Escape From Afghanistan (1994)

Little Vera (1988)

Category: Foreign | Director: Vasili Pichul | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Natalya Negoda, Andrei Sokolov, Yuri Nazarov

"Glasnost" struck the Soviet cinema with this sexually frank seriocomedy about a young girl who dreams of romance and escaping her dingy industrial hometown. Sultry Natalya Negoda stars in Vasili Pichul's ... more

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata For Viola (1988)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

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Unable to escape controversy even after his death, music great Shostakovich is the subject of a documentary first undertaken by filmmaker Semyon Aranovich and later completed by Aleksandr Sokurov ("Russian ... more

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Taxi Blues (1990)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Pyotr Nikolajevitch Mamonov, Piotr Zaitchenko, Vladimir Kachpour

A compelling drama that uses the growing conflict between two Muscovites, a loyal-to-the-state cab driver and a free-thinking jazz saxophonist, to symbolize the tumult in the Soviet Union during the ... more

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We Are Going To America (My Yedem V Ameriku) (1992)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Dima Davydov, Lyubov Rumyantseva, Vadim Danilevsky

Marc Chagall paintings served as the inspiration for this moving Russian drama about a family's arrival in America. As witnessed through the eyes and vivid imagination of Motl (Dima Davydov), a 12-year-old ... more

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Viva Castro (1993)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Pavel Zharkov, Yulia Sobolevskaya, Sergei Dontsov

A small Russian town in 1965 is the setting for this funny and emotional coming-of-age tale about a young man whose father disappears after stealing coins from a local museum and whose mother is sent ... more

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Burnt By The Sun (1995)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign film, Nikita Mikhalkov's sweet-natured drama unfolds during a summer day in 1936 when a retired soldier, his beautiful wife and their young daughter ... more

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The Thief (1997)

Category: Foreign | Director: Pavel Chukhraj | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Vladimir Mashkov, Ekaterina Rednikova, Misha Filipchuk

Set in the final days of Stalin-ruled Russia, this acclaimed drama follows an impoverished war widow who thinks she's found the perfect father for her 6-year-old son when she falls for a handsome soldier. ... more

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Brother (1997)

Category: Foreign | Director: Aleksei Balabanov | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko

Playing like a '30s Hollywood gangster flick transposed to post-Communist Russia, Alexei Balabanov's stark, moody drama follows a young man who returns home to St. Petersburg from military service. ... more

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The Outskirts (Okraina) (1998)

Category: Foreign | Director: Pyotr Lutsik | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Aleksei Vanin

In the spirit of the films of Jim Jarmusch comes this post-modern Russian fable concerning a group of men attempting to discover who is responsible for the theft of their land. Embarking on a surreal ... more

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