21. Return, The ( Vozvrashcheniye )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Actors: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Natalya Vdovina
22. Burnt by the Sun ( Utomlyonnye solntsem )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Actors: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
23. Tangerines ( Mandariinid )
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zaza Urushadze
Actors: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi
24. Cranes are Flying, The ( Letyat zhuravli )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Actors: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin
25. Oblomov ( Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I. Oblomova )
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Actors: Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Andrei Popov, Yelena Solovey
26. Innocents, The ( innocentes, Les )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anne Fontaine
Actors: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Plot: Poland, 1945: Mathilde Beaulieu is a young woman working with a branch of the French Red Cross. Their mission is to help find and treat French survivors of the German camps. But Mathilde finds an even greater challenge when a Polish nun arrives and takes her to a nearby convent where several of the sisters happen to be in an advanced state of pregnancy.
27. Ivan the Terrible, Part II ( Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov
28. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears ( Moskva slezam ne verit )
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vladimir Menshov
Actors: Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Aleksey Batalov, Raisa Ryazanova
29. Loveless ( Nelyubov )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Actors: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova, Matvey Novikov
30. Student, The ( (M)uchenik )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Actors: Yuliya Aug, Viktoriya Isakova, Pyotr Skvortsov, Aleksandra Revenko
Plot: Taking place in contemporary Russia, a teen who believes that the bible gives him absolute authority takes on his school and community with increasingly chaotic and dangerous results.
