# List of Soviet films of 1986

| Title | Russian title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1986 ||||||
| The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin | Приключения пингвинёнка Лоло | Kinjiro Yoshida, Gennady Sokolskiy | Svetlana Stepchenko, Lyudmila Gnilova, Rolan Bykov, Elena Sanaeva | Animation | Soviet-Japanese co-production |
| An Umbrella for Lovers | Зонтик для новобрачных | Rodion Nakhapetov | Aleksey Batalov, Nijole Ozelyte, Vera Glagoleva | Drama | |
| Attack | Атака | Igor Nikolayev | Sergey Chekan, Aleksandr Novikov, Vasili Popov | Drama | |
| Boris Godunov | Борис Годунов | Sergei Bondarchuk | Sergei Bondarchuk, Alyona Bondarchuk | Drama | Entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, co-produced by Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
| Breakthrough | Прорыв | Dmitri Svetozarov | Oleg Borisov | Disaster | |
| Coasts in the Mist | Берега в тумане | Yuli Karasik | Anatoly Kuznetsov, Leonid Filatov, Boris Lukanov | Drama | |
| Dead Man's Letters | Письма мёртвого человека | Konstantin Lopushansky | Rolan Bykov | Drama | |
| The Dolphin's Cry | Крик дельфина | Alexey Saltykov | Ivars Kalniņš, Donatas Banionis, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan | Science fiction | |
| Double Trap | Двойной капкан | Aloiz Brench | Algis Matulionis | Crime | |
| Empire | Ампир | Alexander Sokurov | Alla Osipenko | Crime | |
| Forgive Me | Прости | Ernest Yasan | Natalya Andreychenko, Igor Kostolevskiy, Viktor Merezhko | Drama | |
| Fouetté | Фуэте | Boris Yermolayev | Ekaterina Maximova | | |
| Guard Me, My Talisman | Храни меня, мой талисман | Roman Balayan | Oleg Yankovskiy, Alexander Abdulov, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Zbruyev, Alexander Adabashyan | Drama | Was entered into the main competition at the 43rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. |
| Higher Than Rainbow | Выше радуги | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich | Dmitry Maryanov, Olga Mashnaya, Galina Polskikh | Musical | |
| How to Become Happy | Как стать счастливым | Yuri Chulyukin | Nikolai Karachentsov, Marina Dyuzheva, Lev Durov | Comedy | |
| Investigation Held by Kolobki | Следствие ведут Колобки | Igor Kovalyov, Aleksandr Tatarskiy | Leonid Bronevoy | Animation | |
| Is It Easy to Be Young? | Легко ли быть молодым? | Juris Podnieks | | Documentary | |
| Jaguar | Ягуар | Sebastián Alarcón | Sergey Veksler, Artyom Kaminsky, Adel Al-Khadad | Drama | |
| Kin-dza-dza! | Кин-дза-дза! | Georgiy Daneliya | Stanislav Lyubshin, Yevgeni Leonov, Yury Yakovlev, Levan Gabriadze | Sci-fi comedy | |
| Lermontov | Лермонтов | Nikolay Burlyaev | Nikolay Burlyaev, Ivan Burlyaev, Vladimir Faibyshev | Drama | |
| My Favorite Clown | Мой любимый клоун | Yuri Kushneryov | Oleg Menshikov, Ilya Tyurin, Vladimir Ilyin | Drama | |
| Neptune's Feast | Праздник Нептуна | Yuri Afanasyev, Yuri Mamin, N. Shilok | Lyudmila Arinina, Elena Kapitsa, Vladimir Eryomin | Comedy | |
| Old-fashioned Tricks | Проделки в старинном духе | Aleksandr Pankratov | Darya Mikhaylova, Vladimir Samoilov, Nikolay Trofimov | Comedy | |
| Sentimental Journey to the Potato | Сентиментальное путешествие на картошку | Dmitry Dolinin | Filipp Yankovsky, Anzhelika Nevolina, Pyotr Semak | Romance | |
| Sitting on the Golden Porch | На златом крыльце сидели | Boris Rytsarev | Yelena Denisova, Gennadiy Frolov, Sergey Nikolaev | Fantasy | |
| The Last Road | Последняя дорога | Leonid Menaker | Aleksandr Kalyagin, Vadim Medvedev, Irina Kupchenko | Drama | |
| The Twentieth Century Approaches | Двадцатый век начинается | Igor Maslennikov | Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Borislav Brondukov, Boris Klyuyev, Innokenti Smoktunovsky | Crime | |
| To Award (Posthumously) | Наградить (посмертно) | Boris Grigoryev | Aleksandr Timoshkin, Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev, Mikhail Zhigalov | Action | |
| Welcome | Добро пожаловать! | Alexei Karayev | Anatoli Barantsev | Animation | |
| Wild Pigeon | Чужая белая и рябой | Sergei Solovyov | Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko | Drama | Was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. |
| Zina-Zinulya | Зина-Зинуля | Pavel Chukhray | Evgeniya Glushenko, Viktor Pavlov, Vladimir Gostyukhin | Drama | |