
14+	2,015	Andrey Zaytsev	Romance, Drama	6.9	79	Russian	Russia	Alex glides his mouse tenderly over online images of Vika. He has been smitten ever since he saw her with her friends and cannot get her out of his head. Unfortunately, Vika is beyond Alex’s reach because he's not welcome in her neighborhood. Nonetheless, Alex sneaks into a disco at her school and finds up the courage to ask her to dance. Moments are intense as Alex feels infatuation for the first time.
Papers, Please	2,018	Nikita Ordynskiy	Drama, Thriller	6.9	76	Russian	Russia	An official adaptation of the award winning game "Papers, Please" by Lucas Pope.
The Adventures of the Electronic	1,980	Konstantin Bromberg	Family, Science Fiction, Adventure	6.9	76	Russian	Soviet Union	Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.
Bender: Gold of the Empire	2,021	Igor Zaytsev	Comedy, Adventure, Action	6.9	75	Russian	Russia	The hunt for imperial gold continues. A priceless scepter, a treasure that could secure a worry-free life in sunny Rio de Janeiro for Ibrahim Bender and his young apprentice Ostap, has slipped from under their noses and ended up in possession of Nestor Makhno, an anarchist army commander. Makhno is convinced that the scepter is one of many imperial relics hidden in the area. With mafia, partisans, and officers of the Red and White armies all determined to get their hands on the fabled gold cache, Ostap and his mentor Ibrahim must surpass their own brilliance to outmaneuver their rivals and snatch the prize. And with Ostap’s beloved fair maiden losing her trust in him, he must do everything in his power to win her back and stop her from marrying another man.
Assa	1,987	Sergey Solovyov	Crime, Drama, Romance, Music	6.9	73	Russian	Soviet Union	ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Ayka	2,018	Sergei Dvortsevoy	Drama	6.9	67	Russian	China	A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.
The Last Warrior: Emissary of Darkness	2,021	Dmitriy Dyachenko	Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy	6.9	63	Russian	Russia	Now that Ivan is about to turn 21, he is now grown up and finally old enough to marry the beautiful Vasilisa. But when Vasilisa is kidnapped and trapped in modern Moscow, Ivan and his friends must travel to the present day to rescue her.
Thumbelina	1,964	Leonid Amalrik	Adventure, Animation, Family, Romance	6.9	63	Russian	Soviet Union	A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".
The Fixies: Top Secret	2,017	Ivan Pshonkin	Comedy, Family, Animation, Adventure	6.9	61	Russian	Russia	The Fixies are little creatures that, unseen by humans, help them maintain their appliances – and generally make sure things don’t fall apart… Until an unexpected occurrence of gargantuan proportions threatens to reveal the Fixies’ existence!
Little Longnose	2,003	Ilya Maksimov	Animation, Fantasy	6.9	61	Russian	Russia	When he refused to support power-hungry witch, the good shoemaker's boy, Jacob is transformed into a hunchbacked dwarf with overlong nose. Of their mother no longer recognized, mocked by the people of the city and driven away, Jacob runs one day a goose on the road. Together with the spring animal - in fact the king's daughter Greta enchanted - Jacob is now trying to make the transformation to reverse and put the wicked witch craft.
They Fought for Their Motherland	1,975	Sergey Bondarchuk	War, History, Drama	6.9	61	Russian	Soviet Union	In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Unforgiven	2,018	Sarik Andreasyan	Drama, History	6.9	58	Russian	Russia	Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, mostly children. Vitaly is one of the first people to discover the bodies of his family at the site of the crash. The blame is put on the company responsible for monitoring the air space, as well as the lone air traffic controller on duty at the time. Two years later, after much obstructed efforts to get apologies and answers, Vitaly flies to Switzerland to obtain justice.
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors	1,963	Aleksandr Rou	Adventure, Family, Fantasy	6.9	52	Russian	Soviet Union	Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality. Based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.
Trial on the Road	1,986	Aleksei German	War, Drama	6.9	51	Russian	Soviet Union	Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans.
Cheburashka Goes to School	1,983	Roman Kachanov	Animation, Family	6.9	51	Russian	Soviet Union	Fourth animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena finds out that Cheburashka is unable to read. Luckily, the next day is September 1, the first day of school, and Gena decides to take Cheburashka to school so he can learn. After failing to buy a school uniform, they go to the school anyway, only to find it is closed for repair. Shapoklyak uses Lariska the Rat to stimulate the workers to repair the school quickly. As the school also doesn't have enough teachers, Gena and Shapoklyak volunteer to be teachers.
