List of the best Andrei Tarkovsky movies: The Sacrifice(1986), Solaris(1972), Nostalgia(1983), Andrei Rublev(1969), My Name Is Ivan(1963) ... ...
Drama
Sweden|France|UK
1986
145 Minutes
Director
Erland Josephson Allan Edwall Susan Fleetwood Valérie Mairesse Gudrún Gisladóttir Sven Wollter Filippa Franzen Tommy Kjellqvist
son wife father mail carrier middle-aged man boy somber dark fascinating solemn island family home countryside party seaside woods post-apocalypse nuclear war world war iii faith
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Sci-Fi, Drama
Soviet Union
1972
169 Minutes
Director
Natalya Bondarchuk Donatas Banionis Jüri Järvet Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy Nikolay Grinko Anatoliy Solonitsyn Sos Sarkisyan Olga Barnet Aleksandr Misharin
psychologist astronaut doctor chilling disturbing space station outer space space travel investigation death memory love discovery 1970s
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Drama
Italy|Soviet Union
1983
130 Minutes
Director
Oleg Yankovsky Domiziana Giordano Delia Boccardo Laura De Marchi Patrizia Terreno Milena Vukotic Alberto Canepa
poet interpreter russian mystic mentally ill person pretty woman bleak somber dense emotional passionate hill tuscany, italy ruins church countryside village research journey homesickness
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
Biography
1969
165 Minutes
Director
Anatoliy Solonitsyn Ivan Lapikov Nikolay Grinko Nikolai Sergeyev Irma Raush Kolya Burlyayev Yuriy Nazarov
painter monk mentor profound inspiring russia monastery countryside art christianity religion faith andrei rublev discovery quest 15th century
A 15th-century Russian (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) who paints icons renounces his art after taking part in a peasant uprising.
War, Drama
1963
97 Minutes
Director
Kolya Burlyayev Valentin Zubkov Ye. Zharikov Stepan Krylov Nikolay Grinko Dmitri Milyutenko
nazi russian spy boy orphan captain chilling powerful dark russia prison camp east germany military academy spying war traumatic past murder world war ii prison break transformation revenge
During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.