Nkvd movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nkvd movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, disturbing, serious, touching and rough films and TV shows about / with nkvd, world war two, military, uniform, war, communism, soviet, wartime life, red army and soldier plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in Russia, France, Poland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nkvd: Burnt by the Sun (1994), The Death of Stalin (2017), Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021), The Penal Battalion (2004), Katyn (2007), Fortress of War (2010), Kalashnikov (2020), Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010), Outlaw (2019), Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009).

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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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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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Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
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, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: runaway, anti communism, penance, special agent, officer, moral dilemma, escape, military, nkvd, stalinism, fire, death ...
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: ussr
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The Penal Battalion (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 550 min.
TV show
Story: The authors of the television series studied archival materials and military chronicles. The last series ends with a demonstration of the list of penalty parts, which from 1942 to 1945 fought on the Soviet fronts.
Style: sentimental, realistic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, pow, prisoner, nazi, soviet army, wehrmacht, priest, infantry, russian soldier, sabotage, death ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, russia
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 7.0
 17K
Katyn (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style: disturbing, heartbreaking, sentimental, realistic, sad ...
Plot: world war two, war crime, nazism, polish history, survival, ethnic conflict, holocaust, massacre, murder, courage, idealism, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union
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Fortress of War (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, battles, war, red army, infantrymen, wehrmacht, border guard, nazism, heroes, nazi, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 2010s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe
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 6.6
 5K
Kalashnikov (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, informative ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, inventor, human spirit, red army, life & death, soldier, weapons, russian soldier, soviet soldier, world war, danger, engineer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, russia, kazakhstan
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: soldier, military, wartime life, dishonesty, danger, state affairs, war, life is a bitch, family relations, battles, prisoner, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941
Place: ussr, russia
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 3.8
 280
Outlaw (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high school student and a young criminal are trying to get reciprocity from the most popular guy in the school. The general and the dancer in 1985 put their careers and life on the line to be together.
Style: tense, psychological, melancholic, crying, thought provoking ...
Plot: gay teenager, parkour, dancer, transsexual, gay, prejudice, trans woman, art class, high school, gay slur, new identity, talking about love ...
Time: year 1985
Place: russia, soviet union
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Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 162 min.
TV show
Story: This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret ...
Plot: sniper, world war two, red army, revenge, german army, cold war, theatrical producer, killing, nkvd, bare breasts, trap, medal ...
Time: year 1941, year 1945
Place: soviet union, ukraine
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 6.8
 137
Before Sunrise (1989)
Genre: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, epic, suspense, disturbing
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, good versus evil, battles, fight, criminal, life & death, heroism, criminal heroes, unlikely friendships, moral transformation, friendship, great patriotic war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: ussr
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All That Really Matters (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992
Plot: world war two, prison, humiliation, artist, fear, escape, husband wife relationship, deportation, family reunited, illness, poet, separation ...
Time: year 1939
Place: poland, kazakhstan, siberia
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 5.0
 350
Siberian Exile (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An epic tale of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews who are deported to Russia. Their fate is shown from the perspective of a young boy Staszek, who goes to Siberia with his family and neighbors from a small village in the eastern Polish borderlands. Together ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, touching, suspense, rough
Plot: fall in love, cruelty, amnesty, jewish family, hard labor, world war two, death of mother, death of wife, getting home, stupidity, suppression, cold weather ...
Time: 1940s
Place: siberia, poland
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Ordered to Forget (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
Style: disturbing, compassionate, bleak
Plot: war crime, genocide, mercilessness, witness, escape, burned alive, atrocity, deportation, caucasian, persecution, hiding place, village ...
Time: year 1944
Place: chechnya, ussr, caucasus
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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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Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Italy, Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves ...
Style: low brow humor
Plot: world war two, simple man, satire, male female relationship, stalinism, josef stalin, police officer, farm, arrest, sadist, letter, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: balkan
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that ...
Style: realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Plot: soldier, life is a bitch, wartime life, danger, war, dishonesty, family relations, injustice, battles, family problems, battle zone, nurse ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Plot: world war two, renaissance, post war, vodka, nazism, resistance, anti communist, ss, partisan, communism, nkvd, polish history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: eastern europe, poland
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One War (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to three years, and the captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young ...
Style: sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot: island, boat, life is a bitch, military, family relations, dysfunctional family, life, wartime, society, social problems, social misfits, women ...
Time: post world war two, year 1945
Place: soviet union
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 6.5
 3K
The Edge (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, bleak, tense, exciting ...
Plot: gulag, soldier, rivalry, prison life, prisoner of war camp, captivity, pow, world war two, wilderness, danger, confined, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, post world war two
Place: russia, soviet union
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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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V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic
Plot: fighter pilot, wartime life, wartime, aviator, flying, airplane, escape plan, world war two, attempted escape, military, soldier, military life ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
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