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6.5

♡ 25

95%

66%

based on novel or book

Drama

Sci-Fi

Aleksey German Director

Yuriy Tsurilo as Baron Pampa

Yuriy Dumchev as Roe Keu

Evgeniy Levitskiy as Strazh u vorot

Remigijus Bilinskas as Voin

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

Leto

2018

♡ 1

78%

st. petersburg, russia

summer

Kirill Serebrennikov Director

Nikita Efremov as Bob

Irina Starshenbaum as Natasha

Aleksandr Kuznetsov as Skeptic

Yuliya Aug as Tatiana

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

2019

7.6

♡ 12

95%

cinema on cinema

Documentary

portrait of a filmmaker

portrait of an artist

soviet union

soviet union filmmaker

tuscany, italy

Andrey A. Tarkovskiy Director

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Self

Margarita Terekhova as Self

Andrei Tarkovsky as Self

Inna Churikova as Self

An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

7.6

♡ 16

Sergei M. Eisenstein Director

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Mikhail Zharov as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Vsevolod Pudovkin as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

Aleksandr Rumnyov as The Stranger

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Major Grom: The Game

6.2

♡ 15

Adventure

Oleg Trofim Director

Aleksey Maklakov as Fyodor Prokopenko

Konstantin Khabenskiy as Veniamin Rubenstein

Evgeniy Bazhenov as Vlogger

Lyubov Aksyonova as Yulia Pchelkina

Police Major Igor Grom is known throughout St. Petersburg for his punchy character and uncompromising attitude towards criminals of all stripes. Incredible strength, analytical mindset and integrity — all this makes Major Thunder a real superhero. His life is perfect: during the day he catches criminals with his partner Dima Dubin, and spends the evenings in the company of journalist Yulia Pchelkina. The complete idyll is interrupted by the appearance in the city of a mysterious villain calling himself a Ghost. He offers Thunder to play a dangerous game, the stake in which is the lives of ordinary people.

Bender: The Final Hustle

2021

4.4

♡ 2

Adventure

Comedy

Igor Zaytsev Director

Yuri Kolokolnikov as Grigoriy Kotovskiy

Anna Vartanyan as Knyaginya Sumarokova

Ivan Kokorin as Mogilyuk

Pavel Derevyanko as Nestor Mahno

1919, Solnechnomorsk. Talented adventurers have become too unexpected: now they are wanted by the Russian and Turkish police. They go to the south of Russia to take possession of the golden scepter of Count Rumyantsev. In pursuit of a precious little thing, terrorists, circus performers and even participating ladies can dress up as them. Meanwhile, Ostap’s mother is approaching the paws of the gloomy Satanist Crowley, in whose treasury, by a mysterious coincidence, there is also a scepter ...

Whisper of the Witch

3.9

♡ 6

Horror

Thriller

Serik Beyseu Director

Sergey Safronov as Arthur

Igor Grabuzov as Nick

Ravil Batyrov as Nick in his youth

Maryana Spivak as Sofia

Mara, an ancient pagan spirit, hunts a group of teenagers taking their body parts to be reborn. A disillusioned and desperate investigator has to face his deepest fears to save the teenagers.

By the Will of Chingis Khan

2009

4.6

♡ 3

History

War

Andrei Borissov Director

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Bodyguard

Efim Stepanov as Chaman Xoxochoi

Orgil Makhaan as Jamucha

Oleg Taktarov as Kuchulun Khan

Three childhood friends. Three sworn brothers. One was initiated into the sacrament and grew up to be a great shaman. The other two followed the path of war and the nation recognised them as leaders. But only one of them was to become the ruler of the entire steppe. He was chosen by the Eternal Blue Sky and the Sky itself put him on a trial. Love for a woman will make him a warrior. Allegiance to the law will lead him to fratricide. Striving for peace will force him to start war. The council of nine tribes, speaking nine tongues, proclaimed him the sovereign and gave him the name of an ancient deity - Genghis Kahn.

