Here we've displayed a list of the best Soviet Union films : Khachaturian(2003), Lilya 4-Ever(2002), Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press(1996), Ballets Russes(2005), The Man Who Saved the World(2014), Bridge of Spies(2015), Free to Rock(2017), The Death of Stalin(2017), My Perestroika(2010), Salyut 7(2017), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich(1971), Little Vera(1988) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2003
76 Minutes
composer joseph stalin russian musician communist calm fascinating touching georgia soviet union concert hall aram khachaturian classical music propaganda artistic struggle music history communism rise sacrifice temptation
A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Drama
Sweden|Denmark
2002
109 Minutes
Oksana Akinshina Artiom Bogucharski Elina Benenson Liliya Shinkaryova Pavel Ponomaryov Tomas Neumann Lyubov Agapova Tonu Kark Anastasia Bedredinova Nikolai Bentsler
teen girl teen boy best friend pimp aunt prostitute bleak chilling powerful sweden soviet union apartment bridge high school human trafficking hard times suicide poverty prostitution abandonment
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Documentary
USA
1996
90 Minutes
foreign correspondent dictator civil rights leader sen. joseph mccarthy ralph nader engaging inspiring family home soviet union italy journalism corruption assassination communism social change george seldes quest underdog 1940s
The profile of controversial journalist George Seldes and a piercing examination of America's news media. Narrated by Susan Sarandon, with readings of writings by Ed Asner, this Academy ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2005
121 Minutes
Daniel Geller
ballerina ballet instructor irina baranova alicia markova impresario endearing striking creative st. petersburg, russia monte carlo, monaco melbourne, australia paris new orleans stage ballet ballets russes soviet union performance rise transformation
Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists -- now in their 70s, 80s and 90s -- who gave birth to modern ballet.
Documentary
Denmark|Latvia|Russia|USA
2014
110 Minutes
Sergey Shnyryov
officer military officer soldier fascinating intricate intense suspenseful soviet union saving the day saving the world nuclear war war rescue quest
Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|Germany|India
2015
141 Minutes
Tom Hanks Mark Rylance Alan Alda Amy Ryan Eve Hewson Peter McRobbie Billy Magnussen Austin Stowell Domenick Lombardozzi Michael Gaston Sebastian Koch
pilot spy lawyer cia agent airy brooding dark somber soviet union prison berlin cold war soviet union espionage prisoners of war escape quest rescue 20th century
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Documentary, Music
USA
2017
61 Minutes
Metallica Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Scorpions
rocker activist political activist musician engaging fascinating soviet union cold war rock 'n' roll iron curtain soviet union social change documentaries discovery underdog 20th century
FREE TO ROCK is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power... See full summary »
Comedy
UK|France|Belgium|Canada|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Steve Buscemi Andrea Riseborough Simon Russell Beale Rupert Friend Jason Isaacs Jeffrey Tambor Paddy Considine Olga Kurylenko Michael Palin Richard Brake Jonathan Aris
joseph stalin soviet soldier general nikita khrushchev secret police cheeky amusing confident soviet union office street death power struggle political unrest plot change rivalry fall pursuit quest
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Documentary
USA|UK|Russia
2010
87 Minutes
russian musician salesman wife husband daughter emotional engaging somber russia house apartment bar glasnost soviet union social change hard times communism perestroika discovery
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world ... See full summary »
Action, Drama, History
Russia
2017
118 Minutes
Vladimir Vdovichenkov Lyubov Aksyonova Pavel Derevyanko Mariya Mironova Oksana Fandera Nikita Panfilov Vitaliy Khaev Aleksandr Samoylenko Igor Ugolnikov Polina Rudenko Natal'ya Kudryashova
politician astronaut friend teamwork gripping intense suspenseful outer space control room space station city soviet union saving the day partnership motivation dangerous mission determination survival rescue adventure
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.
