1990s Russian Movies

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

During the collectivization of the 1930s a red army soldier is troubled by the affection he feels for the young wife of a "class enemy."

A young man Danesh learns of ancient relics, including a ruby that once a year can help find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. As the old man holding the knowledge passes away, Danesh receives the ruby and a map, setting out for an adventure full of mystery and danger, friend and foe, set under the dazzling southern sun.

After discovering a time tunnel to 1960-ies a journalist decides to make some cash out of it.

A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.

The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources.

The protagonist of The Wooden Room is a director of documentaries, who lives with his wife - who is as stoic as he - in an isolated hut in the woods. The director is obsessed by filming marginal events in life. The closer he can get to these events with his camera, the more he becomes involved with them. In the end he falls victim to them. The film, with no dialogue and hardly any sound, is an experimental meditation on the complex, continually-changing relationship between a film-maker and his subject.

Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.

The film-parable about how hurting our neighbors we often don’t think about that pain which we made them

When you love, your life changes beyond recognition. When you are loved, you may not even suspect it. But if your life turns into a continuous nightmare, if every minute you are waiting for news of the death of another loved one - such love cannot be overlooked. It is only necessary to calculate the lover. And as soon as possible.

The Second World War is underway. A gypsy camp ends up in a fascist concentration camp. The camp commandant liked the daughter of the gypsy baron Tsino. Unable to stand the shame, she commits suicide. After the death of his daughter, the baron, who had previously preached non-resistance to evil, decides to take revenge…

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A young secretary, Helen, must take his boss's car to the garage. On the way she stumbles into unexpected déja vu adventures.

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.

After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.

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A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.

There is a boy living in a small town. He is secretly in love with the most beautiful girl. Besides, he has a lot of very important things to do: an endless showdown with the guys, a touching friendship with a funny poet and a crazy philosopher...

The city "N" seized by chaos and lawlessness. A hitman nicknamed "The Arbiter" accomplishes justice. Experienced investigator and his partner, a young police lieutenant, decided to catch the mysterious killer. During the investigation, it turns out that the killer is a man who were a victim once.

Boris and his accomplices decide to "throw" the famous artist Kirill for a large sum of money. The bandits are trying to kidnap Cyril's daughter. And if it weren't for the arrival of Kirill's brother Dmitry, who is fluent in hand-to-hand combat, the deadly ending cannot be avoided.

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.

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A juggler Valerian from a circus does not recognize his classmate, but she still loves him, and his son named Valerian ...

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.

Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able to finish the film. Following two wildly different reconstruction attempts in 1939 (Marie Seton's 'Time in the Sun') and 1979 (Grigori Alexandrov's '¡Que viva México!') Kovalov has here compiled another hypothetical version of what Eisenstein's film might have been.

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...

January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.

The film is based on historical events that took place in the 6th century at the junction of three great powers: The Turkish Khagan, The Byzantine Empire and The Sasanian Empire.

Mirror film, intellectual game, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and "Breathless". The narrative plot resumes the transposed history in post-Soviet St. Petersburg.

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyone, a stranger.

Forty-year old Alya has been abandoned by her husband and son. Her mother does her best to distract the heroine from her loneliness. However, her clumsy efforts do not help — Alya prefers top escape into the world of her dreams, fantasies and childhood memories.

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Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.

A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

Documentary about the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the former Soviet Union. Hanna Michailenko, an Ukrainian schoolteacher from Odessa was locked up in a psychiatric ward from 1980 until 1988 for refusing to work for the Soviet Secret Service, the KGB.

Americans decided to make sure that in the Arkhangelsk region village was found a diamond deposit, and sent there under the command of the submarine black veteran, who accompanied the Allied convoys during the 2nd World War. As a distraction the barrel full of alcohol (200 liters) was thrown to the shore. The barrel was caught by the local blacksmith Philemon. On this occasion villagers arranged festivities and all American submariners were gradually involved into it against their will.

A married man needs a lot of money and he is trying to get them form a huge bet on horse-riding.

In Russia, there has long been a society of billiards, whose members are scattered throughout the country. Many of them have long become millionaires. And they should thank the old school teachers for this. Most of these old people live starving and lonely. In order to somehow brighten up their old age, the new generation of billiards decided to chip in and give their teachers a big mansion, where there will be decent food, good medical care and fresh air. No one refused his share of the contribution, except for an authority by the name of Savitsky. Soon, he completely changes his mind and organizes an ambush on the road, takes away not only his own money, but also his total money. The barely surviving couriers report this to all members of the community. The group comes up with a decent punishment by sending him a professional pool player nicknamed Classic. The bandit will have to fight with a virtuoso who prefers to play for large sums in order to save money.