A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers. Read More »
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The Great Turning Point (1945) Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev
World War II. German high command accumulates enormous forces for the assault. Read More »
Tipping the Velvet (2002) Geoffrey Sax, Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor
Dramatised from Sarah Waters’ acclaimed debut novel, “Tipping the Velvet” tells the story of Nancy Astley (Rachael Stirling) Read More »
Heart of a Dog (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »
A Hunting Accident (1978) Emil Loteanu, Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Kirill Lavrov
You can’t make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Read More »
Teheran 43: Spy Ring (1981) Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Curd Jürgens, Igor Kostolevskiy
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent Read More »
The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975) Vladimir Motyl, Irina Kupchenko, Aleksey Batalov, Natalya Bondarchuk
On December 14, 1825 the military units of the Russian army were supposed to swear their allegiance to the new czar, Nicholas I. Read More »
The Dry Valley (2011) Aleksandra Strelyanaya, Yana Esipovich, Oleg Garkusha, Elena Kalinina
This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants Read More »
The Other Love (1947) André De Toth, Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Read More »
Deadly Swarm (2003) Paul Andresen, Shane Brolly, Kaarina Aufranc, J. Patrick McCormack
A cargo truck crashes outside a small town in Mexico. The first officer is found stung to death. Read More »
Nika (2010) Arnon Zadok, Eva Dora Edelstein, Valeri Kaplan, Oleg Levin
Nika was kidnapped and sold into the global sex-trade. Ivan owes a large sum of money to Franco Read More »
Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) Aleksey German, Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementyev
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin’s Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign Read More »
Never In My Life (2004) Ryszard Zatorski, Danuta Stenka, Joanna Brodzik, Jan Frycz
The superb romantic comedy tells the story of Judyta’s life. Read More »
URGA (1991) Nikita Mikhalkov, Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin
The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. Read More »
Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) Aleksandr Proshkin, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. Read More »