Brat 2 (2000), Elena (2011), My Perestroika (2010), The Battle of Russia (1943), Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer (2013), Gorky Park (1983), Mute Witness (1995), Dnevnoy dozor (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Moscow movies.
Storyline: Danila Bagrov meets his army buddy Konstantin Gromov in Moscow, with whom he fought in Chechnya. The friend tells Danila about his twin brother Dmitry, who is a professional hockey player in America. However, the team owner, in cahoots with his Russian partner, has swindled the young star into an oppressive contract, allowing them to rob him blind. Several days after this conversation, Danila finds Konstantin dead. In order to straighten things out and avenge his friend, Danila goes to Chicago.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, russian, gangster, sequel, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elena and Vladimir are an older couple, they come from different backgrounds. Vladimir is a wealthy and cold man, Elena comes from a modest milieu and is a docile wife. They have met late in life and each one has children from previous marriages. Elena's son is unemployed, unable to support his own family and he is constantly asking Elena for money. Vladimir's daughter is a careless young woman who has a distant relationship with her father. A heart attack puts Vladimir in hospital, where he realizes that his remaining time is limited. A brief but somehow tender reunion with his daughter leads him to make an important decision: she will be the only heiress of his wealth. Back home he announces it to Elena. Her hopes to financially help her son suddenly vanish. The shy and submissive housewife then comes up with a plan to give her son and grandchildren a real chance in life.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social, class, russia, middle class, wealth gap ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, soviet union, cold war, personal stories, social change, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, we learn about the events on the Russian front of World War II. We learn about Russia's heroic resistance to invasion in the past and how those qualities were called upon in the current war. We also learn about Russian tenacity and their determination to win against the seemingly invincible forces of Nazi Germany in the bloodiest fighting of the war.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, documentary, history, soviet union, russia, nazi germany ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, politics, protest, punk, russia, women ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Plot Keywords: murder, detective, soviet union, cold war, crime, mystery, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Billy Hughes, a mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she's seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive.—James Meek <james@oz.net>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, horror, independent film, murder, film production ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anton belongs to the Forces of the Light as do his powerful girlfriend and apprentice, but his son is a powerful teenager from the Darkness and Anton protects him. When the balance between Light and Darkness is affected by the death of some evil vampires, Anton is framed and accused of the murders, and he chases an ancient chalk that has the power of changing the destiny of its owner.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, action, thriller, horror, supernatural, vampire, werewolf ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A supernatural patrolman (Konstantin Khabensky) learns that his son has turned to the Dark Side, while a piece of enchanted chalk is the key to a looming battle between good and evil.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, action, thriller, supernatural, vampire, werewolf, dark forces ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run its course.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: history, comedy, political, satire, stalin, soviet union, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An alien spaceship, following an accident in space, enters the earth atmosphere and being damaged by Russian fighter jets, crash lands in a populated area of Moscow taking a few hundred human lives in the crash. A school girl saves the life of one of the aliens and together must deal with humans who intend them harm.—vvp_14
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, alien, disaster, romance, action, visual effects, space ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Mission to Moscow" was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin's Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.—E. Barry Bruyea <siber@bigfoot.com>
Plot Keywords: war film, world war ii, political, diplomacy, usa, soviet union, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy (1984). They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantine Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing. With a sequel to the game he wants to put backdoors in all computer systems on which it gets installed, thus providing access to the police and other government systems.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, crime, police, training, russia, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dwindling group of German soldiers battle to return to their lines on the harsh Eastern Front.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, history, military, germany, soviet union, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rock 'n' roll drummer (Dolph Lundgren) saves the day when terrorists capture the Russian president (Hristo Shopov), his two daughters and a pop star (Melissa Smith).
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, drama, violence, gunfight, kidnapping ...
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