Oleg Yankovsky

The Russian poet Gortchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th century Russian composer. In a ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in a barn to save them from the evils of the world. As Eugenia seeks to tempt Gortchakov into infidelity, he, seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, becomes drawn to the lunatic.

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.

Billy Hughes, a mute makeup artist working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she's seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive. (imdb)

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day. (imdb)

The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane. In the movie, baron Munchausen is portrayed as multi-dimensional, colorful, non-conformist man living in a gray, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy him. (Wikipedia)

n 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. (Warsaw Film Festival)

Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate families adopted the impoverished orphans. At the dawn of the 20th Century the double-blind experiment hits crescendo for Dora & Lili, born the evening Edison unveiled his incandescent bulb. In 1900, technology was accelerating, could women's rights and national self-determination keep pace?

A young wife collapses to the kitchen floor and dies from a heart attack. Husband is confused until he finds out there exists a lover he never guess about.

Most of the film takes place on the estate of Count Volsky, where the lovely Olga is forced into a loveless marriage with Volsky's overseer. Standing wistfully on the sidelines is provincial magistrate Petroff, who loves Olga but dares not speak up. Petroff's inability to express himself at the right time, coupled with Olga's inevitable fall from respectability, results in tragedy. (allmovie.com)

The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the forest when a mysterious figure pops up and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. The man then starts to ease himself into the couple's private space. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry. (allmovie.com)

A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell. (imdb)

A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love? (imdb)

Alexander Belov (Lyubshin) is a Russian spy in the Nazi Germany, working under cover name as Johann Weiss. His perfect German and cool demeanor allows him to make a career in the SS Headquarters in Berlin. Now he is risking his life while getting the Nazi war plans and delivering it to his contact for the sake of Victory. (imdb)

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation - gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves... (themoviedb)

The life of a young doctor is intertwined with the fate of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. (imdb)

Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people. (imdb)

Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on 'psychological conditioning'.

Anna grows up in the village and begins working at a confectionery factory. Men like her and she uses it to make her way in life. Behind the appearance of a "sweet" woman lies an unkind, soulless, selfish person. (imdb)

Tatiana Ivanova is a middle-aged woman who lives with her invalid mother Sofia Ivanova. Sofia has been unable to walk for the past ten years. A week before the New Year, Sofia declares that she will soon die and would like to leave this world with the assurance that her daughter will be happy. The light goes out in the apartment and there is a knock at the door. An unfamiliar visitor named Igor appears with a bouquet of roses and champagne. (wikipedia.org)

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel. (imdb)

In a Soviet factory, a heated debate erupts over the fairness of bonuses, revealing the clash between idealism and reality. As workers unite and challenge the status quo, personal ambitions collide with collective struggles, redefining loyalty and justice. (plex)

Returning to Moscow from their honeymoon, a young couple strike and kill an elderly pedestrian. The husband must stand trial, but is it fair, he thinks. She was old and negligent and poor. Why should his life be ruined? (imdb)