Movies & Series

Some good Russian films

Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000)
Prisoner of Mountains

This is a great anti war Russian film i saw yesterday. Strongly recommended.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309047/

A great Russian/French film East/West depicting the post WW2 stalin era.





For those interested in TV shows, if you have time, watch the full series of The Wire. One of the best TV series i have seen.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306414/

Tips for friends interested in foreign cinema.

A lot of foreign films specially old Japanese films are readily available on Youtube. You can download their highest version through Youtube video capture softwares. You can download subtitles from sites like Opensubtitles and Subscene etc.

Apparently, i found out that Russian Torrent sites have extensive archives of foreign films and TV shows. Many foreign films that you can't find anywhere is available on Russian trackers. You can use google translate to work around russian language on these sites. Its a gold mine of cinema.

https://rutracker.org/forum/index.php


Interesting fact. In my country India, our Govt has blocked most of file sharing & torrent websites. I have to go around annoying ISP firewalls.

This is the message i get when i visit most file sharing or any of the torrent sites.

“Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact the administrator for more information.”