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- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsEvgeniy MironovEvgeniy TsyganovIrina PegovaA story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.an existencial drama about life in a small soviet town, about people's dreams and possibilities and ways to achieve them
- DirectorFedor BondarchukStarsArtur SmolyaninovAleksey ChadovKonstantin KryukovA group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.a russian hollywood-style war blockbuster describing the soviet invasion of afghanistan. a few young people go there as soldiers and learn it "the hard way", let's say.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsIrina PegovaPavel BarshakEvgeniy TsyganovA look at Saint Petersburg at the dawn of the 21st century.an independent low budget movie with a very simple story. three young people walking around saint-petersburg, discussing life, falling in and out of love with each other. if you wanna see some of the city landscape, go for it
- DirectorRezo GigineishviliStarsAleksey ChadovArtur SmolyaninovKonstantin KryukovMoscow, hot summer day of 2006. The four high school friends meet after a long separation. They did not suspect that this meeting will drastically change the life of each of them.very light hollywood style romantic comedy about young people, slightly pretentious but with good soundtrack and you get a glimpse of the "new life in Moscow" (not russia)
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsVladimir MashkovYekaterina RednikovaMikhail FilipchukA woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...Oscar and Golden Globe Nomination "Best Foreign Film"
Golden Lion Nomination in Venice
dir. by Pavel Chukhray
life of a single woman with a kid in Soviet Russia, the men she meets and the feelings of a young boy who finds a father in one of them - DirectorSergey LobanStarsPyotr MamonovVera StrokovaAleksey PodolskiyA Cyberwanderer, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea is the first part of Sergei Loban's absurdist dilogy.dir. by Serguei Loban
slightly surrealistic, with three stories and many different characters intertwined - DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsAnton ShaginOksana AkinshinaEvgenia BrikYoung people struggle to do things their way in the 1950s.very light romantic musical about stilyagi (hipsters, lovers of rock'n'roll and colourful clothes in Soviet Russian). beautiful costumes. One shouldn't rely on the historical accuracy, i guess :-)
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMerab NinidzeChulpan KhamatovaAnastasiya ShevelyovaIn 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.Golden Lion Nomination in Venice
Silver Lion Award in Venice
direceted by Alexey German
about the astronaut's training as they were preparing for the first space flight (gagarin is there, of course). and the moral dilemmas that go with it - DirectorSergey SnezhkinStarsSvetlana KryuchkovaAleksey PetrenkoMariya ShukshinaA small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.a story of a kid growing up in a dysfunctional family
- DirectorSergey LobanMarina PotapovaStarsAleksey PodolskiyPyotr MamonovGleb MikhaylovThe genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which people live. Dust is a common misconception, the natural clogging up of the brain. Specks of dust how scientists perceive people, scientists who think they know more than anyone else about the universe.the first feature of the director Serguei Loban (shapito-shou). super low budget, experimental russian underground cinema at its best. bizarre and weird.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovViktor SukhorukovDmitriy DyuzhevSomewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.Grand Jury Nomination, World Cinema, Sundance Film Festival
dir. by Pavel Lungin
story of redemption and faith, human destiny and the moral suffering - DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsMaksim SukhanovDmitriy SutyrinMaria Järvenhelmi"The Role" is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life -- the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger - a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia's symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.