Mermaid	1,997	Aleksandr Petrov	Animation, Fantasy, Romance	6.9	50	Russian	Russia	An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
The Challenge	2,023	Klim Shipenko	Drama	6.9	48	Russian	Russia	Thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has one month to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station, where she must operate on a crew member. Will she be up for the challenge? Can she overcome her fears and insecurities? Will she be able to perform the complicated surgery in zero gravity, and give the cosmonaut a chance to return to Earth alive?
Robo	2,019	Sarik Andreasyan	Family, Science Fiction, Drama	6.9	46	Russian	Russia	Twelve-year-old Mitya Privalov dreams of becoming a superhero comics artist. But his robotics engineer parents want him to follow in their footsteps.
The 16th	2,021	Andrey Korshunov	Comedy	6.9	42	Russian	Russia	In 2016, Donald Trump became president of the United States, which came as a surprise to many voters. Public discontent with the outcome of the vote has given rise to many versions of what happened, one of which is the external interference of hackers from Russia. American intelligence agencies are entering into a real confrontation with the Russian "troll factory" — talented hackers who influence the global news agenda, shape public opinion and interfere in the internal affairs of the United States. But who is really hiding behind the resonant cyberattacks?
Three Men in a Boat	1,979	Naum Birman	Comedy	6.9	42	Russian	Soviet Union	Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
The Dog in Boots	1,981	Yefim Gamburg	Adventure, Animation, Family	6.9	41	Russian	Soviet Union	The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.
The Nutcracker	1,973	Boris Stepantsev	Animation, Music	6.9	41	Russian	Soviet Union	A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.
Investigation Held by Kolobki	1,986	Igor Kovalyov	Animation, TV Movie	6.9	40	Russian	Soviet Union	Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner.
The Heron and the Crane	1,974	Yuri Norstein	Animation	6.9	38	Russian	Soviet Union	Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.
The Ugly Duckling	1,956	Vladimir Degtyarev	Family, Animation	6.9	37	Russian	Soviet Union	Soviet cartoon adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
Kuka	2,007	Yaroslav Chevazhevsky	Romance, Drama	6.9	31	Russian	Russia	A woman and a young girl in different cities are struggling to find their way in this world. Will their paths intersect and will that change their destinies?
Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood	1,990	Garri Bardin	Animation	6.9	31	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet claymation short film created by Garri Bardin in 1990 that retells the story of Red Riding Hood while incorporating political metaphors and themes about the USSR's demise; the wolf representing communism, devouring innocent creatures who have never known him.
Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again	1,971	Edmond Keosayan	Action, Adventure, Family	6.9	31	Russian	Soviet Union	The Russian Civil War is over and the White Guard are all dead or abroad. Some of the exiled nobles are attempting to crown a new Tsar/Emperor abroad, and a couple of impostors are vying for the position. At the same time, some of the Elusive Avengers' old foes are trying to return to Russia, for mysterious reasons. The avengers are assigned the task of finding out what's going on. Turns out the bad guys are after the Russian Crown, which is encrusted with many diamonds and jewels. It is not clear whether the crown is only wanted for the coronation ceremony or if the bad guys are trying to sell it to the highest bidder, but either way they must be stopped. The avengers are after them. Two go to Paris to infiltrate the emigrant community, and the other two work on the Russian soil.
Soldier Boy	2,019	Viktoriya Fanasyutina	War, Drama	6.9	25	Russian	Russia	This is a story about exciting events that occurred in the life of the smallest soldier - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, six-year-old Sergei Aleshkov. He lost all his relatives and got into the army. With a six-year-old boy, they started playing the soldier game in order to preserve his childhood, and he, in order to comply with this honorary title, became a real defender of the Motherland.
Liberation: Breakthrough	1,969	Yuri Ozerov	War, Drama	6.9	25	Russian	East Germany	Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
Kashchey the Immortal	1,944	Aleksandr Rou	Family, Fantasy	6.9	24	Russian	Soviet Union	A beautiful maiden, Marya Morevna, gives her prospective husband, the mighty warrior Nikita Kozhemyaka, three riddles to solve before she'll marry him. Before he can tell her the answers, the Russian land is invaded by the armies of Kashchei the Immortal, in whose footsteps death and destruction follow. Marya is abducted by Kashchei, and Nikita finds his home in ashes. Nikita meets a kindly wizard who gives him a cap of darkness. With it, the hero will find a way to save his bride and rout Kashchei.
