Josef stalin movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant josef stalin movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing, thought provoking and political films and TV shows about / with josef stalin, world war two, communism, politics, state affairs, communist, stalinism, husband wife relationship, society and military plots mostly in Drama, History and War genres shot in Russia, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as josef stalin: Zhena Stalina (2006), Stalin (1992), An Ordinary Execution (2010), Vasiliy Stalin (2013), Once My Mother (2013), Red Monarch (1983), Life and Fate (2012), The Death of Stalin (2017), Archangel (2005), Burial (2022).

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Zhena Stalina (2006)
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: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: josef stalin, older man younger woman relationship, stalinism, husband wife relationship, wartime, historical character, historical figure, tragic love, male female relationship, relationships, love story, love affair ...
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 7.0
 3K
Stalin (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Style: political, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, communism, politician, josef stalin, dictatorship, propaganda, intrigue, paranoia, stroke, european history, world war, international relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, year 1917 ...
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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An Ordinary Execution (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: josef stalin, power relations, head of state, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, dictator, suffering, illness, kgb ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1952
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Plot: perestroika, totalitarian regime, josef stalin, town, stalinism, dictator
Place: ussr, soviet union, caucasus, georgia
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 7.0
 131
Vasiliy Stalin (2013)
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: sentimental, captivating, melancholic, exciting, disturbing
Plot: dictator, josef stalin, father son relationship, stalinism, world war two, aviator, pilot, alcoholic, war crime, binge drinking, totalitarian regime, bum ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: ussr, ukraine, moscow russia, soviet union
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Once My Mother (2013)
Genre: Family, History, War
Country: Australia, Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
Style: captivating
Plot: refugee, parent child relationship, daughter, mother, family relations, mother daughter relationship, gulag, josef stalin, uncover truth, mother and daughter, historical figure, family problems ...
Place: poland, siberia, australia
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 6.1
 322
Red Monarch (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: paranoid, based on real people, tyrant, mistrust, satire, tyranny, serial rapist, rape, sexual predator, sexism, paranoia, josef stalin ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two
Place: ussr, russia, soviet union
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 7.7
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Life and Fate (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: This Russian series is based on the book of the same name, once considered a serious danger to the future of the Soviet Union. "Life and Fate" is an epic tale of World War II and a reckoning with dark forces emerging. It juxtaposes ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: world war two, wartime, social relations, war, life is a bitch, wartime life, social problems, family problems, josef stalin, hunted, soldier, repression ...
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World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
TV show
Story: Based upon the actual cables between Washington, London and Moscow during the Second World War, this TV-movie examines the relationship between the leaders of these countries throughout the conflict. Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston ...
Style: contemplative, talky, captivating, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: world war two, josef stalin, world war, head of state, diplomacy, winston churchill, marxist, intrigue, british politics, war, against humanity, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, germany, soviet union, usa, britain
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The Death of Stalin (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
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, dark comedy, satirical, political, period piece ...
Audience: adult
Plot: political satire, dictator, power struggle, satire, repression, totalitarian regime, chaos, communism, funeral, death, nkvd, communist party ...
Time: year 1953, 1950s, year 2017, 90s, 2010s ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia, siberia
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 6.4
 6K
Archangel (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of academic Fluke Kelso. His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sensual ...
Plot: josef stalin, conspiracy, murder, prostitute, obsession, uncover truth, investigation, politics, soldier, state affairs, intrigue, missing person ...
Time: year 1953
Place: russia, moscow russia
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 5.0
 2K
Burial (2022)
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense
Plot: world war two, werewolf, josef stalin, soldier, hitler, mission, assignment, german soldier, russian soldier, military, military officer, wartime life ...
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 7.1
 2K
Trotsky (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the ...
Style: rough, tragic ending, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: rivalry, lenin, world war one, violence, chase, death, storytelling, danger, communism, nude women, world war two, cold war ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 19th century, 1940s ...
