Top 20 Highest-Rated Russian Movies of 2025: A Viewer's Guide

The year 2025 has been a remarkable one for Russian cinema, delivering a diverse array of blockbusters across genres like military drama, historical epics, family comedies, and sci-fi thrillers. With ratings sourced from Kinopoisk—Russia's premier film database akin to IMDb—this list compiles the 20 best-performing films of the year based on their audience scores and popularity. Whether you're a fan of intense dramas, lighthearted comedies, or fantasy adventures, the 2025 lineup has something for everyone. Here are the top-rated Russian movies that captured the hearts of viewers and dominated the charts.

1. Группа крови (Blood Type)

November 1943. The Nazis deliver a new group of Soviet orphaned children to Vyritsa, where a so-called "children's shelter" has been set up in a former pioneer camp. The conditions are unbearable: cold, hunger, forced labor, a punishment cell for disobedience, and execution for any attempt to escape. But the most horrifying reality is that the children are used as blood donors for wounded German soldiers. Despite the unimaginable terror, by banding together, the young heroes find the strength and courage to resist and make a desperate bid for freedom.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 38min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Military
• Director: Maksim Brius
• Cast: Andrey Rudyka, Eva Williams
• Kinopoisk Rating: 8.3 (Top 250)
• Number of Ratings: 363,991

2. Роднина (Rodnina)

From the moment she first stepped onto the ice, young Ira knew she had found her calling. Years later, the gifted athlete is on the path to her coveted gold medal when fate presents her with profound challenges. Overcoming a severe illness, her partner's betrayal, and a conflict with her coach, Irina Rodnina finds true love and, driven by incredible fortitude and an unyielding hunger for victory, challenges the entire world—returning to the ice to become a legend of Soviet and global sports.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 2h 14min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Sport
• Director: Konstantin Statskiy
• Cast: Vladislava Samokhina, Evgeniy Tkachuk
• Kinopoisk Rating: 8.3 (Top 250)
• Number of Ratings: 305,179

3. Папины дочки. Мама вернулась (Daddy's Girls. Mom's Return)

Mom is finally coming home after a long absence. For her daughters, it's a long-awaited miracle. For Venik, it's a complete surprise. And for the whole family, it's a chance to start over. They will have to find a common language once again, overcome new challenges, and become one close-knit family all over.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 32min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Anatoliy Koliev
• Cast: Filipp Blednyy, Anastasiya Sivaeva
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.9
• Number of Ratings: 254,953

4. Яга на нашу голову (Yaga on Our Head)

When ten-year-old Petya gets a new nanny—a strange, grumpy, yet incredibly charming one—he quickly realizes she's not like anyone else. She is an undercover childminder, and in truth, she is Yaga, the legendary witch who has lost her magic broom and is hiding among humans. Now, only Petya can help her regain her magical powers, and only Yaga can teach the boy how to fly. Not just on a broomstick, but through life itself.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 24min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Fantasy
• Director: Aleksandr Voytinskiy
• Cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Yuriy Kolokolnikov
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.9
• Number of Ratings: 326,885

5. Август (August)

August 1944. The deep forests of Western Belarus. Sredmezerye — a recently liberated territory, now a special zone where enemy intelligence and sabotage groups, left behind in the Soviet rear, are active. The Soviet troops are crossing the state border; the tide of war is turning. A treacherous strike against the advancing army could still halt this momentum. Only SMERSH counterintelligence operatives can prevent the attack.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 2h 18min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Thriller
• Director: Nikita Vysotskiy
• Cast: Sergey Bezrukov, Nikita Kologrivyy
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.8
• Number of Ratings: 685,272

6. Злой город (Wicked City)

The year is 1238. Having sacked Ryazan, Vladimir, Torzhok, and Moscow, Khan Batu decides not to besiege the stoutly-walled Novgorod and instead turns back. He divides his vast army to reach the steppe border by separate routes and regroup at Kozelsk. Learning of the approaching Mongol hordes, the town's inhabitants resolve to defend their city at any cost.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 52min
• Country & Genre: Russia • History
• Director: Konstantin Buslov
• Cast: Aleksey Guskov, Aleksandr Metyolkin
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.7
• Number of Ratings: 443,028

7. Кракен (Kraken)

A Russian special-purpose missile submarine vanishes without a trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A search crew, commanded by Viktor Voronin—whose older brother was the captain of the lost vessel—is dispatched to find it.

