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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 113,761 | Gross: $8.05M
2. Kalashnikov (2020)
110 min | Biography, Drama, War
Wounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault rifle.
Director: Konstantin Buslov | Stars: Yura Borisov, Olga Lerman, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 4,841
3. Katyn (2007)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 17,427 | Gross: $0.12M
4. The Edge (2010)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 3,240
5. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, War
In 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.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 16,368 | Gross: $2.62M
6. Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
126 min | Drama, Thriller
Fast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fyodor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in the USSR.
Directors: Alexey Chupov, Natasha Merkulova | Stars: Yura Borisov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Nikita Kukushkin
Votes: 2,310
7. The Inner Circle (1991)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Aleksandr Zbruev, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 2,172 | Gross: $0.58M
8. V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
118 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.
Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy, Pavel Chinaryov, Evgeniy Serzin, Aleksey Filimonov
Votes: 646
9. The Iron Curtain (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 1,110
10. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,536
11. Shtrafbat (2004)
550 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.
Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Yuriy Stepanov, Vladimir Priezzhev, Aleksandr Chernyavskiy
Votes: 1,546
12. Zoya (II) (2020)
105 min | Drama, War
Autumn 1941. Yesterday's schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteered for a sabotage school. The partisan detachment, in which Zoya was located, is ambushed, and Zoya is captured by the ... See full summary »
Directors: Maksim Brius, Leonid Plyaskin | Stars: Anastasia Mishina, Anna Ukolova, Wolfgang Cerny, Olga Lapshina
Votes: 1,076
13. Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
181 min | Drama, History, War
A look at the horrors of the Eastern Front of World War II from the points of view of repressed soldier of penal battalion and his young daughter, who stayed behind enemy lines.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Sergey Makovetskiy
Votes: 4,489
14. The Spy (2012)
108 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In the spring of 1941 German agent Wasser of the Abwehr holds an NKVD commissar hostage. Two soldiers, a boxer and a spy are the NKVD's only hope to rescue him.
Director: Aleksey Andrianov | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Fedor Bondarchuk, Anya Chipovskaya, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 1,320
15. The Thirteen (1937)
90 min | Adventure, War
A band of soldiers, escorting some civilians across an Asian wasteland, are set upon and surrounded at a waterhole by a notorious horde of bandits . The soldiers determine to hold off the bandits until hoped-for reinforcements arrive.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Ivan Novoseltsev, Yelena Kuzmina, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Andrey Fayt
Votes: 261
16. Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2011)
157 min | Drama, History, War
A bitter story from World War II, which depicts that for the victims of Stalin's repression peaceful life was sometimes even worse than burdens of battlefields against the Germans.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Anna Mikhalkova, Oleg Menshikov
Votes: 2,143
17. Pierscionek z orlem w koronie (1992)
104 min | Drama, War
A young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Rafal Królikowski, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Cezary Pazura, Jerzy Kamas
Votes: 327
18. Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009– )
162 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In WW2, a Soviet sniper and a German sharpshooter develop a personal feud and their animosity continues even after the war, in the Soviet occupied Germany.
Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Mariya Mironova, Alina Sergeeva, Sergey Belyaev
Votes: 201
19. Secret Agent (1947)
88 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Soviet agent Fedotov must cross over into German occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondence between a high ranking German general and Hitler.
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Pavel Kadochnikov, Amvrosi Buchma, Viktor Dobrovolsky, Dmitri Milyutenko
Votes: 311
20. Siberian Exile (2013)
125 min | Drama, History, Romance
Mass deportations to Siberia of the 1940s as seen through eyes of a young boy called Staszek Dolina. His family members are among the 2 million Polish citizens, who are sent to the cruel Siberian work camps.
Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Adam Woronowicz, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Andrii Zhurba, Pawel Krucz
Votes: 354
21. Pered rassvetom (1989)
85 min | Action
Hot summer, 1941. A small railway station near the front line. A group of criminals (a made man and a repressed general among them), are entrained in a carriage of a special military train.... See full synopsis »
Director: Yaropolk Lapshin | Stars: Valeri Ryzhakov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Mironov, Oleg Korchikov
Votes: 136
22. Lza ksiecia ciemnosci (1993)
93 min | Horror
Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan's rule over the world.
