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Top 500 films from Soviet Union (out of 944 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| The Cat That Walked by Himself | 1,968 | Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya | Animation | 8.3 | 11 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish | 1,950 | Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Animation, Fantasy, Family | 8.2 | 18 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed | 1,979 | Stanislav Govorukhin | Action, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie | 8.1 | 85 | Russian | 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. |
| Adventures of Mowgli: Akela's Last Hunt | 1,969 | Roman Davydov | Adventure, Animation, Family | 8.1 | 27 | Russian | 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. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog | 1,982 | Eduard Nazarov | Comedy, Animation, Family | 8 | 156 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Wow! A Talking Fish! | 1,983 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 8 | 40 | Russian | A fisherman catches a talking fish and spares its life. After that, he meets a grotesque, evil monster in a state of constant change. |
| The Cranes Are Flying | 1,957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Drama, Romance, War | 7.9 | 438 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | "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 | 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. |
| Mister Pronka | 1,991 | Leonid Nosyrev | Animation | 7.9 | 12 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness. |
| The Diamond Arm | 1,969 | Leonid Gaidai | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 7.8 | 318 | Russian | 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. |
| Gentlemen of Fortune | 1,971 | Aleksandr Sery | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 254 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger | 1,980 | Igor Maslennikov | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure | 7.8 | 57 | Russian | Dr. Watson executes Sherlock Holmes' will, who faced death after exposing Moriarty and his gang in the previous episode. |
| Adventures of Mowgli: Raksha | 1,967 | Roman Davydov | Adventure, Animation, Family | 7.8 | 25 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Gena the Crocodile | 1,969 | Roman Kachanov | Animation, Family | 7.7 | 114 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together. |
| Chasing Two Hares | 1,961 | Viktor Ivanov | Comedy | 7.7 | 45 | Ukrainian | Based on the Ukrainian vaudeville by Mykhailo Starytskyi, the famous Ukrainian writer. The leading character, Svyryd Petrovych Holokhvosty has his ... |
| Alice in Wonderland | 1,981 | Yefrem Pruzhanskyi | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.7 | 36 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions... |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1,965 | Sergei Parajanov | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 180 | Ukrainian | In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart. |
| 12 Chairs | 1,971 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy, Adventure | 7.6 | 169 | Russian | 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. |
| Love and Pigeons | 1,984 | Vladimir Menshov | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 136 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp. |
| Winter in Prostokvashino | 1,984 | Vladimir Popov | Animation | 7.6 | 97 | Russian | A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter. |
| Fate of a Man | 1,959 | Sergey Bondarchuk | Drama, War | 7.6 | 89 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| The Lost Letter | 1,972 | Borys Ivchenko | Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure | 7.6 | 33 | Ukrainian | Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg. |
| Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure | 1,987 | Davyd Cherkaskyi | Animation, Adventure, TV Movie, Family, Music | 7.6 | 28 | Russian | 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. |
| Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures | 1,965 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy | 7.5 | 506 | Russian | 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. |
| War and Peace | 1,968 | Sergey Bondarchuk | History, Drama, War, Romance | 7.5 | 149 | Russian | 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. |
| Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day | 1,972 | Gennadiy Sokolskiy | Family, Animation | 7.5 | 126 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... t... |
| War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky | 1,965 | Sergey Bondarchuk | History, Romance, War, Drama | 7.5 | 73 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | The second part of the Soviet TV adaption. |
| Careful, Monkeys! | 1,984 | Leonid Shvartsman | Animation | 7.5 | 12 | Russian | 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 | Boa is in great mood and wants to share it with Monkey. So he sends his best regard to her through Elephant. |
| Petia and Little Red Riding Hood | 1,958 | Boris Stepantsev | Family, Comedy, Animation | 7.5 | 11 | Russian | A boy finds his way into the Little Red Riding Hood cartoon in order to save the girl from the Big Bad Wolf. |
| Hedgehog in the Fog | 1,975 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Adventure, Mystery, Family | 7.4 | 258 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Three Plus Two | 1,963 | Genrikh Oganisyan | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 58 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | Baby Mammoth is looking for his Mom. |
| Gas Station Queen | 1,963 | Aleksey Mishurin | Comedy | 7.4 | 48 | Russian | 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. |
| Umka | 1,969 | Vladimir Pekar | Animation, Family, Comedy | 7.4 | 40 | Russian | White little bear hides from his mother friendship with a human who smells smoke. |
| We'll Live Till Monday | 1,968 | Stanislav Rostotsky | Romance, Drama | 7.4 | 38 | Russian | 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. |
| The Bag Of Apples | 1,974 | Vitold Bordzilovskiy | Animation | 7.4 | 26 | Russian | 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. |
| How the Cossacks Met Aliens | 1,987 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 7.4 | 22 | Ukrainian | Hraï, Oko and Tour come across extraterrestrials in search of oil to repair their saucer and be able to return home. Together, they cross Europe, find themselves defending Bulgaria invaded by enemies, discover an aqueduct in Italy and narrowly escape the Inquisition in Spain. |
| How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding | 1,984 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.4 | 22 | Ukrainian | Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul. |
| Captain Nulle | 1,964 | Leonīds Leimanis | Adventure, Drama | 7.4 | 22 | LV | Valdis Nulle is a young and ambitious captain of fishing ship 'Dzintars'. He has his views on fishing methods but the sea makes its own rules. Kolk... |
| In a Country of Undone Homework | 1,969 | Yuri Prytkov | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.4 | 21 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 2) | 1,987 | Aleksandr Davydov | Animation | 7.4 | 10 | Russian | 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. |
| The Color of Pomegranates | 1,969 | Sergei Parajanov | Drama, History | 7.3 | 322 | HY | The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov. |
| The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! | 1,975 | Eldar Ryazanov | TV Movie, Comedy, Romance | 7.3 | 256 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Ordinary Miracle | 1,978 | Mark Zakharov | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy | 7.3 | 81 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| How the Cossacks Played Football | 1,970 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 7.3 | 58 | Ukrainian | A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style. |
| The Flying Ship | 1,979 | Garri Bardin | Animation | 7.3 | 54 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| The Long Recess | 1,972 | Aleksei Korenev | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 | 40 | Russian | 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 | 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 | Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother. |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | 1,982 | Yefrem Pruzhanskyi | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 | 26 | Russian | 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. |
| The Enchanted Boy | 1,955 | Vladimir Polkovnikov | Animation, Fantasy | 7.3 | 23 | Russian | 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 | 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 | A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea. |
| Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story | 1,983 | Eldar Shengelaia | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 18 | KA | An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn. |
| Children of Don Quixote | 1,966 | Yevgeni Karelov | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 18 | Russian | 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. |
| XXX | 1,989 | Askolds Saulītis | N/A | 7.3 | 16 | LV | A grotesque story about life in the Soviet Union during the Awakening. The film uses techniques that were innovative at the time, such as scratching the film stock and coloring frames. The film has been screened at several international film festivals and won the Grand Prix at the Baltic Amateur Film Festival in 1990. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| The White Sun of the Desert | 1,969 | Vladimir Motyl | Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War | 7.2 | 160 | Russian | 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... |
