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- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsArchil GomiashviliSergey FilippovMikhail PugovkinTwo gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAndrey MyagkovBarbara BrylskaYuriy YakovlevAn incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night - New Year's celebration.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsElena YakovlevaTomas LaustiolaLarisa MalevannayaA hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
- DirectorIsaakas FridbergasStarsSvetlana ZasypkinaIrina MetlitskayaVladimir MenshovAfter receiving a serious injury, a young gymnast is forced to stop performing. This traumatizes her not only physically but also morally.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsAndrey SmirnovGalina TyuninaOlga BudinaAn attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAlisa FreyndlikhLarisa GuzeevaNikita MikhalkovA bitter story about tender love and its cruel betrayal set in Russia of the 19th century.
- DirectorAndrey RazenkovStarsMarina AleksandrovaAleksandr ZbruevIrina ApeksimovaAnya Sergeievna comes to Moscow to meet her father who left her mother before Anya's birth.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsIrina PegovaPavel BarshakEvgeniy TsyganovA look at Saint Petersburg at the dawn of the 21st century.
- DirectorOksana BychkovaStarsEkaterina FedulovaEvgeniy TsyganovAleksey BarabashLyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maksim, who have to decide what to do.
- DirectorMikhail KozakovStarsOleg MenshikovSofiya PilyavskayaLeonid BronevoyLove and curiosities of neighbors in a communal apartment. A cult comedy about Moscow in the 50s, which was sold in quotes.
- DirectorVasili PichulStarsNatalya NegodaAndrey SokolovYuriy NazarovA teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.
- DirectorMikhail TumanishviliStarsOksana ArbuzovaVladimir IlinAnastasiya VoznesenskayaHer life motto is: "I like everything that you don't like." She protests everything. But under her "metal" shell - a lonely and suffering soul. Saving his daughter, the guardian of the law takes justice into his own hands.
- 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.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsVladimir MashkovYekaterina RednikovaMikhail FilipchukA woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...
- DirectorPavel ChukhrajPavel ChukhrayStarsIgor PetrenkoAlyona BabenkoBogdan StupkaA General, who had sent for a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his personal driver, decided to marry him to his physically disabled daughter
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsVladimir MashkovMariya MironovaAndrey KraskoDuring the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
- DirectorVladimir MashkovStarsVladimir MashkovEgor BeroevAndrei RozendentThis film derives from A. Galych's play, "Matrosskaya Tishina," "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreams of seeing his son perform on stage in front of huge audiences, dreams of seeing him as the greatest violinist of his time. To achieve this goal, he teaches his son Dodik how to play the violin from an early age. When Dodik grows up he leaves the small town he and his father lived in to study in the Moscow Conservatory, leaving his past behind. But one day he has to choose either to lose his father or everything he has achieved.
- DirectorVera GlagolevaStarsAleksandr BaluevMichael KhmurovFyodor KoposovMay, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to three years, and the captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young mothers were exiled to the island from the territories occupied by fascists, and their children are the children of the German occupieer. Arrival of the major upsets the casual life on the island. The major has to "clean up" the island and the nearest settlements. The military man authorizes a plan to organize a training camp in the region for saboteurs. The night of May, 9, the women ar told about the German capitulation, their hopes for forgiveness and return home become a certainty. They are even allowed to celebrate the Victory.
- DirectorYuri MaminArkadiy TigayStarsSergey DreydenAgnès SoralViktor MikhailovNikolay (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 (Viktor Mikhalkov (I)). 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?
- DirectorRoman KarimovStarsIlya LyubimovIngrid OlerinskayaEvgeniy TsyganovThirty-year-old young man Vitaly, running away from annoying problems and mental discomfort, leaves the provincial town of Serpukhov and moves to Moscow, hoping to find harmony with his own "I" here.