Dark/Sad Russia

The measured life of the watchman of an abandoned sanatorium is disturbed by the arrival of a strange couple who asks to stay in one of the rooms. All three have something to hide from and what to hide in the wilderness.

The ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.

An ordinary hunter accidentally helps a criminal to escape from his accomplices. Two completely different men tries to reach a distant city, but the price of life will be truly terrifying.

In a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.

Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.

When a factory is bound to close, a group of workers decides to take action against the owner.

Inventive debt collector Arthur finds himself in a trap.

Provincial half-orphan Inna meets two newcomers to her small town: promiscuous classmate Masha and priest's son Ilya. The town is infamous for a serial killer whose victims are indecent teenage girls.

The six-year-old girl had never seen her mother in her life. But, once appearing to soon leave again, the mother gave the girl a small ridiculous toy - a spinning top. This name is the best fit for the girl herself.

A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians. Our hero turns out as the only sober and hard-working member of the community. However, his attachment to his new faith soon provokes the hatred and rejection of everyone else, including his own family.

Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat market, to the president's drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society.

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

Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.

A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.

Nikita Khrushchev said in the early 60s that he would cancel the money, which would show the last thief on TV. This is shown in the movie "The Last Thief". The protagonist, a criminal in the past, has been freed, and goes into a bright, communist future, where there is no place for the bourgeois economy and the thieves' instinct. He is shocked. What can be stolen if everything is free? He feels completely out of this society.

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.

Four young colleagues are going on a business trip, where they are waiting for the conclusion of an important contract, thanks to which they will be able to win the recognition of their superiors and earn a promotion. But when on the way back they find themselves in a mysterious small town with no money and no connection, all their plans are ruined. It turns out to be more difficult to return home than one might have expected. But what exactly is keeping them here? The circumstances or this strange town itself?

2009 - a small town on the shore of Issyk-Kul (Central Asia). Aktan, a schoolboy who dreams of joining the ranks of the National Security Committee, is faced with the injustice of the justice system. The local MP is ready to do anything to protect his son Alan. Having failed to achieve justice according to the law, Aktan, along with his childhood friend Cuba, arm themselves and seize the local courthouse.

A 10-year-old boy from a village, Ilya, whose father was killed. No justice has been done so he launched vendetta against the murderer.

Sanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage to a "bell-tower of happiness".