| Andreasyan, Sarik |
Guardians |
2017 |
Защитники |
A team of former Soviet superheroes, is dispatched to combat against destructive robots. (Science-fiction, Action) |
| Balabanov, Aleksei |
It Doesn’t Hurt Me |
2006 |
Мне не больно |
Three young people in Moscow, two in love, and one dying. (Drama, Romance) |
| Bondarchuk, Fyodor |
Ninth Company, The |
2005 |
Девятая рота |
Russian army recruits complete training and join the battle in late 1980’s Afghanistan. (Drama, Action) |
| Bondarchuk, Fyodor |
Attraction |
2017 |
Притяжение |
An alien spacecraft crash lands in Moscow’s Chertanova district. (Science-fiction) |
| Bortko, Vladimir |
Taras Bulba |
2009 |
Тарас бульба |
A man’s story of revenge after his wife and child have been murdered. (Drama, Action) |
| Buslov, Pyotr |
Bummer |
2003 |
Бумер |
Four friends in Moscow get in trouble with the law and have to flee in a black BMW. (Drama, Crime) |
| Bychkova, Oksana |
Piter FM |
2006 |
Питер ФМ |
The story of two people who can never seem to find each other in order to fall in love. (Drama, Romance) |
| Dyachenko, Dmitriy |
What Men Talk About |
2010 |
О чём говорит мужчины |
Based on the Russian play of a similar name, this is the story of men and their conversations about life (specifically women). (Comedy) |
| Eisenstein, Sergei and Aleksandrov, Grigory |
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) |
1928 |
Октябрь (десять дней, которые потрясли мир) |
A documentary style movie that covers the October Revolution and the fall of the Empire. (Historical Drama) |
| Epanchintsev, Matvey |
Dawns are Quiet Here, The |
2015 |
А зори здесь тихие |
May of 1942 Senior Sergeant Vaskov replaces his drunken men in battle with a new all-female unit. (Drama, History) |
| German Jr., Aleksey |
Paper Soldier |
2008 |
Бумажный солдат |
Two women who loved the same man, end up living together after his death. (Drama, Romance) |
| Grishkovets, Evgenii |
Satisfaction |
2011 |
Сатисфакция |
Two men, duel it out in one long night. (Melodrama) |
| Kara, Yuri |
Master and Margarita, The |
2011 |
Мастер и Маргарита |
Based on the novel by the same name, this is the story of the devil visiting the officially atheistic Soviet Union. (Fantastic) |
| Karimov, Roman |
Inadequate People |
2011 |
Неадекватные люди |
Our main character, Vitaliy seems pretty adequate, with a desk job and a personal therapist, that is until he drinks himself into a depression and tries to date an underage girl.How can you really tell if you’re adequate? (Comedy) |
| Kott, Alexander |
Brest Fortress, The |
2010 |
Брестская крепость |
A story about the defense of Brest Fortress during WWII, by the Soviet army against the Nazi’s. (Drama, Action) |
| Kozakov, Mikhail |
Pokrovsky Gate, The |
1982 |
Покровские ворота |
Based on the stageplay by Leonid Zorin, this is the story of how the lives of those in a communal apartment become intertwined. (Comedy) |
| Kravchuk, Andrei |
Viking |
2016 |
Викинг |
A historical movie about the prince Vladimir the Great, from Novgorod. (Drama, Action) |
| Lattuda, Alberto |
Overcoat, The |
1952 |
Il Cappotto |
Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, this movie tells the tragic story of a menial worker in St. Petersburg (the film version is in Italy). (Fantasy) |
| Lebedev, Nikolay |
Flight Crew |
2016 |
Экипаж |
The crew of a Russian airliner receives a distress signal from a volcanic island. (Disaster-film, Thriller) |
| Megerdichev, Anton |
Metro |
2013 |
Метро |
Passengers aboard a subway train become trapped as flood waters enter the metro. (Disaster-film, Thriller) |
| Meshiev, Dmitriy |
Battalion |
2015 |
Батальон |
