russia movies

Jackal, The (1997)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | Simmons, J.K. | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Sum of All Fears, The (2002)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Freeman, Morgan | Cromwell, James | Jenkins, Ken | Schreiber, Liev | McGill, Bruce | Beasley, John | Bobbitt, Russell | Hall, Philip Baker | Vandecruys, Al | Cohee, Richard | Pretten, Philip | Darcy, Alison | Marner, Richard | Soroka, Ostap
Directors: Robinson, Phil Alden
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When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Watchmen (2009)

Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Woodburn, Danny | Vanova, Apollonia | Do, Nhi | Ali, Tony | Brazeau, Jay | Burns, Chris | Crudup, Billy | Drake, Matt | Fassler, Ron | Frewer, Matt | Gold, L. Harvey | Goode, Matthew
Directors: Snyder, Zack
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A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharif, Omar | Christie, Julie | Chaplin, Geraldine | Steiger, Rod | Guinness, Alec | Courtenay, Tom | McKenna, Siobhan | Richardson, Ralph | Tushingham, Rita | Rockland, Jeffrey | Sharif, Tarek | Kay, Bernard | Kinski, Klaus | Tichy, G?rard | Willman, Noel
Directors: Lean, David
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Sellers, Peter | Scott, George C. | Hayden, Sterling | Wynn, Keenan | Pickens, Slim | Bull, Peter | Jones, James Earl | Reed, Tracy | Creley, Jack | Berry, Frank | O'Neil, Robert | Beck, Glenn | Stephens, Roy
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

Saint, The (1997)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Valery Nikolaev | Kilmer, Val | Shue, Elisabeth | Serbedzija, Rade | Nikolayev, Valeri | Goodman, Henry | Armstrong, Alun | Byrne, Michael | Lazarev, Eugene | Apeksimova, Irina | Prygunov, Lev | Cornwell, Charlotte | Mortimer, Emily | Serbedzija, Lucija | Topic, Velibor | Flanagan, Tommy
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn’t even his real name. Yet Simon Templar , also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints,is one of the world’s most successful thieves. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel, however the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. Simon and his new love must now manage to outwit the Russian Mafia and work out the energy formula before the worst happens and the US is affected forever.

Rocky IV (1985)

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Shire, Talia | Young, Burt | Weathers, Carl | Nielsen, Brigitte | Burton, Tony | Pataki, Michael | Lundgren, Dolph | Nahan, Stu | Adams, R.J. | Bandiero, Al | Barto, Dominic | Brown, Danial | Brown, James | Campos, Rose Mary
Directors: Stallone, Sylvester
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The “Iron Curtain” is starting to come down around the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. A Soviet boxer named Ivan Drago, nicknamed “The Siberian Express”, comes to the United States with his wife, a Russian champion swimmer and coach for a guest match. Drago is a superbly conditioned boxer who has been scientifically trained in the USSR, and he & his coach propose a fight against Rocky Balboa. Rocky’s former adversary, Apollo Creed decides to take on Drago despite having been out of the ring for several years. Creed unwisely taunts Drago before the match, and after the first round, Drago issues a prophetic warning to Creed: “You will lose.” Unfortunately the warning comes true and Creed dies following a pounding by the Siberian Express. When death threats are made against the Russian boxer, he returns to the USSR and states if there is to be a match between Balboa & Drago, it will be in the USSR. To honor Creed’s memory, Rocky takes the Soviets up on their challenge and goes to Siberia to train for the match against the “Siberian Express”, that will take place in Moscow on Christmas Day, in front of a hostile audience.

Queen of Spades, The (1949)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Walbrook, Anton | Evans, Edith | Mitchell, Yvonne | Howard, Ronald | Jerrold, Mary | Dawson, Anthony | Malleson, Miles | Medwin, Michael | Seyler, Athene | Barnard, Ivor | Dimitrevitch, Maroussia | Elvin, Violette | Tennant, Pauline | Clarke, Jacqueline | Ramart, Josef
Directors: Dickinson, Thorold
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An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman’s spirit.

Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Marceau, Sophie | Bean, Sean | Molina, Alfred | Kirshner, Mia | Fox, James | Shaw, Fiona | Huston, Danny | Law, Phyllida | Schofield, David | Wickham, Saskia | Hall, Jennifer | Calder-Marshall, Anna | Shelokhonov, Petr | Braddell, Valerie | Buggy, Niall
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it’s love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.