Movies: Alexandre Arbat

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process....

A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama....

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the K...

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This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has ha...

During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political....

The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade....

A César award nominated short drama....

The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, h...

A well-known writer lives with the obsession of a past drama and, unable to write, wanders from bar to bar at night. One night he meets Marie, whose laughter suddenly resonates for him like an echo. Marie, unable to resist this man who confuses her, ...

About a young boy growing up to become a great artist. Set basically in St. Petersburg and a country dacha in Vyra during the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution....

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The film brings back to the screen another page of the underground youth struggle against the fascist occupiers of Moldova — the Romanian Cigurans....

About the everyday work of the rural Komsomol district committee....

Mathematics teacher Ivan Lunev proposes a new method of teaching children. This innovation has yielded brilliant results. However, there are also those who oppose him......