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Hanna Dunowska, Tomasz Stockinger, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Aarne Üksküla
Votes: 136
23. Vlasik (2015– )
Biography
The 14-episodes TV series tells the story of Nikolai Vlasik (May 22, 1896 - June 18, 1967), a Soviet security official and General, best known as a head of Joseph Stalin's personal security.
Stars: Konstantin Milovanov, Levan Mskhiladze, Olga Pogodina, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 65
24. Parad Pobedy (1945)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Color documentary film about the victory parade held on June 24, 1945, in Moscow, Red Square.
Director: Nikolay Solovyev | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Kalinin, Leonid Khmara
Votes: 29
25. Theoretically, an even much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Challenged by phone by the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, The Boss travels to the year 2121, where the USSR won the Cold War. Caught spying, The Boss undergoes a subtle questioning technique that tortures him and his interrogator.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 6
26. Zaveshchanie Lenina (2007)
44 min | Drama
Short stories from the life of the man who's spent seventeen years of his life in Stalin labor camps in Kolyma and survived.
Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Elena Lyadova, Tatyana Orlova, Darya Charusha
Votes: 120
27. Ordered to Forget (2014)
86 min | Drama, History, War
As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
Director: Hussein Erkenov | Stars: Shamkhan Mitraev, Kheda Akhmadova, Timur Bazinskiy, Roza Khayrullina
Votes: 61
28. G.P.U. (1942)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Meanwhile a young Baltic couple are caught up in the ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann
Votes: 74
29. Odna voyna (2009)
89 min | Drama
May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Glagoleva | Stars: Aleksandr Baluev, Michael Khmurov, Fyodor Koposov, Natalya Kudryashova
Votes: 166
30. Zelyonye tsepochki (1970)
98 min | Adventure
Soviet propaganda film about three boys helping KGB to catch spies during WW2.
Director: Grigoriy Aronov | Stars: Aleksandr Grigoryev, Igor Urumbekov, Vladimir Lelyotko, Pavel Luspekayev
Votes: 97
31. Wehner - Die unerzählte Geschichte (1993 TV Movie)
207 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Heinz Baumann, Helmut Ahner, Wibke Bruhns
Votes: 50
32. Moya Prechistenka (2006– )
44 min | Drama, History
This is the saga of four decades in the lives of several families living around a quiet courtyard off Prechistenka Street in Moscow. Their story opens on New Year's Eve 1899 and ends on the eve of the Great Patriotic War in 1941.
Stars: Vladimir Shcherbakov, Liam Ark, Aleksey Osipov, Anna Proskurina
Votes: 12
33. Sudba barabanshchika (1956)
91 min | Adventure, Drama
In the life of Sergei Batashov, a young drummer of a pioneer organization, trouble comes. His father, an engineer at a secret factory, is arrested for losing documents. Guilty of this his ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Eysymont | Stars: Daniil Sagal, Sergei Yasinsky, Alla Larionova, Andrei Abrikosov
Votes: 63
34. Wszystko, co najwazniejsze... (1992)
98 min | Biography, Drama, War
When the war breaks out, renowned Polish-Jewish poet Aleksander Wat leaves German-occupied Warsaw with his wife Ola and their son. In Lviv, however, they are arrested by the Soviets and separated. Ola and her son are sent to Siberia.
Director: Robert Glinski | Stars: Ewa Skibinska, Krzysztof Globisz, Adam Siemion, Grazyna Barszczewska
Votes: 83
35. Karot (1990)
136 min | Drama
Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.
Director: Frunze Dovlatyan | Stars: Rafael Atoyan, Galya Novents, Ashot Melikdzhanyan, H. Kartashyan
Votes: 104
36. Mausoleum (2016)
26 min | Short, Comedy, History
Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.
