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- The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- This is the true story of the National Hero of Albanians, George Kastrioti Scanderbeg, from his birth to his death. 1405-1468. Based mainly upon the monk writer Marin Barleti, the movie starts off with how the boy Scanderbeg was taken hostage by the ottoman turks and trained from them until he became one of the most outstanding warriors of the Ottoman Empire, then later returned home to his country to organized the oppressed Albanians into a fierce and heroic resistance for over 30 years. After converting from Islam to Christianity (the religion of ancestors) he managed to keep the greatest empire on earth at the time from invading Albania. His story is an inspiration to generations of Albanians, wherever they lived.
- A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
- Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse.
- Following the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Lenin is imprisoned in Poland on suspicions he could be a Russian spy. In his cell, he reflects over world politics, the war, and the common Poles he has met during his two years in the country.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- A propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does manage to make the Stalin and Lenin characters look like just a pair of good old boys when they laugh as he tells them he allowed a White general to escape because he was awed by the uniform.
- Dzhamiliya lives in a kirghizian village. She follows their parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new husband has to leave the village. While being alone Dzhamiliya meets the returning soldier Daniyar and falls in love with him.
- A popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.
- The made to order record film taken off in 1933-1934 by soviet stage-directors on the instructions of Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk narrating about becoming of the new Turkish state and his capital and sanctified to celebration of 10th anniversary of founding of Turkish Republic.
- Kolya Leonov performs a song about Moscow for a contest at a trade school. The school's director then tells the story of Kolya's accordion.
- 1910 lernen sich Lenin und Inès Armand in Paris kennen. Inès Armand war dorthin aus der Verbannung (Archangelsk) geflohen und gründete mit Lenin die Parteischule von Longjumeau. In Jutkevitchs Film bildet die fiktive Liebesgeschichte zwischen Inès Armand und dem jungen Revolutionär Trofimoff den Leitfaden.... Nach Marina Vlady ("Sujet für eine Kurzgeschichte") war Claude Jade der zweite französische Star Jutkvitchs. Nach Claude Jade spielte Dominique Sanda die Inès Armand in dem TV-Film "Der Zug" von Damiano Damiani.
- An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.
- Biographical film about the 19th century Russian writer, poet and sometimes painter Mikhail Lermontov.
- The brave soldier Schweik helps the Yugoslav partisans and tries to choose the execution for Hitler.
- Theatrical tableau style portrait of a period in the life of Chekhov.
- During the first Five Year Plan in the USSR, an elderly worker in a Leningrad turbine factory comes under the influence of a saboteur planning to wreck production goals
- How did Ivan Ivanovich quarrel with Ivan Nikiforovich? Ivan Ivanovich went to see his bosom friend Ivan Nikiforovich, wishing to beg for the gun he liked. It didn't work out. And in the heat of the argument has started.
- The first show of the French television about movies; the only one dedicated to the Cannes Film Festival. Features interviews and backstage footage devoted to the event, the gala evenings, the competing films, and everyday life in Cannes.
- A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.