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He is a star of theater and cinema, his day is scheduled by the minute – shooting in blockbusters, starring roles on the stage, broadcasts of central channels, photo shoots for the covers of glamorous magazines. She is a modest girl from the province, her fate is to be a concierge in the house of stars and look at the passing heroes of the gossip columns from her corner. It seems that everything is with Vera, as with people - a young husband with a Moscow residence permit, a child. It seemed that she would like to live and rejoice, but to her misfortune she meets Him. This is not a commercial calculation, this is not a momentary passion, but a deep, sacrificial love.

Eleven-year-old Misha dreams of a bright, eventful and struggling life, just like in the movies. But there are ordinary people of few words walking around: how can something special happen to them? An ardent fan of the TV series "Killer" accidentally meets his idol's car on the street. Thanks to a new acquaintance, the hero gets into the studio, becomes a participant in the real events of a fictional world - and is forced to accept that childhood is over.

Fate brings two girls together at the very beginning of their lives. Seven-year-old Lyubka, growing up among street thieves, distracts the attention of a rich family at the train station, and at that moment a suitcase is stolen from them. After this incident, the "little robber" often imagines herself in the place of a well-dressed girl, with mom, dad and a beautiful doll in her arms.

Patient Gromov is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and his attending physician is Dr. Ragin. Contact is established between the doctor and the patient. The hospital's chief physician, Khobotov, sees that the tandem of the doctor and the patient is disrupting the work of the entire hospital.

Ogurtsova, 55, lives with her mother and loves Russia with all her heart. Her decision to serve in the country's election unexpectedly leads to her mother's death.

In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.

Top Russian movie stars play in this drama series about the 1991 civil war threat in Uzbekistan. Musicians from a small military orchestra leave their regimen to play at a local wedding. When they return, they find all their barracks empty. Their regiment has received an urgent redeployment order and left. All of a sudden, a militant group appears from the mountains. They have crossed the border planning to stir a civil war and threatening to kill everyone in their way, even women and children. So, instead of catching up with the regiment, the musicians decide to stay and fight for the innocent civilians.

If the whole world is lying, why not do the same? So thinks Yegor - the protagonist of the film. But the reality all the time offers a choice: continue to lie or face the truth.

During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.

Andrei proposes to Mikhail to take part in catching a dangerous criminal. Mikhail readily agrees: his soul asks for a feat. But instead he is to fall victim to the inexplicable cruelty of an old friend.

Near future, 2040. Eugene and Alexandra have been married for 20 years, their relationship is like a dried apricot. Divorce from them also does not work, because in the future, divorce is a very expensive service. But fate gives them a chance: Eugene and Alexandra fall into the past, on the very day 20 years ago, when the lover and young Zhenya proposed to the lovely Sasha. Now a couple from the future wants to separate themselves in their youth, but it won't be easy. The young will fight for their love.

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

People relate to village life; but some cannot tolerate it. Others do not even represent a different way of life.

Alexandra meets her birthday with her family. Today, only the closest people are around. Why is it usually the most difficult with them?

A young father preparing for a rally is distracted by a swaying tooth by his six-year-old son. While the father persuades his son to pull out the tooth, a capture group rises to the apartment.

After perestroika in the Soviet Union there is a total collapse of the Soviet system, which leads to chaos in the country. The protagonist of the film, a foreign student, after graduation does not want to return to his country because of the military coup that took place there. But the Soviet government gave clear deadlines for him to leave the country.

Karlygash (translated from Kazakh as "swallow") lives with her husband Ilyas and father-in-law on a horse farm, lost in the Kazakh steppe. Karlygash is a stranger to everyone here, and Ilyas has not yet forgotten about his first love for a girl named Aina. Everything changes with the arrival of a foreigner in their village - Frenchman Louis, a photographer who went on a trip after breaking up with his wife.

Maxim is cornered: absolutely uninvited guests come to him and ring the doorbell. A man tries to get out of delicate situations in his own manner.

The only friend of the stern, war-scarred in Afghanistan security guard Sergei, who has lost the meaning of life after losing his family, is his dog Naida. But soon he will face a difficult choice.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

Mom and dad leave their 4-year-old son Shurik at his strange grandmother’s place.

A young woman, long and hopelessly in love, comes to the object of her love in prison for a long visit in order to fall out of love with him.

Every evening a deep-rooted cynic Andrey wears a smoking and shouts "Bravo!" at the theater performances. He gets paid for getting audience emotional. Andrey is absolutely sure that all people lie until he meets the sincerest girl among the audience.

Silent film from 1915 which draws on the story of Carmen

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

Lives of several families dramatically cross in a small suburban town.

The unlucky Muscovite Snezhana comes to the village to bury her stepfather and to inherit his house. There’s not enough money for the funeral and she decides to sell the cow.

