Soviet and Russian Movies in English

Category: Mystery

  • Kalimba

    Kalimba

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    is a 2024 Russian series directed by Roman Novikov. In the psychological thriller “Kalimba”, esteemed psychiatrist Viktor Meshcherskiy embarks on a perilous experiment, locking victims and their offenders together in a secluded basement under false pretenses. As Meshcherskiy conceals his true objectives, an intricate investigation begins to unfold, gradually exposing his hidden motives…

  • RAYtsentr (Season 1)

    RAYtsentr (Season 1)

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    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…

  • Fandorin. Azazel

    Fandorin. Azazel

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    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 Castle

    The Castle

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    is a 1994 film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. Closely based on Franz Kafka’s book “Das Schloß”, the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the…

  • Madness

    Madness

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    is a 1968 Estonian drama film directed by Kaljo Kiisk. The action takes place in a nameless country occupied by the German army at the time of World War II. In a small village there’s an asylum. A squad of German soldiers arrives to take the insane people to a “walk in the forest” .…

  • The Lightest Darkness

    The Lightest Darkness

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    is a 2017 Russian movie directed by Diana Galimzyanova. When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.

  • The Vampires of Midland (Season 2)

    The Vampires of Midland (Season 2)

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    is a 2022 Russian tv series directed by Anton Maslov and Dmitry Gribanov. The 2nd season of “The Vampires of Midland” is about how important it is to remain human even if you’re not really a human.

  • The Vampires of Midland

    The Vampires of Midland

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    is a 2021 Russian tv series directed by Anton Maslov. A comedy mystery series about Russian vampires. Everything is in confusion in the vampires’ house. It seemed that all troubles had gone and they could go on living their eternal lives, but new troubles await the vampire family. Svyatoslav Vernidubovich and his “blood” kin need…

  • The Execution

    The Execution

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    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…

  • Kitchenblock

    Kitchenblock

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    is a 2021 Russian mystery tv show directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky. While the whole country is watching the 1980 Olympics, strange things are happening at one summer camp on the Volga river. Children mysteriously disappear at night, and then return – but not at all the same as before. Carried away by summer freedom and…

  • “Topi” (TV-series)

    “Topi” (TV-series)

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    is a 2021 Russian mystery tv-series directed by Vladimir Mirzoev. Five young people who are forced to flee from Moscow fall into the Russian wilderness, in the mysterious village of Topi with an abandoned monastery, where they are locked, including with their own imagination and internal demons.

  • My Killer

    My Killer

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    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 Rumyantsev Case

    The Rumyantsev Case

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    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 

    Vertical Races 

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    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

    Black Square

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    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.

  • Gogol. The Beginning

    Gogol. The Beginning

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    is a 2017 Russian fantasy-horror film directed by Yegor Baranov loosely based on works by Nikolai Gogol from the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn…

  • The Monk and the Demon

    The Monk and the Demon

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    is a 2016 Russian comedy film directed by Nikolay Dostal. It is inspired by the life of Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod). Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

  • The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

    The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

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    is a 1968 Soviet-Ukrainian fantasy movie directed by Yuri Ilyenko. Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won’t hear of it. Luckily, the mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a…