| Last Year's Snow Was Falling | 1,983 | Aleksandr Tatarskiy | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.2 | 86 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Two dogs, one stray the other well-off, become friends. |
| Old Men: Robbers | 1,972 | Eldar Ryazanov | Drama, Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 56 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| The Mitten | 1,967 | Roman Kachanov | Animation, Family | 7.2 | 33 | Russian | 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... |
| One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... | 1,976 | Leonid Bykov | Drama, War | 7.2 | 25 | Russian | The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle. |
| A Match Revenge | 1,968 | Boris Dyozhkin | Animation | 7.2 | 22 | Russian | 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 | The Cinderella story. |
| An Unusual Match | 1,955 | Boris Dyozhkin | Animation | 7.2 | 17 | Russian | A Soviet animation about a football match between toys. |
| Tale for Natasha | 1,986 | Aida Zyablikova | Animation | 7.2 | 13 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Priklyucheniya pingvinenka Lolo. Film pervyy | 1,986 | Gennadiy Sokolskiy | Animation | 7.2 | 11 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Python's Grandmother | 1,977 | Ivan Ufimtsev | Animation | 7.2 | 10 | Russian | Boa's grandma came to visit her grandson. |
| 12 Chairs | 1,966 | Aleksandr Belinsky | Comedy | 7.2 | 10 | Russian | 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. |
| The Steamroller and the Violin | 1,961 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama | 7.1 | 156 | Russian | 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. |
| Letter Never Sent | 1,960 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Drama, Adventure | 7.1 | 118 | Russian | 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. |
| A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines | 1,987 | Alla Surikova | Comedy, Romance, Western, Music | 7.1 | 100 | Russian | 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 | 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 | A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution. |
| Autumn Marathon | 1,979 | Georgiy Daneliya | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 7.1 | 65 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Hello, I'm Your Aunt! | 1,975 | Viktor Titov | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.1 | 56 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Contact | 1,978 | Vladimir Tarasov | Animation, Science Fiction | 7.1 | 36 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| The Dog in the Manger | 1,977 | Yan Frid | Comedy | 7.1 | 27 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Maria, the Wonderful Weaver | 1,959 | Aleksandr Rou | Family, Fantasy | 7.1 | 21 | Russian | An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake. |
| How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers | 1,979 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 7.1 | 19 | Ukrainian | Cossacks help the French musketeers to deliver the portrait of daughter of the Turkish sultan to the Dutch prince, that could marry her. Insidious cardinal Richelieu wants to blow off the plans of queen and equips pursuit. |
| The Hot Snow | 1,972 | Gavriil Egiazarov | War, Drama | 7.1 | 19 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Treasure Island | 1,982 | Vladimir Vorobyov | Adventure, Family | 7.1 | 14 | Russian | 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 | 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 | |
| Demidovy | 1,983 | Yaropolk Lapshin | Drama, TV Movie, History | 7.1 | 11 | Russian | |
| Alexander Nevsky | 1,938 | Sergei Eisenstein | Drama, History, War | 7 | 229 | Russian | 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. |
| The Dawns Here Are Quiet | 1,972 | Stanislav Rostotsky | Drama, History, War | 7 | 149 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Karlson Returns | 1,970 | Boris Stepantsev | Adventure, Animation, Family | 7 | 103 | Russian | 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. |
| On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians | 1,973 | Vasiliy Livanov | Animation, Adventure, Family | 7 | 75 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Repentance | 1,987 | Tengiz Abuladze | Drama, Comedy | 7 | 67 | KA | The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends. |
| War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova | 1,966 | Sergey Bondarchuk | History, Romance, War, Drama | 7 | 64 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Old Man Khottabych | 1,957 | Gennadi Kazansky | Adventure, Fantasy, Family | 7 | 55 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Wings, Legs and Tails | 1,986 | Igor Kovalyov | Animation | 7 | 51 | Russian | An ostrich is trying to learn how to fly in a dessert. |
| Father of a Soldier | 1,965 | Rezo Chkheidze | Drama, War | 7 | 49 | KA | During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. G... |
| How the Cossacks Bought Salt | 1,975 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 7 | 44 | Ukrainian | Cossacks cooked borscht, but ran out of salt, and what kind of taste without salt? They go to the fair, where they find out that the Chumaks who traded the salt, were robbed by the Evil Pan (local feudal lord). In this series, the Cossacks, fighting off the Evil Pan and his servants, try to bring the stolen salt to the bazaar in order to transfer it to the hands of the rightful owners - the Chumaks. |
| Siberiade | 1,979 | Andrei Konchalovsky | War, Drama, History, Romance | 7 | 42 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam... | 1,984 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation, Family | 7 | 34 | HY | Musical fantasy based on Armenian fairy tales. |
| The Little Mermaid | 1,968 | Ivan Aksenchuk | Animation, Fantasy, Family | 7 | 33 | Russian | 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. |
| The Wishing Tree | 1,976 | Tengiz Abuladze | Drama | 7 | 31 | KA | Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man… |
| How the Cossacks Became Olympians | 1,978 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Animation, Comedy, Adventure | 7 | 27 | Ukrainian | The Cossacks become involved in a dispute between the gods Zeus and Mars. Zeus wants to set up the Olympic games, while Mars wants to undermine him and start more wars. The Kozaks help Zeus and challenge Mars at the Games. |
| Genius | 1,991 | Viktor Sergeev | Crime, Comedy | 7 | 25 | Russian | 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. |
| Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible | 1,984 | Vladimir Alenikov | Comedy, Family | 7 | 22 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Without Witness | 1,983 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Romance, Drama | 7 | 17 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Who Will Tell A Fable? | 1,982 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation | 7 | 11 | Russian | "...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. |
| I Give you a Star | 1,974 | Fyodor Khitruk | Animation | 7 | 10 | Russian | |
| Viy | 1,967 | Georgi Kropachyov | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.9 | 268 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Dead Man's Letters | 1,986 | Konstantin Lopushansky | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.9 | 123 | Russian | 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. |
| The Adventures of Mowgli | 1,973 | Roman Davydov | Animation, Family | 6.9 | 89 | Russian | 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 Adventures of the Electronic | 1,980 | Konstantin Bromberg | Family, Science Fiction, Adventure | 6.9 | 76 | Russian | 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. |
| Assa | 1,987 | Sergey Solovyov | Crime, Drama, Romance, Music | 6.9 | 73 | Russian | 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. |
| Thumbelina | 1,964 | Leonid Amalrik | Adventure, Animation, Family, Romance | 6.9 | 63 | Russian | A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina". |
| They Fought for Their Motherland | 1,975 | Sergey Bondarchuk | War, History, Drama | 6.9 | 61 | Russian | 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. |
| Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors | 1,963 | Aleksandr Rou | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.9 | 52 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Three Men in a Boat | 1,979 | Naum Birman | Comedy | 6.9 | 42 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner. |
| How the Cossacks Rescued Brides | 1,973 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Animation | 6.9 | 40 | Ukrainian | The Cossacks save a group of Ukrainian maidens who are kidnapped by pirates while celebrating Ivana Kupala. En route they visit Ancient Greece, Egypt, and India. |
| The Heron and the Crane | 1,974 | Yuri Norstein | Animation | 6.9 | 38 | Russian | 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 cartoon adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. |
| Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood | 1,990 | Garri Bardin | Animation | 6.9 | 31 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Kashchey the Immortal | 1,944 | Aleksandr Rou | Family, Fantasy | 6.9 | 24 | Russian | 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. |
| Be My Husband | 1,981 | Alla Surikova | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 22 | Russian | 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. |
| Three Fat Men | 1,966 | Aleksey Batalov | Family, Fantasy, Adventure | 6.9 | 21 | Russian | 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. |
| A Spring for the Thirsty | 1,965 | Yurii Illienko | Drama | 6.9 | 19 | Ukrainian | A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls. |
| The Eccentrics | 1,974 | Eldar Shengelaia | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.9 | 18 | KA | Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love. |
| Sovershenno seryozno | 1,961 | Eldar Ryazanov | Comedy | 6.9 | 18 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| A Robbery In... Style | 1,978 | Yefim Gamburg | Animation | 6.9 | 15 | Russian | 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. |
