00s: My favorite Russian movies
Top 20 of 375 Russian movies and series in the 2000s.
2000: "Brat 2" by Aleksey Balabonov, "His Wife's Diary" by Aleksey Uchitel.
Also in 2000: the drama "Moscow".
2001: "In August of 1944" by Mikhail Ptashuk, "Sisters" by Sergey Bodrov.
Also in 2001: the comedy "Down House" and drama "Taurus".
2002: "War" by Aleksey Balabanov, "The Cuckoo" by Aleksandr Rogozhkin.
Also in 2002: the dramas "Russian Ark" and "Chekhov's Motifs".
2003: “Granny” by Lydiya Bobrova, “The Return” by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Also in 2003: the dramas "Old Women", "Roads to Koktebel" and series "Idiot".
2004:"The Tuner" by Kira Muratova.
Also in 2004: the dramas "Our Own", "A Driver for Vera", the series "The Saboteur", "The Penal Battalion" and the cartoon "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey".
2005:"Dreaming of Space" by Aleksey Uchitel, “The Sun” by Aleksandr Sokurov
Also in 2005: the dramas " The Italian", "Nanjing landscape", "Dust", action "The Turkish Gambit" and series "Brezhnev" and "The Master and Margarita".
2006: "Playing the victim" by Kirill Serebrennikov.
Also in 2006: the dramas "The Island", "Swallows Have Arrived", "Listening To The Silence", "Franz + Polina", "Time Out" and cartoon "My Love".
2007: "Cargo 200" by Aleksey Balabanov, "Simple Things" by Aleksey Popogrebskiy, "Center Line" by Juliya Kolesnik, "Fat Stupid Rabbit" by Vyacheslav Ross.
Also in 2007: the dramas " The Banishment", "Extraterrestrial", "Kuka", "Nothing Personal", "Travelling with Pets", "My children" and comedy "Election Day" and series "Liquidation".
2008: "Yuri's Day" by Kirill Serebrennikov.
Also in 2008: the dramas "Paper Soldier", "To Paris", "Wild Field", "Don't Think About White Monkeys", "Plus One", "Tulpan", "Shultes", action "Back in Time" and series "Happy People" and "The Apostle".
2009: "A Room and a Half" by Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, "Tambourine, Drum" by Aleksey Mizgiryov, "The Tsar".
Also in 2009: the dramas "Wolfy", "Pete on the Way to Heaven", "A Tale of the Darkness" and documentary "Ridge of Russia".
2000: "Brat 2" by Aleksey Balabonov, "His Wife's Diary" by Aleksey Uchitel.
Also in 2000: the drama "Moscow".
2001: "In August of 1944" by Mikhail Ptashuk, "Sisters" by Sergey Bodrov.
Also in 2001: the comedy "Down House" and drama "Taurus".
2002: "War" by Aleksey Balabanov, "The Cuckoo" by Aleksandr Rogozhkin.
Also in 2002: the dramas "Russian Ark" and "Chekhov's Motifs".
2003: “Granny” by Lydiya Bobrova, “The Return” by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Also in 2003: the dramas "Old Women", "Roads to Koktebel" and series "Idiot".
2004:"The Tuner" by Kira Muratova.
Also in 2004: the dramas "Our Own", "A Driver for Vera", the series "The Saboteur", "The Penal Battalion" and the cartoon "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey".
2005:"Dreaming of Space" by Aleksey Uchitel, “The Sun” by Aleksandr Sokurov
Also in 2005: the dramas " The Italian", "Nanjing landscape", "Dust", action "The Turkish Gambit" and series "Brezhnev" and "The Master and Margarita".
2006: "Playing the victim" by Kirill Serebrennikov.
Also in 2006: the dramas "The Island", "Swallows Have Arrived", "Listening To The Silence", "Franz + Polina", "Time Out" and cartoon "My Love".
2007: "Cargo 200" by Aleksey Balabanov, "Simple Things" by Aleksey Popogrebskiy, "Center Line" by Juliya Kolesnik, "Fat Stupid Rabbit" by Vyacheslav Ross.
Also in 2007: the dramas " The Banishment", "Extraterrestrial", "Kuka", "Nothing Personal", "Travelling with Pets", "My children" and comedy "Election Day" and series "Liquidation".
2008: "Yuri's Day" by Kirill Serebrennikov.
Also in 2008: the dramas "Paper Soldier", "To Paris", "Wild Field", "Don't Think About White Monkeys", "Plus One", "Tulpan", "Shultes", action "Back in Time" and series "Happy People" and "The Apostle".
2009: "A Room and a Half" by Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, "Tambourine, Drum" by Aleksey Mizgiryov, "The Tsar".
Also in 2009: the dramas "Wolfy", "Pete on the Way to Heaven", "A Tale of the Darkness" and documentary "Ridge of Russia".
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- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin LavronenkoIn the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsIssei OgataRobert DawsonKaori MomoiThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsAndrey SmirnovGalina TyuninaOlga BudinaAn attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
- DirectorMikhail PtashukStarsEvgeniy MironovVladislav GalkinYuri KolokolnikovThe movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
- DirectorSergey BodrovStarsOksana AkinshinaKatya GorinaRoman AgeevTwo young girls, Sveta and Dina, go on the run to avoid being kidnapped by the former associates of Dina's recently released gangster father.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.
- DirectorLidiya BobrovaStarsNina ShubinaOlga OnishchenkoAnna OvsyannikovaAn old Russian grandmother, a product of "old" Russia who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, sacrificed everything for her children and even sold her house to get money for her grandchildren, is shuttled among those very grandchildren--products of the "new" Russia--none of whom want her to stay with them since she's too much of a "burden" for them.
- DirectorGennadiy SidorovStarsValentina BerezutskayaTamara KlimovaAnastasia LyubimovaA small village in the Russian campaign is inhabited only by few old women and a boy. When a family of refugees arrives they are at first opposed by the community, but eventually they'll be accepted and help revive the village.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsGeorgiy DelievAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaA young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsEvgeniy MironovEvgeniy TsyganovIrina PegovaA story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr PalamishevAleksandra ZhivovaEvgeniya KryukovaIn nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsSergey PuskepalisLeonid BronevoySvetlana KamyninaA dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
- DirectorVyacheslav RossStarsAleksey MaklakovSofya OleynikVladimir DolinskiyAn actor who performs for a children's theater lands a leading role in a new production.
- StarsVladimir MashkovMikhail PorechenkovAleksandr ChernyavskiyWide-scale operation against criminality turning into something more dangerous in post-WWII Odessa.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsKseniya RappoportRoman ShmakovYevgeniya KuznetsovaA mother loses her son during a winter visit to a remote town.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhSergey YurskiyGrigoriy DityatkovskiyA semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
- DirectorAleksey MizgiryovStarsNatalya NegodaElena LyadovaDmitriy KulichkovKatya, 45 year old head of the library, falls in love with a sailor. However, he goes on Katie to her best friend. Having inherited from his father's apartment, Kate is ready to give it to the man who kills girlfriend, to take away from her beloved.
- DirectorNikolay KhomerikiStarsAlisa KhazanovaBoris KamorzinYuriy SafarovAngelina lives in a big city on the sea cost, where handsome men and beautiful women are strolling the streets with only one purpose: to have fun, flirt and love. But Angelina, being pretty, intelligent, and nice, finds herself lonely. She is police officer and her job is helping abandoned kids, orphans, and troubled youngsters. One day one of her charges, a little boy, explains Angelina how lonely, dull and useless she is. Those words have been bothering her ever since, and she decides to change herself.. Angelina starts her way through the darkness.
