Best award winning movies with an unpredictable plot from Soviet Union
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an unpredictable plot from Soviet Union! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an unpredictable plot from Soviet Union, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Repentance (1987)
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
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- 1987-05-01 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze
Rating
7.1
2 Little Vera (1988)
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each other makes the living get rough. Their daily life is plagued with massive amounts of alcohol (mainly vodka) and when she tries to escape her home life, she meets up with a boyfriend, Sergei who then moves into her already small apartment after sleeping with her. Every day little Vera has to go through hell just to get by, which even involves her going against her own morals after her father has done something extremely wrong.
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- 1988-10-01 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov
Rating
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6.1
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3 The Commissar (1967)
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
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- 1967-06-06 | Drama / War
Cast
- Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov
Rating
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6.6
4 Solaris (1972)
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
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- 1972-03-20 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Rating
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7.833
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5 Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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- 1975-03-07 | Drama / History
Cast
- Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev
Rating
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7.979
6 The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
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- 1957-10-12 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov
Rating
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7.955
7 Circus (1936)
An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
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- 1936-05-25 | Music / Comedy
Cast
- Lyubov Orlova, Vladimir Volodin
Rating
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6.0
8 Stalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
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- 1979-05-25 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Rating
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8.2
9 Andrei Rublev (1966)
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
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- 1966-12-16 | Drama / History
Cast
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov
Rating
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8.034
10 Come and See (1985)
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
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- 1985-10-17 | Drama / War
Cast
- Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova
Rating
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8.267
