Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.

Klyuch vremeni

2020

Russian

3.9

♡ 2

Adventure

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Alexey Telnov Director

Marina Kazakova as

Pavel Trubiner as

Lyubov Tolkalina as Irena

Ksenia Alekseeva as Ksyusha

Childless spouses writer Andrei and artist Olga adopt the eight-year-old Ksyusha. The director of the orphanage where the girl was brought up is Andrei Iren's ex-girlfriend. She still passionately loves Andrei and intends to return him at all costs, even if for this he will have to destroy his family happiness. Meanwhile, Andrei is writing a science fiction novel about the dark side of Petersburg. On the pages of his book, the city on the Neva turns into a phantasmagoric world, where time itself has stopped, and the streets are inhabited by soulless creatures. Suddenly, Ksenia enters the world of "dark Petersburg" from the novel by Andrey, where he meets a mysterious friend Paramon. Heroes are waiting for many dangerous adventures...

Space Dogs

2019

Russian

6.1

♡ 5

82%

Elsa Kremser Director

Aleksey Serebryakov as

Mikhail Zolotarev as Misha

Nadezhda Sobetskaya as Nadia

Natalia Kuranova as Natasha

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants. While shooting this film, the directors little by little realised that they knew the street dogs only as part of our human world; they have never looked at humans as a part of the dogs’ world.

Dersu Uzala

1975

Russian

8.2

♡ 37

73%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Yuriy Solomin as Arsenev

Aleksandr Pyatkov as Olenev

Daniil Netrebin as Politseyskiy

Vladimir Prikhodko as Russkiy soldat

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Dark Water

2017

Russian

4.7

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Horror

Roman Karimov Director

Dmitriy Bogdan as Maksim

Irina Starshenbaum as Polina

Evgeniy Alyokhin as Pyotr

Inna Egorova as Yulia

Strange and scary things start to happen after three young people spend a night on abandoned ship.

Sluga Gosudarev

2007

Russian

5.8

♡ 4

Oleg Ryaskov Director

Anna Garnova as 4-ya gornichnaya

Aleksey Chadov as Enzhi

Kircho Petrov as Russkiy soldat

Vadim Medvedev as Shvedskiy drabant

Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.

The Ice Demon

2021

Russian

3.6

♡ 7

Action

Horror

Thriller

Cindy Robinson Director

Alina Babak as

Aleksey Rozin as

Ryan Colt Levy as Blogger / Rinat / Kolya

Christopher Corey Smith as Misha

Ksyusha barely remembers her father: he went missing when she was a child. Incredibly, he is showing signs of life, despite being in a coma. The man is returned home in this condition. His wife has now remarried. The family is thrown into disarray by the return of the former master of the house – terrifying things are happening in the house, and Ksyusha’s mom starts acting weird… Ksyusha begins to suspect that something supernatural, icy, and lifeless has come home with her father. And now Ksyusha and her stepfather are about to find themselves protecting their family from a demon.

Hypnosis

2020

Russian

5.5

♡ 6

Action

Drama

Valeriy Todorovskiy Director

Kirill Anokhin as Dima - ofitsiant

Anna Filliptseva as Studentka

Arina Akhmerova as Studentka

Mark Kondratenko as Vanya

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After the mysterious death of one of Volkov’s patients, Misha decides to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the truth. But what if the dream and reality merged into one, and in the end he becomes the main suspect?

The Whaler Boy

2020

Russian

6.4

♡ 5

93%

grandparent grandchild relationship

teenage boy

village life

webcam

Philipp Yuryev Director

Gennady Iuneut as Gena

Kristina Asmus as Girl from America

Evgeny Ayanto as Poacher

Zakhar Vykvytke as Poacher

Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in Detroit, Lyoshka decides on the most desperate act in his life.

Larisa

1980

Russian

7.7

♡ 7

Elem Klimov Director

Elem Klimov as Self

Mayya Bulgakova as Self

Larisa Shepitko as Self

Valentin Rasputin as Self

Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.

Storm Over Asia

1928

Russian

6.9

♡ 8

75%

Vsevolod Pudovkin Director

I. Inkizhinov as Bair's Father

Anel Sudakevich as Commandant's blonde daughter

Boris Barnet as English soldier, pipe smoker

Bilinskaya as The Commandant's Wife

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.

Whispering Pages

1994

Russian

6.9

♡ 1

100%

69%

Drama

Aleksandr Sokurov Director

V. Bogdanov as

A. Tarasov as

Evgeniy Ganelin as (as E. Ganelin)

Rauf Khabibullin as (as R. Khabibullin)

An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.

Gitler kaput!

2008

Russian

3.1

♡ 2

Marius Balchunas Director

Yuriy Stoyanov as Borman

Zoya Buryak as House Madam

Anna Semenovich as Radistka Zina

Pavel Derevyanko as Shtandartenfyurer Shurenberg / Aleksandr Isaevich Osechkin

A Russian WW2 spy spoof following misadventures of a clueless Soviet secret agent trapped inside Hitler's inner circle.

Scarecrow

2020

Russian

6.3

♡ 3

Action

Drama

yakut

Dmitrii Davydov Director

Nikolai Ivanov as Police detective

Anatoly Struchkov as Police officer

Valentina Romanova-Chyskyyray as Scarecrow

Artur Zakharov as Stepan

She is a healer. A hermit. A Fool-in-God. She is a little over forty years old. She doesn’t disdain alcohol. She can be ridiculous, humiliated, offended. She has long been indifferent about herself. Everybody avoids her and is afraid of her, but secretly at night they all hurry to her home. After all, only she can get rid of their illnesses. For her, this is a damnation, and each time she swears that she won’t help people any more, but each time she is unable to refuse them. She knows that her gift will ruin her some time, but she continues to be the only chance of salvation for people.

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

1967

Russian

8.3

♡ 9

Sergey Bondarchuk Director

Vladislav Strzhelchik as Napoleon

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Sergey Nikonenko as Russian Officer

Ivan Zhevago as Russian Soldier

In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

1965

Russian

7.9

♡ 15

Sergey Bondarchuk Director

Vladislav Strzhelchik as Napoleon

Oleg Tabakov as Nikolai Rostov

Sergey Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.

Papier-Mache

2020

Russian

5.6

♡ 2

Comedy

Drama

Vitaliy Suslin Director

Ivan Lashin as Ivan Sergeyevich

Tatyana Skaredneva as Librarian

Tatyana Lashina as Mother

Yury Sidorov as Policeman

Ivan Lashin, a young man who lives with his mother in the country and works at home, met director Vitaly Suslin. The young man told the director about his life, they wrote a script together and thus the feature film "Head. Two Ears" was born, in which Ivan played himself as the main character. Russia’s most important festival Kinotavr declared it the best script and the film also received the award of the Russian Film Critics Guild. Now, a few years later, Vitaly and Ivan have made a new film which talks about Ivan’s life after festivals: has he changed, what is he dreaming about?

Forsaken

2018

Russian

3.2

♡ 5

Alexander Kulikov Director

Maksim Vitorgan as

Andrey Smolyakov as

Rodrigo Borges as Alexander Chapaev

Alexey A. Petrukhin as Assistant of Head of the Investigative Committee

As a result of a chain of tragic accidents on a distant planet, the cosmonaut Chapayev is left alone. His life is in constant danger. Something inexplicable, which he came into contact with, will forever change his life. From now on, he will be lost not only for himself but for the people of earth as well. And he have to die many times in order to prove that he is alive.