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A story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director.

Life on Earth has changed after the visit of alien ships hovering in various parts of the planet. Their passengers — biopages or "Vitaliki", as they are popularly called — produce a substance called "prak". Its purpose, as well as the purpose of the aliens' visit, is unknown, but nurse Nina (Irina Salikova) from a quiet provincial town hopes to help her sick father with the help of prak. After contacting Vitalik, Nina learns the truth about extraterrestrial beings, which completely changes her life.

On an early spring morning, a man's corpse is discovered on the beach of an island town. No ID, no outerwear, no signs of violence. The story uncovers a mystery when it is revealed that the day before the incident, the deceased had excused himself for a cup of coffee at work 3,000 kilometers from where his corpse was later discovered. Based on the novel The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.

Lyudmila Gurchenko's music benefit film.

In a St. Petersburg apartment, every room belongs to a family. The four families share the kitchen and bathroom in shifts. One family decides to sell their room and money hungry agents try to sell everyone else's rooms as well.

A member of a regional organized crime syndicate comes to school to pick up his son after lessons. After seeing that the boy cannot stand up for himself in a fight with classmates father decides to teach his son courage by taking him to work.

Dyulus and Afonya are ordinary country guys who love rap and cool cars. During the day they work in the boiler room, in the evenings they record their album and every day they dream of a better life. Especially Afonya, nicknamed Appos, who dreams of dumping into the city, believing that real life is passing by. His comrade Dyulus, nicknamed Trupak, on the contrary, is not eager to leave his native village. But one day, Dyulus receives a letter that radically changes his life and makes him leave for the city, towards fate...

Everything that happens could have happened differently. And that's the beauty of life. This is what the film is about. This is a story in which a series of absurd, random events leads the heroine to a romantic meeting. Or not?

The 1990s. Empty shelves in the shops, an economic abyss and criminal dramas that unfold literally at every corner. The young leader of a criminal gang Anton Bykov, with the nickname “Bull”, must make money in whatever way to provide for his family. After a local shootout, Anton ends up in the police station, from where he is released at the intervention of Moscow’s crime lords. In exchange, the latter asks Anton for a small, but dangerous service

A musical Christmas story, told by little five-year-old girl and her fellows. This magnificent musical film is based on old Russian Christmas fairy tales, nativity scenes and authentic melodies that have accompanied this holiday for many centuries.

The film tells the story of the legendary Soviet boxer Valery Popenchenko, USSR and European champion and winner of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His life was a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs - from his childhood in Tashkent’s Suvorov Military School and service as a border guard, to his first victories and failures, and his friendship with Dynamo sports society coach Grigory Kusikyants.

Ruslan Belyy's new stand-up show about leading podcasts, complaint against him to prosecutor's office, obscenities and Manizha'song, Morgenstern and fact that we are all sometimes a little ministers of culture of Republic of Crimea.

Marital doldrums and second thoughts beset Ivan and Vasilisa's "happily ever after", until boredom leads to a staged abduction.

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.

Anna - a smart and beautiful housewife suffers from the lack of attention of her husband. She struggles to keep her family overcoming the temptation of having an affair with handsome handyman.

The second World War echoes throughout the whole Khutsiyev's oeuvre. The director himself did not participate in the war: "The thing is, I didn't fight. I had been a sickly boy, so I was turned down because I still looked like a child. This is sort of like a debt I've been repaying ever since". In "People of 1941", Khutsiyev recites his favourite pieces by war poets and invokes documentary footage.

Igor Tsaplin wants to be elected for a third term and PR team already familiar to us will help him.

Tim and Dan - fellow losers from a provincial town. Studies over, they don't want to work and don't have girlfriends. On the way to a dream and hope to get everything at once guys are taken to perform the task of the local bandits.

Legendary boxer Valery Popenchenko died on February 15, 1975. A decade of his victories went down in the history of Soviet sports as a time of international triumph for our boxing school.

During 1943 a young platoon commander refuses to follow an order of frontal attack; he doesn't want to send his soldiers against the enemy machine-guns and get them killed. A battalion commander rips off his shoulder straps and sends him to the military tribunal. But the war is everywhere and the demoted officer and his escorts have to start an unequal fight with the enemy.

