# Aleksei Balabanov's best films

From Happy Days to Me Too: Balabanov's films according to Sport-Express, Ural-N and Kino-Teatr.ru, with Brother on top.

- 6 votes · 13 items
- May 21, 2022 · Айгерим Иванова
- https://even.best/en/l/3312/aleksei-balabanov-s-best-films

## Top 13

1. **Brother (1997)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sergei Bodrov Jr as the hero of a generation.
2. **Cargo 200 (2007)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Provincial Russia in 1984.
3. **Brother 2 (2000)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Danila Bagrov in America.
4. **The Stoker (2010)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A veteran boiler-man and 1990s gangsters.
5. **The Castle (1994)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Kafka adaptation.
6. **Of Freaks and Men (1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Early-20th-century St Petersburg; Nika awards for best film and director.
7. **Morphine (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Bulgakov's A Young Doctor's Notebook.
8. **War (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hostages in Chechnya.
9. **Dead Man's Bluff (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A black comedy about 1990s gangsters.
10. **It Doesn't Hurt (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Renata Litvinova and Aleksandr Yatsenko.
11. **Me Too (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A journey to a 'bell tower of happiness'; his last film.
12. **The River (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An unfinished film about a Yakut leper colony.
13. **Happy Days (1991)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — His feature debut, after Beckett.

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