34 Films & TV Shows Set In Russia During The 1990s
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Black Widow
Ohio New York ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ญ๐บ Hungary ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1990s The 2010sHer world. Her secrets. Her legacy. โ Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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Compartment No. 6
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
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Long Shot
New York District of Columbia ๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ต๐น Portugal ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ต๐ญ Philippines ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐จ๐ด Colombia The 2020s The 2010s The 1990sUnlikely but not impossible. โ Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriterโmuch to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
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Anna
๐ท๐บ Russia New York The 1980s The 1990sNever make the weapon the target โ Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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Balkan Line
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sNo choice โ After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK terrorists. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
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NO-ONE
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sThe story takes place in August 1991, when in the former USSR there was an unsuccessful attempt of a political coup led by the Soviet intelligence services and the Soviet Union collapsed. However, this political struggle is only a background for dramatic events that occurred with the main characters of the film in a Soviet government villa in Crimea, where they were spending their summer holidays. The nightmare of their relationship reflects present and future nightmares of their country.
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Buddha's Little Finger
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990s The 1910sA drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Red Army
๐ท๐บ Russia Michigan The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sCold War On Ice โ A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.
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The Saratov Approach
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sKidnapped, Ransomed, Delivered โ An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe release, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.
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Command Performance
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sDying is easy, Rock and Roll is hard. โ A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. Our two heroes are seriously outnumbered, and things aren't as simple as they appear, when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. โ I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Pu-239
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sA worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
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Dead Man's Bluff
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990s The 2000sWho says crime doesn't pay? โ Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.
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Night Watch
๐ท๐บ Russia The 2000s The 1990sAll That Stands Between Light And Darkness Is The Night Watch. โ Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage
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Evilenko
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1980s The 1990sFor years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.
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Spinning Boris
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sRussian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
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Tycoon
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980s The 1990sDuring the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
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Down House
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 SUVs, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
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Brother 2
New York Illinois ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sDanila returns! โ Arriving in Moscow, Chechen veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
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Blade
California ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990s The 1960sPart Man. Part Vampire. All Hero. โ The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
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Tomorrow Never Dies
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany Okinawa Prefecture ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐จ๐ณ China The 1990sYesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow is in the hands of one man. โ A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
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The Jackal
Quebec ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ท๐บ Russia District of Columbia The 1990sHow do you stop an assassin who has no identity? โ Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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The Peacemaker
New York ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sHow do you get the world's attention? โ When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
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Air Force One
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan ๐ท๐บ Russia District of Columbia The 1990sFive miles up, The President of the United States is waging war on terrorism. Face to face. โ Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.
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