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- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
- The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
- In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His father, a man of traditional world outlook, lives in a pantheistic world of the Ukrainian ethos, where sin has a physical dimension. He does not believe that the stolen grain will sprout on the stolen land. When the grain finally sprouts, the old man admits that his son was right; for the sake of building a new world, the old laws of the universe should be broken.
- To pay off debts, Kira at 13 is sold by her parents to the old and rich Stavro. Constantly humiliated and beaten she gives birth to Dragomir and Kiralina. The trader Nazid kills Stavro to be able to sell Kiralina to a brothel.
- During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activities. The two fall in love but meet a violent end when the revolutionaries, led by Elka's father, destroy the palace.
- Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
- An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.
- After eating too much, the glutton-millionaire realizes that he has ruined his stomach. The hired scientist, Professor Fuchs, proposes a new surgical treatment that would separate the processes of satiety and digestion. To do this, you need to find a healthy person who agreed to provide the stomach. He is found, and soon the millionaire showed fantastic food absorption abilities. The painful sensations of an overloaded stomach were experienced not by the glutton, but by the unemployed driver, Emil.
- A Soviet comedy based on a story by O. Henry adapted for film by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Three boys: an exemplary young communist, a son of capitalist, and a homeless street thug, swap their dresses and change their behavior.
- Set in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
- The serf Ostap Mandryka, who caused arrogant anger with his behavior, flees from inevitable reprisal in Bulgaria, where he is injured when crossing the border. Together with other fugitives, he wanders around a foreign land and eventually returns to Russia.
- Vasya has been left to himself since childhood and is used to independence. In one day, Vasya manages to get a man out of the water, ride a strange car, expose a priest and catch the thief.
- The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva decided to emigrate. After wandering, he falls into the hands of an impressionario, who made him a celebrity. On tour, Leva met his Rachel, who was also forced to emigrate. The Wandering Stars finally meet.
- Bandits descend on a Jewish village and threaten to destroy it if they're not given five beauties in wedding dresses.
- About the cruel mores of the provincial philistinism of old Russia.
- About the struggle of Soviet people against spies and saboteurs. - At the construction of a new power plant, a former White Guard, Poloz, appears on the site under the guise of a hunter. His goal is to blow up the power plant. And he will not stop at stealing the little son of his ex-wife Katya .
- Based on L. Desbury's novel "Immortal" about the struggle of American workers against capitalists and pro-fascist organizations.
- The action takes place in the late 1920s Ukraine. Exposing the agent of counterrevolution penetrating the environment of Soviet scientists.
- Germany, 1923. Economic ruin, hunger and strikes. Workers called to fight by the communist Nils Unger seize an arsenal of weapons and turn each building into a fortress. The Social Democrat Busch does not fulfill Unger's order to blow up the bridge across the Elbe, and the Reichswehr troops enter the city. The massacre begins. Nils Unger is arrested. Busch, tied to the enemy's helper Dr. Mays, betrays the rebels under interrogation. The rebels face the trial. To avoid political publicity during the trial, Nils Unger is declared insane, but he manages to escape. And again one can hear his call "Keep the rifles!" on the streets of Hamburg.
- Satirical comedy about football fans.
- Propaganda Soviet film, which aims to establish the image of Petliura and Ukrainians as anti-Semites and murderers.
- The bourgeois wedding of Dekabryukhova is interrupted by the machine-gun fire of revolution. He flees abroad, leaving his wife. Oktyabryukhov stays and adapts to the new life. At the end of the picture there is an attempt at universal reconciliation and the poet's tormenting theme "three-way love". Dekabryuhov returns to his homeland. His wife is already married to Oktyabryukhov. Having learned about it, Dekabryukhov tries to leave, but the newlyweds force him to stay. The film was shot by director O. Iskander, but the main creator, of course, was Mayakovsky.