Released Date:
2006-03-03
Languages:
Russian, German
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (45538 Reviews)
Director:
Timur BekmambetovTimur Bekmambetov (screenplay)
Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay)
Sergey Lukyanenko (novel)
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage.
Released Date:
2007-06-15
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
132 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (28584 Reviews)
Director:
Timur BekmambetovTimur Bekmambetov
Sergey Lukyanenko (novel)
Alexander Talal (screenplay)
Vladimir Vasiliev (novel)
Anton belongs to the Forces of the Light as well as his powerful girlfriend and apprentice, but his son is a powerful teenager from the Darkness and Anton protects him. When the balance between Light and Darkness is affected by the death of some evil vampires, Anton is framed and accused of the murders, and he chases an ancient chalk that has the power of changing the destiny of its owner.
Released Date:
2005-04-21
Languages:
Russian, Japanese, French
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
191 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1873 Reviews)
Director:
Filipp YankovskiyBoris Akunin (novel)
Boris Akunin (screenplay)
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...
Released Date:
2007-12-21
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (2281 Reviews)
Director:
Timur BekmambetovTimur Bekmambetov
Emil Braginskiy (idea)
Emil Braginskiy (story)
Eldar Ryazanov
Released Date:
2008-10-09
Languages:
Russian, French
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
124 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (5445 Reviews)
Director:
Andrey KravchukZoya Kudrya
Vladimir Valutskiy
Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. Anna, the wife of his best friend, becomes the love of his life. The revolution in his heart mirrors the revolution in his own country. His destiny is to fight the Bolsheviks and bring back the Czarist rule.
Released Date:
2008-11-13
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (954 Reviews)
Director:
Karen OganesyanGenres:
ThrillerOleg Malovichko
Sergey Yudakov
In Moscow, Anton is out of ideas for his "Ghost" novels about a hit man, based on old news accounts. At a book signing, a man buys Anton's latest; then, on a street below, Anton sees the man murder a witness in an upcoming trial. Days later, the killer chats up Anton at a cafè, offering ideas for plots. Anton accepts and his writing improves. Meanwhile, he has a troubled relationship with Mika: she's forgiving, but his drinking and late-night writing sessions drive her away. Plus, he spends precious little time with his son, who's in an institution. Slowly, the hit man raises the ante with Anton: how far will a writer go to understand his fictional character?
Released Date:
2009-11-12
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (204 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksandr ProshkinGenres:
DramaYuriy Arabov (screenplay)
A drama based on an alleged incident in 1956 Samara, where a young woman who danced with a religious icon was frozen into immobility.
Released Date:
2013-11-07
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1906 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksandr VeledinskiyAleksei Ivanov (novel)
Rauf Kubayev
Valeriy Todorovskiy (with the participation of)
Aleksandr Veledinskiy
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
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