Collections
Where to start, what won the big prizes, and which directors to know.
Soviet New Year films
The films Russians watch every year between 31 December and the Old New Year, led by The Irony of Fate. Based on Mosfilm's own New Year selection.
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Start here
Ten easy, much-loved classics to begin with. Every one has English subtitles.
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Oscar and festival winners
Two Oscars, two Golden Bears and the top prizes of Cannes, Moscow and San Sebastián.
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Soviet comedy classics
The films every Russian speaker can quote, from Gaidai's slapstick to Ryazanov's office satire.
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The war on screen
The Eastern Front as Soviet filmmakers saw it, many of them veterans themselves.
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Eldar Ryazanov
The king of Soviet 'sad comedy': office life, garages and hussars.
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Leonid Gaidai
Slapstick, songs and lines the whole country knows by heart.
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Georgiy Danelia
Gentle, funny and a little melancholy films about ordinary people.
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Epics, legends and fairy tales
Knights, witches, sea captains and a baron who flew on a cannonball.
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Andrei Tarkovsky
Space stations, forbidden zones and memory: three masterpieces by Russia's most celebrated director.
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Love stories
Romance, Soviet style: office crushes, train compartments and gypsy camps.
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Great books on screen
Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pushkin and Ostrovsky, filmed by Mosfilm's best directors.
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Mikhalkov and Konchalovsky
Two brothers, two very different directors: a Soviet Western and three Russian classics.
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Karen Shakhnazarov
From his first satire to Sherlock Holmes in old Moscow: films by the head of Mosfilm.
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Spies, gangsters and action
Undercover detectives, wartime spies and the USSR's first action blockbuster.
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