House Under the Starry Skies

House Under the Starry Skies (1991) — watch online on iFILM: a late-Soviet fantasy thriller with dark-comedy overtones, directed by Sergei Solovyov, with Mikhail Ulyanov as the besieged academic Bashkirtsev. A shadowy organization begins pressuring him — a tire blows out at full speed, a corpse appears on his property.

He hires guards to protect himself and his family. They are no match for Valentin Compostorov, a visitor with abilities well outside what private security handles. Made in the Soviet Union's final year, the film wraps its supernatural menace around the anxiety of a collapsing order. Stream on iFILM.