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- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsOleg YankovskiyErland JosephsonDomiziana GiordanoA 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.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsSergey BelyaevOlga DegtyaryovaLarisa DomaskinaAn art house movie tells about the search for love and happiness. A school principal and his friend hijack an old steam locomotive and start a travel along the abandoned railroad - to deal in coal. The film plot is seemingly simple: two friends (a school principal Parentsov and a truck driver who is referred to as Father) steal a large amount of coal and take it by an old abandoned rail into the vast borderless steppe where they want to sell it. Driver's numb son Misha and a strange and formidable being, Engine Driver, accompany them. The story of a huge locomotive that the group uses for transporting the coal runs parallel to the main plot line. The locomotive was once called Tsar the Vampire and represented a symbol of enormous power that could be compared with the energy of the whole great world. Later it was turned into a museum exhibit. And now it serves as a transport means for the stolen coal. The third line is dedicated to a traveling circus that disappeared several years earlier while touring the neighborhood. Members of the circus troupe got adjusted to living in the wilderness, and our heroes keep running into the former circus workers - clowns, acrobats and circus staff - as they ride across the steppe. However, we can only recognize their circus identity by a certain theatricality in their behavior, as they have neither circus garments no red noses. But, after all, the stolen coal story, the Soviet-spirit fantasy and the story of the Wild Circus are nothing but a background for the core idea of the plot: to show how Father leaves a passion-led life behind and, having gone to the end the long Way of Forgiveness, finally finds happiness for himself and his son Misha...
- DirectorVladimir NaumovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanNatalya BelokhvostikovaKnowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsViktor SukhorukovAnzhelika NevolinaEvgeniy MerkurevThe story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.
- DirectorErnest YasanStarsMikhail PorechenkovMariya LipkinaAnna SamokhinaA romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo
- DirectorPavel ArsenovStarsNatalya GusevaAleksandr GusevVyacheslav NevinnyyAlisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who's just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other. Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose. The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsLeonid FilatovOleg BasilashviliVladimir MenshovGoing 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.
- 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.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaOlaf LubaszenkoStefania IwinskaA naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksandr CherednikElizaveta KorolevaSergey BarkovskiyA hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliYuri MgoyanThe Confession survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) in its original camera negative. It remained unfinished due to the death of Sergei Parajanov. The Confession was his favorite screenplay, which was written in the 1960s and was his film-memory of the childhood, student years, marriage, and more as the fantasist Parajanov perceived it. Parajanov gifted the screenplay to Mikhail Vartanov, made a drawing on the cover and wrote: "The Confession will only be made by a director born in 1924 in Tiflis, Georgia." He predicted that he would not finish it.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsOlga Reus-PetrenkoEduard KoshmanYuriy GulyayevUkrainian singer, who has just won an international contest, recollects her life journey from childhood, through WWII, to the present day.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsYuri MgoyanSofiko ChiaureliRamaz ChkhikvadzeA talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsInna BurduchenkoLyudmila CherepanovaBoris DmokhovskySet in a mining town in the Donets Basin, it centers on a clash between the political establishment and a religious cult which infiltrates the community.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA 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.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsIzolda IzvitskayaOleg StrizhenovNikolay KryuchkovAn unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsStefaniya StanyutaLev DurovAleksey PetrenkoMatyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
- 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.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MenshovMariya PoroshinaA fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovMaksim ShtraukhMikhail GomorovA group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsJulia OrmondOleg MenshikovAleksey PetrenkoAt the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsNikita MikhalkovVitali SolominSergey ShakurovIn 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsVera BaranovskayaNikolay BatalovAleksandr ChistyakovA 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.
- 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.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA 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 cannot adjust to life in peacetime.
- DirectorLev KulidzhanovStarsGeorgiy TaratorkinInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana BedovaRaskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility?
- 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.
- DirectorTatyana LukashevichStarsVeronika LebedevaFaina RanevskayaPyotr RepninOld woman came to have a drink of water. Then apartment owners looked around - no piano. And many other adventures of Natasha and her friends.
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
- DirectorYuli KarasikStarsGalina PolskikhVladimir OsobikTalas UmurzakovThings take an interesting turn for Tanya and her mother when her father arrives with his foster son Kolya and new wife. This film is about Kolya and Tanya's bright, pure and bitter first love.
- DirectorIvan PravovOlga PreobrazhenskayaMikhail ProvorStarsNikolay PodgornyAndrei AbrikosovEmma TsesarskayaThe first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War between Reds and Whites. The main character.an antihero,is the violent, impetuous, unreliable Melekhov.
- DirectorVera StroyevaStarsAleksandr PirogovNikandr KhanayevGeorgi NeleppAction happens at the end of the 16th century, on the eve of "time of troubles". The main character of this historical tragedy - the Russian tsar Boris Godunov who has ascended to a throne after Ivan the Terrible after tragic events: death of the eldest son of Grozny Fedor and death of the young tsarevitch Dimitrii.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsVakhtang KikabidzeFrunzik MkrtchyanElena ProklovaLocal Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
- DirectorVladimir BychkovStarsViktoriya NovikovaValentin NikulinGalina ArtyomovaAfter her sisters wreck his ship, a mermaid saves a human prince from drowning and is helped by a traveling handyman to reach out to him on land.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsElena SoloveyRodion NakhapetovAleksandr KalyaginA fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerEduard IogansonStarsVeronika BuzhinskayaBella ChernovaFyodor NikitinPaper rennet is a sort of apples a pregnant girl sells illegally to make her living in the city. There is a story of two people saving each to overcome all obstacles and there are another two people ending their story in a crime.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey PetrenkoAnatoliy RomashinVelta LineDetails the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
- DirectorBoris BarnetFyodor OtsepStarsNatalya GlanIgor IlyinskyVladimir FogelThree reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsAleksandra KhokhlovaSergey KomarovVladimir FogelA 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 faced with an agonizing dilemma. With no chance of turning him over to the authorities for many weeks, they must decide whether to exact justice themselves or to risk trying to keep him restrained until they can return to civilization.
- 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.
- DirectorGiorgi ShengelaiaStarsAvtandil VaraziDodo AbashidzeZurab KapianidzeThe story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsErland JosephsonSusan FleetwoodAllan EdwallAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsRamaz GiorgobianiGogi KharabadzeMarina KartsivadzeA young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsNadezhda SmirnovaYana EsipovichRoman Mishin23 short stories about the Mari women. Stories joyful and sad, ridiculous and terrible. It is the movie ornament, the movie calendar telling about philosophy, traditions and today of the Mari people.
- DirectorMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiStarsHryhoriy FesenkoYana NovikovaRosa BabiyA deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.