Drama
UK|Norway|USA
1971
100 Minutes
Tom Courtenay Espen Skjonberg James Maxwell Alfred Burke Eric Thompson John Cording Matthew Guinness Alf Malland
prisoner guard foreman doctor brooding solemn uneasy labor camp siberia construction site prison survival soviet union imprisonment punishment escape underdog 1950s
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during ... See full summary »
Drama
Soviet Union
1988
128 Minutes
Natalya Negoda Andrey Sokolov Yuriy Nazarov Aleksandr Alekseyev-Negreba Lyudmila Zaytseva Aleksandra Tabakova Andrey Fomin Aleksandr Mironov Aleksandr Lenkov
young girl boyfriend mother father brother hedonistic dark melodramatic fiery ukraine soviet union coming of age soviet union perestroika socialism bad behavior growing up love 1980s
A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.
Mystery & Thriller, Biography, Drama, History
Poland|UK|Ukraine
2019
118 Minutes
James Norton Vanessa Kirby Peter Sarsgaard Joseph Mawle Krzysztof Pieczynski Marcin Czarnik Beata Pozniak Fenella Woolgar
welshman journalist gripping gritty profound soviet union famine soviet union journalism discovery rescue underdog 1930s
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Sci-Fi
USA
1984
114 Minutes
Roy Scheider John Lithgow Helen Mirren Bob Balaban Keir Dullea Madolyn Smith Dana Elcar Taliesin Jaffe James McEachin Mary Jo Deschanel Elya Baskin
astronaut explorer doctor russian american tense dark incredible outer space spacecraft space travel death politics computers soviet union rescue adventure mystery 2010s
A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery, and H.A.L.
Drama
Switzerland|France
1999
108 Minutes
Grégoire Colin Anouk Grinberg Xavier Beauvois Frédéric Pierrot Marcial Di Fonzo Bo Redjep Mitrovitsa Michel Duchaussoy Brigitte Catillon Yves Robert Serge Avedikian
woman poet jew radical prostitute professor engaging rousing fascinating soviet union paris mexico party communism love triangle politics the past disappearance stalinism discovery
In Paris, a woman is making enquiries: Why did leftist Alfred Katz simply disappear in 1938? In that year, Alfred, worker and poet, is politically active in a Parisian Trotskyite cell. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy|Switzerland|Armenia
2003
90 Minutes
Romen Avinian Lala Sarkissian Ivan Franek Armen Marutyan Astrik Avaguian Rousanne Mesropian Zahal Karielachvili
widower father poor person bar owner kurd widow charming touching quirky graveyard bar armenia village bus friendship small-town life bereavement romance sympathy soviet union
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the ... See full summary »
Documentary
Sweden
1998
88 Minutes
american doctor scientist child nazi russian shocking disturbing united states sweden germany soviet union eugenics race fascism reproduction sterilization discovery rise fall
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race. Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1977
103 Minutes
Charles Bronson Lee Remick Donald Pleasence Tyne Daly Alan Badel Patrick Magee Sheree North Frank Marth Helen Page Camp Roy Jenson Jacqueline Scott
kgb agent double agent intelligence officer romantic interest soviet soldier intense suspenseful engaging soviet union united states military base house brainwashing cold war secret mission dangerous assignment international conflict espionage pursuit discovery
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
Documentary
Soviet Union
1934
62 Minutes
communist muslim young woman engineer farmer confident patriotic farm soviet union laboratory countryside communism vladimir ilyich lenin farming technology mourning transformation 1930s
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Action, Adventure
USA
1984
114 Minutes
Patrick Swayze C. Thomas Howell Lea Thompson Charlie Sheen Jennifer Grey Harry Dean Stanton Powers Boothe Darren Dalton
teen boy brother father mayor colonel friend patriotic rousing campy united states forest small town colorado cold war guerrilla warfare soviet union vengeance communism father/son relationship sacrifice
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Action
USA
1988