| Tryam! Hello! | 1,980 | Yuriy Butyrin | Animation, Family | 6.9 | 14 | Russian | 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. |
| Foontic and the Detectives | 1,986 | Anatoliy Solin | Animation | 6.9 | 11 | Russian | 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 | |
| Wedding | 1,944 | Isidor Annensky | Comedy | 6.9 | 11 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Striped Trip | 1,961 | Vladimir Fetin | Comedy | 6.8 | 98 | Russian | 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. |
| Amphibian Man | 1,961 | Vladimir Chebotaryov | Adventure, Science Fiction, Romance | 6.8 | 86 | Russian | 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. |
| Cipollino | 1,961 | Boris Dyozhkin | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.8 | 60 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | A valiant mongoose enters into an unequal battle with two snakes while tries to protect a human family. |
| Déjà vu | 1,990 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Crime, Action | 6.8 | 52 | Polish | The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA. |
| The Forty-First | 1,956 | Grigoriy Chukhray | Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 | 50 | Russian | An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer. |
| How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song | 1,974 | Inessa Kovalevskaya | Animation, Music, Family | 6.8 | 47 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| There Will Come Soft Rains | 1,984 | Nazim Tulakhodzhayev | Animation, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 39 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Pirosmani | 1,969 | Giorgi Shengelaia | Drama | 6.8 | 38 | KA | A biography of the Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), better known as Pirosmani, who died of starvation and sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink. The film experiments with color control techniques based on the painter’s style. |
| How the Cossacks Were Cooking Kulish | 1,967 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 6.8 | 37 | Ukrainian | Three Cossacks preparing for a meal and gather to smoke their pipes as their meal cooks. Out of tobacco, one of them goes off to investigate smoke on the horizon. He is captured by foreign invaders and must be rescued by his friends. |
| Carnival | 1,981 | Tatyana Lioznova | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 33 | Russian | 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. |
| Naval Cadets, Charge! | 1,988 | Svetlana Druzhinina | Adventure, History | 6.8 | 29 | Russian | 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 Marriage of Balzaminov | 1,964 | Konstantin Voinov | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 | 26 | Russian | 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... |
| Polygon | 1,977 | Anatoliy Petrov | Animation, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 23 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 House for Kuzka | 1,984 | Aida Zyablikova | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.8 | 21 | Russian | 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 | 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 | 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 Eve of Ivan Kupalo | 1,968 | Yurii Illienko | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.8 | 19 | Ukrainian | Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales. |
| The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights | 1,951 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure | 6.8 | 18 | Russian | 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 | 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 | In the spring of 1961, KGB officers received information that an experienced intelligence officer Mikhail Zarokov, son of the Russian emigrant Coun... |
| Primorsky Boulevard | 1,988 | Aleksandr Polynnikov | Comedy, Music | 6.8 | 13 | Russian | 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 | |
| The Step | 1,987 | Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili | Drama | 6.8 | 12 | KA | Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. He wants to be independent and find his place in the world. But no basic changes ensue – he has the same friends, with the same trivial conversations and the same inactivity. Only the death of his favorite teacher, to whom the young man felt very close, really changes his habitual way of life. Alexi makes a decision: he refuses a place at a research institute and leaves for a teaching job at a village school, the same school his mentor used to work at. |
| A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 5) | 1,982 | Leonid Shvartsman | Animation | 6.8 | 12 | Russian | |
| Train From Romashkovo | 1,967 | Vladimir Degtyarev | Family, Animation | 6.8 | 11 | Russian | A little train is always late. |
| Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter | 1,982 | Peeter Simm | Adventure, Family | 6.8 | 10 | ET | Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a weird stranger is saved from the sea who will be the only friend of Arabella. At the same time a rival pirate called Raudpats plans to kidnap the girl. Will she be safe and can she ever live a normal life? |
| Earth | 1,930 | Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama | 6.7 | 149 | Ukrainian | The film tells about the creation of the first collective farm communes and class enmity. Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields." However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly. |
| The Adventures of Buratino | 1,976 | Leonid Nechayev | Family, Fantasy, Adventure, TV Movie | 6.7 | 76 | Russian | 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. |
| SportLotto - 82 | 1,982 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy, Adventure | 6.7 | 72 | Russian | Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket. |
| My Friend Ivan Lapshin | 1,985 | Aleksei German | Drama | 6.7 | 63 | Russian | 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. |
| Arsenal | 1,929 | Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama, War | 6.7 | 58 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| Mary Poppins, Goodbye | 1,983 | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Family, Fantasy, Music, TV Movie | 6.7 | 52 | Russian | A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers. |
| Cinderella | 1,947 | Nadezhda Kosheverova | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 6.7 | 50 | Russian | 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. |
| Kino Eye | 1,924 | Dziga Vertov | Documentary | 6.7 | 42 | Russian | 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. |
| The Legend of Suram Fortress | 1,985 | Sergei Parajanov | Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 | 40 | KA | A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces. |
| When the Trees Were Tall | 1,961 | Lev Kulidzhanov | Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 33 | Russian | 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. |
| White Dew | 1,984 | Igor Dobrolyubov | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.7 | 31 | Russian | A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons. |
| The Prisoner of If Castle | 1,989 | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich | Adventure, TV Movie | 6.7 | 30 | Russian | 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 | 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. |
| We're from Jazz | 1,983 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Music, Comedy | 6.7 | 29 | Russian | 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 | 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 | Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works o... |
| Wash-'em-Clean | 1,954 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Animation, Family | 6.7 | 21 | Russian | 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 | A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche. |
| 34th Express | 1,981 | Andrey Malyukov | Action, Drama | 6.7 | 19 | Russian | 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… |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | 1,985 | Stanislav Govorukhin | Adventure, Family, TV Movie | 6.7 | 14 | Russian | Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of a child! The small but brave heroes Tom and Huck search for the treasure, become "pirates", enter into a dangerous battle with the Indian Joe. |
| A Glass of Water | 1,979 | Yuli Karasik | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 13 | Russian | When a small state is threatened with capture by a much stronger one, only one thing can save it: the emergence of a competitor comparable to the invader. In a graceful and witty play by Scribe, hostilities unfold around a young officer, in whom the modest saleswoman of a jewelry store, the omnipotent Duchess of Marlborough and the Queen of England herself fell in love at the same time. |
| Foontic at the Сircus | 1,988 | Anatoliy Solin | Animation | 6.7 | 11 | Russian | Foontic and his new friends once again outwit the evil Mrs. Belladonna, who, under the influence of sleeping pills, is taken in the middle of the night in their car to the Three Roads roadside hotel and handed over to her old friend, an equally greedy and cynical businessman named Durillo. When she regains consciousness, Belladonna resumes her pursuit of Foontic, who, together with the kind-hearted clown Mokus, the clever monkey Bambino, and the hippopotamus Chocolate, is preparing to put on a grand circus show in the city. |
| Here We Are | 1,978 | Sulev Nõmmik | Comedy, TV Movie | 6.7 | 10 | ET | On a nice summer day a funny little car rolls over a peaceful farm yard of Muhu island. The family that withdraws from the vehicle is quite odd-looking: an overbearing madam, a henpecked stammering husband and a mystical red-head. They announce that they want to spend their vacation in the farm ... "We are from capital, we will pay". This quiet vacation turns out to be a frantic day with romance, unexpected turns and fisticuffs between suitors. |
