Movies
- 2002
Russian Ark
Russian Ark7.3242002HD
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
- 1997
Mother and Son
Mother and Son6.681997HD
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
- 2011
Faust
Faust6.6332011HD
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...
- 1999
Moloch
Moloch6.3131999HD
In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.
- 2017
Closeness
Closeness6.8942017HD
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom...
- 2015
Francofonia
Francofonia6.5992015HD
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection...
- 2005
The Sun
The Sun6.7242005HD
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
- 2003
Father and Son
Father and Son5.82003HD
In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and...
- 2001
Taurus
Taurus5.82001HD
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his...
- 2019
A Russian Youth
A Russian Youth5.6962019HD
A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and...
- 1992
Stone
Stone5.3681992HD
Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and...
- 1990
The Second Circle
The Second Circle6.4791990HD
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
- 1987
Mournful Unconcern
Mournful Unconcern4.61987HD
The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it...
- 1987
The Lonely Voice of Man
The Lonely Voice of Man5.71987HD
Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom...
- 2007
Alexandra
Alexandra6.22007HD
Elderly Aleksandra visits her Russian soldier grandson, Denis, at the Chechen war front, providing comfort as she tours his army. All the while,...
- 1988
Days of Eclipse
Days of Eclipse5.9421988HD
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs...
- 2023
The Last Days of Humanity
The Last Days of Humanity7.42023HD
The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....
- 2022
Fairytale
Fairytale6.9832022HD
A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian...
- 2001
Elegy of a Voyage
Elegy of a Voyage7.3332001HD
This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place...
- 1990
Save and Protect
Save and Protect4.9691990HD
Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...