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Leviathan
(Левиафан)
A universal parable about the individual versus the might of a corrupt state.
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- Russia • 2014
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV
Hard to Be a God
(Трудно быть богом)
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local Medieval civilization find the path to progress.
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- Russia • 2013
- Director Aleksey German
- Cast Leonid Yarmolnik, Yuriy Tsurilo, Natalya Moteva, Aleksandr Chutko, Aleksandr Ilin, Evgeniy Gerchakov
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Hoopla, Metrograph, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Tulpan
(Тюльпан)
A young man tries to win over his mysterious neighbor, the only eligible girl in town.
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- Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany • 2009
- Director Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Cast Askhat Kuchencherekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Tolepbergen Baysakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Bereke Turganbayev, Nurzhigit Zhapabayev
- Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Available on Metrograph, Klassiki
Elena
(Елена)
When a man threatens to cut his wife and her son out of his will, his wife hatches a plan…
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- Russia • 2011
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Nadezhda Markina, Aleksey Rozin, Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova, Yaroslav Zhalnin, Aleksey Maslodudov
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Klassiki, Apple TV, Kanopy
Russian Ark
(Русский ковчег)
2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years. All in one take.
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- Russia, Germany, Japan • 2002
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Sergei Dreiden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Maksim Sergeev, Vladimir Baranov, Kirill Miller
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
- Available on Hoopla, Kino Now, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
Loveless
(Нелюбовь)
A missing child. A marriage destroyed. A country in crisis.
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- Russia, France, Germany • 2017
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andris Keiss, Oleg Grisevich
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz, YouTube, Apple TV
Alexandra
(Александра)
Alexandra, an elderly woman, takes a trip to see her grandson at his army base in Chechnya.
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- Russia, France • 2007
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Andrei Bogdanov, Rustam Shakhgireyev
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Vudu, MUBI Amazon Channel, MUBI
The Sun
(Солнце)
Confronted by General Douglas MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito of Japan must negotiate the terms of the country’s surrender.
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- Russia, Italy, Switzerland • 2005
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shirô Sano, Dmitriy Podnozov
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy
Beanpole
(Дылда)
A war movie about what happens after battle.
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- Russia • 2019
- Director Kantemir Balagov
- Cast Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Konstantin Balakirev, Kseniya Kutepova, Olga Dragunova, Andrey Bykov
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, , YouTube, Apple TV, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel
The Postman's White Nights
(Белые ночи почтальона Алексея Тряпицына)
A postman leaves his remote village and travels to the city in search of his lover.
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- Russia • 2014
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Timur Bondarenko, Irina Ermolova, Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Viktor Kolobkov, Viktor Berezin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Filmzie, Kanopy
The Fool
(Дурак)
A story about a simple plumber up against an entire system of corrupt bureaucrats.
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- Russia • 2014
- Director Yury Bykov
- Cast Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo, Sergei Artsybashev, Boris Nevzorov, Dariya Moroz
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Return
(Возвращение)
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- Russia • 2003
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina, Ivan Dobronravov, Lazar Dubovik
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Dear Comrades!
(Дорогие товарищи!)
A Communist party worker finds her worldview changed after her daughter disappears in the chaos of a major labor conflict.
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- Russia • 2020
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrei Gusev, Yulia Burova, Sergei Erlish
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Apple TV
Captain Volkonogov Escaped
(Капитан Волконогов бежал)
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- Russia, France, Estonia • 2023
- Director Alexey Chupov, Natalya Merkulova
- Cast Yuriy Borisov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Natalya Kudryashova, Vladimir Yepifantsev
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Under the Sun
(Im Strahl der Sonne)
A year in the life of a family in Pyongyang, North Korea as the daughter prepares to join the Korean Children’s Union.
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- Czech Republic, Russia, Germany • 2016
- Director Vitaly Mansky
- Cast Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong, Hye-Yong, Oh-Gyong, Choi Song-min
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video, OVID, Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, Apple TV, Plex Player
A Gentle Creature
(Кроткая)
A woman travels to a prison in a remote region to track down her incarcerated husband.
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- France, Germany, Russia • 2017
- Director Sergey Loznitsa
- Cast Vasilina Makovtseva, Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khairullina, Sergey Kolesov, Boris Kamorzin
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Petrov's Flu
(Петровы в гриппе)
A day in the life of the Petrov family in post-Soviet Russia during a flu epidemic.
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- Russia, France, Switzerland • 2021
- Director Kirill Serebrennikov
- Cast Semen Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Yulia Peresild, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuriy Borisov, Ivan Dorn
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
The Last Station
Intoxicating. Infuriating. Impossible. Love.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, Russia • 2009
- Director Michael Hoffman
- Cast Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti, John Sessions
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, DIRECTV, Tubi TV
Silent Souls
(Ovsyanki)
A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former's beloved wife.