| Fiddlers | 1,973 | Emil Loteanu | Drama, Romance, Music | 6.7 | 10 | Romanian | Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her. |
| The Snow Queen | 1,957 | Lev Atamanov | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.6 | 106 | Russian | When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kai, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him. |
| The Needle | 1,989 | Rashid Nugmanov | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 6.6 | 83 | Russian | Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition. |
| Zerograd | 1,988 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Drama, Comedy | 6.6 | 62 | Russian | Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent. |
| Air Crew | 1,980 | Aleksandr Mitta | Action, Drama | 6.6 | 54 | Russian | Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains. |
| The Scarlet Flower | 1,952 | Lev Atamanov | Animation, Fantasy, Family | 6.6 | 48 | Russian | Before going on an overseas journey, a merchant father asks his three daughters what they would like him to bring back for them. The eldest asks for a shining tiara, the middle asks for a frame through which her face would always appear young, and the youngest (Nastenka) asks her father to bring her a beautiful scarlet flower like one which she saw in her dreams. Her elder sisters laugh at this simple wish. The father's trip is successful and he finds everything that he came for, with the exception of Nastenka's scarlet flower. Nevertheless, the ship heaves off and they begin to head back while the father scans the lands around him for a scarlet flower. |
| The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins | 1,985 | Vladimir Latyshev | Adventure, Fantasy, TV Movie | 6.6 | 43 | Russian | Author J. R. R. Tolkien (Zinovij Gerdt) tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and enjoyable hobbit, whose life is turned upside down when he decides to join the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves in an attempt to regain a treasure stolen from the latter. Soviet television movie adaptation of "The Hobbit". |
| The Hunchedback Horse | 1,947 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Animation | 6.6 | 43 | Russian | Adventures of Ivan the Fool and humpbacked horse in the world of kind magical creatures and cruel people. |
| The Adventures of Buratino | 1,959 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 6.6 | 42 | Russian | 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 End of St. Petersburg | 1,927 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama | 6.6 | 38 | Russian | Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work. |
| The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin | 1,987 | Gennadiy Sokolskiy | Adventure, Animation, Family | 6.6 | 37 | Russian | Scamper is a little penguin who loves wandering around the Artic where he lives with his parents. Unfortunately his little adventures tend to get he, and his friend Snowflake into trouble, especially when he disobeys his father and goes exploring with seagulls who want to eat him flying above, and men and dogs on the ground with them. One day the adventure goes too far and they float out to sea, only to be caught by men who want to sell them to the zoo. Scamper, Snowflake and their new friend, a macaroni penguin named Louie, must escape and get back to their families to warn them. |
| Adventures of Brownie | 1,985 | Aida Zyablikova | Animation | 6.6 | 34 | Russian | Prequel to Kuzya's story tells about his adventures in the woods, and how he got into Natasha's apartment. |
| Byelorussian Station | 1,971 | Andrey Smirnov | Drama | 6.6 | 32 | Russian | "Belorussian Station" is a Soviet drama directed by Andrei Smirnov, completed in 1969 and released in 1971 after censorship delays due to its critical portrayal of post-war Soviet society and veterans' challenges. The film revolves around four former soldiers who reunite 25 years after World War II. They come together to mourn the death of a friend and reflect on their shared past and their personal struggles. "Belorussian Station" poignantly explores themes of friendship, memory, and the enduring impact of war on ordinary people's lives, eventually gaining significant acclaim for its heartfelt narrative and strong performances. |
| The Battle of Kerzhenets | 1,971 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Animation | 6.6 | 32 | Russian | The story is based on the legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which disappears under the waters of a lake to escape an attack by the Mongols. |
| The Fox and the Hare | 1,973 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Family | 6.6 | 31 | Russian | Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox. |
| July Rain | 1,967 | Marlen Khutsiyev | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 31 | Russian | Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life. |
| Don Quixote | 1,957 | Grigori Kozintsev | Adventure, Drama | 6.6 | 28 | Russian | Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard. |
| Antoshka | 1,969 | Leonid Nosyrev | Animation | 6.6 | 27 | Russian | The musical tale about the red-haired freckled boy who didn't want to dig potatoes. |
| A Sixth Part of the World | 1,926 | Dziga Vertov | Documentary | 6.6 | 27 | Russian | Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society". |
| Dangerous for Your Life! | 1,985 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy | 6.6 | 26 | Russian | A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man. |
| The Little Mermaid | 1,976 | Vladimir Bychkov | Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 6.6 | 26 | Russian | A little Mermaid falls in love with a Prince whom she saves during a storm. Using all kinds of magical incantations in exchange for the Mermaid’s beautiful blue hair, a witch replaces her fish tail with human legs, making it possible for the Mermaid to walk and live on earth at the cost of great pain with every step she takes. The Little Mermaid willingly suffers through these trials only to be near her beloved. But the Prince, not realizing how lucky he is, becomes enamored with a beautiful but vain princess. |
| Two Comrades Were Serving | 1,968 | Yevgeni Karelov | Action, Drama, History, War | 6.6 | 25 | Russian | Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day. |
| Return of Brownie | 1,987 | Aida Zyablikova | Animation | 6.6 | 24 | Russian | It is the last film in series "Little Brownie Kuzya". |
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | 1,967 | Aleksandr Ptushko | Family, Fantasy | 6.6 | 23 | Russian | Based on a famous fairy tale, in verse, by Alexander Pushkin, this ravishingly beautiful fantasy is about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Driven from the Russian court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart. |
| Tyll the Giant | 1,980 | Rein Raamat | Animation, Fantasy, War | 6.6 | 20 | ET | Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea. Though he was king of the island, Tõll often worked as a common farmer, tending to his crops and returning to his loving wife. He was a good king, often quick to anger but always kind and willing to help his fellow man. Tõll's greatest enemy is the god of the underworld who specializes in sly, cowardly mischief. When war comes to the island, Tõll arrives to aid his dying army, but the devil takes advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on Tõll's home. |
| The Night Before Christmas | 1,951 | Valentina Brumberg | Animation, Fantasy, Family, Adventure | 6.6 | 20 | Russian | Based on the work of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart. |
| The Devil's Bride | 1,974 | Arūnas Žebriūnas | Fantasy, Music | 6.6 | 17 | LT | A story of an impish devil who used to be an angel but got tired of singing Hosannah and so was condemned to live on earth. From his home in a windmill, he pursues love and happiness in a hilarious and sometimes tragic turmoil that affects the whole countryside. |
| Banquet | 1,986 | Garri Bardin | Animation | 6.6 | 16 | Russian | A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer. |
| Bumpy | 1,981 | Helle Karis | Family, Fantasy, Music | 6.6 | 16 | ET | Brother and sister Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while picking strawberries and are captured by an evil forest hag. They are made to work for her. The hag has a son called Bumpy whom Iti befriends. When they get a chance to escape, they decide to take Bumpy with them. |
| Height | 1,957 | Aleksandr Zarkhi | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 15 | Russian | For the construction of the plant comes a team of ironworkers, they will carry out the installation of the blast furnace according to the new method. A film about the difficult characters of ordinary Soviet people who know how to work, dream, love - to build a great human happiness. |
| Pif-paf, oy-oy-oy! | 1,980 | Vitaliy Peskov | Animation, Comedy | 6.6 | 14 | Russian | A parody of the theatre world. The same piece is played out in a few different theatre styles: opera, avant garde, children's theatre, vaudeville etc. |
| Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You | 1,981 | Yuli Gusman | Action, Comedy, Adventure, Music, Romance | 6.6 | 14 | AZ | In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them. |
| The Wild Swans | 1,962 | Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Animation, Fantasy, Drama | 6.6 | 14 | Russian | When a witch transforms her brothers into swans, a young princess must find a way to change them back. |
| The Unamenables | 1,959 | Yuri Chulyukin | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 14 | Russian | Two foolish and frivolous guys cause suffering for the whole youth union at the factory. It was already decided to dismiss Anatoly Grachkin and his friend Victor Gromoboev but they are taken under the wing by Nadia Berestova, a diminutive funny woman, known as the popular one at the plant. At first, Nadia took it with reluctance and apprehension, but gradually this commission became the most important thing in her life. |
