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- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsBademaBayaertuVladimir GostyukhinA curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVincent PerezTatyana CherkasovaArmen DzhigarkhanyanPhilippe meets the beautiful Oksana during a long layover in Moscow. Unfortunately, Oksana is the granddaughter of a murderous mafia don looking to trap a French speaking man to pull off a massive con.
- DirectorVadim AbdrashitovStarsSergey MakovetskiyIgor LivanovYury BelyayevWhile on his honeymoon, a man sees a judge who sentenced him to seven years in jail and begins plotting his revenge.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergey MakovetskiyLeonid KushnirZhan DanielA man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.avi
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsEvgeniy MironovEvgeniy TsyganovIrina PegovaA story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.Own it.
- DirectorPyotr BuslovStarsVladimir VdovichenkovAndrey MerzlikinMaksim KonovalovCorrupted cops, street gangs, "bratki" on "bummers" and "merins", angry truck drivers, beautiful women and death are what four friends on a black bummer who set up on mission from one region of Russia to another are about to face. Don't forget that the main four characters are far from angels themselves...
- DirectorFilipp YankovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyOksana FanderaElena PerovaModern Russian take on Felinni's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsViktor SukhorukovOleg YankovskiyOksana MysinaThis epic historical drama, shot in the interiors of the magnificent palaces of St. Petersburg, represents an unconventional view of the personality of the Russian Emperor Paul the First. It shows him not as a tyrant , but as a living person with his own experiences, who sincerely strived to bring happiness to the country. He ruled choosing unfit methods, which lead only to a result opposite to the desired one.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsSergey PuskepalisLeonid BronevoySvetlana KamyninaA dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
- DirectorBakhtyar KhudojnazarovStarsChulpan KhamatovaMoritz BleibtreuAto MukhamedzhanovThe unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsLeonid YarmolnikDaniil SpivakovskiyElena YakovlevaA touching story of a soldier who doesn't understand how to live a peaceful life. Kinotaur 2004 Grand-prix and Golden Eagle Award for Best Director to Valery Todorovsky. 2004HAVE
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsGeorgiy DelievAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaA young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.Own it.
- DirectorTatyana VoronetskayaStarsViktoriya TolstoganovaDaniil SpivakovskiyNikolay FomenkoThe beginning of the 20th century. The young couple Vladislav Eschenbach and Sofia Pshebyshevskaya arrive in Tiflis, where sun, wine, ancient architecture and new impressions await them. She is the eternal mistress; it is her trade, her way of life and thinking. He understood this well before their marriage, but he cannot come to terms with her way of life. They are overcome by vanity, by the desire for understanding, and even by despair. For each of them the views of the other are nonsense, but they still try to live together. The outcome of this story seems obvious. But it takes an unexpected turn: in the life of the strange couple there occurs a moment when each of them has to resolve the single most important question.
- DirectorAleksandr VeledinskiyStarsOlga ArntgoltsAleksey ChadovAndrey ChadovA veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind.
- DirectorEkaterina GrokhovskayaPeter StepinStarsGalina JovovichYekaterina RednikovaAnna ChurinaLives of several families dramatically cross in a small suburban town.HAVE
- StarsAnastasiya MikulchinaBogdan StupkaIrina AlfyorovaThe series about an amorous girl who drags on herself the entire criminal world of Europe and don't cook on shava.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei BekhterevAleksandra SvenskayaThis celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality--if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsTadanobu AsanoAmadu MamadakovKhulan ChuluunThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.have
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsChulpan KhamatovaDina KorzunMaksim SukhanovAlyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.
- DirectorEvgeniy TsymbalStarsVladimir IlinAlbina MatveyevaTamara ChernovaA Moscow lawyer defends four agronomists during the Great Terror, traveling to the country for evidence and battling different levels of bureaucracy, to surprising results.have
- DirectorOleg FominStarsLeonid BaratsRostislav KhaitAleksandr DemidovRadio station gets the task to achieve an election victory for a mysterious client.Own it.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsSvetlana KhodchenkovaMikhail EliseevViktor SukhorukovDuring 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.Own it.
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsFedor BondarchukIvan OkhlobystinAnna BuklovskayaThe plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.Own it