Director: Lauri Randla | Stars: Victor Lanberg, Aleksander Okunev, Matti Onnismaa, Eduard Toman
Votes: 51
37. SMERSH: Legenda dlya predatelya (2011)
176 min | History, War
TV-series cover four years of desperate struggle between Soviet counterspionage SMERSH and Western intelligence services in 1944-1947.
Stars: Anatoliy Gushchin, Anna Miklosh, Anna Ismanova, Valeriy Kudashkin
Votes: 20
38. Dva druga (1941)
70 min | Drama
Directors: Lev Brozhovsky, Lev Ishkov, Darya Shpirkan | Stars: Vasili Neshchiplenko, Grigori Pluzhnik, Lidiya Smirnova, Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
Votes: 13
39. 1945. Kalniskes- luzio taskas/1945. Kalniskes- a breakpoint (2016)
90 min | Documentary
Interviews with survivors/participants/witnesses and recreational scenes of 1945 Kalniskes battle, scientific research on dead partisans and occupants, graphic schemes of a battle, ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandras Matonis | Stars: Jonas Baltakis, Linas Busauskas, Grete Eitmantyte, Gytis Gasparavicius
Votes: 13
40. Ajal Mashinasi (2015)
14 min | Short, Drama
Director: Hasan Aliyev | Stars: Boris Arshan, Sur'at Artikov, Bekzod Bekmurodov, Erkin Bozorov
41. Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: God sorok pervyy (1986 TV Movie)
History
Director: Vyacheslav Nikiforov | Stars: Gunars Dalmanis, Archil Gomiashvili, Gennadi Korolkov, Viktor Kostetskiy
Votes: 56
42. Ne zabyvay (2005– )
170 min | Drama, Romance, War
Moscow, June 1941. Nina and Ilya are in love and hope to marry. But, when war with Nazi Germany breaks out, their lives are changed forever.
Stars: Alina Prokonicheva, Olga Arntgolts, Ivan Kolesnikov, Dmitriy Ulyanov
Votes: 19
43. Myth of Leonid (1991)
85 min | Drama
Director: Dmitriy Dolinin | Stars: Sergey Gamov, Nijole Narmontaite, Anzhelika Nevolina, Boris Birman
Votes: 14
44. Isokon
Thriller, War | Pre-production
Inspired by true events. In 1941 Poland, three highly skilled Soviet spies, each with a history of violence in Stalin's secret service, take on a dangerous mission to save their country from destruction.
45. Zolotaya golova na plakhe (2005)
85 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Semyon Ryabikov | Stars: Dmitriy Mulyar, Anastasiya Kolpikova, Alisa Priznyakova, Aristarkh Livanov
Votes: 14
46. Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii (1989)
90 min | Documentary
This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexey Rybin
Votes: 62
47. Lady and Bread (2015)
Documentary, Short, Biography
A 95-year-old lady recalls her troubled youth while baking bread: we discover secrets of her life about surviving the Europe's largest famine, Holodomor.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lidia Myroshnychenko, Vira Konyk
Votes: 107
48. Venchaniye so smertyu (1992)
79 min | Drama, History
The end of the 30s. The time of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Shcherbakov was ordered to shoot several enemies of the people. Unexpectedly, a village wedding was the scene of the crime.
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Oleg Savkin, Georgiy Morozyuk, Georgiy Drozd, Galina Sulima
Votes: 44
49. Legal Resident (1963)
28 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
During the Cold War era of the early 1960s in Australia, the activities of Soviet Union Russian diplomat and spy Ivan Skripov whilst liaising with "Sylvia" who was unknown to him to be ... See full summary »
Stars: Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, Eugene Vaselovich Kovalenok, Semen Ivanovich Makarov, Kay Marshall
50. Tardytojas/Interrogator (2015)
21 min | Short, Drama
An NKVD interrogator is about to meet and question a talented writer he himself never was able to succeed. For to be strong and convincible he prepares for an interrogation and rehearses.
Director: Jurgis Matulevicius | Stars: Aleksas Kazanavicius, Darius Gumauskas, Irmantas Jankaitis
Votes: 18