In this section I have gathered the films I have watched over my life - each was interesting to me in its own way and left its mark, each with its own character, its own stance and view. These are the films that, in their time, turned out subtler, smarter and more honest than many others.
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Todd Phillips
While undergoing compulsory treatment at Arkham hospital, the failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life - Harley Quinn.
Todd Phillips
Gotham, the early 1980s. The comedian Arthur Fleck lives with his sick mother, who has taught him since childhood to put on a happy face. Trying to bring good into the world and give people joy, Arthur runs into human cruelty and concludes again and again that this world will get from him not a kind smile, but the sneer of the villain Joker.
Bong Joon-ho
Life is no kindness to the ordinary Korean Kim family. They have to live in a damp, dirty semi-basement, steal Wi-Fi from the neighbours and scrape by on odd jobs. One day the son's friend, leaving for an internship abroad, suggests he take his place tutoring a high-school girl in the wealthy Park family. Having forged a university diploma, the young man heads to the lavish designer mansion and makes a good impression on the lady of the house. Right away an unusual plan to get his sister a job comes into his head.
Martin McDonagh
Several months after her daughter's murder, the killers still have not been found. In desperation, Mildred Hayes takes a bold step - she rents three billboards at the edge of town with a message for police chief William Willoughby. When deputy Dixon, an immature mama's boy with a violent streak, is drawn in, the battle between Mildred and the town authorities only escalates.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
A Moscow family is going through an agonising divorce. Zhenya and Boris are still married, but each of them has in effect already begun a new chapter of life, and so they are impatient to be done with the formalities and divorce. Amid a string of conflicts and endless mutual recriminations, Zhenya and Boris neglect their only child, 12-year-old Alyosha, who feels utterly unwanted by both parents. After yet another quarrel, Alyosha disappears.
Denis Villeneuve
In the near future the world is inhabited by humans and replicants created to do the hardest work. Police officer K's job is to keep the replicants under control amid mounting tension. He accidentally comes into possession of secret information that threatens the existence of all humanity. Seeking the key to the mystery, K decides to track down Rick Deckard - a former officer of the Los Angeles police special unit who vanished without a trace many years ago.
Denis Villeneuve
When twelve alien vessels appear across the globe, a gifted linguist is recruited to decipher the visitors' language and uncover their intentions before fear tips the world into war. Her work with an utterly foreign form of communication begins to reshape her own perception of time and memory. A contemplative science fiction drama about language, understanding and loss.
Alex Garland
A young programmer wins a week at the secluded estate of his company's reclusive founder, where he is asked to evaluate the human qualities of an advanced female android. As the test unfolds, the line between manipulation and genuine consciousness grows dangerously thin. A cold, precise chamber drama about artificial intelligence, control and desire.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Auto mechanic Nikolai Sergeyev lives with his second wife Lilya and a son from his first marriage in a small northern town on the seashore. The town's crooked mayor, Shelevyat, is trying to seize his house and land for his own purposes. After losing two court cases, Nikolai turns for help to a former army comrade, Dmitri, a successful lawyer from the capital. But the Moscow guest's arrival only complicates Nikolai's already difficult life.
Spike Jonze
Theodore, a lonely writer, buys a new piece of technology - an operating system designed to fulfil the user's every wish. To Theodore's surprise, a romance soon develops between him and the operating system.
Paul Thomas Anderson
A discharged sailor with a mysterious past cannot find his place in post-war America. He moves from one job to another until he happens to meet the charismatic founder of a religious cult, a famous writer and philosopher.
Tim Burton
The life of 19-year-old Alice Kingsley takes an unexpected turn. At a Victorian party thrown in her honour, Alice receives a marriage proposal from Hamish, the rich but foolish son of Lord and Lady Ascot. Without giving an answer, the girl runs off and follows a rabbit she has spotted on the lawn. An ordinary rabbit, except that it is dressed in a waistcoat and keeps looking at its pocket watch. Alice chases the White Rabbit across the whole meadow and sees it vanish down a rabbit hole. Then, all of a sudden, Alice falls in herself, tumbling down a strange, fairy-tale tunnel, and lands in a round hall with many doors. Drinking from a bottle labelled "DRINK ME", she shrinks in size, and biting into a cake labelled "EAT ME" - she grows. At last, after a string of misadventures, Alice passes through one of the doors into a wondrous fantastical world that its inhabitants call Underland.
