Soviet movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant soviet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, witty, suspense, semi serious and talky films and TV shows about / with soviet, love and romance, husband wife relationship, drinking, drinking alcohol, dishonesty, friendship, love, family relations and escapades plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in Soviet Union, USA, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as soviet: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967), The Diamond Arm (1969), The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972), Can't Change the Meeting Place (1979), Twelve Chairs (1971), Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), Formula of Love (1984), Heart of a Dog (1988), Ambush (1969), White Sun of the Desert (1969).
Best films
New films
| Dovlatov (2018) | 6.4 | |
| To the Lake (2019) | 7.2 | |
| Sputnik (2020) | 6.4 | |
| Dear Comrades! (2020) | 7.4 | |
| A Russian Youth (2019) | 6.3 |
List of soviet movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
life, friendship, midlife crisis, love and romance, women in society, women, life philosophy, career, working class, relationships, single mother, unwed mother ...
Time:
1950s, year 1980, 20th century, 50s, 70s ...
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, ussr, russia, siberia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets ...
Style:
witty, light, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
construction worker, warehouse, nothing goes right, workplace, community service, goofy hero, misfit partners, disorder, burglary, rivalry, love and romance, student life ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, spoof, parody
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
couple relations, student, corrupt official, kidnapping, love affair, love and romance, human relationship, criminal gang, social relations, farce, drunkenness, summer ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise with a smuggler on board. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for the gang of smugglers.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
nothing goes right, gem, cons and scams, farce, smuggling, smuggler, mistaken identity, secret mission, goofy hero, police station, disorder, chases and races ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style:
disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, war, female soldier, soviet army, female warrior, wartime life, great patriotic war, military life, military, world war, friendship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
TV show
Story:
After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post war, working undercover, bandit, gang, law enforcement, rookie, gangster, undercover agent, homicide, organized crime, criminal gang, infiltration ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, europe, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, funny, talky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
new year, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, disorder, comedy of errors, farce, unfulfillment, new year's eve, social satire, drunken man, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, siberia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, exciting, witty ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, cons and scams, treasure, con artists, partner, escapades, lost treasure, treasure map, improv, rivalry, gem, transformation ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
"I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
military enlistment, wedding, army, society, love and romance, family relations, friendship, boyhood, subway, love, writers, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a ...
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, realistic, talky, biting ...
Plot:
wizards and magicians, love, fantasy life, love and romance, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, adventurer, dishonesty, escapades, cons and scams, fish out of water, con artists ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a ...
Style:
satirical, philosophical, intellectual, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot:
medical experiment, communism, life philosophy, dog, experiment gone awry, society, obsession, adaptation, humanity, idealism, mentor, doctors and patients ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
russia, ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from ...
Style:
sentimental, rough, suspenseful, tense, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing
Plot:
world war two, fighter pilot, great patriotic war, aerial combat, aviation, fighter plane, camaraderie, love, patriotism, friendship between men, life & death, female pilot ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
ukraine, ussr, soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements.
Style:
dramatic, period piece, art house, tense, poignant ...
Plot:
border guard, ambush, realism, survival, journey, humanism, community, intimate, conflict, isolation, military, murder ...
Time:
60s, 1920s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home ...
Style:
serious, exciting, sincere, entertaining, smart ...
Plot:
desert, culture clash, civil war, leadership, russian civil war, russian revolution, cultural difference, heroes, red army, society, smuggling, drunkenness ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 60s, 1920s
Place:
soviet union, asia, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin ...
Style:
touching, stylized, captivating, sad, political ...
Plot:
politics, communist, stalinism, communism, father daughter relationship, nkvd, countryside, repression, symbolism, love, tragedy, redemption ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1936
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie takes place during Russia's civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young betrothed couple in the village of Malinovka, caught between the battle lines. Gritsian is the leader of ...
Style:
humorous, tense, captivating, suspense
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wedding, russian civil war, couples, family relations, love and romance, brutality, violence, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, village people, civil war, undercover agent ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty ...
Style:
rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, cold weather, injustice, village life, criminal heroes, village, fighting crime, life is a bitch, down on your luck, danger, rivalry, perestroika ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
russia, soviet union, siberia, ussr, moscow russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, clever
Plot:
midlife crisis, infidelity, affair, language learning, caught cheating, love triangle, translator, friendship, homecoming, fish out of water, love affair, family problems ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, europe, russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, funny, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
time travel, time machine, fish out of water, inventor, race against time, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, changing the past or future, comedy of manners, goofy hero, misfit partners, misfit ...
Time:
year 1973, 16th century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, humorous, feel good, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ship, human animal relationship, tiger, animal training, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love interest, sea voyage, strong female lead, female protagonist, danger, chimpanzee ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 373 min.
Story:
Seven-hour epic based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the ...
Style:
epic, romantic, fairy tale, inspirational, smart ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, nobility, true love, nationalism, russian history, battles, medieval, historical epic, war, napoleonic era, russian empire, passion ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, 1800s, year 1966, regency period ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even ...
Style:
funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
Plot:
love, social satire, bribery, friendship, middle aged man, coworker relationship, social relations, slacker, social outcast, social misfits, communism, plumber ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
middle aged man, midlife crisis, character study, loneliness, regret, alienation, existential crisis, family drama, intimate, infidelity, urban, slice of life ...
Place:
soviet union, poetic realism, ussr
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev ...
Style:
suspense, tense, entertaining, talky, anime ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
space and aliens, space travel, invisibility, intergalactic, outer space, disappearance, animal life, space adventure, space pirate, animal, friends, pretense ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 80s
Place:
russia, soviet union, europe, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, entertaining, touching, fairy tale ...
Plot:
love, royal court, spell, bear, wizard, husband wife relationship, satire, fantasy life, princess, irony, magic, hunter ...
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
stalker, post apocalypse, dystopian future, surrealism, psychokinesis, dog, wish come true, trippy, human nature, distopia, escapades, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1979, near future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, offbeat, enigmatic, humorous ...
Plot:
desert, surrealism, alien, absurdism, satire, distopia, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism, transformation, time travel, totalitarianism ...
Time:
future
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, cult classic, funny ...
Plot:
adventurer, cinema, cinematographer, armed robbery, perestroika, drunkenness, drinking, highwayman, murder, stagecoach robbery, outlaw, cowboy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Soviet spies are delivering top-secret mail to Moscow.
Style:
tension, patriotic, suspense, dramatic, detective ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, propaganda, loyalty, spy thriller, secret mission, spy, risk, surveillance, betrayal, danger, conflict ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story:
Fact based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy Chief Warrant Officer with access to top secret cryptographic communications. As a result of mounting debts, he sold secrets to the Soviets in 1967, a practice that he continued thereafter. He further ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
spy, espionage, real life, covert operation, betrayal, strip club, kgb, navy, special agent, secret agent, heroes, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, washington d.c.
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