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1. The Package (1989)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Gene Hackman, Tommy Lee Jones, Joanna Cassidy, John Heard
Votes: 11,485 | Gross: $10.65M
2. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,742 | Gross: $0.25M
3. Little Vera (1988)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.
Director: Vasili Pichul | Stars: Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva
Votes: 2,166 | Gross: $1.26M
4. Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, History
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jon Voight, Jason Robards, Sammi Davis, Annette Crosbie
Votes: 344
5. Repentance (1984)
PG | 153 min | Drama
Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze
Votes: 4,918 | Gross: $0.22M
6. World War Three (1998 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama, War
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Boris Sichkin, Christoph Gutknecht, Boris Lyoskin, Hans Sievers
Votes: 294
7. Ghost Mountaineer (2015)
100 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Urmas Eero Liiv's feature film "Must alpinist" (Ghost Mountaineer) is a youth film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era. It ... See full summary »
Director: Urmas E. Liiv | Stars: Priit Pius, Reimo Sagor, Hanna Martinson, Liis Remmel
Votes: 1,002
8. Anna ot 6 do 18 (1994)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna questions.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 734
9. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
153 min | Drama
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko
Votes: 1,406
10. The Needle (1988)
81 min | Drama, Thriller
Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ... See full summary »
Director: Rashid Nugmanov | Stars: Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov
Votes: 2,943
11. The Singing Revolution (2006)
Unrated | 94 min | Documentary, History, Music
Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of ... See full summary »
Directors: James Tusty, Maureen Castle Tusty | Stars: Heiki Ahonen, Gustav Ernesaks, Linda Hunt, Mari-Ann Kelam
Votes: 640 | Gross: $0.33M
12. Spitak (2018)
98 min | Action, Drama
Gor is trying to fly to Armenia from Moscow to search for his family stuck at the very epicentre of the earthquake. Once there, Gor rushes through what's left from the town in search of his... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Lernik Harutyunyan, Hermine Stepanyan, Aleksandra Politik, Alina Stepanyan
Votes: 518
13. Leningradskaya retrospektiva (1957-1990) (1990)
659 min | Documentary, History
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 26
14. From Russia with Rock (1988)
108 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary about the rise of rock music in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's.
Director: Marjaana Mykkänen | Stars: Harry Bent, Aleksandr Sklyar, Olga Opryatnaya, Akvarium
Votes: 36
15. American Passport (1999)
82 min | Documentary, War
A riveting travel odyssey of a 23 year old Seattle native Reed Paget who set out to visit the Seven Wonders of the World, but instead found himself capturing the images of 12 war zones.
Director: Reed Paget
Votes: 102
16. Soviets (1991– )
Documentary
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
Votes: 24
17. The Button (1989)
8 min | Animation, Short
Every time a Soviet apparatchik presses a button, something explodes.
Director: Robert Sahakyants
Votes: 64
18. Gorbachev. After Empire (2001 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa Gorbacheva
Votes: 10
19. Out of the Ruins (1989 TV Movie)
Documentary
This documentary explores the 1988 Armenian earthquake and how individual families and Soviet Armenian society are recovering from the tragedy.
Director: Agnieszka Piotrowska
Votes: 7
21. Dina Sfat na União Soviética (1988)
80 min | Documentary
In 1988, already seriously ill, Brazilian actress Dina Sfat goes to Soviet Union with a small crew, to see for herself how the magic words "Perestroika" and "Glasnost" were affecting ... See full summary »
Stars: Daniel Filho, Dina Sfat
22. Partiya (1990)
10 min | Animation, Short
An allegorical film about the historical rise and decline of the USSR as reflected through a chess game.
Director: E. Avagyan
23. Taterakan hraparak (1988)
26 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about the glasnost-era demonstrations at Yerevan's Theatre Square that attracted as many as one million participants. The square itself became a major symbol of the Armenian national democratic movement.
Director: Grigor Harutyunyan
24. Glasnost: Socialismo E Religião (1987 Video)
55 min | Documentary
Documentary about the first visit of some Catholic Church Latin-America authorities (Friars Leonardo Boff, Clodovis Boff and Frei Beto, sociologist Pedro de Oliveira and pastor Jether ... See full summary »
Directors: Regina Festa, Luiz Fernando Santoro | Stars: Frei Beto, Clodovis Boff, Frei Leonardo Boff, Pedro de Oliveira
25.
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode:
From Russia... with Blood
(1989)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jessica is detained in Moscow when a spy attempts to smuggle a film out of the Soviet Union in her handbag.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Jack Bannon, Peter Donat, Anthony Geary
Votes: 369
26.
ZDF Hitparade (1969–2000)
Episode:
Episode #1.216
(1987)
Music
Stars: Viktor Worms, Andreas Martin, Silicon Dream, Mixed Emotions
27.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 2
(2019)
TV-14 | 17 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 35
28.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
What would happen if Russia collapsed?
(2021)
17 min | Documentary
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
29.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Inside the Russia House
(1991)
Not Rated | 49 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Kim Evans | Stars: Pauline Black, John le Carré, Fred Schepisi, Sean Connery
30.
The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode:
Secrets and Sacrifices
(2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Cuba's survival depends on its Communist allies. The end of the Cold War means the end of foreign aid to the island - and pushes Cuba to the brink of famine.
Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Dariel Alarcón Ramirez, Juan Juan Almeida, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 80
31.
Apostrophes (1975–1990)
Episode:
La rencontre Eltsine - Zinoviev
(1990)
85 min | Talk-Show
Director: Jean-Luc Leridon | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Alexandre Adler, Boris Yeltsin, Alexander Zinoviev
32.
Apostrophes (1975–1990)
Episode:
Spécial URSS
(1990)
90 min | Talk-Show
Director: Jean Cazenave | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Alexander Avelitchev, Jean-Louis Ezine, Bernard Guetta