A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. Read More »
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Seven Songs from the Tundra AKA Seitsemän laulua tundralta (2000) Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio, Anatoli Hudi, Igor Hudi, Tajuda Hudi
Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio previously made numerous documentaries about the Nenets Read More »
The Journey of August King (1995) John Duigan, Jason Patric, Thandie Newton, Larry Drake
The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in April 1815. Read More »
Goodbye, Boys AKA Do svidaniya, malchiki! (1966) Mikhail Kalik, Natalya Bogunova, Evgeniy Steblov, Anna Rodionova
Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. Read More »
Prisoner of the Mountains AKA Kavkazskiy plennik (1996) Sergei Bodrov, Oleg Menshikov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania Read More »
Moscow AKA Moskva (2000) Aleksandr Zeldovich, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Tatyana Drubich, Natalya Kolyakanova
The film centres on Mike, a businessman in decidedly the new Russian mould. Read More »
Zone 39 (1996) John Tatoulis, Peter Phelps, Carolyn Bock, William Zappa
In a time of misery and fear two enemies come together to prevent an apocalypse conspired by their leaders. Read More »
You and Me AKA Ty i ya (1971) Larisa Shepitko, Leonid Dyachkov, Yuriy Vizbor, Alla Demidova
Came very close to opening in neurosurgery, from which depended the salvation of many people Read More »
The Snow Queen AKA Snezhnaya koroleva (1957) Lev Atamanov, Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay Read More »
A Railway Station for Two AKA Vokzal dlya dvoikh (1983) Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. Read More »
A Cruel Romance AKA Zhestokiy romans (1984) Eldar Ryazanov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Read More »
The Bay of Death AKA Bukhta smerti (1926) Abram Room, Nikolai Saltykov, Leonid Yurenev, Vasili Yaroslavtsev
The mechanic on a battleship during the Civil War in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution Read More »
Among the Living AKA Aux yeux des vivants (2014) Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Anne Marivin, Théo Fernandez, Francis Renaud
A woman shuns away kids asking for trick or treat on Halloween while her husband Read More »
Zombie Wars (2007) David A. Prior, Adam Mayfield, Alissa Koenig, Jim Hazelton
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers Read More »
The Village Teacher AKA Selskaya uchitelnitsa (1947) Mark Donskoy, Vera Maretskaya, Pavel Olenev, Daniil Sagal
Eve of the First World War. After graduating from high school in St. Petersburg Read More »