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1. The Great Sinner (1949)
Approved | 110 min | Drama
In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston
Votes: 1,621
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1866)
2. The Gambler (1974)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 6,563 | Gross: $1.31M
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1866)
3. The Gambler (III) (2014)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
Director: Rupert Wyatt | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Brie Larson
Votes: 73,543 | Gross: $33.68M
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1866)
4. The Idiot (1958)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama
Upon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Pyrev | Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny, Vera Pashennaya
Votes: 841
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
5. Mad Love (1985)
Unrated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bank robber tries to return his girl, but crazy way of life coupled with insane company make the case only worse.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo, Christiane Jean
Votes: 1,396
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
6. Daun Haus (2001)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The 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.
Director: Roman Kachanov | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Ivan Okhlobystin, Anna Buklovskaya, Aleksandr Bashirov
Votes: 2,386
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
7. The Idiot (2003– )
550 min | Drama
Prince 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.
Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Igor Ivanov, Marietta Melrose, Vladimir Mashkov
Votes: 2,130
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
8. Ahista Ahista (2006)
122 min | Drama, Romance
An acting marriage witness Ankush falls in love with a girl who has been betrayed by her lover. When he returns back, Ankush tries his best to save his relationship.
Director: Shivam Nair | Stars: Abhay Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Shayan Munshi, Murad Ali
Votes: 1,675
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
9. Chhalia (1960)
112 min | Musical, Romance
The tragic-comic story of Chhalia, a naive, simple-minded young man who comes to the city and witnesses the harsh side of life; and falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to ... See full summary »
Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Pran Sikand, Rehman Khan
Votes: 238
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
10. Saawariya (2007)
PG | 142 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan, Rani Mukerji
Votes: 8,379 | Gross: $0.89M
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
11. Two Lovers (2008)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce
Votes: 43,539 | Gross: $3.15M
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
12. Belye nochi (1960)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A Dreamer, living in a big city for a few years and all the time he is alone. But one summer in St. Petersburg's White Nights on the Neva, he meets Nastya.
Director: Ivan Pyrev | Stars: Lyudmila Marchenko, Oleg Strizhenov, Anatoli Fedorinov, Svetlana Kharitonova
Votes: 113
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
13. White Nights (1992)
92 min | Drama
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze | Stars: Anna Matyukhina, Vadim Lyubshin, Galina Polskikh, Nikolay Yeryomenko
Votes: 23
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
14. Crime and Punishment (1970)
221 min | Drama
Raskolnikov, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lev Kulidzhanov | Stars: Georgiy Taratorkin, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Bedova, Viktoriya Fyodorova
Votes: 1,360
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
15. Crime and Punishment (1998 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
A man who is haunted by a murder he committed.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Ben Kingsley, Julie Delpy, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 891
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
16. Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.
Director: Rob Schmidt | Stars: Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser
Votes: 3,511 | Gross: $0.03M
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
17. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 3,055
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
18. The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
232 min | Drama
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 940
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
19. The Double (2013)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.
Director: Richard Ayoade | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor
Votes: 53,023 | Gross: $0.20M
Fyodor Dostoevsky's
20. The Meek One (1960)
72 min | Drama
From lack of money, a girl without a dowry marries a usurer. But later she learns about her husband's past: about the circumstances under which he left the regiment. The meek one tries to rebel against life with her despised husband.
Director: Aleksandr Borisov | Stars: Iya Savvina, Andrei Popov, Vera Kuznetsova, Panteleymon Krymov
Votes: 192
Fyodor Dostoevsky's
21. A Gentle Creature (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina, Vasilina Makovtseva
Votes: 2,492
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "A Gentle Creature" (1876)
22. A Gentle Woman (1969)
88 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier
Votes: 3,056
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "A Gentle Creature" (1876)
23. Unizhennye i oskorblennye (1991)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.
Director: Andrey Eshpay | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasia Viazemskaya, Sergey Perelygin
Votes: 213
Fyodor Dostoevsky's
24. Skvernyy anekdot (1966)
87 min | Comedy
A high ranking official in St. Petersburg accidentally attends a wedding of one of his subordinates, embarrassing himself and the entire wedding party. Based on a novel by F. M. Dostoyevsky.
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Viktor Sergachyov, Georgiy Georgiu, Aleksandr Gruzinsky
Votes: 201
Fyodor Dostoevsky's
25. The Possessed (1988)
116 min | Drama
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier
Votes: 669
Fyodor Dostoevsky's
26. Chuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovatyu (1984 TV Movie)
67 min | Drama
How solid, venerable, jealous husband in the search for a frivolous wife falls in someone else's apartment and finds himself under the bed of an unfamiliar woman, together with an unknown man, who, too, was there by accident.
Director: Vitaliy Melnikov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Efremov, Marina Neyolova, Nikolay Burlyaev
Votes: 89
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