The Code of Cain

2016

3.2

♡ 3

Drama

Thriller

Vitali Vasilikov Director

Eric Roberts as Dave Parker

Sally Kirkland as Elisabeth

Anthony De Longis as Kidnapper

Elena Caruso as Narrator

World renowned journalist Sara Ogden is traversing the world in pursuit of carriers of a fatally dangerous "Stamp of Cain" in order to prevent seemingly unrelated events such as mass murders, turmoil, revolutions and chaos. She doesn't even suspect how close she is to the edge of the abyss, when in her search she ends up in Belarus to meet face to face with the one, whom she has been searching for her entire life.

Vernost

2019

5.7

♡ 28

husband wife relationship

Drama

infidelity

jealousy

man woman relationship

nudity

sex scandal

Nigina Sayfullaeva Director

Evgeniya Gromova as Lena / wife

Anna Kotova as Nikiforova / patient

Mikhail Troynik as Politseyskiy / Policeman

Aleksandr Pal as Sergei / husband

Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.

Coma

2019

♡ 84

60%

Nikita Argunov Director

Milos Bikovic as Astronom

Lyubov Aksyonova as Fly

Polina Kuzminskaya as Spirit

Konstantin Lavronenko as Yan

A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.

Yolki 2

2011

6.2

♡ 1

Levan Gabriadze Director

Oleg Tabakov as

Viktor Verzhbitskiy as

Vera Brezhneva as

Anna Chipovskaya as Lena

A lot of things happened in the life of "Yolki" hepes during the last year, but here it's again - the New Year's eve...

Chernobyl: Abyss

♡ 19

Danila Kozlovsky Director

Ren Hanami as

Ravshana Kurkova as Dina

Danila Kozlovsky as Firefighter Alexey Karpushin

Oksana Akinshina as Olga Savostina

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

Guardians

2017

4.1

♡ 32

92%

Sarik Andreasyan Director

Vyacheslav Razbegaev as General-mayor Nikolay Dolgov

Sebastien Sisak as Ler

Valeriya Shkirando as Mayor Elena Larina

John F. Kennedy as Self

During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a superhero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but, in hard times, they must show themselves again.

Komandir

6.3

♡ 8

Aleksandr Guryanov Director

Anatoliy Kotenyov as Aleksey Dmitrievich Beschastnov

Boris Kamorzin as Otets Kulakova

Jonathan Salway as Sekretar posolstva SSHA

Sergey Borisov as Snegiryov

A boy from a remote Ural village, who grew up without a father in a large family, managed not only to survive the hardships of a wartime childhood and post-war devastation, but also to become at the origins of the creation of the Group A anti-terrorist unit, which would later become known as the Alpha Group.

Message from Sasha

5.4

♡ 1

Documentary

Anna Rudikova Director

Sasha Skochilenko as Self

Sasha Skochilenko is an artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the first to speak out against the 'special military operation' in Ukraine: she changed the price tags in a supermarket and put information about the war on them. Now Sasha is in prison, facing trial. Through the eyes of her friends Sonia and Lesha we witness the ongoing trial up close, exposing the absurdities and inhumanity of the Russian legal system, and the threats that the group of friends who support Sasha encounter in daily life. Over 18 months they await the final verdict. In November 2023, Sasha is sentenced to another 7 years imprisonment for her artistic rebellion.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980

8.0

♡ 6

Vladimir Menshov Director

Vladimir Menshov as Gosha's friend

Yuriy Perov as Perov, PhD

Tatyana Konyukhova as Self

Oleg Tabakov as Volodya

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...

The Dmitriev Affair

2023

7.2

♡ 2

Documentary

Jessica Gorter Director

Joeri Dmitriev as Self

Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory from the eternal doom of oblivion. Dmitriev’s riveting story is a tale of one man’s fight against the erasure of history by the state

Loveless

2017