Russian Red

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelt...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Cast

Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Runtime

2h 47m

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Jan Svěrák

Cast

Andrei Khalimon, Zdeněk Svěrák, Libuše Šafránková

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the Russian young men collide into barriers of culture and language resulting in a host of ...

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Cast

Aleksey Serebryakov, Daniil Strakhov, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa