10 Russian science fiction films that are not ashamed of

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Blockbusters about aliens, story of the hitmen and first-person action game.

10. Attraction

• Russia, 2017.
• Fantastic.
• Duration: 132 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 6.

A wounded alien ship falls in Moscow Chertanovo. The aliens do not show aggression, but the local youth decides to avenge their friends who died when the object fell. However, soon young Yulia Lebedeva approaches one of the aliens.

Many complaints arose about the plot of Fyodor Bondarchuk's film - especially after the review from BadComedian. But what the director cannot refuse is good special effects. Decent visuals, as well as large-scale advertising provided the film with an excellent box office and allowed the author to shoot the sequel "Invasion".

9. Night Watch

• Russia, 2004.
• Action, science fiction.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

Anton Gorodetsky serves in the Night Watch, protecting humanity from the actions of evil spirits. One day he receives a task: to save young Yegor from vampires. But it turns out that much more serious forces of darkness are involved in the case.

Timur Bekmambetov's blockbuster, based on the books of Sergei Lukyanenko, has become popular not only in Russia, but also in the West. True, in the American version, the film was severely cut, removing, for example, the character of Gosha Kutsenko.

8. Satellite

• Russia, 2020.
• Science fiction, thriller, drama.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

In 1983, a Soviet spacecraft returned to Earth. However, it turns out that one member of the crew died, and the second appears to have collided with an alien life form. The neurophysiologist Tatiana Klimova will have to figure out what happened.

Before the release of the picture, many joked that the authors simply crossed "Alien" with "Form of Water" and "Cheburashka". However, the film turned out to be more interesting than everyone expected. After a successful release in Russia, he even hit the first lines of American iTunes.

7. Sagittarius restless

• Russia, France, USA, 1993.
• Science fiction, melodrama.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

Former journalist Herman returns from emigration to Russia to his dying grandfather. The hero learns that he managed to create a corridor of time through which you can get to the 1960s. He decides to use this invention to enrich himself. But difficulties soon begin.

The film by Georgy Shengelia combines elements of fantasy, comedy and life drama. But the director always emphasized that, first of all, he was filming a love story.

6. Fourth planet

• Russia, 1995.
• Melodrama, fantasy.
• Duration: 84 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

The International Space Expedition arrives on Mars. Unexpectedly, researchers discover a small Soviet town there. And soon they realize that they have fallen into their own past. And now one of the astronauts will have to choose between returning home and the love that he has lost.

The film is based in part on the "Third Expedition" episode from Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. But the authors very touchingly adapted the plot to the Soviet and Russian realities.

5. We are from the future

• Russia, 2008.
• Action, science fiction.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

Four black diggers are sent to the battlefields of World War II. They find strange old photographs among the artifacts, and then go for a swim. And suddenly they move to 1942 - in the midst of the fighting.

“We are from the future” is a typical example of the history of the hit-and-miss. But with all the conventionality of the plot in the picture, it is a good action, which cannot but rejoice.

4. Hardcore

• Russia, USA, 2016.
• Action, science fiction.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

The main character wakes up in the laboratory. He only remembers his wife, who is immediately kidnapped by the villains. With the support of the mysterious Jimmy, the hero is trying to save his beloved, and at the same time to figure out his past. After all, he understands that he has become a cyborg.

The film by Ilya Naishuller is an incredibly dynamic action movie, where all the action is shown through the eyes of the protagonist. And the fantastic component adds surprise to the plot.

3. First on the Moon

• Russia, 2005.
• Detective, fantastic.
• Duration: 75 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 8.

A group of journalists discover classified materials from the late 1930s. It turns out that already at that time the first spacecraft was built in the USSR. And the preparation for his flight was filmed by the special services.

The pseudo-documentary is very neatly stylized as newsreels. Moreover, the authors even specially went to the Chelyabinsk Aviation Institute in order to remove the real equipment from the Star City. But, of course, everything shown is pure fiction.

2. Ugly Swans

• Russia, France, Switzerland, 2006.
• Drama, fantasy, detective.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

Writer Viktor Banev comes to the closed city of Tashlinsk, where a boarding school for unusual children has been created. Perhaps it was because of them that dangerous anomalies began to occur around. In fact, Banev wants to get his daughter out of there.

Konstantin Lopushansky is a master of dark fantasy. Back in the days of the USSR, he shot the post-apocalyptic films "Letters of a Dead Man" and "Museum Visitor". The adaptation of the story of the same name by the Strugatsky brothers continues his corporate style: here is the same atmosphere of doom and many reflections on the very essence of man.

1. Window to Paris

• Russia, France, 1993.
• Comedy, fantasy, drama.
• Duration: 120 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Music teacher Nikolai Chizhov lives in an ordinary communal apartment. One day, together with his neighbors, he discovers a window covered with a wardrobe in the room of the missing old woman. After passing through it, the heroes find themselves in Paris. And they immediately understand that such opportunities should be used for their own benefit.

In Yuri Mamin's picture, the fantastic part is only a secondary component. First of all, this is a kind comedy about the contrast between the world of post-Soviet communal apartments and abroad, which many could only dream of. It is for the humor and the absence of any excessive condemnation and moralizing that the audience fell in love with the film.