The 40 most popular 2000s russian movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Cuckoo
2002 · 1h 40m · RU
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.


Russian Nymphet: Temptation
2004 · 35m · RU
A Russian teen turns the tables on her fashion photographer. Suddenly he doesn't like being the one on camera!


Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007 · 2h 5m · DE
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.


Yellow Dwarf
2002 · 1h 40m · RU
Parents trying to prevent their son from seeing a girl they don't like go too far.


Ciel éteint !
2008 · 23m · RU
A couple lives at the margins of empires. A montage of water, medicine, fire, ice. Sky's Black Out!


My Love
2006 · 26m · RU
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.


Day Watch
2006 · 2h 26m · RU
A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.


Moon Glades
2003 · 1h 57m · FR
Nina is a young woman of thirty years, who lives in St. Petersburg. She has to bury her mother in a winter day. The ceremony is an opportunity for her to meet her younger brother Andrei, who lives elsewhere.


The Snow Queen
2004 · 1h 38m · UA
The New Year's musical film has everything that Andersen described in his famous fairy tale "The Snow Queen", but with the attributes of the modern world. The Snow Queen is a powerful woman who charms the young man Kai and promises to make a pop star out of him.


Russians
2008 · 1h 30m · RU
The warriors of Black Magician headed by Boar attack a border outpost. They capture prince Izayslav and wound his son Vlastimir. White Wizard saves Vlastimir and White Wizard's daughter Nastya falls in love with the young man. Recovering, Vlastimir plans to save his father. Many adventures await him, Nastya and their rescue party.


Tycoon
2002 · 2h 8m · FR
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.


9th Company
2005 · 2h 19m · FI
Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.


Dead Man's Bluff
2005 · 1h 51m · RU
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.


Zlydni
2005 · 12m · RU
Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka.


Nomad: The Warrior
2005 · 1h 52m · FR
The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.


The Musicians from Bremen
2000 · 1h 30m · RU
The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way.


Night Watch
2004 · 1h 54m · RU
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage


Piter FM
2006 · 1h 25m · RU
Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.


Black Lightning
2009 · 1h 42m · RU
A Moscow University student discovers that his otherwise unremarkable car can fly. After his father is attacked, he decides to use the car to fight crime and becomes the city's defender against an evil millionaire.
Vovochka
Vovochka
2002 · 1h 36m · RU
This light, hilarious story, sparkling with good-natured humour, will amuse both children and their parents. Our Vovochka is not the hero of popular anecdotes, but a real-life ten-year-old boy, spontaneous and indefatigable, an ever-inventive daredevil, who happens to be quite a handful for the grown-ups around him. With Vovochka’s arrival at his country place on the eve of the New Year holidays, the life of that quiet suburban Moscow town blows up, in both literal and figurative sense…


Petersburg
2003 · 53m · RU
A poetic essay on the city of St. Petersburg in the 18th century, based on poems by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Blok and a novel by Andrey Belyi. The film contains reworked footage from Aleksey Batalov's "Overcoat", Eisenstein´s "Strike", Petrov's "Peter The First", Tikhomirov's "The Queen Of Spades" and others. Petersburg is an unbounded visual fantasy where reality and imagination merge into one. The history of the city represented in a digital form may live its independent life. Yevteyeva presents sights of St.Petersburg that have become the genetic code of the Russian culture in a particular manner in her film. Each shot of the film was hand-painted with special strokes.


The Bench
2004 · 7m · RU
Inspiration doesn't strike often, and sometimes it ends where you least expect it. Inseparable friends Krosh and Hedgehog find themselves in a difficult situation. To save the absent-minded poet Barash, they must sacrifice the thing most precious to Krosh...


The Perfect Wife
2007 · 1h 34m · RU
Valentine's day can fulfill our dreams, and then the perfect woman will appear in front of a man in the form of an unexpected trio of Housewives, sex bombs and a business lady, and a modest Secretary will forever win the heart of the notorious don Juan. All the characters of the film suddenly find themselves in a modern fairy tale and get a unique chance to see the world in a new way — through the eyes of lovers…


Russian Ark
2002 · 1h 39m · RU
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.


The Russian Triangle
2007 · 2h 1m · GE
A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of Nikolay, whose ancestors on his mother's side are Georgian, walks into the department which is busy with the investigation of a murder committed by a mysterious blind killer. His intuition leads him to a group of people whose destiny was broken by the Chechen War. This peaceful town finds its sinister inside, and Nikolay's noble impulses runs into the cruel and corrupt reality.


