Andrei Rublev | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE | by Andrei Tarkovsky

★ FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival (1969)

Eight loosely linked episodes follow the icon painter Andrei Rublev through a fifteenth-century Russia of princely feuds, Tatar raids and famine, until he stops painting altogether. Andrei Tarkovsky ends with a bell-casting sequence that argues its way back to why anyone makes anything.

Why it's free: Free on Mosfilm's own channel; Mosfilm holds the rights to the Soviet-era library it publishes.