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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
Style:
fairy tale, folk tale, touching, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
obstacle, love, young girl, danger, heroes, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, slavic mythology, bravery, forest, rescue mission, magic ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
1910 lernen sich Lenin und Inès Armand in Paris kennen. Inès Armand war dorthin aus der Verbannung (Archangelsk) geflohen und gründete mit Lenin die Parteischule von Longjumeau. In Jutkevitchs Film bildet die fiktive Liebesgeschichte zwischen ...
Style:
political, serious, thought provoking, melancholic, educational ...
Plot:
revolution, biopic, bolshevik, class struggle, exile, political intrigue, urban, russian history, communist, lenin, small town, russian revolution (1917) ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, France, Soviet Union, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives ...
Style:
philosophical, grim, bleak, intellectual, cynical ...
Plot:
barbarian, medieval, human nature, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, social commentary, satire, brutality, violence, identity crisis, political intrigue, totalitarianism ...
Time:
medieval times
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Style:
crime drama, educational, suspense
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
police dog, crime investigation, friendship, police procedural, loyalty, good versus evil, heroism, law enforcement, domestic drama, police, human animal relationship, german shepherd ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
Style:
folk tale, heroic, allegory, fairy tale, period drama
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
medieval, liberation, rebellion, freedom, resistance, castle, courage, oppression, occupation, tyranny, underdog, community ...
Time:
60s, medieval times
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
Style:
fairy tale, poetic, period piece, dramatic, lyrical ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
palace intrigue, czar, prince, jealousy, royalty, betrayal, princess, magic, scheming, exile, father son reunion, family drama ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, existential, intellectual, philosophical ...
Plot:
time travel, dystopia, travel, manipulation, futuristic technology, moral dilemma, adaptation, bureaucracy, investigation, visionary, time jump, underground ...
Time:
80s, future
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The head of maternity clinic is nicknamed Don Quixote by his neighbors. He spends days and nights with newborn children, forgetting about his own growing sons.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, comedy drama, uplifting, period piece
Plot:
children, fatherhood, parenting, sacrifice, heartwarming, loyalty, humanism, family drama, large family, siblings, slice of life, patriarch ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style:
apocalyptic, depressing, poetic, spiritual, twisted ...
Plot:
nuclear war, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, underground, disaster ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style:
breathtaking, atmospheric, philosophical, black and white, art house ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
painter, artist, art, religion, monk, biopic, medieval, human spirit, christianity, painting, hunger, saint ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, year 1966 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind ...
Style:
psychedelic, atmospheric, realistic, emotional, stylized ...
Plot:
wedding, curses spells and rituals, true love, medieval, forbidden love, boy, rain, rural setting, marriage, religion, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, year 1965, medieval times
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn ...
Style:
inspirational, poignant, emotional, historical drama, sentimental ...
Plot:
joan of arc, unrequited love, female protagonist, aspiring actress, provincial life, village, theater, self discovery, coming of age, identity, resilience, film industry ...
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the ...
Style:
dark fantasy, sexy, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, destiny, supernatural power, witch, brutality, monster, dark hero, death, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1992, 2000s, medieval times, year 2004, 90s ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, eastern europe, europe, moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, exciting, rough, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, military, basic training, friendship, officers and cadets, war in afghanistan, soldier, death, ambush, military life, wartime life, tough heroes ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
afghanistan, ukraine, soviet union, russia, middle east ...
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60K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In 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.
Style:
depressing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
lawyer, adultery, corruption, politics, courtroom, poverty, small town, corrupt mayor, alcohol abuse, drunk, alcoholism, small town life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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37K
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, psychological, heartbreaking, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
divorce, missing child, disappearance, search party, dysfunctional family, sex scene, broken family, dysfunctional marriage, anger, selfishness, abandoned building, missing boy ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, year 2015, year 2012
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia
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16K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, intercultural, suspense ...
Plot:
jury, courtroom drama, racism, court case, hopes, murder, life is a bitch, family relations, teenage life, social differences, heroes, society ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
russia, soviet union, chechnya, caucasus
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33K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, cerebral, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, church, existentialism, poetry, dream, obsession, storytelling, great ending, poet, memory, redemption ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 18th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, soviet union, russia, ussr ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, sexy, dark comedy, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dictator, political satire, satire, power struggle, repression, communism, politics, totalitarian regime, death, chaos, funeral, nkvd ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 2010s, 90s, year 2017 ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia, siberia
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, surreal, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hunter, survival, cannibalism, extreme violence, man versus nature, desperation, isolation, ghost town, bloodbath, claustrophobia, post soviet, lawlessness ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find ...
Style:
detective, road movie
Plot:
automobile, lion, italian abroad, summer, spy, con man, inheritance, death of mother, smoking, car chase, buried treasure, cigar ...
Place:
rome italy, soviet union, st. petersburg russia, russia, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each ...
Style:
serious, suspense, rough, cynical, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, family life, parents and children, perestroika, father daughter relationship, eccentric family, society, love and romance, coming of age, temper, school, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, europe, ussr, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Soviet Union
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Veteran Russian writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov's film about the impact of modern civilization on an idyllic part of Mongolia won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film. A farmer ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
friendship, birth control, summer, european, philosophy, hidden treasure, horse, hospitality, family relations, culture clash, help, nomad ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
mongolia, soviet union, china, ussr, asia ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A USSR-made adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This is Part 1.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
pirate, dark humor, adaptation, fort, treasure, journey, sea, rivalry, greed, redemption, uptight character, mentor ...
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vam i ne snilos... A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating, psychological
Plot:
school, parents and children, destiny, classmate, injustice, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, jealousy, lie, truth, friends ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style:
political, black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi, prisoners of war, prisoner, pow, redemption, collaborator, suspicion, nazi occupation, eastern front ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Style:
absurd
Plot:
worker, european, caucasian, secretary, elevator, absurd humor, office, absurdism, motorcycle, book, painting, publisher ...
Place:
soviet union, georgia, caucasus, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant ...
Style:
period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
post war, escape, survival, poverty, desperation, coming of age, loss of innocence, realism, childhood, adolescence, obsession, mafia ...
Place:
kazakhstan, ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, philosophical, art house, slow cinema ...
Plot:
insanity, existentialism, spirituality, religion, female nudity, distopia, art, dialogue, philosophy, god, post apocalypse, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, europe, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
Style:
fairy tale, poetic, lyrical, romantic drama, art house ...
Plot:
romanticism, literary, intimate, love, fantasy life, satire, immortality, philosophy, surrealism, judge, castle, immortal ...
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