The best Soviet films of all time
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles · Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future · Seventeen Moments of Spring. (Updated May 8, 2026.)
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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Top 22
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Igor Maslennikov, 1981. Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin; one of the highest audience-rated films on Kinopoisk.
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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
Leonid Gaidai, 1973. Inventor Shurik sends Ivan the Terrible to the 1970s and a building manager to the 16th century; 8.8 on Kinopoisk.
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Seventeen Moments of Spring
Tatyana Lioznova, 1973. Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Stierlitz; 8.9 on Kinopoisk.
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Beware of the Car
Eldar Ryazanov, 1966. Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Detochkin, the noble car thief; 8.6.
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The Diamond Arm
Leonid Gaidai, 1968. Yuri Nikulin and smuggled jewels in a plaster cast; 8.5.
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6
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Vladimir Menshov, 1979. Three friends in Moscow over twenty years; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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The Cranes Are Flying
Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957. Tatiana Samoilova and the war; the only Soviet Palme d'Or.
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8
Heart of a Dog
Vladimir Bortko, 1988. Professor Preobrazhensky turns a dog into a man, from Bulgakov; 8.4.
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The Irony of Fate
Eldar Ryazanov, 1975. A New Year's Eve mix-up between identical flats; it airs every New Year.
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Office Romance
Eldar Ryazanov, 1977. Andrei Myagkov and Alisa Freindlich in a romance at a statistics bureau.
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Leonid Gaidai, 1967. Shurik, Nina and the trio of the Coward, the Fool and the Pro.
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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Leonid Gaidai, 1965. Three stories about the student Shurik.
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Gentlemen of Fortune
Aleksandr Seryi, 1971. Yevgeny Leonov as a kindergarten head who looks like a repeat offender.
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14
Love and Doves
Vladimir Menshov, 1984. A village pigeon-fancier and a holiday romance; 8.3.
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet
Stanislav Rostotsky, 1972. A sergeant and five anti-aircraft girls against German saboteurs.
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
Leonid Bykov, 1973. A 'singing squadron' of fighter pilots.
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White Sun of the Desert
Vladimir Motyl, 1970. Red Army soldier Sukhov in Central Asia; cosmonauts traditionally watch it before launch.
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Come and See
Elem Klimov, 1985. A Belarusian teenager and the Nazi punitive squads; one of the most harrowing war films.
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Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979. Three men cross the Zone towards a room that grants wishes.
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Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966. The life of an icon painter in 15th-century Russia.
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Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein, 1925. The sailors' mutiny and the Odessa Steps sequence.
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Officers
Vladimir Rogovoy, 1971. Two officers' friendship over half a century: 'There is such a profession: defending the Motherland'.
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Comments (9)
«Москва слезам не верит» получила Оскар, заслуженно.
А где «Москва — Кассиопея»? Фильм детства.
«Ирония судьбы» 31 декабря — это святое.
«Семнадцать мгновений весны» — Тихонов великолепен.
«Собачье сердце» Бортко — гениальная экранизация Булгакова.
«Иван Васильевич меняет профессию» пересматриваю каждый Новый год 😄
Гайдай три раза в списке, король комедии.
«Собака Баскервилей» с Ливановым — лучший Шерлок в истории, даже англичане признали.
«Летят журавли» — единственный советский фильм с Золотой пальмовой ветвью.