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


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.


Ruki Vverh!
2024 · 1h 40m · RU
On the eve of the big concert "Hands up!" an attempt is made on the lead singer of the legendary band Sergei Zhukov. He manages to avoid a bullet, but what if this is not a miracle, but a cold calculation, and the purpose of the shooter is to intimidate the artist?


The Poet
2025 · 2h 17m · RU
Alexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young women dream of winning his attention. However, not even his aristocratic patrons and loyal friends, nor his growing fame can keep him from dueling, getting exiled, and becoming destitute. Only when he meets his true love does he find meaning in life, and his genius develops to make him the legend the world knows today.


The Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake
2015 · 2h 5m · RU
With Tchaikovskys famous and lyrically poignant score, the beloved masterpiece Swan Lakes depiction of tragic love is performed to perfection by the unparalleled virtuosity of Russias great Bolshoi Ballet with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Recorded in early 2015, this live performance provides an opportunity to see the modern manifestation of this legendary ballet troupe with lead ballerina Svetlana Zakharova along with Denis Rodkin and Artemy Belyakov among others introducing us to the new generation at the Bolshoi.


Father Frost
2010 · 1h 43m · RU
A modern take on an old folk tale. The musical retains the characters and motifs of the well-known tale by Alexander Rowe, but adds new plot collisions and characters.


Leto
2018 · 2h 6m · FR
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.


The Summer of Our Love
2024 · 1h 54m · RU
It's 1999. Sasha and his parents spend their summer holiday in a sanatorium, where he gets the titular role in an amateur musical production of Orpheus and Eurydice. He is paired with Polina, an employee of the sanatorium and a local beauty. Sasha falls in love with a girl and, without realizing it, drags himself and his family into an unequal battle with the manager of the sanatorium Misha, who does not hesitate to use any leverage so that Polina stays with him.


Disney Concert: Frozen
2022 · 1h 6m
The most popular and beloved songs of Anna, Elsa, Olaf, and other characters from Arendelle, performed by the State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography under the direction of Sergei Skripka.


LUMEN - Всегда 17 — всегда война
2015
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The Self-Irony of Fate
2022 · 1h 9m · RU
The plot is built around the traditional meeting of old friends in the bath and subsequent events. Musical stars, actors and comedians act out the most recognizable scenes from their favorite New Year's Soviet films and perform songs familiar to everyone.


Valeria: Russian Romances and Golden Hits of the 20th Century
2012 · RU
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King of My Love
2026 · 1h 51m · RU
The noble and beloved policeman Ramash, thanks to whom peace and order reign in the city of Khurmada, joins the fight against the cunning, greedy bandit Shamar. Shamar, raised by foster parents, arranges a series of crimes in the city, and Ramash stands up for Khurmada. During the active confrontation, it turns out that Ramash and Shamar are brothers separated in childhood. The brothers' investigation leads them to the trail of the culprit of the great fire that claimed the lives of Ramash and Shamar's parents. They turn out to be Khurmada's main patron and patron, Sandurlai, with whom they have to fight.


The Incredible Adventures of Shurik
2025 · 2h · RU
Shurik, like Forrest Gump, will tell the amazing story of his love, traveling through legendary Soviet films and modern memes. He will be helped by Chebubu, a new character, "from childhood, but from 2025" and the king of pop music, Filippino-Kirkorino.


NSL
2023 · 18m · RU
'NSL' it's a combination of three songs ( Nass , Schweiss & Lecker ) in one video clip by Till Lindemann, released on 29 September 2023


Mozart
2006 · 1h 30m · RU
The film is about the complicated and even paradoxical relationships in the world of academic music. The character of Aleksandr Maslaev represents the Maestro, a kind of modern Mozart, wallowing in corruption, plagiarism, and envy. Once a talented composer, he's totally lost his gift and cynically buys new music from young composers, then plays it under his own name. Yet, the Maestro does not close this chain, for everyone pays his debts...


