Russian Movies on Netflix
Last updated May 13, 2024
Man with a Movie Camera
1929 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis landmark silent film highlights the buzz of everyday city life (shops, traffic, children, coal miners, nature) as seen through the eyes of a roving cameraman. Filmic devices are used to comment on life, Marxism and modernity in the Soviet Union.
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Snow Queen
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe Snow Queen created the world of eternal winter where the polar wind cools human souls and clearness of lines obscure emotions. A girl named Gerda, her pet ferret Luta, and Orme the troll must save her brother Kai and the world.
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9th Company
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAfter barely surviving an intensely grueling boot camp in Uzbekistan, an eclectic group of recently enlisted Soviet soldiers ships off to fight in Afghanistan, where they must endure hellish conditions and extremely dangerous mujahedeen forces.
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Sunrise/Sunset
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis documentary follows the Dalai Lama through a full day, from 3 a.m. until he retires at sunset. The popular spiritual figure informally discusses his beliefs regarding the universe and the proper role of religion in contemporary society.
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The Battleship Potemkin
1925 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDirector Sergei M. Eisenstein's cinematic landmark charts the events that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. The rebellion of a battleship crew ignites a citizens' uprising, resulting in czarist troops' infamous slaughter of insurgents and bystanders.
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The Island
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFather Anatoli (portrayed by former Russian rock star Pyotr Mamonov) lives a hermitlike existence in a remote Russian Orthodox monastery, where he's visited by people who believe he has the power to heal, see the future and exorcise demons. But Anatoli's odd behavior confuses his fellow monks, who are unaware that he's tortured by a past sin and considers himself an unworthy fraud. Pavel Lungin directed this poignant parable.
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Nostalghia
1983 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAs he researches the life of a composer in Italy, Russian poet Gortchakov is drawn to the mysterious Domenico, who may be a mystic or a madman. Meanwhile, he is tempted to have an affair with his translator and is haunted by dreams of his homeland.
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Brother
1997 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDischarged from the army, Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr.) decides to taste the city life in St. Petersburg, where his older brother has made a profitable life for himself as a mob contract killer. Danila decides to follow in his idol's footsteps and soon finds himself embroiled in a vicious chain of violence. An international smash hit in the shocking style of Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier, this brutal cult favorite will leave you reeling.
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The Return
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe sudden reappearance of a man who left his family 12 years earlier stirs up a torrent of mixed emotions in the household. His sons only know him from photographs, and his younger brother, Ivan, wants answers.
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Black Lightning
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen he unexpectedly receives a rusty old clunker as a gift, Moscow college student Dima (Grigoriy Dobrygin) nearly ditches it out of embarrassment. But after discovering that the car can fly, Dima takes advantage of this special weapon to become a real crime fighter. This specialeffects-laden action film about accepting responsibility for one's deeds also stars Ekaterina Vilkova, Viktor Verzhbitskiy and Valeriy Zolotukhin.
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Day Watch
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTo protect his son, who has come under the dark side's control, Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) seeks an ancient artifact that threatens to upset an uneasy peace with the light side -- putting Moscow at risk for a devastating cataclysm. Anton finds himself in the middle of a mythic conflict between the forces of light and dark in this sequel to Night Watch, the surprise supernatural hit thriller from Russia.
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Space Dogs
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis animated treat follows pampered dog Belka, who is the star of a Moscow circus in the 1950s. When she gets lost, she's befriended by a feisty stray named Strelka, who joins her on an adventure that leads into outer space.
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Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File
2007 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFilmmaker Andrei Nekrasov delivers a thought-provoking documentary about the state of modern Russia under Vladimir Putin's rule and the role the government may have played in the poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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The Edge
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsTensions escalate in a post-World War II Siberian labor camp when a mysterious newcomer named Ignat arrives with a hidden agenda. Ignat's mysterious presence threatens to topple the patchwork society's existing power structure.
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Putin's Kiss
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis political drama traces the saga of Masha Drokova, whose devotion to a Russian nationalist youth movement brings her many perquisites. But when she begins spending time with a group of dissident journalists, she starts to question her beliefs.
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Night Watch
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis first installment of the trilogy based on the sci-fi novels by Sergei Lukyanenko plays upon the tension between light and dark, pitting the superhuman Night Watch patrollers (known as the "Others") against the shadowed forces of the night.
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Strike
1925 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThe suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft prompts the laborers working at a Moscow factory to call a strike. The managers, the owner and the Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity.
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How I Ended This Summer
2010 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAt an isolated science station in the Arctic, meteorologist Sergei and young intern Pavel face the impending closure of the now-irrelevant base. While Sergei eagerly anticipates returning to his family, Pavel still hopes for a grand adventure.
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Lost in Siberia
1991 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsMistaken for a spy by the KGB, a British archaeologist is sent to a Stalin-era Siberian labor camp, the most infamous of Russian prisons. Chronicling his efforts to survive harsh conditions, the film paints a bleak picture of the brutal prisons.
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Russian Ark
2002 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsA visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, Russian Ark is Alexsandr Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one take on digital video, the film shows the museum from a first-person point of view. As the photography floats through the lavish corridors of the museum, a cast of 867 actors supplies the action -- including The Marquis (Sergey Dreyden), an aged European who acts as the film's charismatic guide.
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Elena
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMiddle-aged Elena is a meek wife to her emotionally distant second husband, Vladimir. When he decides to leave his riches to his estranged daughter, Elena chooses to take drastic action to provide for her own adult son.
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The Sun
2005 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFrom renowned director Aleksandr Sokurov comes this piercing historical drama about Japan's emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II. Faced with his country's defeat and the renunciation of his divine status, he must establish his own identity.
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The Horde
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSet in the 14th century, this powerful epic centers on the fate of Europe and the survival of the Khan dynasty when the Tatar queen goes blind -- and only St. Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow, can cure her.
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In the Fog
2012 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAn innocent man accused of treason by Russian partisans fighting the German occupation is marked for death by two of his fellow countrymen. When the trio is ambushed, the man, eager to clear his name, faces a moral choice under immoral circumstances.
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Assassin of the Tsar
1991 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsTimofeyev, a patient in a mental institution, is certain he's actually Yakov Yurovsky, the man who murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918. To help cure Timofeyev, a doctor causes him to revisit the events.
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