Direction: Andrei Tarkovsky

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Andrei Rublev

1966 · Movie · 205 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Plot Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century,...

8.0

5K votes

8.0

5K votes

Stalker

1979 · Movie · 161 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Aleksandr Kaidanovsky · Anatoly Solonitsyn · Nikolai Grinko · Natalya Abramova

Plot The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides...

Max

7.9

14K votes

7.9

14K votes

Nostalghia

1983 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Oleg Yankovskiy · Erland Josephson · Domiziana Giordano · Patrizia Terreno

Plot It tells the story of a Russian poet, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) who travels to Italy to conduct research for an opera libretto he is writing. Andrei is apparently oblivious...

7.9

4K votes

7.9

4K votes

The Mirror

1975 · Movie · 107 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Margarita Terekhova · Philip Yankovsky · Ignat Daniltsev · Oleg Yankovskiy

Plot Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family....

7.8

6K votes

7.8

6K votes

Ivan's Childhood

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov

Plot The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving single-mindedly...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

The Sacrifice

1986 · Movie · 145 min. · Sweden

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Erland Josephson · Susan Fleetwood · Valérie Mairesse · Allan Edwall

Plot Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday,...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

Solaris

1972 · Movie · 165 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Donatas Banionis · Natalya Bondarchuk · Yuri Jarvet · Vladislav Dvorzhetsky

Plot Psychologist Chris Kelvin is sent to investigate the mysterious happenings on a space station orbiting the water planet Solaris.

Max

7.5

14K votes

7.5

14K votes

The Steamroller and the Violin

1961 · Movie · 46 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Ígor Fomchenko · Vladimir Zamansky · Nina Arkhangelskaia · Marina Adjoubey

Plot The film tells a very simply story of friendship between an artistic, sensitive seven-year-old violinist named Sasha and a physical, blue-collar steamroller operator. They befriend each other after Sasha is...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Voyage in Time (TV)

1983 · Documentary · 62 min. · Italy

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra

Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra

Plot Andrei Tarkovsky, accompanied by his Italian script-writer, Tonino Guerra, travels through Italy in order to find the locations for "Nostalghia". During this journey, Guerra constantly induces Tarkovsky to reflect on...

6.8

419 votes

6.8

419 votes

There Will Be No Leave Today

1959 · Movie · 46 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky · Aleksandr Gordon

Cast Aleksey Alekseev · Pyotr Lyubeshkin · Oleg Mokshantsev · Vladimir Marenkov

Plot In an unnamed town construction workers find an old cache of bombs of World War II. An army unit is dispatched to dispose the bombs. As exploding the bombs would...

5.8

281 votes

5.8

281 votes

Murderers (S)

1958 · Movie · 19 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky · Aleksandr Gordon · Marika Beiku

Cast Yuli Fait · Aleksandr Gordon · Valentin Vinogradov · Vadim Novikov

Plot Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill. This is Andrei Tarkovsky's first student film while he was studying at VGIK.

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes