Best Russian Films (Language)   (168) Most Notable
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 RATING   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 Russian, # 74 Overall Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union BD
# 2 Russian, # 127 Overall The Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union BDS
# 3 Russian, # 174 Overall Andrei Roublev 1966 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union BD
# 4 Russian, # 178 Overall Solaris 1972 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union BD
# 5 Russian, # 338 Overall Earth 1930 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union D
# 6 Russian, # 360 Overall Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union D
# 7 Russian, # 391 Overall Come and See 1985 Klimov, Elem Soviet Union BD
# 8 Russian, # 404 Overall Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union BD
# 9 Russian, # 415 Overall Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union D
# 10 Russian, # 505 Overall War and Peace 1966 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union BD
# 11 Russian, # 602 Overall The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Kalatozov, Mikhail Soviet Union BD
# 12 Russian, # 891 Overall Leviathan 2014 Zvyagintsev, Andrey Russia BD
# 13 Russian, # 972 Overall Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union D
# 14 Russian, # 1013 Overall October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union Y
# 15 Russian, # 1029 Overall The Mirror 1975 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union D
# 16 Russian, # 1036 Overall Russian Ark 2002 Sokurov, Aleksandr Russia / Germany BD
# 17 Russian, # 1105 Overall Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Chukraj, Grigori Soviet Union Y
# 18 Russian, # 1237 Overall The Thief 1997 Chukhraj, Pavel Russia / France D
# 19 Russian, # 1240 Overall Burnt by the Sun 1994 Mikhalkov, Nikita France / Russia D
# 19 Russian, # 1240 Overall Mother 1926 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union BY
# 20 Russian, # 1249 Overall My Name Is Ivan 1962 Tarkovsky, Andrei / Abalov, Eduard Soviet Union Y
# 21 Russian, # 1272 Overall Stalker 1979 Tarkovsky, Andrei West Germany / Soviet Union BD
# 22 Russian, # 1277 Overall Mother and Son 1997 Sokurov, Aleksandr Germany / Russia V
# 23 Russian, # 1327 Overall Dersu Uzala 1975 Kurosawa, Akira Soviet Union / Japan D
# 24 Russian, # 1381 Overall Loveless 2017 Zvyagintsev, Andrey Russia / France BD
# 25 Russian, # 1406 Overall I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozov, Mikhail Soviet Union / Cuba D
# 26 Russian, # 1415 Overall Storm Over Asia 1928 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union BD
# 27 Russian, # 1513 Overall The Asthenic Syndrome 1989 Muratova, Kira Soviet Union
# 28 Russian, # 1585 Overall Nostalghia 1983 Tarkovsky, Andrei Italy / France / Soviet Union Y
# 29 Russian, # 1615 Overall Hamlet 1964 Kozintsev, Grigori / Shapiro, Iosif Soviet Union D
# 30 Russian, # 1675 Overall The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union D
# 31 Russian, # 1783 Overall Prisoner of the Mountains 1996 Bodrov, Sergei Russia / Kazakhstan Y
# 32 Russian, # 1930 Overall Que viva Mexico! 1932 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union / USA / Mexico Y
# 33 Russian, # 1946 Overall Night Watch 2004 Bekmambetov, Timur Russia BD
# 34 Russian, # 2072 Overall Arsenal 1928 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union / Ukraine D
# 35 Russian, # 2092 Overall Dear Comrades! 2020 Konchalovskiy, Andrey Russia
# 36 Russian, # 2101 Overall The Return 2003 Zvyagintsev, Andrei Russia Y
# 37 Russian, # 2155 Overall Old and New 1929 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union
# 38 Russian, # 2198 Overall On His Own 1939 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union
# 39 Russian, # 2205 Overall My Universities 1940 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union
# 40 Russian, # 2211 Overall The Overcoat 1959 Batalov, Aleksei Soviet Union
# 41 Russian, # 2238 Overall Oblomov 1979 Mikhalkov, Nikita Soviet Union D
# 42 Russian, # 2260 Overall 12 2007 Mikhalkov, Nikita Russia D
# 43 Russian, # 2264 Overall A Private Conversation 1983 Mikhalkov, Nikita Soviet Union
# 44 Russian, # 2266 Overall Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears 1979 Menshov, Vladimir Soviet Union Y
# 45 Russian, # 2293 Overall The Ascent 1976 Shepitko, Larisa Soviet Union BD
# 45 Russian, # 2293 Overall Taxi Blues 1990 Lungin, Pavel Soviet Union / France Y
# 46 Russian, # 2298 Overall Deserter 1933 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union D
# 47 Russian, # 2363 Overall Viy 1967 Yershov, Konstantin / Kropachyov, Georgi Soviet Union D
# 48 Russian, # 2364 Overall Peter the First, Part One 1937 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 49 Russian, # 2388 Overall A Child of the Big City 1914 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia V
# 49 Russian, # 2388 Overall The Great Consoler 1933 Kuleshov, Lev Soviet Union
# 50 Russian, # 2409 Overall The End of St. Petersburg 1927 Pudovkin, Vsevolod / Doller, Mikhail Soviet Union BD
# 50 Russian, # 2409 Overall Twilight of a Woman's Soul 1913 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia D
# 51 Russian, # 2443 Overall Outskirts 1933 Barnet, Boris Soviet Union Y
# 52 Russian, # 2459 Overall Tangerines 2013 Urushadze, Zaza Estonia / Georgia D