Berenshtein	2,021	Roman Shumunov	War, History, Drama	6.9	22	Russian	Israel	The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Be My Husband	1,981	Alla Surikova	Comedy, Romance	6.9	22	Russian	Soviet Union	A single mother arrives at a Black Sea resort with her young son but can’t find a place to stay—landlords refuse to rent to women with children. Spotting a modest pediatrician vacationing alone, she convinces him to pretend to be her husband so they can secure a room. What begins as a practical arrangement quickly turns into a web of humorous deceptions, nosy neighbors, and emotional surprises, as the two strangers are forced to play the perfect couple under the curious eyes of everyone around them.
Doctor Lisa	2,020	Oksana Karas	Drama, History	6.9	21	Russian	Russia	The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…
Three Fat Men	1,966	Aleksey Batalov	Family, Fantasy, Adventure	6.9	21	Russian	Soviet Union	Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha. A fairy tale film about the clever tightrope walker Tibule, who fights alongside the armorer Prospero and all the working people against the tyrants, the three Fat Men, who rule the state until the young heir Tutti comes of age. The freedom fighters are aided by the kind Dr. Gaspar and the brave acrobat girl Suok, who has to pretend to be a doll to sneak into the palace and free Prospero.
Sovershenno seryozno	1,961	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy	6.9	18	Russian	Soviet Union	An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.
Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death	1,979	Ernest Yasan	Family, Romance, Drama	6.9	17	Russian	Soviet Union	Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather than an intelligent person. He let her copy his homework and gave her his parents' things as gifts. When they are teens, Klava rejects his love because she knows that he doesn't value her for her, and instead is attracted to Lavrik, another intelligent boy from school. Klava likes him because for the first time she feels like someone is really interested in her as a person. Seryoszha, being very dramatic and wanting Klava's/everyone else's sympathy, writes a suicide note, "Please blame Klava K. for my death," but can he really commit suicide? Eventually he realizes that he is being too shallow and that while he makes such a drama out of such small problems, the people around him have real problems, but never said a thing.
Incorrigible Liar	1,973	Villen Azarov	Comedy	6.9	17	Russian	Soviet Union	Alexei Ivanovich Tyutyurin, a very kind and gentle man by nature, has been working as a hairdresser for twenty years. When the opportunity arises to upgrade to the head of the hall, he is faced with a problem — in the team he has a reputation as a constantly late person and an incorrigible liar. But Alexei doesn't deceive anyone — he really gets into unusual situations on the way to work. No one believes in these fables until amazing visitors begin to come to the hairdresser.
Russian Symphony	1,994	Konstantin Lopushansky	Drama, Science Fiction	6.9	16	Russian	Russia	The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.
A Robbery In... Style	1,978	Yefim Gamburg	Animation	6.9	15	Russian	Soviet Union	A cartoon composed of four parts, parodying "classical" gangster and criminal movies of four countries: robbery American style, French style, Italian style and Russian style. All cartoon characters resemble real movie stars of 50th and 60th.
The Trial	2,018	Sergei Loznitsa	Documentary	6.9	14	Russian	Netherlands	In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d'état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.
Tryam! Hello!	1,980	Yuriy Butyrin	Animation, Family	6.9	14	Russian	Soviet Union	Today is the Hare’s birthday, and the Hedgehog is picking daisies as a gift for him. Meanwhile, the Bear Cub is telling the Hedgehog about a magical land called Tilimilitryamdiya, which he spent the whole night imagining.
Summer Time: Travel Back	2,022	Armen Ananikyan	Family, Comedy	6.9	11	Russian	Russia	Your desires must be treated with caution. Romka, Yarik, Nikoletta and Yelisey made their own wishes at the magic tree in the Artek camp. The tree took them 30 years ago - to 1988, where they meet their parents, who then also rested in Artek. Now the guys need to make friends with their parents and, acting together, find a way back to the future.
Foontic and the Detectives	1,986	Anatoliy Solin	Animation	6.9	11	Russian	Soviet Union	About how the evil and greedy owner of the department store "Tears of a Child" Mrs. Belladonna tried to steal away escaped Foontic from the clown Fokus-Mokus.
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 2)	1,977	Lev Atamanov	Animation	6.9	11	Russian	Soviet Union
Wedding	1,944	Isidor Annensky	Comedy	6.9	11	Russian	Soviet Union	According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.
A Ballad of Love	1,970	Mikhail Bogin	Romance	6.9	10	Russian	Soviet Union	Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Vera, a friend from art school, sees her loneliness and introduces her to her husband's colleagues - friendly Mitya and mysterious Andrey. Soon Galina finds herself torn between the two men.
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan	2,007	Sergei Bodrov	History, Adventure, War, Action	6.8	749	Russian	Germany	The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
Upon the Magic Roads	2,021	Oleg Pogodin	Adventure, Fantasy	6.8	308	Russian	Russia	Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.
