Stalinism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant stalinism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out bleak, period piece, realistic, serious, disturbing and historical drama films and TV shows about / with stalinism, communism, josef stalin, totalitarian regime, world war two, communist, politics, brutality, oppression and totalitarianism plots mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres shot in Russia, Poland, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as stalinism: In the Crosswind (2014), Child 44 (2015), The Inner Circle (1991), Burnt by the Sun (1994), East/West (1999), The Way Back (2010), Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998), Mr. Jones (2019), Stalin's Wife (2006), Children of Arbat (2004).
Best films
New films
| The Exam (2011) | 7.3 | |
| In the Crosswind (2014) | 7.5 | |
| Katyn (2007) | 7.0 | |
| Blindness (2016) | 5.8 | |
| The Reverse (2009) | 7.0 |
List of stalinism movies
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
stalinism, deportation, world war two, wartime life, hunger, ethnic cleansing, separation from family, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, danger, family relations ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, child murder, murder mystery, stalinism, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, politics, murder investigation, totalitarian regime, justice, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, year 2015, 50s ...
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia, ukraine, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy, Russia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, political, contemplative ...
Plot:
stalinism, dictatorship, politics, projectionist, world war two, political unrest, injustice, head of state, state affairs, love, communism, communist ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 1930s, 50s
Place:
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: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, harsh, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
iron curtain, propaganda, kgb, communism, stalinism, destiny, survival, brutality, tragedy, runaway, brainwashing, love story ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946
Place:
france, russia, soviet union, europe, ussr ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, Poland, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, prison escape, escape, journey, war, pow, freedom, gulag, world war two, explorer, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 2010s
Place:
himalaya, russia, tibet, mongolia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of a sport star Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasili, the son of Stalin.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, bleak
Plot:
biopic, stalinism, nepotism, hockey, josef stalin, military, friendship, political intrigue, rise and fall, ambition, olympics, cold war era ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
Style:
black and white, psychedelic, aesthetic, slow cinema, political ...
Plot:
stalinism, train, kgb, head of state, politics, gang, state affairs, downfall, on the run, injustice, dark humor, riddles and clues ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Style:
period piece, cult classic, informative, sinister, period drama
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalist, cannibalism, hunger, communism, genocide, journalism, anti communist, stalinism, reporter, writers, spy, kidnapping ...
Time:
1930s, year 2019, year 1957, 20th century, year 1933 ...
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
A historical drama about the tragic fate of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, a woman who remained in the shadow of her husband Joseph Stalin. In 1918, 16-year-old Nadezhda married 38-year-old Joseph Stalin, a close friend of the Alliluyev family. The love of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
josef stalin, russian history, stalinism, husband wife relationship, tragedy, biopic, wartime, historical character, historical figure, tragic love, relationship problems, relationships ...
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 705 min.
TV show
Story:
Children of the Arbat is a 16-part television serial based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004.
The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Set in the ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalinism, love, family drama, life is a bitch, everyday life, army, love and romance, family relations, couple relations, society, wartime life, soldier ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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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: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the ...
Style:
psychological, political, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalinism, torture, catholic, character study, biopic, faith, physical torture, problem, male female relationship, abuse of power, interrogation, totalitarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Welcome to Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, shaken and insecure by the defeated revolution of 1956 and prodded by a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security personnel must take an exam to challenge and verify their loyalty. But ...
Style:
captivating, serious, disturbing, suspense, visual ...
Plot:
secret police, political repression, investigation, secret agent, informant, covert operation, agent, courtroom drama, hitman, police station, stalinism, cover-up ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1957, 20th century
Place:
budapest, hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Style:
bleak, psychological, grim, historical drama, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prison, stalinism, perestroika, brutality, gay, torture, sadism, trauma, survival, violence, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, thinking, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, communism, false accusation, anti communist, cell, humiliation, hopelessness, forced confession, injustice, society, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time:
1950s, post world war two, year 1982, 80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the long hours spent in the funeral procession, they managed to learn a lot about each other ... But Elia absurdly dies. So Zhenya begins another, adult ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, period drama
Plot:
funeral, josef stalin, tragedy, grief, loss, historical event, coming of age, mourning, character study, bereavement, memory, loss of innocence ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of ...
Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
prison, exhaustion, human spirit, confined, survival, prison life, rebelliousness, society, politics, religions or cults, captivity, stalinism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
romania, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
General lieutenant at 26, a womanizer and a booze-hound, Vasily Stalin has always lived a life too scandalous for the Soviet Union and yet too insignificant to ever escape the shadow of his larger-then-life father. The dictator's sudden death ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, melancholic, exciting, disturbing
Plot:
dictator, josef stalin, father son relationship, stalinism, aviator, pilot, world war two, binge drinking, war crime, drunk, father son conflict, bum ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
ussr, ukraine, moscow russia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Style:
grim, bleak, period piece
Plot:
bullying, stalinism, communism, childhood, innocence lost, cruelty, totalitarianism, post war, fear, irony, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A border post in Bulgaria, 1954. The mind of little Michael is full of kaleidoscopic panoramas of naïve Socialism, Balkan Stalinism and the Cold War. His father is a strong lieutenant having his ideas of duty and lofty heroism. His mother in her ...
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, satirical, grotesque, period drama
Plot:
cold war, stalinism, socialism, paranoia, saboteur, conformity, loss of innocence, propaganda, absurdism, irony, political satire, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1950s, year 1954
Place:
bulgaria, balkan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1969 comedy about communism
Style:
historical drama, art house, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
social commentary, stalinism, communism, moral ambiguity, vietnam war, moral dilemma, activism, political propaganda, political satire, dictator, sex, communist ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
rome italy
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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: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
Style:
art house, black and white, masterpiece, banned
Plot:
communism, communist, women, totalitarian regime, woman, orphan, biopic, parents, crush, male female relationship, death of father, flashback ...
Time:
1940s, year 1984, 1950s, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, moscow russia, budapest
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
child, totalitarianism, family drama, oppression, political repression, child protagonist, mother daughter relationship, children, social problems, promise, society, stalinism ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
estonia, ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in ...
Style:
historical drama, period drama
Plot:
post war, worker, factory, stalinism, frustration, betrayal, blue collar, labor movement, quarrel, river, machine, tragic event ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, post world war two
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, soviet union, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
Style:
bleak, historical drama, grim, period piece, beautiful
Plot:
world war two, gulag, coal mine, survival, brutality, deportation, forced labor, oppression, wartime, captivity, female protagonist, desperation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
hungary, central europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
runaway, escape, military, anti communism, penance, moral dilemma, officer, special agent, stalinism, flashback, fire, death ...
Time:
year 1938, 1930s
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boy, totalitarian regime, loss, tragedy, deportation, nuclear testing, oppression, social problems, foster child, reprisal, dysfunctional family, repression ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
kazakhstan
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Genre: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. One day, Alexei does not return from his mission and he is thought to be dead. Some time after the end of hostilities though, he reappears : taken prisoner, he ...
Plot:
fighter pilot, pilot, communism, love, drunkenness, iron curtain, air force, soviet army, totalitarian regime, stalinism, family relations, frontline ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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