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Kanopy
86
7.9
/64661/
75
/1205/
76
/1261/
4.0
/114732/
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
Criterion Channel
82
8.2
/36039/
79
/604/
79
/601/
4.3
/38544/
73
/15/
94
/381/

Dersu Uzala (1975)
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
poster
80
7.5
/7859/
71
/120/
68
/138/
3.9
/10719/
86
/29/
85
/122/

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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Amazon Prime Video
78
8.0
/51614/
77
/1179/
77
/616/
4.1
/55425/
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
77
7.9
/86467/
74
/1453/
75
/1238/
4.0
/58337/
82
/49/
88
/2060/
69
/14/
cc age 13+

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Kanopy
63
61
6.7
/11655/
68
/279/
67
/259/
3.4
/9921/
50
/10/
63
/211/

War and Peace (1956)
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
poster
65
58
7.6
/13311/
73
/149/
70
/150/
3.6
/3008/
13
/8/
88
/122/

The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
poster
78
57
7.4
/1883/
69
/29/
70
/52/
3.6
/1090/
94
/16/
93
/161/

Ballad of a Hussar (1962)
A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
poster
Kanopy
75
54
7.3
/1970/
70
/22/
66
/38/
3.7
/1903/
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
53
6.3
/6420/
64
/106/
60
/159/
3.0
/2114/
26
/19/
66
/101/

Anna Karenina (1997)
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
Amazon Prime Video
67
50
6.6
/2478/
62
/57/
63
/53/
3.2
/2282/
83
/6/
70
/21/

The Eagle (1925)
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
47
8.1
/2485/
75
/63/
75
/73/
4.2
/5431/
80
/2/

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
67
45
7.0
/1795/
59
/24/
65
/44/
3.5
/1371/
71

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
poster
57
42
6.7
/3277/
63
/47/
65
/49/
3.2
/1316/
25
/12/
58
/36/

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
The Roku Channel
57
32
5.4
/1347/
58
/114/
63
/130/
2.7
/758/

The Ninth (2019)
Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualistic sessions. At this time, a series of ritual mysterious murders takes place in the city. Girls are abducted on the streets, their mutilated bodies are found in various parts of the city. The investigation is carried out by a young police officer Rostov and his assistant Ganin. With each new victim, things are becoming more confused. Suspicion leads Rostov to Olivia, and he decides to turn to her in the hope that her genuine or imaginary ability to summon the spirits of the dead can help to get on the trail of the killer.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
26
6.5
/741/
64
/68/
63
/27/
2.9
/816/

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
64
24
7.2
/902/
68
/59/
62
/27/
3.2
/726/
58
/9/

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996)
While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father are forced together by circumstance when they get into a bind in the monasteries of Meteora, where they share some memorable moments.
poster
56
23
6.5
/1332/
59
/17/
51
/14/
3.2
/519/
50
/6/
47
/14/

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
poster
JustWatch TV
62
21
6.7
/591/
60
/9/
62
/16/
3.4
/345/
53
/77/

Tempest (1928)
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
poster
56
20
6.1
/1402/
55
/24/
55
/32/
3.2
/252/
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
/738/
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
53
19
5.0
/1012/
54
/20/
49
/49/
3.0
/273/

Rasputin (2011)
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
poster
65
18
6.6
/631/
60
/14/
71
/19/
3.3
/410/

The Tolstoy Defence (2018)
The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
18
5.8
/1250/
75
/11/
47
/25/
3.1
/421/

Sunstroke (2014)
In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.
poster
58
17
6.2
/722/
53
/8/
52
/24/
3.3
/476/

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
53
17
4.9
/558/
58
/51/
48
/28/
2.9
/447/

The Marshal (2019)
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Piłsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew. Uncertain years are coming, marked by revolutionary events, violence and betrayal. Pilsudski must find a way to man oeuvre on the boggy ground - between the conservative passivity of the Polish Socialist Party and the aggression against the invaders, resulting in retaliation. The year 1914 is coming, and the chance for restoring an independent country, independent Poland, is now or never.
poster
61
9
7.1
/402/
58
/7/
49
/11/
3.4
/288/

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000)
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
poster
77
?
7.4
/209/
80
/1/

At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1981)
N/A
poster
?
6.6
/61/
75
/2/

Rasputin, Demon of the Women (1932)
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
poster
50
?
5.5
/129/
30
/2/
65
/5/

Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973)
On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
poster
?
3.6
/28/

The Petersburg-Cannes Express (2003)
In Czarist Russia, a young student becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap the Chief Prosecutor.
poster
49
?
5.7
/154/
47
/4/
44
/5/

I Killed Rasputin (1967)
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
poster
57
?
6.3
/165/
52
/9/

Lieutenant Kizhe (1934)
A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.
poster
?
6.5
/91/
48
/5/
45
/6/

Mussorgsky (1950)
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
poster
?
5.9
/68/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Surrender (1927)
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.
poster
54
?
6.5
/177/
60
/1/
46
/7/

Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
poster
?
6.2
/44/
10
/1/
100
/1/

White Dreams (1985)
Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.
poster
?
7.3
/23/
60
/1/

Amanat (2016)
A story that spans three periods in Kazakh history, it links mid 19th century struggles against the Russians to two 20th century episodes revolving around the fate of former political prisoner Ermukhan Bekmakhanov, who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for writing historical books about Kazakh national hero Kenesary Kasymov and his national liberation movement.
poster
?
4.6
/71/
59
/5/

Volga in Flames (1934)
Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia.
poster
63
?
6.8
/256/
65
/5/
55
/8/

General Suvorov (1941)
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.
poster
Criterion Channel
58
?
6.8
/235/
62
/4/
33
/7/
3.6
/355/

Among Grey Stones (1983)
A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.
poster
?
5.5
/64/
20
/2/
45
/2/

Son of Black Eagle (1968)
Count Aleksej is a notorious seducer at the Czar court but also the son of local Caucasus hero Black Eagle. When the Russians invade his land Aleksej must decide where to stand while pursuing his passion for Natascia, who detests him.
poster
39
?
6.6
/241/
10
/1/
41
/11/

Humiliated and Insulted (1990)
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.
poster
40
?
5.9
/150/
50
/3/
53
/6/

Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
poster
49
?
6.2
/206/
40
/1/
46
/7/

The Mysterious Rider (1948)
Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
poster
?
5.8
/12/

My Official Wife (1926)
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
poster
?
6.2
/11/

The German Curse in Russia (1918)
In 1917 American cameraman Donald C. Thompson was one of the few cinematographers to film the Russian Revolution.
poster
?
6.3
/28/

The Balloonist (1975)
A story about the famous Russian weightlifter Ivan Zaikin, who left the circus arena at the peak of his fame to dedicate himself to the art of aviation.


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