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poster
The Roku Channel
85
84
8.3
/22109/
80
/440/
79
/434/
4.5
/56755/
96
/26/
93
/249/
76
/9/

The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/62808/
72
/1463/
72
/1040/
4.0
/90423/
95
/167/
79
/480/
91
/35/
cc age 14+

Ida (2013)
In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
78
7.5
/18472/
74
/339/
72
/271/
3.8
/13602/
95
/22/
90
/363/
75
/12/
cc age 15+

Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
poster
76
7.0
/18099/
69
/367/
67
/263/
3.5
/5515/
91
/68/
75
/341/
81
/17/

Katyn (2007)
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
6.9
/18315/
70
/849/
67
/446/
4.7
/253/
86
/106/
77
/75/
68
/19/
cc age 15+

Mr. Jones (2019)
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
poster
74
7.8
/17178/
73
/213/
69
/196/
3.9
/8528/
81
/16/
93
/275/

Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
poster
MUBI
69
7.3
/126915/
73
/2818/
70
/1708/
3.5
/33196/
73
/137/
72
/1737/
66
/33/
cc age 14+

The Way Back (2010)
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
poster
68
7.4
/5352/
69
/45/
63
/68/
3.4
/1294/
65
/31/
88
/60/
61
/27/

East/West (1999)
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
poster
65
7.0
/2283/
60
/32/
56
/37/
3.4
/602/
50
/8/
78
/21/

The Inner Circle (1992)
Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.
poster
65
6.3
/2472/
60
/21/
55
/21/
3.3
/466/
79
/19/
72
/56/
76
/18/

Children of the Revolution (1996)
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
poster
Kanopy
70
63
7.2
/6895/
65
/120/
67
/147/
3.8
/11514/
75
/16/
71
/79/

Earth (1930)
The film tells about the creation of the first collective farm communes and class enmity. Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields." However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
poster
76
61
7.8
/7335/
77
/75/
72
/82/
3.7
/2338/
83
/28/

Silent Wedding (2008)
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
poster
80
60
7.3
/3314/
68
/125/
67
/75/
3.7
/7195/
100
/12/
100
/3/
82
/5/

Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2023)
Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.
poster
78
58
8.0
/5347/
77
/35/
69
/65/
4.1
/6415/
71
/14/
90
/16/

Repentance (1987)
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
poster
76
56
7.9
/4039/
69
/75/
70
/68/
4.0
/3549/
86
/15/

Interrogation (1989)
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
poster
79
53
7.3
/2528/
75
/41/
59
/47/
4.0
/4559/
100
/7/
87
/7/

Khrustalyov, My Car! (1999)
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
poster
74
50
7.5
/2955/
69
/37/
67
/62/
3.9
/4075/
83
/6/
76
/4/

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
6.4
/79317/
66
/3315/
62
/1763/
2.9
/23757/
30
/84/
42
/448/
41
/25/
cc age 17+

Child 44 (2015)
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
poster
74
47
7.1
/913/
63
/19/
64
/8/
3.4
/7014/
95
/40/
84
/12/

Two Prosecutors (2025)
In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.
poster
70
42
7.5
/1385/
60
/17/
72
/40/
3.8
/1657/

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1991)
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).
poster
72
42
7.0
/2380/
68
/58/
71
/35/
3.5
/777/
83
/24/

Reverse (2009)
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.
poster
Kanopy
73
42
8.0
/3647/
73
/62/
72
/36/
3.4
/453/

The Soviet Story (2008)
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
poster
Kanopy
67
41
6.8
/1172/
60
/24/
63
/42/
3.6
/2681/
80
/5/
61
/5/

Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas (1930)
An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and the vibrant athletic culture of its time
poster
68
40
6.7
/1864/
70
/36/
65
/61/
3.4
/877/
72
/28/

The Soul Keeper (2003)
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.
poster
74
38
7.5
/1780/
73
/41/
71
/44/
3.9
/1365/
76
/6/