Place: ussr
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The World Wars (2014)
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The World Wars tells the story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The documentary examines the two wars as one ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot: soldier, world war two, military, historical character, infantrymen, state affairs, politics, allies, dictatorship, army, totalitarianism, battles ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: usa, europe
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, experimental, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erection, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, satire, trippy, communism, mature, badass, sexology, porn ...
Time: year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe
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The First Circle (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: A ten-episode television series based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: prison, prospector, jail, scientific experiment, spy, soviet spy, experiment, secret, multiple storylines, totalitarian regime, communism, josef stalin ...
Place: ussr, russia
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 7.2
 15K
Amen. (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style: political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, pope, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, italy, czechoslovakia, austria ...
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The Unburied Man (2004)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by ...
Plot: inhumanity, war for independence, josef stalin, crime against humanity, hate, revolution, death sentence, husband wife relationship, exhumation, jail, grave, disease ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1956
Place: budapest, romania, central europe, hungary, italy ...
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 5.4
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Monstrum (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.
Style: retro
Plot: artist, painter, art, josef stalin, suicide, husband wife relationship, communist, european history, communism, moral dilemma, sculptor, czech history ...
Time: 1950s
Place: prague, central europe
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 7.8
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The Ambush (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Style: black and white
Plot: partisan, world war two, black, communist, josef stalin, communism, criminal, hooker, innocent, militia, girl, death ...
Time: year 1945, post world war two
Place: serbia, balkan, ussr, former yugoslavia, soviet union
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Burnt by the Sun (1994)
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, communism, stalinism, communist, father daughter relationship, nkvd, repression, symbolism, revolution, countryside, redemption, world war two ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1936
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
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: slow cinema, political, aesthetic, black and white, psychedelic ...
Plot: stalinism, train, kgb, male rape, dark humor, injustice, riddles and clues, gang, on the run, head of state, state affairs, politics ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia, moscow russia
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The Last Witness (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.
Style: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: journalist, refugee, hidden truth, murder, investigation, secrets, danger, terrorism, world war two, mysticism, ambitious, world war ...
Time: year 1947, post world war two
Place: britain, poland
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The Inner Circle (1991)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy, Soviet Union, USA
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, thought provoking, serious, political ...
Plot: stalinism, projectionist, world war two, dictatorship, politics, political unrest, injustice, state affairs, head of state, love, communism, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 1930s, 50s
Place: ussr, russia
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The Founding of a Republic (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The Founding of a Republic is a Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group (CFG) to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The film retells the tale of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: politics, medieval, communist party, military, assassination, state affairs, revolution, political unrest, chinese history, ambition, heroes, battles ...
Time: year 1947, year 1949, year 1948, year 1945
Place: china, taiwan, shanghai, beijing china
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 6.9
 16K
Mr. Jones (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 141 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
Audience: date night
Plot: journalism, journalist, cannibalism, communism, genocide, hunger, stalinism, female journalist, anti communist, reporter, spy, writers ...
Time: 1930s, year 2019, year 1933, year 1957, year 1934 ...
Place: ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, russia ...
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The War of the Planets: The Flight of the Moths (2019)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the year 3000, the nuclear war that has ravaged planet Earth 500 years earlier seems almost a distant memory. A new greener and bluer world flourished from the ashes of the old, a new world has been taken over by giant moths.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: creature feature, butterfly, planet earth, survival, humanoid, napoleonic wars, space, drug, world war one, time travel, anarchy, hitler ...
Place: england, britain, soviet union, hiroshima japan
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 5.4
 1K
The Spy (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, prospector, undercover, secret agent, war, mole, secret police, mentor, heroic mission, betrayal, rivalry, life & death ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place: russia
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And All That Jazz (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order ...
Plot: radio station, dancing, renaissance, exile, propaganda, university, concert, jazz, teenage boy, communism, protest, josef stalin ...
Time: 1950s
Place: eastern europe
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The Empty Mirror (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund ...
Style: independent film, sincere, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, hitler, soldier, genocide, anti semitism, holocaust, obsession, under the surface, campaign, transvestism, wartime life ...
Time: year 1996
Place: germany, europe
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