Best award winning movies with profound effect from Russia

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with profound effect from Russia! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with profound effect from Russia, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Beanpole (2019)

Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.

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2019-06-20 | Drama / War

Cast

Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    desperate
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gloomy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    chromatic

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Beanpole trailer
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2 Dear Comrades! (2020)

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

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2020-09-14 | History / Drama

Cast

Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #179 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #212 for
    historical point of view
  3. Ranked #358 for
    roughly cut

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Dear Comrades! trailer
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3 The Return (2003)

The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip into the Russian wilderness.

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2003-06-25 | Drama

Cast

Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko

Rating

rating icon 7.487
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #39 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #54 for
    father figure
  3. Ranked #59 for
    with biblical reference

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The Return trailer
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4 Elena (2011)

Elena is a woman of a certain age, living in a chic Moscow apartment with her wealthy businessman husband Vladimir. While Vladimir is estranged from his daughter, he does not mask his contempt for Elena's own child, who seems to be in constant need of financial assistance. When Vladimir suddenly falls ill and his volatile, nihilistic daughter comes back into the picture, Elena must hatch a plan for her own survival.

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2011-06-06 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Nadezhda Markina, Aleksey Rozin

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #105 for
    wayward
  2. Ranked #116 for
    ramshackle house
  3. Ranked #126 for
    social realism

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Elena trailer
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5 Leviathan (2014)

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

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2014-09-24 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    grease monkey
  2. Ranked #44 for
    with biblical reference
  3. Ranked #48 for
    great story

Trailer

Leviathan trailer
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6 The Concert (2009)

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.

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2009-11-04 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #65 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #108 for
    tremendously talented
  3. Ranked #237 for
    like The Hateful Eight

Trailer

The Concert trailer
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7 The Thief (1997)

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...

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1997-08-31 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #50 for
    father figure
  2. Ranked #105 for
    morally bankrupt
  3. Ranked #110 for
    tour de force

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The Thief trailer
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8 Sputnik (2020)

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

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2020-09-08 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Oksana Akinshina, Pyotr Fyodorov

Rating

rating icon 6.508
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    moment of brilliance
  2. Ranked #4 for
    competent
  3. Ranked #4 for
    creditable directing

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9 12 (2007)

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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2007-06-06 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #134 for
    miscarriage of justice
  3. Ranked #289 for
    foster father

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10 The Italian (2005)

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

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2005-09-21 | Drama

Cast

Kolya Spiridonov, Mariya Kuznetsova

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #88 for
    misty
  2. Ranked #175 for
    great to watch with a loved one
  3. Ranked #225 for
    low-key approach

Trailer

The Italian trailer
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