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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
hunger, genocide, peasant, love, danger, society, brutality, life is a bitch, adaptation, couples, youth, violence ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, year 1932, year 1933
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, lyrical, touching, sentimental
Plot:
love and romance, passion, writers, love triangle, couple relations, guest, suffering, infatuation, tragic love, poet, obsession, friend ...
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 67 min.
TV show
Story:
Doctor Watson moves in with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes and they get a case to solve. A young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances.
Style:
intellectual, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
sherlock holmes, whodunit, crime investigation, murder investigation, murder, friendship between men, literary, deduction, friendship, crime and punishment, justice, twists and turns ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style:
spiritual
Plot:
science, scientist, spirituality, moving, realism, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, romantic rivalry, love triangle, love, radiation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style:
spiritual, serious, realistic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
shakespeare, betrayal, knight, celtic, realism, siblings, kingdom, stage play, spirituality, family relations, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
middle ages, year 1971
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to ...
Plot:
russian civil war, interwar period, civil war, iron curtain, revolution, card playing, emigrant, public execution, war crime, execution, hanging, remorse ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, russia, turkey, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, loneliness, scientist, family drama, professor, estrangement, introspection, reconciliation, family relations, parenting, empathy, aging ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets about everything else.
Style:
existential
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
summer camp, first love, summer, boy, little boy, frustration, rehearsal, fall in love, love triangle, game, flying a kite, bathhouse ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min.
TV show
Story:
This is a wonderful three-part music video, shot by one of the most famous adventure novels of Alexandre Dumas. Four friends - the musketeers save the honor of the Queen of France, the battle against the all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the ...
Style:
romantic, lyrical, captivating, relaxing, stylized
Plot:
musketeer, friends, palace intrigue, secret mission, escapades, queen, three musketeers, king of france, king, secret, honor, courage ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
ussr, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, love and romance, train, chance meeting, haunted by the past, false accusation, disorder, down on your luck, love story, encounter, new love, opposites attract ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Style:
spiritual
Plot:
peasant, child, spirituality, fog, tradition, mute, lake, tree, old woman, island, fire, water ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and ...
Style:
clever, light, entertaining, apocalyptic, exciting
Audience:
kids
Plot:
time travel, time machine, school, pursuit, schoolboy, secret place, basement, space pirate, chase, alien, shapeshifting, laser gun ...
Time:
future, year 1984
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, epic, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
russian history, czar, political intrigue, power struggle, adaptation, palace intrigue, monarchy, biopic, kremlin, coronation, usurper, ancient ...
Time:
16th century, 17th century
Place:
poland, ussr
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A drama a life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the first time in their lives discover truth about Stalin repressions against innocent people. Based on a novel by ...
Plot:
world war two, totalitarian regime, mother daughter relationship, idealism, friend, small town, tragic event, repression, suicide, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, partisan ...
Time:
pre world war two, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, psychedelic, art film, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, stream of consciousness, alienation, isolation, totalitarianism, bureaucracy, claustrophobia, identity crisis, symbolism, ethnic diversity, moral ambiguity, surveillance ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, taxi, perestroika, taxi driver, driver, cold war, jazz singer, friends, odd couple, misfit, society, unlikely partners ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, usa, russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
pow, islam, russian soldier, hostage, drinking, violence, prison, confined, soldier, captivity, poverty, prisoner ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, caucasus, chechnya, soviet union, asia ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, suspenseful, tense, sincere ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
merchant, ship, dishonesty, intrigue, father son reunion, witchcraft, royal court, metamorphosis, family reunited, ancient world, ancient, magical ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dariya 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.
Style:
serious, sexual, sexy, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
depravity, female nudity, voyeurism, society, corporal punishment, fetish, porn, freak, sexual harassment, sexual perversion, manipulation, adult filmmaking ...
Time:
year 1998, victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late twenties who loves her boyfriend (Aleksandr Belyavsky) but in time comes to see that their relationship ...
Style:
existential, semi documentary, intellectual
Plot:
summer, radical, idealism, translator, solitude, existentialism, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, artist, loss of father, rain, identity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The Humpbacked Horse Dubbed in America as "The Magic Pony," (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к; tr.:Konyok Gorbunok) is a 1947 Soviet/Russian traditionally-animated feature film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the ...
Style:
folk tale, anime
Audience:
kids
Plot:
literary, giant fish, friend, talking horse, maiden, horse riding, father son relationship, pony, dancing, farm, palace, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, humorous, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, dark humor, mental disorder, schizophrenic, love affair, fall in love, military life, war, prisoner, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage proposal ...
Time:
year 2002, year 1996
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, afghanistan, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and ...
Style:
psychological, modern fairy tale, captivating, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, wish come true, family relations, friendship, mermaid, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, bittersweet, love ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, black sea, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and ...
Style:
atmospheric, romantic, spiritual, contemplative, talky ...
Plot:
european, peasant, summer, economist, spirituality, sleeping, family relations, friendship, friends, love and romance, master and servant, society ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, turn of the century
Place:
russia, rome italy, ussr, soviet union, india ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, poetic, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
poet, surrealism, religion, poetry, trippy, writers, medieval, biopic, magic realism, art, metaphor, death ...
Time:
18th century, year 1969
Place:
soviet union, russia, caucasus, ussr, georgia ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 287 min.
Story:
Following With Fire and Sword', this is an adaptation of the second and most spectacular part of Sienkiewicz's trilogy of warfare, romance, and derring-do. With war raging across Europe in the 17th century, a dashing warrior fights for the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
nobility, cavalry, cossack, palace, fortress, infantry, sword fight, chess, barbarian, female nudity, polish history, monk ...
Time:
middle ages, 17th century
Place:
poland, soviet union, europe, lithuania, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot:
russian history, world war one, royal family, clergy, intrigue, royal court, imperial russia, rasputin, psychopath, ambition, tragic hero, revolution ...
Time:
1910s, year 1916, year 1917, year 1981
Place:
soviet union, st. petersburg russia, russia, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love ...
Style:
humorous, period piece, lighthearted, romantic comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
village life, community, social satire, small town, wooing, satire, class differences, poverty, european, love triangle, coming of age, dance ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union, georgia, caucasus, russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen. Seems that some visitors ...
Style:
detective, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Plot:
mountain, extraterrestrial, isolation, uncover truth, police investigation, disguise, murder, hotel, saint bernard dog, alien, avalanche, alien on earth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, spiritual ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, bullying, traumatic childhood, mockery, teenager, deception, school, betrayal by friend, brutality, first love, outcast, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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