Cargo 200	2,007	Aleksei Balabanov	Crime, Drama, Thriller	6.8	216	Russian	Russia	While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.
Panfilov's 28 Men	2,016	Kim Druzhinin	History, Action, Drama, War	6.8	175	Russian	Russia	USSR, November, 1941. Based on the account by Vasiliy Koroteev this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight Red Army soldiers commanded by General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though lightly armed they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet	2,015	Renat Davletyarov	Drama, War	6.8	169	Russian	Russia	It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operation in an attempt to get through to the Kirov railway and the White Sea - the Baltic Sea Canal. These aren't just ordinary paratroopers. This is a team of seasoned and highly trained infiltrators, the elite of the Waffen-SS, superhumans. The only thing in their way is an anti-aircraft artillery unit of corporal Vaskov and five young women in training. It may seem like a fight of local significance, but the countrys main strategic transportation artery is at stake. Can the corporal and his 'petite newbies' prevent Nazi sabotage and at what cost? Television version: An extended version made out of four 45 minute episodes was released on Channel One Russia, on 9 May 2016. Available on PrimeVideo.
Legend No. 17	2,013	Nikolay Lebedev	Drama	6.8	142	Russian	Russia	Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
The Master and Margarita	2,024	Michael Lockshin	Fantasy, Drama	6.8	137	Russian	Russia	A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.
Striped Trip	1,961	Vladimir Fetin	Comedy	6.8	98	Russian	Soviet Union	A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.
War	2,002	Aleksei Balabanov	War, Drama	6.8	97	Russian	Russia	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.
Sisters	2,001	Sergei Bodrov Jr.	Crime, Drama	6.8	90	Russian	Russia	A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt ...
Peculiarities of the National Hunt	1,995	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Comedy	6.8	87	Russian	Russia	A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.
Amphibian Man	1,961	Vladimir Chebotaryov	Adventure, Science Fiction, Romance	6.8	86	Russian	Soviet Union	People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.
Collector	2,016	Alexey Krasovsky	Thriller, Drama	6.8	85	Russian	Russia	An unscrupulous debt collector who is a prominent member of the Moscow elite has just a few hours to refute an accusation that might cost him his job and his life.
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber	2,007	Vladimir Toropchin	Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Family	6.8	84	Russian	Russia	Ilya Muromets has to rescue his trusty horse Burushka and Kiev treasury from the greedy hands of the famous bandit, Sparrow the Robber.
Cipollino	1,961	Boris Dyozhkin	Animation, Family, Fantasy	6.8	60	Russian	Soviet Union	In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, "Cipollino, the Onion Boy" fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.
The Elusive Revengers	1,967	Edmond Keosayan	Action, Adventure, Family	6.8	59	Russian	Soviet Union	Danka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village brutally ends when their father is killed by a White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge, they join forces with Valerka, an intellectual from big city, and the gipsy Yashka, but before they can get close to their enemy they have to help their village and the advancing Red Army.
Wings	1,966	Larisa Shepitko	Drama	6.8	54	Russian	Soviet Union	After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi	1,965	Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya	Animation	6.8	53	Russian	Soviet Union	A valiant mongoose enters into an unequal battle with two snakes while tries to protect a human family.
The Forty-First	1,956	Grigoriy Chukhray	Drama, Romance, War	6.8	50	Russian	Soviet Union	An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
The Postman's White Nights	2,014	Andrei Konchalovsky	Drama	6.8	48	Russian	Russia	The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.
How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song	1,974	Inessa Kovalevskaya	Animation, Music, Family	6.8	47	Russian	Soviet Union	The Tortoise composed a song and the Lion cub learnt it by heart and they sang it together.
Scarecrow	1,983	Rolan Bykov	Family, Drama	6.8	46	Russian	Soviet Union	A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracized, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty.
The Seasons	1,975	Artavazd Peleshian	Documentary	6.8	45	Russian	Soviet Union	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.
Maksim Perepelitsa	1,955	Anatoliy Granik	Comedy	6.8	44	Russian	Soviet Union	Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
Siberia, Monamour	2,011	Slava Ross	Drama	6.8	43	Russian	Russia	Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs ...
There Will Come Soft Rains	1,984	Nazim Tulakhodzhayev	Animation, Science Fiction	6.8	39	Russian	Soviet Union	In this animated short based on a short story from Ray Bradbury, the viewer observes a computer-controlled house in the near future and learns of the fates of its occupants.