Every escape starts somewhere. Sasha's starts with a rubbish bin. Fleeing her husband's abuse, Sasha sets off for the very edge of the country — to Teriberka. The long road teaches her absurd but necessary lessons: how to 'rescue' the non-suicidal, how to coax stubborn cars, how to flee 'antelope hunters', and above all — how to find and accept help in the most unexpected places. But the longed-for sea reminds her: to build a new life, she must reclaim what matters most.

During his life, Franz Kafka was a modest closed clerk, literature was his secret passion. By his own admission, he felt Flaubert, Dostoevsky and Gogol as his "blood brothers", but he bequeathed to burn his manuscripts. However, friends violated the last will of the author. Kafka's works, filled with bizarre images and paradoxical plots, were published posthumously and brought him worldwide fame. Today, Kafka is perceived as a brilliant prophet of the madness of the 20th century, and his name has become synonymous with a special type of absurdity.

The film tells about children, young people who are faced with a deadly disease - oncology.

Maks arrives at his hometown following his father's request. He meets Lena at the club and have sex with her. The next morning Maks finds out that his father asked him to come because of his wedding with Lena...

EWA is a teenage girl who is suffering from a condition of a constant nose bleed while exploring different aspects of her life and the people around her.

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

Young ant is coming back home after a hard-working day and performing his evening routine rituals. Suddenly, someone wants to disturb him.

An ordinary man’s life takes an unlikely turn when he saves the life of a high-ranking security officer in an accident.

Since the last events, time has passed. Father Andrei also preaches, sometimes comes to the bar to chat with the parishioners in an informal setting. Parishioners, by the way, gave him an old motorcycle, which he repairs in his free time. Helps him in this Grishka, son of Katya. In the city after Agafonov was arrested and imprisoned - quiet and grace. No, well, some incidents happen, but the head of the local police, Murov, is standing guard over the law. And sometimes father Andrei goes fishing with Simon and Grishka. He likes to sit by the water at dawn, think about his past life.

Spring 1942. Moscow schoolgirl Katya is corresponding with a cadet of the naval school Kostya, who is unknown to her. When sent to the front, his echelon must pass through Moscow, and they have a chance to meet ... Our days. Muscovite Katya, a talented violinist and a wild child, without realizing it, begins to follow in the footsteps of the history of Katya and Kostya, her peers from the war years. Will she be able to finish an amazing teenage love story that began years ago?

Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.

A film-play based on the play by Edward Albee (translated by Vitaly Vulf, Igor Kochnov).

Dasha confessed to her mother, that she has been desperately trying to overcome romantic feelings for her best friend's fiancé. Little does she know her always-right-Mum is in a peculiar situation herself…

Talented but failed playwright Mitya discovers uninvited guests in his apartment — wayward 13-year-old Nika and her older sister, actress Dasha. Trying to evict the new tenants, Mitya realizes that he has become a ghost, and Nika is the only one who sees him. Will he be able to fulfill his idea, return to life and find his love?

A tragic love story set during WWII.

Every Saturday fireman Anton Kalashnikov welcomes his 14-year-old daughter Kira from the dance. TV, dumplings for dinner - a standard set of entertainment from a Saturday dad for a teenage girl. But on this day, everything went wrong. Kira rings the intercom, Kalashnikov opens the front door, but the girl does not go up to the apartment. Anton has to ask for help from his neighbors in a concrete box, breaking through human indifference and past grievances.

A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce.

This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Mari women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.

Misha Shtapich wants to propose to his girlfriend Mila, but before that he needs to earn some extra money. He gets a job as a PR man at a toilet paper factory in the far northern village of Kryazhevo, where he now has to face local residents every day, bright and difficult characters.

Old man Akhmat arrives in the city from a village to fulfill the last wish of a dying woman — to see her grandson Ruslan. However, Ruslan turns out to be a successful banker for whom career matters more than family values.

Sergey comes to Moscow and starts to work as EMT. But his life in the capital isn't simple...

Andrey, a middle-aged man, can't manage to establish contact with his young son after divorce from a wife. When Andrey's father comes in between father-son relationship, the story takes an unexpected turn.

One morning, the criminal authority Dad convenes three "sons" and tells the latest news. Everyone remembers how three years ago, the keeper of the regional communal Mule ran away, taking the money. Also, everyone remembers how he was found, punished and buried. And the news is like this. Yesterday Mulya, alive and well, was seen in three cities at once: St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Rostov. Dad sends "sons" to these cities to scout out what's what. For each of them, the journey will not be the easiest.

The story of "The Manfred", a Soviet rock band, and its leader Roman Blestyachev, who pioneered «glam rock and queerness» in the USSR. One day, the group decided to sacrifice success and protest against the state and war...

What's going to happen if you meet your soul mate but she's not ready even to hear about sex?..

A naive young girl tries to kill herself when she realizes that she risks becoming a demi-mondaine like her mother, the pseudo-marquise Obardi. She survives and fall into the arms of the viveur Servigny.

About a young boy growing up to become a great artist. Set basically in St. Petersburg and a country dacha in Vyra during the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution.