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- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsBogdan StupkaIgor PetrenkoVladimir VdovichenkovSet in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
- DirectorKim DruzhininAndrey ShalopaStarsMaksim AbrosimovSergey AgafonovPavel AseevIn November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks.
- DirectorAleksey MizgiryovStarsPyotr FyodorovVladimir MashkovYuliya KhlyninaIn the times of Imperial Russia, a former military man of honor makes his own way in life participating in the deadly fights for other people as professional duelist.
- DirectorSarik AndreasyanStarsKonstantin LavronenkoMariya MironovaViktor StepanyanLeninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, 1988. After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
- DirectorAndrey KavunStarsAleksandr BaluevYury BelyayevBogdan BenyukBased on the true story of five Russian pilots captured by the Taliban. They are forced to spend three-hundred-seventy-eight days in hell, while facing questions of loyalty, survival and planing their treacherous escape route home.
- StarsPavel PriluchnyyLyubov AksyonovaKarina RazumovskayaA reckless wealthy Russian youth is arrested street racing while on drugs. His father pulls strings to get him a training job in the police, instead of a prison sentence, under threat he'll lose his inheritance otherwise.
- DirectorAleksandr MelnikStarsKonstantin LavronenkoGrigoriy DobryginEgor BeroevIt happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsGrigoriy DobryginSergey PuskepalisIgor ChernevichOne place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovViktor SukhorukovDmitriy DyuzhevSomewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
- DirectorAndres PuustusmaaStarsStepan BalakshinStanislav BelozyorovAleksandr BykovskyDetective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum.
- DirectorMikhail SegalStarsAleksandr ZbruevAleksey KapitonovTatyana MaystAlekseev, a retired singer-songwriter, is invited to a radio program many decades after his career saw a dramatic turn.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsElizaveta BoyarskayaAleksey DmitrievAndrey FedortsovMay 1945, a young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a bride. And not only to himself but to four his friends as well.
- DirectorDmitriy KiselevStarsEvgeniy MironovKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir IlinTrying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsNikita MikhalkovVitali SolominSergey ShakurovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy NikulinLyudmila GurchenkoAleksey PetrenkoDuring the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoIrina GorbachevaNikolay ShrayberA paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
- DirectorAleksey KrasovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyPolina AgureevaKseniya BuravskayaInventive debt collector Arthur finds himself in a trap.
- DirectorNikolay KhomerikiStarsPyotr FyodorovSergey PuskepalisAleksandr PalToward the icebreaker "Mikhail Gromov" is moving a huge iceberg. Leaving from collision, the ship falls into the ice trap, and is forced to drift near the coast of Antarctica.
- DirectorFilipp YankovskiyStarsOleg MenshikovNikita MikhalkovKonstantin KhabenskiyThird film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
- StarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMikhail PorechenkovMaksim MatveevA flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsTinatin DalakishviliSeverija JanusauskaitePavel TabakovYoung Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature Rita is the lover of the deputy minister, who wants to become pregnant and marry him. Kostya is the son of a deputy minister, who is constantly in conflict with his father and Rita, but falls in love with Masha when he meets her. After quarreling, Rita is forced to leave her lover's house, and meets Masha by chance.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMilan MaricDanila KozlovskiyHelena SujeckaThe film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsRinal MukhametovYuliya PeresildYelisey NikandrovHe miraculously escaped death to return to the house where lives the love of his life. But the hope of happiness turns into a terrible discovery. His beloved is the daughter of his enemy.
- DirectorDanila KozlovskiyStarsDanila KozlovskiyAndrey SmolyakovVladimir IlinContemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
- DirectorKonstantin KhabenskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyChristopher LambertFelice JankellSoviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaEvgeniy AlyokhinAlyona BabenkoFollows the life of famous literary figure Hans Christian Andersen.
- DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsLeonid BichevinAnatoliy BelyyKristii SchneiderThe film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall's images, but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying on both, facts and fantasy (as Chagall himself would).The story is based on real events which occurred at the time of Chagall's short-lived period in Vitebskin in 1917-18, during which time he creates the Academy of Modern Art, inspired by his dreams of a bright and beautiful future. Many pictures by Chagall and Malevich are used in the film.
