Released Date:
1997-01-31
Languages:
Russian, Turkish, Georgian, Chechen
Countries:
Russia, Kazakhstan
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (3284 Reviews)
Director:
Sergey BodrovArif Aliev
Sergey Bodrov
Boris Giller
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal reveals the human soul of two vastly different cultures.
Released Date:
1998-07-08
Languages:
Russian, English, French
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
(8809 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksey BalabanovAleksey Balabanov
Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated in the criminal world and asked to kill someone. There his new life starts. He meets new people, including a girl, and becomes a big fan of the rock band "Nautilus Pompillius," but now he is a killer, and realizing killing is easier for him than living makes him understand he is going the wrong way.
Released Date:
2000-05-05
Languages:
French, Russian
Countries:
France, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Spain
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (3802 Reviews)
Director:
Règis WargnierRustam Ibragimbekov
Sergey Bodrov
Louis Gardel
Règis Wargnier
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. By chance, she meets a touring French actress and pleads for help. She also takes a young swimmer under her wing, and several years later, he makes a bold attempt to escape. Meanwhile, the KGB is suspicious, and hope for freedom is dim. Patience, her husband's self control, and her good looks may be their only assets.
Released Date:
2001-07-25
Languages:
English, Russian, Spanish
Countries:
France, UK, Germany
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (688 Reviews)
Director:
Sergey BodrovSergey Bodrov (story)
Sergey Bodrov (screenplay)
Carolyn Cavallero (screenplay)
A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
Released Date:
2002-09-13
Languages:
English, Italian, Spanish, Russian
Countries:
Germany, Sweden, Russia, Spain, France, Italy
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (671 Reviews)
Director:
Sergey BodrovHarold Manning (french adaptation)
Sergey Bodrov
Carolyn Cavallero
A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.
Released Date:
2002-03-14
Languages:
Russian, English, Chechen
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (2221 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksey BalabanovDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
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