38 Parrots	1,976	Ivan Ufimtsev	Animation, Family	6.8	39	Russian	Soviet Union	Parrot, Monkey and Elephant are excited to understand how long their friend Boa is. They finally arrive to the result, though it is measured in quite a strange fashion.
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar	1,980	Eldar Ryazanov	Comedy, Drama, History	6.8	38	Russian	Soviet Union	The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
Carnival	1,981	Tatyana Lioznova	Comedy, Drama, Romance	6.8	33	Russian	Soviet Union	A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne	2,018	Konstantin Bronzit	Animation, Family	6.8	32	Russian	Russia	The Prince of Kiev decided to appoint an heir to the throne, only bad luck - who could it be? A relative, friend of the family or maybe an overseas princess? Without thinking twice, the Prince-Father chooses almost a princess, and most importantly a relative - his niece Zabava. Today, she and her husband, Elisha (do you remember the faithful student of Dobryni Nikitich?), Receive her education in faraway Constantinople, where the treacherous Vasileus rules. In order to return the heiress to her native lands, three heroes are sent in a hurry, and, of course, the main court horse, Julius.
Fairytale	2,022	Aleksandr Sokurov	Drama, Animation, Fantasy	6.8	31	Russian	Belgium	A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.
Naval Cadets, Charge!	1,988	Svetlana Druzhinina	Adventure, History	6.8	29	Russian	Soviet Union	Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever ge...
The Princess and the Dragon	2,018	Marina Nefedova	Animation, Fantasy	6.8	26	Russian	Russia	On her 7th birthday, Princess Barbara discovers a magical book that transports her to Wonderland, an enchanted place filled with dragons and fantastic creatures.
Liberation: The Battle of Berlin	1,971	Yuri Ozerov	War, Drama	6.8	26	Russian	East Germany	In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
The Marriage of Balzaminov	1,964	Konstantin Voinov	Comedy, Romance	6.8	26	Russian	Soviet Union	Based on the trilogy of Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, s...
In the Name of a Prank	2,022	Vladimir Kott	Comedy, Drama	6.8	25	Russian	Russia	YouTube star Dima causes outrage among Christians. To hide from the police and activists, he goes undercover as a pope in a small church. One month without communication, surrounded by monks, will change his life.
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Polygon	1,977	Anatoliy Petrov	Animation, Science Fiction	6.8	23	Russian	Soviet Union	A Russian scientist creates a mind-reading weapon for his generals on a remote island. After the demonstration, the generals are pleased. Little do they realize, both the weapon, and the creator of the weapon have a mind of their own
Umka Is Looking for a Friend	1,970	Vladimir Popov	Animation	6.8	23	Russian	Soviet Union	It is a continuation of adventures of the bear cub who searches for the friend and finds him on the Polar station during the New year.
Volga - Volga	1,938	Grigori Aleksandrov	Comedy, Music	6.8	23	Russian	Soviet Union	Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
A Young Man	2,022	Aleksandr Fomin	Comedy	6.8	21	Russian	Russia	The main character was a standout high school student and graduated university at the highest level. When he reached his 30-s he has found himself a failure: his wife left him for a successful boxer, he got fired from a misearable job, and a morgage that he had to keep up paying off for years ahead. At the most desperate moment the character finds out that that his cunning classmate (Danila Kozlovsky) has become a prosperous businessman and announced a competition for high school students with the prize fund of over a million or rubbles. The main character looks a lot younger than he is, he even gets asked if he is of age when buying alcholol. He gets rid of his beard, fakes his DOB in ID and decides to take a chance in the competition assured that expirience can take over youth.
A House for Kuzka	1,984	Aida Zyablikova	Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy	6.8	21	Russian	Soviet Union	An underage house spirit named Kuzka finds his way into a typical Soviet flat and turns the life of a little girl Natasha into a fairy tale.
Big Ear	1,989	Yuriy Butyrin	Animation, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction	6.8	19	Russian	Soviet Union	An alien falls down from the sky in front of a wolf cub. His big ear allows him to listen to everything that happens in the universe. Yet somehow he fails to hear forest creatures calling for help.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1	1,988	Igor Maslennikov	Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure	6.8	19	Russian	Soviet Union	The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is based on the late and little-known stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, united by the theme of the approaching world war and the struggle of the legendary detective with foreign spies.
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights	1,951	Ivan Ivanov-Vano	Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure	6.8	18	Russian	Soviet Union	Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in...
About Sidorov Vova	1,985	Eduard Nazarov	Animation	6.8	16	Russian	Soviet Union	A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head!
The Secret Agent's Blunder	1,968	Venyamin Dorman	Mystery	6.8	14	Russian	Soviet Union	In the spring of 1961, KGB officers received information that an experienced intelligence officer Mikhail Zarokov, son of the Russian emigrant Coun...
