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Plot Summary:
At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. One day, Alexei does not return from his mission and he is thought to be dead. Some time after the end of hostilities though, he reappears : taken prisoner, he has managed to survive. But everybody besides Sasha rejects him;to make matters worse, he is expelled from the party. Alexei sinks into despair and alcoholism. Fortunately, Stalin dies and his lot improves at last.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min
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Life (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Once Lied (1988)
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Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
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Anatolian Eagles (2011)
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Onur, Ayşe, Mustafa, Tunç ve Fatih. Onlar, gökyüzüne hakim birer pilot olma hayaliyle yaşayan genç havacılar. Hayalleri yükseklerde fakat hedefe giderken yaşadıkları bin türlü zorluk, aile, sevgili hasreti, dostlukları, havada olmak için yaptıkları fedakarlıklar ve birbirleriyle rekabetleri ne kadar çetin bir yola çıktıklarının da göstergesi olacak. Binbaşı Kemal Tanaçan'ın deneyimi ve desteği sayesinde eğitimden geçen beş genç için Uluslararası Anadolu Kartalı Tatbikatı, hayatlarını tamamen değiştirecek çok büyük bir deneyim olacaktır.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Airlift (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, touching, sincere
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Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
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The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during the 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: epic, pre war
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Point of No Return (1974)
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The love story of a Soviet officer wounded in battle and the woman who shelters him during the German occupation of the Great Patriotic War. Multifaceted and ambiguous, this film spans twenty years of love, joy, and sorrow.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
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Jamilya (1969)
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The film is based on the story of the same name by Soviet writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It is set in a remote Kirghiz village during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). A young wife of a soldier, Djamilya, fell in love with Daniar, a wounded war veteran living in her village. Daniar reciprocates her feelings. But suddenly Djamilya receives a letter from her husband with the news of his forthcoming return from the hospital. This forces the lovers to make a final decision. Years later, their young friend, Seid, who was a witness to their beautiful, albeit uneasy, love, reminisces about this wonderful couple….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black and white
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One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975)
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A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets about everything else.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: existential
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The Beginning (1970)
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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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Falling Leaves (1966)
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A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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An Umbrella for Lovers (1986)
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Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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Love and Lies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Vam i ne snilos... A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, psychological
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Four Winds of Heaven (1962)
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По вызову своего жениха, Светлана поехала в захолустный городок, где на самой окраине стоял двухэтажный дом «на семи ветрах». Но началась война, Игорь не встретил Светлану, а она решила остаться ждать его и конца войны. Вскоре на окраине городка разместилась редакция фронтовой газеты. Когда немцы подошли к городу, дом превратился в госпиталь, а Светлана стала бойцом.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min
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Stalingrad (1990)
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The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 196 min
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War and Peace: Part I (1965)
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The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel . In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
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Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, suspenseful, tense, humorous, suspense, extraordinary
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The Alive and the Dead (1964)
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A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 201 min
Plot tags: epic
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Trial on the Road (1986)
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A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political, black and white
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Officers (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, captivating, tense, uplifting, thought provoking, epic
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Children of Arbat (2004)
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Children of the Arbat is a 16-part television serial based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004. The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova, grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 705 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, sad, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric
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Afonya (1975)
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The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
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We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
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Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, intellectual
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Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drama a life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the first time in their lives discover truth about Stalin repressions against innocent people. Based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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Nine Days of One Year (1962)
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Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Torpedo Bombers (1983)
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In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
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An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to each other but she is convinced their diverse backgrounds mean it could never work.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, entertaining, cult classic
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They Fought for Their Country (1975)
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In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: heroic, tense, sentimental, rough, suspenseful, philosophical, political, suspense
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
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Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of many young women in training.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, patriotic, serious, realistic, scenic
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At War as at War (1969)
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To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him under extreme pressures, one after the other, fighting the German forces occupying Ukraine during World War II. Here's the story of an impressionable man who learns in the hard way that being a leader is more than just using of his commanding voice to get what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing, patriotic
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Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Plot Summary:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, stylized, political, sad, emotional, mind bending, psychedelic, intellectual, surreal