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Nostalghia
Nostalghia (released as Nostalgia in the United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.
Earth
1930 film by Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
The Return
2003 film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Loveless
2017 film by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Mother
1926 film by Vsevolod Pudovkin
The Snake Pit
1948 film by Anatole Litvak
I Am Cuba
1964 Soviet-Cuban movie directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
White Bim Black Ear
1977 film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky
Bad Roads
2020 film directed by Natalya Vorozhbyt
The End of St. Petersburg
1927 film by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Repentance
1984 film by Tengiz Abuladze
The Brothers Karamazov
1969 film by Mikhail Ulyanov, Ivan Pyryev, Kirill Lavrov
The Challenge
2023 film directed by Klim Shipenko
The Red Snowball Tree
1974 film by Vasily Shukshin
Ashik Kerib
1988 film by Sergei Parajanov
Hamlet
1964 film by Grigori Kozintsev
The Legend of Suram Fortress
1985 film by Sergei Parajanov
Don Quixote
1957 film
Paradise
2016 film by Andrei Konchalovsky
Nine Days in One Year
1962 film by Mikhail Romm
The First Teacher
1965 film by Andrei Konchalovsky
The Wishing Tree
1976 Soviet film by Tengiz Abuladze
Aerograd
Aerograd (, , also referred to as Air City or Frontier) is a 1935 Soviet drama film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, a coproduction between Mosfilm and VUFKU. It is an adventure story set in the Soviet Far East in the future.
Anna Karenina
1914 film by Vladimir Gardin
A Big Family
1954 film by Iosif Kheifits
The General Line
1929 film by Sergei Eisenstein
A Life for a Life
1916 film by Yevgeni Bauer
The Overcoat
1926 film by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Corn Island
2014 cinema film directed by George Ovashvili
Sunstroke
2014 film by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Little One
Ayka () is a 2018 drama film directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Samal Yeslyamova won the award for Best Actress. It was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. The film was produced under the working title My Little One.
Molchi, grust... molchi
1918 Russian silent film by Pyotr Chardynin
Beanpole
2019 film by Kantemir Balagov
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
1977 film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Dying Swan
1917 film by Yevgeni Bauer
Namus
1925 film by Hamo Beknazarian
Francofonia
Francofonia is a 2015 docudrama film written and directed by Alexander Sokurov. It follows the Louvre's collection evacuation during the World War II, led by Jacques Jaujard, and how the past and present of the museum is directly connected to this moment.
Fragment of an Empire
1929 Soviet silent drama film by Fridrikh Ermler
How I Ended This Summer
2010 film by Alexei Popogrebski
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
1913 film by Yevgeni Bauer
Belorussian Station
1971 Soviet drama film by Andrei Smirnov
A Driver for Vera
2004 film by Pavel Chukhray
I Am Twenty
1965 film by Marlen Khutsiev
Private Life
1982 film by Yuli Raizman
Alone
1931 film by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Satan Triumphant
1917 film by Yakov Protazanov
Locksmith and Chancellor
1923 film by Vladimir Gardin
A Nest of Noblemen
film directed by Vladimir Gardin
Vassa
1983 film by Gleb Panfilov
A Gentle Creature
2017 film by Sergei Loznitsa
King Lear
1970 film by Grigori Kozintsev
The Postman's White Nights
2014 film by Andrei Konchalovsky
The Russian Question
1947 film by Mikhail Romm
The Ghost That Never Returns
1929 film by Abram Room
Women of Ryazan
Soviet film from the life of a Russian village
Taurus
2001 film by Alexander Sokurov
Five Days, Five Nights
1961 film by Lev Arnshtam, Heinz Thiel
Boule de Suif
1934 film by Mikhail Romm
Freeze Die Come to Life
1990 film by Vitali Kanevsky
The Village Teacher
1947 Soviet film by Mark Donskoy