Search results for "Soviet Union"
Come and See (1985)

Come and See (1985)

Come and See (1985)
IMDb: 8.4
142 min

Elem Klimov directed the feature film. It was shot in military drama. It takes place in the Belarusian territory during 1943. The story centers on a Belarusian boy who sees…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Stalker (1979)

Stalker (1979)

Stalker (1979)
IMDb: 8.1
162 min

The Zone is a tiny, unnamed area in a country. This is an unorthodox area. It contains a location called the Room where wishes can be granted. The Zone was…

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Solaris (1972)

Solaris (1972)

Solaris (1972)
IMDb: 8.0
167 min

Solaris has set up a base at a planet believed to be home to intelligence. However, the details remain hazy and secret. The main character of the mission is dispatched…

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Mirror

Mirror

Mirror
IMDb: 8.0
107 min

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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Genre: Drama, History
Waterloo

Waterloo

Waterloo
IMDb: 7.2
123 min

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
The Color of Pomegranates

The Color of Pomegranates

The Color of Pomegranates
IMDb: 7.6
79 min

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular…

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Genre: Drama, History
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
IMDb: 7.3
120 min

In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her…

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Genre: Drama, Music
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot
IMDb: 7.8
88 min

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of…

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Genre: Drama, History
Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin
IMDb: 8.0
66 min

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the…

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Genre: Drama, History
Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I
IMDb: 7.8
95 min

In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his…

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Genre: Drama, History
Favourites of the Moon

Favourites of the Moon

Favourites of the Moon
IMDb: 7.1
101 min

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors,…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying
IMDb: 8.3
95 min

As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany's surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers, the sensitive Veronika and the stalwart Boris, are parted when the patriotic…

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
IMDb: 8.1
98 min

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…

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The Needle

The Needle

The Needle
IMDb: 7.1
81 min

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….

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Kino Eye

Kino Eye

Kino Eye
IMDb: 7.1
78 min

This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing…

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Genre: Documentary
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
IMDb: 8.2
100 min

The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned…

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Three Songs About Lenin

Three Songs About Lenin

Three Songs About Lenin
IMDb: 6.5
61 min

Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.

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Genre: Documentary
The Steel Road

The Steel Road

The Steel Road
IMDb: 7.3
57 min

Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the…

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Genre: Documentary
I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba
IMDb: 8.2
141 min

This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back again,…

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Genre: Drama
War and Peace

War and Peace

War and Peace
IMDb: 8.3
422 min

Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Lev Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova…

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Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm
IMDb: 6.9
67 min

How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.

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Genre: Documentary
Father of a Soldier

Father of a Soldier

Father of a Soldier
IMDb: 8.5
87 min

During World War II, Georgy Makharashvili, an old peasant wine-grower, leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a wounded soldier. But before…

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Genre: War
They Fought for Their Motherland

They Fought for Their Motherland

They Fought for Their Motherland
IMDb: 7.9
137 min

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops…

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Genre: War
Viy

Viy

Viy
IMDb: 7.3
77 min

Getting lost, wandering home whilst on leave from his seminary, novice monk Khoma stays in the barn of an old woman. A scuffle breaks out. Later, he is summoned to…

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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
City Zero

City Zero

City Zero
IMDb: 7.4
103 min

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a…

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Travels of Mr. Blot

Travels of Mr. Blot

Travels of Mr. Blot
IMDb: 6.6
164 min

Mr. Kleks visits at night, a boy who is a patient at the hospital. He decides to tell him a story, starting with the fact that Great Elektronik together with…

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Genre: Fantasy
Mister Blot’s Academy

Mister Blot’s Academy

Mister Blot’s Academy
IMDb: 6.8
166 min

Ten-year-old Adas, beginning his education at the Academy, finds the hideout of Bird Matt, who used to be a prince. Touched by his fate, he promises to find the magic…

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Genre: Fantasy
Ballad of a Soldier

Ballad of a Soldier

Ballad of a Soldier
IMDb: 8.2
88 min

During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a…

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Genre: Romance, War
Strike

Strike

Strike
IMDb: 7.6
82 min

In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused…

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Genre: Drama
Pilot Pirx’s Inquest

Pilot Pirx’s Inquest

Pilot Pirx’s Inquest
IMDb: 6.5
95 min

The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space flights….

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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
IMDb: 8.3
81 min

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…

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The Ascent

The Ascent

The Ascent
IMDb: 8.3
111 min

In a freezing cold World War II winter, two pro-Soviet partisans – Sotnikov and Rybak – head off to find food for themselves and their compatriots. They find a sheep…

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Genre: War
Men from the Fisherman’s Village

Men from the Fisherman’s Village

Men from the Fisherman’s Village
IMDb: 5.9
88 min

After a stormy night on the sea, a group of Estonian fishermen end up in a small coastal Finnish town. As they await the Soviet authorities to take them back…

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Genre: History
Letter Never Sent

Letter Never Sent

Letter Never Sent
IMDb: 7.9
80 min

The film is based on the eponymous book by Valery Osipov. Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala
IMDb: 8.3
142 min

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Amphibian Man

Amphibian Man

Amphibian Man
IMDb: 7.1
96 min

People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator….

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Courier

Courier

Courier
IMDb: 7.9
88 min

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Larisa

Larisa

Larisa
IMDb: 7.8
25 min

A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov,…

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Genre: Documentary
Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street
IMDb: 7.6
96 min

A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.

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Genre: Romance
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog
IMDb: 8.7
136 min

In the wake of the Russian revolution, a starving dog is rescued from the streets of Moscow by a cultivated professor. The professor experiments on the dog, who soon begins…

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