October ( Ten Days That Shook The World ) (1927)

Director: Grigori Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Vasili Nikandrov, N Popov, Boris Livanov

Aka 'Ten Days That Shook The World'. Eisenstein's famous recreation of the October Revolution during which the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky gover... Read more

Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)

Director: Sergei Bodrov

Starring: Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr

This devastating drama, based loosely on Tolstoy's Prisoner of the Caucsus, tells of two Russian soldiers captured by Chechen rebels and held in an im... Read more

Waterloo (1970)

Director: Sergei Bondarchuk

Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles

An epic historical film centering around Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Tremendous action and superb cinematography. Stars Rod Steiger, Christopher Pl... Read more

Window To Paris (1995)

Director: Yuri Mamin

Starring: Agnes Soral, Serguei Dontsov, Victor Mikhailov

An unusual fantasy from Russia about a group of St. Petersburg residents who find a strange 'spatial ladder' in the closet of a deceased neighbor that... Read more

Mute Witness (1994)

Director: Anthony Waller

Starring: Marina Sudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards

A mute American F/X artist working on a low-budget slasher film in Russia witnesses her co-workers seemingly making an after-hours snuff film. She is... Read more

Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

Director: Dziga Vertov

One of the most extraodinary films in the history of cinema. An exhilarating and often hilarious montage showing Moscow people at work and play and th... Read more

Strike (1924)

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov

In 1922, Lenin also had said that, "...of all of the arts, for us the cinema was the most important." In 1924, the Proletkult offered Eisenstein, then... Read more

The Thief (1997)

Director: Pavel Chukhraj

Starring: Vladimir Mashkov, Ekaterina Rednikova

This widely acclaimed film is arresting as both an intense drama about a troubling family dynamic and as an allegory about the tension that filled the... Read more

The Ascent (1976)

Director: Larissa Shepitko

Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin

The winter of 1942 in Belorussia seems a grim game of cat and mouse between Soviet Partisans and Russians working for German invaders.Two captured Par... Read more

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky

This landmark film was planned by the Soviet Central Committee to coincide with the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Rus... Read more