Christopher Nolan
Cobb is a gifted thief, the very best in the dangerous art of extraction: he steals valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during sleep, when the human mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare talent has made him a prized player in the treacherous world of corporate espionage, but it has also turned him into a perpetual fugitive and cost him everything he ever loved. Now Cobb is offered a chance to set things right. His last job could give it all back, but to pull it off he must achieve the impossible - inception. Instead of the perfect theft, Cobb and his team of specialists must do the reverse. Their task now is not to steal an idea, but to plant one.
Aleksandr Kott
The story of the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which took the first blow of the Nazi German invaders on 22 June 1941. An account of the three main centres of resistance, led by regiment commander Pyotr Gavrilov, commissar Yefim Fomin and the head of the 9th border outpost, Andrei Kizhevatov.
Jaco Van Dormael
Waking as a frail old man, Nemo Nobody turns out to be the last mortal in a grotesque future. Everyone else has long been immortal and gladly watches a TV show whose main star is the decrepit, half-mad old Nemo, living out his final days. A journalist comes to him, and Nemo tells him his story.
Valery Todorovsky
Moscow, 1955. Mels, a model member of the Komsomol, helps fight the stilyagi - devotees of boogie-woogie, jazz and fashionable clothes. But his life changes dramatically when, at an underground dance club, he meets a girl nicknamed Polza and falls in love with her. Now Mels must not only find his place among the stilyagi crowd, but also stand up for his new ideals.
Tim Burton
Once upon a time in London there lived a young and naive barber named Benjamin Barker. He was married to a lovely woman named Lucy, who bore him an equally lovely daughter. To his misfortune, the lecherous Judge Turpin also took a liking to the beauty of his wife - and sent Benjamin Barker into penal servitude for life so as to possess her unhindered. Fifteen years later Barker escaped from the penal colony, made his way to London under the name of Sweeney Todd - and found neither wife nor daughter at his home. Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a small bakery on the floor below, at first not recognising him, told him his own story. Todd was crushed and swore terrible revenge on those who had wronged him - Judge Turpin and the beadle Bamford, who had helped the judge in his unseemly deeds. On the advice of Mrs. Lovett, who does not hide her attachment to the fugitive, he returned to his former trade - once again becoming a barber, in the hope of one day luring the judge into his establishment and finishing him off.
David Fincher
On 4 July 1969, an unknown man shoots a young couple on the outskirts of Vallejo, California. A month later, encrypted letters begin arriving at major newspaper offices, in which the killer, calling himself Zodiac, threatens to murder another 12 people unless the text of the letter - containing the secret of his identity - is published on the front page. Along with police from various states, the investigation is joined by seasoned San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery and young cartoonist Robert Graysmith, who works at the same paper. Soon the killer strikes again.
Aleksei Balabanov
The USSR, 1984. The provinces. After a disco, the daughter of a district party committee secretary goes missing. There are no witnesses and no culprits found. That same evening a brutal murder takes place in a house on the edge of town. The accused is the owner of the house. The investigation of both crimes is entrusted to police captain Zhurov.
Konstantin Lopushansky
A writer joins a UN commission sent to a rain-soaked town where mysterious beings known as the mokretsy raise gifted children who seem to have outgrown the adult world. As he searches for his own daughter among them, the line between salvation and menace dissolves. A bleak, meditative adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers about a future that arrives too soon.
Timur Bekmambetov
At night a young woman is killed in the entrance hall of her building. The victim is a Dark Other, so suspicion falls on the Light Ones. Geser urgently gathers his team: a murder charge is a serious problem. He must work out who was where and doing what at the time named by the Dark Ones. It turns out that only Gorodetsky has no alibi.
Richard Linklater
The film is set in the near future in Orange County, California. In this era, when a wave of drugs has finally engulfed America, people's minds and bodies have been seized by the mysterious Substance D, which utterly destroys their psyche. The film's protagonist is Robert Arctor, an undercover agent of the police narcotics department who, because of the nature of his work, also becomes an addict. One day he is assigned to spy on his friends: Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Donna Hawthorne and Charles Freck. The situation grows even more complicated when Barris starts informing on Arctor.
