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1. Aferim! (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin, Alexandru Dabija
Votes: 7,769 | Gross: $0.10M
2. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 10,865
3. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Not Rated | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 8,055
4. Boris Godounov (1989)
118 min | Musical, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort, Paul Plishka
Votes: 378
5. Ivan the Terrible (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Orphaned in his childhood and treated abusively by higher-ranking Boyars, Tzar Ivan was a mercurial ruler who committed his first murder at the age of 13 and was feared for his random acts ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Moers | Stars: Erik Schäffler, Axel Petermann, Heidi Kastner, Andreas Kappeler
Votes: 290
6. Pyotr I: Posledniy tsar i pervyy imperator (2022)
112 min | Biography, History
How to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family? How to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country? How in a few decades to ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Yuliya Bocharova, Aleksandr Bolshakov, Andrey Butin, Wolfgang Cerny
Votes: 79
7. The Snow Maiden (1952)
67 min | Animation, Fantasy, Musical
The tale about a girl with a cold heart who is dying in agony because of joy and love.
Directors: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Stars: Veronika Borisenko, Leonid Ktitorov, Irina Maslennikova, Veniamin Shevtsov
Votes: 365
8. Three Heroes on Distant Shores (2012)
65 min | Animation
Who runs the world? Girls. And other adventures of knight's wives.
Director: Konstantin Feoktistov | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 1,222
9. Stephen the Great - Vaslui 1475 (1975)
137 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Gheorghe Cozorici, Gheorghe Dinica, Violeta Andrei, Toma Dimitriu
Votes: 745
10. Yaroslav. Tysyachu let nazad (2010)
100 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.
Director: Dmitriy Korobkin | Stars: Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Svetlana Chuykina, Aleksey Kravchenko, Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Votes: 622
11. Aleksandr. Nevskaya bitva (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, History, War
Young prince Aleksandr has to hold out against two enemies - the Horde in the east and the Teutonic order and Sweden in the west. He discovers that some boyars are plotting against him and ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Kalyonov | Stars: Anton Pampushnyy, Igor Botvin, Pavel Trubiner, Bogdan Stupka
Votes: 528
12. The Kidnapping of the Maidens (1968)
95 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them.
Director: Dinu Cocea | Stars: Emanoil Petrut, Marga Barbu, George Constantin, Toma Caragiu
Votes: 159
13. Ivan Groznyy (2009)
44 min | Drama, History
XVI century. The film depicts the life of Ivan from his earliest years to the last days of his reign.
Stars: Vitaliy Lenskiy, Pasha Sol, Vladimir Fenchenko, Aleksandr Demidov
Votes: 56
14. Captain Ion's Arrow (1973)
82 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 1462 the Ottoman turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Handsome.
Director: Aurel Miheles | Stars: Vladimir Gaitan, Carmen Ghiman, Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu
Votes: 65
15. Cantemir (1973)
105 min | Biography, Drama, History
After 20 years in Ottoman Constantinople, Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir completes the written history of the Ottoman Empire and is crowned King of Moldavia in 1710 but his valuable manuscript is stolen by foreign agents.
Director: Gheorghe Vitanidis | Stars: Alexandru Repan, Iurie Darie, Ioana Bulca, Irina Gardescu
Votes: 85
16. At the Crossroads of Great Storms (1980)
86 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
Director: Mircea Moldovan | Stars: Vlad Radescu, Cornel Ciupercescu, Constantin Codrescu, Silviu Stanculescu
Votes: 41
17. Russkaya svadba XVI stoletiya (1909)
8 min | Short, Drama, History
A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Three matchmakers first visit the family ... See full summary »
Director: Vasili Goncharov | Stars: Aleksandra Goncharova, Vasili Stepanov, Andrey Gromov, Lidiya Tridenskaya
Votes: 100
18. Boris Godunov (1982 TV Movie)
181 min | Music
Universally acknowledged as the greatest of all Russian operas, this is a faithful and often dazzling production of the standard Rimsky-Korsakov version taped "live" at the Bolshoi in 1978.... See full summary »
Stars: Irina Arkhipova, Galina Kalinina, Glafira Korolyova, Aleksei Maslennikov
Votes: 14
20.
Geo History (2018– )
Episode:
The origins of Russia - Summary on a Map
(2021)
16 min | Documentary, History
The 700 year story of the organization of Russia under the Rurik dynasty from the invasion by Varangian prince Rurik to the conquests of Ivan the Terrible when the Rurik line dies out under Boris Godunov and the Romanov's come to power.