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- Russia • 2010
- Director Aleksey Fedorchenko
- Cast Yuliya Aug, Igor Sergeev, Viktor Sukhorukov, Yuriy Tsurilo, Vyacheslav Melekhov, Yulia Tushina
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Kino Now, Kanopy
A Room and a Half
(Полторы комнаты, или Сентиментальное путешествие на Родину)
The journey that never was.
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- Russia • 2009
- Director Andrey Khrzhanovsky
- Cast Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Sergei Yursky, Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergei Dreiden, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksandr Lenkov
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Student
(Ученик)
Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions.
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- Russia • 2016
- Director Kirill Serebrennikov
- Cast Viktoriya Isakova, Petr Skvortsov, Yuliya Aug, Alexandra Revenko, Alexandr Gorchilin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
Compartment No. 6
(Hytti Nro 6)
On a long train ride, a Finnish student forms an unexpected bond with a Russian miner.
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- Finland, Russia, Estonia • 2021
- Director Juho Kuosmanen
- Cast Seidi Haarla, Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Yuliya Aug, Lidiya Kostina, Tomi Alatalo
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV, Cineverse
The Desert of Forbidden Art
How does art survive in a time of oppression?
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- Russia, United States, Uzbekistan • 2011
- Director Tchavdar Georgiev
- Cast Ed Asner, Sally Field, Ben Kingsley
- Genre History, Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Russian Five
The story of the five Russian hockey stars who wrote one of the most memorable chapters in Motor City sports history.
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- Canada, Russia, United States • 2018
- Director Joshua Riehl
- Cast Jeff Daniels, Jim Devellano, Sergei Fedorov, Viacheslav Fetisov, Wayne Gretzky
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Plex, YouTube, Apple TV, Plex Player, fuboTV
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
(Монгол)
A chronicle of the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
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- Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan • 2007
- Director Sergei Bodrov
- Cast Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun, Aliya, Ba Sen, Amadu Mamadakov
- Genre Action, Adventure, History, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, DIRECTV
Orlando
In this adaption of Virginia Woolf's novel, Orlando, a gender bending aristocrat, travels through more than 400 years of English history as a man and then a woman.
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- United Kingdom, Russia, Italy • 1992
- Director Sally Potter
- Cast Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey, Heathcote Williams
- Genre Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, DIRECTV, Tubi TV
The Italian
(Italyanets)
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living at a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
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- Russia • 2005
- Director Andrey Kravchuk
- Cast Kolya Spiridonov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Nikolay Reutov, Denis Moiseenko, Sasha Sirotkin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
How I Ended This Summer
(Как я провёл этим летом)
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
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- Russia • 2010
- Director Aleksei Popogrebsky
- Cast Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Artyom Tsukanov, Igor Chernevich, Ilya Sobolev
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Tubi TV
12
An adaptation of "12 Angry Men" set in contemporary Russia.
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- Russia • 2007
- Director Nikita Mikhalkov
- Cast Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Valentin Gaft, Aleksey Petrenko, Yuriy Stoyanov
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, DIRECTV
4
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?
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- Russia, Netherlands • 2004
- Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- Cast Yuri Laguta, Konstantin Murzenko, Sergey Shnurov, Marina Vovchenko, Shavkat Abdusalamov, Anatoli Adoskin
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
(Показательный процесс: История Pussy Riot)
A group of radical-feminist punk rockers protested Putin's reelection in 2011. Now they are victims of a show trial.
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- Russia, United Kingdom • 2013
- Director Maxim Pozdorovkin
- Cast Mariya Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Andrey Tolokonnikov, Pussy Riot, Petr Verzilov
- Genre Documentary, Music
- Available on Fandor, FlixFling, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee
Searching
No one is lost without a trace.
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- Russia, United States • 2018
- Director Aneesh Chaganty
- Cast John Cho, Michelle La, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Sara Sohn, Briana McLean
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Mystery
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Unclenching the Fists
(Разжимая кулаки)
A young woman hopes to leave her family and start a new life, but finds that leaving is harder than she thought.
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- Russia • 2021
- Director Kira Kovalenko
- Cast Milana Aguzarova, Alik Karaev, Soslan Khugaev, Khetag Bibilov, Arsen Khetagurov
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, MUBI Amazon Channel, MUBI
Blockade
(Блокада)
A stark compilation of footage from the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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- Russia • 2005
- Director Sergey Loznitsa
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, History, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Whaler Boy
(Китобой)
A young boy living on the Bering Strait is determined to find a woman he saw on the internet.
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- Russia, Poland, Belgium • 2020
- Director Philipp Yuryev
- Cast Vladimir Onokhov, Kristina Asmus, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Nikolai Tatato, Arieh Worthalter, Mariya Chuprinskaya
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV
The Cuckoo
(Кукушка)
She's Making Peace One Man at a Time.