# 52 Russian, # 2459 Overall Tchaikovsky 1969 Talankin, Igor Soviet Union Y
# 53 Russian, # 2465 Overall Little Vera 1988 Pichul, Vasili Soviet Union Y
# 54 Russian, # 2486 Overall Siberiada 1979 Konchalovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
# 55 Russian, # 2488 Overall Queen of Spades 1960 Tikhomirov, Roman Soviet Union V
# 56 Russian, # 2489 Overall Poprigunya 1955 Samsonov, Samson Soviet Union
# 57 Russian, # 2491 Overall Silent Souls 2010 Fedorchenko, Aleksei Russia D
# 58 Russian, # 2535 Overall The Tribe 2014 Slaboshpitsky, Miroslav Ukraine / Netherlands BD
# 59 Russian, # 2539 Overall Beanpole 2019 Balagov, Kantemir Russia BD
# 60 Russian, # 2555 Overall The Lady with the Dog 1960 Khejfits, Iosif Soviet Union D
# 61 Russian, # 2572 Overall Zvenigora 1928 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union D
# 62 Russian, # 2579 Overall Asya's Happiness 1966 Konchalovsky, Andrei Soviet Union
# 62 Russian, # 2579 Overall King Lear 1971 Kozintsev, Grigori / Shapiro, Iosif Soviet Union D
# 62 Russian, # 2579 Overall Of Freaks and Men 1998 Balabanov, Aleksey Russia D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Bolshaya semya 1954 Kheifits, Iosif Soviet Union Y
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall The Cameraman's Revenge 1912 Starewicz, Wladyslaw Russia D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Domestic Agitator 1920 Zhelyabuzhsky, Yuri Russia
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks 1924 Kuleshov, Lev Soviet Union D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall The Great Citizen 1938 Ermler, Fridrikh Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Hunger... Hunger... Hunger 1921 Gardin, Vladimir / Pudovkin, Vsevolod Russia
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Infinite Sorrow 1922 Panteleyev, Aleksandr Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall The Insects' Christmas 1912 Starewicz, Wladyslaw Russia D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Kino-Eye 1924 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall The Kreutzer Sonata 1911 Chardynin, Pyotr Russia
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Leningrad in Combat 1942 Karmen, Roman / Komarevtsev, N. / Solovtsov, Valeri / Uchitel, Yefim Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Locksmith and Chancellor 1923 Gardin, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Mat 1955 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Mother 1920 unknown Russia
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall On the Red Front 1920 Kuleshov, Lev Russia
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Osvobozhdeniye 1940 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr / Solntseva, Yuliya Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Otello 1955 Yutkevich, Sergei Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Padeniye Berlina 1950 Chiaureli, Mikheil Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Peter the First, Part Two 1938 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Petersburg Nights 1934 Roshal, Grigori / Stroyeva, Vera Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Poem of the Sea 1959 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr / Solntseva, Yuliya Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Prekrasnaya Lyukanida 1912 Starewicz, Wladyslaw Russia
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Quiet Flows the Don 1957 Gerasimov, Sergei Soviet Union D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Restless Youth 1954 Alov, Aleksandr / Naumov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Revizor 1952 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Shchors 1939 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr / Solntseva, Yuliya Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Shestaya chast mira 1926 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall A Simple Case 1932 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Stenka Razin 1908 Romashkov, Vladimir Russia V
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Swineherd and Shepherd 1941 Pyryev, Ivan Soviet Union
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# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Three Songs About Lenin 1934 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union D
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Tractor Drivers 1939 Pyryev, Ivan Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Vasili's Return 1952 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Victory of the Chinese People 1950 Gerasimov, Sergei / Dukinsky, Ivan China / Soviet Union
# 63 Russian, # 2580 Overall Volga-Volga 1938 Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union V
# 64 Russian, # 2626 Overall The Brothers Karamazov 1969 Pyryev, Ivan / Lavrov, Kirill / Ulyanov, Mikhail Soviet Union
# 64 Russian, # 2626 Overall The Dawns Here Are Quiet 1972 Rostotsky, Stanislav Soviet Union
# 64 Russian, # 2626 Overall Private Life 1982 Raizman, Yuli Soviet Union Y
# 64 Russian, # 2626 Overall War-Time Romance 1983 Todorovsky, Pyotr Soviet Union
# 64 Russian, # 2626 Overall White Bim Black Ear 1970 Rostotsky, Stanislav Soviet Union
# 65 Russian, # 2653 Overall The New Babylon 1929 Kozintsev, Grigori / Trauberg, Leonid Soviet Union
# 66 Russian, # 2654 Overall Velikiy perelom 1945 Ermler, Fridrikh Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Bumaznyj soldat 2008 German, Aleksei Ml. Russia
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Captain Volkonogov Escaped 2021 Chupov, Aleksey / Merkulova, Natasha Russia / France / Estonia