- DirectorMikhail SegalStarsAndrey MerzlikinDarya NosikAndrey PetrovBribes, rudeness, generation gap. A satirical comedy about the peculiarities of Russian lifenice plot with a twist, quite entertaining. The young generation of talented russian actors, the film takes place in the modern day Moscow, lots of stire of the modern way of living
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsMariya ShalayevaEvgeniy TsyganovMariya SokovaIn Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.FIPRESCI Panorama award in Berlin
Directing World Cinema Dramatic Award at Sundance
a romantic drama about a weird girl who, of course, falls in love. - DirectorPavel RuminovStarsMariya ShalayevaRoman ZenchukMariya Syomkina(Russian with English subtitles) Inna is a typical 30-something yuppy, who also happens to be a single mother. One day discovering that she has an Incurable illness, Inna sets on finding the right adoptive parents for her son.an extremely sad family drama about a dying mother who is trying to find new adoptive parents for her small son (very similar to "My Life without me" with Sarah Polley")
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey PaninDmitriy DyuzhevNikita MikhalkovThis movie is about the stern gangster customs of one of the Russian provincial cities in the mid-90s . And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers".dir., by Alexey Balabanov
a russian "Snatch", so to speak, crazy 90-ies, russian mafia and gangsters, rude humour, a lot of violence, very entertaining if you are into Guy Ritchie movies - DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsValeriy GarkalinVera AlentovaInna ChurikovaA Russian crook steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.pure comedy about a crook (or many crooks) who is trying to marry and american girl. lots of funny moments, and a very good depiction of the 90-spirit in Russia
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsSergey PuskepalisLeonid BronevoySvetlana KamyninaA dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.dir, by Alekesy Popogrebskiy
a good drama about the ethics and of course, tough life of a russian doctor who is a bit too fond of drinking. - DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn 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.Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA Nomination for the Best Foreign Film
Best Film Award at London Film festival
dir, by Andrey Zvyagintsev
directed by the most praised modern Russian director, "Leviafan" is a heavy story of life in a god-forgotten place (by the White Sea in the North of Russia, therefore outstanding landscape). direct mockery at bureacracyand the church + tough natural conditions and human frustration, all mixed up together. not an easy one to watch, although the view does carry you away - DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.dir, Aleksey Balabanov
a classic russian gangsta movie, crazy 90-ies, mafia, and the heroe, simple and good-hearted (but with the gun, of course, and who, by now, has become quite a cult character). talk about the mysterious russian soul. it conveys very well the atmosphere and the spirit of those times in Russia if making it look a bit too trashy. Very famous for its soundtrack. - DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.dir. Aleksey Balabanov
the second part of the adventures of Danila who now goes to the USA to kick america's ass. full of stereotipical jokes about russian and american mentality, lots of violence, but you know, our heroe never gives up, 'cause he is russian. - DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey RozinWhen a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...Un Certain Regard Nomination, Cannes
dir, by Andrey Zvyagintsev
a very complex study of characters, responsabilities and difficult decisions that we make sometimes and whether they are right or wrong. - DirectorYuri GrymovStarsIrina ApeksimovaAleksandr BaluevAndrey Khalimondir, by Yuriy Grymov
an adaptation (with a slight modern touch) of the classic story by Ivan Turgenev, "Mu-Mu" about a mute servant and his dog - DirectorAleksandr VeledinskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElena LyadovaAleksandr RobakThe ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.life of a teacher (occassionally a drunkard) in a city in Siberia, boring life, tough climate, what is this life about, really?