Christopher Nolan
Robert and Alfred are stage illusionists who, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, competed against each other in London. Over the years their friendly professional rivalry escalates into an outright war. They will stop at nothing to uncover each other's secrets behind fantastic tricks and to sabotage their performances. The implacable feud that flares up between them begins to threaten the lives of those around them…
Pavel Lungin
The Second World War. The barge on which Anatoly and his older comrade Tikhon are transporting coal is seized by a German patrol boat. Begging the Germans for mercy, Anatoly commits a betrayal - he shoots Tikhon. The Germans leave the coward on the mined barge, but thanks to the help of monks living in a monastery on an island, he manages to survive. Years pass. The elder Anatoly is revered for his righteous life and the truly miraculous help he gives to the people who come to him. Yet the terrible sin of murder he committed during the war gives him no peace. Sensing the approach of his death, Anatoly prepares to die, not yet knowing that he will soon be forgiven...
Tim Burton
What wonders await you at Willy Wonka's factory? Just imagine: grassy meadows of sweet minty sugar in the Chocolate Room ... You can sail down the Chocolate River in a pink sugar boat ... Or run experiments in the Inventing Room with sweets that never melt ... Watch the trained squirrels in the Nut Room, or ride the glass elevator to the Television Room. You will find so much that is funny, a little mysterious and utterly thrilling on this journey that it will be as pleasant and sweet for you as one of Willy Wonka's delicious candy bars with pink cream fudge.
Tim Burton
The 19th century, a small European village. The forces of darkness drag young Victor down into the underworld and marry him there to the mysterious Corpse Bride, while Victoria, his true bride, waits for him in the world of the living. Even though living in the Land of the Dead turns out to be far more interesting than ordinary life, Victor realises that he cannot abandon Victoria, and tries to escape from the world of spirits.
Timur Bekmambetov
At night one can run into dark magicians, vampires and other evil creatures. But on the trail of these night hunters comes the Night Watch. Its purpose is to preserve the balance between good and evil, the breaking of which brings ruin, wars, revolutions and cosmic catastrophes.
Michel Gondry
The shy, melancholy Joel lives an unremarkable, grey and dreary life. But one day, instead of his usual route to work, the young man suddenly boards a train going the other way and heads for the sea. On the sandy shore Joel notices a girl with bright blue hair. On the way back they meet in the train carriage, and he realises that he and Clementine have a great deal in common, as though he already knows her. Very soon Joel will understand that he really did know her - more than that, they were a couple.
Alan Parker
A university professor and fierce opponent of the death penalty ends up on death row himself, convicted of murdering a fellow campaigner. Days before the execution he grants an interview to a journalist, who starts to unravel what really happened. A tense drama about conviction, justice and doubt.
Quentin Tarantino
During her wedding, a pregnant hired assassin codenamed Black Mamba is shot by a man named Bill.
Roman Polanski
Based on the memoir of Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman, whose life in Warsaw is upended by the Nazi occupation. Stripped of everything, he struggles to survive amid the ruins of the ghetto. A stark drama about art, dignity and survival.
Ron Howard
The story of brilliant mathematician John Nash, whose breakthrough in game theory brings early fame while a severe mental illness turns his life and his very sense of reality into a lifelong struggle. A drama about genius, love and endurance.
Iain Softley
A man who calls himself Prot claims to be a visitor from a distant planet and lands in a psychiatric ward, where a sceptical doctor tries to work out who he really is. A quiet drama about the mind, hope and what we choose to believe.
David Lynch
A mysterious young woman, suffering memory loss after a car crash, takes the name Rita from a poster for a film starring Rita Hayworth and tries to start a new life in Hollywood. But the secrets of the past relentlessly pursue her. Who were the two men who sat in the car with her and died in the crash? Why do the police suspect she was abducted by them? And is it by chance that a new friend appears in her life, the aspiring actress Betty?
Cameron Crowe
David had it all: money, his own publishing house, an expensive car and an apartment in a respectable part of New York, a writer friend and a girlfriend, Julianna, and even enemies in the shape of the seven managers of his company. He lived without a care until, one day, he was in a car crash and woke from a coma disabled, his face disfigured and now to be kept hidden. His new life turned into a nightmare from which he cannot wake.
Darren Aronofsky
Everyone strives towards a cherished dream. Sara Goldfarb dreamed of appearing on a famous TV show; her son Harold, with his friend Tyrone, of getting fabulously rich; Harold's girlfriend Marion of her own fashion boutique - but obstacles of every kind stood in their way. They all choose questionable means to reach their goals, and the dreams still remain out of reach while the characters' lives collapse beyond repair.
