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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 113,405 | Gross: $8.05M
2. Mirror (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 52,220 | Gross: $0.18M
3. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
PG | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
Director: Vladimir Menshov | Stars: Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova, Aleksandr Fatyushin
Votes: 14,291 | Gross: $2.50M
4. Spacewalk (2017)
137 min | Drama, History
Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
Director: Dmitriy Kiselev | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov
Votes: 8,079
5. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 2,781
6. Siberiade (1979)
190 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko
Votes: 2,316
7. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,731 | Gross: $0.25M
8. Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Not Rated | 147 min | Comedy, Drama
Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Jüri Järvet Jr., Mikhail Dementev
Votes: 2,263
9. Chikatilo (2021–2022)
50 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The history of the hunt for the worst serial killer in the USSR
Stars: Dmitriy Nagiev, Dmitriy Vlaskin, Nikolay Kozak, Evgeniy Shirikov
Votes: 1,272
10. Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose (2013)
108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.
Director: Pavel Parkhomenko | Stars: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir Steklov, Vadim Michman
Votes: 3,577
11. Red Army (2014)
PG | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
Director: Gabe Polsky | Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, Vladimir Pozner
Votes: 7,210 | Gross: $0.69M
12. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
157 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand
Votes: 1,118
13. Strana Sovetov. Zabytye vozhdi (2017–2019)
Documentary, History
This is a project that tells about the key figures in the leadership of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1953.
Stars: Lyubov Germanova, Ilya Isaev, Sergey Chonishvili, Zurab Miminoshvili
Votes: 15
14. Cannibal Island (2011 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
In 1933, Joseph Stalin ordered 6,000 unwanted citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to be sent to the desolate Siberian island of Nazino. Almost a century later, we remember this horrifying event, and pay homage to those who lost their lives.
Director: Cédric Condon | Stars: Fabrice Pierre, Natalia Dufraisse, Andrei Zayats, Anton Yakovlev
Votes: 197
15. The Unknown War (1978– )
1,040 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary film history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict in world War II.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Averell Harriman
Votes: 297
16. Gulag: The History (2019– )
167 min | Documentary, History
Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Gary Whitaker, James Hogg
Votes: 221
17. Anna ot 6 do 18 (1994)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna questions.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 734
18. Babij Jar (2003)
112 min | Drama
Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Michael Degen, Barbara De Rossi, Katrin Sass, Axel Milberg
Votes: 187
19. Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 882
20. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova, Viktor Dyomin
Votes: 730
21. The Great War (2010–2012)
50 min | Documentary, Drama, History
This twelve hour-long documentary depicts the most important events and battles of World War II on the Eastern Front. The series illustrate the history of the war by means of ... See full summary »
Stars: Anatoliy Bogush, Evgeniy Sinchukov, Olga Radchuk, Andrey Vlasov
Votes: 314
22. Ukroshcheniye ognya (1972)
166 min | Biography, Drama, History
About Soviet space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
Director: Daniil Khrabrovitsky | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Igor Gorbachyov, Andrei Popov
Votes: 402
23. The Eleventh Year (1928)
59 min | Documentary
This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 375
24. Russia - A Thousand Years of History (2021 TV Movie)
93 min | Documentary, History
An exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a tale that set the scene for one of the world's most enigmatic figures, and his vision of modern Russia.
Director: Alice Lee | Star: Fiona Shaw
Votes: 30
25. World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (2008– )
300 min | Documentary, History, War
A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Bob Gunton, Paul Humpoletz, Samuel West
Votes: 542
26. The Cacophony of Donbas (2018)
62 min | Documentary
This is a film-reflection. The idea of the film is to study the myth of Donbas using archives of documentary and feature films.
Director: Igor Minaiev
Votes: 38
27. Monster: A Portrait of Stalin in Blood (1992)
270 min | Documentary
Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in the Georgian town of Gori in 1879. He was an early activist in the Bolshevik movement, where he first assumed the pseudonym Stalin (which means "man of steel").
Stars: Carl Hixon, Leonid Raikhman, Kamil Artuzov, Tamaa Kosiolevskaya
Votes: 17
28. Zaveshchanie Lenina (2007)
44 min | Drama
Short stories from the life of the man who's spent seventeen years of his life in Stalin labor camps in Kolyma and survived.
Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Elena Lyadova, Tatyana Orlova, Darya Charusha
Votes: 119
29. Love Is Potatoes (2017)
90 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Dutch filmmaker Aliona van der Horst is given an inheritance of 6 square meters of a small, wooden house in a village outside Moscow. She embarks on a journey back into the secrets of her mother's Russian past.
