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?
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- 0.0 2013 • Russia
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The drama based on hidden implicit faith in miracle unfolds between the members of the family with an unhappy love story of a desolate teenage girl who tries to withstand this family madness after their devotee grandmother came to their flat from upcountry.
Pagans
5.3 2017 • Russia -
In a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who stops talking—see the newcomers alter the dynamics, relationships and aspirations of the house's residents.
América
6.4 2011 • Russia -
These places have a tough climate, impenetrable forests and the no civilization. No one would wish to live here. No one except these people. Others would be frightened by the lack of roads but these people appreciate the freedom of movement. The vacuum of information preserves the tranquility of their souls. They do not have ID cards, salaries or pensions. Formally they do not exist at all. But in reality, they live here. They live happily and independently from the state, and they are able to enjoy the authentic beauty of nature in the Tuvan Republic every day.
Tuva: Independent People
0.0 2014 • Russia -
A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.
Elixir of Youth
0.0 2017 • Russia -
Who says that beautiful girls have an easier life? Lisa is convinced of the opposite. Therefore, in order to achieve her goal, she has to temporarily change her attractive appearance and turn into an ugly, nondescript girl. As a result, her life has changed dramatically: she found an interesting job, new friends and true love ...
The Nottie Hottie
0.0 2012 • Russia -
Побег из Москвабада
4.2 2015 • Russia -
Stepanych is depressed; he's lost the meaning of life. But suddenly, fate itself shows him a way out.
Stepanych Mexican Voyage
0.0 2013 • Russia -
The story is about a married couple over 40 and without children, who decided that they could not and did not want to live without each other in the literal sense. She is diagnosed with a serious illness, and he says he will follow her. After a very short time, he falls madly in love. Although I couldn't imagine myself next to another woman. What should I do now: Should I say it or not, leave with her, keeping my word? The moral choice the characters face is not easy, but it seems to them that their decision is adult and confident. However, where there is death, love always flashes brightly.
Pig and Mouse
0.0 N/A • Russia -
The main character is a police major, single father Sergey Kochet. His wife died in childbirth, and the man is raising his daughter Veronica alone. The girl sees the ghost of her dead mother in the mirror, communicates with her. Sergey thinks that the baby just lacks maternal affection, and thus she is just trying to make up for the loss. However, he has to change his mind when Veronica has an unexplained seizure and falls into a coma. Rooster finds a notebook with his daughter's drawings: they depict strange scenes with people he doesn't know, which mysteriously begin to come true. It turns out that little Nika can predict the future?
Rooster's Nest
10.0 2013 • Russia -
They were young, their life was in bloom and their hearts were longing to love.
Ashberry Waltz
2.8 2010 • Russia -
The beautiful Sonya, the leading actress of the provincial theater, comes to Moscow. She is thirty years old and she understands that she does not have much time to realize her dream and become a real star. After another unsuccessful test, Sonya falls asleep in one of the Mosfilm pavilions, since she has nowhere to live. When the security guard tries to force her out of the film studio, Masha comes to her aid. Masha, at twenty-eight, is in no hurry. After graduating from the theater school, Masha recovered and does not feel confident in her body. Having chosen the position “my body is my business”, Masha finds herself in the safe world of cartoon voice acting. Masha is kind, with a good sense of humor.
Movie Girls
1.0 2023 • Russia -
For young district police officer Fedya, everything in his life is going awry. He hasn't been paid at work for several months now. The boss, with the help of a policeman, intends to carry out an illegal business, and the girl is tired of providing for both of them alone. One day Fedya finds an unusual bowling ball in the field, which promises the guy to solve all his problems.
Field
0.0 2024 • Russia -
A young biker got into a car accident and lost his leg. To return to sports, you need a good prosthesis, which costs a lot of money. Armed with a toy pistol, he is gradually robbing lonely passers-by, trying to collect the required amount. But each attack brings new challenges, and the goal is still far away. But if the gun turns out to be not a toy, but between it and the dream will be someone's life?
Incognito
0.0 2019 • Russia -
Three schoolchildren accidentally find a magical portal in the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra and are carried away into the past. Now their goal is to return home, and for this they need to go through the wonderful forest of the XIV century during the Tatar-Mongol yoke and the Battle of Kulikovo. St. Sergius of Radonezh will help the teenagers.
Forgotten Miracle
0.0 2022 • Russia -
Осечка
0.0 1993 • Russia -
80th years of the 20th century. The country is embraced by the "struggle" for "perestroika" and "glasnost", in Afghanistan - the height of the war, where hundreds die eighteen-year-old boys. Their peers, Denis, have little impact on the social problems of an agitated country. A newly-made student at the Institute of Cinematography - in euphoria and wine hops ... One night he encounters a strange, mysterious stranger and falls in love with her until unconscious ... Soon Denis learns that the lover is married and older than he. Elizaveta Tenetska - a famous director, almost a legend, she is talented and bold with authority. On Denis's passion, she answers with the icy cold...