In the Crosswind (2014)
June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland.
poster
72
37
7.0
/998/
66
/41/
67
/30/
3.4
/272/
93

Colonel Kwiatkowski (1996)
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.
poster
75
36
7.6
/3699/
76
/39/
77
/35/
3.4
/591/
80
/5/

The Guide (2014)
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
poster
68
32
7.2
/2019/
60
/22/
65
/32/
3.5
/1008/
76
/8/

Man on a Tightrope (1953)
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
poster
73
32
6.6
/422/
66
/3/
68
/14/
3.4
/578/
100
/7/

The Trial (2018)
In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d'état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
31
7.3
/1127/
66
/19/
69
/31/
3.8
/1816/
100
/1/

Diary for My Children (1984)
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
poster
Criterion Channel
60
29
6.8
/944/
55
/11/
64
/27/
3.7
/2434/
43
/4/

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
poster
50
28
5.4
/1365/
58
/37/
48
/40/
Popcorn
41
/84/

The Spy (2012)
Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.
poster
71
26
7.7
/1052/
71
/20/
63
/29/
3.7
/633/

Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.
poster
75
26
7.8
/764/
62
/17/
73
/18/
4.0
/1294/
83
/6/

The Last Bolshevik (1994)
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
poster
59
26
6.2
/1077/
55
/20/
60
/27/
3.4
/1199/
50
/10/

China Gate (1957)
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
poster
56
23
6.0
/1264/
65
/62/
58
/45/
3.1
/583/
36
/2/

Hotel Lux (2011)
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.
poster
71
19
6.9
/921/
68
/29/
69
/17/
79
/7/

General Nil (2009)
The tale about last years of the legendary Home Army commander, General August Emil Fieldorf "Nil".
poster
64
17
6.5
/501/
61
/8/
58
/10/
3.6
/955/

Hands Up! (1985)
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
poster
67
17
6.9
/571/
50
/16/
64
/24/
3.6
/642/
83
/1/

Shivers (1981)
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
poster
61
17
6.4
/764/
63
/12/
56
/29/
3.2
/232/

The Master and Margarita (2006)
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.
poster
65
14
7.1
/631/
68
/21/
64
/20/
60
/2/

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.
poster
62
14
7.2
/511/
48
/5/
58
/19/
3.5
/275/

Clear Skies (1961)
For many years, Sasha Lvova has been waiting for the return of her lover, pilot Aleksei Astakhov, refusing to believe in his death at the front. And he really returns to her and his son after captivity, but this is a completely different person, rejected by society, expelled from the profession. It is difficult to say how Aleksei’s fate would have been if it hadn’t for Sasha’s love, her ability to survive in the most difficult circumstances.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
49
14
5.4
/1158/
57
/12/
54
/19/
3.0
/459/
19
/9/

Mission to Moscow (1943)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
poster
61
13
6.9
/540/
53
/6/
53
/7/
3.5
/680/

Early Works (1971)
Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.
poster
62
9
6.4
/348/
60
/7/
52
/19/
75
/1/

Red Kiss (1985)
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.
poster
29
7
2.8
/921/
28
/11/
34
/14/
2.5
/425/
6
/15/

Inchon (1981)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.
poster
?
8.4
/15/
10
/1/

Der Fall Tuchatschewskij (1968)
N/A
poster
?
7.9
/57/
80
/2/
47
/3/

Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide of 1932-33 (2008)
"In 1932-33, Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, had bountiful crops of grain, yet its people were dying of starvation. In order to crush the will of the independent-minded Ukrainian peasants and secure collectivization of all Ukrainian lands, Joseph Stalin ordered an army of ruthless, Communist Party activists to confiscate all harvested grain and seize all the foodstuffs in the villages. As a result of this genocidal decree, by the end of 1933 nearly 25 percent of the Ukrainian population - up to 10 million people, including 3 million children - had perished! In the face of terror, Ukrainians had little possibility of escaping their horrific fate to create another life elsewhere. Travel was banned for Ukrainians keeping them confined in a prison of starvation within their own villages." - Written by Bobby Leigh


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