- DirectorAvdotya SmirnovaStarsAleksey SmirnovFilipp GurevichEvgeniy KharitonovThe shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
- StarsChulpan KhamatovaMariya MironovaAleksandr BaluevThe Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.
- StarsYuliya PeresildSanjar MadiSabina AkhmedovaThe end of the 13th century. The envoy of the Golden Horde - Mengu-Temir, a fine connoisseur of female beauty, arrives in the Russian capital.
- StarsSergey BezrukovSergey MakovetskiySvetlana KhodchenkovaThe mysterious death of the rightful heir ends the rule of the ancient dynasty, leading to a power struggle. The mystery of Godunov's rise to power, deceitful conspiracies, and destruction of his family are unveiled in this major saga.
- StarsAlexander PetrovMarta KesslerRavshana KurkovaA rising TV star faces a problem that forces him to turn to his brother whose life changes because of it.
- StarsMarta KesslerPyotr RykovYuriy TsuriloThe life of heiress Dariya Saltykova, who for her cruelty went down in history as a bloody lady and can be considered the first Russian serial killer.
- DirectorAlexey NuzhnyStarsAleksandra BortichEvgeniy KulikIrina GorbachevaAfter a girl becomes chubby, her boyfriend loses interest and breaks up with her. Thanks to her best friend she decides to lose weight, and a new friend is ready to help.
- StarsKonstantin KhabenskiyPaulina AndreevaKirill PolukhinAn ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.
- StarsAnastasiya PaninaSofya KashtanovaAnna StarshenbaumViewers will be able to look into the personal lives of psychologists and see how those, who seemingly know everything about people actually live. The main characters, as they are called, shoemakers without boots, are psychologists, who themselves would not mind to consult on personal matters. Indeed, the universal formula of happiness is unknown even to professionals.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVladimir MashkovMariya MironovaAndrey KraskoDuring the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsMarat BasharovMariya MironovaAndrey PaninThe beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsAndrey SmirnovGalina TyuninaOlga BudinaAn attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
- DirectorAlexey NuzhnyStarsAnastasiya UkolovaLeonid BaratsIrina GorbachevaSeven friends, having gathered in a country house, begin to play the game in a joke - participants must read out aloud all messages that come to them, and answer calls only via speakerphone. They cannot even imagine what amazing revelations they will have to make about each other.
- DirectorSarik AndreasyanStarsDmitriy NagievMarjan AvetisyanRoza KhayrullinaVitaliy Kaloev's life stopped the moment that the plane carrying his wife and children collides with a cargo plane. He's searching for justice and persuades the air-navigation company to apologize and confess their guilt for disaster.
- DirectorMikhail RaskhodnikovStarsOksana ArbuzovaIrina BezryadnovaRinal MukhametovSasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy's father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person.
- DirectorEgor BaranovStarsMargarita AdaevaSergey BadyukFilipp DyachkovThe year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
- DirectorEgor BaranovStarsAlexander PetrovOleg MenshikovEvgeniy StychkinThe resurrection of Gogol brings hope to people. Then a deadly revenge begins.
- DirectorViktor ShamirovStarsGosha KutsenkoViktor ShamirovAleksandra Petrova31th of December. Moscow impossible traffic jams. Haste without results, help from which no one becomes easier. Conversations about the endless little things in which life passes - and maybe already passed. About the father, to whom nothing is left, and nothing can be done. About the plans of a thirteen-year-old girl to live: you can become an oncologist, you can - a food designer. About what was, and what now.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsVladislav ToldykovDenis ShvedovSergey BelyaevAn ordinary hunter accidentally helps a criminal to escape from his accomplices. Two completely different men tries to reach a distant city, but the price of life will be truly terrifying.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovIgor SavchenkoStarsSergey BondarchukIvan PereverzevPavel ShpringfeldA biopic about a national hero of the Ukraine.