Just yesterday Evgeni Vetrov had a completely different life. He had money, perfect reputation, was respected by his colleagues and most of all - he had love; but apparently he had enemies as well. One day Vetrov's wife was killed, being the only suspect he was soon found guilty. Now the only thing he can do is run, run, in order to find the real killer.

On August 9, presidential elections were held in Belarus. The results, according to which Alexander Lukashenko won, were not recognized by 14 countries. Protests and mass detentions of protesters have been taking place in the country for more than two months. Documentary director Maxim Shved, in order to capture the mood of people and their political views, installed cameras in the cars of two taxi drivers, Pavel and Anna. They talk to passengers, and inevitably their dialogues come down to politics.

A documentary about naturism in St. Petersburg, Russia, with discussions with Russian naturists about how they got involved in naturism and the problems they have faced due to being a naturist.

A comedian from the people, Pavel Dedishchev, presents his new concert "Like a buzz". The very name of the concert already gives you the opportunity to choose. Do you want to know what people depend on? Do you want to know what classical music can be compared to? Or do you just want to get away from everything and mess around? Everyone will find something different in the concert... How exciting!

Two close friends working for a provincial TV channel dream of getting rich and popular in the capital. They persuade their cute colleague Nadia to participate in a TV reality show, the participants of which must find the lost treasures of Admiral Kolchak.

Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. While often described as ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring. The film is supposed to be the first one dedicated to music as an instrument for death exploration.

A man goes to search fuel for a broken-down tractor. But all around there is only the desert, grass and wind. To get the tractor to work, the hero starts a fight with an indifferent nature. When an energy source is found, the 20th century begins.

The gloomy huntsman Ivan and the timid Alexandra live together on the farm. A blow of fate cut off their love. Alexandra thinks about freedom. At any cost.

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

The alien Luri, almost a teenager, fell to Earth on a special mission. The neighbors in the Galaxy were terribly offended by earthlings for their attitude towards their planet and Luri was sent to us in order to inform us that in a few hours time on Earth would turn back - a century ago, and all this so that people could re-live the 20th century "ecologically right and safe." However, for the heroes of the film, this can simply mean death, because there will be no place for the living in the world of great-grandparents and great-grandparents. Luri's meeting with peers, the girl Masha and her friends from around the world can interfere with what was planned and save all those living today.

About the fate of a blind dog who was sheltered by a village doctor. He named her after the blue star, Arcturus. One day, the owner, an avid hunter, took the dog to the forest, and a strange excitement seized the dog. Since then, Arcturus' life has changed, he was attracted to the smell of the forest. He became a real hound dog and chased a fox. After that, many hunters tried to outbid the doctor's dog, but the owner did not agree. One day, the dog did not return from the forest.

Having learned from his younger brother Pashka about the mysterious death of his father, Yegor returns to his native village after many years of absence. It turns out that the entire inheritance - a farm with a small number of cows and a piece of land - must go to pay off the father's debts to a local entrepreneur. Pashka is categorically against the slaughter of cows and the sale of land. A quarrel breaks out between the brothers. Yegor asks local guys to help take the cows to the neighboring village to the slaughterhouse, but Pashka is ahead of them, who, under cover of night, takes the whole herd in an unknown direction.

Peer Gynt is a young Norwegian man who lives in fantasies and longs to become a king. Rejected by his village and scolded by his mother, he escapes into the forest – where his dreams begin to take shape when he meets the daughter of the mysterious Dovre King...

Most know Pavel Artemyev as "that curly guy from the group «Roots»". At the age of 19, he won the "Stars Factory-1" together with the boyz-band, traveled all over the country with concerts, won the love of countless fans. But when the 7-year contract was over, Artemiev engaged in what he always wanted - his own music, which he creates with his indie band ARTEMIEV. He is still recognized on the street, but much less often. Once upon a time, fame fell on Artemiev too easily and swiftly, now he is trying to earn it consciously. Answering the questions of radio presenter Alisa Grebenshchikova, schoolchildren, teachers and director Margarita Zakharova, Artemiev talks about his path - from the stars to the thorns, which are more valuable than the stars.

Propaganda movie about the young artist Ryabinin who cannot stay away from the Russian invasion of Donbass; he leaves his beloved girl in Moscow, a well-fed and calm life, and leaves for the civil war as a militia to capture the tragic events of Russian history and express feelings that only aroused anger in his bohemian environment; he loses his former attachments, “grows up“ and finds himself.

