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1. The November Man (2014)
R | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high-level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich
Votes: 70,718 | Gross: $24.98M
2. Get Smart (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack from rival spy agency KAOS.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Dwayne Johnson
Votes: 229,112 | Gross: $130.32M
3. Jumper (2008)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young man with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson
Votes: 324,348 | Gross: $80.17M
4. The Sum of All Fears (2002)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt
Votes: 124,734 | Gross: $118.91M
5. The Peacemaker (1997)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.
Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev
Votes: 62,645 | Gross: $41.26M
6. Barely Lethal (2015)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Comedy
A teenage special ops agent coveting a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of high school is more challenging than international espionage.
Director: Kyle Newman | Stars: Jaime King, Samuel L. Jackson, Madeleine Stack, Sophie Turner
Votes: 23,351
7. Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Years after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin has organized a new top-notch security force. But when one of his team members goes missing, Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from.
Director: Steven C. Miller | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Xiaoming Huang, Jesse Metcalfe
Votes: 35,421
8. American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing (2023)
TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Follows the tragedy in which terrorists detonated a bomb at the Boston Marathon's finish line; they carried out the attack by placing two homemade pressure-cooker bombs that resulted in three fatalities and numerous injuries.
Stars: William B. Evans, Rick Deslauriers, Phillip Martin, Edward F. Davis
Votes: 7,046
9. Beyond Borders (2003)
R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache, Teri Polo
Votes: 29,077 | Gross: $4.43M
10. 12 (2007)
PG-13 | 159 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev, Nikita Mikhalkov
Votes: 15,380 | Gross: $0.13M
11. Eastern Boys (2013)
Unrated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque
Votes: 3,850 | Gross: $0.02M
12. The Search (III) (2014)
135 min | Drama, War
A French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev
Votes: 3,001
13. War (2002)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
During 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.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,434
14. Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
R | 99 min | Drama, War
Two 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.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Bodrov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva, Jemal Sikharulidze
Votes: 4,758 | Gross: $0.66M
15. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary
A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
Director: David France | Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov
Votes: 3,152
16. Bats: Human Harvest (2007 TV Movie)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
After eight years since the events of the first film, a scientist has designed a new species of bat genetically designed to be biological weapons in a confrontation between Chechen and Americans.
Director: Jamie Dixon | Stars: David Chokachi, Michael Jace, Pollyanna McIntosh, Martin Papazian
Votes: 1,033
17. Closeness (2017)
118 min | Drama
In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac
Votes: 3,304
18. House of Fools (2002)
R | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 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.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Evgeniy Mironov
Votes: 2,906 | Gross: $0.06M
19. Plennyy (2008)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Drama
The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vyacheslav Krikunov, Pyotr Logachev, Irakli Mskhalaia, Yuliya Peresild
Votes: 395
20. Alexandra (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov
Votes: 2,747
21. Chistilishche (1998 TV Movie)
120 min | War
A military drama based on true events - a battle on the First Chechen War during the winter of 1994-1995. A story covers attacking a local hospital where Russian military forces placed. The film is full of violence scenes.
Director: Aleksandr Nevzorov | Stars: Aleksandr Baranov, Sergey Bogdanov, Zed Korshoonoff, Aleksandr Makarov
Votes: 869
22. Vedreba (1967)
77 min | Drama
Brave sons of Khevsureti and Kisteti fight against each to protect their homelands. But, they confront faulty domestic traditions to respect enemy's true prowess and find themselves in conflict with own compatriots.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Spartak Bagashvili, Rusudan Kiknadze, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi
Votes: 896
23. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, War
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Star: Pirkko Saisio
Votes: 704
24. Nezhnyy vozrast (2000)
130 min | Drama
Ivan is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Dmitriy Solovev, Yelena Kamayeva, George Anton, Nikolay Chindyaykin
Votes: 528
25. Marines (2003 Video)
R | 90 min | Action, War
Enlisting the aid of a group of Russian soldiers, a marine colonel must capture a Russian terrorist.
Director: Mark Roper | Stars: Brant Cotton, Frank Sallo, Lawrence Monoson, Andrew Bowen
Votes: 409
26. Terror in Moscow (2003 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Tells the terrifying inside story of what really happened during the 57-hour Moscow theatre siege carried out by Chechen gunmen in October 2002.
Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Ian McShane, Lena Baranovskaya, Movsar Barayev, Irina Fadayeva
Votes: 176
27. Barzakh (2011)
59 min | Documentary
In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Mantas Kvedaravicius | Stars: Ahmed Gisaev, Toita Lomaevasi, Alaudi Sadykov
Votes: 170
28. Blokpost (1999)
85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Russian platoon sweeps a village, avoiding two mishaps. At a remote check-post they play cards with bullets as stakes. A village girl pimps her deaf-mute sister for bullets. A shifty enemy sniper keeps strafing, causing a tragedy.
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Roman Romantsov, Kirill Ulyanov, Ivan Kuzmin, Denis Kirillov
Votes: 866
29. Caucasian Love (1928)
90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 19th century, the Russian government tries to resettle a Chechen village to Turkey, but the villagers are not keen on being evicted from their homeland.
Director: Nikoloz Shengelaia | Stars: Aleksandre Imedashvili, Kokhta Karalashvili, Kira Andronikashvili, Ilia Mamporia
Votes: 181
30. Rodina (2015)
45 min | Drama
A soldier who was considered dead for six years is quickly becoming the property of the media. The released Bragin is in a difficult psychological and physical condition, he is exhausted by torture and long years of solitary confinement.
Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Viktoriya Isakova, Sergey Makovetskiy, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 162
31. Target of Opportunity (2005)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama
Two former CIA operatives must test the bonds of their childhood friendship when one of them is accused of stealing state secrets and jailed in a foreign prison.
Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Dean Cochran, Todd Jensen, Nadia Konakchieva, Bashar Rahal
Votes: 244
32. Blood Trail (2008)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, War
Follows Robert King in his fifteen years as a war photographer.
Director: Richard Parry | Star: Robert King
Votes: 130
33. See You in Chechnya (2016)
69 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
After falling in love with a photographer, a young man follows her to war and puts himself into the shoes of a war reporter.
Director: Alex Kvatashidze | Stars: Brice Fleutiaux, Giorgio Fornoni, Renzo Martens, Antonio Russo
Votes: 28
34. Mountain Men and Holy Wars (2003)
56 min | Documentary
Chechnya's struggle for independence from Russia is one of history's longest on-going conflicts. In the last decade alone, nearly 150,000 Chechen civilians have been killed in two wars with... See full summary »
Director: Taran Davies | Stars: John Boit, Taran Davies, Nick Griffin, Ilya Suleymanov
Votes: 10
35. Proryv (2006)
84 min | Drama, War
Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains and accept uphill battle with no chance to survive. Based on Battle for Height 776.
Director: Vitaliy Lukin | Stars: Ildus Abrahmanov, Andrey Abramov, Andrei Bogdanov, Anton Borisov
Votes: 82
36. Ordered to Forget (2014)
86 min | Drama, History, War
As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
Director: Hussein Erkenov | Stars: Shamkhan Mitraev, Kheda Akhmadova, Timur Bazinskiy, Roza Khayrullina
Votes: 61
37. Weiße Raben - Alptraum Tschetschenien (2005)
92 min | Documentary, War
Directors: Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Tamara Trampe
Votes: 41
38. The Lobster's Cry (2012)
30 min | Short, Drama, War
A Russian soldier returns from war service in Chechnya. Though greeted warmly by his family, he seems unable to adjust.
Director: Nicolas Guiot | Stars: Jana Bittnerová, Tatiana Gontcharova, Anton Kouzemin, Miglen Mirtchev
Votes: 82
39. Sadovnik (2012)
19 min | Short, Drama, War
The story tells how contemporary war mutilates souls of young men and breaks their lives.
Director: Andrey Zozulya | Stars: Vladislav Abashin, Sultan Islamov, Denis Kulyutnikov, Stanislav Salnikov
40. The Making of a New Empire (1999)
95 min | Documentary
Portrait of Nugayev, the Tchetchenian mafia leader and independence fighter.
Director: Jos de Putter
Votes: 90
41. From Chechnya to Chernobyl (1998)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short
Winds scattered the heaviest radioactive deposits across the tiny country in Belarus, where, even after a decade, 25% of the land is judged uninhabitable. Thousands of villages and towns were abandoned or evacuated.
Director: Slawomir Grunberg
43. Give me a Word! (2020)
62 min | Documentary, Drama
For the very first time, Chechen and Russian mothers of KIA rebels and soldiers will meet in Grozny to forgive or to blame, to tell the truth about the war and share their own secrets on how to stop the violence and live in peace.
Director: Svyatoslav Vlasov | Stars: Vera Lebedeva, Khamsat Alisultanova, Tatyana Koroteeva, Vera Travina
Votes: 22
44. Drie kameraden (2007)
99 min | Documentary, War
Chechnya's struggle for independence, as seen through the eyes of three friends who grew up in the Chechen capital of Grozny.
Director: Mascha Novikova | Stars: Islam Bashirov, Ruslan Chamchoyev, Ramzan Mezhidov
Votes: 48
45. Virtual War (2012)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Pekka Niskanen | Stars: Pekka Niskanen, Mikael Storsjö, Johan Bäckman, Juha Molari
46. My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder (2007 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, War
Director: Andrey Nekrasov | Stars: Andrey Nekrasov, Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko
Votes: 40
47. Greco-Roman Grozny (2008)
78 min | Documentary, Sport
The lives of three teens from war-torn Chechnya. Their hopes of becoming Olympic greco-roman wrestlers is set against the backdrop of extreme poverty and the immense expectations of their families.
Director: Chrystal Callahan
48. Xiro (2008)
119 min | Crime
Adam and Islam are two brothers, separated in babyhood during first Chechen war. 20 years later Islam almost finds his brother.
Director: Kerim Bersaner | Stars: Beslan Terekbaev, Artyom Harabua, Said Davlatbiev, Ilyas Gurjixanov
49. Osobiy sluchay (2000– )
199 min | Action
American journalist Diana and her Russian operator Nikolay go to Chechnya for an interview with Chechen warlord Amir, but suspicious rebels' leader takes them as hostages.
Stars: Dmitriy Shevchenko, Irina Malysheva, Igor Guzun, Olga Mashnaya
50. Chechnya: War Without Trace (2015 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
In the space of just a few years, Chechnya has undergone a remarkable transformation. But all this progress has come at a high price. In exchange for peace, the Kremlin has turned Chechnya ... See full summary »
Director: Manon Loizeau | Stars: Igor Kaliapine, Oleg Khabibrakhmanov, Guebardo Koutaiev, Salina Koutaieva
Votes: 36