Orlando

Orlando 1992

6.88

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

1992

You Are My Only Love

You Are My Only Love 1993

6.50

A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...

1993

Babe

Babe 2024

1

What's wrong with me? Why did Mom leave me? Why don't we know each other? And these are not all the questions that seventeen-year-old Dasha is now asking herself and the world. However, they all invariably come down to the figure of the mother. In search of answers, Dasha escapes from the suffocating care of her father and finds herself next to her mother who has forgotten how to love.

2024

Gisele's Mania

Gisele's Mania 1995

2.33

A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942.

1995

Bullet to Beijing

Bullet to Beijing 1995

4.80

When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.

1995

Sin: A Story of Passion

Sin: A Story of Passion 1993

2.50

Young girl Nina is falling in love with the orthodox priest with a criminal past.

1993

Moloch

Moloch 1999

6.25

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

1999

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia 1997

3.00

A prominent statesman orders the secret services to assassinate a certain banker who is planning to run for president. The perfect hitman must be extracted from the zone where he is serving time for murder and must remain silent. The guy has been serving 15 years for the accidental death of a drunken general during a hunting trip. He is also known by the nickname "The Mute." You couldn't come up with a better candidate. But the perfect hitman goes out of control.

1997

Taurus

Taurus 2001

5.70

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

2001

Khrustalyov, My Car!

Khrustalyov, My Car! 1999

5.98

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".

1999

Mother and Son

Mother and Son 1997

6.66

A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

1997

Agitprop Team 'Kill the enemy!'

Agitprop Team 'Kill the enemy!' 2007

4.00

World War II is raging on the Eastern front but the soldier Nikanor has been sent to Siberia: bot as a prisoner, but as the leader of a motley group of entertainers who travel from village to village giving concerts. Still, Big Brother is watching and when the entertainers encounter a strange man in the woods there is trouble brewing. One of the performers falls in love with the mysterious backwoodsman, but the secret service is after him, too.

2007

Dovlatov

Dovlatov 2018

5.74

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

2018

Taxi Blues

Taxi Blues 1990

6.20

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 love-hate relationship ensues. When Alexi lets the bath water run over in Ivan's flat and Ivan must pay 500 rubles for repairs, he tries to force Alexi into day labor to repay him. It's hopeless. Then, suddenly, Alexi is discovered, goes on a jazz tour of America, becomes a celebrity, and returns in triumph. Ivan longs to renew the friendship, and it looks as if he may get what he wants.

1990

The Italian

The Italian 2005

6.71

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

2005

Hard to Be a God

Hard to Be a God 2014

6.56

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

2014

Peculiarities of the National Hunt

Peculiarities of the National Hunt 1995

7.03

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.

1995

Spirit

Spirit 1999

1.00

Tragic circumstances brought the Spirit, a former "Afghan", to a prison cell, where he found himself alone with the German baron Maximilian von Stoltz. The spirit once lived by the sea, in a house where there were a woman and a child. Served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan. Unknown paths led him into the criminal world, he has 11 murders to his name, the prospect of capital punishment.

1999

Paper Soldier

Paper Soldier 2008

5.53

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.

2008

The Dream of Russia

The Dream of Russia 1992

6.20

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

1992