Best Russian movies of 2000s

Actors : Askhat Kuchencherekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Ondas Besikbasov, Tolepbergen Baisakalov,
Directors : Sergei Dvortsevoy,

On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too ...

Actors : Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Oldzhas Nusupbayev, Olga Landina, Eduard Tabishev,
Directors : Gulshat Omarova,

Shiza is the nickname of a 15-year-old boy. Money, power, and women - he has none of these, yet, in his young life. But, he does have the illegal, underground circuit of bare-knuckle ...

Actors : Konstantin Kryukov, Artur Smolyaninov, Ivan Kokorin, Aleksey Chadov,
Directors : Fedor Bondarchuk,

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.

Actors : Andrey Panin, Artyom Semakin, Kseniya Rappoport, Rostislav Bershauer,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.

Actors : Maria Bonnevie, Dmitriy Ulyanov, Aleksandr Baluev, Konstantin Lavronenko,
Directors : Andrey Zvyagintsev,

A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Bodrov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Irina Saltykova,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

Here goes "kirdyk" to America, as it was promised in first part.

Actors : Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Directors : Andrey Kravchuk,

The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.

Actors : Kristýna Podzimková, Nino Chkheidze, Ivane Ivantbelidze, Max Mauff,
Directors : Veit Helmer,

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water ...

Actors : Mira Sorvino, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Aleksandr Buravskiy,

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the ...

Actors : Anastasiya Dontsova, Pyotr Mamonov, Ramilya Iskander, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Pavel Lungin,

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last ...

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Anjorka Strechel,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.

Actors : Yuriy Matveev, Aleksandr Mosin, Aida Tumutova, Mikhail Skryabin,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.

Actors : Andrey Panin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Leonid Bichevin, Svetlana Pismichenko,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

Actors : Yuriy Kutsenko, Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksandr Baluev, Sergey Shakurov,
Directors : Egor Konchalovskiy,

Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation ...

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Renata Litvinova, Dmitriy Dyuzhev,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...

Actors : Elena Chebaturkina, Mikhail Tikhonov, Damir Eldarov, Ludmila Shuvalova,

Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a ...

Actors : Marat Basharov, Mariya Mironova, Aleksandr Semchev, Andrey Panin,
Directors : Pavel Lungin,

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The ...

Actors : Aleksey Chadov, Olga Makeeva, Aleksey Vertinskiy, Vyacheslav Burlachko,
Directors : Alan Badoev,

(Russian with English subtitles) A stunningly beautiful story of two young lovers drawn by chance into a passionate and destructive romance.

Actors : Evgeniy Mironov, Elena Yakovleva, Anna Bolshova, Sergey Garmash,

Schoolbooks say that Belka and Strelka were first space dogs. But the dogs say that people dissemble a lot.