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Lilya 4-ever

  Lilya (Oksana Akinshina) lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt (Liliya Shinkaryova), who neglects Read More

Lolita

  With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a European professor Read More

The Sacrifice

  The Sacrifice with English Russian Spanish Italian Swedish Danish Czech Basque Turkish Portuguese Arabic Chinese subtitles is a 1986 Swedish film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring Erland Josephson, it Read More

The Romanovs: An Imperial Family

  The Romanovs: An Imperial Family with English subtitles is a 2000 Russian film by Gleb Panfilov about the last days of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Russian Read More

The Return

  Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on Read More

The Queen of Spades

  For this film Oleg Strizhenov received the Aleksandr Pushkin’s Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova “for the brilliant realization of the Read More

The Postman’s White Nights

  The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only Read More

The Lady with the Dog

  On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyovna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. Read More

Steel Butterfly

  Steel Butterfly with English Portuguese subtitles is a 2012 crime movie based on true events, directed by Renat Davletyarov. Chuma (plague in Russian) is a homeless teenager who escapes Read More

She Who Runs on the Waves

  A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Read More