Modern Russia
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1. Putin's Kiss (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
Masha Drokova joins Nashi, a Russian ultra nationalist youth group, at the age of 16 and rapidly ascends its ranks, famously garnering a medal and the opportunity to kiss Vladimir Putin. The film details her growing disillusion with the group's leaders and her falling in with the anti-Putin opposition, especially a journalist and blogger named Oleg Kashin, who gets brutally attacked.
Director: Lise Birk Pedersen | Stars: Masha Drokova, Oleg Kashin, Viktoria Drokova, Garry Kasparov
Votes: 761 | Gross: $0.01M
2. The Student (2016)
Unrated | 118 min | Drama
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Votes: 6,077 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Volchok (2009)
88 min | Drama
The six-year-old girl had never seen her mother in her life. But, once appearing to soon leave again, the mother gave the girl a small ridiculous toy - a spinning top. This name is the best fit for the girl herself.
Director: Vasiliy Sigarev | Stars: Polina Pluchek, Yana Troyanova, Veronika Lysakova, Marina Gapchenko
Votes: 1,287
4. A Gentle Creature (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina, Vasilina Makovtseva
Votes: 2,494
5. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,002 | Gross: $0.30M
6. Arrhythmia (2017)
116 min | Drama
A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber, Maksim Lagashkin
Votes: 6,146
7. Loveless (2017)
R | 127 min | Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 35,569 | Gross: $0.57M
8. Mermaid (2007)
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.
Director: Anna Melikyan | Stars: Mariya Shalayeva, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Mariya Sokova, Anastasiya Dontsova
Votes: 3,642
9. The Italian (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Nikolay Spiridonov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Nikolay Reutov, Yuriy Itskov
Votes: 3,340 | Gross: $0.55M
10. Silent Souls (2010)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Romance
Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Igor Sergeev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 2,452
11. A Long and Happy Life (2013)
77 min | Drama
Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and tolerate his clandestine love-affair with Anya.
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anna Kotova, Vladimir Korobeynikov, Sergey Nasedkin
Votes: 505
12. To Live! (2010)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ordinary hunter accidentally helps a criminal to escape from his accomplices. Two completely different men tries to reach a distant city, but the price of life will be truly terrifying.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Vladislav Toldykov, Denis Shvedov, Sergey Belyaev, Aleksey Komashko
Votes: 2,253
13. The Major (I) (2013)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Denis Shvedov, Yuriy Bykov, Irina Nizina, Ilya Isaev
Votes: 4,807
14. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)
Not Rated | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.
Director: Aleksandr Veledinskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elena Lyadova, Aleksandr Robak, Evgenia Brik
Votes: 5,804
15. Morphine (2008)
110 min | Drama
A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko
Votes: 4,063
16. Twilight Portrait (2011)
105 min | Drama
Marina, an upper-class social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself after having been raped by three policemen.
Director: Angelina Nikonova | Stars: Olga Dykhovichnaya, Roman Merinov, Sergey Golyudov, Sergey Borisov
Votes: 902
17. Betrayal (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A romance between two strangers who discover that their partners are lovers.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Franziska Petri, Dejan Lilic, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Andrei Shchetinin
Votes: 964
18. The Fool (II) (2014)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
Director: Yuriy Bykov | Stars: Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo, Boris Nevzorov
Votes: 16,435
19. Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (2012)
106 min | Drama
23 short stories about the Mari women. Stories joyful and sad, ridiculous and terrible. It is the movie ornament, the movie calendar telling about philosophy, traditions and today of the Mari people.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Nadezhda Smirnova, Yana Esipovich, Roman Mishin, Olga Degtyaryova
Votes: 719
20. Euphoria (2006)
74 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic triangle leads to both joy and sorrow in this drama, Pavel (Maxim Ushakov) is a goat rancher who has fallen in love with beautiful Vera (Polina Agureeva) from afar.
Director: Ivan Vyrypaev | Stars: Polina Agureeva, Maksim Ushakov, Mikhail Okunev, Yaroslavna Serova
Votes: 1,333 | Gross: $2.21M
21. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 56,926 | Gross: $1.09M
22. Korotkoe zamykanie (2009)
92 min | Romance
Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are ... See full summary »
Directors: Pyotr Buslov, Aleksey German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev | Stars: Irina Butanaeva, Yuriy Chursin, Ivan Dobronravov, Aleksey Filimonov
Votes: 559
23. Kislorod (2009)
75 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Two people play out a story of love.
Director: Ivan Vyrypaev | Stars: Aleksey Filimonov, Karolina Gruszka, Varvara Voetskova
Votes: 852
24. Voditel dlya Very (2004)
105 min | Drama
A General, who had sent for a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his personal driver, decided to marry him to his physically disabled daughter
Directors: Pavel Chukhraj, Pavel Chukhray | Stars: Igor Petrenko, Alyona Babenko, Bogdan Stupka, Andrey Panin
Votes: 1,990
25. The Barber of Siberia (1998)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, History
At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris
Votes: 12,807
26. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, War
In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 16,350 | Gross: $2.62M
27. Hipsters (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Young people struggle to do things their way in the 1950s.
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgenia Brik, Maksim Matveev
Votes: 5,309
28. Elena (2011)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin, Elena Lyadova
Votes: 15,216 | Gross: $0.02M
29. The Return (2003)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 47,516 | Gross: $0.50M
30. Cargo 200 (2007)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov
Votes: 11,389
31. The Banishment (2007)
150 min | Drama, Romance
A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Maria Bonnevie, Aleksandr Baluev, Dmitriy Ulyanov
Votes: 9,003
32. Brother (1997)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
Votes: 24,549
33. Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
The men go hunting. Russian men.
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Stars: Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Sergey Russkin, Aleksey Buldakov
Votes: 4,698
34. 9th Company (2005)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin
Votes: 21,687
35. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,827 | Gross: $0.04M
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