| The Frog Princess | 1,954 | Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.6 | 14 | Russian | A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil. |
| Uncle Au | 1,979 | Mayya Buzinova | Animation | 6.6 | 12 | Russian | Soviet puppet cartoon trilogy basis on a fairytale story by Finnish writer Hannu Mäkelä. |
| New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya | 1,975 | Igor Usov | Fantasy, Family | 6.6 | 11 | Russian | Before a New Year evening Masha and Vitya decide to go to the forest full of fairy tales creatures. |
| The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev | 1,971 | Vitaliy Melnikov | Romance, Comedy | 6.6 | 10 | Russian | After a photo of Konstantin Zbruyev got published in the magazine he got a lot of letters. So now it's a time for travel across the country in order to find a bride. |
| Storm Over Asia | 1,928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama, War, History | 6.5 | 62 | Russian | In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury. |
| At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own | 1,974 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Action, Drama, Adventure | 6.5 | 55 | Russian | Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption. |
| Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin | 1,981 | Elem Klimov | History, Drama | 6.5 | 44 | Russian | Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination. |
| By the Law | 1,926 | Lev Kuleshov | Drama, Western, Mystery, Action | 6.5 | 41 | Russian | After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law. |
| Doctor Aybolit | 1,986 | Davyd Cherkaskyi | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family | 6.5 | 39 | Russian | A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals. |
| Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair | 1,970 | Aleksandr Rou | Family, Fantasy | 6.5 | 37 | Russian | One day, King Yeremei decides to go on a long hike in order to consider all his areas and compile their register. A well appears on his way home, but as soon as the sovereign bent over him, he was seized by the underwater king Chudo-Yudo and demanded an unusual ransom for his release — that which is in the state of Yeremei, but which he does not know about. The tsar is forced to agree to these conditions, because he thinks that each blade of grass was taken into account in the inventory — he still does not suspect that in his absence the Queen gave birth to him an heir. |
| The Republic of ShKID | 1,966 | Gennadi Poloka | Family, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 36 | Russian | The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys. |
| Twenty Days Without War | 1,976 | Aleksei German | War, Drama | 6.5 | 30 | Russian | War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war. |
| Truffaldino from Bergamo | 1,977 | Vladimir Vorobyov | Comedy, Romance, TV Movie | 6.5 | 27 | Russian | A funny musical comedy based on the famous theater play "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni. |
| King Lear | 1,970 | Grigori Kozintsev | Drama | 6.5 | 24 | Russian | King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers. |
| There Is Such a Lad | 1,966 | Vasiliy Shukshin | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 22 | Russian | A story about Pashka, a really decent, honest guy, even though he lies a lot, who is looking for happiness and love. |
| Come Tomorrow... | 1,962 | Yevgeni Tashkov | Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama | 6.5 | 22 | Russian | "Come Tomorrow" (1963), directed by Yevgeny Tashkov, is a much-loved comedy about Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village who comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a professional singer. The film explores themes of hope, talent, perseverance and the pursuit of dreams, while also highlighting the contrast between the practical city dwellers and the idealistic villagers, suggesting that wisdom and truth can be found in both perspectives. |
| Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka | 1,953 | Olga Khodatayeva | Animation | 6.5 | 21 | Russian | Soviet cartoon film, filmed in 1953 by the director-animator Olga Khodataeva based on the Russian folk tale. |
| After the Rain, on Thursday | 1,986 | Mikhail Yuzovskiy | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 6.5 | 18 | Russian | A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is. |
| The Whiskered Nanny | 1,977 | Vladimir Grammatikov | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 18 | Russian | Young man Kesha starts working in the Kindergarten. |
| The Bonus | 1,974 | Sergey Mikaelyan | Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 17 | Russian | A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team accuses its construction company HQ with artificially reducing the targets, so they can be easily exceeded. It makes the management looks good, yet leads to frequent downtime reducing earnings for common construction workers even with fake bonuses. On a hastily organized meeting the management tries to subdue the "unruly" gang leader charging that he cannot know all details. It turned out that Potapov and his team prepared a detailed business analysis, which proved their point. Managers, who had different interests and positions, have to decide how to deal with the real problem leading to unexpected results. |
| Vassilisa the Beautiful | 1,940 | Aleksandr Rou | Family, Fantasy | 6.5 | 17 | Russian | Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell. |
| A Very English Murder | 1,974 | Samson Samsonov | Mystery, TV Movie | 6.5 | 15 | Russian | A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 19... |
| Traffic Officer | 1,982 | Eldor Urazbaev | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 14 | Russian | A comic drama about a permanently going duel between Traffic Officer and powerful businessman. |
| I Cannot Say 'Farewell' | 1,982 | Boris Durov | Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 14 | Russian | A dramatic story about love, infidelity and betrayal... |
| Kapitoshka | 1,980 | Borys Khranevych | Animation, Family | 6.5 | 12 | Ukrainian | Animation film about a friendship between young Wolfy and Kapitoshka. Wolfy tries to learn how to be scary and threatening. But then he meets a drop of rain, Kapitoshka, which makes him realize that it is not necessary to be scary. |
| The Twelve Months | 1,973 | Anatoliy Granik | Fantasy, Family | 6.5 | 12 | Russian | A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months. |
| Men Don't Cry | 1,969 | Sulev Nõmmik | Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | ET | A group of sleepless men should be taken into sanitarium for insomnia therapy. They are taken to a lonely island but no sanitarium is in sight. It turns out that the nurses have kidnapped the men and are about to give them the only useful medicine they need - fresh air and work. But the patients decide to disobey. There's only one solution - to escape. |
| In Spring | 1,929 | Mikhail Kaufman | Documentary | 6.5 | 12 | Ukrainian | Kyiv, 1929. Shots of the city as it wakes up... its awakening echoes with the lyrical pictures of the rebirth of nature. Kaufman’s attentive camera pauses for a long time on the smiling faces of children, painting a lyrical picture, a confession of love for Kyiv. |
| Walnut Bread | 1,977 | Arūnas Žebriūnas | Romance | 6.5 | 11 | LT | Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film. |
| The Adventures of Prince Florisel | 1,979 | Yevgeni Tatarsky | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery | 6.5 | 11 | Russian | A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when prince was seeking to deal with the boredom. Joining the Club of Suicide society, he uncovered the mastermind criminal behind it, and vowed to get rid of him by any means necessary, following deaths of several servants when dreaded president of club makes dashing escape. During that point, story changes into nearly second movie, as prince has to uncover yet another crime. |
| The Cutlass | 1,973 | Nikolai Kalinin | Adventure, Family | 6.5 | 11 | Russian | A Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery. |
| The Master of Taiga | 1,969 | Vladimir Nazarov | Mystery, Drama, Crime | 6.5 | 11 | Russian | Based on the story of Boris Mozhayev “The Power of the Taiga”. In the taiga village, where everyone is in sight, almost unbelievable happens — a l... |
| The Green Van | 1,983 | Aleksandr Pavlovskiy | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 10 | Russian | It is 1920. After three years of the Russian Civil War, communist government is finally established in Odessa. Young Alyosha Patrikeyv, who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes, joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police. He is assigned to fight illegal booz production in a small village of Severinovka. When he goes on a chase after a horse thief Krasavchik, Alyosha finds himself up against Cherven - the most dangerous criminal in Odessa. |
| Intergirl | 1,989 | Pyotr Todorovskiy | Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 46 | Russian | A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency. |
| The Humpbacked Horse | 1,975 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Family | 6.4 | 46 | Russian | Remake of the 1947 Soviet film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. |
| The General Line | 1,929 | Sergei Eisenstein | Drama | 6.4 | 45 | Russian | Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress. |
| By the Bluest of Seas | 1,936 | Boris Barnet | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 41 | Russian | Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen. |
| Flights in Dreams and in Reality | 1,983 | Roman Balayan | Drama | 6.4 | 39 | Russian | On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy a... |
| The Commissar | 1,967 | Aleksandr Askoldov | Drama, War | 6.4 | 39 | Russian | Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life. |