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Ejforija 2006 Vyrypaev, Ivan Russia
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Garpastum 2005 German, Aleksei Ml. Russia
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Glinka 1946 Arnshtam, Lev Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Izmena 2012 Serebrennikov, Kirill Russia
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Malva 1956 Braun, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Mir vkhodyashchemu 1961 Alov, Aleksandr / Naumov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Mne dvadtsat let 1964 Khutsiyev, Marlen Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Paradise 2016 Konchalovskiy, Andrey Russia / Germany
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Pervyy uchitel 1965 Konchalovsky, Andrei Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall The Postman's White Nights 2014 Konchalovskiy, Andrey Russia D
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Sadko 1953 Ptushko, Aleksandr Soviet Union Y
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Udalionnyy dostup 2004 Proskurina, Svetlana Russia
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Vesna 1947 Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union
# 67 Russian, # 2655 Overall Vstupleniye 1962 Talankin, Igor Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Baltic Deputy 1937 Khejfits, Iosif / Zarkhy, Aleksandr Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Chapayev 1934 Vasilyev, Georgi / Vasilyev, Sergei Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Golden Mountains 1931 Yutkevich, Sergei Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall The New Gulliver 1935 Ptushko, Aleksandr / Vanichkin, A. Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Peasants 1935 Ermler, Fridrikh Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Professor Mamlock 1938 Minkin, Adolf / Rappaport, Gerbert Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Road to Life 1931 Ekk, Nikolai Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Slave of Love 1976 Mikhalkov, Nikita Soviet Union D
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Son of Mongolia 1936 Trauberg, Ilya Soviet Union / Mongolia
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall A Summer to Remember 1960 Daneliya, Georgi / Talankin, Igor Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall Uncle Vanya 1970 Konchalovsky, Andrei Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall We Are from Kronstadt 1936 Dzigan, Efim Soviet Union
# 68 Russian, # 2658 Overall The Youth of Maxim 1935 Kozintsev, Grigori / Trauberg, Leonid Soviet Union
# 69 Russian, # 2666 Overall Whispering Pages 1993 Sokurov, Aleksandr Russia / Germany BD
# 70 Russian, # 2667 Overall The Edge 2010 Uchitel, Aleksei Russia
# 70 Russian, # 2667 Overall Lost in Siberia 1991 Mitta, Aleksandr Soviet Union / UK
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall Aerograd 1935 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall By the Law 1926 Kuleshov, Lev Soviet Union D
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall Chess Fever 1925 Pudovkin, Vsevolod / Shpikovsky, Nikolai Soviet Union Y
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall The Enchanted Desna 1965 Solntseva, Yuliya Soviet Union
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall Enthusiasm 1931 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall Khrustalyov, My Car! 1998 German, Aleksei Russia / France
# 71 Russian, # 2670 Overall Oriental Elegy 1996 Sokurov, Aleksandr Russia / Japan D
# 72 Russian, # 2675 Overall The Russian Woodpecker 2014 Gracia, Chad USA / UK / Ukraine D
# 73 Russian, # 2679 Overall An Independent Life 1992 Kanevski, Vitali Russia / France
# 73 Russian, # 2679 Overall Sorok pervyy 1956 Chukhraj, Grigori Soviet Union
# 74 Russian, # 2680 Overall Alexandra 2007 Sokurov, Aleksandr Russia / France D
# 75 Russian, # 2687 Overall After Death 1915 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia D
# 75 Russian, # 2687 Overall The Dying Swan 1917 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia D
# 75 Russian, # 2687 Overall Robinson Crusoe 1946 Andriyevsky, Aleksandr Soviet Union
# 76 Russian, # 2705 Overall Tale of Tales 1979 Norstein, Yuri Soviet Union
# 77 Russian, # 2710 Overall By the Bluest of Seas 1936 Barnet, Boris / Mardanin, S. Soviet Union
# 78 Russian, # 2715 Overall Anna 1993 Mikhalkov, Nikita Russia / France Y
# 79 Russian, # 2718 Overall My Friend Ivan Lapshin 1985 German, Aleksey Soviet Union Y
# 80 Russian, # 2720 Overall Wings 1966 Shepitko, Larisa Soviet Union D
# 81 Russian, # 2724 Overall The Days of Eclipse 1988 Sokurov, Aleksandr Soviet Union
# 81 Russian, # 2724 Overall Happiness 1932 Medvedkin, Aleksandr Soviet Union D
# 81 Russian, # 2724 Overall A Life for a Life 1916 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia V
# 81 Russian, # 2724 Overall A Long Goodbye 1987 Muratova, Kira Soviet Union
NR Elena 2011 Zvyagintsev, Andrey Russia D
NR The Whaler Boy 2020 Yuryev, Philipp Russia / Poland / Belgium D
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Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T   Theaters (US)
B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack