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Kanopy
86
7.9
/64465/
75
/1205/
76
/1249/
4.0
/107149/
100
/51/
86
/1131/
97
/22/

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
poster
78
8.0
/51353/
77
/1166/
77
/611/
4.1
/53110/
81
/78/
92
/2338/
67
/13/
cc age 10+

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
poster
Kanopy
80
76
7.6
/9331/
74
/244/
73
/240/
3.9
/22968/
100
/8/
82
/124/

Strike (1925)
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
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Hoopla
73
68
7.0
/10103/
69
/189/
68
/182/
3.3
/6136/
93
/15/
77
/211/

Anastasia (1956)
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
poster
The Roku Channel
67
7.2
/6100/
68
/85/
69
/76/
3.4
/2823/
69
/16/
78
/115/
57
/10/

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
poster
63
6.6
/111362/
65
/2604/
67
/2355/
3.6
/192224/
63
/192/
50
/1687/
63
/41/
cc age 16+

Anna Karenina (2012)
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
poster
64
60
6.7
/7989/
71
/232/
69
/172/
3.2
/3116/
57
/7/
58
/64/

55 Days at Peking (1963)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
poster
FXNow
58
6.3
/192755/
65
/12545/
67
/4879/
2.8
/344919/
41
/184/
80
/1094/
44
/40/
cc age 16+

The King's Man (2021)
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
poster
76
58
7.5
/2361/
75
/71/
72
/64/
3.7
/1923/
85
/831/

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1961)
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
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Kanopy
75
54
7.3
/1961/
70
/22/
66
/38/
3.7
/1833/
86
/7/
82
/29/

The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
poster
72
54
7.2
/2488/
62
/33/
67
/58/
3.8
/3055/
83
/12/
73
/20/

Arsenal (1929)
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
53
8.1
/1951/
74
/40/
74
/52/
4.2
/3691/

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he's marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. Part four of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
52
7.9
/2106/
69
/47/
70
/64/
4.0
/3938/

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)
As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets Andrei. Part two of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
poster
62
51
6.6
/8964/
65
/168/
63
/155/
3.0
/1578/
60
/29/

Admiral (2008)
This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart faces the revolution in his own country His destiny is to become the Supreme Ruler of Russia.
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Criterion Channel
77
49
8.1
/2468/
74
/61/
75
/73/
4.2
/4759/
71
/9/

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)
In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
poster
59
45
6.4
/2223/
63
/62/
64
/67/
3.4
/8760/
85
/33/
25
/1/
50
/10/

Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022)
Antonina Milyukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
45
8.3
/2081/
74
/43/
75
/57/
4.3
/3973/
100
/2/

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1966)
In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
poster
56
41
6.7
/3259/
63
/47/
65
/48/
3.2
/1189/
25
/12/
57
/35/

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
poster
65
39
6.5
/2369/
68
/39/
64
/28/
3.3
/480/
71
/7/
58
/28/
cc age 8+

Kim (1950)
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
poster
64
39
7.0
/3362/
67
/51/
55
/52/
3.3
/773/

The State Counsellor (2005)
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
poster
64
39
6.9
/5040/
67
/70/
64
/88/
3.3
/1112/
55
/5/

The Turkish Gambit (2005)
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
poster
61
36
6.3
/1094/
59
/29/
66
/35/
3.4
/540/
40
/5/
75

The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
poster
Kanopy
71
33
6.5
/807/
68
/12/
63
/11/
3.6
/1256/
100
/8/
60
/4/

The Dybbuk (1937)
In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Soon after, one of them dies, and the wife of the other dies in childbirth. The children grow up in different towns, without ever knowing of the betrothal, but the power of the vow leads them to meet each other when they are marriageable. The young woman, Leah, is promised to another man, but Channon, the son of the father who died, is a practitioner of mysticism, and seeks to win his bride through sorcery.
poster
61
29
6.3
/833/
65
/21/
52
/27/
3.3
/1733/

A Russian Youth (2019)
A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.
poster
63
26
6.5
/3548/
71
/13/
69
/5/
3.5
/354/
43

Queen of the Mountains (2014)
At a time when most females in Asia possess little or no power over their lives, headstrong Kurmanjan Datka defies her family's authority -- and ultimately becomes the ruler of her native Kyrgyzstan region.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
26
6.5
/739/
65
/67/
63
/27/
2.9
/812/

