🇷🇺 FILMS - SOVIET CINEMA + RUSSIAN -------------------------------------------- Soviet Union 1922-1991 - [ ] The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - won palme dor - [ ] The Irony of Fate, or May the Steam Be with You (1975) - played every new year eve - [ ] The Diamond Arm (1969) - very popular cult comedy * - [x] Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) 74m 7.9 - [ ] By the Bluest of Seas (1936) 71m - [ ] The Mirror (1975) 8.1 107m - [ ] Andrei Rublev (1966) 8.1 205m - [ ] Hard to Be a God (2013) 6.7 177m - [ ] Russian Ark (2002) 99m 7.4* - [ ] Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) 150m 8.1 * - [x] The Ascent (1977) 111m 8.3 - [ ] Office Romance (1977) 8.3 159m * - [ ] White Sun of the Desert (1970) - [ ] Strike (1925) 89m - [ ] Loveless (2017) - [ ] White Bim Black Ear (1977) -childhood tear jerker hachiko - [ ] Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973) * - time travel caper - [ ] Leviathan (2014) - [ ] Kin-dza-dza! (1986) 8.1 135m - soviet steaming (mad max / Star Wars?) - [ ] Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) 111m - [ ] The Color of Pomegranates (1969) - soviet Armenian - [ ] The Girls (1961) - [ ] Night Watch (2004) * - [ ] Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) - animated short - [ ] Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures (1965) - slapstick * - [x] The Cremator (1969) 95m 8.0 black comedy - [ ] The Sacrifice (1986) - [ ] Bootleggers - short comedy film from leonid gaidai - [ ] Ballad of a Soldier (1959) - [ ] Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) 97m 8.8 - [ ] Father of a Soldier (1964) - [ ] Little Vera (1988) 110m 7.0 - [ ] War and Peace (1966-1967) - [ ] Nostalghia (1983) 8.1 125m - [ ] Repentance (1984) 153m 8.3 - [ ] Heart of a Dog (1988) 136m 8.7 - [ ] Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980) - [ ] Mister Designer (1987) - [ ] Ten Little Indians (1987) - [ ] Stray Dogs (1989) - [ ] The Ugly Swans (2006) - [ ] Yulenka (2009) - [ ] The Bride (2017) - horror - [ ] Quiet Comes the Dawn (2019) - [ ] The Asthenic Syndrome’ (1990) - [ ] Brother (1997) - [x] Man with a Movie Camera (1929) 68m kanopy - [x] Viy (1967) - [x] Battleship Potemkin (1925) 66m 8.0 - [x] Come and See (1985) 142n 8.3 - [x] Stalker (1979) 162m 8.1 - [x] Solaris (1972) 167m 8.0 - scifi - [x] Dersu Uzala (1975) - soviet/japanese w/ kurosawa * https://www.rbth.com/arts/329707-top-100-russian-soviet-movies Andrei Tarkovsky - solaris and stalker Andrey Zvyagintsev - loveless (2017), leviathan (2014), return (2003) Timur Bekmambetov - night watch irony of fate is soviet equivalent of its a wonderful life Diamond Arm is the "Citizen Kane of Soviet comedy" Viy (1967) is considered the first and only horror movie made in Soviet Russia Leonid Gaidai, Russia’s best known comedy director, similar to a Blake Edwards or a Harold Ramis. The Cranes Are Flying is the only Soviet or Russian film to win the Palme d’Or, the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s 2014 film Leviathan received both critical and popular acclaim, winning the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes and earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) won an Oscar, for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1981. Before his historic meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a former actor, watched Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears several times to better understand the Russian soul. Top 50 Greatest Films from the Soviet Union https://www.imdb.com/list/ls002403423/ The Top 20 Russian Films, According to Russians https://www.openculture.com/2020/08/the-top-20-russian-films-according-to-russians.html Best Russian Horror Movies: From the Soviet Union to Today https://creepycatalog.com/best-russian-horror-movies-list/