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- 19931h 31mNot Rated6.0 (2.1K)DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsDmitriy KharatyanKelly McGrillAndrey MyagkovWhen mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
- DirectorVyacheslav RebrovStarsVladimir MashkovYelena RomanovaAleksey ZharkovThe action takes place in Lwów (L'viv) on the eve of World War II. A former White Army officer (Vladimir Mashkov) after the defeat of the Whites in the civil war in Russia emigrated to Poland (Lwów was a Polish city at that time). The chief dream of his was to buy Alaska from the USA and to return it back to Russia.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsManos VakousisVera SotnikovaVasilis LaggosPoet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsAndré DussollierTatyana VasilevaAleksey Zharkov1990s. A trade union delegation headed by Yekaterina, arrives in a small Swiss town. Grandmaster Aleksey Goryunov, who stayed in the West 20 years ago and who has hopelessly loved Katerina all his life, is staying at the same hotel.
- DirectorOleg FominStarsOleg FominSergey NikonenkoNikita Vysotskiy
- 1992–19935h6.1 (448)TV Episode
- DirectorBoris BushmelevStarsSergey MakovetskiyValentina TalyzinaTatyana VasilevaRussian immigrant Boris returns to Moscow to visit his aunt. After reporter wrote article in local newspaper about Boris seeking candidates for wife, Boris immediately became a star but he isn't really appreciate such "popularity".
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsLarisa GuzeevaAleksey SerebryakovLeonid OkunyovThere is a secret door leading to a hidden dungeon with a magical room able to transport you into any capital in the world.
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsAleksandr FeklistovUte LemperEvgeniy SidikhinSet in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin's secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler.
- DirectorYan FridStarsMikhail BoyarskiyAleksandr AlekseevOlga BelyavskayaTartuffe is hidden behind a mask of humility and fear of God. And there's a lot of people to believe that he's truly like that.
- DirectorBoris FruminStarsVeronica AlicinoStephen C. BattsHayward BolingBlack and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.
- DirectorArkadiy KrasilshchikovStarsYuriy DormidontovCarole EscudiéJean-Pierre FritosCristina got acquainted with Russian puppeteer Boris, when he was hitchhiking nearby Montauban. Several years later she met him once again in Moscow.
- DirectorGennadi BeglovStarsPovilas GaidysLyudmila ArininaNatalya FateevaPrivate detective Sam Patrick investigates the mystery of disappeared jewel-box in house of Garry Shtemmer. Trail of murders makes this case more and more embarrassed.
- StarsMark PillowDonovan ScottIgor KharlamovDuring the gold rush days, a young man with his best friend go through lots of interesting adventures in Alaska from races to dangerous trips.
- DirectorVitaliy MoskalenkoStarsIvan VolkovNatalya PetrovaBogdan StupkaMoscow, 1957, World Festival of Youth and Students. "Universal Friendship" is carried out under the watchful supervision of the all-powerful KGB. Igor Sinitsky, a student at Moscow State University and a talented jazz musician, lives with his uncle, Academician Lerner, in a "secure" house. Foreign intelligence is very interested in the academician's work. The charming Frenchwoman Michelle is entrusted with stealing Lerner's secret documents on the development of chemical weapons. In turn, the omnipresent KGB recruits Igor, using very dirty methods. The intelligence services of the two countries took into account everything except one thing - the possibility of the emergence of a real feeling between young people. But this happens, and events escape from the control of the intelligence officers, developing according to a new scenario written by love and the stars.
- DirectorFabio BonziStarsFranco NeroVittoria BelvedereAleksandr AbdulovWhen gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal violence.
- DirectorVsevolod ShilovskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovBoris ShcherbakovLeonid KuravlyovAn auditor is going to the city of Zurich, to the branch of a Soviet bank through which the money of the CPSU is transferred. The almighty director of the Central Bank, nicknamed the Mastodon, is thinking about how to free up a cushy place for his protege.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsPolina KutepovaIrina MarkovaValeriy NikolaevA young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.
- DirectorYuri MaminArkadiy TigayStarsSergey DreydenAgnès SoralViktor MikhailovNikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Viktor Mikhalkov (I)). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?
- DirectorVladimir PlotnikovStarsVladimir AntonikAnatoly VedyonkinVladimir NosikSpecial unit of police and border guards are fighting against foreign smugglers in Far East of Russia in early 90s.
- DirectorMark AyzenbergMikhail KokshenovStarsMikhail KokshenovSemyon FaradaSaveliy KramarovAn old tamer uncle Vasya with an old bear Gosha and their friends manage "Russian safari" for strangers where the bear must stay alive.
- DirectorBoris GorlovStarsAleksey PetrenkoTom BellTatyana Pankova
- DirectorGeorgi Yungvald-KhilkevichStarsMikhail BoyarskiyAlisa FreyndlikhDmitriy KharatyanThe 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
- DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsAleksandr ZbruevMark GoronokMarina NeyolovaListening to the sweet sound of the song "You are the only one" Eugene can't choose which shore to join - America or Russia.
