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- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsPyotr ZinovyevYelena YegorovaMikhail GipsiA hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
- DirectorPyotr LutsikStarsYuriy DubrovinNikolay OlyalinAleksei PushkinThe hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsDmitri DorlyakOlga ZhiznevaYuri YuryevThe characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsFyodor DunayevskyAnastasiya NemolyaevaOleg BasilashviliThe story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.
- DirectorYuri ZhelyabuzhskyStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyAnna DmokhovskayaAs she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsAleksey BatalovInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana LavrovaNuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy YakovlevLeonid KuravlyovAleksandr DemyanenkoAn ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey GlazyrinA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
- DirectorGarri BardinFilm characters are ordinary matches. Quarrel that flared up over a trifle turns into a real battle, in which both hostile parties perished.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili NikandrovA large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- DirectorNikolay DostalStarsAndrey ZhigalovSergey BatalovIrina RozanovaIn a dreary Russian village, over-enthusiastic and underappreciated Kolya spontaneously announces that he has plans to leave for the far-east today, garnering far more attention and support than he anticipated.
- DirectorGeorgi ShchukinSemyon TumanovStarsLeonid BykovAleksandra ZavyalovaAleksey GribovA young, shy geologist falls in love with a girl from the local train station. Once in a day she comes out to turn a railroad switch. And once in a day he travels there just to take a quick glance at her.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsElena ChepoyA castaway is interrogated by Interpol, conquered by an imperialist ship, loses his lone palm tree to greedy loggers, is consoled by a missionary who promptly abandons him, is thoroughly examined by scientists, and harassed by journalists.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsMaryan KrushelnitskyMargarita BarskayaDmitriy KapkaJean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsMikheil GelovaniBoris AndreyevVladimir SavelevA years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsEvgeniya UralovaAleksandr BelyavskiyYuriy VizborLena is about to marry when she finds out her fiance is a bad person. After leaving him, she seeks for a sense in her life through adventures with artists who are also searching their own identity. When raining, she meets Zhenya.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsMalcolm McDowellOleg YankovskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanOver seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara MyasnikovaThis film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevArina AleynikovaIlya RutbergA satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsAndrei BoltnevNina RuslanovaAndrey MironovRussian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
- DirectorGrigoriy AronovAleksey GermanStarsAndrei PopovAleksandr AnisimovGeorgiy ShtilThe film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a professor of law at the Military Academy before the Russian Revolution. In the fall of 1918 he was arrested on false accusations and suffered the loss of all his property and honors. During the turbulent times of Revolution he managed to use all his experience and professionalism to prove his innocence. He was released from prison and all charges against him were dropped. He became a free man, but the reality is changed, and his adaptation to the post-revolutionary life was not easy.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyVasiliy LivanovAleksandr PashutinPeople survive on an alien planet in the hope of returning to Earth. Fantastic cartoon based on Kir Bulychyov's novel.
- DirectorVladimir SamsonovStarsAleksey BorzunovVsevolod LarionovYuriy PuzyryovSet in the future, a rocket ship from Earth travels to a far universe and touches down on an unknown planet with a mission to exploit its natural resources. However, this is planet is like no other, it seems to be alive.
- DirectorNazim TulyahodzhayevStarsAleksandr LenkovAnimated Film based on Ray Bradbury's novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains..."
- DirectorEfim GamburgStarsEduard NazarovGleb MorozovVsevolod LarionovA cartoon composed of four parts, parodying "classical" gangster and criminal movies of four countries: robbery American style, French style, Italian style and Russian style. All cartoon characters resemble real movie stars of 50th and 60th.
- DirectorMikhail TitovAn alien comes to Earth and takes on the appearance of an earthling to talk to people personally and find out if they believe in the possibility of meeting with extraterrestrial life forms.
- DirectorMikhail TitovStarsM. LitvinAn adaptation of the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyEvgeniy SteblovBoris IvanovBearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.
- DirectorRobert SahakyantsStarsA. BelozorovichValeri PlotnikovArtyom KarapetyanA poor fisherman catches a talking fish, upon releasing it he summons a shape-shifting wizard by mistake.
- DirectorVladimir TarasovA man walking on the fields encounters a shapeshifting alien visitor from outer space.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsOleg TabakovYuriy BogatyryovElena SoloveySt. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsIrina KupchenkoMikhail UlyanovEduard ArtemyevWithout Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsLyudmila GurchenkoStanislav LyubshinValentina TelichkinaTamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- DirectorD.I. YashinStarsS.S. BryukhonenkoWalter B. CannonJ.B.S. HaldaneThis film shows experiments preformed by Soviet scientists reviving the lungs, heart, and even the head of dead dogs.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsNikita MikhalkovAleksei LoktevGalina PolskikhYoung Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Volodya and Kolya's friend Sasha adventure their love interests in their own way, while Kolya sets out to help them.
- DirectorGennadi PolokaStarsSergey YurskiyYuliya BuryginaPavel LuspekayevGang boys from the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia are being tamed and educated at SHKID - Dostoevsky School.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsVyacheslav NevinnyyMariya VinogradovaAleksey BatalovA little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
- DirectorIgor KovalyovAleksandr TatarskiyStarsAleksandr FilippenkoAleksey PtitsynAn ostrich tries to learn how to fly in a desert.
- DirectorAleksandr TatarskiyStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaStanislav SadalskiySurreal misadventures of a lazy drunkard with speech impediment trying to get a New Year tree on a short notice. Loosely based on folk fairy tales.
- DirectorVladimir PekarVladimir PopovStarsMargarita KorabelnikovaV. PopovaKlara RumyanovaA polar bear cub learns some important life lessons while living in the Far North with his mother and meeting with human explorers.
- DirectorVladimir PopovStarsMariya VinogradovaValentina TalyzinaZinaida NaryshkinaContinuing adventures of little Fyodor and his talking cat friend.
- DirectorAleksandr TatarskiyStarsLeonid BronevoyAleksandr LevenbukLev Shimelov"Plasticine Crow", a re-telling of the old Aesop fable about the Fox and the Crow.
- DirectorVladimir PopovStarsOleg TabakovValentina TalyzinaMariya VinogradovaWhen his mom plans a vacation to a resort, little Fyodor runs away to family's cottage house instead, to visit his friends Matroskin the Cat and Sharik the Dog.
- DirectorVladimir PopovStarsOleg TabakovValentina TalyzinaMariya VinogradovaLittle Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.
- DirectorEduard NazarovStarsGeorgiy BurkovArmen DzhigarkhanyanEduard NazarovTwo lonely souls met: a dog outcast by his owners, and a poor wolf living in the woods.
- DirectorVitold BordzilovskiyStarsAnatoliy PapanovBoris VladimirovGeorgiy VitsinThe alarming news spread through the winter forest - the Gray Wolf is misbehaving again.
- StarsVladimir VysotskiyVladimir KonkinSergey YurskiyIn post-war Moscow, two dissimilar police detectives follow the trail of a ruthless gang.
- CreatorAleksandr KurlyandskiyArkadiy KhaytFeliks KamovStarsAnatoliy PapanovKlara RumyanovaIgor KhristenkoA long-years odyssey of Wolf to catch Hare. Comprehensive changes in the Soviet Union pass in the background.
- DirectorPyotr TochilinStarsVladimir TolokonnikovMarius JampolskisLiva KruminyaGena is a hacker by heart and soul. He's a good fella. But he got himself in some real troubles. And the only thing that can save him - is a thousand years old Djinni, who attempts to learn how to live in the modern world.
- DirectorAleksey KrasovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyPolina AgureevaKseniya BuravskayaInventive debt collector Arthur finds himself in a trap.
- DirectorEvgeniy ShelyakinStarsDanila KozlovskiyNastasya SamburskayaKaterina ShpitsaFriday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. Friday night has its special magic.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsIgor SergeevAleksey PoluyanMikhail VasserbaumDepiction of "troika" type of mass murder trials and it's influence on those who carried out plans to mass murder million of people. Somehow Russia was able to produce such movie, which easily could be documentary about actual events.
- DirectorMaksim PezhemskiyStarsAleksey SerebryakovLarisa GuzeevaAleksandr BashirovDirector Sergei took money from the bandits for his film. However, the film did not return the funds invested in it. To return the debt, he decided to make a porn film very quickly and from the material at hand.
- DirectorVictor GinzburgStarsVladimir EpifantsevMikhail EfremovAndrey FominA chronicle of the rise of the advertising industry in Post-Soviet Russia.
- DirectorSergey VinokurovStarsAleksey SerebryakovNikolay LavrovIgor ShibanovA Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait.
- DirectorAleksandr BashirovStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei DyachkovEvgeniy FyodorovNikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy.
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsSergey MazaevAndrey KraskoYuriy TsuriloIn this movie we follow fate not a person but car: first Soviet Lada. It starts with Brezhnev daughter and then gradually moves on parallel to last years of USSR into wild after-perestroika years with bandits and newly born oligarchs.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsYana TroyanovaGosha KutsenkoAndrey IlenkovNew Year in Russian - controlled and ruthless element. While residents preparing for a major national holiday, Lenka Shabadinova works at kiosk till midnight. She does not even know that New Year's Eve has prepared a crazy scenario for her.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsLeonid BichevinIngeborga DapkunaiteAndrey PaninA drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey MakovetskiyDinara DrukarovaAnzhelika NevolinaDariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
- DirectorAleksandr NevzorovStarsAleksandr BaranovSergey BogdanovZed KorshoonoffA military drama based on true events - a battle on the First Chechen War during the winter of 1994-1995. A story covers attacking a local hospital where Russian military forces placed. The film is full of violence scenes.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovIngeborga DapkunaiteOleg MenshikovIn the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsFedor BondarchukIvan OkhlobystinAnna BuklovskayaThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsDenis ShvedovYuriy BykovIrina NizinaIn a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.
- DirectorOleg PogodinStarsSergey GarmashBogdan StupkaYekaterina RednikovaCompromising family secrets arise when a whole Russian family have their holidays interrupted.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- DirectorOlga KhodatayevaForest animals are preparing for the New Year. Santa Claus is going to cut the Christmas tree for the holiday. Two leverets go with him to cut the tree and left their little sister to keep the house. At this time, the Gray Wolf is trying to get into the house to leverets, saying he is Santa Claus, but their sister does not believe him. Then he puts on his coat and beard, and, pretending to be Santa Claus, again knocking at the house to leverets. Small sister let him in. He puts sister in the bag, along with treats from the table and walks away. Santa Claus and leverets in the wood hear the screams. They are trying to catch up the Wolf, but he escapes.
- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinAleksandr OleninStarsDaniil SagalNina AlisovaMariya BarabanovaA young provincial architect travels to Moscow to present his new model of the city reconstruction plan. Through funny twists his model turns into an unexpected success.
- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsVasili VaninEmma TsesarskayaSergei KalininAbout village life.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.