# The best Soviet films of all time

Soviet films with the highest audience ratings on Kinopoisk and in round-ups by Lenta.ru and Sport-Express: Gaidai and Ryazanov comedies, war dramas and masterpieces of world cinema.

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- May 8, 2026 · Евгений Новиков
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## Top 22

1. **The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Igor Maslennikov, 1981. Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin; one of the highest audience-rated films on Kinopoisk.
2. **Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai, 1973. Inventor Shurik sends Ivan the Terrible to the 1970s and a building manager to the 16th century; 8.8 on Kinopoisk.
3. **Seventeen Moments of Spring** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tatyana Lioznova, 1973. Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Stierlitz; 8.9 on Kinopoisk.
4. **Beware of the Car** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eldar Ryazanov, 1966. Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Detochkin, the noble car thief; 8.6.
5. **The Diamond Arm** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai, 1968. Yuri Nikulin and smuggled jewels in a plaster cast; 8.5.
6. **Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vladimir Menshov, 1979. Three friends in Moscow over twenty years; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
7. **The Cranes Are Flying** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957. Tatiana Samoilova and the war; the only Soviet Palme d'Or.
8. **Heart of a Dog** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vladimir Bortko, 1988. Professor Preobrazhensky turns a dog into a man, from Bulgakov; 8.4.
9. **The Irony of Fate** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eldar Ryazanov, 1975. A New Year's Eve mix-up between identical flats; it airs every New Year.
10. **Office Romance** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eldar Ryazanov, 1977. Andrei Myagkov and Alisa Freindlich in a romance at a statistics bureau.
11. **Kidnapping, Caucasian Style** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai, 1967. Shurik, Nina and the trio of the Coward, the Fool and the Pro.
12. **Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai, 1965. Three stories about the student Shurik.
13. **Gentlemen of Fortune** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aleksandr Seryi, 1971. Yevgeny Leonov as a kindergarten head who looks like a repeat offender.
14. **Love and Doves** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vladimir Menshov, 1984. A village pigeon-fancier and a holiday romance; 8.3.
15. **The Dawns Here Are Quiet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stanislav Rostotsky, 1972. A sergeant and five anti-aircraft girls against German saboteurs.
16. **Only Old Men Are Going to Battle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Bykov, 1973. A 'singing squadron' of fighter pilots.
17. **White Sun of the Desert** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vladimir Motyl, 1970. Red Army soldier Sukhov in Central Asia; cosmonauts traditionally watch it before launch.
18. **Come and See** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Elem Klimov, 1985. A Belarusian teenager and the Nazi punitive squads; one of the most harrowing war films.
19. **Stalker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979. Three men cross the Zone towards a room that grants wishes.
20. **Andrei Rublev** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966. The life of an icon painter in 15th-century Russia.
21. **Battleship Potemkin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sergei Eisenstein, 1925. The sailors' mutiny and the Odessa Steps sequence.
22. **Officers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vladimir Rogovoy, 1971. Two officers' friendship over half a century: 'There is such a profession: defending the Motherland'.

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