Perestroika movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant perestroika movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, disturbing, serious, surreal, rough and humorous films and TV shows about / with perestroika, female nudity, murder, soviet, society, communism, dancing, nude, satire and drunkenness plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Soviet Union, Russia, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as perestroika: Little Vera (1988), The Burglar (1987), Repentance (1984), Kings of Crime (1988), Mirror for a Hero (1987), Assa (1987), City Zero (1988), The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988), My Name Is Harlequin (1988), Heart of a Dog (1988).
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List of perestroika movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each ...
Style:
serious, rough, cynical, disturbing, realistic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, family life, parents and children, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, society, eccentric family, innocence lost, perestroika, coming of age, temper ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ussr, moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With a brother dedicated to punk rock stardom at any cost and a drunken father who chases skirt between robotic dancing lessons from the TV, young Senka stands as much chance of nurture as the hero of Truffaut's 400 Blows. The amazing thing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
perestroika, teenager, rock concert, alcoholic father, brother brother relationship, teen angst, hallucination, dead mother, motorcycle, punk rock, police, generation gap ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny, wild ...
Plot:
adventurer, cinema, cinematographer, bar fight, armed robbery, drunkenness, highwayman, murder, stagecoach robbery, criminal, cowboy, church ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is ...
Style:
captivating, art film, parody, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
communism, totalitarianism, surrealism, christian, perestroika, politics, jury, satire, funeral, nightmare, injustice, ruler ...
Place:
ussr, georgia, russia, georgia (former ussr), tbilisi ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.
Plot:
perestroika, corruption, career criminal, gangsters, murder
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical ...
Style:
social, surreal, philosophical
Plot:
time travel, time loop, mining town, communism, trapped, repeated event, father son relationship, war hero, alternate reality, social realism, fantasy becomes reality, fantasy world ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949, 80s
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Style:
gloomy, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
love triangle, love, murder, youth, russian mafia, winter, art theft, organized crime, music, perestroika, conspiracy, fall in love ...
Time:
18th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe, ussr, ukraine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, ...
Style:
surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town life, female nudity, surrealism, perestroika, social satire, nude, social relations, top executive, dark humor, small town, society, satire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, ussr
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold weather, village life, gang, injustice, village, fighting crime, life is a bitch, down on your luck, rivalry, ex convict, violence, mercilessness ...
Time:
year 1953, 50s
Place:
russia, siberia, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The guy nicknamed harlequin and his company, which calls itself "wolves", live on a half-stop, near the city, where they often go "to rest" — in search of thrills. And it's not just bullies, at least they think so.
Style:
retro
Plot:
traumatic childhood, time loop, perestroika, heavy metal culture, train travel, resentment, sexual abuse, bully, vicious, male protagonist, cruelty, mistreatment ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a ...
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, thought provoking, intellectual, satirical ...
Plot:
life philosophy, medical experiment, experiment gone awry, dog, communism, society, adaptation, obsession, psychiatry, humanity, idealism, mentor ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 80s
Place:
russia, ussr, eastern europe, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Plot:
perestroika, teacher, female nudity, male nudity, loneliness, depression, soviet, film within a film
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, History
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, ...
Style:
witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, polish, interwar period, summer, perestroika, chase, criminal heroes, betrayal, hidden identity, criminal's revenge, dishonesty ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
russia, chicago illinois, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena (Natalya Negoda) manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his ...
Plot:
resort, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, satire, perestroika, alcohol abuse, father son relationship, lie, college, sarcasm, duplicity, cheating boyfriend ...
Place:
black sea
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, crime boss, young man, ex soldier, bodyguard, fight, escape, frame up, prison, tragic love, secret love, suspense ...
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Genre: War
Country: Russia, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A drama about the last days of a specific Russian regiment stationed in Afghanistan, before the main troop withdrawal in 1985.
Plot:
war in afghanistan, soviet army, perestroika, military officer, love triangle, mockery, nurse, handicapped, tattoo, tank, muslim, mountain ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and convinced of their own moral rectitude. However, this cosy state ...
Style:
parody
Plot:
perestroika, lenin, singer, dancing, russian, gang, patriotism, politics, teenage girl, bicycle, teenage boy, dancer ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's ...
Plot:
passport, cold war, perestroika, prison, journalist, airport, spy, homesickness, journey, emigration, mistaken identity, female nudity ...
Place:
ussr, israel
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does ...
Plot:
perestroika, car accident, beaten up, revenge, bandit, pregnant wife, truck driver, village, friend, criminal, murder, prostitute ...
Place:
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, serious, realistic, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, taxi, taxi driver, cold war, perestroika, jazz singer, musical tour, low lives, friends, social misfits, misfit, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
Style:
surreal
Plot:
perestroika, murder, farce, death, surrealism, absurdism, monster, tragic event, jewish
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 89 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
Plot:
bolshevik, basement, bureaucracy, world war one, totalitarian regime, spy, perestroika, female nudity, atrocity, dead woman, dead man, woman killed ...
Time:
1920s
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504
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere, rough ...
Plot:
coming of age, perestroika, gang, family relations, kgb, anti semitism, racism, gay slur, gay interest, society, self discovery, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
Style:
parody, cult film
Plot:
perestroika, cia, camel, female agent, undercover, flying, undercover agent, kgb, pop star, russian mafia, ballet, cia agent ...
Place:
moscow russia, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Well, Come On, Smile focuses on a girl who runs from an orphanage. The film presents a sobering depiction of newly built urban environs and addresses formerly taboo problems such as alcoholism.
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
children, bullying, suicide attempt, jealousy, alcohol abuse, traumatic childhood, perestroika, homesickness, grief, mother son relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Place:
ussr, eastern europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A promising erotic photographer Kostya Telegin is kidnapped and his friends-journalists decide to find him with the aid of his last photo "Nude with a Hat".
Plot:
perestroika, erotica, kidnapping, newspaper, irony, sauna, skinny dipping, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, photograph, swimming pool
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Style:
surreal, slasher, art house, mystical, psychological ...
Plot:
perestroika, macabre, mysticism, arrogance, creator, model, designer, death of husband, grave, dark secret, investigation, gambler ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make ...
Plot:
fight, perestroika, restaurant, criminal, prostitute, gang, boxer, money, friend, beer, murder, smoking ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A fairytale about the Princess, the Musician, the Chancellor and a blue rose which forces everyone to tell the truth.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, sincere, touching, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
love and romance, unrequited love, theatre play, imaginary kingdom, music, family relations, time loop, perestroika, stagecoach robbery, castle, theatrical troupe, mute character ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
class conflicts in a school class
Plot:
perestroika, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, college, teenager, breakdance
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