Christopher Nolan
Leonard Shelby is elegantly and expensively dressed and drives a brand-new Jaguar, yet stays in cheap motels. He is trying with all his might to find his wife's killer. His problem is a rare form of amnesia, the loss of short-term memory - remembering everything up to the murder, he cannot recall what happened 15 minutes ago.
Sam Mendes
Lester Burnham is going through a midlife crisis. He is neither respected nor valued at work, and only the appearance of a happy family remains. His wife Carolyn is having a passionate affair with a colleague, while his sullen teenage daughter Jane is smitten with the boy next door, who has spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Tormented inwardly, Lester sinks into depression. But unexpectedly he falls for his daughter's classmate Angela, and this passion gives Lester a powerful zest for life. He feels a surge of energy and desire and is ready once again to delight in beauty.
David Fincher
An insurance-company employee suffers from chronic insomnia and desperately tries to break out of his agonisingly dull life. One day, on yet another business trip, he meets a certain Tyler Durden - a charismatic soap salesman with a warped philosophy. Tyler is sure that self-improvement is the lot of the weak, and that the only thing worth living for is self-destruction. Before long the new friends are pummelling each other freely in a bar parking lot, and the cleansing brawl brings them the highest bliss. Introducing other men to the simple joys of physical violence, they found a secret Fight Club, which begins to enjoy incredible popularity.
The Wachowskis
Thomas Anderson leads a double life: by day an ordinary office worker scolded by his bosses, by night a hacker called Neo for whom no corner of the network is off-limits. Then everything changes - Thomas learns the terrifying truth about reality.
Brad Silberling
A remake of Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, moved from a divided Berlin to Los Angeles. Seth, an angel, walks unseen beside people in their final moments and grows weary of his own weightlessness: he wants to taste, to hurt, to touch. Meeting Maggie, a heart surgeon who cannot reconcile herself to the loss of a patient, puts before him the one choice angels are granted - to give up immortality and fall, in order to become human. A melancholy film about mortality being the very condition of a life worth having.
Aleksei Balabanov
The beginning of the twentieth century. Two seemingly respectable families. And the mysterious Johann, owner of a photo studio in whose basement a kind of Marquis de Sade photographic theatre has been set up - where photographic postcards are shot with the humiliated nudity of the human body, arousing lust and the gloating triumph of power. The photographer's gaze, able to see in a little girl her angelic curls and sweet smile, and that same gaze corrupting the body, the gaze of a pornographer. Time and again Johann destroys the families' well-being and turns ordinary people into freaks steeped in the aroma of vice…
Valery Todorovsky
Rita is forced into hiding: her boyfriend Alyosha has vanished after gambling away other people's money at roulette. She is rescued and taken in by Yaya, a deaf nightclub dancer who lives for one dream - to save up money and leave for a fairy-tale country where only deaf people live, and where kindness and justice therefore reign. Unexpectedly the two women find themselves at the centre of a brutal clash between two mafia clans, the deaf and the hearing.
Vincent Ward
After Chris Nielsen dies in a car crash, he gains immortality and tries to stay close to his wife Annie. With the help of a spirit guide he grows used to his new existence in heaven. But when his grief-maddened wife takes her own life, she is banished to hell. Chris sets out on a perilous journey to find and save his beloved, even though no one has ever managed to rescue a sinful soul from hell's retribution.
Alfonso Cuarón
When young Finn first saw the beautiful Estella, his heart broke. Despite a prediction that his passion for Estella would bring him nothing good, Finn swore to win the lovely girl. Years later, through the efforts of a mysterious benefactor, the young artist Finn finds himself in New York, where he again meets his unrequited love. But at the very moment Finn sees his beloved once more, all his boldest dreams - and his most secret fears - will come true.
Peter Weir
Insurance agent Truman Burbank lives in a small coastal town. He has a loving wife and a best friend, and every day is like the one before. He has no idea that from the moment of his birth he has been the star of a vast reality show watched by the whole world, surrounded by sets and actors. But one day the well-oiled system fails, and Truman begins to doubt the reality of the world around him.
Barry Levinson
A spin doctor and a Hollywood producer fabricate a fake war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal days before the election - a sharp satire on politics and media.
