Downfall (2004), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Last Command (1928), Running on Empty (1988), Never Look Away (2018), Europa Europa (1990), Sunshine (1999), The Ruling Class (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bolshevik movies.
Storyline: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Plot Keywords: bunker, third reich, nazi, suicide, world war two, ss officer, last will and testament ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Russian Revolution, Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.
Plot Keywords: freight train, cigar smoking, starvation, sleigh, ironing, medical student, christmas tree ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him.—W. Louis <wlouis@ego.psych.mcgill.ca>
Plot Keywords: bolshevik, year 1917, russian revolution, bridge collapse, train wreck, flashback, firing squad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Plot Keywords: teenage romance, fugitive, music teacher, piano, aspiring musician, fleeing, fire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.—Wiedemann & Berg Film
Plot Keywords: east germany, painter, doctor, pregnancy, communism, death of father, male nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish boy, separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is thereafter taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually made a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.
Plot Keywords: circumcision, nazi, jewish, german, pubic hair, based on true story, male nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
Plot Keywords: one word title, man in shower, sex scene, jewish, female frontal nudity, eastern europe, family business ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: kiss, river, hanging, hallucination, orchestra, lobotomy, confetti ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: American journalist John Reed journeys to Russia to document the Bolshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant, then married, who will become a feminist icon and activist. Politics at home become more complicated as the rift grows between reality and Reed's ideals. Bryant takes up with a cynical playwright, and Reed returns to Russia, where his health declines.
Plot Keywords: year 1917, russian revolution, revolutionary, communism, american abroad, bolshevik, jail ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: russian revolution, movie star, actress, film within a film, filmmaking, fishing, fog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage. Inevitably, when his body is discovered the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic spreads like a virus among the senior members of the Council of Ministers as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power. But in the middle of a gut-wrenching roller-coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?
Plot Keywords: satire, black comedy, soviet union, russia, year 1953, moscow russia, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman), their daughters, their only son, and the painful secret about their son and heir apparent which bound the Imperial Couple to the mystical Grigori Rasputin (Tom Baker), and the eventual execution of the entire family.—Gailene Va. Holley <gvah@lava.net>
Plot Keywords: 1910s, brother sister relationship, family relationships, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During WWII, a head priest, Henri Kremer, is mysteriously freed from Dachau concentration camp. He learns that he can return home, to Luxembourg, for a period of nine days, during which he will have to face a persuasive Gestapo chief who will put his faith to the test.—Anonymous9
Plot Keywords: conspiracy, forced labor, swastika, reference to jesus christ, prisoner, fast motion scene, eyeglasses ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Plot Keywords: sadness, chicken, atheist, field, crying, fiddler, kiss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: russian revolution, drunkenness, fiance fiancee relationship, fiancee, fiance, firing squad, hallucination ...
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