The Sovereign's Servant (2007)

Director: Oleg Riaskov

Starring: Dmitry Miller, Alexander Bukharov, Alexey Chadov

A.k.a. "Sluga Gosudarev". The action takes place at the time of the Swedish-Russian war of 1709. The King of France, Louis XIV, sends two duellists in... Read more

The Return (2003)

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Starring: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Natalia Vdovina

Two teenage brothers, living with their mother, discover that their father has returned home after years of absence without a word of explanation. He... Read more

The Red Tent (1969)

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Claudia Cardinale

A virtually unknown but first-rate film by Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov. This ripping adventure epic was funded in Italy and based on an actual... Read more

The Red Stuff: The True Story of the Russian Race for Space (1999)

Director: Leo De Boer

The untold history of the Soviet space program is revealed in this fascinating documentary that separates truth from propaganda. Rare archival footage... Read more

The Red and The White (1967)

Director: Miklos Jancso

Starring: Tibor Molnar, Andras Kozak, Josef Madaras

Brilliantly photographed drama in which director Miklos Jancso examines Hungarians fighting in the Red Army in 1918 during the bloody civil war in Rus... Read more

The Mirror (1974)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankovsky

Effortlessly blending past and present, dreams, subjective reminiscence and a wider overview of 20th Century Russian history, Andrei Tarkovsky creates... Read more

The Mark of Cain (2000)

Director: Alix Lambert

Alix Lambert's ground-breaking documentary overtly examines the dying art of Russian prison tattooing, while at the same time, more covertly, showing... Read more

The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

Director: Sergei Paradjanov

Starring: Levan Outchanechvili, Zourab Kipchidze, Yuri Goyan, Veronika Metonidze, Levan Na...

THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS (1985) - Based on an ancient legend, this dazzling film follows repeated efforts by the Georgian people to construct a de... Read more

The Last Station (2009)

Director: Michael Hoffman

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff,...

In 1910, famed novelist Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) vehemently disagree over the rights to Tolstoy's literary... Read more

The Italian (2005)

Director: Andrei Kravchuk

Starring: Kolya Spiridonov, Maria Kuznetsova, Nikolai Reutov

The film opens in a Dickensian orphanage in Russia, a fascinating miniature world presided over by a hierarchy of orphans. The daily routine is broken... Read more