Scott Hicks
Based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, a prodigy pushed relentlessly by a domineering father until the strain leads to a breakdown. Years later he finds his way back to the piano and to life. A drama about talent, family and recovery.
Robert Rodriguez
Fleeing the police after a bank robbery, two criminal brothers take a priest and his two children hostage and run for Mexico. There they must wait for an accomplice, and to do so the whole group has to sit out the night in a trucker bar.
Danny Boyle
The story of four drug-addict friends in 1990s Edinburgh. Some of them are trying to get clean, while others are concerned only with how to score the next hit.
Christian Duguay
On a mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, soldiers rely on self-replicating killing machines built to hunt any enemy life. When the weapons begin to evolve and disguise themselves as humans, no one can be sure who is real. A grim science fiction thriller, based on a story by Philip K. Dick, about paranoia and the machines we set loose.
David Fincher
Detective William Somerset is a veteran of the criminal investigation department who dreams of retiring and moving far away from the city and its sinful inhabitants. Seven days before his retirement, two troubles land on Somerset: a young partner, Mills, and a particularly elaborate murder. The seasoned investigator's sharp mind immediately concludes that this crime will most likely be followed by others.
Neil Jordan
The sensation-hungry journalist Malloy is visited by the vampire Louis, who comes to tell the story of his life. In 1791 the young Louis, having lost his wife and child, longs to die, but a meeting with the vampire Lestat opens eternal life to him.
Quentin Tarantino
Several interwoven stories from the lives of gangsters. Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece that changed world cinema.
Lasse Hallström
Gilbert Grape is a young man stuck in the tiny town of Endora, Iowa, where he holds the family together - looking after his housebound mother and his beloved younger brother Arnie, who has a developmental disability. When a free-spirited girl passing through town catches his eye, she gives him a first taste of freedom. A tender story about love, duty and growing up.
Martin Brest
Thanksgiving has come, and retired intelligence colonel Frank Slade decides to mark the holiday by treating himself to a trip to New York. Frank wants to stage his last grand outing in the highest style: a fine hotel, a lavish limousine, expensive drink and women of stunning beauty. There are only two problems. The first: Frank is blind in both eyes. The second: the colonel's anxious relatives decide to hire, for a small sum, a chaperone in the person of a hard-up student of a prestigious college named Charlie Simms. The last thing Colonel Slade wanted on his trip was the greenhorn Charlie. But it so happened that the journey of these two strikingly different people changed their lives forever.
Brett Leonard
The scientist Lawrence Angelo runs experiments on Jobe, a mentally disabled lawnmower man, using advanced computer technology combined with drugs. Lawrence immerses Jobe in a virtual reality - a three-dimensional computer world. The scientist manages to develop the mental abilities of the former simpleton to the level of a genius. But the military secretly interferes with the experiment, and the subject turns into a super-intelligent, psychopathic monster in human form with designs on world domination.
James Cameron
A reprogrammed Terminator is sent back to protect a young John Connor from a deadlier, shape-shifting machine bent on erasing the future leader of the human resistance. Alongside his hardened mother, the boy races to stop the coming war between man and machine. A landmark action film built on relentless pursuit and pioneering visual effects.
Isaac Fridberg
After a serious injury, a young gymnast is forced to give up competing. But elite sport has scarred her not only physically but morally. The former champion, spoiled by fame, cannot come to terms with the thought that she is now an ordinary schoolgirl. Her drive to assert herself pushes her into reckless and cruel acts...
Mark Zakharov
For many years now the town that the wandering knight Lancelot comes to has been under the power of the Dragon. The knight's duty is to fight the cruel usurper. But the Burgomaster talks him out of the duel, explaining that people cannot live without a dictator.
Sergei Solovyov
Hoping for a bright and comfortable life, a girl ties her fate to a crime boss. But there is another life - free and full of music, the life of the boy Bananan. And these two lives collide tragically.
Georgiy Daneliya
Foreman Vladimir Nikolayevich Mashkov had no idea that an ordinary walk to the store for bread and pasta would turn into an intergalactic journey. It all came from an encounter with a strange barefoot man carrying some little device - a "transfer gadget," as he called it. Vladimir Nikolayevich pressed the button and, together with a chance companion, a student in a rabbit-fur hat, found himself in some desert - on the planet Plyuk in the tentura, the Kin-dza-dza galaxy in the spiral.