| The Elder Son | 1,975 | Vitaliy Melnikov | Drama | 6.4 | 34 | Russian | Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They rack their brains about where to find shelter and quite by chance they overhear a talk between father and son. The son is an adolescent who is head over heels in love with a girl several years his senior. He is living through the first drama of his life though his love is just puppy love. Then, being resourceful fellows, they think of a plan to pass one of them for the elder son of this family. The reason they give for his unexpected arrival is that he is a child of the father's long-forsaken love. They presume this cock-and-bull story will come off, and right they are! |
| Spring | 1,970 | Arvo Kruusement | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 31 | ET | Paunvere parish school students Arno and Teele, Toots and Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik experience feelings during one school winter, the traces of which they carry throughout their future lives - from true friendship and first love to self-discovery and clarifying life goals. |
| The Long Farewell | 1,987 | Kira Muratova | Drama | 6.4 | 29 | Russian | A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father. |
| Cloud Heaven | 1,990 | Nikolay Dostal | Drama | 6.4 | 27 | Russian | In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast. |
| Freeze, Die, Come to Life | 1,990 | Vitali Kanevsky | Drama | 6.4 | 27 | Russian | Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan. |
| Peasants | 1,981 | Iskra Babich | Drama | 6.4 | 27 | Russian | Pavel's mother hates his fiancee. When Pavel serves in the Army she writes him that Nastya is no longer faithful to him. Pavel decides not to return to his native town. But many years later he returns to his fathers funeral and finds out that Nastya died sometime ago. She left three kids orphans and her elder daughter is also a daughter of Pavel. |
| The Idiot | 1,958 | Ivan Pyryev | Drama | 6.4 | 25 | Russian | The film is based on the first part of the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where h... |
| The Peasant Women of Ryazan | 1,927 | Olga Preobrazhenskaya | Drama | 6.4 | 25 | Russian | The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life. |
| The Foundling | 1,939 | Tatyana Lukashevich | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 23 | Russian | A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will chan... |
| Forgotten Tune for the Flute | 1,987 | Eldar Ryazanov | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.4 | 22 | Russian | A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife. |
| The Sky Slow-Mover | 1,946 | Semyon Timoshenko | War, Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 21 | Russian | Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love. |
| The Beauty | 1,969 | Arūnas Žebriūnas | Drama, Family | 6.4 | 20 | LT | Little Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly to her face. |
| Girl without an Address | 1,958 | Eldar Ryazanov | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 20 | Russian | The amusing adventures of the young builder Pasha Gusarov began from the moment when he met and fell in love with Katya on the train, who was going to conquer Moscow. Happiness makes a person careless, and the station is just the place where you can lose it. But it is at the station after all kinds of adventures that they meet again and now they will never part. |
| In Memory of the Day Passed By | 1,990 | Šarūnas Bartas | Documentary | 6.4 | 18 | LT | The film is a day in the life that passes by, even if it seems neverending. In the morning the streets are alive with people, pedestrians and cars, with loud and exultant noise. Such sounds accompany the restless walk of a woman and her child across a dusty street, while Bartas’ gaze wanders through many different perspectives. |
| The Blonde Around the Corner | 1,983 | Vladimir Bortko | Romance, Comedy | 6.4 | 18 | Russian | An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception. |
| Aladdin and His Magic Lamp | 1,966 | Boris Rytsarev | Adventure, Family, Romance | 6.4 | 18 | Russian | A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom. |
| The Tale of the Golden Rooster | 1,967 | Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya | Animation, Family | 6.4 | 17 | Russian | A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom. |
| Karlsson-on-the-Roof | 1,971 | Margarita Mikaelyan | Comedy, Adventure, Family | 6.4 | 16 | Russian | The mischievous Carlson and the gullible Kid are the heroes of a well-known fairy tale. Carlson loves to play pranks very much, and for all the consequences of pranks he has a "proprietary" excuse: "It's nothing, it's an everyday thing!". |
| The Secret of the Iron Door | 1,970 | Mikhail Yuzovskiy | Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 16 | Russian | Every one of us dreams of finding a magic wand, matches or, at least, an enchanted flower that would make any wish come true. Well, we’re just dreaming, but a boy named Tolya Ryzhkov did find one, though, between us, he didn’t deserve such a good fortune. He was a pretty big liar and rascal, didn’t listen to his mother, hurt those who were weaker, and didn’t obey traffic regulations.On that ill-fated day when his incredible adventures began he behaved badly, as usual. He had even made a policeman mad! While running away from him, Tolya met a magician and forced a box of magic matches from him. To punish the boy, the evil magician (alas, there are such, too) had Tolya transported to his magic island. You will know how it all ended when you watch this humorous, fascinating adventure film. |
| Heavenly Swallows | 1,976 | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 15 | Russian | Denise de Flavigny, a young convent student, discovers a double-life of the organist Célestin, who teaches her music at the convent. He secretly composes popular operettas for his mistress Corinne. Célestin visits the city to witness the premiere of his latest effort; Denise escapes the convent as well. Following a quarrel with Célestin, Corinne walks out and instead, Denise appears in her role, taking the name Mam'zelle Nitouche. Denise falls in love with Fernand, a handsome young soldier. Both Denise and Célestin are mistaken for soldiers absent without leave and shipped off to an army camp. A series of coincidences brings happiness to all concerned. |
| Ruslan and Ludmila | 1,972 | Aleksandr Ptushko | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.4 | 14 | Russian | In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of Prince Vladimir, the girl is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor ... |
| The Nail in the Boot | 1,931 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Drama, War | 6.4 | 14 | KA | Banned in the Soviet Union for its "negative" content and never released, Kalatozov was forced to retreat from filmmaking for seven years because of this film. The film sets out to illustrate the old adage, "For want of a nail, the battle was lost," showing how the inferior quality of something so trivial as a nail in a soldier's boot leads inexorably to the capture of an armored train. Kalatozov had intended to demonstrate the crucial and universal importance of efficiency in Soviet industry, but the government decided that his fable gave a negative impression of the Red Army's capabilities. |
| Butterfly | 1,972 | Andrey Khrzhanovsky | Animation | 6.4 | 13 | Russian | The film is devoted to the theme of careful attitude to the nature. It tells us how one of butterflies which are caught by the boy, grows till the huge sizes and the hunter appears in the net. Having tested bondage, the boy lets out the captives. |
| There Lived Kozyavin | 1,966 | Andrey Khrzhanovsky | Animation | 6.4 | 13 | Russian | Kozyavin is ordered by his boss one day to find a man named Sidorov, and is pointed in a particular direction. The employee follows the indicated direction unswervingly to find him, encountering various obstacles along the way. |
| A Groom from the Right Society | 1,958 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy | 6.4 | 13 | Russian | Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried. |
| The Humpbacked Horse | 1,941 | Aleksandr Rou | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.4 | 13 | Russian | Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse. |
| One Time Deal | 1,987 | Ara Gabrielyan | Comedy, Crime | 6.4 | 12 | Russian | A crew of builders in charge of demolition of old buildings in Moscow find hidden treasure inside one of the houses scheduled for demolition. The plot evolves around their attempts to bypass the Soviet authorities and cash the gold. |
| The Highway | 1,983 | Viktor Tregubovich | Drama | 6.4 | 11 | Russian | The film takes place during one day of operation of a railway line, the capacity of which is lower than necessary. A disaster occurs: a passenger train crashes into a tank train, the driver's assistant is killed, and traffic on the section is delayed. The film explores the patterns that led to the accident. |
| The Hunt | 1,979 | Eduard Nazarov | Animation | 6.4 | 11 | Russian | Short Russian animated film. The boy comes to the hunting shop considers trophies and imagines that he is in the African savannah. |
| A French Lesson | 1,978 | Yevgeni Tashkov | Drama | 6.4 | 11 | Russian | Actions of the movie occurred in Post-WWII years in small village. Mother with three children. Father was lost in the war, like many other. 11-year old son rather smart boy is main help in housekeeping. But here was primary school only, and he was sent to study to neighbor village over 50 km. He lives with his mother's friend - woman and two children. Mother brought food one time per 3 weeks, and he cooks and eats separately from householders. To buy more food he plays game 'money'. He was beaten by older boys – usual child's cruelty. |
| I And Others | 1,971 | Feliks Sobolev | Documentary | 6.4 | 11 | Ukrainian | How independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone else's opinion for his own. But for an adult, this is a loss of personality, adaptability, conformism, which forms the psychology of a slave. |
| Charlotte Necklace | 1,984 | Yevgeni Tatarsky | Crime, Mystery, TV Movie | 6.4 | 10 | Russian | While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad . |
| How Petryk Pyatochkin Counted Little Elephants | 1,984 | Oleksandr Viken | Animation | 6.4 | 10 | Ukrainian | Petryk Pyatochkin goes to kindergarten and loves to play around. One day he counted elephants so that he could fall asleep with the other children during quiet time. And when he succeeded, Petryk got to Africa in an amazing kindergarten, where he had to take care of baby elephants, who did not miss the opportunity to have fun. |
| Return | 1,972 | Arman Manaryan | Drama | 6.3 | 563 | HY | The main character of the film is an outstanding physicist who was invited to Armenia from Russia to head a lab. He comes across many troubles in his homeland, but nevertheless finds his true love there. |
| The Twelve Months | 1,956 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure | 6.3 | 55 | Russian | A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months. |
| Chess Fever | 1,925 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Comedy | 6.3 | 50 | Russian | With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results. |
| Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas | 1,930 | Dziga Vertov | Documentary | 6.3 | 42 | Russian | An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and the vibrant athletic culture of its time |
| Zigzag of Success | 1,968 | Eldar Ryazanov | Comedy | 6.3 | 38 | Russian | Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planne... |
| The Snow Queen | 1,967 | Gennadi Kazansky | Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama | 6.3 | 33 | Russian | The film tells a story about the extraordinary journey of the modest little girl Gerda. She is looking for her friend Kai, who was kidnapped and ta... |
| The Girl with the Hat Box | 1,927 | Boris Barnet | Comedy | 6.3 | 31 | Russian | A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him. |
| Tomorrow Was the War | 1,987 | Yuriy Kara | Drama | 6.3 | 29 | Russian | This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”. |
| Winter Evening in Gagry | 1,985 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music | 6.3 | 26 | Russian | A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager. |
| The Second Circle | 1,990 | Aleksandr Sokurov | Drama | 6.3 | 25 | Russian | A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality. |
| Salt for Svanetia | 1,930 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Documentary | 6.3 | 25 | KA | An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul. |
| The Pass | 1,988 | Vladimir Tarasov | Animation, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 24 | Russian | A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mountain passage. |
| Tears Were Falling | 1,983 | Georgiy Daneliya | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 | 23 | Russian | A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of the mirror of an evil wizard. And the world for ... |
| Give Me a Complaints Book | 1,964 | Eldar Ryazanov | Comedy | 6.3 | 21 | Russian | A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club. |
| Cosmic Journey | 1,936 | Vasily Zhuravlyov | Science Fiction | 6.3 | 21 | Russian | Soviet cinematographers created a progressively realistic image of a journey to the moon in these early days of special effects. Scientist Pavel Sedikh grows impatient with the restrictions of the conservative Soviet space institute in Moscow. Sedikh builds his own spacecraft, and accompanied by a female astronaut and a boy, he embarks on a the first human trip to the moon. |
| A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love | 1,990 | Sergey Solovyov | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.3 | 20 | Russian | The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union. |
| The Last Relic | 1,970 | Grigori Kromanov | Adventure, History, Romance | 6.3 | 19 | ET | A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel. |
| The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase | 1,970 | Ilya Frez | Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.3 | 18 | Russian | Do you know that there are doctors who can prescribe you the medicine to be brave?.. |
| Dersu Uzala | 1,961 | Agasi Babayan | Adventure | 6.3 | 18 | Russian | Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала) is a 1961 Soviet film, adapted from the books of Vladimir Arsenyev, about his travels in Russian Far East with a native trapper, Dersu Uzala. |
| Captain Nemo | 1,975 | Vasili Levin | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy | 6.3 | 17 | Russian | For several years as a terrible sea monster drowns ships of the Navy. In a small number of ships that managed to survive, in the sides were found huge holes triangular shape. Now any exit to the sea is deadly, so America sends a special frigate called Blue Star. His goal is to find and destroy the terrible monster. One of the participants of the punitive expedition is a famous Professor from France – Pierre Aronnax. He has a deep knowledge of the mysteries of the deep sea. The search for the monster continues for more than three months, but in the end, the frigate still detects it and immediately starts the attack mode. After an unsuccessful battle with the monster ship goes to the bottom, and the Professor, his servant Conseil and whaler Ned Land get on a submarine and make an amazing journey under water. |
| Ten | 1,971 | Nadezhda Kosheverova | Comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Family | 6.3 | 16 | Russian | The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne. |
| A Trap for Lonely Man | 1,990 | Aleksei Korenev | Crime, Comedy, Mystery | 6.3 | 15 | Russian | Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she is not his wife. When several other people arrive and verify she is Elizabeth, Daniel feels he is losing his grip on reality. |
| You and Me | 1,971 | Larisa Shepitko | Drama | 6.3 | 15 | Russian | The film centers on Pyotr, a once-promising neurosurgeon who walked away from his groundbreaking research and career abroad, only to return home years later in search of fulfillment. Encountering old friends, strained relationships, and the realities of his choices, Pyotr grapples with regret, identity, and the value of his work. |
| Children of Hotel America | 1,991 | Raimundas Banionis | Drama | 6.3 | 14 | LT | Kaunas, Lithuania, 1972... Young people are sitting in the Hotel "America" basement and listen to Western Radio. |
| Little Stomper | 1,964 | Fyodor Khitruk | Adventure, Animation, Family | 6.3 | 12 | Russian | A bear cub who has trouble sleeping during winter sneaks out of the house and makes a new friend. |
| Visiting the Minotaur | 1,987 | Eldor Urazbaev | History, Drama, Crime, Mystery | 6.3 | 11 | Russian | The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari's missing violin. This is one storyline of the film, but there is also a second, historical storyline that takes the viewer back to the 17th century and focuses on the life of the Master and his work on the violin. |
| The Sixth | 1,982 | Samvel Gasparov | Drama, Action | 6.3 | 11 | Russian | The Civil War in Russia has just finished. The sixth chief of militia came to a small town in the south. Five Glodov’s predecessors had been killed by a gang of elusive Vakhromeyev. Now Glodov and his crew are going to have a mortal combat with the smart gangsters… |
| The Stone Cross | 1,968 | Leonid Osyka | Drama, History | 6.3 | 11 | Ukrainian | In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion. |
| Great Green Valley | 1,967 | Merab Kokochashvili | Drama, Family, Romance | 6.3 | 11 | KA | A group of geologists discover oil under the fields where Sosana, the aged and anachronistic father, raises his herd with his unhappy wife, her friend and his growing boy with whom he displays a wonderful rapport. The land is invaded by big machinery that feels remarkably alien to the serene and natural aesthetic of the valley. The family all enjoys the pleasures and storytelling capacity a slide projector grants them, but it too feels distinctly out of place in a town with no plumbing. |
| Ikar and Sages | 1,976 | Fyodor Khitruk | Animation | 6.3 | 10 | Russian | It is a parable about world wisdom and "madness of brave men" who are ready to risk their life for the sake of new opening. |
| Father Frost | 1,965 | Aleksandr Rou | Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 129 | Russian | A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together. |
| Ashik Kerib | 1,988 | Sergei Parajanov | Drama, History, Fantasy | 6.2 | 48 | KA | Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes. |
| Oblomov | 1,980 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 44 | Russian | St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz? |
| Moscow-Cassiopeia | 1,974 | Richard Viktorov | Science Fiction, Family, Adventure, Comedy | 6.2 | 44 | Russian | Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school. |
| Quiet Flows the Don | 1,957 | Sergei Gerasimov | Drama, History | 6.2 | 37 | Russian | Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov. |
| Bed and Sofa | 1,927 | Abram Room | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 37 | Russian | Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in. |
| Outskirts | 1,933 | Boris Barnet | War, Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 34 | Russian | In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism. |
| Don't Grieve! | 1,968 | Georgiy Daneliya | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 33 | KA | Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him... |
| The Flower with Seven Colours | 1,948 | Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Animation | 6.2 | 33 | Russian | A little girl is walking around the city with a bunch of bagels. All the bagels are eaten by a dog that follows her while the little girl was looki... |
