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- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsLeonid BichevinIngeborga DapkunaiteAndrey PaninA drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyStarsYuriy LagutaMarina VovchenkoSergey ShnurovTwo men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat market, to the president's drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergey MakovetskiyLeonid KushnirZhan DanielA man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
- DirectorVladimir PotapovStarsOlesya SudzilovskayaAndrey TarasenkoDasha SidorinaA post-singularity alien civilization attempts to take over the Earth from a small industrial Soviet town by implanting alien minds into human bodies.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsMikhail SkryabinYuriy MatveevAleksandr MosinThe film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
- DirectorMichael IdovStarsAleksey AgranovichYuri KolokolnikovAlisa KhazanovaThe Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
- DirectorIlya BelovStarsVladimir SorokinDocumentary about Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most prominent Russian writers.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksandr MosinOleg GarkushaYuriy MatveevSanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage to a "bell-tower of happiness".
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- DirectorKirill SokolovStarsAleksandr KuznetsovVitaliy KhaevEvgeniya KregzhdeAndrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyIrina TretyakovaStarsEvgeniy TsyganovLeonid YarmolnikIrina RozanovaOdessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit his pensioner in-laws, Grigori and Raisa. Their daughters, Mira and Lora and their husbands, Arik and Volodya respectively and children are also there on vacation. His wife is the middle daughter and would come later. It is a Jewish family. Arik is a slobber and Volodya a quiet drunk. Something doesn't smell like love. On the day of their arrival, Odessa declares a quarantine due to a cholera outbreak, and the city is closed off. Boris is a true international journalist and a real import, metropolitan little thing. He drives women and girls in Odessa crazy with his metropolitan gloss. Having come for a few days, the son-in-law is plunged into a world changed by serious danger. Family secrets will be disclosed, improbable events happen, and a great forbidden love starts.
- DirectorSemyon SerzinStarsVadik KorolyovYuliya BashorinaIlya BorisovA simple guy from Podolsk ends up in the Moscow Police Department and morally prepares for all sorts of humiliations. But the representatives of the law suddenly turn out to be exacting intellectuals.
- DirectorIvan VyrypaevStarsPolina AgureevaMaksim UshakovMikhail OkunevA romantic triangle leads to both joy and sorrow in this drama, Pavel (Maxim Ushakov) is a goat rancher who has fallen in love with beautiful Vera (Polina Agureeva) from afar.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsMaksim SukhanovJustine WaddellVitaliy KishchenkoIn 2020, a group of wealthy Muscovites traveling to a complex of abandoned astrophysics, where rumors say they have enough power to stop the aging process.
- DirectorSergey LobanMarina PotapovaStarsAleksey PodolskiyPyotr MamonovGleb MikhaylovThe genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which people live. Dust is a common misconception, the natural clogging up of the brain. Specks of dust how scientists perceive people, scientists who think they know more than anyone else about the universe.
- DirectorAlisa PavlovskayaThe film is based on a series of novels by Stas Dombrowski, a former drug addict and criminal who learned that he was HIV positive in 17 years, and plunged into absolute self-destruction for next two decades. Only on his deathbed in prison therapy, knowing that he would die in two weeks, Stas understood that he wants to live more than anything in this world.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovPyotr ZaychenkoVladimir KashpurA comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaOlga VolkovaValentin GaftMany of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorDmitrii DavydovStarsValentina Romanova-ChyskyyrayNikolai IvanovAnatoly StruchkovPeople avoid and fear her but make their way to her door, because only she can resolve problems problems of all kinds. She is a healer, a hermit, a holy fool and a drinker. She knows the saving grace she administers is destroying her.
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsNatan EidelmanAnatoly SlivnikovGerman ShorrASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
- DirectorAleksandr AleksandrovViktor ProkhorovStarsSergey KoltakovVarvara SoshalskayaElena SafonovaAfter his marriage with Lyuba (Yelena Safonova) breaks down, Boris (Sergei Koltakov) begins to search for an apartment of his own. He locates an apartment for couples which is being inhabited by a lone old lady (Varvara Soshalskaya) who is supposed to move in with her sister (Yevdokiya Urusova). The old lady doesn't want to go, and tries to stave off the inevitable by taking in a young woman Elya (Svetlana Voronina) as a flat-mate. Boris rapes the girl, but despite this she eventually becomes friends with him, and eventually they become lovers, entitling them to rent the apartment together (without the old lady).
- DirectorAndrey ZaytsevStarsOlga OzollapinyaSergey DreydenAndrey ShibarshinLeningrad, World War II. An Olga is walking through the whole city to her father. She has just buried her husband and is sure she is going to die soon out of hunger. Olga wants to see her father one last time to say goodbye.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsSergey MakovetskiyNina UsatovaElizaveta ArzamasovaFather Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the German occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II.
