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 bleak, tense, realistic, serious, suspense and art house films and TV shows about / with perestroika, soviet, satire, female nudity, murder, surrealism, teenager, cold war, criminal and gangster plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Soviet Union, Italy, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as perestroika: Promised Heaven (1991), Ten Little Indians (1987), Intergirl (1989), Publication (1988), The Burglar (1987), Kings of Crime (1988), Mirror for a Hero (1987), Assa (1987), City Zero (1988), The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return ...
Style:
bleak, black comedy, existential, slapstick
Plot:
perestroika, homelessness, poverty, post soviet, survival, social realism, desperation, class struggle, realism, economic crisis, collapse, urban decay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, ussr
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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:
perestroika, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, resort, satire, alcoholism, father son relationship, college, lie, drinking, absurdism, liar ...
Place:
black sea, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, danger, island, guilt, paranoia, stranded on an island, whodunit, death, confession, guest, suspicion, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 80s
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style:
realistic, cynical, serious, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
prostitute, materialism, loveless marriage, perestroika, couples, society, culture clash, sexual attraction, sex, marriage for money, foreigner, money ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, ussr, russia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
class conflicts in a school class
Style:
educational, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
perestroika, school, teacher, justice, wrongful accusation, reputation, crisis, new teacher, moral dilemma, investigation, defamation, scandal ...
Time:
80s
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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, stealing, generation gap, dead mother, rock concert, concert, teenager, teen angst, hallucination, police, motorcycle, alcoholic father ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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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:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, cult classic, funny ...
Plot:
adventurer, cinema, cinematographer, armed robbery, perestroika, drunkenness, drinking, highwayman, murder, stagecoach robbery, outlaw, cowboy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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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.
Style:
dark, cynical, bleak, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
perestroika, gangster, corruption, criminal underworld, mafia, organized crime, moral ambiguity, gang warfare, tragic romance, forbidden love, violent, power struggle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, caucasus, black sea
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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:
surreal, social, philosophical
Plot:
time travel, communism, time loop, trapped, mining town, father son relationship, war hero, repeated event, alternate reality, perestroika, social realism, fantasy world ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949, 80s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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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, perestroika, murder, young lovers, youth, russian mafia, winter, art theft, organized crime, russian history, cold war ...
Time:
18th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, europe, 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, heartfelt, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
perestroika, small town life, surrealism, female nudity, town, life changing, post soviet, nude girl, social satire, nudity, society, top executive ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
soviet union, 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, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, cold weather, injustice, village life, criminal heroes, village, fighting crime, life is a bitch, down on your luck, danger, rivalry, perestroika ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
russia, soviet union, siberia, ussr, moscow russia
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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:
satirical, philosophical, intellectual, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot:
medical experiment, communism, life philosophy, dog, experiment gone awry, society, obsession, adaptation, humanity, idealism, mentor, doctors and patients ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
russia, ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, eastern europe
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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.
Style:
art house, bleak, philosophical, tragicomedy, postmodern ...
Plot:
perestroika, alienation, existentialism, satire, bureaucracy, pessimism, melancholy, absurdism, midlife crisis, urban, bitterness, spirituality ...
Time:
year 1990
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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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:
dark comedy, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
perestroika, hitman, polish, interwar period, summer, chase, gangster, fish out of water, culture clash, totalitarianism, disorder, hidden identity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
russia, ussr, poland, chicago, usa ...
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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:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, perestroika, bodyguard, ex soldier, young man, crime boss, fight, frame up, prison, secret love, russian mafia, martial arts ...
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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:
soviet army, war in afghanistan, perestroika, soviet afghanistan war, air force, cavalry, cold war era, military officer, father son relationship, son, killing, amputee ...
Time:
80s
Place:
afghanistan, ussr, soviet union
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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:
spoof, parody
Plot:
perestroika, lenin, sculptor, patriotism, gang, teenage boy, bicycle, teenage girl, farce, politics, poem, teenager ...
Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Soviet Union
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 ...
Style:
melancholic, tragicomedy, dark comedy, tense, comedy drama
Plot:
passport, perestroika, mistaken identity, immigration, bureaucracy, social commentary, character study, body swapping, moral dilemma, alienation, loneliness, survival ...
Place:
ussr, israel, soviet union
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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, contemplative, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, taxi, perestroika, taxi driver, driver, cold war, jazz singer, friends, odd couple, misfit, society, unlikely partners ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, usa, 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:
dark, suspense, sinister, tense, surreal ...
Plot:
perestroika, supernatural, political intrigue, paranormal, threat, scientist, conspiracy, paranoia, surrealism, moral ambiguity, assassination attempt, occult ...
Place:
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:
spoof, parody
Plot:
perestroika, cia agent, fraud, casino owner, car crash, usa president, agent, evil, chase, radio, restaurant, kgb ...
Place:
brighton, 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:
bullying, perestroika, children, alcoholism, traumatic childhood, suicide attempt, jealousy, homesickness, grief, mother son relationship, covering one's eyes, vulgar ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
Style:
dark, serious, tense, tragic
Plot:
naked man, perestroika, soviet army, brutality, mockery, military, realism, oppression, abuse of power, corruption, violence, toxic masculinity ...
Place:
eastern europe, ussr
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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.
Style:
political, sinister, tense, dread, black comedy ...
Plot:
perestroika, josef stalin, fear, propaganda, totalitarianism, repression, oppression, moral ambiguity, performance art, secret police, elite, claustrophobia ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, black sea, ussr, caucasus, georgia
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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:
mystical, surreal, slasher, visual, art house ...
Plot:
perestroika, dark secret, surrealism, painter, doll, puppet, macabre, psychedelia, arrogance, mysterious past, tuberculosis, grave ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr, 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, criminal, restaurant, boxer, gang, arson, perjury, prison escape, athlete, driving, racketeer ...
Place:
ussr
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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, touching, sentimental, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
unrequited love, perestroika, prince, princess, magical object, fictional kingdom, royal family, love and romance, music, theatre play, imaginary kingdom, family relations ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...
Style:
dark, bleak, tense, suspense
Plot:
perestroika, killing an animal, drunkenness, zoo, youth, regret, loss of innocence, remorse, accidental death, guilt, teenager, character study ...
Place:
eastern 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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