Officially produced to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October quickly became another of Sergei Eisenstein's experiments in film form. As in his masterpiece, Battleship... more
Stunning, brilliant science fiction from director Andrei Tarkovsky ("Solaris") about a journey taken by a scientist (Nikolai Grinko) and a writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) to a dangerous forbidden zone... more
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora... more
After a devastating accident, a young architect (Rinal Mukhametov) awakens to a reality that seems, at first subtly, off. As he stunningly discovers that he's in a collective unconscious for all... more
Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis. Mysterious deaths at a space station send a psychologist on an investigation that leads to the supernatural. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In Russian with... more
Combining autobiographical accounts of life during World War II, political allegory, dream sequences, and newsreel footage, maverick Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky creates a haunting cinematic... more
Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko. Nikolay Sergeev, Irina Tarkovskaya, Nikolay Burlyaev. The life of the 15th-century Russian monk and icon painter unfolds here. Rublev clings to his... more
Kira Ivanova-Golovko, Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva. Russia and her people during the Napoleonic wars are eternally etched in Tolstoy's brilliant novel War and Peace and many times over on... more
Nikolay Burlyaey, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov. At the age of 12, Ivan had lost his family and his home to the destructive Nazi Army who then sent him off to a prison camp. However, Ivan never... more
After his high-speed aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing during a test flight, a young businessman and his brother are left stranded on an eerie uncharted island where the laws of time no... more
This stirring Soviet drama is set during World War II and focuses on Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) and Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin), partisan soldiers captured by the Germans in Belarus while searching... more
This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of Veronica and... more
Simply put, this is a brilliant, beautiful-to-look-at fantasy of the highest order. You will be enchanted with the dreamlike quality of this film. It's like watching a sublime painting that's come to... more
Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin. We're going all out for all of you Holmes fans. That's right, three versions of the Baskerville classic for you to digest and compare. This version was filmed in... more
Blown off by her professor/lover, Finnish grad student Laura (Seidi Haarla) settled in for the days-long train trek from Moscow to Murmansk in order to study the famous rock carvings. She found... more
Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, RUSSIAN ARK. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single... more
Vladimar Ivashov, Shauna Prokhorenko. After he performs an incredible feat of bravery, a Russian soldier on leave to visit his mother helps locals on his way home and falls in love with a country... more
Sergei Kamarov, Vasili Kovrigin, Vassili Gaponenko, K. Moskalenko. Another mind-boggling forgotten sci-fi masterpiece. The soviets have built two massive spaceships for flights to the moon. Although... more
Tatiana Samoilova, Vasili Lanovoy, Nikolai Gritsenko. Tolstoy's brilliant novel about a young aristocrat in a loveless marriage to a man 20 years her senior. She falls in love with the dashing Count... more
Levan Tediashvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze, Giorgi Tabidze. After traveling to New York to see his son and finding him deep in debt to a local mob boss, a retired wrestler from the... more
Also called The Death of Sensation. Sergei Vecheslov, Maria Volgin, Vladimir Gardin, Anna Chekulaeva. An ASTONISHING film! We have simply never seen anything quite like it. The story concerns a work... more
COSMOBALL, directed by Dzhanik Fayziev (The Turkish Gambit, August Eighth), takes place after an intergalactic battle that destroys Earth s moon and causes worldwide devastation, leaving the human... more
Long after the murder of his father a secret agent killed in a missile factory raid former special forces operative Nikita (played by renowned stuntman Ivan Kotik) returns to Russia as a mercenary.... more
In 1965, USSR cosmonauts Alexei Leonov (Evgeniy Mironov) and Pavel Belyayev (Konstantin Khabenskiy) boarded the Voskhod 2, with the mission of having Leonov become the first man to walk in space.... more