LUMEN & ORCHESTRA
2024 · RU
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Alice in Wonderland
2025 · 1h 48m · RU
15-year-old schoolgirl Alisa finds herself in Wonderland, where the sun is always at its zenith and there is no time. Among the inhabitants, she recognizes her relatives, acquaintances and friends - but none of them recognize Alisa - she is a stranger to them - antipodes, the inhabitants of Wonderland call themselves antipodes. In order to return home, Alisa will have to overcome many obstacles and oddities: visit the top of the mountains, find herself in the desert, swim across the sea of her own tears, get lost in a magical forest, and, finally, grow up. After all, only having grown up, she will be able to save Wonderland from a real catastrophe.


Lisa and Elise
1996 · 1h 16m · RU
A princess falls in love with a musician and separates from her husband, for which she is separated from her daughter Eliza and expelled from home. In her new marriage, she has a second daughter, Liza, and the sisters do not yet know about each other's existence. One fine day the royal family comes to the city where they live...


MTV UNPLUGGED: Аквариум
2018
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Vladivostok Vacation
2018 · 50m · RU
Once upon a time in Russia, communism fell and Rock 'n' Roll rose to power. One band reigned supreme and toured far and wide across the eastern earth, but never even left Russia - until now. They only have once chance, to not only rule Russia -but to become the best band in the West. The strategy is simple - get on the boat, create an album - and make new friends. All with hopes of finally becoming a household name in the United States. But sometimes fame is harder than just toppling a government.


Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
2015 · 3h 6m · US
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to see. Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko are Judith and Bluebeard in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller about a woman discovering her new husband’s murderous past.


#EVERYTHING_TO_FIX!?!
2016 · 1h 38m · RU
The carefree musicians suddenly find themselves in an unexpected predicament and end up owing a very large sum to a very serious person — the Star. The band’s existence is under threat, and the future in general is rather uncertain… But fate draws the guys into an amazing adventure involving an oligarch businessman, his ruthless assistant, and a punk girl who is in love with a nerd. Will our heroes be able to bring two loving people together and save their future?


Star Pile
2012 · 1h 56m · RU
A parody film about space directed by members of NOM.


I Love You — Je t'aime
2023 · 56m · RU
Russian musical performers, and with them familiar movie characters, began to speak and sing in a romantic language in the style of the French pop of the 60s and 70s.


Metallica: Live Moscow - Monsters of Rock
1991 · 1h 25m
September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 150,000 and 500,000 people, with some unofficial estimates as high as 1,600,000.


Two Captains II
1992 · 1h 10m · RU
The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus induces an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are becoming active. A second Sun appears in the sky. In this difficult environment, captains selflessly confront the forces of chaos, maintaining the cosmic balance of history.


Talent
2022 · 2h 23m · RU
Maxim "Cruel Addict" Doshi, is desperately trying to break through to fame, by all mental and non-mental ways. But things don't go according to plan when public opinion gets in the way.


Tchaïkovski: Pique Dame
2018 · 3h 3m
Russian literature is inconceivable without Pushkin. It draws its sustenance from Pushkin; it breathes Pushkin. During his brief 38-year life, he produced a torrent of some of the most wonderful poems, plays and stories. Pushkin wrote the short story The Queen of Spades in 1833, in the space of a few days and ‘in a cold fury’: a brief text, with strong accents and a focus on psychology. More than 50 years later, Tchaïkovski drew inspiration from this story to compose an opera. For the 2018 Salzburg Festival, Mariss Jansons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hans Neuenfels directs Tchaïkovski’s ‘The Queen of Spades’ at the Großes Festspielhaus. Hanna Schwarz plays the Countess. Evgenia Muraveva sings the role of Lisa, Brandon Jovanovich is Herman, Vladislav Sulimsky plays Count Tomsky / Plutus, and Igor Golovatenko is Prince Yelezky.


