31. Kin-Dza-Dza!
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georgi Daneliya
Actors: Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeni Leonov, Yuri Yakovlev, Levan Gabriadze
Plot: A Soviet foreman and a stranger help a poor homeless man without shoes. The man claims to be from space, but the surprise comes when the Uncle and his nephew are transported to the alien planet of "Pluke" by the homeless man. Matches are like gold, wealthy people get to wear yellow pants, and the wealthiest get to wear purple pants without bowing and "koo"ing.
32. War and Peace ( Voyna i mir )
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava
33. Day Watch ( Dnevnoy dozor )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Actors: Konstantin Khabensky, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina
Plot: The third Russian installment in the vampire series, preceded by Night Watch and followed by Dusk Watch.
34. Destiny of a Man ( Sudba cheloveka )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Pavel Volkov
35. Brother ( Brat )
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksei Balabanov
Actors: Sergei Bodrov Jr., Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
36. Strike ( Stachka )
Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Plot: In Czarist Russia, a worker's suicide sparks a factory strike. The people are at first excited and exuberant that their demands will be met. Yet as time goes by, management refuses to budge and mounting hunger and pressure from local from bureaucrats dampen spirits until at last the military is brought in.
37. Ten Little Indians ( Desyat Negrityat )
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin
Actors: Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksei Zharkov
38. Little Vera ( Malenkaya Vera )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vasili Pichul
Actors: Natalya Negoda, Andrei Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov, Lyudmila Zajtseva
39. Hedgehog in the Fog ( Yozhik v tumane )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yuriy Norshteyn
Actors: Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Plot: The little Hedgehog gets lost in fog meeting all sorts of creatures in this animated short.
40. Night Watch ( Nochnoy dozor )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Actors: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Mariya Poroshina
Plot: In present-day Moscow, the forces of light and dark live in a delicate balance, lead by a group of powerful "Others" but an ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled leading once again to war.
