The movie is based on Alexander Ostrovsky's play ‘The Dowry’. A poor widow named Kharita Ogudalova tries to find a good husband for her daughter, Larisa. After her lover's sudden disappearance, the young woman is devastated and tells her mother she will marry "the first man she meets". He turns out to be a poor official named Yuli Karandyshev. But Larisa's former lover, shipowner Sergei Paratov, suddenly returns to town. During his absence, he gets engaged to a wealthy bride, but he keeps it a secret. However, Larisa's impending marriage is also hurting Paratov's pride, so he tries to seduce her.

The movie was named ‘Best Film in the USSR’ in 1984 and also won the top prize at the Indian International Film Festival.

St. Petersburg, bright summer nights. On the banks of the Neva River, the main protagonist meets a girl named Nastenka. She tells him that her fiancé has disappeared. Then, the young pair fall in love and decide to get married. But soon, Nastenka's former lover reappears and Nastenka forgets about her new acquaintance…

The movie, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella of the same name, was directed by award-winning Soviet director Ivan Pyryev. He received awards for the movie at film festivals in London and Edinburgh.

The plot takes place in a country estate. A young widow of a general lives there together with her stepson and his wife Sophia. One day, guests gather at the estate. It turns out that Sophia is the first love of one of them, a man named Platonov. He confesses to her his re-emerged feelings. But, he is not ready for the fact that Sophia promises to leave her husband for him…

The movie is based on the play ‘Platonov’, although its plot has been significantly altered. Also, screenwriters Alexander Adabashian and Nikita Mikhalkov used fragments of several other stories by Chekhov. Despite this, the movie also won many awards at international film festivals, from Belgrade to Chicago, with critics especially noting the performance of actor Alexander Kalyagin, who played Platonov.

It turns out that St. Petersburg is home to a huge number of lion statues. To find the one with treasure buried underneath, Italian crooks dig under all of them in turn. The blame for everything lies with an elderly Russian émigré who hid treasure under a lion during the revolution.

The film features many special effects, not inferior to Hollywood for the time, including a gas station explosion and a car chase. Without stunt doubles, the actors themselves jumped over a moveable bridge in St. Petersburg and clambered out the window of a multistory building down knotted bed sheets.

Engineer Nadia is past 30 and worried that she is not married yet. Schoolfriend Susanna decides to help her by getting hold of some fashionable outfits on the black market, and teaching her the methods of "scientific seduction." But the main thing is self-training, which involves repeating the mantra: "I am the most charming and attractive."

See for yourself how it all turns out in what is one of the most popular comedy films of the perestroika era.

Ostap Bender, a charming conman, is searching for diamonds hidden inside an antique set of chairs by the mother-in-law of a random acquaintance just before she died. The problem is that the chairs have been sold off individually and are now spread across the country...

This screen adaptation of the comic novel by satirical co-authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov became an instant movie classic thanks in large part to actor Archil Gomiashvili’s brilliant portrayal of Bender, and the many memorable lines that are still quoted today.

An engineer creates a time machine and accidentally brings Ivan the Terrible to the USSR. At the same time, a tsar-lookalike and a burglar robbing the apartment next door are accidentally transferred to the cut-throat Middle Ages.

The comedy is based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s little-known play Ivan Vasilyevich and, like many comic films by the legendary Gaidai, topped the box office.  

This was the first Russian screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Charming rogue and adventurer Ostap Bender is trying to get his hands on a million rubles and fulfill his childhood dream of moving to Rio de Janeiro. All he has to do is swindle the money from underground millionaire Alexander Koreiko. For Bender, nothing is impossible! Of the six film adaptations of ‘The Golden Calf’, this movie is considered a cult classic and is included in ‘Mosfilm’ studio's ‘Golden Collection’.

Disillusioned with his family life after his wife's infidelity, Fyodor Lavretsky returns from French exile to his family estate. At home, he meets Liza, his cousin's daughter, and falls in love. Sometime later, Lavretsky learns from the newspapers of his wife's death in Paris. So, he professes his love to Liza and their feelings turn out to be mutual. It seems as if nothing could stand in the way of the lovers' happiness, but then, Lavretsky's wife suddenly returns to the estate…

The movie is based on Ivan Turgenev's novel of the same name, which is considered a classic Russian novel and ranks alongside Pushkin's ‘Eugene Onegin’.

Eight cinematic novellas tell about the life of the ancient Russian monk and icon painter Andrei Rublev. He observes the cruel, bloody, soulless Russian Middle Ages full of wandering minstrels, pagans, holy fools, and devastating Mongol raids. Tarkovsky’s masterpiece is highly rated abroad, too, and regularly appears in Top 100 lists of the best films ever made in any language.