Finally
2023 · 4m · RU
Music video for song by Jay-Jay Johanson.


The Non-Diamond Arm
2024 · 2h 24m · RU
In the new film, TNT will again rethink its favorite plot in its signature style and show many stars in the most unexpected images. There will be jokes on current topics and musical numbers that will be organically woven into the narrative.


The Italian Contract
1993 · 1h 29m · RU
The Italians, conquered by the Tatar singer's skill, offer him a contract. By the will of circumstances, Renat gets first to Yalta and only then on the yacht of a drug dealer to Italy. Here the hero finds himself in prison, meets an Italian beauty and is carried away in a hot air balloon...


Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'Swan Lake' 2007 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
2007 · 2h 8m · RU
The classic Mariinsky (Kirov) production of the greatest of all ballets. Filmed in the imperial splendor of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Starring Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev and the breathtaking Mariinsky corps de ballet. Conducted by the great Russian maestro Valery Gergiev.


RUMBA
1999 · 6m · RU
Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.


Moonlight People
2019 · 14m · RU
Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The impetus to making the film was the book of the same name by the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov, who died 100 years ago. His treatise was devoted to the study of sexuality and its denial in Christianity. The film was made in the style of experimental films of the 1920s with a non-linear narration full of strange surrealistic images. He is black and white and devoid of dialogue. Filmed on film 16 mm of firm "Svema", released in the USSR. This added to his exoticism. The image was put to the music of Alexander Scriabin “The Poem of Ecstasy” (1907).


Well
2009 · 12m · RU
A young man comes across a well whilst playing American football. He decides to descend it and has to pass various challenges before he can reach his goal.


Till Lindemann: Ich hasse Kinder
2021 · 22m · DE
Extended short film from the five minute video clip titled "Ich hasse Kinder" by Till Lindemann.


The Hatters Jubilee Concert: Live at the Litsedei Theater, St. Petersburg
2021 · 57m · RU
A big concert dedicated to the 5th anniversary of The Hatters at the Litsedei theater on February 10th, 2021.


Last Love
2017 · 18m · RU
The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole of one eternal Love.


The Bremen Town Musicians
2024 · 1h 56m · RU
The legendary band of traveling musicians is back together! Troubadour and his friends - Donkey, Dog, Cat, and Rooster - rejoin to take on a heroic mission. The musicians and their leader set out to bring laughter and joy back to the gloomy streets of Bremen. First of all, they are tasked with making the King's daughter laugh. The meeting between Troubadour and the Princess sparks feelings of love in them but also results in a dangerous adventure. Troubadour and his friends face many challenges but they push on through because love makes it all worthwhile. As for the Princess - she runs away from her father’s palace. Scheming bandits, a cunning detective, and the royal family's internal squabbling create all kinds of problems, but in the end the cheerful Bremen Town Musicians make everyone dance to their tune!


Chapiteau Show: Respect and Cooperation - Part 2
2012 · 1h 51m · RU
A father decides to make amends with his son, while Victor Tsoy 's double goes on a tour of Crimea. Sergei Loban's dilogy continued. - Respect. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Prepare yourselves to witness a death-defying feat! A wise man, lost in the darkness, and his disciple, desperately striving for the light. They balance on the edge of the abyss while volcanic flames burn their faces. King Lear and the Star Child, their train of fate speeds through a tunnel in the mountain. Will there be light at the end of the tunnel? - Cooperation. A world premiere! The circus proudly brings to you a surprising discovery in show business! The one, the only Ersatz Star! A creature capable of destroying any competitors! Its creator will fly up to the very top of Mount Olympus and leap into the depths of the waters. Engineer Garin and the Elephant Man will either save or destroy each other! Wait and see!
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.
Music films cover concert documentaries, biopics, and musicals — anything where performance drives the picture. The genre lives or dies on whether the filmmaking can match the energy of the sound.