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- After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
- A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
- Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.
- Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
- In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
- A long-years odyssey of Wolf to catch Hare. Comprehensive changes in the Soviet Union pass in the background.
- Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
- Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
- A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
- In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
- Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.
- A romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
- After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
- Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
- A poor young man accidentally becomes the master of a wish-granting genie. A colorful tale of magic and love.
- Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men's hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who's heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. He is ready to give up his freedom but not his pride.
- A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.
- Nikita, haunted by the civil war, meets Luba, who is as deeply moral and lonely as he is.
- Sailor is stranded on a desert island.
- A Soviet adaptation of a world-famous tragedy about an aged king and how cruelly he lose his illusions.
- Vazgen, Sako, Suren and Aram are taxi drivers and close friends. When Aram fell in hopeless love with Karine, other three decide to help their friend.
- Against the background of Italian Patriots struggle for independence of his homeland, is three people by the tragic destiny of stops. Arthur who has evolved in the revolutionary, cardinal Montanelli and his love Gemma.
- Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.
- About the love of shy and honest Torik with Anjel - girl with the oldest occupation in the world. Could Torik survive the disgrace from the town?
- Various battles including that of Lepanto.
- A historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo.
- A former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.
- A group of train passengers are thrown together an actor A doctor young women and a Bolshivic commander trying to Get to the city. They have to run the gauntlet of the White Russians Who have cut off most of the roads.
- To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
- After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?
- A soldier returns from war to the picturesque Kuban farmland of the Caucasus and convinces the people in his collective to progress technically by digging a canal and building a power station.
- An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.
- Medieval Europe, during the Inquisition. The end of the XVI century. In Austria, Burgenland, a suburb of Vienna, there is the small town of Eseldorf (literally "donkey village" (a combination of the words German esel and German dorf)) (not existing in reality), which is almost completely subordinate to the chairman of the spiritual tribunal, is visited by a strange young man, introduced himself to the boys who met him, Philip Traum - a traveler and a magician. Later, Traumus confesses that he is Satan (or is also the nephew of Satan). The boys turned to him with requests, they were delighted with each new trick of the mysterious stranger, and, not fearing the consequences, they asked him to predict their fate. However, the predictions are not encouraging, the consequences are not what they wanted. Once again, the boys beg Traum to redo the future .
- In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet, so the Red sailors are the heroes of the film. The young Soviet State was besieged by enemies on all sides, and the Revolution was fighting for its life. While clearly propagandistic, the film is often quite poetic visually, not naturalistic as was prescribed by authorities at the time. The film was honored at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. The video version is in Russian with English subtitles.
- Saved by Russian sailors black boy turned out to be the smart and kind nipper.
- Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up...
- Scenes from three ballets, staged on the works of Russian classics, immerse the viewer in a fabulous atmosphere. You can watch the story of the noble prince and beauty Odette. The magic spell of the evil sorcerer prevents them from being together. But nothing can stop true love. Further, the story of a young couple of lovers, carefree enjoying life. Here the sultan from the east separates the young. As a result, he himself does not find happiness. And the story of the revolution in France. In the colorful plot - the capture of the palace and the death of the heroine.
- About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Ukrainian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.
- This story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, is an eternal story of resurrection.
- Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of Moscow, as the Kremlin; its subway and streets, a spring carnival, the seaside resorts on the Black Sea, a trip down the Voga River, skiers, a troika racing along a snow-covered road, a helicopter view of the North Pole, an Antarctic whale hunt, the capture of a wild boar in the Moyun-Kum of Central Asia, a race by reindeer-drawn sleds, divers in the Sea of Okhotsk, battling an octopus, the capture of antelopes, rafting logs down the Tisza River, and the development of new towns in Siberia. Other scenes include a visit to the Moscow Circus, where the renowned clown Oleg Popov performs, the dancing of the Moiseyev and Piatnitsky companies, and excerpts from the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet.
- A film-in-film story of a star actress Julia Martynova (Sayko), who is suddenly hospitalized with terminal illness in the middle of a film production. She makes trips from hospital to studio for voice-over (dubbing) for her character. But the illness brought dramatic changes to her personality and voice, and she finds herself becoming a different person from who she was at the beginning of filming. Crew members are helping her in every possible way, and her voice brings a new dimension to the film.
- The film is based on the real events of December 1988, when a bus was seized in the North Caucasus. The children and their teacher were taken hostage by criminals who demanded a large sum of money and an opportunity to fly abroad.
- A musical about a young pop-singer and her rise from an amateur band to a professional star while trying to find her own style and songs. The main part is performed by popular singer Sofia Rotaru who has attached many personal notes to the film, with which she tries to unbossom her feelings about her profession and stardom.