A Serbian Film. KIDDING! Jesus, don’t even Google that.
I dunno about “favorite” but I enjoyed Kontroll.
There’s also Tarkovsky’s better efforts: Solaris and Stalker.
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I spent my 25th birthday at a triple bill of those films, I had already seen Blue before, can’t remember whether I’d seen the others before. There is also The Double Life of Veronique which I enjoyed, and a lot of other Kieslowski films which I haven’t seen.
Years ago, when a kitchy TV version of Thomas Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native was on, I said I wanted to see the 6 hour 1960s Polish film of the book, filmed in black and white on location on some damp heath, with minimal dialogue. I hope it really exists.
Closely Watched Trains
Ashes and Diamonds
Loves of a Blonde
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H-8… (1958) Nikola Tanhofer
Not Eastern bloc, but still. It gets really frustrating if you want to see anything more recent and actually Eastern bloc. Not a lot of knowledgeable reviews in English or decent English subtitles available. Filmmakers like Szabolcs Hajdu make me wish I understood Hungarian.
The Polish holocaust film Korczak
I just saw “Edes Anna”. Pretty good. 7/10
“The Witness,” directed by Peter Bacso.
It’s a political satire on 1950s Stalinism in Hungary - and it was made while the communists were still in power.
The first time I saw it, I couldn’t believe my eyes. How did they get away with such a scathing portrayal of the hard-line communists? And it pointedly references real-life atrocities and absurdities.
It’s no wonder that this 1969 film was banned until 1981.
I was thinking of watching this movie today. The Witness (1969) - IMDb
No love for the classics?
Alexander Nevsky
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1
Ivan the Terrible, Part 2
Battleship Potemkin is commie agitprop, and probably responsible for more deaths than Birth of a Nation, but I must admit that it’s an entertaining flick.
Would a German film set in the DDR count as East European? The Lives of Others was . . . interesting.
Well, it was produced after the reunification, but it’s about East German: Goodbye, Lenin!. It’s about a woman who is a diehard Communist, but who falls into a coma and awakes after the reunification. Warned that a shock could cause another heart attack, her son works to pretend that East Berlin is still under communist control.
I was going to say that. 
Does Good Bye Lenin! count? It’s German, but it’s about East Germany. A woman who’s a dedicated Communist in East Germany goes into a coma, and while she’s unconscious, the Wall falls and Germany reunites. When she comes out of her coma, her family is afraid she’ll die if she finds out about all of the changes, so they try to make her think things haven’t changed.
Would a documentary count?
I think of those as French films with a little Polish thrown in, myself. Or I’d have listed them too, I love them.
Sure, why not?!
The American remake, Stingy and Battery, was inferior.
I remember liking Kontroll but the plot is fuzzy. Also if Bosnia counts as Eastern Europe, 2001 film No Man’s Land.
Good point.
Okay, how about this? “Moon Father,” a 1999 Uzbeki film that I saw (in 1999) in Merida, Mexico, of all places (oh, wait, Uzbekistan is Central Asia, not Eastern Europe. Oh, well.)
People find the movies of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki either terribly funny or terrible. He has a style that I guess you could call updated, deadpan, hip Buster Keaton without the slapstick.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America is largely set in the US, I Hired A Contract Killer is set in London but Drifting Clouds is all Finland.
A couple of Andrzej Wajda films:
Man of Marble
Man of Iron
I liked the marble one better.