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Plot Summary:
Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, unusual plot structure, allegory
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Ten (1991)
Plot Summary:
Philosophic fairy tale about kind modest man whose shadow one day leaves him only to come alive and become his sinister treacherous antagonist.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: allegory
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The House That Swift Built (1982)
Plot Summary:
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Ten (1971)
Plot Summary:
Musical tale about a struggle between a good Scientist and his evil Shadow.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: allegory, fairy tale
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The Beautiful Girl (1969)
Plot Summary:
A movie transcends totalitarian realities of a post-war Soviet-occupied town to address the most important eternal questions faced by children and their parents alike: self-identity, value human relations, love, vulnerability of a human being, meaning of innocence.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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Scarlet Sails (1961)
Plot Summary:
A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, scenic, lyrical, fairy tale
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Parade of the Planets (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. The men first get together when called up for military maneuvers in the equivalent of a civilian reserve corps. Since their training is only periodical, two years go by before they are called up again. During this season's maneuvers, they end up being "killed," and so get some time off before they have to go home, and that is when the strange occurrences start. First the men visit a town of beautiful women and go swimming in the buff, then they land on a deserted island, and later, they find themselves with a group of elderly people, one of whom may - or may not - have a connection to one of the men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neorealism, allegory
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The Republic SHKID (1966)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Byelorussia Station (1971)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, smart
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The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
Plot Summary:
A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: ironic, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, sad, cynical
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Don't Grieve (1968)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love with a beautiful Manette who is also crazy about him but is being watched closely by her father who called his daughter "his small capital" and is determined to protect her virginity until the moment the marriage contract has been signed.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Passport (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
Plot Summary:
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, sentimental, light
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An Ordinary Miracle (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, touching, entertaining, fairy tale, unusual plot structure, surprise ending
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Plot Summary:
A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Snow dragon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale about a princess who is growing up without her mother. He father the king, a kind and righteous man, loves her dearly, but is determined to marry her off at all costs: no-one knows why he's in such a hurry. He organizes a grand ball in the chateau, at which a number of princes curry for her favor. But the one whom the princess chooses herself is not at all to the liking of her Dad - for reasons which nobody understands. It's not until later that we learn about the ancient curse, the Queen of the Witch Realm, and the Snow Dragon. For the curse to be annulled, the princess and her intended have to undertake a difficult and dangerous journey during which they are confronted with many obstacles, to find out at its end that only true love can triumph over evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Baba Yaga (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, folk tale, stylized, semi serious, absurd
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The Fantastic Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit (1985)
Plot Summary:
Soviet television movie adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel "The Hobbit".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
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Afonya (1975)
Plot Summary:
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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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Heat (1963)
Plot Summary:
Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 as a graduation film, but was banned by the Soviet state and didn't premiere until 1987.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
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The Second Circle (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde
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The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Plot Summary:
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Plot Summary:
Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Plot Summary:
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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After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)
Plot Summary:
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, humorous, captivating
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The Little Mermaid (1976)
Plot Summary:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, beautiful
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The Brothers Lionheart (1977)
Plot Summary:
9-year old Karl Lejon, 'Skorpan' is suffering from tuberculosis and knows that he will die soon. But his older brother Jonathan tries to comfort him by promising that they one day will meet in Nangijala, a magic country beyond the stars. Jonathan dies soon after in a house fire and Skorpan also passes away not long after. They meet in Nangijala, a country divided into the Cherry Blossom Valley and the Briar-Bush Valley. The people in the later are oppressed by the black knight Tengil and his dragon Katla. The two brothers, who now call themselves Jonathan and Karl Lion Heart, decide to help the freedom fighters against the oppression.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Iceland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized