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


Kraken
2025 · 2h 14m · RU
A Russian missile submarine disappears without trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A vessel is deployed to search for it, captained by the brother of the missing submarine’s commander. The search crew is tasked with locating the submarine and preventing a top-secret weapon from falling into enemy hands. Meanwhile, a geological research operation at the North Pole awakens the Kraken, a giant deep-water monster with an incredible ability to camouflage and an uncanny intelligence. As the search party narrows in on the missing submarine, they will encounter the legendary creature of the deep.


Invasion
2020 · 2h 9m · RU
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?


Hardcore Henry
2015 · 1h 37m · RU
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.


Branded
2012 · 1h 46m · RU
In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.


Mira
2022 · 1h 50m · RU
Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.


Attraction
2017 · 1h 57m · RU
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.


Coma
2020 · 1h 50m · RU
A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.


Petrov's Flu
2021 · 2h 25m · FR
With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.


Sputnik
2020 · 1h 53m · RU
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…


Forgotten Experiment
2023 · 1h 45m · RU
A group of heroes assembled by the eccentric billionaire goes into closed Perimeter full of abnormal activity which is inexplicable in terms of science. This journey will change all members of the group and reverse their notion of reality.


Guardians
2017 · 1h 29m · RU
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a superhero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but, in hard times, they must show themselves again.


Superdeep
2020 · 1h 53m · RU
In 1984, a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.


Calculator
2014 · 1h 23m · RU
Ten prisoners condemned to exile on a hostile planet XT-59 must pave the way through swamp to reach the Islands of Happiness, the only safe area on the planet, before the harsh climate or the underground horrors kill them all.


Project Gemini
2022 · 1h 38m · RU
After depleting Earth's resources for centuries, humankind's survival requires an exodus to outer space. An international expedition is quickly formed to find a suitable new planet, but when plans go awry, the crew is suddenly stranded without power on a strange planet, where something unimaginable lies in wait.


Cosmoball
2020 · 1h 55m · RU
Cosmoball is a mesmerizing intergalactic game of future played between humans and aliens at the giant extraterrestrial ship hovering in the sky over Earth. A young man with enormous power of an unknown nature joins the team of hot-headed superheroes in exchange for a cure for his mother’s deadly illness. The Four from Earth will fight not only to defend the honor of their home planet in the spectacular game, but to face the unprecedented threat to the Galaxy and embrace their own destiny.


The Aviator
2025 · 1h 57m · RU
A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.


The Blackout
2019 · 2h 7m · RU
Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.


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.


Free Fall
2025 · 1h 21m · RU
Cut off from his crew by a devastating proton storm, repairman Max drifts alone through open space and must trust Delta dispatcher Anna to bring him home alive. But survival has never felt so uncertain.


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…


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.


A Rough Draft
2018 · 1h 56m · RU
Young Muscovite Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he has been chosen for an important and mysterious mission: to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Will Kirill unravel the mystery of these worlds and who controls them? And is our Earth really just an imaginary "draft" -- a parallel world -- which in reality does not exist ...


Night Guards
2016 · 1h 37m · RU
When eighteen-year-old Pasha rescues a beautiful young woman from a band of strangely powerful attackers, he discovers an underworld of supernatural beings living among us.


The Inhabited Island
2009 · 1h 55m · RU
On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world..


To the Shore of the Fifth Ocean
1997 · 1h 52m · RU
Already twice a mysterious fireball descended into the deep taiga, forming a mysterious zone in the landing area. From distant Petersburg, a young scientist, an enthusiast Kairov, is going to the zone. Hearing that in the zone called "Devil's Ring", full of gold, his random companion Kuzmin, a thief and an adventurer, stole the looted jewelry together from his accomplices, sets off for Kairov. He is not afraid of the local claims that "damn gold" does not bring good to anyone.


Время 'X'
1992 · 1h 25m · RU
The alien Luri, almost a teenager, fell to Earth on a special mission. The neighbors in the Galaxy were terribly offended by earthlings for their attitude towards their planet and Luri was sent to us in order to inform us that in a few hours time on Earth would turn back - a century ago, and all this so that people could re-live the 20th century "ecologically right and safe." However, for the heroes of the film, this can simply mean death, because there will be no place for the living in the world of great-grandparents and great-grandparents. Luri's meeting with peers, the girl Masha and her friends from around the world can interfere with what was planned and save all those living today.


Sapiens
2004 · 13m · RU
The world through the eyes of a flower growing on the side of the road. The flower sees how the electric wires are humming, how cars are rushing by, planes are flying by. Accidents happen before his eyes, it rains and the sun shines — all this the flower observes from the side, without interacting with the outside world. But suddenly a car stops on the side of the road, a girl gets out of it. She holds a book with Japanese triplets in her hand and pays attention to the flower...


The Ugly Swans
2006 · 1h 49m · RU
In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate the goings-on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. His tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.


The Ultimate Planet
2026 · 1h 46m · RU
After an accident, memories of his service on the Ninth Planet flash in the mind of auto mechanic Dima Khrust: amazing landscapes, the base of earthlings, battles with monsters, friends and his beloved girl Polina, whom he once saved... Khrust's colleagues twist their fingers at their temples, because theirs is completely different - ordinary army memories. But when Dima meets Polina in real life, he no longer doubts: someone corrected their memories. Who and why? The truth can only be found out by returning to the dangerous planet.


Ocean
2016 · 11m · US
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Proving Ground 1
1994 · 1h 27m · RU
About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political situations. Some become a cowboy, some become Hitler, some become Emperor Paul I, etc. Three colonists, with the assistance of one of the teachers, actively resist these experiments...


Mafia: Survival Game
2016 · 1h 31m · RU
A twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.


Anomaly
1993 · 1h 23m · RU
Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusual phenomenon.


Resurrected
2023 · 1h 37m · FR
In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to a series of murders.


Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything
2023 · 1h 46m · RU
Shurik is trying to bring Tsar Ivan the Terrible home with the help of a time machine. But the VPN on which the miracle machine runs constantly breaks down and moves the would-be inventor and the tsar to different countries and times.


The Monk and the Demon
2016 · 1h 55m · RU
Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.


First Squad: The Moment of Truth
2009 · 1h 13m · CA
Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross.


Extraterrestrial
2007 · 2h 8m · RU
A young man who lives in a small village finds a corpse of extraterrestrial creature. Or at least he thinks so...
Killed by Lightning
Killed by Lightning
2002 · 1h 5m · RU
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.


We Are from the Future
2008 · 1h 50m · RU
Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.
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.
Science fiction uses the future — or a plausible alternative present — to think through the current moment. It's produced some of cinema's most influential images, and the genre's biggest leaps have usually followed leaps in effects technology.