Category
page 1Films about Soviet repression
Doctor Zhivago
1965 film directed by David Lean
Anastasia
1997 animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
Burnt by the Sun
1994 film by Nikita Mikhalkov
Katyń
2007 film by Andrzej Wajda
The Death of Stalin
2017 film directed by Armando Iannucci
Man of Iron
1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 biographical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
The Admiral
2008 Russian biopic film by Andrei Kravchuk
Sunshine
1999 film directed by István Szabó
East/West
East/West (; ) is a 1999 drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve and Sergei Bodrov Jr. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
The Fencer
2015 film directed by Klaus Härö
Dear Comrades
2020 film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
The Soviet Story
2008 film by Edvīns Šnore
The Beast
1988 film directed by Kevin Reynolds
Haytarma
Haytarma (, Russian: and ) is a 2013 Ukrainian period drama film. It portrays Crimean Tatar flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan against the background of the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Haytarma means "return", but is also the name of the most popular Crimean Tatar national dance.
Cold Summer of 1953
1988 film by Aleksandr Proshkin
Children of Glory
2006 film directed by Krisztina Goda
Sunstroke
2014 film by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Confession
1970 film by Costa-Gavras
Waves
2024 film directed by Jiří Mádl
Ali and Nino
2016 film by Asif Kapadia
Burning Bush
2013 TV Mini-Series directed by Agnieszka Holland
The Journey
1959 American drama film by Anatole Litvak
The Romanovs: An Imperial Family
2000 film by Gleb Panfilov
The Silent Revolution
2018 film by Lars Kraume
The Chekist
1992 film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Purge
2012 Finnish film directed by Antti Jokinen
Czechoslovakia 1968
1969 film by Denis Sanders
Two Prosecutors
2025 film by Sergei Loznitsa
In the Crosswind
2014 film by Martti Helde
Hostages
2017 film by Rezo Gigineishvili
The Heritage of Love
2016 film directed by Yury Vasilyev
Captain Volkonogov Escaped
2021 film directed by Natalya Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov
The Eternal Road
2017 film directed by Antti-Jussi Annila
Within the Whirlwind
2009 film by Marleen Gorris
Parajanov: The Last Spring
1992 film by Sergei Parajanov, Mikhail Vartanov
We the Living
1942 film by Goffredo Alessandrini
The Secret Ways
1961 film by Richard Widmark, Phil Karlson
Here's to You and Us!
2023 Russian film
Ordered to Forget
2014 film directed by Khusein Erkenov
Chronicles of Melanie
2016 film by Viestur Kairish
At Full Gallop
1996 film by Krzysztof Zanussi
Ashes in the Snow
2018 film directed by Marius Markevicius
Defence Counsel Sedov
1988 film by Evgeniy Tsymbal
Torn from the Flag
2007 documentary film
On Black Ice
1995 fiction film directed by Valeri Ponomarev
Rocks in My Pockets
2014 film by Signe Baumane
The Little Comrade
2018 film directed by Moonika Siimets
The Magic Mountain
2015 film by Anca Damian