Soviet and Russian Movies in English

Category: Romance

  • Disobedient

    Disobedient

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    is a Russian erotic drama film directed by Dmitry Suvorov. It stars Alexander Petrov and Anastasiya Reznik. Twenty-year-old Elya is a student and a future ecologist. One day, Matvey, the head of a construction company, comes to her university to talk about a development plan on the site of an old forest park. Elya does…

  • Office Romance

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    is a Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov in 1977. The film’s plot is based on the stageplay “Co-workers” written by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky. Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant…

  • Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death

    Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death

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    is a Soviet 1979 drama film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and Ernest Yasan based on the eponymous story by Mikhail Lvovsky. Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather…

  • Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

    Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

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    is a 1966 Soviet fantasy film directed by Boris Rytsarev based on the tale Aladdin from One Thousand and One Nights. A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he’s granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father…

  • It Doesn’t Hurt Me

    It Doesn’t Hurt Me

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    is a 2006 Russian film directed by Aleksey Balabanov. Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are young, full of strength and energy, they have the talent, skill and thirst for life and … – well, they have all but one. But money…

  • Compartment No. 6

    Compartment No. 6

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    is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film co-written and directed by Juho Kuosmanen, starring Seidi Haarla and Yuri Borisov, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom. A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share…

  • To Marry the Captain

    To Marry the Captain

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    is a 1985 Soviet comedy film directed by Vitaliy Melnikov. Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn’t live. Somehow,…

  • Weekend dad

    Weekend dad

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    is a 1985 Soviet drama film directed by Naum Birman. The film tells about a boy whose parents divorced. And now he can see his father only on Sundays, but he does everything he can to keep his parents together again.

  • Two Captains

    Two Captains

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    is a 1976 Soviet adventure TV mini series directed by Evgeniy Karelov, based on a novel by Veniamin Kaverin. Alexander Grigoriev dreams of becoming a polar pilot and finding traces of the Arctic expedition of Captain Tatarinov, which has disappeared, and he persistently goes to his goal.

  • Children of the Arbat (TV series)

    Children of the Arbat (TV series)

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    is a 16-part television series based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004.

  • Cinderella

    Cinderella

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    is a Russian-Ukrainian musical film produced by Melorama Production in association with Channel One (Russia) and Inter (Ukraine), under direction of Semen Gorov in 2002.

  • Eternal Homecoming

    Eternal Homecoming

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    is a 2012 drama film directed by Kira Muratova. A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many times but each time in a different place and performed by new actors. Why?

  • The Taurus Constellation

    The Taurus Constellation

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    is a 2003 Russian war film directed by Pyotr Todorovskiy. Todorovsky’s film examines life in a provincial Russian town (that is too small to even appear on the map) just outside of Stalingrad during the famous WWII Battle. This is NOT a traditional war film, and the epic events of the battle take place almost…

  • Chernobyl

    Chernobyl

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    is a 2021 Russian disaster film directed by Danila Kozlovsky. The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European…

  • The Heat

    The Heat

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    is a 2006 Russian romantic comedy loosely based on the Walking the Streets of Moscow, directed by Rezo Gigineishvili and produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk. Four good folks from schools got reunion in a summer café on the bank of River Moskva, and they had an unthinkable trouble to deal with check, though one of them…

  • The Blizzard

    The Blizzard

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    is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Vladimir Basov, based on the 1831 story “The Blizzard” from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin.

  • The Stroll

    The Stroll

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    is a 2003 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Uchitel. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age…

  • The North Wind

    The North Wind

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    is a 2021 Russian fantasy drama film directed by Renata Litvinova. The Northern Clan of manufacturers in the era of the great matriarchy celebrates the New Year night for several decades — from the last century to the present day. The beloved fiancee of the clan’s main heir dies and chaos comes to the territory…