Soviet Sci-Fi
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1. Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
PG-13 | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Yakovlev, Levan Gabriadze
Votes: 13,750
2. Podzemelye vedm (1990)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.
Director: Yuriy Moroz | Stars: Sergey Zhigunov, Marina Levtova, Nikolay Karachentsov, Dmitriy Pevtsov
Votes: 269
3. Dead Man's Letters (1986)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Sabinin
Votes: 3,807
4. To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981)
148 min | Sci-Fi
A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.
Directors: Richard Viktorov, Nikolay Viktorov | Stars: Yelena Metyolkina, Nadezhda Sementsova, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidzs
Votes: 1,475
5. Lilac Ball (1988)
77 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Alisa 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.... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Arsenov | Stars: Natalya Guseva, Aleksandr Gusev, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Boris Shcherbakov
Votes: 403
6. Mirror for a Hero (1987)
139 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Two casual acquaintances, Sergey Pshenichnyy and Andrey Nemchinov, are transferred almost 40 years ago by the will of mysterious circumstances. This day - May 8, 1949 - begins to repeat itself for them with inexorable constancy.
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Boris Galkin, Feliks Stepun
Votes: 732
7. Moon Rainbow (1983)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?
Director: Andrei Yermash | Stars: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Solomin, Igor Starygin
Votes: 222
8. Zaveshchaniye professora Douelya (1984)
91 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Professor Dowell and his assistant surgeon Dr. Kern are working on the resurrection of the dead. Dr. Kern kills Dowell in a set up car accident. Professor Dowell's head is now kept alive ... See full summary »
Director: Leonid Menaker | Stars: Olgert Kroders, Igor Vasilev, Valentina Titova, Natalya Sayko
Votes: 295
9. Pokhishcheniye charodeya (1989)
105 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A young post-graduate from Minsk Anna Mazurkevich comes to her native village, where she hasnt been for 12 years, to stay in her grannys house. Here, in peace and quiet, she is intended to ... See full synopsis »
Director: Viktor Kobzev | Stars: Yuliya Aug, Romualdas Ramanauskas, Sergey Varchuk, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Votes: 69
10. Zerograd (1988)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Votes: 2,558
11. Konets vechnosti (1987)
137 min | Sci-Fi
Based on the novel by Isaac Asimov.The End of Eternity is a science fiction film with mystery and thriller elements on the subjects of time travel and social engineering.
Director: Andrei Yermash | Stars: Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergey Yurskiy
Votes: 268
12. Day of Wrath (1985)
84 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
An American TV-journalist is interested in the trail of some strange mystery embedded in a mountainous region of the USA. After much red tape, he is allowed to enter the area. A sullen ... See full summary »
Director: Sulambek Mamilov | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Ivanov, Grazina Baikstyte
Votes: 439
13. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,704 | Gross: $0.23M
14. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,227
15. Inoplanetyanka (1985)
84 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
An alien visits Earth and the humble inventor Blinkov falls in love with her. His love awakened in her new emotions and feelings.
Director: Yakov Segel | Stars: Liliya Aleshnikova, Vladimir Nosik, Lyudmila Shagalova, Viktor Shulgin
Votes: 35
16. Planeta bur (1962)
78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.
Director: Pavel Klushantsev | Stars: Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Gennadi Vernov, Yuriy Sarantsev
Votes: 1,477
17. Shans (1984)
85 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy
The respectable people of the provincial town of Veliky Guslyar, having drunk the elixir, became several decades younger.
Director: Aleksandr Majorov | Stars: Sergei Plotnikov, Igor Shkurin, Mariya Kapnist, Dilorom Kambarova
Votes: 95
18. Teens in the Universe (1975)
84 min | Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Continuation of the film "Moscow-Cassiopea": cosmonauts-schoolchildren fly to an extraterrestrial civilization in distress.
Director: Richard Viktorov | Stars: Misha Yershov, Aleksandr Grigoryev, Vladimir Savin, Vladimir Basov Ml.
