Soviet movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
List of soviet movies
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
princess, happy ending, escapades, king, imagination, magic, puppetry, boy, adaptation, hans christian andersen, bittersweet, poverty ...
Time:
60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
bleak, black and white, meditative, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
world war two, orphan, coming of age, boy, espionage, childhood, war, child spy, courage, forest, great patriotic war, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, germany, europe ...
Is relevant?
20K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Arriving in Moscow, Chechen veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot:
killer, mafia, organized crime, russian mafia, uncover truth, siblings relations, buddies, vengeance, gangster, anti hero, crime boss, immigrant ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, soviet union, chicago, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A Star-ship discovers a dead alien space craft. All the humanoid crew are dead except for one woman. When revived she remembers nothing of the accident which crippled the space craft, and is brought back to earth to be studied.
Style:
psychedelic
Plot:
alien planet, alien, space opera, robot, artificial intelligence, surrealism, distopia, female nudity, good versus evil, humanoid, flashback, dna ...
Time:
23rd century, future
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The main character is Stanislav Tikhonov, an investigator for especially important cases of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. Together with his task force, he investigates the most high-profile cases committed in Moscow in the late ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, realistic, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crime boss, robbery, gang, police investigation, rivalry, revenge, dishonesty, bandit, gangster, escapades, criminal gang, society ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
childhood, surrealism, world war two, poetry, stream of consciousness, dream, winter, memory, coming of age, mirror, levitation, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
Style:
romantic comedy, humorous, romantic, sincere, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
wedding, satire, male female relationship, love, love and romance, life, happy ending, workplace, love triangle, saleswoman, workplace romance, city life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Style:
spiritual, political, absurd, satirical, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boy, children, female nudity, nude girl, little boy, summer, youth, modernism, spirituality, chess, young boy, nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev (Vasili Shukshin), traveling with his wife (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, light hearted
Plot:
provincial life, travelogue, marriage, social satire, humanism, city life, slice of life, character study, village, train, villager, holiday ...
Time:
70s
Place:
russia, siberia, moscow russia, black sea
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
On the formation of young Soviet diplomacy and the struggle of the mission in Kabul with the internal reaction and representatives of the Western powers for the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. A Russian diplomatic mission was sent to Kabul. ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, tension, period piece, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
international relations, geopolitics, british empire, power struggle, intrigue, espionage, nationalism, imperialism, negotiation, colonialism, propaganda, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
afghanistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
life, destiny, imperial russia, love story, life philosophy, exile, unfulfilled love, soldier, love affair, love triangle, love and romance, self sacrifice ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia, siberia, moscow russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as ...
Style:
atmospheric, visually appealing, philosophical, fairy tale, black and white ...
Plot:
betrayal, shakespeare, medieval, love, stage play, shakespeare's hamlet, royal court, knight, spirituality, moving, hamlet, realism ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, denmark
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
children, breast feeding, pregnancy, russian civil war, pregnant woman, life is a bitch, wartime life, female soldier, jewish family, soldier, baby, newborn baby ...
Time:
year 1967, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style:
breathtaking, cerebral, atmospheric, dramatic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wilderness, forest, wilderness survival, human spirit, cold weather, friendship, survival, hunter, nature, tiger, environment, explorer ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1975, 1910s, 19th century
Place:
siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr, persia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
On the way to Partisans camp Sgt. Tsybulya suddenly lands in the middle of German troops. Now he must find a way to return to the Red Army.
Style:
tension, tense, suspenseful, period piece, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soldier, red army, eastern front, behind enemy lines, danger, escape, guerilla warfare, courage, sabotage, heroism, sacrifice ...
Place:
soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky tells a story about his grandmother, an elderly countess. Many years ago, in France, she ...
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, tense, tragic ending, psychological ...
Plot:
gambling, card playing, greed, obsession, imperial russia, curse, supernatural, tragedy, occult, madness, superstition, moral dilemma ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
telekinesis, supernatural, cold war era, telepathy, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, mutation, ethical dilemma, interrogation, space exploration, mutant, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, humorous, light, folk tale ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
magic, conspiracy, good versus evil, evil sorcerer, wizard, parents and children, greed, teenager, friendship, prison, heroes, betrayal ...
Place:
ussr
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds ...
Style:
fairy tale, folk tale, allegory, mystical, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
princess, moral dilemma, village life, sea monster, coming of age, marriage proposal, mythology, prince, nanny, witch, transformation, love ...
Time:
medieval times
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star. The Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, melancholic, existential, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space travel, survival, isolation, exploration, crash landing, sacrifice, rescue mission, heroism, space opera, adaptation, love triangle, alien technology ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Soviet television movie adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel "The Hobbit".
Style:
folk tale, epic, suspenseful, melancholic, whimsical
Plot:
hobbit, adaptation, quest, middle earth, magical, television, children, good versus evil, lord of the rings, kaiju, wizard, literary ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
After graduating high school Ira Yegorova starts working in the construction...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
young love, coming of age, workplace romance, everyday life, working class, optimism, gender roles, social realism, family relations, love triangle, construction worker, graduate ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
magic, new year, love, witch, spell, singing, intrigue, witchcraft, holiday, magic realism, winter, snow ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, road movie, cerebral, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, brother, childhood, journey, father son relationship, children, survival, parents and children, existentialism, wilderness, road trip, abusive father ...
Time:
year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical ...
Style:
surreal, social, philosophical
Plot:
time travel, communism, time loop, trapped, mining town, father son relationship, war hero, repeated event, alternate reality, perestroika, social realism, fantasy world ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949, 80s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style:
scary, dark fantasy, gothic horror, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
witch, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, evil dead, corpse, danger, escapades, cossack, medieval ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, year 1967, 19th century
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
At the dilapidated country estate of Anna Petrovna Voinitseva, a group of feckless Russian aristocrats whiles away a summer afternoon. Unbeknownst to their respective spouses, local schoolteacher Platonov and the wife of Anna's stepson, Sophia, ...
Style:
atmospheric, spiritual, contemplative, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot:
true love, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, lost love, spirituality, summer, russian history, destructive relationship, rescue, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1977, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
28K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone.
Style:
suspenseful, grim, harsh, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
russian mafia, vigilante, organized crime, life philosophy, brutality, mafia, life is a bitch, gangster, friendship, dark hero, mob hit, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, st. petersburg russia
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Style:
gloomy, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
love triangle, love, perestroika, murder, young lovers, youth, russian mafia, winter, art theft, organized crime, russian history, cold war ...
Time:
18th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, europe, ukraine
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills ...
Style:
political, black and white, surreal, captivating, experimental ...
Plot:
rebellion, dictatorship, prostitution, propaganda, revolution, poverty, dictator, politics, farmer, cuban revolution, coup d'etat, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
cuba, soviet union, ussr, latin america, havana cuba ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