Delhi Dance	2,012	Ivan Vyrypaev	Drama	6.8	13	Russian	Russia	Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi
Primorsky Boulevard	1,988	Aleksandr Polynnikov	Comedy, Music	6.8	13	Russian	Soviet Union	The events of the movie take place in the city of Odesa. A guy named Sasha sees a beautiful girl on the street and, following her, inadvertently causes a car crash. The driver of the car turns out to be none other than this girl's father, who is also a screenplay writer currently experiencing a writer's block. Instead of demanding money from Sasha for repairs to his vehicle, the writer makes Sasha tell him all the details of his new relationship with the girl he saw on the street, not knowing that this girl (Lena) is his own daughter. To make things more complex, Lena has a younger sister Dasha who begins to like Sasha.
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 4)	1,980	Lev Atamanov	Animation	6.8	13	Russian	Soviet Union
Happily Ever After or Why the Dinosaurs Died Out	2,024	Darina Umnova	Documentary	6.8	12	Russian	Russia	A young woman from a Russian small town is writing a frank book about all her many loves. Living in a touching search for a new love and facing constant failures in relationships, she tries to answer the question whether her happiness depends on having a man next to her. the tragicomedy about relationships, deception, betrayal, fears and the endless search for true love.
Extraterrestrial	2,007	Sergei Krutin	Drama, Science Fiction	6.8	12	Russian	Russia	A young man who lives in a small village finds a corpse of extraterrestrial creature. Or at least he thinks so...
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 5)	1,982	Leonid Shvartsman	Animation	6.8	12	Russian	Soviet Union
Onegin	2,024	Sarik Andreasyan	Drama, Romance	6.8	11	Russian	Russia	Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other frivolities the capital can offer a young man. But social life has long tired him, so he perceives the news of the illness of his uncle living in the village as an opportunity to escape. However, having reached the estate, Onegin learns about the death of a relative, which, however, does not upset Evgeniy too much. His financial affairs are very sad, and his uncle is rich and has no other heirs. Onegin locks himself in the estate, living in aimless solitude until the owner, who has returned from abroad, appears at the neighboring estate – a young, enthusiastic Vladimir Lenskiy, not yet satiated with life, who introduces Evgeniy to sisters Tatyana and Olga Larin.
Train From Romashkovo	1,967	Vladimir Degtyarev	Family, Animation	6.8	11	Russian	Soviet Union	A little train is always late.
A Habit of Breaking-Up	2,013	Ekaterina Telegina	Comedy, Romance	6.8	10	Russian	Russia	This is a story about a girl in search of the man of her life... While she tries to find him she asks herself what was the reason of the break ups. She visits all of her ex-boyfriends to find the reason. Later on she starts a blog on the web to keep all the thoughts together. All of a sudden her blog becomes really popular. Will she find the answer to her question? No, she won't. Will she find the love of her life? Most definitely!
The Ugly Duckling	2,010	Garri Bardin	Animation	6.8	10	Russian	Russia	Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind the farmyard kingdom fence, and discreetly slips it into the clutch laid by his partner... Very soon, a cygnet emerges, but as he in no way resembles any of them he is immediately stigmatized by the whole farmyard, enduring humiliations and suspicion on the part of his feathered companions. But in the end he becomes a magnificent white swan.
Nachalnik	2,009	Yury Bykov	Drama	6.8	10	Russian	Russia	Two burglars enter a summer house. They should have checked to whom it belonged.
Alone in Four Walls	2,008	Alexandra Westmeier	Documentary	6.8	10	Russian	Germany	In rural Russia, children convicted of theft, murder and rape are sent to a home for delinquents. Without the outside world's pressures, they're finally allowed to act as children, but for some of them, this new life proves to be a challenge. This documentary tells the stories of several of these adolescents, who must endure separation from their families and who, upon release, are unlikely to be forgiven for their crimes.
Attraction	2,017	Fyodor Bondarchuk	Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Adventure	6.7	893	Russian	Russia	After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
Metro	2,013	Anton Megerdichev	Action, Thriller	6.7	365	Russian	Russia	Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.
Fidelity	2,019	Nigina Sayfullaeva	Drama	6.7	325	Russian	Russia	A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.
