Best Soviet Movies
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Soviet Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: humorous, realistic, serious, semi serious, talky and thought provoking. Plot: soviet, love, surrealism, husband wife relationship, drunkenness, family relations, court, suicide, storytelling and female nudity. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Romance. Country: Soviet Union and USA.
Best Soviet Movies
TOP Movies: Solaris (1972), Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964), Watch Out for the Automobile (1966), Little Vera (1988), The Red Snowball Tree (1974), Officers (1971), Come and See (1985), Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967), Assa (1987), Tomorrow Was the War (1987), They Fought for Their Country (1975), Andrei Rublev (1966), Heart of a Dog (1988), Kin-dza-dza! (1986), The Diamond Arm (1969), Gentlemen of Fortune (1971), Mimino (1977), City Zero (1988), The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988), Dead Man's Letters (1986).
List of Best Movies
104K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, scientist, metaphysics, space travel, space and aliens, space station, dream, trapped in space, astronaut, loneliness, science, philosophy ...
Time:
distant future, 70s, future, year 1972
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from ...
Style:
sentimental, rough, suspenseful, tense, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing
Plot:
world war two, fighter pilot, great patriotic war, aerial combat, aviation, fighter plane, camaraderie, love, patriotism, friendship between men, life & death, female pilot ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
ukraine, ussr, soviet union, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Style:
spiritual, political, absurd, satirical, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boy, children, female nudity, nude girl, little boy, summer, youth, modernism, spirituality, chess, young boy, nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, sincere
Audience:
kids
Plot:
irony of fate, dishonesty, storytelling, friendship, escapades, corruption, theft, car thief, stealing a car, post soviet, love, hamlet ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 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, suspense, rough, cynical, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, family life, parents and children, perestroika, father daughter relationship, eccentric family, society, love and romance, coming of age, temper, school, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, europe, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
Style:
ironic, touching, thought provoking, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot:
redemption, criminal, guilt, middle aged man, peasant, alienation, village, mother son relationship, couple relations, family relations, modernism, prison ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
Style:
breathtaking, captivating, tense, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
soviet army, world war two, military, army, duty, family relations, danger, friendship, partisan, russian soldier, great patriotic war, military officer ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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121K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, thought provoking, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, nazi, atrocity, occupation, children in wartime, massacre, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future ...
Place:
germany, persia, europe, soviet union, russia ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, spoof, parody
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
couple relations, student, corrupt official, kidnapping, love affair, love and romance, human relationship, criminal gang, social relations, farce, drunkenness, summer ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia
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3K
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, 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: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A drama a life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the first time in their lives discover truth about Stalin repressions against innocent people. Based on a novel by ...
Plot:
world war two, totalitarian regime, mother daughter relationship, idealism, friend, small town, tragic event, repression, suicide, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, partisan ...
Time:
pre world war two, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style:
heroic, sentimental, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, red army, heroism, world war, war, camaraderie, life & death, retreat, soviet soldier, eastern front, military, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev ...
Style:
suspense, tense, entertaining, talky, anime ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
space and aliens, space travel, invisibility, intergalactic, outer space, disappearance, animal life, space adventure, space pirate, animal, friends, pretense ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 80s
Place:
russia, soviet union, europe, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, funny, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
time travel, time machine, fish out of water, inventor, race against time, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, changing the past or future, comedy of manners, goofy hero, misfit partners, misfit ...
Time:
year 1973, 16th century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style:
breathtaking, atmospheric, philosophical, black and white, art house ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
painter, artist, art, religion, monk, biopic, medieval, human spirit, christianity, painting, hunger, saint ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, year 1966 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, 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
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, offbeat, enigmatic, humorous ...
Plot:
desert, surrealism, alien, absurdism, satire, distopia, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism, transformation, time travel, totalitarianism ...
Time:
future
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, poland
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise with a smuggler on board. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for the gang of smugglers.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
nothing goes right, gem, cons and scams, farce, smuggling, smuggler, mistaken identity, secret mission, goofy hero, police station, disorder, chases and races ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, funny, talky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
new year, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, disorder, comedy of errors, farce, unfulfillment, new year's eve, social satire, drunken man, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, siberia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, ussr ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless...
Style:
witty, funny, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
cons and scams, lookalikes, criminal heroes, chess, disguise, criminal gang, kindergarten, petty criminal, secret agent, impersonating, new year's eve, winter ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ussr, russia, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. ...
Style:
feel good, smart, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
aviation, misadventure, pilot, hotel, friendship, helicopter pilot, small time, friends, social relations, disorder, follow your dream, misfit partners ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, georgia, russia, caucasus ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style:
apocalyptic, depressing, poetic, spiritual, twisted ...
Plot:
nuclear war, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, underground, disaster ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is ...
Style:
tragicomedy, humorous, entertaining
Plot:
wedding, artist, farce, husband wife relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, poet, musician, surrealism, university, doctor, flashback, european ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a ...
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, realistic, talky, biting ...
Plot:
wizards and magicians, love, fantasy life, love and romance, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, adventurer, dishonesty, escapades, cons and scams, fish out of water, con artists ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as ...
Style:
atmospheric, visually appealing, philosophical, fairy tale, black and white ...
Plot:
betrayal, shakespeare, medieval, love, stage play, shakespeare's hamlet, royal court, knight, spirituality, moving, hamlet, realism ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, denmark
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
At the dilapidated country estate of Anna Petrovna Voinitseva, a group of feckless Russian aristocrats whiles away a summer afternoon. Unbeknownst to their respective spouses, local schoolteacher Platonov and the wife of Anna's stepson, Sophia, ...
Style:
atmospheric, spiritual, contemplative, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot:
true love, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, lost love, spirituality, summer, russian history, destructive relationship, rescue, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1977, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style:
disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, war, female soldier, soviet army, female warrior, wartime life, great patriotic war, military life, military, world war, friendship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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