Votes: 808
19. The Adventures of the Electronic (1979–1980)
215 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The Adventures of the Elektronic.
Stars: Yuriy Torsuev, Vladimir Torsuev, Vasiliy Skromnyy, Oksana Alekseeva
Votes: 2,241
20. The Invisible Man (1985)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Based upon the famous novel by H.G.Wells. A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make things invisible. Since he has no money to continue his research, he decides to perform his ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Zakharov | Stars: Andrey Kharitonov, Romualdas Ramanauskas, Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Danilova
Votes: 181
21. Moscow: Cassiopea (1974)
85 min | Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Several children go to a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.
Director: Richard Viktorov | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Vasiliy Merkurev, Lev Durov, Yuriy Medvedev
Votes: 910
22. Amphibian Man (1961)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed ... See full summary »
Directors: Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai Simonov
Votes: 2,803
23. The Star Inspector (1980)
81 min | Sci-Fi
A commander of the Russian space police begins looking for the capitalist space pirates who have been wreaking intergalactic havoc upon the surrounding planets.
Directors: Mark Kovalyov, Vladimir Polin | Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Yuri Gusev, Timofey Spivak, Valentina Titova
Votes: 81
24. Petlya Oriona (1981)
85 min | Sci-Fi
A strange phenomenon has been noticed on the outskirts of our Solar system that quickly approaches the Earth. It's called "Orion's Loop." A spaceship with a crew of people and androids ... See full summary »
Director: Vasili Levin | Stars: Leonid Bakshtaev, Gennadi Shkuratov, Vitali Doroshenko, Anatoliy Mateshko
Votes: 201
25. Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolay Batalov
Votes: 2,891
26. Magicians (1982 TV Movie)
147 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
New Year's fairy tale that true love can work wonders.
Director: Konstantin Bromberg | Stars: Alexandra Yakovleva, Aleksandr Abdulov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Valentin Gaft
Votes: 2,051
27. Captain Nemo (1975)
PG | 203 min | Fantasy, Adventure, Action
An expedition is dispatched to find the mysterious monster roaming the seas. Three crew members learn it to be an advanced submarine crewed by free men and headed by Captain Nemo. Their adventures continue aboard the amazing submarine.
Director: Vasili Levin | Stars: Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy, Yuri Rodionov, Mikhail Kononov, Vladimir Talashko
Votes: 334
28. Ori okeanis saidumloeba (1957)
66 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
In post-war years in the Atlantic Ocean under mysterious circumstances the Soviet Arctic motor ship perishes. At the same time in the Pacific Ocean the French Victoire motor ship explodes. ... See full summary »
Director: Konstantine Pipinashvili | Stars: Sergey Stolyarov, Igor Vladimirov, Sergei Golovanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky
Votes: 185
29. Return from Orbit (1984)
89 min | Sci-Fi
An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
Director: Aleksandr Surin | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Vitali Solomin, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Tamara Akulova
Votes: 72
30. Tainstvennaya stena (1968)
79 min | Sci-Fi
In the Taiga a very strange phenomenon forms - a wall in the form of a dome about two kilometers in diameter that appears with a certain periodicity, and presumably constitutes a powerful electrostatic charge.
Directors: Irina Povolotskaya, Mikhail Sadkovich | Stars: Lev Kruglyy, Tatyana Lavrova, Irakli Uchaneishvili, Andrey Mironov
Votes: 134
31. Akvanavty (1980)
80 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A giant manta ray starts sending messages in an attempt to communicate with the deep ocean lab aquanauts acquiring, as it seems, the mind of a late human.
Director: Igor Voznesensky | Stars: German Poloskov, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Irina Azer, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky
Votes: 128
32. The Big Space Travel (1975)
66 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
Three teens are selected for a space flight on the spacecraft Astra. The children are subjected to crises and breakdowns, they have to deal with all sort of problems in outer space.