| Zvenyhora | 1,928 | Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama, Fantasy, History, Comedy | 6.2 | 31 | Ukrainian | The momentous film stars Mykola Nademskyi as the grandfather of Tymish, whom he alerts to the secret treasure buried in the mountains of Zvenygora – a treasure that rightfully belongs to his homeland. The film wonderfully blends both lyricism and politics and uses its central construct to build a montage praising Ukrainian industrialization, attacking the bourgeoisie, celebrating the beauty of the Ukrainian steppe and retelling ancient folklore. Sergei Eisenstein said of the film, "As the lights went on, we felt that we had just witnessed a memorable event in the development of the cinema". |
| The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue | 1,976 | Emil Loteanu | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 30 | Russian | This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. |
| There Once Was a Singing Blackbird | 1,970 | Otar Iosseliani | Drama, Comedy, Music | 6.2 | 30 | KA | Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never staying still for five minutes. However, he always manages to arrive at the theater just in time to play the drums at the end of the ballet. |
| One Hundred Days After Childhood | 1,975 | Sergey Solovyov | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 28 | Russian | Pioneer leader Serge, a sculptor, decides to work in a new plastic material, among creatively gifted children in a camp located in an old mansion. Pioneer Lopukhin is so in love with his classmate Ergolina that he does not notice how fascinated Sonya Zagremukhina is with him. Showing their emotions and moods helps their participation in the production of the play "Masquerade" by Lermontov, and the play itself imperceptibly turns into a drama with unexpected confessions, insults, jealousy, and outbursts. The teens are so busy with their feelings that they do not pay attention to the pedagogical ideas of Pioneer Serge, and by the end of the film, with no additional encouragement, they are ready for a commemoration of first love. |
| Scarlet Sails | 1,961 | Aleksandr Ptushko | Romance, Drama, Fantasy | 6.2 | 26 | Russian | A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl. |
| Ten Minutes Older | 1,978 | Herz Frank | Documentary | 6.2 | 25 | XX | A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces. |
| Dzhamilya | 1,969 | Irina Poplavskaya | War, Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 25 | Russian | In a remote Kyrgyz village, Dzhamilya follows her parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new husband has to leave the village. While being alone, Dzhamiliya meets the returning soldier Daniyar and falls in love with him instead. Years later, their young friend Seid reminisces about the couple. |
| The Brothers Karamazov | 1,969 | Ivan Pyryev | Drama | 6.2 | 24 | Russian | Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of the brothers is accused of killing his father, whom he did not commit. The brothers are unable to help him, and only a loving girl follows him to hard labour. |
| The House on Trubnaya | 1,928 | Boris Barnet | Comedy | 6.2 | 24 | Russian | Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city. |
| Moscow Elegy | 1,987 | Aleksandr Sokurov | Documentary | 6.2 | 23 | Russian | A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Tarkovsky in 1982, which would have been before his death. Controversy with Soviet authorities about the film's style and content led to significant delays in the production. |
| Geese-Swans | 1,949 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Animation | 6.2 | 23 | Russian | With a help of good nature a young brave girl goes to the dark forest for saving her youngest brother abducted by Baba Yaga. |
| Circus | 1,936 | Grigori Aleksandrov | Music, Comedy | 6.2 | 23 | Russian | An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR. |
| The Canterville Ghost | 1,970 | Valentina Brumberg | Animation, Family | 6.2 | 22 | Russian | |
| Night Fun | 1,991 | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 20 | Russian | A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person. |
| A Very Old Story | 1,968 | Nadezhda Kosheverova | Family, Fantasy | 6.2 | 20 | Russian | Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell. |
| The Plea | 1,967 | Tengiz Abuladze | Drama | 6.2 | 20 | KA | Brave sons of Khevsureti and Kisteti fight against each to protect their homelands. But, they confront faulty domestic traditions to respect enemy’s true prowess and find themselves in conflict with own compatriots. |
| The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty | 1,927 | Esfir Shub | Documentary, History | 6.2 | 20 | Russian | A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. |
| An Unnamed Star | 1,978 | Mikhail Kozakov | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.2 | 19 | Russian | "Stars never leave their orbits". The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was "from the another world". SHE was strange and inappropriate in his tiny calm town. Town with slough-like life and citizens who spent all their time gossiping. Once he almost started to believe that the miracle is possible... but "the stars never leave their orbits" |
| Jolly Fellows | 1,934 | Grigori Aleksandrov | Music, Comedy | 6.2 | 19 | Russian | Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. |
| Vassa | 1,983 | Gleb Panfilov | Drama | 6.2 | 18 | Russian | Screen adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky "Vassa Zheleznova". Saga of the death of a merchant family. For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic brother, and revolutionary daughter-in-law, is trying to maintain at least the appearance of a normal family... 1913 is coming, and everything that was dedicated to her life is wrecked. |
| Secret of the Blackbirds | 1,983 | Vadim Derbenyov | Mystery, Thriller, Crime | 6.2 | 18 | Russian | Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be. |
| Father Frost and the Grey Wolf | 1,978 | Vitold Bordzilovskiy | Animation | 6.2 | 18 | Russian | It is a New Year's fairy tale about Ded Moroz who hastened with the gifts for children's holiday, and about the Wolf who tried to prevent him to do it. |
| Eugene, Little Eugene and Katyusha | 1,967 | Vladimir Motyl | Comedy, Romance, War, Drama | 6.2 | 18 | Russian | War, 1944. Soldier Zhenya Kolyshkin, a fragile intellectual from Arbat, sets out on New Year's Eve to collect a parcel, but stumbles upon a German dugout. He manages to escape, but guard duty is inevitable. Zhenya's predicament is brightened by Zhenechka, a communications officer in the Katyusha regiment. |
| Experiments in the Revival of Organisms | 1,940 | David Yashin | Documentary | 6.2 | 18 | English | This film shows experiments performed by Soviet scientists reviving the lungs, heart, and even the head of a dead dog. |
| 31st of June | 1,979 | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Romance, Comedy, TV Movie | 6.2 | 17 | Russian | A lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century. |
| Magdana's Donkey | 1,955 | Tengiz Abuladze | Drama | 6.2 | 17 | KA | This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long… |
| The Arrows of Robin Hood | 1,976 | Sergei Tarasov | History, Adventure | 6.2 | 16 | Russian | With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation. |
| Fuss of the Fusses | 1,979 | Alla Surikova | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 15 | Russian | A comedy about a civil registry official whose job is to register newlyweds and who just discovered that her husband has been cheating on her for 3 months, her daughter met a guy she doesn't approve of, and her life has suddenly become a fuss of the fusses. |
| Stride, Soviet! | 1,926 | Dziga Vertov | Documentary | 6.2 | 15 | Russian | Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, film is a tableau of Soviet life and achievements in the period of reconstruction following the Civil War of 1917-1921. |
| Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh | 1,981 | Nikolai Gubenko | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 14 | Russian | Two reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea resort on the late autumn. Long dinners with senceless conversations transform into a love story. |
| A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve | 1,982 | Janis Streics | Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 13 | LV | When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, different family members are suddenly there to 'be helpful' in favor to get the car after aunties' death, not to mention, they never have come before to help her. The funny rivalry between two parts of family, a foolish jealousy to the near living peasants' family, which had always non-selfishly been there for auntie, is a caricature of greasy human nature. This is a slight humor of the Soviet life details as well. But aunt Mirta isn't fool, and is still young in her heart until her last minute, that appears in her last will - to whom the car, the limousine in the color of St. John's night goes. |
| Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... | 1,978 | Mark Genin | Comedy | 6.2 | 13 | Russian | An omnibus of comical shorts. |
| I Wish to Speak | 1,976 | Gleb Panfilov | Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Russian | The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief. |
| Summer | 1,976 | Arvo Kruusement | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 13 | ET | In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too. |
| The Bronze Bird | 1,974 | Nikolai Kalinin | Adventure, Family | 6.2 | 13 | Russian | Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion. |
| The Millionaire | 1,963 | Vitold Bordzilovskiy | Animation | 6.2 | 13 | Russian | A dog inherits a fortune and becomes an influential capitalist snob in the human world. |
| The Rumyantsev Case | 1,956 | Iosif Kheifits | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Russian | Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals. |
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