103 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger James Belushi Peter Boyle Ed O'Ross Laurence Fishburne Gina Gershon Richard Bright Oleg Vidov
detective police officer intense frenetic quirky gritty chicago soviet union street arnold schwarzenegger drug cartel revenge saving the day growth film revenge 20th century
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Sci-Fi
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Carla Balenda Elliott Reid Raymond Burr Edgar Barrier Otto Waldis Michael Steele Lurene Tuttle Peter Brocco
journalist old man store owner scientist doctor townsperson campy melodramatic patriotic suspenseful moscow soviet union wisconsin lake small town lodge communism espionage cold war biological warfare
Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it,... See full summary »
War
USA
1943
105 Minutes
Anne Baxter Dana Andrews Walter Huston Ann Harding Erich von Stroheim Jane Withers Farley Granger Walter Brennan Carl Benton Reid Esther Dale Paul Guilfoyle
russian doctor nazi villager peasant tense solemn soviet union village invasion war violence uprising murder nazi occupation fall underdog wretched excess 1940s
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
Drama
USA
1957
112 Minutes
John Wayne Janet Leigh Jay C. Flippen Paul Fix Richard Rober Roland Winters Hans Conried Ivan Triesault Joyce Compton Denver Pyle Elizabeth Flournoy
soviet pilot pilot officer commander soldier love interest sultry campy alaska air force base jet palm springs, calif. soviet union cold war communism flying duplicity espionage secret plans adventure
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
Drama, History
USA
1943
123 Minutes
Walter Huston Ann Harding Oscar Homolka George Tobias Gene Lockhart Frieda Inescort Eleanor Parker Richard Travis Helmut Dantine Victor Francen Henry Daniell
ambassador joseph e. davies joseph stalin franklin delano roosevelt communist patriotic spirited dense soviet union united states propaganda soviet union communism foreign relations quest 1930s
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Drama
Canada|UK|USA|Malta
2004
102 Minutes
Sharon Stone Rupert Everett Julian Wadham Michael Cochrane Anne Lambton Richard McMillan Mimi Kuzyk Tamara Hope Mark Rendall John Bourgeois Joss Ackland
communist spy american suspenseful beirut soviet union identity power loyalty rivalry 19th century
Leo Cauffield, chief of British counterespionage, fails by a whisker to arrest two fellow Cambridge-graduated spies who just manage to defect to Moscow, resigns and becomes a journalist. In... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Russia
2017
100 Minutes
Anton Pampushnyy Sanzhar Madiyev Sebastien Sisak Alina Lanina Valeriya Shkirando Stanislav Shirin Vyacheslav Razbegaev Mila Maksimova
superhero superhuman guardian mutant robot murderer bleak dark intense gripping suspenseful thrilling soviet union mutants super powers supernatural soviet union war training adventure
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
Sci-Fi
USA
1996
77 Minutes
Christopher Lambert Natasha Henstridge Norbert Weisser Elizabeth Barondes Xavier Declie Craig Davis Nicholas Guest Andrew Divoff Jon H. Epstein
police officer partner son cia agent creature mother bleak intense suspenseful boston soviet union sewer house street virus investigation mother/son relationship quarantine saving the world pandemic
The Russian government has collapsed. Amidst the chaos, riots, and struggle for power, a terrible weapon has leaked out. Virulent microflage, a deadly germ of the cold war has begun to ... See full summary »
Action
Canada
1995
95 Minutes
Louis Gossett Jr. Jason Cadieux Al Waxman Joanne Vannicola Rachel Blanchard Ross Hull Karen Gayle Dominic Zamprogna Max Piersig Sean McCann
ex-soldier misfit air force pilot juvenile delinquent recruit general thrilling suspenseful cheeky frenetic air force base alaska soviet union california flight school air force conspiracy training drug trafficking toxic waste
When Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in sharpening them for an important ... See full summary »
Adventure, Action, Animation
2020
84 Minutes
superman hero soviet soldier president confident engaging gripping ukraine soviet union cold war saving the day helping others adventure quest rise 1950s