The sailors' mission is to locate the submarine at any cost and prevent its new secret weapon from falling into enemy hands. Meanwhile, geological research at a polar station in the northern waters awakens the Kraken—a giant monster capable of merging with the ocean's darkness and possessing high intelligence. It is this colossal creature the sailors must face as they search for the missing submarine.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 2h 14min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Sci-Fi
• Director: Nikolay Lebedev
• Cast: Aleksandr Petrov, Aleksey Guskov
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.7
• Number of Ratings: 1,113,882

8. На деревню дедушке (To Grandpa's Village)

Ten-year-old Vladik is a neural network genius and an expert at getting rid of nannies. When his mother has to leave on an urgent business trip, he is sent to the countryside to stay with his grandfather—a man he has never met in his life. Vladik dreams of returning to the city to compete in a major IT contest, but his grandfather has no intention of giving in to his whims. Each is certain he can easily outsmart the other, but this unexpected meeting is about to change them both.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 30min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Vladislav Bogush
• Cast: Yuriy Stoyanov, Yaroslav Golovnyov
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.7
• Number of Ratings: 245,637

9. Шальная императрица (The Wayward Empress)

St. Petersburg. Friends Lera, Valya, and Olya perform a mystical ritual for fun, and suddenly, Catherine the Great herself materializes among the candles in their kitchen. The crowned empress rapidly adapts to the 21st century: she samples cappuccino, searches the taxi app for a "Carriage" fare, and discovers the dance floor with dazzling brilliance one night. The friends are thrilled—until they begin to notice reality itself starting to change around them.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 39min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Radda Novikova
• Cast: Irina Pegova, Angelina Strechina
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.7
• Number of Ratings: 241,595

10. Батя 2. Дед (Dad 2. Grandfather)

In the midst of divorcing his wife, Max finds himself remembering his childhood—a time when his own parents, also on the brink of divorce, sent him to spend the summer with his war-veteran grandfather in the countryside. It was then that the strict grandfather became the boy's true friend and teacher, as well as the witness and accomplice to his many mischievous antics.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 28min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Ilya Uchitel
• Cast: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.6
• Number of Ratings: 744,941

11. В списках не значился (Not on the Lists)

June 21, 1941. Young Lieutenant Kolya Pluzhnikov arrives in Brest after being assigned to his permanent duty station. The station's overflowing waiting halls and crowds of people laden with luggage don't alarm the youth, who is filled with joyful hope. Kolya hurries to his unit's location: the Brest Fortress. Before the soldier can be officially added to the personnel roster, artillery shells shatter the dawn at four in the morning—the war has begun. He was never formally enlisted among the soldiers of the Brest Fortress, yet he fought in the battle all the same.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 2h
• Country & Genre: Russia • Military
• Director: Sergey Korotaev
• Cast: Vladislav Miller, Alena Morilova
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.6
• Number of Ratings: 255,984

12. Сокровища гномов (Treasures of the Gnomes)

Roma is a typical schemer, but nothing in his life is working: his marriage is over, his business is failing. Out of desperation and a hope to pay off his debts, he commits fraud, inserting himself into the will of a lonely old man, his countryside neighbor. What Roma doesn't suspect is that along with the house and the land, he'll inherit... four living gnomes.

However, instead of kindhearted helpers, he finds himself stuck with stubborn, grumpy, and rather unpleasant companions who don't exactly trust him. These gnomes have the power to find hidden treasures, but only for noble causes—and Roma will have to work hard to convince them of his "pure intentions." He's ready to help everyone, make grand promises, and play the role of a caring man—all to get his hands on the ultimate treasure.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 33min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Family
• Director: Aleksandr Babaev
• Cast: Nikita Kologrivyy, Anastasiya Ukolova
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.5
• Number of Ratings: 210,632

13. Беги (Run)

Safecracker Sasha breaks into a house, only to witness a crime: the homeowner, Chernov, has murdered his wife. Chernov begins hunting the escaped witness. Meanwhile, Sasha has to make it to his son's school play on time, as his future marriage—which he's fighting desperately to save—depends on it.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 27min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Roman Artemyev
• Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Nikita Kologrivyy
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.4
• Number of Ratings: 230,314

14. Туда (There)

Vadim lives and drives strictly by GPS. Vera's life is one big adventure. These two opposites are about to drive 1,400 kilometers in an ordinary city taxi, see five scenic cities, and experience a million emotions on a journey toward each other.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 44min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Ivan Petukhov
• Cast: Pyotr Fyodorov, Irina Starshenbaum
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.4
• Number of Ratings: 396,348

15. Не одна дома 2 (Not Alone at Home 2)

Masha embarks on a summer road trip in an RV with her dad. Three years ago, her mom and dad promised her they'd spend more time together, and now this nature getaway is a family tradition. But Masha has grown up, and she's bored spending so much time with her parents. The teenage soul yearns for new adventures, a concept the adults simply don't understand.