9th Company	2,005	Fyodor Bondarchuk	War, Drama, History	6.7	297	Russian	Finland	Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
The Last Warrior: Root of Evil	2,020	Dmitriy Dyachenko	Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy	6.7	204	Russian	Russia	Peace and tranquility have set in Belogorie. The evil was defeated and Ivan is now enjoying his well-deserved fame. He is surrounded by his family, friends and small wonders from the modern world that help him lead a comfortable life. Luckily, he has his Magic Sword to cut a gap between the worlds to get some supplies quite regularly. But when an ancient evil rises and the existence of the magic world is put to danger, Ivan has to team up with his old friends and his new rivals. They will set out on a long journey beyond the known world to find a way to defeat the enemies and to return peace to Belogorie.
Dead Man's Bluff	2,005	Aleksei Balabanov	Crime, Comedy, Thriller	6.7	153	Russian	Russia	Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.
The Major	2,013	Yury Bykov	Action, Crime, Drama	6.7	129	Russian	Russia	On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who dies. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Sobolev decides to compromise with his conscience and calls on a colleague to help him out. But the case turns out to be messy and when Sobolev finally changes his mind and tries to make up for his deed, it’s already too late…
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away	2,013	Alexandr Veledinsky	Drama	6.7	120	Russian	Russia	Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
Closeness	2,017	Kantemir Balagov	Drama	6.7	117	Russian	Russia	1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Dark Eyes	1,987	Nikita Mikhalkov	Comedy, Drama, Romance	6.7	100	Russian	Italy	Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
Piter FM	2,006	Oksana Bychkova	Comedy, Drama, Romance	6.7	87	Russian	Russia	Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.
Mother and Son	1,997	Aleksandr Sokurov	Drama	6.7	84	Russian	Germany	A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
Morphine	2,008	Aleksei Balabanov	Drama	6.7	81	Russian	Russia	The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.
Captain Volkonogov Escaped	2,023	Natalya Merkulova	Thriller, Drama	6.7	76	Russian	Estonia	Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.
The Adventures of Buratino	1,976	Leonid Nechayev	Family, Fantasy, Adventure, TV Movie	6.7	76	Russian	Soviet Union	A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.
The Earthquake	2,016	Sarik Andreasyan	Drama	6.7	73	Russian	Armenia	After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
SportLotto - 82	1,982	Leonid Gaidai	Comedy, Adventure	6.7	72	Russian	Soviet Union	Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man	1,992	Aleksandr Petrov	Animation, Drama	6.7	68	Russian	Russia	An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
The Sun	2,005	Aleksandr Sokurov	Drama, History	6.7	65	Russian	Italy	A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
My Friend Ivan Lapshin	1,985	Aleksei German	Drama	6.7	63	Russian	Soviet Union	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.
Crystal Swan	2,018	Darya Zhuk	Drama	6.7	61	Russian	Germany	Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
Close to Eden	1,991	Nikita Mikhalkov	Drama	6.7	59	Russian	France	A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out for the nearest town to obtain birth control. He comes upon a Russian truck driver who has ended up in a lake. The farmer takes the man back to his farm, and after initially being appalled, the Russian becomes enchanted with the peaceful life of the countryside and decides to stay. But his presence presages big changes for the peasants.
Arsenal	1,929	Oleksandr Dovzhenko	Drama, War	6.7	58	Russian	Soviet Union	A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.
Shapoklyak	1,974	Roman Kachanov	Animation, Family	6.7	54	Russian	Soviet Union	Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka decide to go to the sea on vacation. Shapoklyak steals their train tickets, so they are kicked off the train. On their way home, the duo, with Shapoklyak's help, stops hikers from poaching and a factory from polluting a river.
¡Qué Viva México!	1,979	Sergei Eisenstein	Documentary, Drama, Western	6.7	53	Russian	Mexico	Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
A Visitor to a Museum	1,989	Konstantin Lopushansky	Drama, Science Fiction	6.7	52	Russian	Germany	It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Mary Poppins, Goodbye	1,983	Leonid Kvinikhidze	Family, Fantasy, Music, TV Movie	6.7	52	Russian	Soviet Union	A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
Cinderella	1,947	Nadezhda Kosheverova	Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance	6.7	50	Russian	Soviet Union	In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Cinderella gets to the royal ball, where a beautiful and very kind prince falls in love with her. At midnight, the magic ends, and poor Cinderella has to return to her former life. But on the crystal shoe that Cinderella lost while fleeing the palace to the battle of the palace chimes, the prince searches for the bride.
The Monk and the Demon	2,016	Nikolay Dostal	Mystery, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction	6.7	45	Russian	Russia	Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.
The Italian	2,005	Andrey Kravchuk	Drama	6.7	45	Russian	Russia	Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Kino Eye	1,924	Dziga Vertov	Documentary	6.7	42	Russian	Soviet Union	This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to "buy from the cooperative" as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions of the film, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.
