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- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsLeonid BichevinIngeborga DapkunaiteAndrey PaninA drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorAleksandr GornovskiyKaren ShakhnazarovStarsVladimir IlinAleksey VertkovAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyySimultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsMikhail SkryabinYuriy MatveevAleksandr MosinThe film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
- DirectorValeriya Gay GermanikaStarsPolina FilonenkoAgniya KuznetsovaOlga ShuvalovaLife is never easy, especially when you're fourteen. But some teenagers have to deal not only with their inner feelings and complexes and youthful maximalism, but also with the cruel surrounding reality.
- DirectorSergey LobanStarsPyotr MamonovVera StrokovaAleksey PodolskiyA Cyberwanderer, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea is the first part of Sergei Loban's absurdist dilogy.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsAndrey KraskoFedor BondarchukAndrey SokolovThe skeptic doctor is stuck between this world and that world. Light dramedy about rethinking life.
- DirectorAlyona ZvantsovaStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMikhail PorechenkovIngeborga DapkunaiteLawyers Andrew and Benjamin are friends who share a lot, but their work puts them on opposite sides. Their trials do not occur in this life but in the afterlife. They are members of the Sky Court deciding where a human soul should go after death- Heaven or Hell. Unexpectedly in one case personal interests of Andrew interfere: the man who made the proposal to his widow is on trial.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVladimir MashkovMariya MironovaAndrey KraskoDuring the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaSultan IslamovBryan AdamsIn the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.
- DirectorAleksey KorenevStarsNikolay KarachentsovYuriy YakovlevIrina ShmelyovaThe unexpected disappearance of a young wife forced the protagonist to go to the police. The commissioner begins an investigation, and in the meantime, the local curate brings an allegedly repentant wife to the inconsolable husband.
- DirectorViktor SergeevStarsAleksandr AbdulovInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyLarisa BelogurovaHe is overly intelligent. He is genius. And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsEvgeniy MironovAleksandr BaluevNina UsatovaA Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians. Our hero turns out as the only sober and hard-working member of the community. However, his attachment to his new faith soon provokes the hatred and rejection of everyone else, including his own family.
- DirectorOleg FesenkoStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVadim ErmilovEkaterina GusevaSuccessful advertising specialist learns that he is sick with a deadly disease. In fact, the diagnosis is wrong, but his life has already begun to change.
- DirectorFilipp YankovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyOksana FanderaElena PerovaModern Russian take on Felinni's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
- DirectorMikhail SegalStarsAndrey MerzlikinDarya NosikAndrey PetrovBribes, rudeness, generation gap. A satirical comedy about the peculiarities of Russian life
- DirectorGennadiy SidorovStarsValentina BerezutskayaTamara KlimovaAnastasia LyubimovaA small village in the Russian campaign is inhabited only by few old women and a boy. When a family of refugees arrives they are at first opposed by the community, but eventually they'll be accepted and help revive the village.
- DirectorRoman PrygunovStarsDanila KozlovskiyMariya AndreevaArtyom MikhalkovA story about things that are really important in life.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey MakovetskiyDinara DrukarovaAnzhelika NevolinaDariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovViktor SukhorukovDmitriy DyuzhevSomewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
- DirectorAleksandr VeledinskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElena LyadovaAleksandr RobakThe ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MashkovChulpan KhamatovaA novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
- DirectorDmitriy KiselevStarsEvgeniy MironovKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir IlinTrying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsDarya ZhovnerAtrem CipinNazir ZhukovIn the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsViktoria MiroshnichenkoVasilisa PerelyginaAndrey Bykov1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsLeonid YarmolnikAleksandr ChutkoYuriy TsuriloIn the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
- DirectorMichael IdovStarsAleksey AgranovichYuri KolokolnikovAlisa KhazanovaThe Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
- DirectorNigina SayfullaevaStarsEvgeniya GromovaAleksandr PalMarina VasilevaMidwife Lena, a loving wife, is driven towards a string of infidelities after her husband continues to neglect her.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsYuriy BykovVladislav AbashinAlla YuganovaThe measured life of the watchman of an abandoned sanatorium is disturbed by the arrival of a strange couple who asks to stay in one of the rooms. All three have something to hide from and what to hide in the wilderness.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsElena RufanovaEva MattesLeonid MozgovoyIn 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsJohannes ZeilerAnton AdasinskyIsolda DychaukA despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorPhilipp YuryevStarsVladimir OnokhovKristina AsmusVladimir LyubimtsevA young hunter sets off on a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsYana TroyanovaGosha KutsenkoAndrey IlenkovNew Year in Russian - controlled and ruthless element. While residents preparing for a major national holiday, Lenka Shabadinova works at kiosk till midnight. She does not even know that New Year's Eve has prepared a crazy scenario for her.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsViktor SukhorukovAnzhelika NevolinaEvgeniy MerkurevThe story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.
- DirectorSemyon SerzinStarsVadik KorolyovYuliya BashorinaIlya BorisovA simple guy from Podolsk ends up in the Moscow Police Department and morally prepares for all sorts of humiliations. But the representatives of the law suddenly turn out to be exacting intellectuals.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsGregory HladyLeonid MozgovoyAleksey KortnevThe writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants.
- DirectorKostas MarsanStarsAlexander AndreevAnna FlegontovaMatrena KornilovaXIX century. A big misfortune happened on the land of one wealthy family in Yakutia. As time passed, fear was forgotten and farmers started settling here again. But ghosts of this land will reveal secrets of forgotten history.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsSemyon SerzinChulpan KhamatovaVladislav SemiletkovA day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
- StarsElizaveta BazykinaIvan YankovskiyRuzil MinekaevThe late 1980s. While parents fight for survival in a changing world, children fight for the territory. Two 14-year-old boys, Andrey and Marat, are seeking protection and support amid violence and poverty - and find it on the streets.
- DirectorMichael LockshinStarsAugust DiehlYulia SnigirEvgeniy TsyganovA writer's novel is banned and play canceled. He then conceives a satirical novel where a devil-like character metaphorically revenges those responsible. Knowing it cannot be published, his muse Margarita pushes him to write it anyway.