One of the family's stops is a campground, where a bus carrying teens to a summer camp has also parked. Masha meets one of the girls. By a happy coincidence, her name is also Masha, and she absolutely does not want to go to camp. Without thinking twice, the girls swap places: one Masha heads to camp, while the "other Masha" calmly heads back home.

At the camp, Masha runs into her "old acquaintances"—the troublemakers Hakhal and Nyanya, who are once again plotting something shady. Teaming up with her new friend Vika, Masha decides to fight back. They devise a clever plan with elaborate traps to stop the villains and foil their scheme.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 44min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Dmitriy Semenov-Aleynikov
• Cast: Milana Khametova, David Manukyan
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.4
• Number of Ratings: 225,862

16. Знакомство родителей (Parents Meet)

Fyodor is a smart, promising young man who grew up in an orphanage and has achieved everything on his own. He falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. However, her relatives are far from thrilled with a suitor of his social status and questionable lineage. They declare they will only give their consent if they can meet the groom's parents. For Fyodor, who has never seen his own mother or father, this condition seems impossible. Yet he is ready to do anything for love.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 50min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Ivan Kapitonov
• Cast: Taras Shevchenko, Elena Nikolaeva
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.4
• Number of Ratings: 363,031

17. Плагиатор (The Plagiarist)

Yegor is 30 years old. His job is to be a backing singer for guests at a karaoke bar, but he dreams of singing his own songs and building a happy life with Yulia, despite the objections of her millionaire father. In his own closet, Yegor finds a portal to the year 1991. Transported to the past, he begins performing super-hits from different years, passing them off as his own. In an instant, Yegor is showered with fame, money, and new opportunities, and he hatches a brilliant plan to secure his perfect future. But every attempt to change something in the past leads to increasingly unexpected results in the future.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 2h 6min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Comedy
• Director: Anton Megerdichev
• Cast: Roman Evdokimov, Stasya Miloslavskaya
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.4
• Number of Ratings: 316,407

18. Царевна-лягушка (The Frog Princess)

A frog lives in a pond in a city park, and she loves watching movies at the open-air cinema. One day, she sees a cartoon where a frog just like her catches an arrow and turns into a beautiful girl. She's so impressed that she accepts it as reality and sets off to find the magic arrow. But instead, she catches a golf ball.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 33min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Family
• Director: Aleksandr Amirov
• Cast: Valentina Lyapina, Aleksandr Metyolkin
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.3
• Number of Ratings: 473,452

19. Голосовой помощник (Voice Assistant)

A group of friends rents a designer country house for the weekend. It has everything for a comfortable and fun getaway, including a smart speaker named Alyona. It can entertain guests and run the house, and it also knows the secrets each friend is hiding. The device forces the group to play a game of "Murder in the Dark" to uncover the truth behind the death of their mutual friend, who died less than a year ago.

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 44min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Thriller
• Director: Oleg Vitvitskiy
• Cast: Polina Fedina, Ilya Antonenko
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.3
• Number of Ratings: 267,200

20. Соловей против Муромца (Nightingale vs. Muromets)

Long ago, the legendary Nightingale the Robber tricked and defeated the hero Ilya Muromets. He rewrote history, stealing all the mighty warrior's heroic deeds and glory for himself. Thanks to an elixir of immortality, the Nightingale has lived to the present day. And now, he seeks to resurrect the dark god Veles, to whom he sold his soul long ago. Today, only one family knows this secret.

The heroes' father, Professor Kiselev, manages to locate Muromets in the far north, frozen within the ice of an underwater cave—the site of their final battle. Using his own invention, a steel heart, Kiselev brings Muromets back to our world. But this heroic act costs the professor his life. Now, his sons, Maxim and Yegor, must not only stop the Nightingale but also restore the true name of Ilya Muromets—in epic duels between giant warrior-robots at the "Roboarena."

• Year & Runtime: 2025, 1h 55min
• Country & Genre: Russia • Sci-Fi
• Director: Karen Oganesyan
• Cast: Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Nikita Efremov
• Kinopoisk Rating: 7.2
• Number of Ratings: 241,482

Conclusion

The Russian film industry in 2025 showcased incredible strength and variety, with military dramas like "Blood Type" and "Rodnina" leading the ratings. The list highlights a strong audience appetite for both high-stakes genres and popular comedies, with several films amassing over half a million ratings. Notably, the sci-fi blockbuster "Kraken" emerged as the most-watched film on the list with over 1.1 million ratings. This collection, validated by the extensive user base of Kinopoisk, serves as a perfect guide for anyone looking to explore the most acclaimed and talked-about Russian cinematic releases of the year.