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Best Eastern-bloc Movies Ever?


Obviously, movies before the 80s. I think others should answer first, I know a few in mind who will have some great picks.

Doesn't have to be pro and anti anything, just great.

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The Donkey's Hide (Oslinaya shkura) (1982)


Elegy of a Voyage (Elegiya dorogi; Élégie de la traversée) (France | Russia | Netherlands, 2001)


Elegy of the Land


Falling Leaves (Giorgobistve; La chute des feuilles) (1968)


Father and Son (Otets i syn) (2003)


Five Evenings (Pyat vecherov)(1979)


Golden Horns (Zolotye Roga) (1972)


Goluboi ogonek (TV, 1962-1970)


Goluboi ogonek (TV, 1981-1988)


Guerrilla Brigade (Vsadniki) (1939)


Gypsies are Found Near Heaven (Tabor ukhodit v nebo) (Soviet Union, 1995)


Hamlet (Gamlet)(1964)


House of Fools (Dom durakov) (Russia | France, 2002)


Hubert Robert, A Fortunate Life (Robert. Schastlivanya zhizn)(Russia, 1996)




I Am Cuba (Ja Kuba; Soy Cuba) (Soviet Union / Cuba, 1964)


Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Groznyi) (1944/1958)

Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu) (1973)


King Lear (Korol Lear)(1969)

Komissar(1967)


Krylya (1966)


Kukushka (The Cuckoo) (2002)


The Lady with a Dog (Dama s sobachkoj) (1960)


Late Marriage (Hatuna meuheret; Mariage tardif) (2001)

Little Vera (Malenkaya Vera) (1988)

Luna Park (1991)

The Mermaid (1996)


The Mirror (Zerkalo) (1974)


Moloch (Russia / Germany / Japan / Italy / France, 1999)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Moskva Slezam ne Verit) (1979)


Mother and Son (Mat i syn) (1997)


My Name Is Ivan (Ivan's Childhood)(Ivanovo detstvo) (1963)


The Nose (Le Nez) (1963)


Nostalghia (1983)


Okraina (The Outskirts) (1998)


Oligarkh (Tycoon: A New Russian; Un nouveau russe) (2002)


Oriental Elegy (Vostochnaya elegiya ; Élégie orientale) (Russia / Japan, 1996)


Ostrov (The Island) (Russia, 2006)


Pastorali (Pastoral) (1975)


Peter the First (1937-1939)


Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskii plennik) (1996)


¿Que Viva Mexico!¿ (Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!)


Repentance (Monanieba; Pokayanie) (1987)


The Return (Vozvrashchenie) (2003)

Roads to Koktebel (Koktebel) (2003)


Russian Ark (Russkiy kovcheg) (2002)


The Sacrifice (Offret) (1986)

The Second Circle (Krug vtoroy) (1990)


Sergei Eisenstein Mexican Fantasy (Meksikanskaya fantasiya)(Russia, 1998)


Siberiade. (1979)


A Slave of Love (Raba lyubvi)(1976)


Solaris (Solyaris) (1972)


Spiritual Voices (Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh) (Russia, 1995)


Stalker (1979)


The Steamroller and the Violin (Katok i Skripka)(1960)


The Sun (Solntse) (Russia | Italy | Switzerland | France, 2004)


There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Iko shashvi mgalobeli; Il etait une fois un merle chanteur) (1970)

The Thief (Vor) (1997)

Uvlecheniya (Avocations) (1994)

Vodka Lemon (France / Italy / Switzerland / Armenia. 2003)


Voskhozhdenie (Ascent)(Soviet Union, 1977)


Vovochka (2002)

War and Peace (Voyna i mir) (1967)


Ward no.6 (Palata No 6) (Russia, 2009)

We Are Going to America (My yedem v Ameriku) (Russia, 1992)

White Sun of the Desert (Beloe solntse pustyni) (1969)

Without Witness (Bez svidetelei) (1983)



Aelita: the Queen of Mars (silent, 1924)


Arsenal (1928-29)


Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potemkin) (1925)

Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya) (1926)


By the Law (Po zakonu) (1926)


The Cigarette girl of Mosselprom (Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma) (1924)

Devil's Wheel (Chertovo Koleso) (1926)

Diplomatic Pouch (Sumka Dipkuryera) (1927)


Earth (Zemlya) (1930)



Entuziazm (Enthusiasm) (1931)


The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Neobychainiye Priklucheniya Mistera Vesta v. Stranye Bolshevikov) (1924)


Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)


Forward, Soviet! (aka Stride, Soviet!) (Shagai, Soviet!)(1926)


Fruits of Love.(1926)


The General Line (aka Old and New; Staroye i novoye) (1929)


Glumov's Diary (Dnevnik Glumova) (1923)


House on Trubnaya (Dom na Trubnoi) (1928)

Jew on the Land. (1926)


Katka's Reinette Apples (Kat'ka Bumazhnyi Ranet)

Kino Eye (Kinoglaz) (1924)


Kino-Pravda (1922)


Kiss of Mary Pickford (Pocelui Meri Pikford) (1927)

Mad Love: the Films of Evgeni Bauer (1913-16)


Man With The Movie Camera (Man With a Movie Camera) (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)


Miss Mend: An Adventure Serial in Three Parts (Soviet Union, 1926)


Mother ('Mat') (1926)


Salt for Svanetia (Sol Svanetij) (1930)

The Second Circle (Krug Vtoroj) (1990)


Soviet Toys (1923)

Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928)


Strike (Stachka) (1924)

Ten Days that Shook the World (October = Oktiabr) (1928)
Turksib (1929)
Zvenigora (Zakoldavanoye Mesto) (1928)


Adelheid (1969)


Alice (Neco z Alenky) (Czechoslovakia / Switzerland / UK / West Germany, 1988)


All My Good Countrymen (Vsichni dobrí rodáci) (Czechoslovakia, 1968)

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All My Loved Ones (Vsichni moji blízcí ) (Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland, 1999)


Autumn Spring (Babí léto) (Czech Republic, 2001)


A Bite to Eat (1963)

Black Peter (Cerný Petr) (1963)


Closely Watched Trains (Ostre Sledované Vlaky) (1966)

The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Early Years, Vol. 1 (1965-1980)


The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Years, Vol. 2 (1982-1992)


Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti) (Czech Republic / Switzerland / UK, 1996)


Daisies (Sedmikrasky) (1966)


Diamonds of the Night (Demanty noci) (1964)


Distant Journey (Daleká Cesta) (1949)


Divided We Fall (Musime si pomáhat) (Czech Republic, 2000)


Ecstasy (Ekstase)(Czechoslovakia / Austria, 1933)



The Elementary School (Obecná Skola) (1991)


The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon) (Czechoslovakia, 1967)


The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Vynález zkázy) (Czechoslovakia, 1958)


Faust (1994)


The Fifth Rider is Fear (A páty Jezdec je Strach)(1964)


Firemen's Ball (Horí, má Panenko) (1967)


The Good Soldier Schweik (Dobrý voják Svejk ) (1956)


The Good Soldier Schweik 2: Beg to Report, Sir (Poslusne hlásím) (1957)

The Joke (Zert) (1969)

Kolya (Czech Republic, 1996)

Konkurs (Audition)
(Czechoslovakia, 1964)


Labyrinth of Darkness (1978-1989)


Larks on a String (Skrivanci na niti) (1969)


The Last Butterfly (Poslední motýl) (Czechoslovakia / France / UK, 1991)


Loves of a Blonde (Lásky Jedné Plavovlásky) (1965)


Lunacy (Sílení)(Czech Republic / Slovakia, 2005)


The Ossuary: and Other Tales


A Report on the Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech) (1966)


Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julia a tma) (Czechoslovakia, 1959)


