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Alisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel reality, but the party animal Ivan. Will the young people be able to recognize true love and will they be able to unite their worlds in order to meet in reality and simply touch each other?
Oct 2025
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
Apr 2021
The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
Apr 2015
USSR, 1970s. Lena has a real talent for writing - her school essays reflect with incredible precision and warmth not only the world around her and her loved ones, but also her personal experiences, dreams, and hopes. Her mother works in documentary film, and she has her own problems and dreams. It so happened that the daughter's adolescence coincides with her mother's midlife crisis. The story of their touching relationship is told with a kind smile and notes of sadness.
Aug 2024
Beautiful Nina lives happily married, as she saw it, with intelligent Alexandr, professor of Sinology. But the debt for the mortgage begins to disturb the relationship of spouses. One day she meets Sergey, the head of the bank where her husband has debt, and so begins their passionate relationships. The story of the relationship with married Sergey hardly promises happiness, but Nina realizes that for the first time she feels true love.
Mar 2017
The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.
May 2018
Successful St. Petersburg restaurateur Mark lives in a whirlwind of vibrant events and social adventures: parties, tastings, boisterous gatherings, beautiful girlfriends and cheerful friends with their own crushes, romances, and betrayals. But one day, Mark will have to make a choice: a world of fleeting desires and thrills or a feeling that happens only once and lasts forever.
Apr 2027
The place of the letter Ё in the Russian language intrigues a young writer named Roman, and he decides to dedicate his first book to it. Work progresses slowly, as Roman is hampered by work, household chores, and a lack of time in the day. One day, clones appear in his life, ready to take on all his chores and responsibilities, just so he can write. At first, everything goes well, but over time, the relationship between Roman and the clones frays, as everyone vie for the writer's place.
Aug 2026
St. Petersburg. Friends Lera, Valya, and Olya perform a mystical ritual for fun, and suddenly Catherine the Great herself materializes in the kitchen amidst the candles. The crowned empress quickly embraces the 21st century: she tries cappuccino, searches for the "Kareta" fare on a taxi app, and that night, she discovers a dance floor with a bang. The friends are delighted, until they notice that reality around them is beginning to shift.
Dec 2025
After seven years in prison, Anna is released. She has no home, no family, no purpose in life, and the guilt over her past haunts her. A charity helps her find a job, provides a place in a dormitory, and refers her to a psychological support group. There, Anna meets Roman, who helps her realize that to move on with her life fully, she needs to address what's weighing her down. She decides to take a step that could change everything.
Nov 2026
The story of the growing up of Lyosha, who turned 18 years old. Life asks him more and more difficult questions about love, family, duty and his path than it did at 14. And he, just as then, must answer them himself.
May 2023
The main characters are a grandfather and his grandson, who suffers from agoraphobia. In an attempt to help his grandson, the grandfather puts his life and the boy's life in danger, and now the fate of the family depends on whether the boy can cope with his phobias and the Siberian taiga.
Feb 2026
Millionaire Georgiy celebrates his birthday all alone. Not being quite sober, he demands that his faithful assistant Ilya organize a real family for him by the morning. Imagine Georgiy's amazement when he wakes up surrounded by his wife, son and daughter, who claim that he has always had them. Their words are confirmed by documents, family photos, employees, partners and even Georgiy's own mother. Now he has to learn how to be a husband and father, and in this matter, money will not solve all the problems.
WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
May 2012
Stepbrothers and teammates Zhenya and Tyoma do not like each other. Professor Maksim Muromtsev, Tyoma's father, is working on a time machine. After a visit to his laboratory, they are accidentally transported to 1999, where they meet 12-year-old Vadim Shipachev - a future star hockey player and Zhenya's idol. Now they must help Vadim to believe in himself and follow his dream before they can return to the present.
Teenager Sasha witnesses a kidnapping, setting off a chain of events that could destroy his family.
Shattering the story of a talented former boxer. He lost his memory. He does not remember what happened yesterday. He can not sleep. Each morning starts with a clean sheet for him. The powers that be decided to use it in my game. As a bargaining chip. He will understand. And revenge. In one day, he needs to catch it.
Sep 2008
Pasha has never been in love, but he does have a nightclub he inherited. It's in debt. Pasha can't manage it, but he can't sell it either—it's all he has left from his parents. Pasha also has a friend, Lesya, who patiently waits for his feelings to finally thaw. And they thaw when Lesya introduces Pasha to her friend, Alisa. Alisa isn't responsible for those she's tamed. She will be the first to break Pasha's feelings, turning his life into complete madness.
Mitya, a recent high school student, dreams of fame, but has no idea what price he'll have to pay for it. A random car accident, captured on a cell phone camera, makes him a hostage to a frantic media frenzy. He's caught in the maelstrom of political games and becomes a tool for garnering millions of views for his talk show. However, even this isn't enough for the media. Mitya tries to escape this cycle before he's buried in the news feeds.
Apr 2026
Overcoming the midlife crisis and experiencing an internal shock, sports news anchor Egor Tikhonov becomes a volunteer, he helps mothers of sick children in the cancer ward, searches for lost people together with "Lisa alert". gradually finding a new life, Egor begins to lose the old one: he loses his job, almost divorces his wife. and more and more often he asks himself if he is a strong enough person to go his way to the end.
Mar 2023