Movies by Lists - Top Russian-Soviet Films (102 [106]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 12Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather. | 2007 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (14.4K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| Alexander NevskyThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Action, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.6 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Andrei RublevThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev. | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.1 (52.1K votes) | 205 | 20211228 |
| Anna KareninaAnna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life. | 1967 | Aleksandr Zarkhi | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (933 votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| ArsenalA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. | 1929 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama, War | 7.2 (2.1K votes) | 70 | 20220723 |
| Ascent [Voskhozhdeniye]Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches. | 1977 | Larisa Shepitko | Drama, War | 8.3 (8.1K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Ascent, The [Voskhozhdenie]Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches. | 1977 | Larisa Shepitko | Drama, War | 8.2 (9.3K votes) | 111 | 20230424 |
| Assassin of the Tsar [Tsareubiytsa]Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event. | 1991 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Drama, History | 6.9 (814 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Asthenic Syndrome, The [Astenicheskiy sindrom]In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun. | 1989 | Kira Muratova | Drama | 6.7 (1.2K votes) | 153 | 20220315 |
| Ballad of a Soldier [Ballada o soldate]Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime. | 1959 | Grigoriy Chukhray | Drama, Romance, War | 8.2 (10.3K votes) | 88 | 20220419 |
| Barber of Siberia, The [Sibirskiy tsiryulnik]At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives. | 1998 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.8 (12K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Battleship Potemkin, TheIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 8.0 (56.4K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Beanpole [Dylda]1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ... | 2019 | Kantemir Balagov | Drama, War | 7.2 (11.4K votes) | 130 | 20221228 |
| Beginning, The [Nachalo]A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen | 1970 | Gleb Panfilov | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (894 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Brief Encounters [Korotkie vstrechi]Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, | 1967 | Kira Muratova | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (810 votes) | 96 | 20220414 |
| Burnt by the SunIn the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin's repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life's downfall is already running. | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Drama, History, War | 7.9 (15.2K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| By the Bluest of Seas [U samogo sinego morya]Two best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home. | 1936 | Boris Barnet, Samad Mardanov | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (972 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| By the Law [Po zakonu]A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then face | 1926 | Lev Kuleshov | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Western | 7.6 (1.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Cargo 200 [Gruz 200]A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad. | 2007 | Aleksey Balabanov | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (9.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The [Detstvo Gorkogo]A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives. | 1938 | Mark Donskoy | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (705 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
| Color of Pomegranates, The [Sayat Nova]A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, told via non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov. | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 7.7 (10.3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Come and See [Idi i smotri]After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. | 1985 | Elem Klimov (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.3 (71.6K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Compartment Number 6 [Hytti nro 6]As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life. | 2021 | Juho Kuosmanen | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (14.3K votes) | 107 | 20231116 |
| Cranes Are Flying, The [Letyat zhuravli]Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter. | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.3 (16.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Days of Eclipse [Dni zatmeniya]Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia. | 1988 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (1K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Dead Man's Letters [Pisma myortvogo cheloveka]In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son. | 1986 | Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Dear Comrades! [Dorogie tovarishchi]When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. | 2020 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Drama, History | 7.4 (5.6K votes) | 121 | 20231001 |
| Dersu Uzala [The Hunter]The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter. | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 8.3 (27K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| DovlatovThe film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice. | 2018 | Aleksey German Jr. | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (2K votes) | 126 | 20220822 |
| Earth [Zemlya]In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. | 1930 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama | 7.3 (5.6K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| ElenaWhen a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ... | 2011 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (14K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| End of St. Petersburg [Konets Sankt-Peterburga]A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel. | 1927 | Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Drama | 7.3 (1.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Fall of Berlin, The [Padenie Berlina]A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl. | 1950 | Mikheil Chiaureli | Drama, War | 5.6 (546 votes) | 167 | 20240329 |
| Falling Leaves [Giorgobistve]A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State. | 1966 | Otar Iosseliani | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (843 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Father of a Soldier [Jariskatsis mama]An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him. | 1964 | Rezo Chkheidze | Drama, War | 8.4 (4.3K votes) | 87 | 20220731 |