Pugovitsa
2.0 2008 • Russia -
Follows the deportation of Karachays, which took place at the end of World War II. The film's director, himself a Karachay, tried to convey the experiences of people, life and culture, considering it important to make people realize what that did to him and his people.
Cold
7.0 1992 • Russia -
Set one evening in present-day Moscow, 16-year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultra-nationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia's LGBT Propaganda Law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret.
PYOTR495
4.5 2016 • Russia -
Русский Морган
0.0 N/A • Russia -
Enthusiasts from Russia take on the challenge of restoring one of the most famous British football clubs, which has fallen into decline. Their journey is marked by cultural differences, organizational hurdles, and skepticism from those around them. Gradually, a personal initiative transforms into something greater — an attempt to prove that a love for the game can transcend borders and bring together people with vastly different perspectives.
Russian Chelsea
0.0 2026 • Russia -
A watchman and a librarian in a ruined book depository are reading the pages of a torn diary of a girl named Yu-Yu, who came to them in an unknown way.
JJ
0.0 2013 • Russia -
In the "Little Tragedies", the main universal, eternal conflicts receive a specific interpretation: things, ideas and people collide. This is a "shifted" world, everything is at a breaking point here: the immobile moves, love triumphs on coffins, a subtle aesthetic sense leads to murder, and feasts turn out to be feasts of death.
Little Tragedies
0.0 2010 • Russia -
The star of Russian cinema Dmitry Singers has earned a reputation as a strong guy and won a lot of women's hearts in his previous works. This time his hero is the owner of a magnificent collection of ancient books. Mafia structures are not averse to warm your hands on rare editions valued at millions of dollars. In the way of the bookseller appears beautiful Alice. Life and love would be beautiful if you do not know what the task was the beloved of the hero. The battle between good and evil develops into a Grand battle. Honor, friendship, love stands the hero, leaving at stake his own life.
Alice and the Bookseller
10.0 1992 • Russia -
One day in the life of a young couple. Anna Melikyan's short film for auction Action!
About Love 2
0.0 2013 • Russia -
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.
Gunman
0.0 2021 • Russia -
A ten-year-old orphan gets adopted by a man pursued by the Mob. After surviving a hit man's attack, by a strange twist of circumstances the new foster father now has the would-be-killer's appearance, that of his son's biological dad.
Trait
5.2 2009 • Russia -
In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.
Brothel Lights
5.0 2011 • Russia -
Ирга
0.0 N/A • Russia -
Ladies
0.0 1954 • Russia -
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.
Over the Horizon. Olympic Flame
2.0 2018 • Russia -
A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a child. Though considered by some to be a proto-feminist yarn, the film dwells on the consequences that equal rights for women may generate rather than openly champion suffrage. Similar in to Ibsen's The Doll House in many ways, the film provides mannered, solemn melodrama, ably acted by Mosjoukine and Yureneva.
Woman of Tomorrow
5.4 1914 • Russia -
The film tells about the adventures of a hooligan and dreamer Ivan Semyonov, who is transferred from an elite private gymnasium to an ordinary school on the outskirts of Perm for bad behavior. In the new class, Ivan quickly finds friends and plays pranks even worse, becoming a nightmare for the whole school.
The Laborious Life of Ivan Semenov
10.0 2022 • Russia -
Lieutenant-Commander Vladimir Kozlov must find a bride and get married in a few days.
Ordered to Wed
3.5 2012 • Russia -
Artem Chagin, one of the countless "conquerors" of Moscow, receives news of the death of his father, who left them with his mother when Artem was still a child. The death of his father does not touch Artem, but wanting to solve material issues by selling the house left by his father, he goes to his small homeland in the city of Sovetsk. There, he unexpectedly meets his father's new family - his wife and six-year-old son, who are backed by a strong Uzbek Diaspora. Trying to solve the problem with the sale of the house, Chagin calls on a local bandit, an old friend of his father, to fight the Diaspora. The conflict is growing like a snowball, turning into a violent confrontation. At the center of all this is Artem, who has lost control of what is happening, and an unhappy widow who just wants to bury her husband.
Crossroads
0.0 2020 • Russia -
This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death of her husband (Ivan Mosjoukine).
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
5.7 1914 • Russia -
First comedy special by Viktoriya Skladchikova.
Viktoriya Skladchikova: Solo Concert
0.0 2024 • Russia -
The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders live for joy. At first, Nadia is involved with the local guy Nesha, and then with his relaxed, semi-vagrant way of life. She takes the impulsive decision to give up her dull job and Moscow for the sake of love, freedom and Belgrade. Both this love, and this freedom must undergo the test of reality, which is always more difficult than our expectations.