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- Russia • 2002
- Director Aleksandr Rogozhkin
- Cast Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Mikhail Korobochkin, Sergei Antonov, Aleksey Kashnikov
- Genre Drama, History, Romance, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cannibal
(Caníbal)
Love is insatiable.
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- Spain, Romania, Russia • 2013
- Director Manuel Martín Cuenca
- Cast Antonio de la Torre, María Alfonsa Rosso, Olimpia Melinte, Joaquín Núñez, Delphine Tempels, Gregory Brossard
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Midnight Pulp, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Spectrum On Demand, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
Leto
(Лето)
A story of underground rock in 1980s Leningrad.
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- Russia, France • 2018
- Director Kirill Serebrennikov
- Cast Yoo Teo, Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum, Philip Avdeev, Alexandr Gorchilin, Yuliya Aug
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Why Don't You Just Die!
(Папа, сдохни)
An attempt at revenge becomes incredibly complicated.
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- Russia • 2018
- Director Kirill Sokolov
- Cast Vitaliy Khaev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Mikhail Gorevoy, Igor Grabuzov, Vladimir Afanasyev, Alexandr Domogarov Jr.
- Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Alamo on Demand, YouTube, Apple TV
Dovlatov
(Довлатов)
Sergei Dovlatov's struggles as a dissident writer in Soviet Russia
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- Russia, Poland, Serbia • 2018
- Director Aleksey German Jr.
- Cast Milan Marić, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Eva Gerr, Arthur Beschastny, Anton Shagin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix basic with Ads, Netflix
Hipsters
(Стиляги)
Hot Jazz meets Cold War in this Soviet-era forbidden love story!
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- Russia • 2008
- Director Valery Todorovsky
- Cast Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Maksim Matveev, Igor Voynarovskiy, Ekaterina Vilkova
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Kanopy
Generation P
(Generation П)
This film chronicles Russia’s transition from communism to capitalism during the roaring 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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- Russia, United States • 2011
- Director Viktor Ginzburg
- Cast Mikhail Efremov, Andrey Fomin, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Panin, Leonid Parfyonov
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Faust
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- Russia • 2011
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Florian Brückner
- Genre Fantasy, Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Kanopy
The Invisible Front
(Nematomas frontas)
Between 1944–1953, a courageous resistance movement took place in the Baltic region of Europe in a struggle against the Soviet Union.
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- Russia, United States, Latvia • 2014
- Director Jonas Ohman
- Cast Andrius Mamontovas, Darius Udrys
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Apple TV
Finding Babel
The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his execution.
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- France, Russia, Ukraine • 2015
- Director David Novack
- Cast Liev Schreiber, Marina Vlady, Stéphanie Campion, David Coburn, Andrei Malaev-Babel
- Genre Animation, Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
Dancer
A portrait of the “bad boy of ballet” who featured in the music video for Hozier’s “Take Me to Church.”
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- United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine • 2016
- Director Steven Cantor
- Cast Sergei Polunin, Jade Hale-Christofi, Galyna Polunina, Vladymyr Polunin, Valentino Zucchetti
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
Sin
(Il peccato)
A gritty, powerful biopic of legendary Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo that focuses on his struggle to survive and create art.
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- Russia, Italy • 2019
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Alberto Testone, Umberto Orsini, Nicola Adobati, Massimo De Francovich, Nicola De Paola, Glen Blackhall
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla, Kanopy, Apple TV
Father and Son
(Отец и сын)
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- Russia, Germany, Italy • 2003
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Neymyshev, Aleksandr Razbash, Fyodor Lavrov, Marina Zasukhina, Anna Aleksakhina
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Schizo
(Shiza)
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- Kazakhstan, Russia, France • 2004
- Director Gulshat Omarova
- Cast Oldzhas Nusupbayev, Olga Landina, Eduard Tabishev, Viktor Sukhorukov, Gulnara Yeraliyeva
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Karski & The Lords of Humanity
(Karski i Władcy Ludzkości)
Hear the story of Jan Karski, who traveled across occupied Europe to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes
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- Poland, Russia, United States • 2015
- Director Sławomir Grünberg
- Cast Jan Karski
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Plex Player, Cineverse
The Forest of the Lost Souls
(A Floresta das Almas Perdidas)
A pair of strangers, one with sinister intentions, meet in Portugal's remote "suicide forest."
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Russia • 2017
- Director José Pedro Lopes
- Cast Daniela Love, Jorge Mota, Mafalda Banquart, Lília Lopes
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Freevee, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, VUDU Free, Tubi TV, YouTube, Pluto TV, Apple TV
The Outskirts
(Окраина)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 1998
- Director Pyotr Lutsik
- Cast Yuriy Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksei Pushkin, Aleksey Vanin, Rimma Markova
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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