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Melodies of the Vera Quarter AKA Veris ubnis melodiebi (1973) Giorgi Shengelaia, Sofiko Chiaureli, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Ia Ninidze
Pavle, who is a poor cart-driver has two girls, Maro and Tamro. Read More »
Uncovered (1994) Jim McBride, Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Sinéad Cusack
While restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess Read More »
The Beauty AKA Grazuole (1969) Arunas Zebriunas, Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas
The cruelty of children is offered in all its unadorned ugliness in “Grazuole”. Read More »
Alyonka (1962) Boris Barnet, Natalya Ovodova, Irina Zarubina, Vasiliy Shukshin
Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan Read More »
Sonny Boy (2011) Maria Peters, Ricky Koole, Sergio Hasselbaink, Angelo Arnhem
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. Read More »
Hail Caesar (1994) Anthony Michael Hall, Bobbie Phillips, Leslie Danon
Caesar is a would-be rock star. But for now, he works at a pencil eraser factory. Read More »
Hoffmaniada (2018) Stanislav Sokolov, Anna Artamonova, Natalya Fisson, Vladimir Koshevoy
Based around three of Hoffmann’s tales; Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman Read More »
Shopping (1994) Paul W.S. Anderson, Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee
Lone group of teens, led by recently released joyrider and his disenchanted Belfast girlfriend Read More »
The Wrestler and the Clown AKA Borets i kloun (1957) Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin, Stanislav Chekan, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Yuriy Medvedev
It’s a story about two of the most famous russian personages. Read More »
Somebody to Love (1994) Alexandre Rockwell, Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She’s involved with the married Harry Read More »
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano AKA Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977) Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Read More »
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom AKA Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924) Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Dmokhovskaya
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Shinel (1959) Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina
The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »
The Flame and the Arrow (1950) Jacques Tourneur, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas
Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich ‘The Hawk’ Read More »