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksei AnanishnovGudrun GeyerA man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.dir, by Aleksandr Sokurov
sad, heavy, barely any dialogue, memories and reminiscences. good luck with this one :-) - DirectorVyacheslav RossStarsPyotr ZaychenkoMikhail ProtskoSergey NovikovSiberia. The fates of the characters are intertwined unexpectedly and dramatically. They need to make their choice again and again, discovering in themselves the forgotten humanity and compassion. Mercy is greater than justice.incredible siberian nature. if you want to see how tough it gets there when you live in small village in the middle of taiga, this is a movie for you.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovAlexei PopogrebskyStarsGleb PuskepalisIgor ChernevichEvgeniy SytyyA widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister. After they are stopped by a train guard, they continue their travel on foot. The father battles against his alcohol addiction and the son is fascinated with the idea of flight. One rainy day an old man accepts them in his house in return for the repair of the roof. The father gives in to the alcohol offered by the old man, who in a drunken brawl accuses him of stealing money and shoots him. A young female village doctor takes care of him and a romantic relationship between the two ensues. The father feels reluctant to continue the journey. The son leaves alone and a truck driver gives him a ride to Koktebel. However, his aunt has left for the summer.dir. by Khlebnikov and Popogrebskiy
a philosophical melancholic road-trip movie about a father and a son travelling through the Crimea. - DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoAnna KotovaVladimir KorobeynikovSascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and tolerate his clandestine love-affair with Anya.Golden Berlin Bear Nomination in Berlin
dir, by Boris Khlebnikov
very similiar to "leviafan" in its topics and the environment> tough weather and nature conditions, financial hardships, bureacracy and how to stay humane surrounded by all that. - DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsGrigoriy DobryginSergey PuskepalisIgor ChernevichOne 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 communicate.Silver Bear Award for Best Actors in berlin
Golden Bear Nomination in Berlin
Best Film at London Film Festival
dir, by Aleksey Popogrebskiy
a minimalistic drama shot in Chukotka (far far Northto the east), so stunning landscapes and only two actors who represent a conflict of two generations, two attitudes and two very different personalities. - DirectorRoman PrygunovStarsDanila KozlovskiyMariya AndreevaArtyom MikhalkovA story about things that are really important in life.hollywood style romantic drama about a rich guy who falls in love with a simple girl and starts reassessing his values in life. an easy watch
- DirectorVictor GinzburgStarsVladimir EpifantsevMikhail EfremovAndrey FominA chronicle of the rise of the advertising industry in Post-Soviet Russia.based on a famous novel by Victor Pelevin, "Generation P" (P stands for Pepsi) depicts the rise of the advertisement industry in Russia in the 90ies, its craze with the sudden wide choice of foreign products and mental drug-infused publicity campaigns and the creative processes of the main character
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.dir, by alexey balabanov
very cruel and morbid. depressing enough BUT not without some imminent questions about the existence of a soul and morals from drunkards. very grim (plus add to this the USSR setting). - DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsKonstantin LavronenkoMaria BonnevieAleksandr BaluevA trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.dir. by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival
Palm D'Or Nomination, Cannes Film Festival
an existential drama in the best tradition of Zvyagintsev Films, beautiful cinematography, intense acting. A thorough study of the existencial human drama and the dark side and despair of the human being - DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin LavronenkoIn 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.dir, by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Golden Globe Nomination for Best Foreign Flim
Golden Lion Winner, Venice
intense, heavy, depressing. the whole usual Zvyagintsev set is present:scenery, sadness, hopelesness, salvation, close-ups, scarse dialogues. an instnat classic - DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsSergey MakovetskiySergey GarmashApti MagamaevTwelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.dir. by Nikita Mikhalkov
Oscar Nomination Best Foreign Film
Golden Lion Nomination in Venice
a remake of a classic "12 Angry men" by sydney lumet, set in modern russia with a chechen boy under prosecution. the heaviest of russian actors show their best - DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsLeonid BichevinIngeborga DapkunaiteAndrey PaninA drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.dir, by Aleksey Balabanov
a semi autobiographical thriller based on a book by Bulgakov depicts life of a drug addicted doctor in the countryside in the times of the civil war - DirectorDmitriy KiselevAleksandr VoytinskiyStarsGrigoriy DobryginEkaterina VilkovaViktor VerzhbitskiyA Moscow college student's gift car from his parents turns out to be more than anyone expects when it flies, which he uses to become both a city guardian and a speedy floral delivery boy.the first russian "superhero" blockbuster, with the story pretty much copied from "Spiderman". although our hero here drives a flying old-school "Volga" car. expect all the superhero-movie cliches, some to utmost ridiculousness.
