Country: Russia

Discover the best movies, series, and documentaries made in Russia. Enjoy the top titles of all time, handpicked for you.


Palms

1994 · Documentary · 139 min. · Russia

Direction Artour Aristakisian

Plot Acclaimed docudrama that received many international awards. Hands is an innovative film which returns us to the very roots of cinema. Although usually described as docudrama, like any new phenomenon...

8.0

69 votes

8.0

69 votes

The Belovs

1994 · Documentary · 60 min. · Russia

Direction Viktor Kossakovsky

7.8

68 votes

7.8

68 votes

Idiot (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Movie · 550 min. · Russia

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Yevgeny Mironov · Vladimir Mashkov · Lidiya Velezheva · Olga Budina

Plot The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money...

7.6

22 votes

7.6

22 votes

Master and Margarita (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 500 min. · Russia

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Anna Kovalchuk · Aleksandr Galibin · Oleg Basilashvili · Vladislav Galkin

Plot Master and Margarita (2005) is a Menippean film based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Set in Moscow under Stalin and in Jerusalem under Pilate, it has several...

7.6

35 votes

7.6

35 votes

Bread Day

1998 · Documentary · 55 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Dvortsevoy

Plot Sergei Dvortsevoy directs this bleak, intensely bizarre documentary about a near-abandoned workers' settlement in far-northern Russia. One day every week in Township No. 3, a train arrives at the crumbling...

7.6

47 votes

7.6

47 votes

The Old Man and the Sea (S)

1999 · Movie · 20 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Petrov

Plot The Old Man and the Sea is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film follows...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Burnt by the Sun

1994 · Movie · 152 min. · Russia

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast Nikita Mikhalkov · Oleg Menshikov · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Plot Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of this tragic 1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik hero's family. The year is 1936,...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

A Humble Life

1997 · Documentary · 75 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

7.5

83 votes

7.5

83 votes

The Fool

2014 · Movie · 116 min. · Russia

Direction Yuriy Bykov

Cast Artyom Bystrov · Natalya Surkova · Dmitriy Kulichkov · Ilya Isaev

Plot Dima Nikitin is a simple and honest plumber who works in a small Russian town. Except for his unusual integrity, nothing makes him stand out of the crowd, until one...

7.5

794 votes

7.5

794 votes

The Return

2003 · Movie · 105 min. · Russia

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast Vladimir Garin · Ivan Dobronravov · Konstantin Lavronenko · Natalia Vdovina

Plot In contemporary Russia young brothers Vanya and Andrey have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Running home after a fight with neighborhood...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

Confession

1998 · Documentary · 260 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Plot Originally a five-part semi-documentary series on Russian television, this scaled down release tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The film reveals the...

7.4

40 votes

7.4

40 votes

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (S)

1992 · Movie · 20 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Petrov

Plot It chronicles the experiences of a man that decided that there was nothing to live for in the world, and therefore was determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn

1999 · Documentary · 188 min. · Russia

7.4

26 votes

7.4

26 votes

Blockade

2006 · Documentary · 51 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Plot The longest siege during World War II was that of Leningrad, which lasted for 900 days, from September 1941 to January 1944, when Hitler attempted to starve the Soviet city...

7.4

197 votes

7.4

197 votes

The Thief

1997 · Movie · 97 min. · Russia

Direction Pavel Chukhrai

Cast Vladimir Mashkov · Mikhail Filipchuk · Yekaterina Rednikova · Dima Chigaryov

Plot In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a...

7.4

931 votes

7.4

931 votes

Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

2019 · Documentary · 97 min. · Russia

Direction Andrey A. Tarkovskiy

Plot The documentary recounts Tarkovsky's life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the...

7.4

276 votes

7.4

276 votes

Svyato

2005 · Documentary · 45 min. · Russia

Direction Viktor Kossakovsky

Plot In Russian, "Svyato" means both "happy, clear, joyful," as well as "considered holy." But Svyato is also the short form of Svyatoslav - the nickname of the two-year-old subject of...

7.3

194 votes

7.3

194 votes

My Love

2006 · Movie · 26 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Petrov

Plot Moscow at the end of the 19th century. Anton is a 16-year-old high school student with lofty dreams of finding his first true love.

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

The Banishment

2007 · Movie · 150 min. · Russia

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast Konstantin Lavronenko · Maria Bonnevie · Alexander Baluev · Dmitriy Ulyanov

Plot A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.

7.3

944 votes

7.3

944 votes

The Settlement

2002 · Documentary · 77 min. · Russia

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

7.3

37 votes

7.3

37 votes