Russian films about young people

List of the best Russian films about young people according to visitors: Vanished Empire, The 13th Warrior, In the Autumn of the 41st, Dead Lucky, Rag Union, Friends of Friends, I Give You My Word 2, Anomaly, Soulless 2, Putin’s Kiss.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:45

This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, fantasy
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

In AD 922, Arab courtier, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North to combat a terror that slaughters Vikings and devours their flesh.

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Genremelodrama, adventure, family, military
CountryRussia
Duration01:58

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, comedy, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

'The perfect killers just met their match'. The young fella is drawn into a criminal gang of his older brother that engaged in assassinations. But when they on the affair, they face a maniac who opens them hunt.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:06

The life of the ordinary teenager Vania changes when he makes the acquaintance of three strange guys. Sportsmen, hooligans, dreamers – they call themselves “Rag Union” and believe that they can change the world. Enchanted by his new friendship, Vania puts them up at his dacha and tries to become part of their grand organization. But the neighbour girl Sasha has her own plans with this company.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

New Year's Eve stories intersect promoter for the first time to stay home with five years old, three musicians from the Philharmonic, dared to rob stern businessman at a house party to which they sent the same promoter, and a poor student, invited on a first date to an expensive restaurant daughter of most severe businessman. As a result, each of the characters fall into the absurd, naughty, dangerous, but still very funny situation out of which it will certainly help, friends ...

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreadventure, family
CountryRussia
Duration01:56

A continuation of the adventures of Mishka, Dimka and Lenka - this time in a summer camp.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreadventure, family, detective
CountryRussia
Duration01:29

Two classmates are trying to find a mysterious lake inhabited with a few feet long fishes.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:30

Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, documentary
CountryDenmark, Russia
Duration01:25

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia’s popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a “group of hooligans,” and she’s forced to confront the group’s dirty – even violent – tactics.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:04

A family living on the outskirts of Moscow are mired in quarrels, discomfort and mutual oppression. They spit negative emotions at each other, forgetting about love, compassion and God. A tragedy will take them through a belated catharsis.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryRussia
Duration02:20

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, biography, history, sport
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration01:24

From Oscar and Emmy award winning filmmakers, Red Army highlights the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy. The film turns a unique lens on the social and cultural transformation of the Soviet Union leading up to the fall of Communism, mirroring the rise and fall of the Red Army team. A film by Gabe Polsky and Executive Producers Werner Herzog and Jerry Weintraub.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:54

Strange and scary things start to happen after three young people spend a night on abandoned ship.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:29

Kir, Leya, Dasha and Max are student. Almost every experience is for a first time to them - first love, first disappointment, first betrayal...

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryRussia
Duration01:16

The ice-cold Snow Queen wishes to turn the world into a frozen landscape, with no light, no joy, no happiness, and no free will. A young man, Kai, is rumored to be the son of a man who is the queen's only remaining threat. He is abducted and held captive in the queen's palace, and it's up to his sister, Gerda, to rescue him. Gerda journeys across an icy land, facing difficult obstacles and meeting wonderful new friends that help her in her quest to set Kai free, defeat the Snow Queen, and save the world from eternal frost.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:00

The story of a couple who is too late to date, but too early to marry. Tyoma and Nika together for more than a year and they have good time together. But they are frivolous and not too serious about everything. They do not want to repeat the life of their parents: first job at 18, wedding at 20 and family and three children at 25. But to prove to the parents and themselves that they are ready for independent living, Tyoma and Nika decide to move together - they have Nika's grandmother's apartment. Nika's father can not tolerate Tyoma, but allows them to live in this apartment. Everything would be fine if this apartment were not located just a few floors below the apartment of Nika’s parents. Now they are waiting for all the delights of adult life: the search for work and food, quarrels about stupid things, annoying rich neighbors, and so on. Will a civil marriage break infantile and merry for Tyoma and Nika? Or will they learn an independent life and their love will only get stronger?

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:05

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryRussia
Duration01:37

After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters, shooters and racers in real life. However, this does not go unnoticed. Through blackmail, cheating and bribes, authorities offer the gamers a "job". But as soon as the lies are revealed it becomes clear that they are not heroes saving their country but nothing more than paid assassins. Moreover, the producer of the game is keeping many more of the same CDs, so many more "heroes" like themselves could also be produced. Now the gamers have to find the CDs and either destroy them or create an army of gamers and rule over all. The team becomes divided into two, each pitted against the other

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Genremelodrama, adventure, family
CountryRussia

A story about a young boy who dreams about airplanes.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:40

Masha Smirnova is a young girl who came to Moscow to conquer the big city. Here she finds a way to make all here wishes come true. But for other people this way is not so pleasant, sometimes even painful.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryRussia, USA
Duration01:40

Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, history
CountryFrance, Canada, Russia, Germany
Duration01:41

1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists celebrating their engagement, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening they slip away from the group and meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime for wanting to leave the country. While Carole is motivated by political commitment and a taste for risk, Jérôme’s motivation is Carole.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryRussia, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Belarus
Duration01:45

Anya, a young academic raised in an orphanage, is on the cusp of success when she’s accused of drug possession. While in limbo hiding from the police, she hits the road with Kristina, another orphan several years Anya’s junior, in search of her possibly mythical grandmother.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration01:22