| FaustA despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman. | 2011 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.6 (5.4K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Favourites Of The Moon [Les favoris de la lune]Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors, calls to mind th | 1984 | Otar Iosseliani | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (740 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| First Teacher, The [Pervyy uchitel]Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the countrymen are to help him, and even to let thei | 1965 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Drama | 7.5 (523 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Five Evenings [Pyat vecherov]Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava. | 1979 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (1.3K votes) | 108 | 20220731 |
| Fool, The [Durak]Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse. | 2014 | Yuriy Bykov | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (13.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Forty-First, The [Sorok pervyy]An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer. | 1956 | Grigoriy Chukhray | War, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (1.5K votes) | 88 | 20220723 |
| Fragment of an Empire [Oblomok imperii]A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg. | 1929 | Fridrikh Ermler | Drama | 7.3 (397 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Freeze Die Come to Life [Zamri, umri, voskresni!]Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour. | 1990 | Vitali Kanevsky | Drama | 7.5 (875 votes) | 105 | 20220723 |
| Getting to Know the Big, Wide WorldMikhail helps out Nikolay and Lyuba by giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory. | 1980 | Kira Muratova | Drama | 7.1 (348 votes) | 75 | 20240930 |
| Girl with the Hat Box, The [Devushka s korobkoy]Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for l | 1927 | Boris Barnet | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (721 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| HamletWhen the king of Denmark dies suddenly, his son, crown prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married Hamlet's recently widowed mother. Then, one night, Hamlet is visited by his father' | 1964 | Grigoriy Kozintsev | Drama | 8.3 (2.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Hard to Be a God [Trudno byt bogom]In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like, planet. | 2013 | Aleksey German | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (5.6K votes) | 177 | 20211228 |
| Hardcore HenryHenry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers. | 2015 | Ilya Naishuller | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.7 (92.6K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Harvest Time [Vremya zhatvy]Winner of a Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival "for its complex and poetic evocation of an ambiguous period in Soviet history," Marina Razbezhkina's debut film HARVEST TIME is a beautiful portrait of a wom | 2004 | Marina Razbezhkina | Drama | 6.8 (216 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| How I Ended This Summer [Kak ya provyol etim letom]One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't commun... | 2010 | Alexei Popogrebsky | Drama | 6.9 (7K votes) | 130 | 20240329 |
| I Am Cuba [Soy Cuba]Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era. | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov (*) | Drama | 8.2 (9.1K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| I Am Twenty [Mne dvadtsat let]Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union. | 1965 | Marlen Khutsiev | Drama | 7.8 (1.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| In the FogWestern frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice. | 2012 | Sergey Loznitsa | Drama, History, War | 6.8 (3.1K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 [Ivan Groznyy]During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. | 1944 | Sergei Eisenstein | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (9.9K votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 [Ivan Groznyy 2]As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar. | 1958 | Sergei Eisenstein | Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (7.3K votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
| Ivan's Childhood [Ivanovo detstvo]During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines. | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Drama, War | 8.1 (35.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Khrustalyov, My Car! [Khrustalyov, mashinu!]Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands. | 1998 | Aleksey German | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (1.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Lady with the Dog, The [Dama s sobachkoy]A love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love. | 1960 | Iosif Kheifits | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Legend of Suram Fortress, The [Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa]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. | 1985 | Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze | Drama | 7.3 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
| Letters From A Dead Man [pisma_myortvogo_cheloveka]In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son. | 1986 | Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| LeviathanIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. | 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (56.8K votes) | 140 | 20240324 |
| Leviathan [Leviafan]In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. | 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (57.2K votes) | 140 | 20240709 |
| Little Vera [Malenkaya Vera]A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town. | 1988 | Vasili Pichul | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Long Farewell, The [Dolgie provody]A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father. | 1971 | Kira Muratova | Drama | 7.5 (737 votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Loveless [Nelyubov]A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. | 2017 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Drama | 7.6 (32.7K votes) | 127 | 20220415 |
| Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom - Prokofiev Soundtrack]A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. | 1929 | Dziga Vertov (*) | Documentary, Music | 8.4 (24.2K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Mirror, The [Zerkalo]A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (44.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Mother [Mat]A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike. | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama | 7.5 (2.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Mother and Son [Mat i syn]A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother. | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama | 7.3 (4K votes) | 73 | 20220723 |
| My Friend Ivan Lapshin [Moy drug Ivan Lapshin]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. | 1985 | Aleksey German | Drama | 7.7 (2.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| My Name is Ivan [Ivanovo Detstvo]During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines. | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Drama, War | 8.1 (35.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| New Babylon, The [Novyy Vavilon]In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the lo | 1929 | Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Drama, History | 7.3 (826 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| New Horizons [Vyborgskaya storona]In the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is appointed to nationalize a bank ,he has discussions with both Lenin and Stalin. | 1939 | Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Drama | 6.0 (164 votes) | 92 | 20240105 |
| Night Watch [Nochnoy dozor]A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle. | 2004 | Timur Bekmambetov | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (54K votes) | 114 | 20220806 |
| Nine Days of One Year [Devyat dney odnogo goda]Nuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements. | 1962 | Mikhail Romm | Drama | 7.5 (1.2K votes) | 111 | 20240329 |
| Nostalgia [Nostalghia]A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved. | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama | 8.1 (25.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| OblomovSt. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga. | 1980 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (2.3K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| October - Ten Days that Shook the World [Oktyabr]A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown. | 1927 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein | Drama, History | 7.5 (7.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Old and New100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village. | 1929 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein | Drama | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird [Iko shashvi mgalobeli]A carefree young percussionist roams the streets of Tbilisi, interacting with friends and strangers alike, and tries to avoid responsibilities. | 1970 | Otar Iosseliani | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.7 (1.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Patriots, The [Okraina]Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism | 1933 | Boris Barnet | Drama, War | 7.1 (1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Poem of the Sea, The [Poema o more]Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash. | 1958 | Yuliya Solntseva | Drama | 6.4 (143 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Rainbow, The [Raduga]Depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village in Ukraine at the beginning of World War II from the view point of the terrorized villagers. | 1944 | Mark Donskoy | War, Drama | 7.1 (219 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Red Snowball Tree, The [Kalina krasnaya]A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go. | 1974 | Vasiliy Shukshin | Drama | 7.6 (2K votes) | 110 | 20240329 |
| Repentance [Monanieba]Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities. | 1984 | Tengiz Abuladze | Drama | 8.3 (4.4K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Return, TheIn the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Drama | 8.0 (44.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Russian Ark [Russkiy kovcheg]A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery | 7.4 (20.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors [Tini zabutykh predkiv]A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine. | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov (*) | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.9 (6.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| SiberiaAt the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives. | 1998 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.8 (12K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Siberiade [Sibiriada]The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One buil | 1979 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.0 (2.1K votes) | 206 | 20211228 |
| Solaris [Solyaris]A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| StalkerA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.1 (129.5K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Storm Over Asia [Potomok Chingis-Khana]After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War. | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama, War | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Strike [Stachka]A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia. | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein (*) | Drama | 7.6 (7.8K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Tale of Tales [Skazka skazok]Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted. | 1979 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Short | 7.9 (3.6K votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
| Tale of Tales, The [Skazka skazok]Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted. | 1979 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Short | 7.8 (4K votes) | 29 | 20240105 |
| Taxi Blues [Taksi-Blyuz]A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare. | 1990 | Pavel Lungin (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (1.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Triumph Over Violence [Ordinary Fascism; Obyknovennyy fashizm]A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society. | 1965 | Mikhail Romm | Documentary, History, War | 8.1 (2K votes) | 82 | 20230728 |
| Twenty Days Without War [Dvadtsat dney bez voyny]During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there. | 1977 | Aleksey German | Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (1.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano, An [Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino]In Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries. | 1977 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Drama | 7.8 (3.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| War and Peace [Voyna i mir]The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812. | 1965 | Sergey Bondarchuk | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.3 (7K votes) | 422 | 20211228 |
| Wings [Krylya]A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she c | 1966 | Larisa Shepitko | Drama | 7.6 (1.9K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Entuziazm (Simfoniya Donbassa) | 1930 | Dziga Vertov | Documentary | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Vremena goda | 1975 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary, Short | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| ¡Que viva México! Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! | 1979 | Sergei Eisenstein | Documentary, Drama, Western | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Andrei Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer | 2019 | Andrey A. Tarkovskiy | Documentary | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |