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- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsNatalya BelokhvostikovaCurd JürgensIgor KostolevskiyAlain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsStanislav LyubshinEvgeniy LeonovYuriy YakovlevTwo Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsIgor SklyarAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyyNikolay AveryushkinA music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a Dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsFyodor DunayevskyAnastasiya NemolyaevaOleg BasilashviliThe story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.
- DirectorLeonid MaryaginStarsOleg TabakovOleg DalIrina AlfyorovaThe film tells story about the complex relationship between two chemical scientists. Viktor Sviridov arrived from the province, where he works as an engineer at one of the factories, at the metropolitan institute in order to defend his project related to an urgent scientific problem. However, without the support of a longtime friend Alexei Grekov, he has no chance: most members of the academic council are opposed to his project and himself. But Grekov is also forced to choose between his wife's scientific career and obligations to another.
- DirectorAlla SurikovaStarsSofiko ChiaureliLeonid KuravlyovSergey YurskiyAn incredibly talkative telephonist, deeply adoring detective films, becomes an accidental witness to murder of her boss right into the office. Alongside the police investigation, she starts her own amateur one.
- DirectorYuliy GusmanStarsMukhtar-bek KantemirovPolad BülbüloghluLev DurovThe story developed during XX century in Russian empire, Azerbaijan. Two circus actors Rustam and his friend San Sanich travel to a village where Rustam was born after long years of absence, to burry his aunt. After burring his aunt, friends decide to stay in her house for couple of days. A local wealthy inhabitant of the village Farzali bek, is looking for oil, and finds out that the land which now officially owned by Rustam might have some oil repositories. He learns that Rustam is back and wants to take him out, to put his hands on valuable land. A young theater singer Tejmur is in love with Farzali bek's beautiful daughter, Telli, but has nothing to offer to marry her. Yet he decides to speak with her father. While planning to "sell" his daughter to one of other wealthy bek's son, Farzali bek still promises that if Tejmur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Tejmur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help Tejmur to steal Telli during her wedding. All three of them succeed to steal Telli, but San Sanich is jailed in the result. Other three are able to run away and hide for some time. Farzali bek pays a well known bandit Jafar to kill three friends and haunt back Telli. Eventually, Rustam, Telli and Tejmur are trapped in a tower and under a risk of being burned down alive. Jafar is partial to Tejmur's beautiful voice and therefore, asks him to sing one last time. Meanwhile, San Sanich is escaped from jail, and helps his friends to defend Jafar.
- StarsGeorgiy TaratorkinSergey YurskiyInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyHow far can a man overcome by a destructive passion go? And does he realize that slavish worship of irrepressible desires always entails retribution?
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsNikolay BurlyaevNatalya AndreychenkoInna ChurikovaThis melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding...
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsLyudmila GurchenkoSergey ShakurovEvgeniy EvstigneevThis story began in the morning near the registry office, where the ship mechanic Gavrilov was supposed to, but did not appear at his own wedding. 38-year-old attractive woman Rita, the mother of a pretty high school daughter Tanya, is going to marry him. Rita in love waited for him all day, suffering and hoping, not leaving far from the cherished doors. In vain she waited for him with guests near the registry office and in the restaurant, looked for him on the ship, waited again at the registry office. The film is set in Odessa. Gavrilov half an hour before the wedding stood up for an unfamiliar woman, after which two "ladies' men" were in the hospital, and he was in the police. The action of the picture covers one day in the life of the heroine, whose mood fluctuates between despair and hope.
- DirectorVsevolod ShilovskiyStarsAleksandr ShirvindtSofiko ChiaureliGalina SokolovaLeonido Papagatto is engaged in small scams: he impersonates a guest at various celebrations, steals food from the table, and subsequently resells them to local merchants. But he decides to do a bigger job.
- DirectorYuriy KaraStarsSergey NikonenkoNina RuslanovaVera AlentovaThis movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
- DirectorViktor TitovStarsOlga MelikhovaIgor KostolevskiyLyudmila GurchenkoKatya, a kindergarten teacher from Verkhneyarsk, comes to Moscow to meet a young man named Yura, whom she met on his business trip. She does, it seems, impossible to be with him: she is looking for him in a huge city, gets a vacation from a deputy minister at his own expense, seeks the postponement of her tourist trip to Hungary, where Yura goes there on a business trip, receives as a gift from the French company the device necessary for him. However, her love is not needed by Yura, but her perseverance only bothers him. When in Hungary Katya wins a beauty contest, Yura, seeing that he is losing her. But it's too late - a friend and colleague of Yura, the Hungarian Laszlo, falls in love with Katya. Laszlo arrives in Verkhneyarsk. The final of the film remains open.
- DirectorIgor TalankinStarsAlla DemidovaVladislav StrzhelchikAleksey BatalovA married couple of the Skvortsovs, accomplished and wealthy middle-aged scientists with two adult children, set off on the cruise ship "Dmitry Furmanov" on the weekend route Leningrad-Valaam-Leningrad. During a tour of the island of Valaam, the couple quarrel, and She goes alone on a passing boat to a former monastery where disabled people live. In the boatman, unexpectedly for herself, Anna recognizes her and her husband's youth friend Pavel, whom, as it seemed to her, she loved all her life and was waiting for a meeting, although she considered him to have died during the Great Patriotic War.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsMikhail UlyanovIya SavvinaIrina GubanovaA man gets fired from his comfortable government job. He reacts as if it's the end of the world; slowly he finds things to live for. Private Life was nominated for the Academy Award in the Foreign Language Feature category.
- StarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyAlla DemidovaEvgeniya SimonovaThe family of Russian intellectuals during the first Russian revolution is faced with a "cholera riot". One of the characters commits suicide, another goes mad, the third suffers from unrequited love.
- DirectorNikolay GubenkoStarsRegimantas AdomaitisZhanna BolotovaGeorgiy BurkovTwo reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea resort on the late autumn. Long dinners with senceless conversations transform into a love story
- DirectorNikolay GubenkoStarsZhanna BolotovaYelena FadeyevaFyodor NikitinBoring and monotonous was the existence of the inhabitants of the house of veterans. Everything changed with the arrival of a new chief physician. She tries not only to treat the ailments of the elderly, but to return to them their lost interest in life, the belief that one can still love and be loved.
- DirectorVladimir NaumovStarsMikhail UlyanovNatalya BelokhvostikovaAlgis MatulionisIn life of the Moscow artist, his wife and adult daughter occur an unexpected event - a meeting with the friend of youth of parents whom all considered the dead at the front. Each of heroes appears before need to make a hard moral choice: someone between cruelty and compassion, hatred and love; someone - as many years ago - between life and death.
- DirectorIlya AverbakhStarsMarina NeyolovaAndrey MironovZinaida SharkoA funny and sad story of mismatched love, family and life surprises.
- DirectorKonstantin BrombergStarsAlexandra YakovlevaAleksandr AbdulovYekaterina VasilyevaNew Year's fairy tale that true love can work wonders.
- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsGeorgi ZhzhyonovAnatoliy VasilevLeonid FilatovStory of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsAndrey MironovTatyana AksyutaLev DurovIn a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. A group of robbers kidnap May to use his magic talent: he feels sick when surrounded by gold, therefore he can feel gold from a long distance.
- DirectorAleksandr ProshkinStarsValeriy PriyomykhovAnatoliy PapanovViktor StepanovFormer political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.
- DirectorViktor AristovStarsYury BelyayevSvetlana BragarnikLyubov KalyuzhnayaIt is based on real historical events related to the defense of Leningrad by the Red Army and the subsequent blockade of the city by the troops of the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. In the autumn of 1941, under the fire of German artillery and air raids, a small Soviet detachment delivered gunpowder necessary for the defense of the city from Kronstadt to Leningrad.
