330 Films & TV Shows Set In Russia During The 20th Century
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K-19: The Widowmaker
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980s The 1960sFate has found its hero. — When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Tycoon
🇷🇺 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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Enemy at the Gates
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sSome Men Are Born To Be Heroes. — A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Down House
🇷🇺 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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Purple Sunset
🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇳 China The 1940s The 1930sA Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.
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The Legend of Rita
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1970s The 1980sRita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
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Brother 2
New York Illinois 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sDanila returns! — 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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The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sThe story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
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The Envy of Gods
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sSonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator André.
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East/West
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇷🇺 Russia The 1950s The 1940sJune 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.
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Ambush
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sIt is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.
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Khrustalyov, My Car!
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950sMilitary doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
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Chinese Tea-Set
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sThe film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating their wealth by gambling and playing poker. They are traveling aboard the luxurious cruise liner "St. Nikolai" on Volga river, oblivious to the fact that several gangs of crooks and con-artists are stealing their money in the game. Their target is the wealthiest Russian tycoon Satanovsky.
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Blade
California 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990s The 1960sPart Man. Part Vampire. All Hero. — 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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The Barber of Siberia
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sHe's Russian. That explains a lot. — Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
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World War III
🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThis mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
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Of Freaks and Men
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900sDariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
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Human Remains
🇨🇳 China 🇩🇪 Germany 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sHuman Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
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The Knot
🇷🇺 Russia The 20th CenturyThe Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn — The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The documentary shot in Solzhenitsyn’s home shows his everyday life and covers his reflections on Russian history and literature.
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Tomorrow Never Dies
England 🇩🇪 Germany Okinawa Prefecture 🇷🇺 Russia 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇳 China The 1990sYesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow is in the hands of one man. — 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 🇫🇮 Finland 🇷🇺 Russia District of Columbia The 1990sHow do you stop an assassin who has no identity? — 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 🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sHow do you get the world's attention? — 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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Anastasia
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1910sDiscover the adventure behind the greatest mystery of our time. — This animated adventure retells the story of the lost daughter of Russia's last czar. The evil Rasputin places a curse on the Romanov family, and Anastasia and her grandmother, Empress Maria, get separated. After growing up in an orphanage, Anastasia encounters two Russian men seeking a reward offered by Empress Maria for the return of her granddaughter. The trio travels to Paris, where they find that the empress has grown skeptical of imposters.
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Air Force One
🇩🇪 Germany 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia District of Columbia The 1990sFive miles up, The President of the United States is waging war on terrorism. Face to face. — 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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The Saint
England 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sNever reveal your name. Never turn your back. Never surrender your heart. — Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
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