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Some of the more notable Soviet films are:
* ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]''. The source of "The Odessa Steps" sequence.
* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:October:_Ten_Days_That_Shook_the_World Ten Days That Shook the World|October: Ten Days That Shook the World]]''. A reasonably accurate re-creation of [[Red October]].
* ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]''. Teutonic Knights, [[Putting On the Reich]], invade Russia and are beaten by the titular man.
** This film is notable for "Battle of the Ice", which directly inspired quite a few later battle scenes.
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* Andrei Tarkovsky's ''[[Solaris (Literature)|Solaris]]'' and ''[[Stalker (Film)|Stalker]]'' (very little relationship to [[STALKER]]), both of which take [[Sci Fi]] stories about man's reaction to the unknown and turn them into explorations of man's relationship with the unknown about his fellow about.
* ''[[White Sun of the Desert]]'': one of the best, if not the best of the USSR Ostern tradition - taking traditional Western themes and adapting them to post civil war Russia.
* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home_Among_Strangers:At Home Among Strangers|At Home Among the Strangers]]'': Another Ostern, the one that launched [[Nikita Mikhalkov]]'s career and may be the best thing he's ever done.
* ''[[Kin Dza Dza]]'' cult sci-fi comedy movie
* ''[[War and Peace]]'', [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]'s epic four-part adaptation that is considered the most expensive film in history. It was the first Soviet film to win an Academy Award, to be followed by...
* ''[[Dersu Uzala]]''. Directed by [[Akira Kurosawa]], this film is an adaptation of the memoirs of the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, chronicling his exploration of the Russian Far East and his friendship with his native guide Dersu, a real life [[Noble Savage]].
* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate:The Irony of Fate|The Irony of Fate]]'' (full Russian title: ''Ironiya Sudby, ili S Lyogkim Parom!''; see the "Taking Steam" section below), a 1975 comedy-drama by Eldar Ryazanov. Starting out as a satire of the unimaginative uniformity of Brezhnev era architecture and a screwball comedy about a man getting stranded on New Year's Eve (and having to explain himself to his fiancée, as well as to the fiancé of the woman whose apartment he unwittingly broke into), the film evolves into a melodramatic love story with a somewhat [[Bittersweet Ending]]. Similar to ''[[Its a Wonderful Life]]'' and ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' in the US, ''[[The Irony Of Fate]]'' is a Russian winter holidays' staple with at least one of the federal channels airing it on New Year's Eve every year.
** A sequel, ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate_2:The Irony of Fate 2|The Irony of Fate 2]]'', was filmed in 2007 by Timur Bekmambetov, more famous as the director of ''[[Night Watch]]'' and ''[[Wanted]]'' and the co-producer of Shane Acker's ''[[Nine]]''. The sequel puts the children of the lead characters of the first film in the exact same situation in [[The New Russia|the modern day]]. Since Soviet nostalgia is [[Serious Business]] in Russia, public opinion of the film is [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|highly]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|divided]] (the [[Egregious]] amounts of [[Product Placement]] do not help).
* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Romance:Office Romance|Office Romance]]'' (full Russian title: ''Sluzhebnyy roman''), another lyrical comedy by Eldar Ryazanov about developing [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|office romance]] between rather clumsy single father in his middle 30s and his [[Defrosting Ice Queen|strict female boss]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Gentlemen of Fortune]]'' dramedy about kindergarten teacher who uses his [[Criminal Doppelganger|appearance extremely similar to the hardened criminal]], infiltrates the gang and tries to find the helmet of [[Alexander the Great]] that gang stole earlier, all the while trying to fix what went wrong with his subordinates lifes and to push them into law-abiding normalcy.
* ''[[Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession]]'' goofy comedy about an [[Mad Scientist|eccentric engineer]] who invented time-machine and got Ivan The Terrible into his modern world while two other 20th century guys (an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|apartmant house intendant]] who looked much like Ivan the Terrible, and a [[Lovable Rogue]]) stuck in medieval Russia.
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