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsFedor BondarchukIvan OkhlobystinAnna BuklovskayaThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.an adaptation of Dostoyevkiy's novel "Idiot" set in the 90ies russia with all the attributes of the times. with its bizarre and hilarious dialogues this one has become a sort of cult classic for its sheer crazy attitude towards interpreting the famous russian novel
- DirectorDmitriy DyachenkoStarsDiana ArbeninaLeonid BaratsMikhail BeskorovaynyIt's the day of radio in Russia. The radio station staff decides to invite famous bands, who will perform live. And something goes wrong!a smart comedy about one day in life of a small russian radio station
- DirectorGarik SukachyovStarsSvetlana IvanovaStanislav RyadinskiyDarya MorozA young woman Sasha meets a hippie leader and finds trouble.a drama set in the soviet times at the point when the hippy movement emerged in the USSR. hippies are great, you know :-)
- DirectorValeri FokinStarsEvgeniy MironovIgor KvashaTatyana LavrovaBased on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.incredible work by the russian actor Evgeniy Mironov in depicting the transformation of the chacracter into the cockroach. based on Franz kafka's famous novel
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima 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.super realistic, therefore quite depressing, this drama shows almost too accurately the state of things in modern-day Russia: rundown city, corrupt officials covering up their deeds at the cost of lives of innocent people.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsNikolay SpiridonovMariya KuznetsovaNikolay ReutovSet in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey MakovetskiyDinara DrukarovaAnzhelika NevolinaDariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVladimir MashkovMariya MironovaAndrey KraskoDuring the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsAleksey TryapitsynIrina ErmolovaTimur BondarenkoThe film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.
- DirectorOksana BychkovaStarsEkaterina FedulovaEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey BarabashLyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maksim, who have to decide what to do.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsAndrey KraskoFedor BondarchukAndrey SokolovThe skeptic doctor is stuck between this world and that world. Light dramedy about rethinking life.
- DirectorRoman KarimovStarsIlya LyubimovIngrid OlerinskayaEvgeniy TsyganovThirty-year-old young man Vitaly, running away from annoying problems and mental discomfort, leaves the provincial town of Serpukhov and moves to Moscow, hoping to find harmony with his own "I" here.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsEvgeniy ProninDanila KozlovskiyDmitriy VladimirovGarpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovIngeborga DapkunaiteOleg MenshikovIn the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsOksana AkinshinaArtyom BogucharskiyPavel PonomaryovSixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrajPavel ChukhrayStarsIgor PetrenkoAlyona BabenkoBogdan StupkaA General, who had sent for a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his personal driver, decided to marry him to his physically disabled daughter
- DirectorDmitriy DyachenkoStarsLeonid BaratsAleksandr DemidovKamil LarinFour long-time friends take a two day road trip from Moscow to Odessa to attend a friend's party. While traveling, they discuss with one another the negatives about being married men.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsAndrey SmirnovGalina TyuninaOlga BudinaAn attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsRenata LitvinovaAleksandr YatsenkoDmitriy DyuzhevThree young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsAleksey KopashovAndrey MerzlikinPavel DerevyankoA war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsVladimir MashkovAnjorka StrechelYuliya PeresildIn 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsOleg MenshikovSergey BodrovSusanna MekhraliyevaTwo Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
- DirectorPyotr BuslovStarsVladimir VdovichenkovAndrey MerzlikinMaksim KonovalovCorrupted cops, street gangs, "bratki" on "bummers" and "merins", angry truck drivers, beautiful women and death are what four friends on a black bummer who set up on mission from one region of Russia to another are about to face. Don't forget that the main four characters are far from angels themselves...
- DirectorMikheil KalatozishviliStarsOleg DolinRoman MadyanovYuriy StepanovA young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...
- DirectorAleksandr GornovskiyKaren ShakhnazarovStarsVladimir IlinAleksey VertkovAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyySimultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksandr MosinOleg GarkushaYuriy MatveevSanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage to a "bell-tower of happiness".
