Top-20 Russian films of 2023

A totalitarian regime governs society, restricting freedoms. Propaganda and surveillance are omnipresent. A mathematician engages in a forbidden relationship and joins a resistance movement against the oppressive ruling party.

Chronicles how loader Roman Shtorkin becomes a vampire and receives the title of Rama II.

The battered seiner "Bullfinch" is home to a gang of sea vagrants. They are all different, but there is something in common - the desire to take a richer catch, earn money, return home alive. Two newcomers, Nikita and Maxim, become part of this world. Ice waves, hard labor on a rusty ship, tons of stinking fish and a team of grumpy losers - this was not how they saw this summer voyage. With a video for a blog, you will have to wait a little and keep your dissatisfaction to yourself. The sea is changeable, and the storm is not the main test that awaits the ship's crew.

A former white officer, and now an employee of the NKVD, martial arts master Viktor Spiridonov meets the disgraced Soviet intelligence agent Vasily Oshchepkov, who studied judo in Japan for a long time. They quickly find a common language, because both are obsessed with the idea of creating a national art of self-defense. But the joint work soon turns into an irreconcilable confrontation. Intrigues, betrayal, emotions will predetermine the tragic fate of the two great creators of sambo.

1945. The International Military Tribunal begins its work in Nuremberg. A huge number of people from all over the world come to the trial, which will later be called the Trial of the Century. The city is crowded with journalists, lawyers, translators, witnesses, and many participants and employees of the process.

The story of a Moscow family in a noisy communal apartment at a crucial point in Soviet history. Passions slowly smolder in a small kommunalka until the fire breaks out on New Year's Eve 1953.

A young Moscow music video maker Grisha blazes his way to fame through the dashing nineties

After a series of troubles, Anya Smolina decides to completely change her life. She takes out a dusty bicycle, puts her dachshund Kapa in the trailer and goes to Magadan to put up with her mother, with whom they have not communicated for 13 years. A resident of the metropolis, Anya, is not ready for a 10,000-kilometer road, bloody legs, dangers and trials. She'll figure it out on her way. But he won't turn back.

Liza is a taxi driver working the night shift. Her passenger Sasha seems trustworthy, but the city's darkness hides dangerous twists and turns, with threats lurking around every corner, possibly even from those closest to her.

A rabies epidemic in the taiga is causing ferocious wolves to bite, leading a desperate father to isolate his son in a hunting lodge. The locals face a rabid pack and a dangerous predator.

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.

A crime is committed in a remote village. All evidence points to Police Officer Afonya. The locals are ready to take matters into their own hands. Investigator Nikolai must quickly find out all the facts of this case before a lynch begins.

What if Cheburashka really exists? What if he is not a plush toy, but quite a real furry animal that lives in an orange grove in a distant country?

Follows a female surgeon who has to perform an operation on a cosmonaut too ill to return to Earth immediately.

Twenty years before the 'Plague Doctor' events, Igor Grom was just a schoolboy who loved hanging out in the streets with his best friend while his dad spent nights at police work chasing criminals. Grom-senior is hunting Anubis, the powerful local crime lord. Meanwhile, Grom-junior is exploring ways to make money and embarks on risky adventures.

The plot is dedicated to Fyodor Konyukhov's round-the-world balloon flight. He completed it in 2016 in 11 days and set a world record.

During the WWll, Nikolai Kiselyov faces an unthinkable task: he must withdraw more than 200 people doomed to death in captivity from the Belarusian village of Dolginovo occupied by the Nazis behind the front line. Will he be able to save the elderly, women, and children - exhausted, frightened, who have lost loved ones and faith in salvation - from the imminent brutal massacre? Jewish refugees, accompanied by Kiselyov and several partisans from the 'Avenger' detachment, will have to walk fifteen hundred kilometers, and this path will be the most dangerous test in their lives.

A simple worker of a Perm chocolate factory begins to hear the voices of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help. Together they go to the legendary bandit Khitrovka and find themselves embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a mysterious local resident - an Indian Sikh with a dark past.

Fourteen-year-old Mira wants to spend New Year's Eve with her friend Lera. Initially, her stepfather disagrees. But, after a tense family dinner, she is given permission.