Andrei Tarkovsky
What must one sacrifice to save the world from an approaching catastrophe? One's possessions, one's way of life, or perhaps one's life? What will the film's hero lay upon the altar of the Almighty Creator - if the latter exists at all?!
Vadim Abdrashitov
Plumbum (Latin for lead) is the nickname of fifteen-year-old Ruslan Chutko, who has resolved to become a cleanser of society. But, carried away by his role as a fighter against evil, he oversteps the limits of a child's game and ruthlessly intrudes into the lives of others.
Karen Shakhnazarov
School-leaver Ivan, waiting to be called up for the army, works as a courier at an editorial office. The respectable grown-ups around him can hardly cope with this fellow's astonishing ability to turn any event into an incredible incident.
Elem Klimov
1943, the Great Patriotic War. The teenager Flyora, having dug up a carbine amid scraps of barbed wire, rusted machine-gun belts and bullet-riddled helmets, sets off into the forest to join the partisans.
Robert Zemeckis
The teenager Marty, using a time machine built by his professor friend Doc Brown, travels from the 1980s back to the distant 1950s. There he meets his future parents, still teenagers, and his professor friend as a much younger man.
Mark Zakharov
The famed adventurer Count Cagliostro arrives in provincial Russia claiming to have derived the formula of love, only to find his tricks powerless against a real and stubborn feeling. Wit, music and irony turn the tale of a charlatan into a sly reflection on love itself. A quotable Soviet comedy by Mark Zakharov, loosely based on Aleksey Tolstoy.
James Cameron
A cybernetic assassin is sent back from a machine-ruled future to kill a young woman whose unborn son will one day lead humanity's resistance. A lone soldier follows to protect her, and an ordinary life turns into a relentless fight for survival. A lean, influential science fiction thriller about fate, machines and the will to endure.
Michael Radford
To suppress mass unrest in Oceania, the ruling party re-creates the past and the present anew. Every citizen is watched relentlessly, everyone's mind is washed through television. Even two lovers are forced to hide their feelings, since sex and personal relationships have been outlawed.
Mark Zakharov
A television film by Mark Zakharov, written by Grigory Gorin by motifs from the life and work of Jonathan Swift. The ageing Dean of St Patrick's, declared insane and placed under guardianship, turns his own house into a theatre where the creatures of his satire come to life - Lilliputians, giants, the immortal Struldbruggs. A witty, melancholy fantasy about a genius, his madness and his freedom.
Konstantin Bromberg
At a research institute of magic, a young man rushes to reach his enchanted fiancee before the New Year, when a scheming rival and a powerful sorceress conspire to keep them apart. Songs, illusions and gentle absurdity carry a warm holiday comedy loosely drawn from the Strugatsky brothers. A beloved Soviet New Year film with Aleksandr Abdulov and Semyon Farada.
Vladimir Grammatikov
A screen adaptation of Alexei Rybnikov's rock opera based on Pavel Grushko's verse play. Together with other residents of a poor Chilean village, Joaquín Murieta decides to set off for far-away California in search of gold. On the way he meets a beautiful girl who becomes his wife. But the lovers' happiness proves short-lived. The prospectors run into the malice and cruelty of the Americans. Joaquín's young companion is killed - and he takes up arms to take revenge. Yet nothing can ease his suffering.
Ridley Scott
November 2019. Former android hunter Rick Deckard is reinstated in the Los Angeles police to find a group of replicants led by Roy Batty that has escaped from a space colony to Earth. The police believe the androids are trying to reach Eldon Tyrell - head of the corporation that develops cybernetic intelligence. Deckard is assigned to determine the replicants' motives and destroy them.
Roman Kachanov
The adventures of the girl Alisa, her scientist father and the melancholy Captain Zeleny, along with the good-natured monster Gromozeka and the bird Govorun, who, as everyone knows, is famed for his wit and cleverness.
Castellano and Pipolo
A gruff farmer who utterly rejects the company of women is perfectly happy and content with his bachelor life. But a woman who suddenly appears in his life tries to change his outlook and win him over.
Richard Viktorov
The 23rd century. In the mysterious, little-explored depths of the Universe the patrol starship Pushkin discovers a spacecraft of a design unknown to Earthlings. The ship is dead. Among the dead aliens the researchers accidentally find an artificial human - the girl Niya, who has unique abilities: she can move instantly through space, go without air for a long time, and with a mere wave of her hand can throw people and any objects away from her...
