Soviet films about the KGB

List of the best Soviet films about the KGB according to visitors: Bridge of Spies, Kamui, There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach, Assa, Страсти по Владимиру, The Forty-First, Office Romance, Afonya, Man with a Movie Camera, KGB Agents Also Fall in Love.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, history
CountryUSA, Germany, India
Duration02:39

    During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, crime, detective
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:40

    Kamui is a ninja on the run from the world of ninja bound by rules in search of true freedom. However, he is burdened with the fate, where it is not allowed to take the secret of their powers outside of the tribe—if you are born as ninja, you must die as ninja. This brings him to constantly fight for his life against other ninja who try to kill him and hide the secrets within. He does not trust, and he does not love. Showing weakness leads to immediate death. An incident brings him to an old fisherman's village, where he finally starts to feel trust and affection towards other people. However, his pursuers where just minutes away from setting up a huge trap on Kamui…

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountrySoviet Union, Russia, USA
    Duration01:31

    When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music, history
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:33

    ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:02

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    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:33

    An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:39

    Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:32

    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.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genredocumentary
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:08

    A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySoviet Union, Chile

    A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryHungary, Soviet Union

    The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountrySoviet Union, Yugoslavia

    The movie takes us through the trials and tribulations of Petar I Petrovic, the man who united Montenegro in the 18th century and led them in the Battle of Krusi against a huge Turkish army to return victorious and pave the first path towards economic development.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountrySoviet Union

    A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:36

    An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, military
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:31

    Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, history
    CountrySoviet Union, Italy, Czechoslovakia
    Duration02:14

    Russian general have to find and bring back to St. Petersburg girl claiming her right to the throne...

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama
    CountrySoviet Union

    Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:26

    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...

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Soviet Union
    Duration01:36

    In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, documentary
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:13

    Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecartoon, short
    CountrySoviet Union

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    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:03

    Based on true story of the most famous Soviet counterfeiter.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredocumentary
    CountryRussia, Latvia

    The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave scene and the golden age of techno culture. International political changes in the mid-80s and early 90s, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a short period of time allowed this cultural phenomenon to become a mass movement which was almost completely independent from the global corporations and which did not fight with the system but created its own system.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryRussia, Ukraine
    Duration02:17

    The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background... Soon, however, another misfortune befalls Lyudmila leaving the man she loves on the brink of death and herself seriously wounded. The girl is pulled out of combat and later goes to the United States with a publicity visit. Eleanor Roosevelt welcomes Lyudmila in the White House and the two women soon become close. It won't be long before Pavlichenko stands before an audience in Chicago pressing for a second front. Will her words have the capacity to change the course of war?

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryFinland, Belgium, Iceland
    Duration01:36

    The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).




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