Category: Science Fiction

  • Dead Man’s Letters

    Dead Man’s Letters

    is a 1986 Soviet science fiction film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky. Set in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear war. The story centers on Professor Larssen, played by Rolan Bykov, a Nobel laureate who finds himself trapped in an underground bunker after the disaster. Through heartfelt letters to his missing son, Larssen delves into…

  • The Blackout

    The Blackout

    is a 2019 Russian science fiction action thriller film directed by Egor Baranov. 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.

  • The Blackout

    The Blackout

    is a 2019 Russian science fiction action thriller film directed by Egor Baranov and starring Pyotr Fyodorov. 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.

  • The Apostate

    The Apostate

    is a 1987 Soviet Sci-Fi movie directed by Valeriy Rubinchik. Scientist creates a machine that is able to clone human beings. Soon the Government wants to take hold of it for military purposes.

  • Hooked on the Game

    Hooked on the Game

    is a 2009 Russian action movie directed by Pavel Sanaev. After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters,…

  • Veld

    Veld

    is a 1987 Soviet adaption of Ray Bradbury’s short story derected by Nazim Tulyakhodzayev. Two children get a present from their parents, an electronic game. Via gigantic television screens, Peter and Wendy lose themselves for days in the African “veldt” and watch with excitement as lions devour antelopes. Meanwhile, strange things take place outside the…

  • The Headless Rider

    The Headless Rider

    is a 1973 Soviet-Cuban Red Western film directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok based on the eponymous novel by Thomas Mayne Reid. The film was the first Soviet Western. It was a box office success, 51,7 million tickets were sold and the picture holds the 33rd place in terms of cinema attendance in the Soviet Union.

  • Pilot Pirx’s Inquest

    Pilot Pirx’s Inquest

    is a joint Polish-Soviet 1978 film directed by Marek Piestrak based on the story The Inquest by Stanisław Lem from his short story collection More Tales of Pirx the Pilot. This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as…

  • Better Than Us

    Better Than Us

    is a 2018 Russian science fiction television series created by Andrey Junkovsky. A family on the brink of splitting up become the owners of a cutting-edge robot being sought by a corporation, homicide investigators and terrorists.

  • Hooked on the Game 2. The Next Level

    Hooked on the Game 2. The Next Level

    is a 2010 Russian action movie directed by Pavel Sanaev. The continuation of the adventures of the heroes of “Hooked on the Game”.

  • Silver Dust

    Silver Dust

    is a 1953 Soviet science fiction drama film directed by Pavel Armand and Abram Room and starring Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya and Valentina Ushakova. An American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction – silver dust. Corporate war breaks out between two military industry giants to own the weapon. The scientist dies and his…

  • Cry of a Dolphin

    Cry of a Dolphin

    is 1986 Soviet science fiction film directed by Alexey Saltykov, based on the book by Nikolai Cherkashin “The Mystery of Archelon” “(“The Dolphin’s Cry”). The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine “Archelon” is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew…

  • Fairy

    Fairy

    is a 2020 Russian drama film directed by Anna Melikyan. The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he…

  • To the Lake

    To the Lake

    is a Russian web television series directed by Pavel Kostomarov. A deadly virus of unknown origin has decimated Moscow. Sergey, along with his girlfriend and their autistic son are joined by his exwife, their son and several fellows to escape the quarantine zone lest they suffer a slow and painful death. Somewhere far away, on…

  • Invasion

    Invasion

    is a 2020 Russian science fiction action film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. After the fall of the alien ship, it took three years. The catastrophe turned the girl’s life from Chertanovo and forever changed our view of the universe. It seems that this was the biggest test for all of us. But mankind does not…

  • Satellite

    Satellite

    is a 2020 Russian horror fantasy film, directed by Egor Abramenko. USSR, 1983. Soviet cosmonaut-hero Vladimir Veshnyakov brings an alien creature to earth … in his own body. In the secret laboratory of the regime city, the neurophysiologist Tatyana Klimova tries to save the astronaut from the monster, discovering that she is experiencing more than…

  • Bipedalism

    Bipedalism

    is a 2005 Russian movie, directed by Evgeniy Yufit. The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic…

  • Solyaris

    Solyaris

    is a two-part 1968 Soviet television play in black-and-white based on the 1961 novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem. It was the first film adaptation of the novel. Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by “phantoms,” creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with…