- DirectorAnatoli RybakovStarsEvgeniy LazarevLarisa KadochnikovaLeonid GallisBiopic of the Russian painter Vasiliy Surikov (1848 - 1916), who is best known for his depictions of historical scenes.
- StarsEvgeniy TsyganovMariya AndreevaNadezhda MarkinaIn 15th Century Russia, the last Byzantine princess, Sophia Palaiologina, moves from Rome to distant Moscow to marry Czar Ivan III. Destined to become the first influential female figure of the Russian Empire, Sophia overcomes court intrigue and betrayals, and helps Ivan consolidate the fragmented country, push Mongolian invaders out, and build the Kremlin, the most magnificent symbol of Russia.
- StarsVitaliy LenskiyPasha SolVladimir FenchenkoXVI century. The film depicts the life of Ivan from his earliest years to the last days of his reign.
- 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.
- StarsMarina AleksandrovaMichael GorVladimir YaglychThe life of Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German-born princess who came to Russia as the wife of Peter III, chosen by her aunt Elizabeth, and who, once in power, transformed the Russian empire.
- StarsIgor VolkovOleg MenshikovNatalya SaykoA biographical epic about the legendary Russian scientist, historian, linguist and writer Mikhailo Lomonosov and his lifelong search for truth.
- StarsAleksey ShevchenkoEvgeniy MironovChulpan KhamatovaDostoevsky seen through the prism of his relationships, and his struggles with poverty, trial, exile and imprisonment in Omsk, Siberia, writings, gambling.
- DirectorSergey LobanStarsPyotr MamonovVera StrokovaAleksey PodolskiyA Cyberwanderer, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea is the first part of Sergei Loban's absurdist dilogy.
- DirectorMichael LockshinStarsFedor FedotovSonya PrissYura BorisovMatvey, the fastest courier on the frozen canals of 19th century St. Peteresburg is recruited by a group of pickpockets working the winter markets and falls for high-ranking official's daughter, Alisa.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyViktoriya IsakovaYuliya PeresildZlata lives in Moscow and works as a psychologist and author of motivational videos. She believes that she and Sasha have a wonderful marriage, which helped the two to realize themselves and gave them ten years of a wonderful life, in which, unfortunately, only a child is missing. Sasha is obviously of a different opinion, as he secretly meets another woman. This is Veronica, who lives in St. Petersburg, works as a tour guide and is fond of poetry. When Sasha tries to drown, Veronica helps him to get out of the water. Successful comedian, diligent husband and gentle lover - Sasha is torn between several roles, two cities and two completely different women. Is it possible for him to make a choice?
- StarsLyubov AksyonovaYuliya GrishayevaRina GriAfter young architecture Nastya simultaneously loses her job, her husband and her best friend, her subpersonalities - The Goddes, The Kid, The Hostess, The Parent - conflict on how best to live. They will have to learn how to negotiate with each other and make compromises - toward a better future for Nastya.
- DirectorVasily SerikovStarsMakar ZaporozhskiyDenis NikiforovGaël KamilindiA gas tanker is attacked by a gang of Somali pirates in the gulf of Aden. The Russian Navy sends a destroyer to free the hijacked ship.
- DirectorAnna ParmasStarsAnna MikhalkovaOlga AlbanovaVitali DaushevMasha, a gynaecology doctor, is so absorbed by her work that she doesn't immediately come to notice that her husband is about to leave her. Her life is shattered: Masha is overloaded at work, and her kids are demanding constant attention. Used to winning, Masha isn't ready to hand over her beloved husband to a young and stunning-looking fitness trainer. Masha won't stop at anything to get him back, including turning to supernatural forces. But her new life opens up new opportunities, so is this old barely flickering flame really worth reigniting?
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsSergey MazaevAndrey KraskoYuriy TsuriloIn this movie we follow fate not a person but car: first Soviet Lada. It starts with Brezhnev daughter and then gradually moves on parallel to last years of USSR into wild after-perestroika years with bandits and newly born oligarchs.