- DirectorMikhail KozakovStarsYekaterina VasilyevaValentin GaftIgor KashintsevMs. Tsakhanassyan, an American billionaire, visits the town where she was born. She decided to donate a billion dollars to the city, but on one condition: the city must kill Alfred Ill, whom she loved in her youth and who betrayed her.
- DirectorLeonid KvinikhidzeStarsSergey ShakurovAnatoliy RomashinViktor UralskiyLooking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid of the dog, but that won't be an easy task.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsRostislav PlyattAndrey MyagkovThe elderly Alexey Borisovich arrives in Moscow to visit his daughter. He discovers that she is away on a business trip. Alexey has to spend time with his son-in-law, Vladimir Shvyrkov, until she returns.
- DirectorMark ZakharovStarsNodar MgaloblishviliElena ValyushkinaAleksandr MikhaylovA young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsAleksandr SusninTatyana BedovaSergey BystritskiyStory of life of Fyodor Kuzkin, who shared all the burdens of the 30s Stalins terror and after, WW2 and post-war years. For now Kuzkin decides to leave his collective farm (rus: kolkhoz)
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsMikhail MorozovGrazyna SzapolowskaOleg EfremovThe half-educated law student Pyotr Chukhontsev, who is trying his hand at private investigation, is approached by engineer Kuklin, an inventor who fears for his life. Soon, Kuklin dies exactly as he foresaw.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsIrina KupchenkoMikhail UlyanovEduard ArtemyevWithout Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.
- DirectorIskra BabichStarsPyotr GlebovVera AlkhovskayaAleksandr MikhaylovThe miner decides to raise the three children of the woman he loved. A poignant Soviet drama about real men.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsEvgeniya GlushenkoViktor PavlovVladimir GostyukhinTo be an amazingly honest and direct person means to make your life very difficult. Faced with fraud at work, the heroine of the film is trying to defend the truth with all her might.
- DirectorSergey KolosovStarsAndrey MironovIrina KupchenkoAleksandr KalyaginA middle-aged employee gets a promotion to become the head of the department. His subordinates exploit his gentle nature, and he feels ill-suited to the job and responsible for many mishaps. A romance with a secretary doesn't help matters.
- DirectorVadim AbdrashitovStarsVladimir GostyukhinIrina MuravyovaIgor NefyodovA man deals with the consequences of having been mugged by two teenagers.
- DirectorSemyon AranovichStarsRodion NakhapetovAleksey ZharkovAndrei BoltnevIn 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.
- DirectorVadim KostromenkoStarsAnatoliy KotenyovSergey BystritskiyLarisa GuzeevaScene of film action takes place in Baltic Sea during WWII in 1944-45.
- DirectorLeonid MenakerStarsMikhail UlyanovAleksey SerebryakovIrina KupchenkoThe hero of the film is a war veteran who works at a school for difficult teenagers. His parents did not come for his student. The teacher undertakes to take the guy home. But the stubborn kid, holding a grudge against his parents, runs away from him, and the teacher has no choice but to go in search of the fugitive.
- DirectorVadim AbdrashitovStarsOleg BorisovYury BelyayevIrina RozanovaA Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave.
- DirectorViktor GeorgiyevStarsYuriy YakovlevLyudmila GurchenkoAnna TvelenevaSir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsStefaniya StanyutaLev DurovAleksey PetrenkoMatyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
- DirectorKonstantin KhudyakovStarsLeonid FilatovAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr ZbruevGennadiy Fetisov - young director, who leaves Moscow in order to stage "Chaika" in some provincial theater.
- DirectorDinara AsanovaStarsValeriy PriyomykhovElena SoloveyMitya SavelyevHe considered his family life ideal. Stable earnings, comfortable life, perfect wife and child. But One day she's gone. Suddenly everything flips over, memories of the past suddenly show sad truth behind so perfect picture.
- DirectorDinara AsanovaStarsValeriy PriyomykhovAndrei ZykovSergei NaumovA former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.