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


Your Heart Will Be Broken
2026 · 2h 14m
country: Russia
High school student Polina is saved from bullying at her new school and makes a deal with the main bully Bars: he must pretend to be her boyfriend and protect her, and she must do everything he says. During this game, the couple develops real feelings, but her family and classmates have reasons to separate the lovers.


You Drive Me Crazy
2025 · 1h 39m
country: Russia
Alisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel reality, but the party animal Ivan. Will the young people be able to recognize true love and will they be able to unite their worlds in order to meet in reality and simply touch each other?


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


The Cuckoo
2002 · 1h 40m
country: Russia
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.


Moscow, I Love You!
2010 · 2h 23m
country: Russia
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...


About Love
2017 · 1h 35m
country: Russia
Beautiful Nina lives happily married, as she saw it, with intelligent Alexandr, professor of Sinology. But the debt for the mortgage begins to disturb the relationship of spouses. One day she meets Sergey, the head of the bank where her husband has debt, and so begins their passionate relationships. The story of the relationship with married Sergey hardly promises happiness, but Nina realizes that for the first time she feels true love.


Attraction
2017 · 1h 57m
country: Russia
After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.


The Last Station
2009 · 1h 52m
country: Germany
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.


Battle for Sevastopol
2015 · 1h 50m
country: Russia
The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.


I Am Dragon
2015 · 1h 50m
country: Russia
In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything behind in the past - family, friends and groom. Now the only things she had were a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman ... but who is he and what is he doing on that island? Miroslava will know the truth too late: loving a dragon will reveal the bitter truth - love is scary.


A Dog Named Palma
2021 · 1h 50m
country: Russia
The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the dog at the airport. It's a story of amazing adventures, true friendship and unconditional love.


In Jazz Style
2010 · 1h 30m
country: Russia
A successful young man meets a disappointed in love 26 years old girl. She fails for him and so her younger sister and still beautiful mother.


Sugar Baby
2024 · 1h 43m
country: Russia
Love comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?


Anna Karenina
1997 · 1h 48m
country: Russia
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.


Ice
2018 · 1h 58m
country: Russia
Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again.


Sheep & Wolves
2016 · 1h 25m
country: Russia
In a magical faraway land, in a picturesque little village nestled among green meadows and rolling hills, lives a flock of carefree sheep. But their pastoral and stress-free life is interrupted when a pack of wolves sets up camp in the nearby ravine.


The Barber of Siberia
1998 · 3h
country: France
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.


Escort Girl
2023 · 1h 30m
country: Russia
Kristina runs a front for an illegal operation involving numerous women, masquerading as an art exhibition organizer while evading law enforcement scrutiny through her global events for wealthy clientele.


Son of a Rich
2019 · 1h 49m
country: Russia
Grigory, born into an oligarch family, is so spoiled that he believes he's above the law. When he faces jail, his father decides to 'rehabilitate' his son. An abandoned village is reconstructed, 19th century style. Grigory 'goes back in time', reincarnated as a serf, to learn how to appreciate life and to work hard.


Silver Skates
2020 · 2h 16m
country: Russia
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.


The Jungle
2012 · 1h 20m
country: Russia
A comedy about funny adventures of the married couple on the remote island.


14+: Continued
2023 · 2h 13m
country: Russia
The story of the growing up of Lyosha, who turned 18 years old. Life asks him more and more difficult questions about love, family, duty and his path than it did at 14. And he, just as then, must answer them himself.


Hater
2026 · 1h 22m
country: Russia
An elusive hater wages a destructive game behind the guise of anonymity. Their provocations gradually draw a wide range of people into conflict—from public figures to ordinary users. Online bullying extends beyond the virtual space and begins to impact real-life lives, destroying relationships, careers, and trust between people. While those around them try to understand who is behind this torrent of aggression, it becomes clear that exposing this person could have unexpected consequences for everyone.


The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
2018 · 1h 27m
country: Russia
An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.


Goddess Like Me
2023 · 1h 40m
country: Russia
The naive school teacher Lena suddenly loses both her job and her husband. "The problem is definitely in me," she decides, and on the advice of a friend, she signs up to reshape herself for the "Become a Goddess" training. The result is obvious: a new image and a loving admirer Andrey. It's just not clear whether Lena managed to find herself, and whether something very important was lost in the process.


Piter FM
2006 · 1h 25m
country: Russia
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.


The Heat
2006 · 1h 35m
country: Russia
Four good folks from schools got reunion in a summer café on the bank of River Moskva, and they had an unthinkable trouble to deal with check, though one of them is so rich. One by one, a friend left the table to find solution and everyone of them met with different stories. The rich one got caught, ended up in jail for a night with the help from other folks. Friendship never ends...


