Viva Castro (1993)

Come And See (1986)

Category: Foreign | Director: Elem Klimov | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius

During the 1943 Nazi invasion of Byelorussia, a teenage boy (Alexsei Kravchenko) enthusiastically joins the partisan forces defending his homeland, but is slowly robbed of his innocence, his conscience ... more

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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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Escape From Afghanistan (1994)

Category: Foreign | Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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American journalist Charlie Palmer is interviewing Russian POWs in a Pakistani Mujahideen camp during the U.S.S.R.-Afghanistan War when the prisoners overpower the guards, take hold of the camp and radio ... 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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