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- DirectorRobert SiodmakMervyn LeRoyStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerMelvyn DouglasIn the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1866)
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsJames CaanPaul SorvinoLauren HuttonLiterature professor Axel Freed is a gambling addict. When he has lost his money, he borrows from his girlfriend Billie, then his mother Naomi, and finally some criminals that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1866)
- DirectorRupert WyattStarsMark WahlbergJessica LangeJohn GoodmanLiterature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1866)
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsSophie MarceauFrancis HusterTchéky KaryoA bank robber tries to return his girl, but crazy way of life coupled with insane company make the case only worse.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsFedor BondarchukIvan OkhlobystinAnna BuklovskayaThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
- StarsEvgeniy MironovIgor IvanovMarietta MelrosePrince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
- DirectorShivam NairStarsAbhay DeolSoha Ali KhanShayan MunshiAn acting marriage witness Ankush falls in love with a girl who has been betrayed by her lover. When he returns back, Ankush tries his best to save his relationship.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
- DirectorManmohan DesaiStarsRaj KapoorNutanPran SikandThe tragic-comic story of Chhalia, a naive, simple-minded young man who comes to the city and witnesses the harsh side of life; and falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to find out that she is married but separated from her husband, Kewal, and adopted son, Anwar. He puts all he can in an effort to locate Kewal and re-unite the family.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
- DirectorSanjay Leela BhansaliStarsRanbir KapoorSonam KapoorSalman KhanTwo souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
- DirectorJames GrayStarsJoaquin PhoenixGwyneth PaltrowVinessa ShawA Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsLyudmila MarchenkoOleg StrizhenovAnatoli FedorinovA Dreamer, living in a big city for a few years and all the time he is alone. But one summer in St. Petersburg's White Nights on the Neva, he meets Nastya.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
- DirectorLeonid KvinikhidzeStarsAnna MatyukhinaVadim LyubshinGalina PolskikhFyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights" (1848)
- DirectorLev KulidzhanovStarsGeorgiy TaratorkinInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana BedovaRaskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility?Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsPatrick DempseyBen KingsleyJulie DelpyA man who is haunted by a murder he committed.Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
- DirectorRob SchmidtStarsMonica KeenaEllen BarkinMichael IronsideA darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- DirectorKirill LavrovIvan PyrevMikhail UlyanovStarsMikhail UlyanovLionella PyryevaKirill LavrovThree brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- DirectorRichard AyoadeStarsJesse EisenbergMia WasikowskaWallace ShawnThe unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.Fyodor Dostoevsky's
- DirectorAleksandr BorisovStarsIya SavvinaAndrei PopovVera KuznetsovaFrom lack of money, a girl without a dowry marries a usurer. But later she learns about her husband's past: about the circumstances under which he left the regiment. The meek one tries to rebel against life with her despised husband.Fyodor Dostoevsky's
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsValeriu AndriutaLiya AkhedzhakovaRoza KhayrullinaA woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "A Gentle Creature" (1876)
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsDominique SandaGuy FranginJeanne LobreA young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.Fyodor Dostoevsky's "A Gentle Creature" (1876)
- DirectorAndrey EshpayStarsNastassja KinskiNikita MikhalkovAnastasia ViazemskayaBased on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.Fyodor Dostoevsky's
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevViktor SergachyovGeorgiy GeorgiuA high ranking official in St. Petersburg accidentally attends a wedding of one of his subordinates, embarrassing himself and the entire wedding party. Based on a novel by F. M. Dostoyevsky.Fyodor Dostoevsky's
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsIsabelle HuppertJutta LampePhilippine Leroy-BeaulieuIn 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.Fyodor Dostoevsky's