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsMikhail UlyanovAnna SinyakinaAleksandr PorokhovshchikovVeteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsTinatin DalakishviliSeverija JanusauskaitePavel TabakovYoung Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature Rita is the lover of the deputy minister, who wants to become pregnant and marry him. Kostya is the son of a deputy minister, who is constantly in conflict with his father and Rita, but falls in love with Masha when he meets her. After quarreling, Rita is forced to leave her lover's house, and meets Masha by chance.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsIgor SergeevYuriy TsuriloYuliya AugPresent days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsOleg MenshikovSandrine BonnaireCatherine DeneuveIn June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsEvgeniy MironovAleksandr BaluevNina UsatovaA Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians. Our hero turns out as the only sober and hard-working member of the community. However, his attachment to his new faith soon provokes the hatred and rejection of everyone else, including his own family.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaSultan IslamovBryan AdamsIn the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsMarat BasharovMariya MironovaAndrey PaninThe beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElizaveta BoyarskayaSergey BezrukovThe story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMilan MaricDanila KozlovskiyHelena SujeckaThe 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.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsEvgeniy SytyySergey DreydenAnna MikhalkovaKind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings... Criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from companions and leaves him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and he is about to end as a homeless bum... But suddenly a miracle happens with Jenya: a strange old man brought homeless Jenya to his flat and let him stay. Soon Jenya is invited to join a strange fight the old man is engaged in: a fight against evil, that spoils life in Moscow. Jenya willingly participates in the old man's undertakings, until he meets the old man's daughter who reveals Jenya a horrible truth of her father.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsViktor NemetsVladimir GolovinAleksey VertkovA few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovSergey RusskinThe men go hunting. Russian men.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsNikolay StotskiySvetlana PismichenkoAnvar LibabovMostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsChulpan KhamatovaDina KorzunMaksim SukhanovAlyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.
- DirectorBoris AkopovStarsYura BorisovStasya MiloslavskayaAleksandr Samsonov1997. Russia is finding it tough in the wake of the USSR, a fact reflected in local criminal gangs. Bull is leader of one such. He ends up at the police station, where he s asked pull off a risky mob-job in return of imprisonment.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MashkovChulpan KhamatovaA novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
- DirectorAnton MegerdichevStarsSergey PuskepalisAnatoliy BelyySvetlana KhodchenkovaTerror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsInna ChurikovaViktor MikhaylovAleksandr SurinA comedy about a successful entrepreneur and his jealous neighbors.
- DirectorEgor AbramenkoStarsOksana AkinshinaFedor BondarchukPyotr FyodorovThe lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsOleg YankovskiySergey GarmashAndrey SmirnovHe thought he was in control of his own life. Then he lost his wife and thought it was the hardest hit he could handle. It was not.
- DirectorIvan VyrypaevStarsPolina GrishinaKarolina GruszkaCazimir LiskeCatholic nun travels to another country and make spirit revolution.
- StarsEvgeniy MironovIgor IvanovMarietta MelrosePrince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.
- DirectorYuri MaminArkadiy TigayStarsSergey DreydenAgnès SoralViktor MikhailovNikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Viktor Mikhalkov (I)). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 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.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsJakob DiehlPeter KurthYuliya KhlyninaFollows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsElena AnDanila RassomakhinKarim PakachakovA mischievous father and his gentle, beautiful daughter live a quiet life in a vast plain until two young men fall for the girl. The love triangle leads to a wholly unexpected turn of events in an astounding story that incorporates unimaginable beauty with a strong social message.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsGeorgiy DelievAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaA young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsMariya PoezzhaevaFilipp AvdeevNikita KukushkinLena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.
- DirectorIvan VyrypaevStarsPolina AgureevaMaksim UshakovMikhail OkunevA romantic triangle leads to both joy and sorrow in this drama, Pavel (Maxim Ushakov) is a goat rancher who has fallen in love with beautiful Vera (Polina Agureeva) from afar.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsMaryana SpivakAleksey RozinMatvey NovikovA couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovYaroslav ChevazhevskiyIgnas JonynasStarsDmitry MedvedevAlina BulynkoSergey PokhodaevNew Year's events take place in 11 cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Perm, Ufa, Bavlakh, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow.