Russian revolution movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant russian revolution movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, period piece, serious, period drama and tense films and TV shows about / with russian revolution, revolution, russian history, revolutionary, world war one, soviet, betrayal, communism, husband wife relationship and bolshevik plots mostly in Drama, History and War genres shot in Russia, Soviet Union, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as russian revolution: The Road to Calvary (2017), Lenin: The Train (1988), There Will Be People (2020), Union of Salvation (2019), The Fall of the Empire (2005), Reds (1981), The Heritage of Love (2016), Lenin: Revolution Chronicles (2017), The Role (2013), Chekist (1992).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Style:
uplifting, romantic, touching, sentimental, period drama
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
russian revolution, world war one, love, love affair, hopes, life is a bitch, love and romance, destiny, couples, promise, couple relations, relationships ...
Time:
1910s
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 198 min.
Story:
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior ...
Style:
political, tension, emotional, philosophical, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
russian revolution, revolution, world war one, train, lenin, communist, wartime, power struggle, political intrigue, socialism, class conflict, biopic ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s
Place:
germany, russia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the ...
Style:
saga, period piece, historical drama, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
russian revolution, world war one, culture, society, post war, lifestyle, social change, survival, cultural difference, male female relationship, relationships, love story ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, exciting, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
revolt, power struggle, czar, russian empire, pledge of allegiance, army, rebellion, cold weather, riot, military officer, russian revolution, fight for supremacy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 520 min.
TV show
Story:
The Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.
Style:
political, stylized, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
russian history, imperial russia, russian empire, world war one, military officer, revolution, war, russian revolution, spy, civil war, battlefield, revenge ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
sarajevo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Style:
epic, political, breathtaking, philosophical, sentimental ...
Plot:
politics, communism, journalism, russian revolution, revolutionary, biopic, writers, love story, reporter, infidelity, cold war, train ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 1917, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, st. petersburg russia, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the ...
Style:
romantic, historical drama, captivating, period piece, historical romance ...
Plot:
russian revolution, russian abroad, officer, three generations, love and romance, storytelling, longing, bittersweet, memory, nostalgia, forbidden love, family drama ...
Time:
2010s, 1910s
Place:
paris france
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Genre: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
The events unfold in 1915-1917. Marxist theoretician and publicist Alexander Parvus, who fled to Germany from a Russian exile, during the First World War has been successfully negotiating with German Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow. As a result ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, political ...
Plot:
revolutionary, revolution, world war one, power struggle, state affairs, politics, lenin, wartime, political unrest, protest, russian revolution, historical event ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia, Belarus, Finland, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
'The Role' is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
landscape, russian civil war, actor, burned alive, arrest, interrogation, winter, suicide, snowstorm, train travel, execution, red army ...
Time:
1920s, year 1919, 1910s
Place:
siberia, finland, soviet union, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, period drama, political drama
Plot:
totalitarian regime, bolshevik, atrocity, nudity, basement, extreme, female nudity, dead woman, dead man, woman killed, cold war, great war ...
Time:
near future, 1920s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she ...
Style:
silent, talky, serious, realistic, vintage ...
Plot:
russian revolution, russian civil war, dictator, actor, actress, movie star, russian history, cinema, summer, women, european, revolution ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
russia, odessa ukraine, crimea
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, dramatic, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
world war one, political unrest, russian history, battles, military, heroes, wartime life, russian empire, destiny, warship, against the odds, great war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
soviet union, russia, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. ...
Plot:
gulag, political repression, labor camp, memory, coercion, slave labor, prisoner of war camp, communist, bolshevik, communism, industrialization, russian revolution ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A screen adaptation of the second version of A. M. Gorky’s play “Vassa Zheleznova”. In this family children were taught from the early years to put accent on the word “my”: my ship, my house, my factory… Here they counted the money ...
Plot:
family relations, steamship, aristocrat, russian revolution, stealing, mother daughter relationship, death, death of mother, marriage, husband wife relationship, mother in law daughter in law relationship, merchant ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
soviet union, russia, paris france, switzerland, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
imperial russia, russian history, czar, forbidden love, royalty, russian revolution, family relations, exile, social problems, marital problem, couple relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1918, year 1917, 1910s
Place:
russia, soviet union
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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: Action, Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance, War
Country: Latvia, Austria
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Spoof of Soviet epics
Style:
psychological, disturbing, parody, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
revolution, communism, russian revolution, society, social problems, filmmaker, life is a bitch, cinema, political satire, irony, satire, dark humor ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, eastern europe, st. petersburg russia, siberia
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, period piece, period drama, wistful
Plot:
hotel, character study, russian revolution, friendship, aristocracy, bittersweet, class conflict, intimate, social change, exile, slice of life, literary ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Crime, History, Mystery
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.
Style:
tense, captivating, detective
Plot:
russian empire, terror, revolution, imperial russia, terrorism, murder, political intrigue, assassination, fighting crime, political unrest, killing, crime solving ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a ...
Style:
avant garde, disturbing, psychological, captivating, experimental ...
Plot:
revolutionary, revolution, painter, arts and culture, social problems, counterculture, culture, friends, russian revolution, magic realism, symbolism, poetry ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
soviet union, siberia, ussr, russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each ...
Style:
psychological, sexual, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
love affair, mental institution, mental illness, psychology, nazi occupation, tragic hero, power relations, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, society, experimenting, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
switzerland, russia, europe, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
Spring of 1921. The introduction of the NEP is rapidly changing Petrograd, drained of blood by wars and revolution. Marches and hymns are diluted with foxtrot and chanson, well-dressed people appear on the embankments and, as a result, gopniks in a ...
Style:
semi serious, enigmatic, gloomy, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
crime boss, criminal, life is a bitch, gangster, romancing a criminal, chase, revenge, escapades, revolution, rivalry, fight, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
Style:
captivating, tense
Plot:
female warrior, female soldier, battles, girl heroine, military, frontline, great war, bravery, showdown, manhood, courage, heroine ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 1917, 1910s
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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: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several ...
Style:
tense, suspense, bleak, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
illness, lenin, biopic, fighting illness, life is a bitch, historical figure, historical character, social problems, sick, legacy, josef stalin, revolutionary ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
russia, soviet union
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Genre: Action, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
During the Civil War in Russia a group of White Guard officers is trying to rescue the family of the tsar Nicholas II captured by Bolsheviks. The officers face betrayal and fight a Red Army detachment sent to eliminate them. It is the Red Army ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, thought provoking, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
russian empire, soldier, empress, palace intrigue, showdown, russian civil war, historical figure, power struggle, intrigue, fight, emperor, russian soldier ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
russian civil war, false accusation, gypsy, gang, escapades, mole, officer, frame up, patriotism, conscience, friendship, gold ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.
Style:
epic, visual, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Plot:
russian history, museum, painting, revolution, time travel, art, lifestyle, culture clash, haunted by the past, architecture, storytelling, imperial russia ...
Time:
19th century, year 2002, 20th century, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, siberia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 275 min.
Story:
The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families from opposing classes.
Style:
family saga, realistic, serious, captivating, epic
Plot:
parents and children, swamp, forbidden love, taiga, wartime life, homecoming, culture clash, tragic love, political unrest, village life, family life, revolution ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1979, 60s, 1920s ...
Place:
siberia, soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Biography of the last Russian Monarch, Tsar Nicholas II and his Tsarina, Alexandra.Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Style:
epic, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
czar, russian history, world war one, royalty, rise and fall, politics, political unrest, rebelliousness, state affairs, rebellion, coming of age, queen ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1971, 1910s ...
Place:
russia, siberia, crimea
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