Best Russian films (1985 — ...)
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- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsEvgeniy SytyySergey DreydenAnna MikhalkovaKind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings... Criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from companions and leaves him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and he is about to end as a homeless bum... But suddenly a miracle happens with Jenya: a strange old man brought homeless Jenya to his flat and let him stay. Soon Jenya is invited to join a strange fight the old man is engaged in: a fight against evil, that spoils life in Moscow. Jenya willingly participates in the old man's undertakings, until he meets the old man's daughter who reveals Jenya a horrible truth of her father.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsGrigoriy DobryginSergey PuskepalisIgor ChernevichOne place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.
- DirectorYuriy FetingStarsFirdaus AkhtyamovaKhalima IskanderovaRuslan MustafinTatarstan, Russia, a small Tatar village. An old woman, Bibinur Juhangir, sees a dream telling that she is going to die next Friday. She has to use the time rest to give all of her debts and to prepare for the departure. Suddenly criminal businessmen and land owners appear in the village. They are intending to sell the land, where now the old cemetery is. One of them, Jihangir, who is used to glamorous life of big cities having lived the most part of his life abroad, has now for the first time in his life arrived on Tartar land. The young man stays in Bibinur's house for the night, and she tells him about her life. She's ready to confront his companion and refuses to sell the land.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsLeonid FilatovOleg BasilashviliVladimir MenshovGoing on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey RozinWhen a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
- DirectorSergey LobanStarsPyotr MamonovVera StrokovaAleksey PodolskiyA Cyberwanderer, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea is the first part of Sergei Loban's absurdist dilogy.
- DirectorNataliya MeshchaninovaStarsDarya SavelevaPolina ShaninaMaksim StoyanovSveta is eager to escape from Norilsk. It's even more of a dream because Maxim is out there in the far-away southern town of Temryuk waiting for her (or so she thinks). Nadya is the essence of everything that Sveta hates about Norilsk. The situation becomes even worse as Sveta's friends shamelessly and perpetually use Nadya's sexual services. When the disgusting dispatcher and prostitute gets an opportunity to leave Norilsk, Sveta's hatred reaches its climax. 'She has stolen my dream!'
- DirectorValeriya Gay GermanikaStarsPolina FilonenkoAgniya KuznetsovaOlga ShuvalovaLife is never easy, especially when you're fourteen. But some teenagers have to deal not only with their inner feelings and complexes and youthful maximalism, but also with the cruel surrounding reality.
- DirectorSergei DvortsevoyThe story of old people living in a forgotten village. Once a week they need to push the carriage with bread for several kilometers towards their gloomy settlement.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsMaksim SukhanovJustine WaddellVitaliy KishchenkoIn 2020, a group of wealthy Muscovites traveling to a complex of abandoned astrophysics, where rumors say they have enough power to stop the aging process.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsTinatin DalakishviliEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey VertkovFor the sake of her future with the father of her two children, she commits a crime so grave that he withdraws from her. Feeling betrayed she tries to fill the void with sex and religion; but resentment drives her to revenge.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaVladislav KomarovAndrey GusevWhen the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsDarya ZhovnerAtrem CipinNazir ZhukovIn the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
- DirectorLarisa SadilovaStarsKristii SchneiderEgor BarinovYuri KiselevA chronicle of life in the Russian village of Trubchevsk.
- DirectorSusanna BarandzhiyevaVitaliy ManskiyAleksandr RastorguevA drunk couple spend their summer-holiday at sea. Their life is not everything they hoped for, and abuse is part of their relationship. At sea they dream about love and understanding, and we observe their fellow countrymen spending their holidays on the same beach. Tragedy, comedy, love, hate, sex : it is all there.
- DirectorKlim ShipenkoStarsAlexander PetrovKristina AsmusIvan YankovskiyCollege 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.
- DirectorMichael IdovStarsAleksey AgranovichYuri KolokolnikovAlisa KhazanovaThe Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsYana TroyanovaGosha KutsenkoAndrey IlenkovNew Year in Russian - controlled and ruthless element. While residents preparing for a major national holiday, Lenka Shabadinova works at kiosk till midnight. She does not even know that New Year's Eve has prepared a crazy scenario for her.
- DirectorSusanna BarandzhiyevaVitaliy ManskiyAleksandr RastorguevA drunk couple spend their summer-holiday at sea. Their life is not everything they hoped for, and abuse is part of their relationship. At sea they dream about love and understanding, and we observe their fellow countrymen spending their holidays on the same beach. Tragedy, comedy, love, hate, sex : it is all there.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWater and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.