Leviathan (2014)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)

Summary: Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.

Release Date: February 11, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Vladimir Menshov

Writers: Valentin Chernykh

, Vladimir Menshov

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Mosfilm, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: International Film Exchange (IFEX), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Kino Video, RUSCICO, Sovexportfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 900,000

The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Summary: Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

Release Date: October 12, 1957

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Writer: Viktor Rozov

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Warner Bros., Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 17,923

International: $ 14,626

Office Romance (1977)

Summary: The life of entire statistical bureau becomes crazy when an ordinary worker, a shy man, falls in love with a boss, a strict woman.

Release Date: October 26, 1977

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Eldar Ryazanov

Writers: Emil Braginskiy

, Eldar Ryazanov

Runtime: 2 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Mirror (1975)

Summary: A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Release Date: March 07, 1975

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers: Aleksandr Misharin

, Arseniy Tarkovskiy

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 622,000

Domestic: $ 22,168

International: $ 102,199

Space Dogs (2010)

Summary: Schoolbooks say that Belka and Strelka were first space dogs. But the dogs say that people dissemble a lot.

Release Date: July 26, 2013

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Directors: Inna Evlannikova

, Svyatoslav Ushakov

Writers: John Chua

, Alexander Talal

, Vadim Sveshnikov

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: G

Production: Centre of National Film (CNF)

Distributor: Epic Pictures Group, Epic Pictures Releasing

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,408

International: $ 8,539,427

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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Summary: A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Release Date: April 02, 2015

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Sergey Mokritskiy

Writers: Maksim Budarin

, Max Dankevich

, Leonid Korin

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Kinorob, Novye Lyudi, Ukrainian State Film Agency

Distributor: Loco Films

Countries: Ukraine, Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Silver Skates (2020)

Summary: Matvey, the fastest courier on the frozen canals of 19th century St. Peteresburg is recruited by a group of pickpockets working the winter markets and falls for high-ranking official's daughter, Alisa.

Release Date: December 10, 2020

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family

Director: Michael Lockshin

Writers: Mary Mapes Dodge

, Roman Kantor

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Central Partnership Productions, KIT Film Studio, Kinoslovo, Studio Trite

Distributor: Netflix

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 500,000,000

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Moy papa Baryshnikov (2011)

Summary: Borya, the clumsiest pupil at the Bolshoi Ballet School, is convinced he is the son of Mikhail Baryshnikov, and sets out to persuade others.

Release Date: October 06, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Dmitry Povolotsky

Writer: Dmitry Povolotsky

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Production: New People Film Company

Country: Russia

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

Milyy Khans, dorogoy Pyotr (2015)

Summary: It is a story of love and friendship, proclaiming the triumph of the universal human values. Unaware of the approaching war, Russian and German engineers find themselves united by one common goal at the glass manufacturing plant i...

Release Date: March 10, 2016

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Aleksandr Mindadze

Writer: Aleksandr Mindadze

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Ma.ja.de. Fiction, Passenger Film Studio, Sota Cinema Group

Distributor: levelFILM

Countries: Germany, Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000