# Post-Soviet cinema — Russia & Eastern Europe after 1991

> Tarkovsky and Klimov are pre-1991. After that, an unsettled cinema: Zvyagintsev's cold landscapes, Sokurov's long takes, Loznitsa's documentaries that look like funerals.

Source: <https://nextmovie4u.com/canon/post-soviet-cinema/>

## 30 films in this list

- **[Flow](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/flow-2024/)** (2024) — ★ 8.1 · 2,780 votes · weird, foreign-gem, atmospheric
- **[Tangerines](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/tangerines-2013/)** (2013) — ★ 7.7 · 593 votes · foreign-gem, devastating
- **[Sniper: The White Raven](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/sniper-the-white-raven-2022/)** (2022) — ★ 7.7 · 888 votes · foreign-gem, devastating
- **[The Old Man and the Sea](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-old-man-and-the-sea-1999/)** (1999) — ★ 7.6 · 165 votes · foreign-gem, cult, cozy
- **[U Are the Universe](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/u-are-the-universe-2025/)** (2025) — ★ 7.6 · 68 votes · foreign-gem, cozy, mindfuck
- **[Mira](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/mira-2022/)** (2022) — ★ 7.5 · 426 votes · foreign-gem, cozy, devastating
- **[Balkan Line](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/balkan-line-2019/)** (2019) — ★ 7.4 · 572 votes · foreign-gem, devastating
- **[Leviathan](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/leviathan-2014/)** (2014) — ★ 7.4 · 952 votes · cozy, foreign-gem, autumnal
- **[Loveless](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/loveless-2017/)** (2017) — ★ 7.3 · 815 votes · foreign-gem, devastating
- **[The Return](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-return-2003/)** (2003) — ★ 7.3 · 699 votes · foreign-gem, cult, devastating
- **[Russian Ark](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/russian-ark-2002/)** (2002) — ★ 7.2 · 506 votes · foreign-gem, cult, atmospheric
- **[T-34](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/t-34-2018/)** (2018) — ★ 7.1 · 931 votes · devastating, slow-burn, foreign-gem
- **[Mavka: The Forest Song](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/mavka-the-forest-song-2023/)** (2023) — ★ 7.1 · 843 votes · atmospheric, cozy, foreign-gem
- **[Salyut-7](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/salyut-7-2017/)** (2017) — ★ 7.1 · 507 votes · foreign-gem, late-night
- **[The Barber of Siberia](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-barber-of-siberia-1998/)** (1998) — ★ 7.0 · 156 votes · cult, slow-burn, foreign-gem
- **[Flight Crew](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/flight-crew-2016/)** (2016) — ★ 6.9 · 296 votes · foreign-gem
- **[Invasion](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/invasion-2020/)** (2020) — ★ 6.9 · 882 votes · foreign-gem
- **[Three Seconds](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/three-seconds-2017/)** (2017) — ★ 6.9 · 177 votes · slow-burn, foreign-gem
- **[Upon the Magic Roads](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/upon-the-magic-roads-2021/)** (2021) — ★ 6.8 · 313 votes · atmospheric, foreign-gem
- **[Cargo 200](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/cargo-200-2007/)** (2007) — ★ 6.8 · 223 votes · dread, foreign-gem
- **[The Master and Margarita](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-master-and-margarita-2024/)** (2024) — ★ 6.8 · 153 votes · slow-burn, atmospheric, foreign-gem
- **[Metro](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/metro-2013/)** (2013) — ★ 6.7 · 366 votes · dread, foreign-gem
- **[Attraction](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/attraction-2017/)** (2017) — ★ 6.7 · 904 votes · neon-soaked, foreign-gem, cozy
- **[Major Grom: Plague Doctor](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/major-grom-plague-doctor-2021/)** (2021) — ★ 6.6 · 646 votes · foreign-gem
- **[Mother and Son](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/mother-and-son-1997/)** (1997) — ★ 6.6 · 90 votes · foreign-gem
- **[Atlantis](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/atlantis-2020/)** (2020) — ★ 6.6 · 55 votes · foreign-gem
- **[Hard to Be a God](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/hard-to-be-a-god-2014/)** (2014) — ★ 6.5 · 163 votes · neon-soaked, slow-burn, foreign-gem
- **[The Blackout](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-blackout-2019/)** (2019) — ★ 6.5 · 571 votes · neon-soaked
- **[Major Grom](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/major-grom-2017/)** (2017) — ★ 6.4 · 70 votes · neon-soaked, late-night
- **[Coma](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/coma-2020/)** (2020) — ★ 6.4 · 622 votes

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