Best award winning movies with an intimate portrayal from Soviet Union

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an intimate portrayal from Soviet Union! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an intimate portrayal from Soviet Union, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Repentance (1987)

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

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1987-05-01 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #39 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #40 for
    tour de force
  3. Ranked #55 for
    cautionary tale

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2 Little Vera (1988)

Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

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1988-10-01 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #24 for
    pin-up girl
  2. Ranked #63 for
    game changer
  3. Ranked #122 for
    highly erotic

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3 Come and See (1985)

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

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1985-10-17 | Drama / War

Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova

Rating

rating icon 8.257
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #172 for
    most moving
  2. Ranked #229 for
    most unsettling
  3. Ranked #249 for
    broad perspective

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4 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

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1929-05-12 | Documentary

Cast

Mikhail Kaufman

Rating

rating icon 7.839
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #8 for
    cross-cut editing
  2. Ranked #58 for
    game changer
  3. Ranked #61 for
    with sleight of hand

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5 I Am Twenty (1965)

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.

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1965-01-18 | Drama

Cast

Valentin Popov, Nikolai Gubenko

Rating

rating icon 7.277
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #105 for
    flirtatious
  2. Ranked #219 for
    dry dialogue
  3. Ranked #264 for
    brightly lit imagery

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6 Mirror (1975)

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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1975-03-07 | Drama / History

Cast

Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev

Rating

rating icon 7.978
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #47 for
    Multiple POV
  3. Ranked #102 for
    opaque

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7 Andrei Rublev (1966)

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

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1966-12-16 | Drama / History

Cast

Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov

Rating

rating icon 8.016
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #100 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #119 for
    diorama
  3. Ranked #125 for
    with biblical reference

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8 Solaris (1972)

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

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1972-03-20 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk

Rating

rating icon 7.822
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #121 for
    elegiac
  2. Ranked #131 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #153 for
    thought-provoking question

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9 Alexander Nevsky (1938)

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.

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1938-11-24 | Drama / History

Cast

Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov

Rating

rating icon 7.045
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    jingoistic
  2. Ranked #39 for
    arthurian
  3. Ranked #47 for
    chivalry

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10 Volga - Volga (1938)

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.

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1938-04-24 | Comedy / Music

Cast

Lyubov Orlova, Igor Ilyinsky

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #95 for
    symphonic music
  3. Ranked #120 for
    gold digger

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