The film about the great scientist, thinker, human rights activist is based on the memories of his associates, declassified documents of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the KGB of the USSR, a chronicle shot by the KGB in the city of Gorky, and most importantly, animated drawings that Andrei Dmitrievich left on the margins of notebooks with formulas, in letters to children and grandchildren, as well as simply inventing some fantastic characters.

The desire to get her daughter back becomes the driving force in the way of the lead female character as she makes desperate attempts to rebuild their lives upon the release from yet another drug rehab.

A fantasy world in which ordinary, unimposing characters live. Nothing unusual happens to them in this world. They walk, sit, stand, get bored in the wind, and sometimes they dance.

Alexander Zhuravlev, a blind photographer, traveler and hero of the film “Over the Horizon”, was one of the few Russians who had the honor of delivering the Olympic torch to the venue of the games. Despite the massive suspension of Russian athletes, at the Olympics in 2018 already have a representative of our country.

A story about the creative biography of Alexei German Sr. through the prism of his latest film - It's Hard to Be a God. Many shots from the shooting are published for the first time. Herman did not belong to any school or direction of cinema. Working on his films, he turned to the images of Brueghel and Bosch. Herman's hyperreality is saturated with details so that the viewer is cramped there. His method required such painstaking work that he made only five films in his life - and the last one did not finish. What was this method?

"Rusalka" or "Mermaid" based on Pushkin, an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a miller's daughter have been involved in a romance together, but now the prince tells her that he must break it off. After the prince leaves, the distraught young woman attempts to drown herself. When the prince's wedding day arrives, he is tormented by her image, which appears wherever he goes. Eventually, he is compelled to return and to try to find out what happened to her, regardless of the consequences.

An adaptation of Ivan Nikitin's poem 'Ukhar-kupets' for Pathé.

A young photographer, Julia, makes a disastrous set of photos. She comes to a meeting with a client and he blows her up with his friend, a professional skilled photographer. The dispirited girl steals an expensive photo-album from the photographer. After while some strange distressing events start to happen with her. And one of her best friends suggests her to return the book to it's owner. So, Julia decides to overcome her injury and to go to the photographer's house.

Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma is left alone in their luxurious villa. Driven by a compulsion to do good, she invites homeless mother Marina to take shelter in her house. This simple act gives a new meaning to Alma’s life: she decides to turn the entire property into a refuge for people in need. Alma is prepared to pour everything she has into this fragile utopia, but reality can fracture even the deepest convictions.

A fabulous story about good and evil, friendship and love, deceit and justice, based on the Crimean Tatar folk legend about Hıdır Dede - a wise old man who could come to any house under the guise of a stranger. The uniting of the hearts of two romantic heroes is hindered by an greedy tax collector who works lawlessness on ordinary people. Their little brother and sister go to the aid of the lovers, who manage to meet the wizard. He, with the help of a just ruler, punishes evil and rewards those who are kind, respectful to elders and pure in heart.

Three young Russian friends amuse themselves in a small seaside town with a series of minor adventures, some of which involve a new suit.

Driven by a separate order of the investigator, a car - material evidence in one criminal case - from Perm to St. Petersburg, Pasha Arnautov finds himself in the very epicenter of the confrontation between two gangster groups.

A young Cuban of Russian origin Ivan returns to his historical homeland and immediately becomes involved in a cycle of events that put him in front of a serious choice.

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One fine day, Katerina found a letter in her husband's jacket. She knew that reading other people's letters was not good. But her husband is not a stranger to her, is he? In this case, you can read it. And from the first lines of the letter, she realized that her husband Max, a philosophy teacher, had a young mistress. Family friend Victor suddenly appeared in the house and decided to console Katerina. It was he who accidentally blabbed about some of the juicy secrets of his friend the professor. Pulling these strings, the wife learned something that she could not even imagine.

If you have called an unfamiliar electrician, and there is no one else in the house except you, a lonely, defenseless, weak woman, then it is better to take the advice of a friend...

Lost silent film, known to be the very first film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's tragedy of the same name, dealing with the last years of the Tsar's reign and the pretender Grigory (the false Dmitriy).

In Moscow, two skinheads kill homosexual men while being in a sexual relationship with one another. Based on a true story, the film inquires about masculinity, identity, and a sense of belonging in contemporary Russia.