Andrei Tarkovsky
In a certain forbidden Zone there is said to be a room where one's most cherished wishes come true. A fashionable Writer and an eminent Professor set out for this room - each for his own reasons, which they prefer not to speak of. And leading them there is the Stalker - a guide through the Zone - either a holy fool or an apostle of a new faith.
Mark Zakharov
A comic fantasy about the life, love and death of the famous Baron Munchausen, who lived in the 18th century and became the hero of many merry books and legends; it draws on the characters and episodes of R. Raspe's famous novel, but is essentially a work of its own.
Vitaly Melnikov
The engineer Zilov is going through a spiritual crisis. On the face of it, he has everything to be happy about: loyal friends, women who love him, a decent job and a settled family life. Yet he values nothing and no one - nature has denied him a kind soul and the ability to love and feel compassion.
Marek Piestrak
A corporation produces humanlike robots despite public opinion, the press and the trade unions, all of which oppose it. A decision is made to send a spacecraft to Saturn to launch artificial satellites, with a crew made up of robots. Pilot Pirx, known for his honesty and incorruptibility, is chosen for the flight. Fearing that Pirx's judgement could wreck their profitable production, the corporation's leadership takes measures.
Mark Zakharov
The time came - the wizard married, settled down, took up the household. But one day, meeting a bear in the forest, he could not resist after all: he turned it into a handsome youth, on the condition that it would become a bear again if a princess kissed it.
Sergio Corbucci
Belle Duke has an old score to settle with Philippe Bang, who is serving his sentence behind bars. To get even with him, Belle Duke conspires with another swindler named Felix to arrange Philippe Bang's escape from prison. The escape succeeds, but the pair also cheats Belle Duke, vanishing right from under her nose. It turns out that Philippe Bang, in turn, is not averse to taking revenge on Belle Duke - and for that he devises a grand hoax, akin to a poker bluff.
Miloš Forman
Randle Patrick McMurphy, a pathological criminal and rebel, is transferred from a prison colony to a psychiatric clinic to determine whether he is mentally ill or not. At the clinic he finds the ward controlled by the cold-blooded, strict head nurse Mildred Ratched, obsessed with routine. McMurphy is determined to defy what he sees as absurd rules and to have a good time in the process. His rebellious nature spreads to the other patients, but Nurse Ratched is resolved to stamp it out.
Nikita Mikhalkov
The 1920s, a small town in the south of Russia. The Civil War is over, but the Bolsheviks are still far from complete victory. A gang of bandits made up of former White officers robs a train carrying gold that was meant to buy bread for the starving, and five friends - former Red fighters - enter into a deadly struggle with them. Suspicion of betrayal falls on one of them, and, having fled from his comrades, he must recover the gold to prove his innocence.
Andrei Tarkovsky
A new scientist, the psychologist Chris Kelvin, arrives at a space station whose crew has long and vainly tried to grapple with the mystery of the planet Solaris, entirely covered by an Ocean. His task is to make sense of the strange messages coming from the station and to shut it down along with the whole fruitless field of "Solaristics." At first it seems to him that the few surviving scientists on the station have lost their minds, and then he himself falls victim to an eerie apparition: his wife Hari, who took her own life some time ago, appears before him.
Abram Naroditsky, Nikolai Rasheyev
Private Bumbarash, believed killed on the fronts of the First World War, unexpectedly returns to his native village, where no one recognises him, since the money for his memorial service was long ago spent as intended. The country is already ablaze with civil war; in the tiny village power changes every half a day: reds, whites, anarchists, bandits, reds again, and after them whites again, and so on without end... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to build his life and personal happiness.
Stanley Kubrick
The ruthless leader of a gang of teenagers who commit murder and rape lands in prison and is subjected to a special treatment meant to suppress his subconscious craving for violence. But life beyond the prison gates is such that the measures taken to "correct the cruelty of his character" can change nothing.
Grigori Kozintsev
An aging king decides to step down and divide his kingdom among his three daughters according to how much each of them loves him. The elder daughters flatter him and get their share, but the youngest, Cordelia, refuses to flatter him, and the enraged father disowns her and banishes the earl who stood up for her.
Grigori Kozintsev
After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius takes the throne and marries the widow Gertrude. Hamlet meets his father's ghost and learns that Claudius murdered him.