A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
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Clear Skies (1961) Grigoriy Chukhray, Nina Drobysheva, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Natalya Kuzmina
At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. Read More »
The Amphibian Man (1962) Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadiy Kazanskiy, Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Read More »
Winter’s Tale (1992) Éric Rohmer, Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti
Felicie and Charles have a serious if whirlwind holiday romance. Read More »
The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games Read More »
Other People’s Letters (1976) Ilya Averbakh, Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Smirnova, Sergei Kovalenkov
Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Read More »
13 PM (1969) Larisa Shepitko, Lev Kruglyy, Georgiy Vitsin, Anatoliy Papanov
Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit) Read More »
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981) Laurent Heynemann, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer
“Hangar” is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. Read More »
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »
The Shoe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) Riccardo Freda, Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. Read More »
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015) Stephen Cone, Joe Keery, Pat Healy, Tyler Ross
Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher’s kid Henry Gamble. Read More »
Crucial Years (1967) Juraj Jakubisko, Jirí Sýkora, Jana Stehnová, Vlado Müller
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. Read More »
Carnival in Moscow (1956) Eldar Ryazanov, Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov
This Russian musical manages to satirize Soviet life without ever offending the Politburo. Read More »
Dauria (1972) Viktor Tregubovich, Vitali Solomin, Petr Shelokhonov, Yefim Kopelyan
Epic about Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria. Set in the time of World War I and the Russian revolution of 1917. Read More »