Danube
4.6 2021 • Russia -
By My Side is a poetic meditation on our inability to notice the most important thing in live: love. It is an exploration of our tendency to hide from love and bar it from our lives; to unknowingly push it away, bewildered by our own feelings, even when it appears in the guise of a regular, flesh-and- blood woman. And yet, it always comes back...
By My Side
0.0 2014 • Russia -
One of the first Russian animated films, created by choreographer Alexander Shiryaev in the second half of the 1900s.
Pierrot-artists
0.0 1906 • Russia -
After the death of a child in Makhachkala in February, uncontrolled shooting of stray dogs began in Dagestan. This was done by local residents who did not remove the corpses of animals from the streets of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk. It turned out that there is not a single shelter for homeless animals in the republic, but Ali Kurbanov, a resident of Pervomayskoye village, has been keeping dogs at home and on the hillside near the village for many years. Some of them are homeless mongrels, some are wolfhounds involved in dog fights. Sergey Khazov-Kassia and Andrey Kostyanov visited Kurbanov and his dogs.
Dogs
0.0 2017 • Russia -
The film is about unforgivable happiness, about virtue that inspires hatred, about wrong thoughts and the desire to live. And about "the eternal mistake that people make, imagining happiness as the fulfillment of desire." “Anna Karenina. Intimate Diary ”is a bright modern psychological drama, an experimental adaptation of the classics of world literature. The plot of the novel by Leo Tolstoy transferred to modern realities.
Anna Karenina. The Intimate Diary
0.0 2019 • Russia -
In 1995, retired captain Vadim returns from Romania with his fiancee Yulia to his homeland and falls into the hands of bandits controlling the town. Already on the roads of the motherland, which got out of socialism and got stuck in a mafia swamp, they witness a robbery by a gang in a police uniform of a bus with "shuttles".
Tango Over the Abyss
4.0 1997 • Russia -
A group of young people made a bet, according to the terms of which they had to visit a cemetery at midnight.
At Midnight in the Graveyard
8.0 1910 • Russia -
In his unpublished main work, The Boards of Fate, Velimir Khlebnikov discovered the Law of Time, according to which, as he believed, world history unfolds. "The Law of Time", as well as other discoveries by Khlebnikov, are presented in the film in a playful way with the participation of young people.
Traveling With a Double
0.0 1992 • Russia -
Hockey club star Maxim Kovalev, the son of the deceased billionaire and the owner of the team, is not used to holding back emotions. Neither at a hockey match, nor when a traffic cop slows him down on the way to an important game and wants to arrange everything "according to the rules" ... A simple conflict turns into a fatal situation for him, which radically changes his life. He's facing time. Will Maxim be able to survive? Will the star-studded hockey player be able to improve? And who will help him in this? After all, a trucker driver, an employee of the investigative committee, traffic cops, and motorists stuck in a snow disaster turned out to be on the road together.
Buran
6.0 2021 • Russia -
A comedic parody of school themes familiar to all of us with the participation of students, teachers, great classics of native literature, penguins, loons, petrels, etc.
Stormy Petrel
7.0 2004 • Russia -
A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.
Sickle and Hammer
0.0 1921 • Russia -
Mafia is trying to force an Afghanistan war veteran Arseniy to become a contract killer.
Ricochet
10.0 1997 • Russia -
Modern-day Ivan dislikes fairy tales and doesn't believe in them. One day, he accidentally falls into a magic chest and finds himself in a world of fairy tales. To return home, Ivan must confront evil spirits, make friends, and accomplish a truly heroic feat.
The Tale of Fairy Tales
0.0 2026 • Russia -
Great Britain at the beginning of the XVIII century. His daughter Hilaret runs away from the house of a rich merchant to secretly marry her lover. The lives of young people are in danger. But despite the intrigues of dishonest law enforcement officers, vice is punished, and justice prevails...
The Judge is Trapped
1.0 1998 • Russia -
Young people fall into a different space-time dimension due to a technical error.
Stretcher for Hedgehogs
0.0 1992 • Russia -
The film consists of four short stories, each of which tells about the love story of the main character throughout her life. A simple, fragile girl turns out to be stronger and more courageous than many men around her.
She's Dancing
2.0 2024 • Russia -
A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality.
Gogol online: Kharms. Myr
7.0 2020 • Russia -
Экватор
1.0 2007 • Russia -
Варенька
0.0 2007 • Russia -
Passion for Russia
0.0 2003 • Russia -
About the artist and poet of the "silver age" Maximilian Voloshin.
Voices
8.0 1997 • Russia -
The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary.
Hush!
6.8 2003 • Russia -
A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to leave the traditional way of life and emigrate to the city, following her own dreams, due to the quickly deteriorating conditions of life in the tundra. We follow her life for several years.
Life of Ivanna
6.7 2021 • Russia