- StarsSergey MarinSvetlana IvanovaAleksandr BaluevDifferent strokes for different folks - says the proverb. Born a rabble dies a rabble. But this is the year 1700, the time of dramatic changes in the Russian Empire, the time of reformations carried out by Peter the Great. Young serf Ivan Starshov is head over heels in love with Maria, the daughter of his master. He doesn't want to accept that the young princess is no match for him. "You gave me wishes, but you do not allow me to satisfy them!" rages Ivan against God. He asks a priest for help, since God created all people equal. But the priest repeats the proverb. Accept your fate destiny as it is. In despair, Starshov repudiates from faith. Ivan is stubborn; he leaves the village to take possession of his fate. This is how the protagonist gets on the winding road to the true understanding of Love.
- DirectorIvan VyrypaevStarsAleksey FilimonovKarolina GruszkaVarvara VoetskovaTwo people play out a story of love.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsOlga LapshinaMarina GavrilovaSasha GavrilovaThe heroes of the film are not ready to put up with their losses. They challenge fate, declare war on it and reach the human limit in it. And they go on, winning in their own way .
- DirectorOksana BychkovaStarsNadya LumpovaAleksey FilimonovNatalya TereshkovaYoung married couple in today's Moscow: He's an unemployed guy who gets some money by giving rides to strangers at nights. She's a young graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their unstable relationship throughout a year.
- StarsAleksey FilimonovAleksandr SemyonovSergey UmanovAnd in the most turbulent times, art and faith will save us.
- DirectorAleksey SidorovStarsIvan YankovskiyKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir VdovichenkovIn 1978, young ambitious Soviet chess champion Anatoly Karpov must defend his title against a former mentor and defector to the West Viktor Korchnoi. Their face-off becomes the most dramatic championship match in chess history.
- StarsLena TroninaDenis VlasenkoAleksandr GorchilinThe series depicts a young couple's journey who have decided to turn their relationship into a sexual attraction for the whole world through the Webcam.
- DirectorMaksim KulaginStarsAnton ArtemevAnastasiya ChuevaVladimir Danay35-year-old Gleb is an example of a successful man: a beautiful wife, his own business, a new dream country house. However, after he does not find the courage to deal like a man with a drunken neighbor who hit his wife, his ideal life changes dramatically.
- StarsOleg OtsEva IndenbaumFyodor LevinThe story of four Gnessin Academy students. Young and talented cellists have a new teacher who makes demands on them at a completely different level. A randomly filmed video of the four of them playing goes viral, and they form a quartet. Torn between their popularity and preparation for an international competition, the characters grow up, encountering the temptations of youth along the way.
- DirectorNikolay LebedevStarsSergey KempoLyubov AksyonovaEvgeniy Mironov1945. The International Military Tribunal begins its work in Nuremberg. A huge number of people from all over the world come to the trial, which will later be called the Trial of the Century. The city is crowded with journalists, lawyers, translators, witnesses, and many participants and employees of the process.
- StarsElizaveta BazykinaIvan YankovskiyRuzil MinekaevThe late 1980s. While parents fight for survival in a changing world, children fight for the territory. Two 14-year-old boys, Andrey and Marat, are seeking protection and support amid violence and poverty - and find it on the streets.
- DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsFedor BondarchukAnna MikhalkovaRuslan BankovskiyThe plot is dedicated to Fyodor Konyukhov's round-the-world balloon flight. He completed it in 2016 in 11 days and set a world record.
- TV SeriesStarsAleksey SerebryakovAleksandra BortichDmitry VorontsovHaving caused yet another scandal, the son of a Soviet politician finally gets his punishment. He is sent to work for the organizing committee of the 1980 Olympics. His supervisor is the daughter of a high-ranking military official, and she is not willing to cut a spoiled kid from a wealthy family any slack. Finding himself on the backstage of a major world event, he meets different people-athletes, coaches and his collegues from the organizing committee who change his perspective on life. Through their eyes, he sees all the drama surrounding the preparation for the biggest sports event of the country, which is on the verge of collapse.
- DirectorYannis SmaragdisStarsSebastian KochEvgeniy StychkinJuan Diego BottoThe Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country.