Come and See (1985)

Sputnik (2020)

Summary: The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.

Release Date: July 24, 2020

Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Egor Abramenko

Writers: Oleg Malovichko

, Andrey Zolotarev

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Art Pictures Studio, Fond kino, Hype Film

Distributor: IFC Midnight, Scream Factory, XYZ Films

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 190,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,853

International: $ 335,170

The Sun (2005)

Summary: Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Telets (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur w...

Release Date: November 18, 2005

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Writers: Yuriy Arabov

, Jeremy Noble

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Nikola Film, Proline Film, Downtown Pictures, MACT Productions, Riforma Films, Russian Federation of Cinematography, Rai Cinema, Istituto Luce, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Cinema & Television Company (CTC), Lenfilm Studio

Distributor: Lorber HT Digital, Kino International

Countries: Russia, Italy, Switzerland, France

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 77,303

International: $ 141,022

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

Summary: One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't commun...

Release Date: January 28, 2011

Genre: Drama

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky

Writer: Alexei Popogrebsky

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Koktebel Film Company, Telekanal Rossiya, StartFilm, Rossiya 1

Distributor: Film Movement

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,733

International: $ 721,679

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Summary: In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Release Date: December 24, 1925

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Nina Agadzhanova

, Sergei Eisenstein

, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Runtime: 1 h 06 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, Reel Media International, Kino International, Kino Video, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 51,198

International: $ 10,191

Strike (1925)

Summary: A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Genre: Drama

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, Sergei Eisenstein

, Ilya Kravchunovsky

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kinostudiya imeni M. Gorkogo, 1-ya Goskino Fabrika, Goskino

Distributor: Image Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Summary: The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

Release Date: August 02, 1975

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Yuriy Nagibin

, Vladimir Arsenev

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: G

Production: Atelier 41, Daiei Studios, Mosfilm

Distributor: Satra Films, New World Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Kino Video, RUSCICO, Rare Films and More, The Criterion Channel, Flicksium

Countries: Japan, Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Summary: A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Release Date: May 12, 1929

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Dziga Vertov

Writer: Dziga Vertov

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)

Distributor: Amkino Corporation, Kino Video, Flicker Alley

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

Summary: Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Release Date: December 01, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Georgiy Daneliya

Writers: Georgiy Daneliya

, Revaz Gabriadze

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Mosfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

The Needle (1988)

Summary: 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 decides to help her kick the habit and to fight...

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Rashid Nugmanov

Writers: Aleksandr Baranov

, Bakhyt Kilibayev

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

Production: Kazakhfilm Studios, Alem

Distributor: Popular Films, Cast Vid, LowesVideos

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Stalker (1979)

Summary: A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Release Date: April 17, 1980

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers: Arkadiy Strugatskiy

, Boris Strugatskiy

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: G

Production: Mosfilm, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: Janus Films, Media Transactions, Seagull Films, HBO Max, Kino Video, RUSCICO, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 292,049

International: $ 146,143

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Summary: The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Runtime: 3 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mosfilm, Tvorcheskoe Obedinienie Pisateley i Kinorabotnikov

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Janus Films, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, RUSCICO, The Criterion Collection, Xenon Entertainment Group

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 124,189

International: $ 48,487

Stalingrad (2013)

Summary: A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.

Release Date: October 10, 2013

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Fedor Bondarchuk

Writers: Vasiliy Grossman

, Sergey Snezhkin

, Ilya Tilkin

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: R

Production: Art Pictures Studio, Non-Stop Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,013,945

International: $ 67,302,507

Solaris (1972)

Summary: A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Release Date: September 26, 1972

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers: Stanislaw Lem

, Fridrikh Gorenshteyn

Runtime: 2 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Mosfilm, Chetvyortoe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: Magna, Sci-Fi Pictures Inc./Magna Distribution Corp., Fox Lorber, RUSCICO, The Criterion Collection, Seagull Films, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Image Entertainment

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,168

International: $ 196,975

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Summary: During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Release Date: June 27, 1963

Genres: Drama, War

Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky

, Eduard Abalov

Writers: Vladimir Bogomolov

, Mikhail Papava

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm, Trete Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: Fox Lorber Home Video, Seagull Films, RUSCICO, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 22,168

International: $ 64,047

Text (2019)

Summary: College student Ilya spends 7 years in prison on a fake drug bust. Coming out, he wants revenge on the dirty cop, Pyotr. He gets Pyotr's smartphone filled with personal info and starts texting - pretending to be Pyotr.

Release Date: October 24, 2019

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Klim Shipenko

Writer: Dmitry Glukhovsky

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

Production: START, Central Partnership Productions, Kinoprime

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)

Summary: An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Leonid Gaidai

Writers: Mikhail A. Bulgakov

, Vladlen Bakhnov

, Leonid Gaidai

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: TV-G

Production: Mosfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Night Watch (2004)

Summary: A fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.

Release Date: July 08, 2004

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Writers: Timur Bekmambetov

, Laeta Kalogridis

, Sergey Lukyanenko

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Bazelevs Production, Perviy Kanal, TABBAK

Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 4,200,000

Domestic: $ 1,502,188

International: $ 48,834,091

Tsar (2009)

Summary: A historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.

Release Date: November 04, 2009

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Pavel Lungin

Writers: Aleksei Ivanov

, Pavel Lungin

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Pavel Lungin Studio, Profit Cinema International

Distributor: Pilot

Country: Russia

Language: Russian