Best Russian movies of 1980s

Actors : G.W. Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Whoopi Goldberg, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body ...

Actors : Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Aleksey German,

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.

Actors : Oleg Tabakov, Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Andrey Mironov, Mikhail Boyarskiy,
Directors : Alla Surikova,

Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

Actors : Aleksandr Sabinin, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Rolan Bykov,
Directors : Konstantin Lopushanskiy,

The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit ...

Actors : Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century...

Actors : Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov,
Directors : Rashid Nugmanov,

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ...

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this ...

Actors : Vadim Lobanov, Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Irina Rakshina,
Directors : Konstantin Lopushanskiy,

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum ...

Actors : Ekaterina Yudina, Inna Churikova, Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko,
Directors : Pyotr Todorovskiy,

This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged ...

Actors : Natalya Gundareva, Arkadi Nasyrov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. ...

Actors : Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeeva, Pyotr Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Bystryakov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

Actors : Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Sergey Yurskiy, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Andrei Yermash,

Based on the novel by Isaac Asimov.The End of Eternity is a science fiction film with mystery and thriller elements on the subjects of time travel and social engineering.

Actors : Ruggero Raimondi, Wyatscheslaw Polozov, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The ...

Actors : Lyubov Selyutina, Pyotr Fomenko, Tatyana Drubich, Stanislav Lyubshin,
Directors : Ivan Dykhovichnyy,

Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.