Alexander Maximov is a brilliant psychologist and the best negotiator in Russia. But even an ideal, it would seem, employee makes mistakes. In the past, while negotiating with the terrorists who had taken over the school, Maximov suffers a defeat when his daughter is killed. Unable to look his wife and son in the eyes, Alexander leaves the family. Years later the hero again faces the perpetrator of that tragedy - it turns out that during an explosion at that school the intruder did not die and now throws Maksimov a new challenge.

In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the CIA.

This is a story about a man and about a woman. Or rather, about male and about female. Two halves that search for each other and don’t coincide. He is an ordinary guy from a small mining town. She is a diva from the capital’s art world. Their meeting is accidental. Their relationship is doomed.

On October 25, 1917, construction of a new world began in Russia. One of the foremost workers in this construction was the writer Andrei Platonov. But a bright and fair future, his art and literature were seen by everyone in different ways. Its truth became impossible, and the new world was not built in the way it was conceived. Demanding millions of lives for its existence, a brighter future took the life of the writer’s son, who was arrested at the age of fifteen, and then Andrei Platonov himself. The story of the creation and death of the new world in seven days.

His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.

Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.

Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.

The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.

The series of shocking murders are forcing two absolutely opposite detectives to unite. Working as a team helping them to solve the crime but they understand that winning the war never means that war is over.

After boyfriend's disappearance Zhenia develops an uncanny power for prophetic dreams. Using this gift she decides to escape fate and save her true love from Moscow's criminal underworld

This is the story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, recreated at the intersection of the arts and genres: puppet theater, design, computer graphics, documentary. The rebellious spirit of Mandelstam's poetry sounded a challenge to the authorities, and their author was destroyed by a state machine - he died in a transit camp. Much of what he wrote could not have been preserved had it not been for her husband Nadezhda, who taught his works by heart, copied manually-in anticipation of times when they could be published.

Three old fiends decide to take vacation from the everyday life and join the archeological expedition.

My parents were vacationing in Bulgaria, my grandfather and I lived soul to soul and cooked not according to schedule, but only when we wanted to. I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't work, I didn't study, I ate a lot of butter out of inertia. I read the "Fundamentals of Archaeology" by Professor Avdusin, copied out poems from a homemade notebook. It was the best June of my life...

A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.

When the investigation comes to a dead end, a private detective Leaf (Kirill Pirogov) comes to the rescue. His method is an interrogation disguised as a sincere conversation or a casual conversation between two" accidentally " strangers who happened to be nearby. The leaf does not press. It does not threaten. It is not covered by the law. He prefers a confidential tone, and for meetings he mainly uses the most ordinary spaces: apartments, offices, corridors, car salons; any places where it is more convenient for a person to speak. Leaf is a chameleon who can present himself as anyone: a former TV presenter who has sunk to the bottom, a labor teacher, a clown, a trolleybus driver, a groom from whom the bride ran away...

The film is based on an interview in New York in 1993 between critic Solomon Volkov and poet Joseph Brodsky. Behind the scenes, the poet answers the questions of the journalist. The conversation, in the end, covers almost the entire life of Brodsky. We are faced with the dramatic story of a man who categorically refuses to dramatize it. The story of a poet who gained in full, but lost immeasurably more.

1942 Major Toporkov, who escaped from captivity, makes his way to the partisan camp surrounded by the Germans. The major asks the commander of the detachment to give him a convoy with weapons in order to get through to the concentration camp: the prisoners are preparing an uprising.

On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world..

After a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.

The film takes place at the training base of the Russian national team. The eyes of the whole country are riveted to this place, our players train here in the remaining few days before the match. All those who help them win work here: coaches, administrators, doctors, watchmen and even cleaners. The fate of the decisive match depends on these people. All of them are selflessly devoted to football.

World War II is raging on the Eastern front but the soldier Nikanor has been sent to Siberia: bot as a prisoner, but as the leader of a motley group of entertainers who travel from village to village giving concerts. Still, Big Brother is watching and when the entertainers encounter a strange man in the woods there is trouble brewing. One of the performers falls in love with the mysterious backwoodsman, but the secret service is after him, too.

The attempted murder of a high-society lawyer draws Yuri Zhivago, a naive young doctor, into a world of passion and intrigue.

Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.

This 16 episode Tv soap opera is set in occupied Paris during WWII, with two top agents playing against each other.

Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.

Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young man and finds a complex conspiracy, trying to take over most European countries - from Britain to Ottoman Empire - with the best intentions, of course.

The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.

A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by her gangster father...

A stylish arrangement in a modern way of a number of classic love stories – "Carmen", "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Don Quixote", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Hamlet". Each episode is a complete story with its own characters, they are united only by the place of action – the city of Rostov–on-Don. It is always summer here, women are beautiful and men are courageous, there is a high sky and a blue river, everyone is happy here or could be happy…

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

Documentary film with comments by Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Alexey Balabanov, Sergey Astakhov, Sergey Selyanov about the shooting of the famous film "Brother 2".

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation he quits his job and flies back to Moscow. There all his vast efforts to win her back seem in vain...

Julia's son dies during a hike in the mountains. However, after the funeral, she receives a mysterious video in the mail in which she sees her son alive. Everything indicates that he is being held somewhere on Sakhalin, in the area of the Severnaya-2 drilling station. Julia goes to Sakhalin in search of her son. Her ex-husband Andrey flies there after her. Parents will have to search for their son for a long time in a dying snow-covered village, in a harsh region where strangers are not welcome.