Alive and Kicking (1958)

Production: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Compagnie Est-Ouest, Compagnie des Films, National Dovzhenko Film Studios, Ukrainian Ministry of Arts & Culture, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

A Friend of the Deceased (1997)

Summary: Tolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.

Release Date: May 01, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Directors: Leonid Boyko

, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich

Writer: Andrei Kurkov

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: France, Ukraine

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 145,443

Fragment of an Empire (1929)

Summary: A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.

Release Date: January 25, 1930

Genre: Drama

Director: Fridrikh Ermler

Writers: Fridrikh Ermler

, Ekaterina Vinogradskaya

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

Production: Sovkino

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

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

, Andrei Tarkovsky

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

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

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

Window to Paris (1993)

Summary: Nikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Viktor Mikhalkov (I)). The...

Release Date: February 17, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Directors: Yuri Mamin

, Arkadiy Tigay

Writers: Vyacheslav Leykin

, Yuri Mamin

, Feliks Mironer

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Fountain Cinema, Les Films du Bouloi, La Sept Cinéma

Countries: Russia, France

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 255,088

Brother (1997)

Summary: An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Release Date: July 08, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Aleksey Balabanov

Writer: Aleksey Balabanov

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

Production: CTB Film Company, Kinostudiya Imeni M. Gorkogo, Roskomkino

Distributor: Kino Video, Video Project

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 10,000

The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)

Summary: Veteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.

Release Date: April 19, 1999

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Stanislav Govorukhin

Writers: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy

, Yuri Polyakov

, Stanislav Govorukhin

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: NTV

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Osenniy marafon (1979)

Summary: Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.

Release Date: November 23, 1979

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Georgiy Daneliya

Writers: Aleksandr Volodin

, Georgiy Daneliya

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: International Film Exchange (IFEX), RUSCICO

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

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Day Watch (2006)

Summary: A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

Release Date: June 15, 2007

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Writers: Timur Bekmambetov

, Sergey Lukyanenko

, Alexander Talal

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bazelevs Production, Perviy Kanal, TABBAK

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 4,200,000

Domestic: $ 450,897

International: $ 42,467,635

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Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

Summary: During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.

Release Date: March 08, 1947

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writer: Sergei Eisenstein

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm, Tsentralnuyu Obedinyonnuyu Kinostudiyu (TsOKS)

Distributor: Artkino Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Kultur Video, Image Entertainment, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Collection, Reel Media International, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Corinth Video, Grapevine Video, Tartan Video USA

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Paradise (2016)

Summary: Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.

Release Date: January 19, 2017

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Writers: Andrey Konchalovskiy

, Elena Kiseleva

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

Production: Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky, Drife Filmproduktion (I)

Countries: Russia, Germany

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 4,635,000

Domestic: $ 39,622

International: $ 906,369

War and Peace (1965)

Summary: The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.

Release Date: April 28, 1968

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk

Writers: Sergey Bondarchuk

, Vasiliy Solovyov

, Lev Tolstoy

Runtime: 6 h 33 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Continental Distributing, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, RUSCICO, Seagull Films, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, Kultur International Films

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 148,503

Hard to Be a God (2013)

Summary: In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like, planet.

Release Date: February 27, 2014

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Aleksey German

Writers: Arkadiy Strugatskiy

, Boris Strugatskiy

, Aleksey German

Runtime: 2 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sever Studio, Telekanal Rossiya, Lenfilm Studio, Rossiya 1

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,608

International: $ 1,270,427

The Commissar (1967)

Summary: Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Aleksandr Askoldov

Writers: Aleksandr Askoldov

, Vasiliy Grossman

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Kinostudiya imeni M. Gorkogo, Mosfilm

Distributor: International Film Exchange (IFEX), Kino Video

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 388,029

Oci ciornie (1987)

Summary: An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.

Release Date: November 06, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Writers: Aleksandr Adabashyan

, Nikita Mikhalkov

, Suso Cecchi D'Amico

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Production: Excelsior Film-TV, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Sovinfilm

Distributor: CBS/Fox, RUSCICO, Films sans Frontières, Ripley's Film, VIGGO

Countries: Italy, Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 2,201,428

Arsenal (1929)

Summary: A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Release Date: November 09, 1929

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Odeska Kinofabryka, Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)

Distributor: Kino Video

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

Summary: As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

Release Date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Documentary, War

Director: Mstyslav Chernov

Writer: Mstyslav Chernov

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Frontline PBS, Associated Press

Countries: Ukraine, United States

Language: Russian