Director: Valentin Selivanov | Stars: Ludmila Berlinskaya, Sergey Obrazov, Igor Sakharov, Lyusena Ovchinnikova
Votes: 342
33. Mechte navstrechu (1963)
64 min | Sci-Fi
A rocket from a distant planet approaching Earth must land on Mars due to a technical defect, thus the inhabitants of the Earth rush to their help.
Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Otar Koberidze | Stars: Larisa Gordeychik, Boris Borisyonok, Otar Koberidze, Peeter Kard
Votes: 283
34. Tumannost Andromedy (1967)
77 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book "Tumannost Andromedy" by Ivan Efremov.
Director: Evgeniy Sherstobitov | Stars: Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina
Votes: 346
35. Zemlya Sannikova (1973)
95 min | Adventure
The exiled settler Alexander Ilyin persuades the goldmines owner Trifon Perfilyev to sponsor the expedition dedicated to the searches of "Sannikov Land", a legendary warm land behind the Polar circle.
Directors: Albert S. Mkrtchyan, Leonid Popov | Stars: Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy, Georgiy Vitsin, Oleg Dal, Yuriy Nazarov
Votes: 683
36. Krakh inzhenera Garina (1973)
247 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out... See full summary »
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Nonna Terentyeva, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Vasili Korzun
Votes: 189
37. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 1,028
38. Tayna zheleznoy dveri (1970)
69 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A young boy finds that he can use broken matches to cast magic, but only once. However, an evil wizard has taken notice, and hopes to manipulate the boy to make him just as evil as himself.
Director: Mikhail Yuzovsky | Stars: Evaldas Mikaliunas, Andrey Kharybin, Dmitri Yuzovsky, Sergei Yevsyunin
Votes: 236
39. Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.
Director: Grigori Kromanov | Stars: Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver
Votes: 1,658
40. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Unrated | 78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Gennadi Vernov
Votes: 1,992
41. Doroga k zvezdam (1957)
52 min | Biography, Sci-Fi
A groundbreaking popular science fiction film about the past and future of astronautics, from the first experiments by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky to the manned spaceflight and colonization of the Moon.
Director: Pavel Klushantsev | Stars: Georgi Solovyov, Leonid Khmara, Georgi Kulbush
Votes: 364
42. The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)
96 min | Sci-Fi
A talented inventor who created the machine of unprecedented destructive power is obsessed with world domination. In his manic quest he commits one crime after another, without assuming the dreadful consequences would be for him.
Director: Aleksandr Gintsburg | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova
Votes: 317
43. Cosmic Journey (1936)
70 min | Sci-Fi
In 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as ... See full summary »
Director: Vasily Zhuravlyov | Stars: Sergey Komarov, Ksenia Moskalenko, Vassili Gaponenko, Nikolay Feoktistov
Votes: 502
44. Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Gurgen Tonunts
Votes: 1,098
45. Luch smerti (1925)
125 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
Director: Lev Kuleshov | Stars: Porfiri Podobed, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
Votes: 135
46. Loss of Feeling (1935)
85 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Andriyevsky | Stars: Sergei Vecheslov, Vladimir Gardin, Mariya Volgina, Anna Chekulaeva
Votes: 182
47. Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinli (1975)
162 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A science fiction fantasy about a guy who decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Shvejtser | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Zhanna Bolotova, Angelina Stepanova, Boris Babochkin
Votes: 219
48. Evo Zvali Robert (1967)
93 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Constructor Sergei creates a robot called Robert as his own copy. Tanya teaches Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic creator.
Director: Ilya Olshvanger | Stars: Oleg Strizhenov, Marianna Vertinskaya, Mikhail Pugovkin, Aleksey Dranitsyn
Votes: 172
49. Molchaniye doktora Ivensa (1974)
90 min | Sci-Fi
A plane crashes over the Atlantic. Aliens save passengers and come into contact with one of the rescued scientists, Martin Evans.
Director: Budimir Metalnikov | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Zhanna Bolotova, Irina Skobtseva, Leonid Obolensky
Votes: 179
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