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- Set in the south of France, Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. They haven't seen each other in a long time and Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it. According to Riki, he's had more than six hundred men and only four women. The brothers who grew up apart will have to get to know another again but both their lives change drastically when they witness a woman's death in a car crash.
- In the army they teach you that everything must be smart and in order - cockades, straps and all, otherwise you're not fit to call yourself a person, you're a maggot. For a real man, there's no better place than the army.
- The historic saga of Russia's first industrialists. The main plot of the first season is the story of the Demidovas and Peter the first's mutual relationship. In a short time following Peter Akinfii Demidov's command, the problems with the cast iron and cannon industry was sorted which allowed Russia to secure a string of historic victories. The second season's events unfold in the time-period of Tsarina Anna Ioannova when Demidov Akinfii becomes absolute ruler of the Urals after having managed to oppose harsh and cunning ruler Biron.
- Recently a new, typically Russian genre has appeared know as the 'beer comedy'. The main films that started this genre include: Osobenosti natsionalnoi oxoti, DMB, Mama ne goryui - the new masterpieces of Russian cinema. Den Khomyaka (day of the hamster) is a new step forward in the genre which twits and puts a hamster face on our home-grown capitalism. Den khomyaka is packed with wild scenes, youthful feel, KVN style comedy, film parodies and common cynicism.
- Based on the trilogy of books by Anatoly Rybakov: "Deti Arbata", "Strakh", and "Prach I Pepel". The events circle the 1930's to 1940's. The film leads the viewer into the Kremlin offices, communal flats, university lecture halls and even into prison cells. The viewer also gets to feel what various aspects of life felt like, including Siberian village life, life in various Russian provinces and the tragic events of the breakout of World War II. The story's heroes are the simple lads and girls of the Moscow Arbat and the high-ranking powers: Stalin and his colleagues, workers, head's of scientific institutions and large contractors. The film lets you feel what life was like for these people, their lives and work and the enormous influence of war on the fate of the people.
- Adult life for simple village guy Sasha Vanyukin starts with murder. However, the draw of a beautiful life in the big city turned out to be stronger than any crisis of conscience and the murder case remained unclosed. Vanyukin's business started with petty theft and unlawful trading of rare icons and, in the upheaval of the early 90's, this is what brought him success and made him the owner of a major bank. But, in life you pay for your mistakes, and Vanyukin has a long list of sins. He doesn't suspect that the long forgotten murder will become a curse for him, his family and his children...
- The sea, August, interesting and simple people. They tan, swim, play volleyball, basketball, drink, dance and then find someone to spend the night with. Many grew out of their student phase and can afford a more comfortable holiday but when July comes they grab a tent, jump into their cars and come here. Here, nobody talks about work and the size of your wallet means nothing. The focus shifts from one main character, to another, to a third and then back to the first with the ending being about the fourth who was the main hero in the previous episode. The story unfolds like a musical, where the rhythm is the method of storytelling.
- A new screen version of the play of the same name, written by Aleksandar Ostrovski. After a long time spent traveling abroad, the aging landowner Aleksandar Ashmetev returns to his mansion. He soon informs his spouse Maria Petrova (whom he doesn't love) that intends to leave again for Paris, away from dull provincial life. In despair, Maria thinks up a cunning plan. She introduces Aleksandar to Varya Zubareva, a young beauty from the neighboring mansion, in the hope that she will keep him there for longer. But, the mock intrigue takes a serious turn when it becomes obvious that Aleksandar has become seriously interested in Varya. Aleksandar now begins to think about how he can turn his passion into a real romance with the young temptress.
- An attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
- Vadim, a young script writer, is killed in Moscow. What's more, he had reached his height of popularity a long time ago. His friend, successful businessmen Maksim Krivoshein, begins his own investigation. Memories of their childhood and the chance discovery of Vadim's diary leads to some shocking discoveries.
- In a coastal town, the pre-election campaign begins. The main candidates for the election are the respected businessman Turist and the local public prosecutor. Life in the town changes dramatically, the campaign becomes more and more intense: political strategists arrive from Moscow, the local television works overtime, criminal groupings are involved, even show business stars come to support the candidates. And everything goes well, until Moryachok arrives. Life in the quiet town becomes completely unpredictable...
- Two spies are undercover to track down a nuclear missile while distracting a vilain trying to get world's domination
- All the countries' anti-terrorists' unite! That is, unite in a club for fans of detectives movies! Somewhere to the far north, a seaplane carrying a large sum of cash is forced to make a landing. Wind blows the plane away and in the mean time, on another side of the island, someone commits a robbery and kills the witness. But, out of the blue a ferry arrives and the captain is forced to turn detective.