The story of the first Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, during WWI, who were used a propaganda by the government. (Drama, Action) |
| Mokritskiy, Sergey |
Battle for Sevastopol |
2015 |
Битва за Севастополь |
A women fighting in WWII gets injured in battle and travels to America for another chance to fight. (Drama, Romance) |
| Nugmanov, Rashid |
Needle, The |
1988 |
Игла |
One mans fight against the local mafia which has taken over his life. (Thriller, Drama) |
| Parkhomenko, Pavel |
Gagarin: First in Space |
2013 |
Гагарин. Первый в космосе |
The story of the first man in space (1961), Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Docudrama, Drama) |
| Rostotsky, Stanislav |
We’ll Live Till Monday |
1968 |
Доживём до понедельника |
A story about an average school in Moscow and all the problems and joys that the teachers and students there face. (Drama/Romance) |
| Rou, Aleksandr |
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (The Night Before Christmas) |
1961 |
Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки |
Based on the series of short stories written by Nikolai Gogol, this is a fantastic tale about one mans quest for a different kind of love and how the devil plays their part in these affairs. (Fantasy) |
| Segal, Mikhail |
Short Stories |
2012 |
Рассказы |
A manuscript at a Russian publishing house mysteriously influences all who read it. (Drama, Mystery) |
| Shakhnazarov, Karen |
American Daughter |
1995 |
Американская дочь |
A lonely Russian man travels all the way to America to visit his daughter, who lives with her mother. (Comedy, Drama) |
| Sheptiko, Larisa |
Wings: Eclipse Series 11 |
1966 |
Wings: Eclipse Series 11 |
The story of the once famous fighter-pilot and Stalinist, Nadezhda Petrovna. (Historical Drama) |
| Sheptiko, Larisa |
Ascent: Eclipse Series 11 |
1977 |
Ascent: Eclipse Series 11 |
The dramatic story of two Soviet Partisans on a hunt for food in the deep winter, who get arrested by Nazi soldiers. Only one will live. (Historical Drama) |
| Sigarev, Vassily |
Living |
2012 |
Жить |
People surviving in a wintry Russian province. (Drama) |
| Uchitel, Alexei |
Dreaming of Space |
2005 |
Космос как предчувствие |
1957: a regular Russian man and the people around him, await the big changes that are happening in the world. (Drama, Romance) |
| Uchitel, Alexei |
Edge, The |
2010 |
Край |
Ignat arrives at a Siberian labor camp after his service in WWII. (Drama, Romance) |
| Uchitel, Alexei |
Giselle’s Mania |
1995 |
Мария Жизели |
The story of Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva who became famous for her role in the 1920 production, “Giselle.” (Drama, Biography) |
| Vartanov, Aleksandr & Mikhanovsky, Kirill |
Dubrovskiy |
2013 |
Дубровский |
Based on the Pushkin novel by the same name, this story follows a successful banker and his love affair with a women he shouldn’t be with. (Drama) |
| Vasilyevs, Georgi and Sergei |
Chapaev |
1934 |
Чапаев |
Based on the novel by the same name, this is a fictionalized story of the real-life Red Army Commander, and Russian Civil War hero, Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev. (Historical Drama) |
| Veledinsky, Alexander |
Geographer Drank His Globe Away, The |
2013 |
Географ глобус пропил |
Biologist Viktor Sluzhkin becomes a teacher, bonds with his students and writes about his experiences. (Drama, Adventure) |
| Zvyagintsev, Andrei |
Banishment, The |
2007 |
Изгнание |
An adaptation of the 1953 novel The Laughing Matter by William Saroyan. It tells the story of a family who discovers a dark side to the pastoral countryside they are visiting. (Drama) |
| Zvyagintsev, Andrei |
Elena |
2011 |
Елена |
A dutiful housewife loses her only chance for supporting her grown son and his family. (Drama) |
