1.	View Larger Image	Father and Son Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
		From Amazon.com There's nothing ordinary or everyday in the movie world of Alexander Sokurov, as fans of the Russian director's Mother and Son and Russian Ark are well aware. This film bears no literal relation to Mother and Son, but the sense of depth is similar. Father and Son appears to be about the separation of the fiercely devoted title characters, who look ... more Buy from Amazon

2.	View Larger Image	The White Sun of the Desert Director: Vladimir Motyl
		From Description In this international cult favorite, a Central-Asian action film, the Red Army clashes with counter-revolutionary robber bands. Demobbed soldier Fyodor Sukhov is making his way through the desert to his home village, where the band of brutal Abdulla is raging. Sukhov is charged with escorting the chief's harem, because Abdulla intended to kill his women rather than let them go free. ... more Buy from Amazon

3.	View Larger Image	Stalker Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
		From Description This science fiction milestone from director Andrei Tarkovsky (Solaris) takes you into the Zone, a mysterious, guarded realm containing a mystical Room in which occupants' secret dreams come true. Stalker, a man able to lead others to this holy grail, escorts a writer and a scientist through this foreboding territory and confronts several unexpected challenges along the way. Based on the ... more Buy from Amazon

4.	View Larger Image	Kolya Actors: Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon Director: Jan Sverák
		From Amazon.com Winner of the 1997 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this charming Czech drama uses the backdrop of the Russian military occupation in Prague for its funny, sad, and ultimately delightful story of a 55-year-old man's friendship with a 5-year-old boy. It doesn't exactly start out as friendship: Louka is a cellist who lost his symphony job after writing a ... more Buy from Amazon

5.	View Larger Image	The Mirror Actors: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Filipp Yankovsky Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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6.	View Larger Image	Russian Ark Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
		From Amazon.com Russian master Alexander Sokurov has tapped into the very flow of history itself for this flabbergasting film. Thanks to the miracles of digital video, Sokurov (and cinematographer Tilman Buttner) uses a single, unbroken, 90-minute shot to wind his way through the Hermitage in St. Petersburg--the repository of Russian art and the former home to royalty. Gliding through time, we glimpse Catherine ... more Buy from Amazon

7.	View Larger Image	War and Peace Actor: Sergei Bondarchuk
		From Amazon.com Like Tolstoy's novel, this epic-length War and Peace is rough going, but worth the effort. Winner of the 1969 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film and widely considered the most faithful adaptation of Tolstoy's classic, Sergei Bondarchuk's massive Soviet-Italian coproduction was seven years in the making, at a record-setting cost of $100 million. Bondarchuk himself plays the central role of ... more Buy from Amazon

8.	View Larger Image	Tycoon - A New Russian Director: Pavel Lungin
		From Description A stylish, slick crime drama based on the life of notorious billionaire Boris Berezovsky, TYCOON follows the life of Plato Makovski ,a renegade Russian entrepeneur whose seductive and brutal climb to the top in the post-Soviet era flourishes as the line between business, crime and politics breaks down. Opening with Plato’s assassination by car bomb, An investigation Judge of his life ... more Buy from Amazon

9.	View Larger Image	I Am Cuba Actors: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili
		From Description A most acclaimed discovery, I Am Cuba will change your view of cinema forever! Filmed by great Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying), I Am Cuba is an epic poem to Communist kitsch--a whirling, feverish dance through the sensuous decadence of Battista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. Presented jointly by master directors Francis ... more Buy from Amazon

10.	View Larger Image	The Return Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
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