- The skeptic doctor is stuck between this world and that world. Light dramedy about rethinking life.
- Year 1920. A well known singer Zinaida Casarosa arrives in a small provincial town with a concert program. Her admirer Svechnikov invites her to sing at an Esperanto club. During the concert she is shot dead by an unknown person. It is Svechnikov's duty to find out the name of the killer. The mystery of her death becomes no less complicated that her life.
- Vadim Yershov has lost everything he had: family, home, favorite job. His daughter is attached to a wheel-chair after an accident that happened partly by his fault. From this stress, Vadim accumulated so much negative energy that now he can literally kill by his word and look. A big-scale scammer Avenir decides to use Vadim's gift in his interest, offering help with medical treatment for his daughter. Through Avenir, Vadim meets with a wonderful woman named Yelena. His love to her helps him to cure his daughter and his own soul.
- The news suddenly comes to the family of Pavel Olevantsev that his daughter has been orphaned by another woman. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, and his wife could not know about it either.
- Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely other reason: no woman can resist him. Making love is a serious thing for Marat, although his adventures will make the viewers die with laughter...
- A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.
- One day, Kivi, a romantic young man with criminal tendencies falls in love. He saw her through the window: the girl was watching straight at him from a giant billboard... One day, Aliku, an intellectual man thinks he has to save a young girl. He met her on the street when he stopped at an intersection and a girl unexpectedly sat down in the front seat of his car. One day, Alica, the billboard model and the girl from the intersection is watching a Japanese cartoon. She falls asleep on the couch and when she wakes up, dream and reality have mixed inside her head... The main characters of the movie will try to prove themselves that life isn't always what it seems to be at first sight...
- A young man who was raised in a children's home wants to go to the Chechen war. He believes in his heart that he belongs there and that in those difficult conditions he will make himself visible. After the training, Alexander enters the elite troops of the special forces and leaves for the harsh ordeals that wait for him in the war. He doesn't change his principles and manifests himself as a hero, who won't be a traitor, even if his life depends on it. The concepts of real friendship, love and honor are eternal values. After overcoming all hardships and learning the pain of loss, he finds his love and a home, where they will wait for him, where he comes home to from the war...
- "Masha" is a romantic and ironical comedy. The script is based on the life of Masha, a real young woman from Moscow. One day she ran away to Paris to Dima, a Russian translator. It turns out he is her father, who hasn't seen her since she was a baby. He lets her stay with him. His good friend Natasha helps them understand each other. But his whole life turned upside down and he must now rethink many aspects of his carefree life as a bachelor.
- Odessa, Ukraine. Their marriage a ruse, Alya and Zhenya are on their honeymoon. But, they will soon learn that Alya's lover wants her back, at any cost.
- A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
- Mysterious Frenchman helped Russian journalist during a difficult period of her life, and now she intends to solve the riddle of his coming.
- Katya works as a secretary at the company ZIMALETTO. She has a sharp brain, a wonderful character and a pure soul, but so far no man has paid attention to her. However, her plain looks don't keep her from dreaming about love and happiness.
- There will be an explosion exactly in 48 hours in Moscow. The information was provided by an agent who was killed this very second. All departments of special ops work on it, but the only hope is for recently organized independent team. They are a hacker girl who once broke thru Pentagon servers, a former special ops officer who enjoys speed and adrenalin, psychologist, a lady whose beauty outshines her intelligence and her rank of major, and a blind field engineer whose sense of smell and intuition substitute for his eye sight... And the Chief who got them all together and learned how to control them. Only this team is able to figure it out WHO, and most importantly WHERE, by knowing just WHEN...
- Moscow's rich want to take over a thriving plant in Siberia.
- In a small provincial town Tikhodonsk a former patient of mental hospital Sergey Lapin lives and he seems to be a quiet, modest man, although local people know that this weird man who lives together with a market seller, in fact is not that simple. Sergey is strong and emotional, and his anger can't be controlled by his consciousness. His life becomes different after he was run over by a head of technical support of the bank. Then bank officers realize that they can use his knowledge of new security systems, so they hire him. He gets his first salary and buys some new clothing - Sergey changes so amazingly. Smart chief of bank's security tests Sergey to find out other hidden resources of this person. Still, the man does not remember anything that could shed some light to his mystic past. But there are those who know about the danger this person can bring. They open the hunting season on Lapin, who decides to solve the mystery and get back his forgotten self.
- Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civilization laws are forgotten, and this deadly weapons are kept by gangsters who are controlled by a new "master of taiga" Prohor, whose leisure time is spent hunting at humans. Mazur didn't know that he would have to trade his familiar gun for a hand-made bone knife, and save his companion and himself instead of saving the world. For them, this safari in northern forests would be no less dangerous as for the live targets.
- Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
- Plumbum in translation from Latin means lead - it is Ruslan Chutko's nickname who decided to become a "sanitary assistant of society." But while being taken away by his role of fighting against evil, he goes beyond the limits of child's game and mercilessly intrudes into other people's fates. This film is a sharp detective story dealing with deep and actual moral problem...
- This is the story about a person born during the time of WW2 evacuation and who quickly turned from a modest Jewish boy Joseph into a cruel and cynical crowned thief, ruthless to everyone. The person, who once lost, forgot, traded his present name by becoming simply a Baron... Streets of modern city are changed into wooden pavements of a provincial town in the beginning of 50th, high society parties are turned into gangsters' meetings, Mediterranean landscapes - into dirty railway stations of Russian suburbs, detective's office of Stalin times - into a high security prison of 70th.
- Mystical thriller based on Aleksey Birger's novel of the same name. Winter of 1946. A young officer of Cavalry Sergey Vysik after demobilization is appointed the head at Criminal investigation department near Moscow. He is charge of an abandoned stud farm, some villages nearby, a factory, workers' town and railway warehouses where trophies from Germany and some humanitarian loads from soviet governments are kept. When Vysik came to Mitrohino village where there was a local police department, he was going to solve some problems there - someone stole horses from the stud farm and there was a series of cruel murders of a former head of police department, night guard, some local residents and "a special person" from Moscow. All the residents are terrified by gossips that a horrible, elusive werewolf committed all these crimes. Regardless of his boss' order to ignore all the prejudice, Vysik wants to find out what is that force keeping all the people in terror.
- The life of prosperous medic going to ruin after he was framed by unknown but probably close person.
- Parents of thirteen years old Lena just got divorced. Lena wants to prove that they live nicely even with her mother alone and that she is independent. The girl goes to work at post office utilizing there her resourcefulness and charm. At work everyone talks about a serial killer who keeps the entire region in terror. One night a stranger defends Lena from some hooligans and as Lena thinks, he continues assisting her incognito. The girl is ready to believe and convince others that her protector is that horrible maniac. At first, these relationships with her odd admirer seem as a gamble for Lena, but then she gets convinced that this game became deadly dangerous...
- Once three friends since childhood - oligarch "Lyah", scientist "Candle" and a former turner-traveler "Coca" - get together at Lyah's 45 years anniversary, so to speak, on the highest level. These three friends haven't seen each other for 15 years and they became quite different. Once when they were young, they had an idea to go down the Volga River on a raft. They leave everything, and secretly from everyone, drift away to their days of childhood full of adventures. Their wives, mistresses and guards rush after them...
- A young traveler Dmitriy Sanin, staying in Frankfurt, falls in love with an Italian girl Jemma whose mother was a café owner. Jemma reciprocates with love and young people decide to get married. But they need money for this, and Sanin makes a decision to sell his small property. His property is bought by his old friend's wife Maria Nikolaevna Polozova... Attracted by her beauty, Sanin forgets all the vows he gave to Jemma and breaks her sincere love.
- Sasha, an unassuming literature teacher from a small provincial town, begins an exciting new life when he is hired to write for a large television advertising agency in Moscow.
- Regardless of an abundance of "recipes of happiness", each person makes his own one with the help of anything available. A former ballet dancer Polina Gorcchakova has a loving husband-businessman, family comfort and prosperity at home. Although, she can't be happy, because she doesn't have someone of most importance - a child. What Polina is ready to do when her advisor is her businesslike and determined friend Lyusya? Can she date with a professional seducer-strip teaser for the sake of business? Is she ready to go deep into her relationships her secret handsome Bogdan? Is she ready to pay a visit to a witch for a wonder-working recipe?
- A motor depot boss with links to black market traders sends the unsuspecting Rumyansev on a flight with stolen goods. On the road, the chauffer is arrested and put in prison. To cover their tracks the real criminals do everything possible to ensure Rumyansev receives the full blame. The heartless and suspicious chief of police isn't up to finding the real crooks and so Rumyansev's case gets passed to a clever and experienced General.