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Some Dogs Bite (2010) Marc Munden, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Aaron Taylor, Michelle Asante
A 14-year-old leads his two half-brothers (one older, one an infant) on a journey Read More »
Silver Bears (1977) Ivan Passer, Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan
Financial wizard “Doc” Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore Read More »
Freeze Die Come to Life AKA Zamri, umri, voskresni! (1990) Vitali Kanevsky, Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947 Read More »
The Night Before Christmas AKA Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) Aleksandr Rou, Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale Read More »
Twelve Chairs AKA Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva
In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »
Belshazzar’s Feast, or Night with Stalin AKA Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989) Yuriy Kara, Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin Read More »
Prague Nights AKA Prazske noci (1969) Jirí Brdecka, Milos Makovec, Milena Dvorská, Milos Kopecký, Jirí Hrzán
Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher’s stone Read More »
Peasants AKA Krestyane (1935) Fridrikh Ermler, Pyotr Aleynikov, Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Nikolay Bogolyubov
The struggle of farmers against the “kulaks” on collective farms. Read More »
Revolt of the Fishermen AKA Vosstaniye rybakov (1934) Erwin Piscator, Aleksei Dikij, Dmitri Konsovsky, Nikolai Gladkov
Sailors working on the trawlers of the German shipowner Bredel go on a strike. Read More »
Shopping Tour AKA Shoping-tur (2012) Mikhail Brashinskiy, Tatyana Kolganova, Timofey Yeletskiy, Tatyana Ryabokon
A group of Russian tourists go on a shopping spree to the neighboring Finland Read More »
The Last Train AKA Posledniy poezd (2003) Aleksey German Jr., Pavel Romanov, Pyotr Merkurev, Aleksey Devotchenko
In early winter of 1944, as the Nazi army flees the Soviet advance, two Germans Read More »
The Ghost That Never Returns AKA Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya (1930) Abram Room, Boris Ferdinandov, A. Filippov, Karl Gurnyak
To all appearances set in an anonymous South-American republic, the film is a moving story Read More »
Mother India (1957) Mehboob Khan, Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Read More »
The Owners AKA Ukkili kamshat (2014) Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Yerbolat Yerzhan, Aidyn Sakhaman, Aliya Zainalova
25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya Read More »