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Two up-and-coming friends, seeing themselves as the future elite of the new world, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that they have been drawn into a massive embezzlement scheme involving billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded communal cell, a purgatory where he must transform himself into a different person in order to survive and return back to the real world, to his family.
Apr 2026
The story is based on the real events of 1985. The team of a Russian polar icebreaker “Mikhail Gromov” discovered a giant iceberg. The ship came into collision while attempting to take cover from the weather and is forced to drift with ice along the Amundsen Sea coast. The crew of “Gromov” spent 133 days of polar night trying to find a way out of their icy trap. They have no room for mistakes; one wrong move and the vessel is crushed by ice.
Oct 2016
A 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.
Mar 1997
The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. The peacekeeping event can only be held in Palmyra that has been severely damaged by the terrorists only if the ancient city and the roads leading to it are defused. The EOD team clears the way one kilometer at a time. But the closer they get to the center of Palmyra, the more destructive the explosives. Tension grows between the young team Captain and the most experienced of the EOD experts. And yet, despite their differences, when the team falls into an ambush and the Captain goes missing, it’s the experienced sapper that sets out to search for him.
Feb 2022
21-year-old Lidia Litvyak is a fighter pilot in an aviation regiment. Along with her comrades, she flies missions in the most intense sectors of the front, participating in fierce air battles and proving herself one of the most effective aces. In the regiment, she becomes involved with the pilot Alexei Solomatin. Combat victories, losses and personal torments do not change the heroine's strong character, which forever inscribes Lidia Litvyak's name in the history of aviation.
The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…
Oct 2020
The story of four friends, former fellow soldiers from Afghanistan, who meet on the eve of Victory Day to see off a comrade on his last journey.
Masha has never seen her father. Once she discovers that her parents met at a concert of the popular pop group, she scours the internet and finds a man who she thinks might be her father. Seeing his post about buying tickets for the anniversary concert of the same group, she embarks on an adventure, crossing the entire country and attending the concert to ask her father, why he abandoned them.
Apr 2025
Surviving a difficult period in the relationship, the Kuznetsovs go to an amusement park, where their daughter disappears in the "Cave of Fear", but when they report to the police, it turns out that there is no such attraction in the park ...
Nov 2010
Dec 2018
A few Russian guys are trying to steal a new film by Quentin Tarantino, but not only to sell it, but to show the never-before seen film on a wedding of their friends. Certainly a lot of interesting stuff happens to them on their quest for the movie.
Jan 2006
June 21, 1941. Young lieutenant Kolya Pluzhnikov, having received an appointment to a permanent place of service, arrives in Brest. The crowded waiting rooms of the station and the crowd of people weighed down with luggage do not alarm the young man, filled with joyful hopes. Kolya hurries to the location of his unit - the Brest Fortress... The soldier does not have time to enlist in the personnel of the military, and at four in the morning artillery explosions are heard - the war has begun. He was not enlisted in the ranks of the military personnel of the Brest Fortress, but still took part in the first battle in his life, which lasted ten months.
May 2025
The people's favorite, the country's best football player Fyodor Cherenkov, is not going through the best period in his life. The only thing that keeps him from despair is his dream of playing at the World Cup. But the head coach of the national team removes him from the team at the last moment. Fyodor is seriously thinking about retiring, but for the sake of his family and fans, he returns to lead his club to the championship and become the best again.
Nov 2024
The story begins in 1991. At Sheremetyevo Airport, a part of the state loan - one million dollars - was stolen. The young investigator Konstantin Gromov was assigned to investigate this case. However, in hot pursuit, he fails to find the robbers. For a long time, Gromov lives with a feeling of professional defeat. But one day, after more than 25 years, the hero attacks the trail of criminals. Gromov could not even imagine how complicated the story is behind the stolen money.
Apr 2016
New Year's musical based on the poems of Mikhail Gutseriev.
Dec 2019
As a result of another outrage by fans of the England national team, which escalated into multi-day clashes, the leadership of European football disqualifies the English from the European Football Cup. Instead, the Russian team enters the final stage. The Russian Football Federation has only two weeks to assemble a team. Head coach Sorokin and his assistant Mikhalych invite to the team the football players who have today become "downed pilots": forwards Matveev and Sanaev are under investigation for a fight, defender Bushagov, after a loud scandal, is divorcing his wife, who demands huge alimony, young forward Kizyakov because of of his character sits on a bench and so on. They all lost the opportunity to play, earn big money, be idols and real stars. But Sorokin's plan - to give them a chance to return to their former life - does not work: the new team cannot work together, each player pursues his own goals, and therefore they do not form a team.
Jun 2025
Muscovite Andrey Kotelnikov works as a security guard in a jewelry salon and is going to resume his interrupted studies at a medical school. Unexpectedly, an army friend comes to visit him from Siberia. Having found out from Andrey information about his work schedule and the collection system of the jewelry salon, the Siberian organizes a robbery, provides himself with an alibi and arranges everything so that Andrey becomes the main suspect in this case. Cornered, Andrei escapes from custody and, in the company of the thief Yana, goes to Siberia in the hope of regaining his honest name…
Dec 2009
Love is longer than life, memory is stronger than death.
Aug 2018
Dec 2010
Orphans Dimka and Yaroslav live independent lives. Each of them received a one-room apartment from the state, but the guys decided to live together in order to rent out free living space. They record their reckless life on an amateur camera. However, when the work that the state offers doesn't suit them, one of their acquaintances offers his help - he kicks out the non-paying tenant, draws up papers for himself so that the guys can get a loan for a private business, and then ... deceives and sells their apartment. The first test of adulthood turns out to be cruel, but even more severe trials await Dima and Yaroslav ahead...
May 2010