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Ayka
(Айка)
A young immigrant worker in Moscow desperately works to pay off her debts while dealing with postpartum health issues.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, Germany, Poland • 2019
- Director Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Cast Samal Yeslyamova, Dzhipargul Abdilova, David Alaverdyan, Cholponay Borubaeva, Nurzhan Kunnazarova
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Leviathan
(Левиафан)
A universal parable about the individual versus the might of a corrupt state.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2014
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Klassiki, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2013
- Director Aleksey German
- Cast Leonid Yarmolnik, Yuriy Tsurilo, Natalya Moteva, Aleksandr Chutko, Aleksandr Ilin, Evgeniy Gerchakov
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Tulpan
(Тюльпан)
A young man tries to win over his mysterious neighbor, the only eligible girl in town.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 Klassiki
Elena
(Елена)
When a man threatens to cut his wife and her son out of his will, his wife hatches a plan…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Hoopla
Russian Ark
(Русский ковчег)
2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years. All in one take.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex Channel
Loveless
(Нелюбовь)
A missing child. A marriage destroyed. A country in crisis.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, France, Germany • 2017
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andris Keiss, Oleg Grisevich
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Amazon Video, Fandango At Home
The Sun
(Солнце)
Confronted by General Douglas MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito of Japan must negotiate the terms of the country’s surrender.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2019
- Director Kantemir Balagov
- Cast Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Konstantin Balakirev, Kseniya Kutepova, Olga Dragunova, Andrey Bykov
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Alexandra
(Александра)
Alexandra, an elderly woman, takes a trip to see her grandson at his army base in Chechnya.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, France • 2007
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Andrei Bogdanov, Rustam Shakhgireyev
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on MUBI Amazon Channel, Fandango At Home
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 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2014
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Timur Bondarenko, Irina Ermolova, Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Viktor Kolobkov, Viktor Berezin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
The Return
(Возвращение)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2003
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina, Ivan Dobronravov, Lazar Dubovik
- Genre Drama
- Available on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2020
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrei Gusev, Yulia Burova, Sergei Erlish
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Captain Volkonogov Escaped
(Капитан Волконогов бежал)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Compartment No. 6
(Hytti Nro 6)
On a long train ride, a Finnish student forms an unexpected bond with a Russian miner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Finland, Russia, Estonia • 2021
- Director Juho Kuosmanen
- Cast Seidi Haarla, Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Yuliya Aug, Lidiya Kostina, Tomi Alatalo
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Petrov's Flu
(Петровы в гриппе)
A day in the life of the Petrov family in post-Soviet Russia during a flu epidemic.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
A Gentle Creature
(Кроткая)
A woman travels to a prison in a remote region to track down her incarcerated husband.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
To the Sea!
(На море!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2009
- Director Yaroslav Chevazhevsky
- Cast Yaroslav Chevazhevsky, Elena Babenko, Inga Strelkova-Oboldina, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Pavel Derevyanko, Evgeniya Lyutaia
- Genre Comedy, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Stroll
(Прогулка)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2003
- Director Alexey Uchitel
- Cast Irina Pegova, Pavel Barshak, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Evgeniy Grishkovec, Karen Badalov, Madlen Dzhabrailova
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Tubi TV, Cineverse, Kanopy
A Room and a Half
(Полторы комнаты, или Сентиментальное путешествие на Родину)
The journey that never was.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 Last Station
Intoxicating. Infuriating. Impossible. Love.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2016
- Director Kirill Serebrennikov
- Cast Viktoriya Isakova, Petr Skvortsov, Yuliya Aug, Alexandra Revenko, Alexandr Gorchilin
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Klassiki, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Kandahar
(Кандагар)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2010
- Director Andrei Kavun
- Cast Bohdan Beniuk, Aleksandr Baluev
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2010
- Director Aleksey Fedorchenko
- Cast Yuliya Aug, Igor Sergeev, Viktor Sukhorukov, Yuriy Tsurilo, Vyacheslav Melekhov, Yulia Tushina
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy
Superbad
(Суперплохие)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2016
- Director Dmitriy Suvorov
- Cast Danila Yakushev, Anna Chipovskaya, Aleksandr Lyapin, Karina Zvereva, Aleksandr Sokolovjvskiy, Aleksandr Revva
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Russian Five
The story of the five Russian hockey stars who wrote one of the most memorable chapters in Motor City sports history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, Russia, United States • 2018
- Director Joshua Riehl
- Cast Jeff Daniels, Jim Devellano, Sergei Fedorov, Viacheslav Fetisov, Wayne Gretzky
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Plex Channel
The Desert of Forbidden Art
How does art survive in a time of oppression?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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
Flipside
(Переверни пластинку)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2016
- Director Roman Naveskin, Stepan Polivanov
- Cast Roman Litvinov, Ivan Alekseev, Dmitry Spirin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2010
- Director Aleksei Popogrebsky
- Cast Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Artyom Tsukanov, Igor Chernevich, Ilya Sobolev
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dark Waters
(Temnye vody)
A young woman travels to remote island inhabited by mysterious — and tight-lipped — nuns…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, United Kingdom • 1993
- Director Mariano Baino
- Cast Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist, Lubov Snegur, Albina Skarga, Valeriy Bassel
- Genre Horror, Mystery
- Available on Screambox Amazon Channel, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Midnight Pulp, Troma NOW, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Tubi TV, Cineverse
12
An adaptation of "12 Angry Men" set in contemporary Russia.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2007
- Director Nikita Mikhalkov
- Cast Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Valentin Gaft, Aleksey Petrenko, Yuriy Stoyanov
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mother and Son
(Мать и сын)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, Germany • 1997
- Director Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
- 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Cineverse
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?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
LOL
(Большая ржака!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2012
- Director Vitaly Moskalenko
- Cast Aleksandr Robak, Aleksandr Semchev, Anna Semenovich, Vladimir Simonov, Grigorij Sijatvinda, Victor Dobronravov
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Filmzie, Plex, Plex Channel
Searching
No one is lost without a trace.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 Starz, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Blockade
(Блокада)
A stark compilation of footage from the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Cuckoo
(Кукушка)
She's Making Peace One Man at a Time.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
Leto
(Лето)
A story of underground rock in 1980s Leningrad.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Cannibal
(Caníbal)
Love is insatiable.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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 Midnight Pulp, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Spectrum On Demand, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
How I Met Your Mother
(Как я встретил вашу маму)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2010
- Creator Ivan Kitaev
- Cast Alexandr Smirnov
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2021
- Director Kira Kovalenko
- Cast Milana Aguzarova, Alik Karaev, Soslan Khugaev, Khetag Bibilov, Arsen Khetagurov
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Amazon Video
Dovlatov
(Довлатов)
Sergei Dovlatov's struggles as a dissident writer in Soviet Russia
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- 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, Netflix basic with Ads
One Life
(Жизнь одна)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2003
- Director Vitaly Moskalenko
- Cast Tatyana Yakovenko, Aleksei Nilov, Sergei Bezrukov, Aleksei Kravchenko, Tatyana Lyutaeva, Svetlana Iozefiy
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hipsters
(Стиляги)
Hot Jazz meets Cold War in this Soviet-era forbidden love story!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2008
- Director Valery Todorovsky
- Cast Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Maksim Matveev, Igor Voynarovskiy, Ekaterina Vilkova
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Kanopy
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