The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na Korze) (1965)


Something Like Happiness (Stesti) (2005)


Svankmajer, Volume 2. (1965-1990)


Transport From Paradise (Transport z raje) (1963)


The Unbearable Lightness of Being (USA, 1988)


Up and Down (Horem padem) (Czech Republic, 2004)

The Valley of the Bees (Udoli vcel ) (1967)


The White Dove (Holubice) (1960)


After the Revolution (Forradalom után) (1989)

Almanac of Fall (Öszi almanach) (1984)


Another way (Egymásra Nézve) (1982)

Cold Days (Hideg Napok) (1966)

Colonel Redl (Oberst Redl) (Yugoslavia | Hungary | Austria | West Germany, 1985)



Damnation (Karhozat) (Hungary, 1988)


Electra, My Love (Hungary, 1974)


Family Nest (Családi tüzfészek ) (1977)


Father (Apa: egy hit naploja) (1966)


Kontrol (2000)


Love (Szerelem ) (1971)


Love Film (Film About Love)(Szerelmesfilm) (1970)



My Way Home (Így jöttem)(1965)


Örökbefogadás (Adoption) (1975)


The Outsider (Szabadgyalog) (1981)

The Prefab People (Panelkapcsolat) (1981)


The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonák) (1968)

Red Psalm (Még kér a nép)(1972)


Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julia a tma) (1959)


Silence and Cry (Csend és kiáltás)(1967)


25 Firemans Street (Tüzoltóutca 25: almok a hazbol) (1973)



Taxidermia(Hungary | Austria | France, 2000)

Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) (Hungary / Italy / Germany / France, 2000)


Woyzeck (Hungary, 1994)


And the Violins Stopped Playing: A True Story (I skrzypce przestaly grac)(1988)


Ashes and Diamonds (Pópiól i Diament) (1958)


Bad luck (Zezowate szczęście) (1960)


Blue (Bleu) (1993)


Blind Chance (Przypadek) (1982)


Border Street (Ulica graniczna) (1948)

Camera Buff (Amator) (1979)

Canal (Kanał) (1957)


Cellulose (Celuloza)(1954)

Dead Man's Bounty (aka Summer Love)(Poland, 2006)

Dekalog (1988)


La Double Vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique)(France/Poland/Norway, 1991)

The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk) (Poland, 1937)


The Deluge (Potop) (1957)


Eroica (1958)


Essential Killing(Poland | Norway | Ireland | Hungary, 2010)

Everything for Sale (Wszystko na Sprzedaż) (1968)

A Generation (Pokolenie) (1955)

Horizontal Landscape (Pejzaż horyzontalny) (1978)


Immoral Story (Historia niemoralna) (1987)


Just Beyond This Forest (Jeszcze tylko ten las) (Poland, 1991)


Katyn (Poland, 2007)


Kingsize (Kingsajz) (1987)


Knife in the Water (Nóż w Wodzie) (1962)

Korczak (1990)

Land of Promise (Promised Land) (Ziemia obiecana) (1975)

Landscape After Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie) (1970)

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A number of movies on your lists aren't actually Eastern Bloc. The Eastern Bloc specifically refers to the socialist world. The socialist world (with the exception of Cuba and North Korea) ceased to exist over the course of 1989-1992. Many of the movies on your list postdate the socialist systems in those countries, and some predate them.

Still, there are some good recommendations there.

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" A number of movies on your lists aren't actually Eastern Bloc. The Eastern Bloc specifically refers to the socialist world. The socialist world (with the exception of Cuba and North Korea) ceased to exist over the course of 1989-1992. Many of the movies on your list postdate the socialist systems in those countries, and some predate them."

Sure. Call them "Post-Eastern Bloc" and "Pre-Eastern Bloc"

or "Quasi-Eastern Bloc"

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Yeah what happened? Thought so

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Knife in the Water (1962)

Viy (1967)

Come and See (1985)

Kontroll (2003)



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