21. 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, Raivo Trass
22. 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, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Nikitin
23. 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, Avangard Leontyev, Andrei Razumovsky
24. 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, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel
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.
25. Ascent, The ( Voskhozhdeniye )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Actors: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Anatoli Solonitsyn
26. 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, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Nazvanov
27. 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, Aleksandr Fatyushin, Boris Smorchkov
28. 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, Daria Pisareva, Yanina Hope
29. 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, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Irina Rudniktskaya
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.
30. 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, Olga Mashnaya, Irina Shmelyova
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.