SOS: Save our souls
2005 · 1h 30m · RU
The picture of youth, love and betrayal, the eternal problem of fathers and children. The main actors are teenagers living in a small provincial town. Their parents — decent people who are used to making money in an honest way - do not have the opportunity to help their children. The difficulties that teenagers face at home, once pushing them to steal. What is the moral law in our lives, what is today the place of eternal values — such as love, family, loyalty? What does money mean in the modern world? Where and when does a person cross the line beyond which there is no way back?..


977
2006 · 1h 26m · RU
977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual realms of human being. The characters have volunteered for the experiment to be put through not only scientific researching, but also through the everyday trials of friendship, love, attractions, envy and “the strongest of affects” – the curiosity. Thus, the scientific experience turns into human one, and a result is unpredictable…


Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent
2004 · 1h 15m · RU
When the fearsome Tugarin the Serpent steals the city's gold, the young hero Alyosha Popovich sets out on a daring quest to recover the treasure and bring the villain to justice. Along the way, he is joined by an unlikely group of companions: his loyal mentor Tikhon, a talking horse named Julius, the wise grandmother Babusya, a mischievous donkey, and the beautiful Lyubava. Together, they embark on an adventure filled with unexpected challenges, humor, and heroic deeds.


The Return
2003 · 1h 51m · RU
Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As the journey moves deeper into the wilderness, the fragile bonds between father and sons are pushed to their limits.


Philosophy of a Knife
2008 · 4h 9m · RU
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov.


DMB-4
2001 · 1h 5m · RU
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DMB-3
2001 · 1h 11m · RU
No overview available


Signs of Love
2006 · 2h 13m · RU
In the dead of night, three sorcerers meet on the outskirts of Moscow. They have been forced to work against each other for a long time. The conflict, which involves the best witchcraft forces of the capital, is a banal love triangle. Alexey is an enviable man and earns well, his wife Masha, a complex and insecure young woman, has long lived only in the interests of her family, and her lover Irina will stop at nothing in order to take her place.


DMB-2
2000 · 1h 9m · RU
No overview available


The Head
2004 · 1h 30m · RU
The Soviet Russia of old is an immobile head without a body that appears in various locations, clashing with the morals and sentiments of a modern rich man. This man seeks advise from the head but finds that it is annoyingly unresponsive or unhelpful as it sends him on various missions and tests. At times he uses violence or oral rape to get what he wants until he grows too exasperated. Most of the movie consists of improvised dialogue or rants, and meandering scenes in a weapons shop, a railway, and a meeting where the man performs a bizarre magic performance with chickens, eggs and a cardboard box..


The Interceptor
2009 · 1h 30m · RU
The film tells a story of an agent betrayed by his partner when transporting new psychic weapon. Believed to be dead, he escapes and takes new identity so he can live in peace far away. But later he is forced to return to Moscow to confront a secret organization, led by his former partner, that attempts to use the dangerous weapon in order to take control over the country. Now he is a key figure in the battle between forces of darkness and light.


Virginity
2008 · 1h 29m · RU
Three young women, who each have a sought-after commodity - their virginity. Kristina, Karina and Katya each try to make their way in a world ruled by fame, popularity and money.


Old Men: Colonels
2007 · 1h 29m · RU
The adventures of two old friends: Andrey Andreevich - the former KGB colonel and Oleg Borisovich - former chief of police.
The Scent of Life
The Scent of Life
2007 · 1h 27m
This is a tough story of a love triangle, but not just treason. Here, love coexists next to death, and real life is intertwined with mysticism.


The Scam
2001 · 1h 30m · RU
Andrei Davydov, a successful businessman and former physicist, plots an unprecedented scam aimed at causing a downfall on the world’s financial markets. He has no doubts that he will succeed, but speculating on an ecological catastrophe is a dangerous gamble. Especially when love interferes with his carefully thought-out scheme of the operation…
The 2000s ran on digital transition: DV cameras democratized production while CGI reached the point of photorealism. It's also when the fantasy epic and the modern superhero film established their commercial dominance.
Russian and Soviet cinema produced the montage theory that underpins modern editing, along with Tarkovsky's long-form spiritual epics — two traditions about as far apart as film gets.