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- DirectorRashid NugmanovStarsViktor TsoyMarina SmirnovaPyotr MamonovMoro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition. But Moro finds a deadly opponent in "the doctor," the mafia kingpin who is exploiting Dina.
- DirectorRashid NugmanovStarsViktor TsoyAleksandr BashirovPyotr MamonovMoro returns to his native Alma-Ata for the money debt of the swindler Spartak and stays with his girlfriend, whom he parted for a long time. Old love has returned, but Dina surprises him with her strange behavior.
- DirectorNikita TyagunovStarsIvan OkhlobystinPyotr MamonovIvan ZakhavaSurreal drama based on the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The first Russian film on the war in Afghanistan and Afghan syndrome.
- 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.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorSergey SelyanovStarsValeriy PriyomykhovPyotr MamonovMarina LevtovaIn a village where a Russian, a German, a Tatar, a Roma and a Jew live, one day an unknown man appears, calling himself Surveyor. After his appearance, incredible things start happening, the characters' paths diverge and cross once again.
- 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.
- DirectorFilipp YankovskiyStarsOleg MenshikovNikita MikhalkovKonstantin KhabenskiyThird film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
- DirectorVyacheslav RossStarsAleksey MaklakovSofya OleynikVladimir DolinskiyAn actor who performs for a children's theater lands a leading role in a new production.
- DirectorSergey BodrovStarsOksana AkinshinaKatya GorinaRoman AgeevTwo young girls, Sveta and Dina, go on the run to avoid being kidnapped by the former associates of Dina's recently released gangster father.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsRebecka LiljebergJoachim KrólSergey BodrovA fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsOleg MenshikovSandrine BonnaireCatherine DeneuveIn June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsValeriy GarkalinVera AlentovaInna ChurikovaA Russian crook steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNonna MordyukovaSvetlana KryuchkovaYuriy BogatyryovA woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.
- DirectorHelena TrestíkováHelena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The tragic story of a girl named Katka who believes that joy and happiness can be applied through a hypodermic needle. All she is left with is despair. We first meet Katka at a rehab clinic in Nemcice, still full of optimism and faith in a drug-free future. The film tries to draw attention to the drug problem from a somewhat different point of view.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsIgor SergeevYuriy TsuriloYuliya AugPresent days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.