Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.

1983 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

1982 film by Eldar Ryazanov

年轻的士兵萨沙（尼古拉·布尔雅耶夫 Nikolai Burlyayev 饰）暗恋着交际花柳芭（娜塔雅·安德烈杰科夫 Natalya Andrejchenko 饰），而此时的柳芭已经名花有主，萨沙将自己的感情寄托在一束鲜花上献给了柳芭，之后上了战场。
一晃眼数年过去，战争已经结束，萨沙亦与名叫薇拉（茵娜·丘里科娃 Inna Churikova 饰）的女子结为了夫妻。某日，萨沙意外的在街上遇见了柳芭，她落魄不堪的窘况令萨沙十分心痛。柳芭曾经的恋人已经去世，留下了一个女儿，要由柳芭抚养，萨沙陪伴在柳芭的身旁，他的温柔和善良令柳芭渐渐重拾了自尊。薇拉将丈夫的一举一动看在眼里，就此陷入抑郁之中，这让柳芭感到内疚万分。

1962 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1961 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

1965 film by Mikhail Romm

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.