Love Story
2022 · 1h 30m
country: Russia
Taxi driver and unsuccessful actor Seva Gorelov accidentally meets his first love Masha Sokolova, once a young and carefree girl, and now a thirty-year-old spoiled kept woman. Seva works part-time in a taxi, and Masha accidentally becomes his client. To go far, to Sochi, to their homeland with Seva teenage love. Masha has a wedding there in a few days, but not with Seva, of course, but with a rich patron. From the very beginning it becomes clear that this journey will not end with anything good. 1600 kilometers of adventure, well flavored with humor, ambition, tears, resentment, flirting, passion and a great feeling, which again is out of place.


Mom for Hire
2010
country: Russia
Little Sonia's mother abandoned her family in the hope of a better life in America. The girl is surrounded by the love of her father and grandmother, but no one can replace her mother, whom she longs for. Sonia's father, disappointed in women after his wife's deed, does not share his daughter's enthusiasm, but in order to make her part with her dream, decides to make a small deception. Being a trucker, the girl's father finds himself in a third-rate cafe on the highway, where the rude and ugly barmaid Tamara works, and persuades her to live a little in his house and play the role of a future stepmother, so that Sonia forever lost the desire to find a new mother. Having settled Tamara at home, the father of the family goes on another voyage, hoping that on his return the problem will be solved. But it is not so easy to deprive the child of his dreams. Sonia decides that Tamara is simply bewitched, and if you remove the spell from her, she will turn into a kind and beautiful mother.


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


How to Save the Immortal
2022 · 1h 16m
country: Russia
For some reason, forever young and always immaculately dressed, Koschey has been unable to find a bride for three hundred years. He intimidated, and kidnapped, and turned various princesses into frogs, but these courtship did not help the prince of darkness. Meanwhile, the beautiful hero Varvara only does what she fights off in the arena from suitors who covet her dowry. However, having taken possession of the Koshcheev needle, Tsar Peas figure out how to get to Varvara. But he didn’t take into account one thing - although Koshchei’s death is enclosed in a needle, love can still come to life in his heart


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


Lucky Trouble
2011 · 1h 30m
country: Russia
Slava Kolotilov, a schoolteacher from the town of Palchiki, arrived in Moscow with a manuscript of his novel in hand and met Nadia. Before the wedding, Deputy Trekhgolovich, confused, mistakes Kolotilov for the coach of a children's soccer team. Trekhgolovich confiscates Kolotilov's passport and tears up his ticket to Moscow, while Kolotilov does everything he can to ensure that his hastily assembled team loses so that he can leave for his bride.


About Love. Adults Only
2017 · 1h 48m
country: Russia
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.


Anybody Seen My Girl?
2021 · 1h 40m
country: Russia
Sergei and Kira were considered the most beautiful bohemian couple among cinema lovers of Saint Petersburg in the early 90’s. Their fantastic love affair ended with Kira leaving town, fleeing for new life, new relationship. Sergei has died shortly after. Only after a few years does Kira realize that she never stopped loving Sergei. And that she’s doomed to stay in a neverending dialogue with a dead lover.


Трасса «Море — море»
2026 · 1h 25m
country: Russia
A red convertible is speeding from St. Petersburg to Sochi, driven by the brazen photographer Tyoma. With him are his ex-wife, Sasha, and her new fiancé. Tyoma will do anything to prevent Sasha's new wedding. And the fatal hitchhiker Kira, rescued by the guys, will help him. Tyoma has only one way across the country to change and win back the love of his life-if his brakes don't fail.


Mathilde
2017 · 2h 10m
country: Russia
It portrays the memories of Matilda Kshesinskaya and her love affair with the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Matilda, a Polish-born ballerina from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, had a brief and intense romance with Nicholas between 1892 and 1894, before Nicholas married Alexandra Feodorovna and was crowned Tsar after his father's death. It also explores their relationship, facing societal pressures and interference from Nicholas's mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, as well as Matilda's involvement with other members of the imperial family, the Romanovs, such as Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.


Wandering Sagittarius
1993 · 1h 36m
country: Russia
After discovering a time tunnel to 1960-ies a journalist decides to make some cash out of it.


Клёвый УLove
2025 · 1h 28m
country: Russia
Anya, Milana and Vika are friends from school. They are very different, but they are all similar in one thing - they cannot find their love. Vika runs several tire shops in a provincial town. Anya works remotely as a personal assistant to a Siberian businessman.


Indi
2007 · 1h 32m
country: Ukraine
Arina is young, reach and independent woman. She's married to a wealthy businessman. But deep inside she's still looking for a true love.
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.
Romance is the genre most shaped by its era's ideas about intimacy, which makes watching across decades a genuine education. It spans the screwball comedies, the sweeping melodramas, and the modern indie two-hander.