51. Spirit of Evil ( Viy )
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov
Actors: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksei Glazyrin, Nikolai Kutuzov, Pyotr Vesklyarov, Vadim Zakharchenko
Plot: A tale of folklore following the adventure of a young priest in 1800s Russia as he is mysteriously called for the three-day rite of the beautiful, young daughter of a local rich man.
52. Hard to Be a God ( Trydno byt bogom )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksey German
Actors: Leonid Yarmolnik, Dmitriy Vladimirov, Laura Lauri, Aleksandr Ilin, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov
53. Agony ( Agoniya )
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elem Klimov
Actors: Aleksei Petrenko, Anatoli Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Frejndlikh, Aleksandr Romantsov, Yuri Katin-Yartsev
54. Tale of Tales ( Skazka skazok )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Animation
Director: Yuriy Norshteyn
Plot: A surrealistic animated short following the little grey wolf.
55. Ugly Swans, The ( Gadkie lebedi )
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Konstantin Lopushansky
Actors: Gregory Hlady, Leonid Mozgovoy, Aleksey Kortnev, Rimma Sarkisyan, Laura Lauri, Sergey Barkovskiy
56. Gift to Stalin, The ( Podarok Stalinu )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rustem Abdrashitov
Actors: Nurzhuman Ikhtymbaev, Bakhtiar Khoja, Yekaterina Rednikova, Dalen Shintemirov, Waldemar Szczepaniak
Plot: A little Jewish boy is saved from the train going to Syberian gulags and adopted by local Kazakhs, only to see in the cruelest possible way what does it mean to be an innocent little man (and child and woman) in the middle of nowhere and loyal to Stalin and his government.
57. Snow Queen, The ( Snezhnaya koroleva - 1959 )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lev Atamanov
Actors: Vladimir Gribkov, Mariya Babanova, Yanina Zhejmo, Sergei Martinson, Art Linkletter, Sandra Dee
Plot: A Russian animation movie. Adaptation of "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.
The cold hearted Snow Queen abducts Kai, a small boy. His friend Gerda keeps looking for him. She finally finds him with help of various friends she meets on her quest. Girl's love for him thaws his heart that was already turning into a lump of ice.
58. Sputnik
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Egor Abramenko
Actors: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anna Nazarova, Anton Vasilev, Albrecht Zander
Plot: A Russian cosmonaut is the lone survivor following a crash on a return from a secretive mission. A psychologist is brought in to examine his mental state and discovers he was not the only survivor after all - an alien life form has also been brought back.
59. Prisoner of the Mountains ( Kavkazskiy plennik )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Actors: Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Jemal Sikharulidze, Susanna Mekhraliyeva, Aleksandr Bureyev, Valentina Fedotova
60. Snow Queen, The ( Snezhnaya koroleva - 1966 )
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gennadi Kazansky
Actors: Yelena Proklova, Natalya Klimova, Slawa Zjupa, Valeri Nikitenko, Yevgeniya Melnikova, Evgeni Leonov
