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1. 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: 228,904 | Gross: $130.32M
2. 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: 323,981 | Gross: $80.17M
3. 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: 124,603 | Gross: $118.91M
4. 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: 62,524 | Gross: $41.26M
5. 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: 70,616 | Gross: $24.98M
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: 23,315
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: 35,351
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: 6,990
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: 29,065 | Gross: $4.43M
10. 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: 3,000
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: 3,847 | Gross: $0.02M
12. 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: 15,377 | Gross: $0.13M
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: 5,422
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: 4,756 | 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: 3,149
16. 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: 3,302
17. 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
18. 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: 1,030
19. 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: 866
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: 2,746
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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: 180
24. 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: 895
25. 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
26. 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: 867
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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: 81
37. 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
38. 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
39. Katarsis (2013)
107 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Russian special task force group is ambushed in North Caucasus. Survived soldier Gleb, his commander and their captive find asylum in forsaken house, but it turns out to be a mysterious trap.
Director: Aleksandr Kondratenko | Stars: Timofey Budin, Artyom Denke, Yuriy Grigoryev, Aleksandr Kondratenko
40. Prikaz 2. Ni shagu nazad (2015)
39 min | Short, War
Colonel of special forces receives a task to find a vicious criminal Dzibrail in mountains of North Caucasus. He suggests Major Frolov to head a new team.
Director: Yuriy Yermyakov | Stars: Igor Yermyakov, Dinar Faskhiyev, Suren Arutyunyan, Kirill Astafyev
41. Come Back Free (2016)
52 min | Documentary
A poetic documentary about life in a war-torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always ... See full summary »
Director: Ksenia Okhapkina
Votes: 10
42. 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
43. Weiße Raben - Alptraum Tschetschenien (2005)
92 min | Documentary, War
Directors: Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Tamara Trampe
Votes: 41
44. 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
45. Evacuation (2019)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Chechnya today is a territory of terror and total absence of law. Film tells a story of just one torture victim, evacuated from that hell along with story of pro-government violence against... See full summary »
Director: Evgeny Chilikov | Stars: Timur Debishev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Igor Kalyapin
46. 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
47. 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
48. Virtual War (2012)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Pekka Niskanen | Stars: Pekka Niskanen, Mikael Storsjö, Johan Bäckman, Juha Molari
49. Genah' yolu suyre (2015)
101 min | Romance
The story of two lovers parted by old Nakh custom of bride-napping.
Director: Beslan Terekbaev | Stars: Anzor Ahmethanov, Murad Yatayev, Linda Idrisova, Dzhamil Dzagiyev
50. 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