- DirectorMikhail FishgojtEdward StaroselskyStarsNikolay KarachentsovOlga BachurikhinaAleksandr BelyavskiyA wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He is received by Mr. Borsch, who dreams of becoming a minister by signing a lucrative contract. A representative of a Japanese company, nicknamed the Samurai during the auction, is hunting for the same watch. Borshch's wife also "laid eyes" on an antique watch, and a talented thief leaves the prison. All the participants of the future adventures met at the restaurant, where James met the beautiful niece of Borsch's wife. Mr. Clark flies to Namibia, instructing his nephew to put the watch in the hotel safe. Naturally, on the same evening, the watch is stolen.
- DirectorYevgeniy NovikovStarsMaksim GlushkovIrina PrimanchukSergey LepikhinAmerican woman occasionally gets to wild taiga in the Urals. Oddish forester agrees to take her to nearest city on his flying trike. But soon he falls in love with her and suggests to fly on his trike to Colorado.
- DirectorPavel ArsenovStarsYekaterina MikhaylovskayaVyacheslav NevinnyyEvgeniy GerasimovThe evil witch Gingemma conjures up a cyclone to take little Elli away from her mother, and is crushed for her wickedness. Upon landing in the Magic Land, Elli's dog, Totoshka, becomes a remarkably intelligent advisor, who suggests she take the silver shoes the witch was wearing. Wralan, the Cyclone, reports the accident to Bastinda, the Wicked Witch of the West. Near where Elli's house landed is a cornfieled with a Scarecrow, Strasheela, who wants a brain. When Elli rescues him from his pole, a Cowardly Lion comes to the cornfield and calls a truce so they can join together to see Goodwin the Wizard to have their wishes granted. In a dark forest, they meer Zhyelyeenee Drovosyek, a rusted iron woodchopper who wants a heart, and joins them on their quest. Bastinda sends an array of hazards, including an impish Ogre, knife wielding tigers, and winged monkeys to get the shoes from her. The monkeys are successful, and bring her to the castle. How will she find Goodwin now?
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsNikolay StotskiySvetlana PismichenkoAnvar LibabovMostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.
- DirectorAnthony WallerStarsMarina ZudinaFay RipleyEvan RichardsA mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovGennadiy KayumovStarsO. ChernyshevGennadiy KayumovBarry KushnerA violent action thriller, which launched the career of successful Russian genre auteur Timur Bekmambetov, in which prisoners try to make an escape.
- DirectorViktor VolkovStarsNikolay TonskyYuriy DuvanovIgor VorobyovAmerican police, bemoaning the dominance of the "Russian Mafia," send a young cop to Russia to gain experience in fighting organized crime.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsAllison WhitbeckVladimir MashkovMariya ShukshinaA lonely Russian man is trying to see his daughter who lives with her mother far away in the USA.
- DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsAnatoliy ZhuravlyovOlga PonizovaMark GoronokRussian tragic comedy about forming post USSR society.
- DirectorAlla SurikovaStarsJackieIrina SeleznyovaLeonid YarmolnikA wealthy Italian woman, Luciana Farini, travels to Russia, to the homeland of her ancestors, where she wants to bury her beloved dog. Light detective intrigue, the absurdities of Russian life and - we find ourselves witnessing love at first sight.
- StarsMikhail EfremovMikhail BoyarskiyDmitriy PevtsovThe history of the decline of the reign of the French Valois dynasty, full of drama, religious contradictions, palace and love intrigues.
- DirectorNana DzhordzhadzeStarsPierre RichardNino KirtadzeMicheline PresleThe story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
- StarsAndrei NovikovSergei KuznetsovVera VasilevaBased on "Dandelion Wine", a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury.
- StarsGabriella TkachAleksandr DomogarovRafael KotanjyanFrance during the times of Henry III. Religious wars and political intrigues mixed with the tragic love story between Count Louis de Bussy and Countess Diana de Monsoreau.
- DirectorVladimir GrammatikovStarsAnastasiya MeskovaLyanka GryuIgor YasulovichThe film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she made some good friends at school. Suddenly her father was announced dead in a mine accident and Sarah became an orphan. Now she goes on a long and dangerous journey to find her father, who loved her and called her a "little princess".
- DirectorValeri ChikovStarsMikhail EvdokimovValeriy ZolotukhinSergei AgapitovOne day a man went to pull logs from the river to store fuel for the winter and fished out a 200-liter barrel of alcohol. The village went on a spree... This unexpected holiday was given to the villagers by American submariners who were carrying out their secret mission in Russian waters. Two great nations met at one table to get to know each other better. And the meeting turned out to be amazing - the American admiral, who sailed here during the war, met his daughter and grandson here.
- DirectorNikolay DostalStarsGennadiy KhazanovVyacheslav NevinnyyElena TsyplakovaWhen a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be the director of a Russian-American pasta factory. The deceived American angrily orders his guard to find a thief. Unhappy fraudster awaits terrible punishment.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsJulia OrmondOleg MenshikovAleksey PetrenkoAt the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsSergey BodrovAnna FrielVladimir IlinVadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.
- DirectorAlla SurikovaStarsVladimir IlinNatalya GundarevaAlla KlioukaSemyon Lyamkin, the developer and designer of the Zaporozhets, easily overtaking the Mercedes and floating no worse than a motor boat, got into an unpleasant story. When a bank was robbed with his help, Semyon did not wait for his arrest. Once in the "Zaporozhets", he went to prison. But not Russian, but Dutch, since prisons abroad are much more comfortable.
- DirectorIvan SolovovStarsVladimir KonkinAndrey RostotskiyViktor PavlovRussian and American Navy are working together in a sea rescue operation, trying to prevent a major ecological catastrophe. The disaster may be caused by the nuclear reactor, that was smuggled out of Russia and then dropped into the Pacific Ocean from exploded cargo airplane.
- DirectorIgor PerepechYevgeniy RumyantsevStarsAleksei LebedinskyYuriy GaltsevDmitriy NagievA parody on famous "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
- StarsEvgeniy ZharikovAnatoly VedyonkinVladimir NosikFSB and Interpol join their forces to stop drug traffic through Russia to Japan.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
- StarsMarina LevtovaGennadiy BogachyovLarisa UdovichenkoArthur Conan Doyle is a successful writer and a good doctor. He is happy to live in his own big house, with his wife and children. The only thing that upsets him is that his books about Sherlock Holmes are more popular than everyone else. But Sherlock Holmes Doyle considers his worst work. In working on stories, he is assisted by the literary agent Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Sherlock Holmes on the eve of the 20th century. And the housewife is engaged in by a young maid Anna Kew, who frankly does not like Wood. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle receives a huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter comes with a plea for help from the British Indian George Edalji, who claims that he is unfairly accused of the brutal murder of another's pony. Conan Doyle decides to start an investigation. Life presents Doyle with unpleasant surprises: his wife is seriously ill and unexpectedly dies in terrible agony. Doyle, crushed by grief, decides to forever deal with the hated Holmes and writes a story about his death. Unexpectedly for Doyle, Wood leaves immediately after writing the story. Soon, at a meeting with the king of Great Britain, Doyle says that he will write a continuation of the story, where Holmes returns alive and unharmed. In parallel with this, from time to time, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes are shown, which take place as if in the imagination of Doyle, Wood and Kew.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAnatoliy LobotskiyAleksandr Feklistov1983 Television editor Sonya and French translator Andre met in Moscow and fell in love. Sonya has a teenage son and a husband, a successful writer. Andre also has family in Paris. And suddenly everything disappeared for them except the sudden surge of passion. For several days of their lives they were absolutely happy, but the gods did not remain indifferent.
- DirectorAleksandr InshakovStarsSergey BezrukovIrina BezrukovaAleksandr InshakovThe action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At the same time Caesar Nicephorus plays his own game and betrays his royal fiancée Anna Comnena while trying to win the heart of the beautiful countess Brigitta.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsVladimir MashkovJennifer Jason LeighBrenda BakkeA crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
- DirectorKirill MozgalevskiyStarsIgor VasilevAnton YakovlevAlyona YakovlevaIt's a story of actors and directors of golden age of European cinema. The main character is famous actor and writer Dirk Bogarde.
- DirectorShane McGaffeyStarsShane McGaffeyNatalya AristovaYuri AvsharovJames works in Russian office of international company, but one day finds himself alone, jobless and penniless in Moscow.
- DirectorAnatoly EyramdzhanStarsArkadiy UkupnikEkaterina ZinchenkoAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyyTwo Russian immigrants who live in Miami decide to order a mistress from Moscow, but everything is not going as it should.
- StarsAleksey SerebryakovEvgeniy KindinovAleksandr BelyavskiyParis, France. An intelligence officer dies under suspicious circumstances of S.V.R. An investigation is conducted by Russian secret agent Aleksei Solovyev. At the same time foreign intelligence forces conduct an operation to discredit Russian Space project "Hermes" and are ready to launch satellite-interceptor. It becomes up to Solovyev to protect the mission of "Hermes" as he alone begins the counter-operation of "catch and disarm".
- DirectorOleg KovalovStarsLarisa ZharkovaIlya ShakunovSergey KoshoninMixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsOleg BasilashviliIgnat AkrachkovAleksey AlekseevThe theater actor Oleg Volkov is worried about his wife's unfaithfulness. He meets a pensioner, Ivan Petrovich, who advises poisoning his unfaithful wife and her lover.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
- DirectorGino TanasescuStarsMichael ParéRoy ScheiderOleg TaktarovA powerful drug cartel in Moscow wants to use American businessman Steve Nichols in a smuggling scheme and ensures his cooperation by kidnapping his daughter. So Nichols solicits the help of a former KGB agent.