Country: Russia
Discover the best movies, series, and documentaries made in Russia. Enjoy the top titles of all time, handpicked for you.
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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
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
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
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
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
7.3
37 votes