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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 114,110 | Gross: $8.05M
2. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 278,349 | Gross: $51.40M
3. Mirror (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 52,506 | Gross: $0.18M
4. Catherine the Great (2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.
Stars: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Gina McKee, Kevin McNally
Votes: 6,522
5. Reds (1981)
PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski
Votes: 24,766 | Gross: $40.38M
6. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,870 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
GP | 183 min | Biography, Drama, History
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson
Votes: 5,585 | Gross: $3.96M
8. The Last Czars (2019)
TV-MA | 45 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A Chronicled look at the fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia.
Stars: Robert Jack, Susanna Herbert, Ben Cartwright, Oliver Dimsdale
Votes: 9,720
9. Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
With Lenin about to destroy the Romanovs, Rasputin sends Anastasia through a magical portal.
Director: Blake Harris | Stars: Emily Carey, Amiah Miller, Brandon Routh, Donna Murphy
Votes: 918
10. Viking (2016)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Drama, History
Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maksim Sukhanov, Igor Petrenko
Votes: 5,080
11. Doctor Zhivago (2002)
TV-14 | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Doctor Zhivago falls for Lara despite being engaged. Their forbidden love blossoms amidst the upheaval of the Russian Revolution, impacting his career and family.
Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Hans Matheson, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 5,472
12. Stalingrad (2013)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A group of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk | Stars: Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 17,751 | Gross: $1.01M
13. Burnt by the Sun (1994)
R | 135 min | Drama, War
In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 16,381 | Gross: $2.62M
14. Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks.
Directors: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Stars: Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev
Votes: 6,032
15. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov
Votes: 12,294
16. Fall of Eagles (1974)
50 min | Drama, History, War
The collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
Stars: Michael Hordern, Charles Kay, Barry Foster, Gayle Hunnicutt
Votes: 673
17. Ekaterina (2014–2023)
44 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German-born princess who came to Russia as the wife of Peter III, chosen by her aunt Elizabeth, and who, once in power, transformed the Russian empire.
Stars: Marina Aleksandrova, Michael Gor, Vladimir Yaglych, Pavel Tabakov
Votes: 1,694
18. Dear Comrades! (2020)
121 min | Drama, History
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Votes: 5,937
19. Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
Thrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behavior, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg in pursuit of wealth and prestige. He soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews
Votes: 3,479
20. Rasputin (1981)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh
Votes: 1,689
21. Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
TV-PG | 200 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only "surviving" child of the last Czar and Czarina of Russia.
Stars: Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland, Jan Niklas, Nicolas Surovy
Votes: 1,279
22. The Fixer (1968)
M | 132 min | Drama
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 1,471
23. Catherine the Great (2015–2024)
49 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Catherine the Great from the time she came to Russia as the bride of the heir to the Russian throne.
Stars: Yulia Snigir, Pavel Derevyanko, Viktoriya Agalakova, Mark Bogatyryov
Votes: 362
24. The Optimists (2017)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The Optimists is a Russian spy drama series that brings a 1960's "Mad Men" aesthetic to the Nikita Khrushchev-era, set during peak Cold War. The show opens during the 1959 American National... See full summary »
Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Severija Janusauskaite, Artyom Bystrov, Egor Koreshkov
Votes: 163
25. Salyut-7 (2017)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 12,288
26. The Last Command (1928)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Votes: 4,547
27. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Documentary, History
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
Votes: 993
28. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama, History
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 1,962
29. Peter the Great (1986)
371 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard
Votes: 802
30. The Romanovs (2013)
60 min | History
This history of the Romanov dynasty, the family that ruled Russia from 1613 until the October Revolution of 1917.
Star: Ilya Sherbinin
Votes: 433
31. Furious (2017)
107 min | Action, Drama, History
In the 13th century, an amnesiac soldier vows to get his revenge on the Mongol army that ransacked his village.
Directors: Dzhanik Fayziev, Ivan Shurkhovetskiy | Stars: Ilya Malakov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Aleksandr Ilin, Timofey Tribuntsev
Votes: 3,906 | Gross: $0.01M
32. A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980)
Unrated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, History
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov
Votes: 2,566
33. Zoya (1995 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 171 min | Drama, Romance
A young Russian Countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Denise Alexander, Don Henderson
Votes: 700
34. The Terrible (2020)
52 min | Biography, Drama, History
Ivan the Terrible is the most discussed Character in the Russian history. At the same time, Ivan is the most unsolved mystery of the Russian Czars. The scale of his political achievements ... See full summary »
Stars: Tanya Lialina, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 111
35. Spacewalk (2017)
137 min | Drama, History
Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
Director: Dmitriy Kiselev | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov
Votes: 8,116
36. Knight Without Armor (1937)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, History
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas
Votes: 1,462
37. Boris Godounov (1989)
118 min | Musical, Drama
The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort, Paul Plishka
Votes: 379
38. Admiral (2008)
Not Rated | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov
Votes: 8,622
39. Traitors (2024– )
Documentary
Stars: Maria Pevchikh, Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, Boris Yeltsin
Votes: 40
40. Tempest (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, History
In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Geoffrey Horne
Votes: 263
41. Tsar (2009)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History
A historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Ramilya Iskander, Anastasiya Dontsova
Votes: 3,251
42. The Turkish Gambit (2005)
208 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the ... See full summary »
Director: Dzhanik Fayziev | Stars: Egor Beroev, Olga Krasko, Marat Basharov, Vladimir Ilin
Votes: 4,816
43. The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
Directors: Paul Czinner, Alexander Korda | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier
Votes: 744
44. Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin | Stars: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,191
45. The Russian Revolution (2017)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History
A brief yet comprehensive documentary overview of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, from the terrible acts and subsequent hanging of his brother to his own hunger for a revolution.
Director: Cal Seville | Stars: Daniel Beer, Helen Rappaport, Donald Rayfield, Victor Sebestyen
Votes: 713
46. Broken Lullaby (1994 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box. Luckily ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Kennedy | Stars: Mel Harris, Rob Stewart, Oliver Tobias, Jennifer Dale
Votes: 296
47. The Battle of Russia (1943)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Eden
Votes: 1,624
48. Rasputin (2011)
87 min | Biography, Drama, History
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Directors: Josée Dayan, Irakli Kvirikadze | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov, Filipp Yankovskiy
Votes: 963
49. Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya (2000)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham, Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova
Votes: 361
50. Catherine of Russia (1963)
105 min | Drama, History
Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Angela Cavo
Votes: 131