The Russian Revolution (2017)
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the Russian revolution.
poster
The Roku Channel
43
26
3.5
/2451/
49
/155/
43
/57/
2.3
/594/

Picture of Beauty (2017)
In an early 20th century village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls two model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society.
poster
56
20
6.1
/1400/
55
/24/
55
/32/
3.2
/241/
46
/10/

Catherine the Great (1996)
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
poster
57
19
6.4
/372/
55
/9/
61
/20/
3.4
/715/
40
/20/

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
poster
58
17
6.2
/720/
53
/8/
52
/24/
3.3
/446/

The Possessed (1988)
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
poster
34
11
5.0
/297/
22
/4/
25
/4/
38
/48/

Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things.
poster
56
10
5.3
/375/
51
/18/
58
/10/
3.1
/381/

In the Moscow Slums (2023)
Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.
poster
64
9
6.9
/329/
50
/3/
69
/10/
3.5
/250/

The Stolen Death (1938)
A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman.
poster
?
5.3
/11/

Wolves and Sheep (1973)
Ostrovsky and the Maly Theatre tell us an age-old story, as old as the world itself, about how some people are destined to be simple and meek, like sheep, while others are predatory and dangerous, like wolves. However, sometimes even the most seasoned predator finds themselves in a bind...
poster
?
7.2
/47/
10
/1/
63
/3/

At the Crossroads of Great Storms (1980)
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
poster
?
4.4
/8/
10
/1/

Kremlin Courier (1967)
Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin’s “Letter to the American Workers” to America. With the help of John Reed, he publishes it in one of the newspapers.
poster
?
6.1
/100/
90
/1/
54
/5/

Frozen Hearts (1923)
In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
poster
?
5.0
/6/
10
/1/

Valentinov Street (1970)
The action takes place in the pre-revolutionary years and in the first days after the October Revolution. The main character, a female student, becomes an ally of a Bolshevik, who later dies on the front lines of the Civil War.
poster
74
?
7.7
/200/
75
/2/
70
/5/

The Mace with Three Seals (1977)
At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.
poster
?
6.8
/41/
10
/1/

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
poster
?
5.9
/13/
60
/1/

Путешествие в Арзрум (1937)
N/A
poster
?
7.2
/23/

Davit Guramishvili (1946)
The film tells about Davit Guramishvili's short period of activity during the rule of Vakhtang VI
poster
?
5.3
/20/
10
/1/
45
/2/

Spawn of Hell (1992)
Late-Soviet screen adaptation of the novel "A Pale Horse" by Boris Savinkov. A group of anti-tsarist revolutionary terrorists plot to assassinate the governor of a provincial town.
poster
?
6.2
/17/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Tatyana's Day (1968)
The fate of Tanya Ognevaya, whose image reflects the features of Liza Pylaeva (1898-1926), the first chairwoman of the Socialist Youth Union.
poster
?
5.8
/13/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Страницы былого (1958)
Soviet propaganda film about Alexei, a village boy who comes to Odesa to earn money in 1901. While still on the train, the hero gets acquainted with a young worker Mitya and witnesses the arrest of the underground leader Savva, who distributed Lenin's "Spark". The boy quickly gets used to the city, learns that one must fight for one's rights, and becomes one of the most active Leninists in Odesa.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Red Diplomat (1971)
The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin.
poster
?
5.6
/62/
27
/3/

Jääkärin morsian (1931)
It is the year 1915, and five Finnish men ski to Sweden via the Gulf of Bothnia to get military training in Germany. Among the men are Martti and Kalpa from the 27th Army Ranger Battalion. In the reserve, the troops spend their free time in a café called the Golden Anchor, owned by Sonja Strand. Sonja's captain serves in the Russian army, and Sonja has a relationship with Baron von Lichtenstein, who exploits Sonja who spies on Russia using Jew Isaac as her messenger.
poster
?
6.5
/54/
50
/1/

Drama on the Volga (1913)
The heroine loves her father's young steward. The appearance of her father, attempting to match her with a rich old man, makes her hide her lover under the featherbed, where he suffocates; An unwitting, almost anecdotal murder-- understandable familial insubordination turned deadly. Having found the corpse, mother and daughter in fear call the janitor, who hides the body in a barrel and throws it into the Volga river. The 'kindly' janitor, however, begins to blackmail the troubled women.


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