- DirectorAleksandr ProshkinStarsEkaterina Davydova-TongurKonstantin KhabenskiyVitaliy KishchenkoA drama based on an alleged incident in 1956 Samara, where a young woman who danced with a religious icon was frozen into immobility.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsLouis FranckViktoriya KorotkovaMerab NinidzeEpisodic, spiritual and existentialistic look at the state the Russia is in in 2017, exactly one hundred years after the communist-led Russian Revolution. The future looks gloomy, since the world is on the brink of yet another world war.
- 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.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsIvan KolesnikovSvetlana KhodchenkovaFyodor DobronravovThe movie is shot based on the biographic story of Sergey Dovlatov "Compromise", tells about an era in which created, despite bans, had sex which "wasn't", and fought for the right to be heard contrary to universal control. And waited for an era of which end were afraid - An era which, despite everything, remained fine.
- DirectorNatalya KudryashovaStarsAnastasiya KrasovskayaYura BorisovDarius GumauskasA story of a young woman whose soul remembers the metaphysical perfection it witnessed before becoming embodied. Now, against the canvas of the modern world it seems like a film defect.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsTinatin DalakishviliEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey VertkovFor the sake of her future with the father of her two children, she commits a crime so grave that he withdraws from her. Feeling betrayed she tries to fill the void with sex and religion; but resentment drives her to revenge.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMerab NinidzeAnna MikhalkovaRoza KhayrullinaFollows a Russian professor who takes to social media to criticize his city's administration. He soon finds himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- DirectorNatasha MerkulovaAlexey ChupovStarsEvgeniy TsyganovNatalya KudryashovaYuriy KuznetsovWhen a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
- DirectorAleksandr GordonStarsOksana FanderaAleksey LevinskiyAnna SlyuIn the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.
- DirectorAleksandr VeledinskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElena LyadovaAleksandr RobakThe ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.
- DirectorAleksandr LunginStarsAleksandr KuznetsovAleksey FilimonovFyodor LavrovGreat Poetry is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They're young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. Dreaming, they attend a poetry class at their local cultural center, and watch cock fights at a dorm for migrant workers. Attempts to find poetry in the prosaic world that surrounds them lead the heroes to the conclusion that the only poetic move they can make is to rob a bank. Paul Claudel wrote that a person lives their life intimately and poetically, and in our film there is a lot of poetry. But the film isn't about words or rhymes. It's about friendship and betrayal, and about our vicious and alien world in which anyone who tries to be honest and consistent ends up looking naive and cruel. It's about the ever-present and incomprehensible force that no matter what makes our life so frantic, strange, and lonely.
- DirectorDarya ZhukStarsAlina NasibullinaIvan MulinYura BorisovIn 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.
- DirectorAleksandr KhantStarsEvgeniy TkachukAleksey SerebryakovAndrey SmirnovHoping to claim his newly-vacated apartment, a young man travels across Russia with his aging gangster father to admit him into a nursing home.
- DirectorYuriy MorozStarsDarya MorozViktoriya IsakovaAnna UkolovaA very good film shot by Y. Moroz with 3 pretty girls Dasha Moroz, Anna Ukolova and Vika Isakova. The film is about life of several tarts who live on outskirts of ukrainian provincial town Makeevka. We see all grisly reality of this country, the cruel rules of survival on streets of Makeevka (home city of one of the girls) and Moskow ghettos, it's inhuman customs and cops plunged in crime up to their ears.. This movie is one of the best modern russian action movies, and one of few. And this movie is also a good one for getting a short course of new modern russia's life that is for majority of people not so different since the time of changes
- 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.
- StarsKonstantin BogomolovElena LyadovaEvgeniya GromovaIn his first TV-series Fedor Bondarchuk depicts a story of a popular psychotherapist Oleg who seems to be in a desperate need of help.
- DirectorAndrey MalyukovStarsDmitriy MedvedevMilena Tskhovrebova-ArganovichAleksey BuldakovIn the autumn of 1941, the last defender of the Brest fortress continues a fight against the German invaders.
- DirectorOksana KarasStarsChulpan KhamatovaAndrzej ChyraKonstantin KhabenskiyThis is the story of one day in the life of Elizabeth Glinka, the head of "Fair Care" foundation, a philanthropist, a doctor and a human rights activist. As the day starts, Elizaveta and her husband Gleb are going to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Liza is planning to spend some time with her family, waiting for her sons and close friends to arrive. The last thing to do is to drop by Paveletsky train station to check the campaign of the Fund for sending humanitarian supplies to people in need. Suddenly, she is addressed by the father of a girl suffering from a severe disease, and Doctor Lisa agrees to help. This request yields lots of unexpected circumstances into the well-planned day.
- DirectorLado KvataniyaStarsNiko TavadzeEvgeniy TkachukDaniil SpivakovskiyThe thriller is inspired by the case of an infamous Soviet-era serial killer who eluded police for a decade.
- StarsKseniya OtinovaAleksey RozinGleb KalyuzhnyyHis parents went missing in ethnographic expedition, and now he discovers that the world of ancient forest creatures, spirits and shamans of the Russian North is no fairy tale.
- DirectorVladimir BitokovStarsKseniya RappoportYura BorisovEkaterina ShumakovaTogether with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is said that has been killed in action but Tonya refuses that there's a mistake and believes that her son is still alive.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsAleksandr GorchilinMasha TokarevaNatalya PavlenkovaMiddle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.
- DirectorAndrey ChernykhStarsYelena BraginaNatalija BaranovaSemyon StrugachyovThe action takes place in a strange world of human relationships and broken relationships. And, perhaps best of all it focuses a person who is blind from birth. The film - the story of his dramatic love of a beautiful young woman.
- StarsIvan YankovskiyShamil KhamatovEvgeniya GromovaShtapich started a family early and also quickly lost it, managed to put an end to his career and was out of work at the age of 25. Once in the search and rescue squad, he gets the opportunity to realize himself in a new professional environment and acquire not just friends, but like-minded people - people who are truly passionate about their work.
- DirectorAnastasiya PalchikovaStarsAnya ChipovskayaDenis DonskoySergey Dvoynikov13-year-old Masha grows in the 90s in Russia between the boxing ring and the street. Her friends occasionally kill and rob people. The whole town hates and fears them, but for Masha they are the best people in the world who love and protect her. She sings jazz and dreams of becoming a singer. One day, Masha finds out who her friends really are and what they have done to her life and family. Having matured, she leaves her small hometown for Moscow, trying to break away from the past. But it overtakes her and brings her back to the place where her childhood passed away.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsKseniya RappoportRoman ShmakovYevgeniya KuznetsovaA mother loses her son during a winter visit to a remote town.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey RozinWhen a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
- 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.
- DirectorAlexey NuzhnyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyIvan YankovskiyStasya MiloslavskayaA heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What some may call an act of bravery is an ordinary day for them.
- DirectorMikhail MestetskiyStarsArtyom AnisimovDanila AstakhovDenis AstakhovA group of friends founded a group and struggles to find an ideology for it.
- DirectorRoman KarimovStarsNikita OstAnton ShurtsovAleksandr PalTim and Dan - fellow losers from a provincial town. Studies over, they don't want to work and don't have girlfriends. On the way to a dream and hope to get everything at once guys are taken to perform the task of the local bandits.
- 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.
- DirectorAlexey ChupovNatasha MerkulovaStarsYura BorisovTimofey TribuntsevAleksandr YatsenkoFast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fyodor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in the USSR.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsSeidi HaarlaYura BorisovDinara DrukarovaAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorArkadiy TigayStarsSergei KuryokhinLarisa BorodinaAndrey PonomaryovThe protagonist, a talented geek, avenges a gang of racketeers for killing a best friend, using his extensive knowledge in various fields of technology. He traces them, collects material and, not relying on the police, he himself administers justice. It helps him in this same victim of racket, a pretty woman with whom he begins to tie the novel.
- DirectorAleksandr PankratovStarsSergey MakarovLarisa BorodinaNikolay DobryninMoscow outskirts, spring 1956. This time will remain forever in the memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the film, the son of a political prisoner. He will meet and lose his first love, face the stupid cruelty of the criminal world, say goodbye to childhood, find his father again.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsChulpan KhamatovaDina KorzunMaksim SukhanovAlyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.
- DirectorAleksandr ZeldovichStarsIngeborga DapkunaiteTatyana DrubichNatalya KolyakanovaThe film centres on Mike, a businessman in decidedly the new Russian mould. When Mike gets stung on a deal, his suspicions immediately fall on Lev, who receives the customary torture to make him reveal where the money has gone.
- DirectorDenis NeymandStarsAlyona BabenkoMikhail EfremovVyacheslav RazbegaevJournalist Marina after an unpleasant professional incident decides to leave journalism. But her editor agrees to this only if Marina makes her last report on a maniac teacher who is in a psychiatric hospital. But almost immediately after the arrival of Marina and her acquaintance with the head doctor, the maniac manages to escape. The search entrusts the investigator Pavel, Marina manages to join him. After a series of operational-search measures, the heroes find themselves in a huge, abandoned country-house village in the vicinity of the city of Azotstal. A mobile phone does not work in this territory, a criminal code does not work, and local residents live according to their own laws.
- StarsAnton VasilevNikolay ShrayberDarya EkamasovaDetective Sergey Smirnov returns to his hometown Khrustalny to investigate a series of violent murders of little boys. The pursuit forces Sergey to face the traumatic memories of his childhood, the very reason he left Khrustalny years ago.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVladimir TolokonnikovBoris PlotnikovIn the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
- DirectorRuslan BratovStarsIrina DenisovaSergey GayterovAleksey IlinCaucasus, City of Cherkessk. Soslanov Sasha or how friends are used to call him Sos is never dejected. Expelled from the University, nowhere to spend the night, a love of life Nina leaving the city - it's all rubbish. Sos is loyal to his fortune. One day, out of boredom, Sasha desperately gambles an "Express" wage - the bet is starting to win. However, Sos has lost the money-receiving card and now he has only 3 days to find his "Express". Cherkessk Odyssey has begun.