Screenplay: Aleksei Balabanov
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Aleksei Balabanov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Brother
1997 · Movie · 96 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Viktor Sukhorukov · Svetlana Pismichenko · Mariya Zhukova
Plot Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated...
6.9
796 votes
6.9
796 votes
Cargo 200
2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Agniya Kuznetsova · Aleksei Poluyan · Aleksey Serebryakov · Leonid Gromov
Plot 1984 in the USSR. The exhaustion of the regime is plain for everyone to see and the strictness of the past is beginning to loosen up. There is one year...
6.8
774 votes
6.8
774 votes
The Castle
1994 · Movie · 120 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Nikolai Stotsky · Svetlana Pismichenko · Anvar Libabov · Viktor Sukhorukov
6.7
47 votes
6.7
47 votes
Of Freaks and Men
1998 · Movie · 93 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Sergey Makovetskiy · Dinara Drukarova · Anzhelika Nevolina · Viktor Sukhorukov
Plot Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina...
6.7
246 votes
6.7
246 votes
Brother 2
2000 · Movie · 122 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Viktor Sukhorukov · Sergey Makovetskiy · Irina Saltykova
Plot Danila Bagrov meets his army buddy Konstantin Gromov in Moscow, with whom he fought in Chechnya. The friend tells Danila about his twin brother Dmitry, who is a professional hockey...
6.6
284 votes
6.6
284 votes
Blind Man's Bluff
2005 · Movie · 111 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Aleksei Panin · Dmitriy Dyuzhev · Nikita Mikhalkov · Sergey Makovetskiy
Plot Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are...
6.5
215 votes
6.5
215 votes
The War
2002 · Movie · 120 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Aleksey Chadov · Ian Kelly · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · Sergei Bodrov Jr.
6.4
131 votes
6.4
131 votes
The River
2002 · Movie · 48 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Vasilii Borisov · Anna Flegontova · Mikhail Skryabin · Tuyaara Svinoboyeva
6.0
50 votes
6.0
50 votes
The Stoker
2010 · Movie · 84 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Mikhail Skryabin · Yuri Matveyev · Aleksandr Mosin · Aida Tumutova
Plot Time and place: St. Petersburg, mid 90's of XX century. The main character - a retired major who works as a stoker. In his spare time he is writing a...
6.0
158 votes
6.0
158 votes
Happy Days
1991 · Movie · 86 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Viktor Sukhorukov · Anzhelika Nevolina · Yevgeni Merkuryev · Georgi Tejkh
Plot An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.
5.8
68 votes
5.8
68 votes
Me Too
2012 · Movie · 83 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Oleg Garkusha · Yuri Matveyev · Aleksandr Mosin · Alisa Shitikova
Plot Sanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a...
5.5
129 votes
5.5
129 votes
One step beyond (S)
1988 · Movie · 23 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Yegor Belkin · Olga Belyayeva · Nastya Poleva
Plot Short feature film, filmed in 1988. One of the first works of the film director Alexei Balabanov, at that time an assistant at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. The film is...
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The Arrival of a Train
1995 · Movie · 98 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov · Vladimir Khotinenko · Aleksandr Khvan · Dmitri Meskhiyev
Cast Anna Syomkina · Aleksandr Kaidanovsky · Aleksei Zhirov · Aleksey Serebryakov
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From the History of Aerostatics in Russia (S)
1989 · Documentary · 19 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
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Ranshe bylo drugoe vremya (S)
1987 · Movie · 17 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Vyacheslav Butusov · Igor Nezlobinskiy · Nadezhda Ozerova · Nastya Poleva
Plot The story unfolding during one day, tells about meanness and eternally difficult female share - The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group...
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Egor and Nastya
1989 · Documentary · 30 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Yegor Belkin · Nastya Poleva
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