russian literature movies

The Idiot (1951)
7 / 10

Drama, Romance

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)
7.1 / 10

History, Romance, Drama, War

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...

Anna Karenina (1948)
6.009 / 10

Drama, Romance

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's...

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)
7.7 / 10

Drama, History, War

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also...

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
6.6 / 10

Drama, History

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)
7.8 / 10

Drama, War, History

In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field....

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)
7.7 / 10

War, Drama, History

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich...

Tom, Dick and Harriet (2013)
5 / 10

Comedy, TV Movie

When Tom loses his job at an advertising agency, he enlists a youthful con-man to help save his career.

Hedda Gabler (1962)
7.5 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Ward Six (1978)
5 / 10

Drama

A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious...

Onegin (2024)
8.5 / 10

Drama, Romance

Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other frivolities the capital can offer a young man. But social life...

Svetlana (1997)
0 / 10

Horror, Fantasy

Anna Karenina (1975)
6 / 10

Drama, Music

The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna...

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...

Andrei Bely: Armenia (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

The film is a cinematic interpretation of the travel book “Armenia” by Russian poet Andrei Bely.

Eifman Ballet: The Brothers Karamazov (2016)
0 / 10

Music

The Brothers Karamazov novel is the epitome of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s creative work, the acme of the philosophic investigation carried out by this...

The Real Doctor Zhivago (2017)
0 / 10

History, Documentary

Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and...

Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna (2007)
10 / 10

Documentary, History

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.

A Lear of the Steppes (1976)
0 / 10

Drama

Based on Turgenev's novel

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire (1976)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and...