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Category: Crime Movies
In Limbo
is a 2021 Russian crime drama film directed by Aleksandr Khant. Sixteen-year-olds Alexandra and Danila are swept into a whirlwind romance that demands more than just rebellion; it requires escape. Bound by a fierce desire to preserve their love and individuality, they leave behind their homes and enter a shadowed existence, navigating secrecy and survival.…
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment
is a 1999 Russian movie directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. In a small Russian town, a group of young men trick an unsuspecting teenage girl into visiting their apartment, where they subject her to a terrible ordeal. Despite her family’s pleas for justice, the police, influenced by the father of one of the boys, close the…
RAYtsentr (Season 1)
is a 2023 Russian series directed by Irina Pivovarova. n the village of Varmaley, former classmates reunite for their twentieth graduation anniversary, only for the celebration to take a dark turn when a car, submerged since their graduation night, is dredged from a pond. Inside, a corpse and a mysterious meteorite are found, sparking an…
The Boy’s Word: Blood On The Asphalt
is a 2023 Russian TV Series directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov. Late 1980s. As parents grapple with survival, children abandoned by society form street packs, clashing over territorial control of the asphalt. They establish their own rules to govern everything on “their” land, whether stationary or in motion. Amid widespread poverty, the code of the streets…
No Looking Back
is a 2021 Russian dark comedy crime film written and directed by Kirill Sokolov. The film centers on a young woman who, fed up with her oppressive family life and the abuse at the hands of her father, decides to take an extreme step towards freedom. With her boyfriend in tow, she embarks on a…
Five Bottles of Vodka
is a 2001 Russian movie directed by Svetlana Baskova. “Five Bottles of Vodka” is an intense, raw portrayal of post-Soviet Russia’s underbelly, where the lines between legality and lawlessness are blurred. The film centers around a group of friends in a small Russian town, who make a pact involving five bottles of vodka, setting the…
The Monastery
is a 2022 Russian TV series directed by Alexandr Molochnikov, tells the gripping tale of Maria, a glamorous party girl whose life of luxury in the Emirates unravels catastrophically. After a night of excess leads to dire consequences, Maria is forced to flee back to Russia, with danger in close pursuit. With her options dwindling…
Fandorin. Azazel
is a 2023 Russian tv series directed by Nurbek Egen. “Fandorin: Azazel” is a riveting 2023 Russian series that presents an alternate history where the October Revolution never occurred and the Bolsheviks never came to power. In this reimagined 2023, the Russian Empire is co-ruled by Tsar Nikolai III and a progressive Prime Minister, Dmitry…
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
is a 1979 Soviet six-part television miniseries directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. The series achieved the status of a cult film in the USSR, and along with Seventeen Moments of Spring became a part of popular culture with several generations of russophone TV viewers. The series stars singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky in one of his final screen…
The Duel Club
is a 2022 Russian drama tv series directed by Sergey Taramaev and Lyubov Lvova. Egor Melenin, known to his friends as Mel, lives in a small seaside town and is graduating from high school this spring. Mel cannot stand the routine and the tedium of his life much longer, and with his loyal friends Kisa…
Bimmer
is a 2003 road movie directed by Peter Buslov, written by Peter Buslov and Denis Rodimin. Corrupt cops, street gangs, “Bratki” in “Bummers” (BMWs) steal and “Merins” (Mercedeses), angry truck drivers, beautiful women and death are what four friends in a black Bummer who go on a mission from one region of Russia to another…
The Execution
is a 2021 Russian mystery thriller film directed by Lado Kvataniya. It premiered at the 2021 Fantastic Fest and theatrically released in Russia on April 21, 2022. For more than 10 years, Russian police forces have tried to stop the country’s smartest and most wanted serial killer. But even when he gets caught, nobody can…
My Killer
is a 2016 Yakut mistery film directed by Kostas Marsan. A young detective in the Northern Russian region of Yakutia is dealing with a seemingly simple murder case. The investigation becomes a dangerous journey into the world of illegal mining and gold trafficking in which life has no value.
The Ninth
is a 2019 Russian horror film directed by Nikolay Khomeriki. Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualistic sessions. At…
Cargo 200
is a Russian neo-noir thriller film from 2007 by Aleksei Balabanov depicting the late Soviet society. The action is set during the culmination of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1984. The movie’s title Cargo 200 refers to the zinc coffins in which dead Soviet soldiers were shipped home. The movie was said to be based on…
The Rumyantsev Case
is a 1955 Soviet crime film directed by Iosif Kheyfits. Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up…
Vertical Races
is a 1982 Soviet three-part crime miniseries directed by Aleksander Muratov based on the story of the same name by the Vayner Brothers. A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.
Black Square
is a 1992 Russian crime film directed by Yuri Moroz. While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government.