Director: Aliona van der Horst
Votes: 142
30. Pered sudom istorii (1965)
99 min | Documentary
This Soviet movie consists of a long interview between historian Sergei Svistunov and Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin. Shulgin was one of the organizers of the reactionary White Army, the leader... See full summary »
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Vasili Shulgin, Fyodor Nikolayevich Petrov, Sergey Svistunov
Votes: 105
31. Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii (1989)
90 min | Documentary
This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexey Rybin
Votes: 62
32. One Inch from Victory (1944)
67 min | Documentary, War
Newsreel footage documents world history and politics from Russia in 1914 to the German invasion in 1941. The Russian Revolution led to the ascent of power by Vladimir Lenin, who promised a... See full summary »
Stars: Vladimir Lenin, Maxim Litvinov, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Quentin Reynolds
Votes: 11
33. Parad Pobedy (1945)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Color documentary film about the victory parade held on June 24, 1945, in Moscow, Red Square.
Director: Nikolay Solovyev | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Kalinin, Leonid Khmara
Votes: 29
34. The Star Dreamer (2002)
54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
About a visual wizard and a fantastic legacy of films which transformed and influenced the science fiction genre as we know it. The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an ... See full summary »
Directors: Mads Baastrup, Sonja Vesterholt | Stars: Pavel Klushantsev, Zjanna Klusjantseva, Robert Skotak, Valerij Suslov
Votes: 79
35. Dobrovoltsy (1958)
97 min | Drama, War
A frontline surgeon marries a comrade during World War II, a social climbing, philistine woman doctor, instead of the woman he loved during the years before the war.
Director: Yuri Yegorov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Leonid Bykov, Elina Bystritskaya
Votes: 207
36. Soviets (1991– )
Documentary
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
Votes: 24
37. Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (1995)
134 min | Biography, Drama, War
Biopic about Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Documentary footage from WWII and dramatization played by Russian and German actors.
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Bukhuti Zakariadze, Yakov Tripolsky, Vladlen Davydov
Votes: 56
38. Russian Jews: Film 1918-1948 (2017)
120 min | Documentary, History
The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture.
Director: Sergey Nurmamed | Star: Leonid Parfyonov
Votes: 191
39. The Long Breakup (2020)
85 min | Documentary
Ukrainian-American journalist, Katya Soldak, tells the story of her home country as it exits the USSR, goes through two revolutions, and a war with Russia-through the eyes of her family in Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city 18 miles from Russia
Director: Katya Soldak | Stars: Dima, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Sascha
Votes: 35
40. Sport strany Sovetov (1979)
57 min | Documentary, Sport
Documentary film 'Sport of the country of Soviets' is about the history of the development of physical education in the Soviet Union. The sport began to develop rapidly. Athletes have ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra Rybakova | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Nikolay Andrianov, Eduard Azaryan, Vilhelmina Bardauskiene
41. Svoboda po russki (2006)
260 min | Documentary
Documentary covering 100 years of Russian history.
Directors: Irina Bessasrabova, Aleksandr Guryanov, Slava Padalka, Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Yuriy Shevchuk, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Yakovlev
42. Turning Back the Waves (2009)
96 min | Documentary, Biography
This ethnographic film focuses on seven women of the intelligentsia who have participated in various key historical events in Russia during the Soviet and post-Soviet eras.
Director: Gregory Gan | Stars: Vladimir Alier, Tatiana Mihaylovna Bahmina, Irina Pavlovna Gavrilova, Svetlana Pavlovna Gavrilova
43. Berlinskaya konferentsiya (1945)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Sergey Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Aleksei Antonov, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin
Votes: 12
44. Mies varjossa (1994– )
165 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Marina Georgevna Amiragova, Rudolf Sykiäinen, Thomas Henriksson, Heikki Kuusinen
Votes: 10
45. Daniz sayahati (1992)
10 min | Animation, Short
The allegorical animation used to illustrate the governmental control and freethinking.
Director: Elchin Hami Akhundov
47. Govorit sputnik (1959)
54 min | Documentary
Directors: Venyamin Dorman, Sergey Gerasimov, Genrikh Oganisyan, Eduard Volk
48.
Generation of Change (2017)
Episode:
Aufstieg und Fall
(2017)
90 min | Documentary
Directors: Sebastian Dehnhardt, Matthias Schmidt, Maarten van der Duin | Stars: Vladimir Afanyuk, Leszek Balcerowicz, Leonid Brezhnev, Winston Churchill
Votes: 6
49.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Origines : 1917-1933
(2020)
54 min | Documentary, History
From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Louisa Gummer, Florence Pernel, Andrei Roschin, Dmitriy Likhachyov
Votes: 37
50.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Prolifération : 1934-1945
(2020)
57 min | Documentary, History
The Gulag in the turmoil of the "Great Terror" and war (1937-1945).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Alexander Prokhorov, Olga Adamova-Sliozberg
Votes: 30