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Sideburns (1990)
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
Plot: perestroika, lenin, sculptor, politics, poem, bicycle, dancer, farce, teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, singer ...
Place: ussr, russia
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Mister Designer (1987)
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, visual, mystical ...
Plot: psychedelia, macabre, puppet, doll, painter, perestroika, surrealism, secret, artist, arrogance, mysterious past, dark secret ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: ussr, soviet union, st. petersburg russia
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To the Last Limit (1991)
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, prostitute, criminal, restaurant, boxer, arson, gang, prison break, wife, job, train ...
Place: ussr
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 7.6
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Do Not Leave (1989)
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, bad ending, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: unrequited love, love and romance, music, family relations, theatre play, imaginary kingdom, time loop, perestroika, theatrical troupe, stagecoach robbery, castle, mute character ...
Place: ussr
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Publication (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: class conflicts in a school class
Plot: perestroika, breakdance, teacher student relationship, mother daughter relationship, college, teenager, catfight
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Glass Labyrinth (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...
Plot: perestroika, militia, drunk, zoo, night, neighbor, suicide, friend, birthday, student, restaurant
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Citizen X (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, ...
Style: detective, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, communism, murder, police investigation, bureaucracy, corpse, sexual sadism, politics, true crime, killer, forensics ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, year 1983, year 1984, year 1986 ...
Place: russia, soviet union
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Lessons at the End of Spring (1991)
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.
Plot: coming of age, prison, gay, youth, lgbtq, boyhood, detention, wrongful arrest, totalitarianism, communism, mother son relationship, rebellion ...
Time: 60s
Place: soviet union
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, uplifting, touching, romantic ...
Plot: social relations, up and down relationship, adulterous husband, it was all a dream, doomed love, adultery, doomed romance, crumbling relationship, impossible love, couple relations, love affair, forbidden love ...
Place: russia, ussr
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Potato Dreams of America (2021)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: american dream, gay, immigration, lgbt, gay teenager, gay interest, coming of age, mother son relationship, immigrant, relocation, society, dream ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, russia, soviet union, ussr
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Ghost Mountaineer (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ghost Mountaineer is a feature film with some hints of horror, based on actual events in Siberia back in Soviet times. A group of Estonian students on a winter hiking trip suddenly find themselves in the middle of bloodcurdling events in a Buryatian ...
Style: captivating, enigmatic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, hallucination, hiking, student, death, accident, skiing, delusion, ghost, climbing, legends and myths, perestroika ...
Time: year 1989
Place: siberia, soviet union
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Leto (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they ...
Style: romantic, inspirational, art house, art film, black and white ...
Plot: rock, musician's life, youth, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, destiny, drinking, husband wife relationship, music band, bare breasts, rock music, autobiography ...
Time: 80s
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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Dogs' Feast (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min.
Story: On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two ...
Plot: social injustice, woman, female nudity, alcoholism, train station, small town, single mother, train, drunkenness, neighbor, loss of family, winter ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
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