Valentin Gaft

The film is based on one a chapters from Fazil Iskander's epic "Sandro from the Village of Chegem". It tells a story about one feast of Josef Stalin and his closest entourage. (Amazon.com)

Yet another take on the famous Dumas work "The Three Musketeers" with all the parts played by the animals.

The plot takes place in 19th century in a military hussar regiment, which spends few days in a provincial Russian town. A high profile Secret Service agent has a task to investigate if this regiment is loyal to the Tzar. The agent finds an actor who agrees to play a role of a captured rebel. Agent's plan is to test regiment's hussars ordering them to execute (shoot to death) this false rebel. Everything is staged, but hussars think it's a real execution. (imdb)

Ivan is in love with Alyona, a witch in a state-run institute for magical research. Alyona's scheming coworker Sataneev tricks her boss into casting a spell on her. As a result, Alyona forgets about Ivan and promises to marry Sataneev. Ivan and Alyona's friends break the curse in time for the New Year's Eve celebrations.

The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for people who think Sherlock Holmes is real -- accompanied by a phonograph playing music from the Livanov series which had not long ended. (The Movie Database)

A political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia. (imdb)

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people. (imdb)

Vertical Race (Russian: ????? ?? ?????????, romanized: Gonki po vertikali) is a 1983 Soviet three-part crime miniseries directed by Aleksander Muratov based on the story of the same name by the Vayner Brothers. (wiki)

...Near one of Moscow's train stations, on a landfill site, a group of vagrants lives. The head of those unfortunate people is "President" - a former party worker Dmitry Loginov, who like his friend Fedor, was in Stalin's camps. One night the President tells his friends incredible news. He allegedly had contact with aliens, who promised to take all those people to their planet - to the place where happiness, joy and peace rule. (wikipedia.org)