Living	2,012	Vasiliy Sigarev	Drama	6.7	39	Russian	Russia	Fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a middle-aged woman with a drinking problem, has been separated from her twin daughters and she wants them back. On the other hand, Grishka and Anton are a young couple who decide to get married, but right after the wedding their relationship is put to the test in a brutal way. Artyom longs to see his missing father, but his mother objects. There is only one element that brings all of these characters together: misfortune.
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer	2,019	Andrey A. Tarkovsky	Documentary	6.7	37	Russian	Italy	An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.
When the Trees Were Tall	1,961	Lev Kulidzhanov	Drama, Romance	6.7	33	Russian	Soviet Union	The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.
Mission London	2,010	Dimitar Mitovski	Comedy	6.7	32	Russian	Bulgaria	A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.
White Dew	1,984	Igor Dobrolyubov	Drama, Romance, Comedy	6.7	31	Russian	Soviet Union	A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons.
Citizen K	2,019	Alex Gibney	Documentary	6.7	30	Russian	United Kingdom	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.
The Prisoner of If Castle	1,989	Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich	Adventure, TV Movie	6.7	30	Russian	Soviet Union	A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him
Nine Days of One Year	1,962	Mikhail Romm	Drama	6.7	30	Russian	Soviet Union	Set in the Soviet scientific community, Nine Days of One Year follows two dedicated physicists whose close friendship unfolds amid dangerous nuclear research, shaped by their shared affection for a strong-willed woman. As radiation exposure, scientific ambition, and personal relationships intersect, the film offers a thoughtful, human portrait of scientists confronting the risks of progress and the choices that define their lives.
Inadequate People 2	2,020	Roman Karimov	Drama	6.7	29	Russian	Russia	Kristina lives with Vitaly in a quiet family life, but her sarcastic world view does not coincide with Vitaly’s ideals. While she is engaged in household chores, he spends more and more time at work, and Kristina begins to suspect that this is somehow connected with the appearance of his young assistant Sonya in the office.
Country of the Deaf	1,998	Valery Todorovsky	Drama, Comedy, Crime	6.7	29	Russian	France	Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return she wants her to leave the young man and run off with her to an imaginary paradise where material values do not exist.
We're from Jazz	1,983	Karen Shakhnazarov	Music, Comedy	6.7	29	Russian	Soviet Union	A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
Uncle Vanya	1,970	Andrei Konchalovsky	Drama	6.7	28	Russian	Soviet Union	Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna	1,988	Eldar Ryazanov	Drama	6.7	25	Russian	Soviet Union	Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works o...
The Road Movie	2,018	Dmitry Kalashnikov	Documentary	6.7	21	Russian	Belarus	Anything can happen on Russian roads and is precisely shot by the dashboard camera. Super-objective video registration grows into the strong image of Russian national character – with its permanent awaiting for the miracle and habitual approach to real dramas. A forest on fire as a symbol of Russian hell, a military tank at a car wash and car chase in the vicinity of Kremlin shot with a dashboard cam at the same time when Boris Nemtsov, the leader of political opposition, was shot dead near Kremlin. Dashboard cam depicts life in it’s purity as an unbiased observer.
Wash-'em-Clean	1,954	Ivan Ivanov-Vano	Animation, Family	6.7	21	Russian	Soviet Union	Based on the poem by Korney Chukovskiy, about a boy who would not clean himself, so all his belongings ran away from him.
The Straw Hat	1,974	Leonid Kvinikhidze	Comedy	6.7	20	Russian	Soviet Union	A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche.
34th Express	1,981	Andrey Malyukov	Action, Drama	6.7	19	Russian	Soviet Union	Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. Railwaymen and passengers are working together to prevent misfortune and save hundreds of people…
Good As New	2,020	Evgeny Shelyakin	Comedy	6.7	17	Russian	Russia	Found unconscious and robbed on a beach in Thailand, 70-year old Xenophon only knows his own name because it was engraved on his old Soviet watch. He’s been left with no money and no identification…and he doesn’t speak a word of Thai. But Xenophon is a resourceful man. He begins to build a new life with friends and a new business, but there’s something disturbing in his past that he can only glimpse through his shattered memory. Is he really who he seems?
Ginger's Tale	2,021	Konstantin Shchekin	Animation	6.7	15	Russian	Russia	The story begins with the good, but poor Potter, who once finds Flint, a magical artifact that makes its owner rich, but instead sends a death curse. Potter can be saved only by the dedication of the main character - a girl named Twinkle. Without hesitation, she rushes to the rescue of a friend, helping him to understand that love and honest work are more important than money and power.

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