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- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsYuriy BykovVladislav AbashinAlla YuganovaThe measured life of the watchman of an abandoned sanatorium is disturbed by the arrival of a strange couple who asks to stay in one of the rooms. All three have something to hide from and what to hide in the wilderness.
- DirectorAleksandr VeledinskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElena LyadovaAleksandr RobakThe ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsVladislav ToldykovDenis ShvedovSergey BelyaevAn ordinary hunter accidentally helps a criminal to escape from his accomplices. Two completely different men tries to reach a distant city, but the price of life will be truly terrifying.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsDenis ShvedovYuriy BykovIrina NizinaIn a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsIvan YankovskiyAndrey SmolyakovVladislav AbashinWhen a factory is bound to close, a group of workers decides to take action against the owner.
- DirectorAleksey KrasovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyPolina AgureevaKseniya BuravskayaInventive debt collector Arthur finds himself in a trap.
- DirectorAleksandr KasatkinNatalya NazarovaStarsMariya SmolnikovaYana DubuisIgor MazepaProvincial half-orphan Inna meets two newcomers to her small town: promiscuous classmate Masha and priest's son Ilya. The town is infamous for a serial killer whose victims are indecent teenage girls.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsPolina PluchekYana TroyanovaVeronika LysakovaThe six-year-old girl had never seen her mother in her life. But, once appearing to soon leave again, the mother gave the girl a small ridiculous toy - a spinning top. This name is the best fit for the girl herself.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsEvgeniy MironovAleksandr BaluevNina UsatovaA Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians. Our hero turns out as the only sober and hard-working member of the community. However, his attachment to his new faith soon provokes the hatred and rejection of everyone else, including his own family.
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyStarsYuriy LagutaMarina VovchenkoSergey ShnurovTwo men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat market, to the president's drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society.
- DirectorBakhtyar KhudojnazarovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoArtur PovolotskyIvan KokorinThree young Russian friends amuse themselves in a small seaside town with a series of minor adventures, some of which involve a new suit.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsMariya PoezzhaevaFilipp AvdeevNikita KukushkinLena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.
- DirectorAndrey SmirnovStarsDarya EkamasovaNina RuslanovaVladislav AbashinA chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
- DirectorOleg MavromattiStarsDavid D'AgostinoElena LaptevaEgipetskii MagNikita Khrushchev said in the early 60s that he would cancel the money, which would show the last thief on TV. This is shown in the movie "The Last Thief". The protagonist, a criminal in the past, has been freed, and goes into a bright, communist future, where there is no place for the bourgeois economy and the thieves' instinct. He is shocked. What can be stolen if everything is free? He feels completely out of this society.