Matvey, the fastest courier on the frozen canals of 19th century St. Peteresburg is recruited by a group of pickpockets working the winter markets and falls for high-ranking official's daughter, Alisa.

In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.

Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.

Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Elli lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Elli and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Elli and her friends Strashila, Zheleznyy Drovosek and Truslivyy Lev will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes.

The troubadour and his impostor friends - a Dog, a Cat, a Donkey and a narcissistic Rooster - teamed up to accomplish the feat. The wandering musicians, led by a new leader, will rally again to bring laughter and joy back to the gloomy streets of Bremen. First of all, they must make the King's daughter laugh, but meeting the Princess threatens a dangerous adventure. There are insidious enemies, intrigues and traps against the Troubadour and his friends, but you have to fight for love. And then the Princess ran away from the palace. In one tangle there are criminal schemes of Robbers, intrigues of a Detective, whims and secrets of the royal family, but cheerful musicians with an indefatigable Troubadour will make everyone dance to their tune. What are the Bremen Town musicians willing to do for the sake of the feat?

Officers of the White Army, holding as POWs in a Red Army's camp, try to understand why they lose Civil War and lost the Russian Empire at all.

A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What some may call an act of bravery is an ordinary day for them.

Ivan is the grandson of a military fighter pilot. The film explores the years of Ivan's adolescence through the prism of a trauma he incurred during an incident in the war.

In 1978, young ambitious Soviet chess champion Anatoly Karpov must defend his title against a former mentor and defector to the West Viktor Korchnoi. Their face-off becomes the most dramatic championship match in chess history.

A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.

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.

The life story of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.

Every second is precious for a Russian submarine crew, as they are stranded 72 meters below the ocean's surface.

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion...

A mini-series based on the novel of the same name by Boris Akunin.

Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...

A Russian missile submarine disappears without a trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. Viktor Voronin, the youngest commander of the Northern Fleet, whose older brother was in command of the missing cruiser, goes in search of him. At the same time, due to the destruction of the polar station, a Kraken monster appears in the northern waters.

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

In the spring of 1941 German agent Wasser of the Abwehr holds an NKVD commissar hostage. Two soldiers, a boxer and a spy are the NKVD's only hope to rescue him.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna questions.

The Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.