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. A first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead. Told entirely from a young girl's computer desktop, Unfriended redefines 'found footage' for a new generation of teens.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
CountryGeorgia, Poland, Russia
Duration01:43

Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, detective
CountryRussia
Duration01:32

Sveta and Maxim, a happy newlyweds, are moving to their hew apartment only to discover that there is something mysterious and wrong about their new building.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, military, history
CountryRussia
Duration01:00

Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountryRussia
Duration01:48

Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. He is the coolest of the lot. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach the coach. His girlfriend, Nastya, shares his dream, but street football is Kostya’s life, and the outdoor pitch is akin to a second home, a place for friends to meet and play.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration03:18

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Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

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Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration02:17

A gunshot suddenly breaks the silence of the school hallways. A desperate history teacher holds her whole class hostage. But very soon the situation will change, and the teacher herself will become a hostage.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:12

Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryRussia

A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera draws them into a mystical and tragic chain of events that none of them could have seen coming. Anyone who has their picture taken by the camera sees a photo revealing their death. Many of them lose their lives in excruciating ways, as they race to solve the mystery of the camera.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:35

They live in the steppe. A father and a daughter. Nothing may disturb the eternal order. Tomorrow always comes. And every morning the father goes away to work. And she stays alone. To wait for her father. And to feel. Two men are in love with her. She loves everyone. Her love cannot be divided. One day, the decision comes by itself. It comes from where the sun lives.

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Genredrama
CountryRussia

Kira is a teenager who is left disabled after a car accident. Her father is a boxing coach and he refuses to accept her situation. He believes that it could be overcome with a special training simulator to rehabilitate her. During this difficult period, Kira meets Andrey. With falling in love her life is changed in an unexpected way. They both face new and daunting challenges, and only the irrepressible desire to live and love can lead them to overcome the mistakes of their youth.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:48

Victor Barinov at the personal request of the Russian President will go to Sochi at the world championship for professional chefs and to prove that he and his team are the best in the world! The hard struggle for the title of winner of Operations will help "dark horse" - his own son Ivan, which he suddenly found out on the eve of the championship.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:04

Vova and his best friend Kisa make ends meet by working for the local thug in Vladivostock, Russia until one assignment forces them to question their own morality and puts their friendship to the ultimate test.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:03

A famous movies director tries to understand why his life started to change so drastically.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:56

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:30

A humble history teacher Alexander Lvov, happily married to Anna, a woman with a child. His adopted son, 8-year-old Vanka, has long become Alexander's family. But here comes back from the army paratrooper Vadim Kotov, who served under the contract, Anna’s ex-husband and Vanka’s father. He wants to get his son back. In men, a serious conflict is brewing.

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Genredrama
CountryRussia

She is a healer. A hermit. A Fool-in-God. She is a little over forty years old. She doesn’t disdain alcohol. She can be ridiculous, humiliated, offended. She has long been indifferent about herself. Everybody avoids her and is afraid of her, but secretly at night they all hurry to her home. After all, only she can get rid of their illnesses. For her, this is a damnation, and each time she swears that she won’t help people any more, but each time she is unable to refuse them. She knows that her gift will ruin her some time, but she continues to be the only chance of salvation for people.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genremelodrama, music
CountryRussia
Duration02:14

"Oleg Ptitsyn Died", "Oleg Ptitsyn In Jail" - headlines in all the newspapers and magazines about the famous rock musician. Actually he is undergoing treatment in one of city hospitals. Kate, a teenage girl from the same hospital, which neglects all the doctors and even her own mother becomes his companion in misfortune. Oleg decides to help the girl to get well and love life.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, family
CountryRussia
Duration02:40

A whole Bobrov family suddenly become superheroes...

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredocumentary
CountryRussia

“Homo Sperans” is a portrait of a Russian person composed of many images. The film's heroes are common men who answer with their lives the universal questions: what is the purpose of our existence, what is happiness, what is it to be a patriot. Their strength is in their ability to keep their chins up and always believe in a good outcome.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, fantasy
CountryRussia
Duration02:12

The story takes place in 18th century russia. empress elizabeth’s confessor, monk named Lavr, is exiled to a monastery in a haunted mountainous region, taking his secret ancient knowledge with him. Years later, the empress sends her godson Andrey to bring the monk back. Andrey travels to the ill-famed place and meets with Lavr, but before they can return to St. Petersburg they must face evil forces and creatures of the dark side.

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Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia

For the journalist Lyuba, everything is going according to plan: the work of the presenter on the TV channel, the successful and wealthy fiance Robert. The plan goes to hell when Lyuba's phone goes down, and she asks to call a random passerby from the phone. It turned out to be Sergey, who also had a calm and measured life until that day. This meeting will launch a series of events that will completely change the life of Lyuba, and Sergey, and themselves.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:35

The film is a journey through the amazing life of Alekseyev. He drank tea with Tarkovsky, got into the KGB because of Gagarin, competed with Kalashnikov and Vysotsky. One day, he will learn more about himself than he knew and could have imagined: about his talent, about the mark that he left in the destinies of other people. You can live your life again if someone loves you.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:40

What would you do if a relative recently released from prison would move to your house? And you accidentally killed him...




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