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- The life of heiress Dariya Saltykova, who for her cruelty went down in history as a bloody lady and can be considered the first Russian serial killer.
- 'On the edge' is a TV drama about three young women who find themselves in the Middle East in the den of terrorists. Based on real events, the series depicts how innocent people are recruited and become living weapons in the hands of militants. A student of a prestigious Moscow university, Lena grew up in a happy well-to-do family. One day she learns about her fiancé's infidelity and then that her own father has a mistress as well. Deeply shocked by this double betrayal, Lena becomes an easy prey for the recruiter Ruslan. A young man quickly conquers her heart. To marry him she converts to Islam and goes to his homeland, while her father desperately rushes to look for his daughter. The traces lead him to the Caliphate - A provincial beauty Katya also falls under influence of Ruslan, whom she met online. The persistent suitor convinces the girl to come visit him in Turkey. Katya packs her belongings and goes to Istanbul, where not a prince charming is awaiting for her. While both Katya and Lena were tricked into coming to the Middle East, Amina goes there of her own will. As a widow of a militant with a little son, she was constantly harassed by her fellow villagers and finally decided to leave for Syria, where her beloved husband died. Now in Syria, in the territory of the Caliphate, all these heroines are prisoners of militants and each of them has her own mission to complete. Having met by accidence, the women decide to escape. For the sake of a chance to return to their own country, they will risk their lives with weapons in their hands.
- The true story of the most famous and bloodthirsty gang of the Stalin era, 'Black Cat', which kept the post-war Moscow in fear. The bandits were seen, their names were known, but they were elusive, because no one could even imagine that the criminals were hiding among the best Komsomol members. At day, they led a normal life of Soviet youth, studied, played sports. And at night, the gang controlled not only their hometown, but also the whole Moscow. It took investigators a few years to track down and wipe out the gang. Captain Viktor Karatov, the new head of the criminal investigation department, arrives in Krasnogorsk. He meets a daughter of his deceased war comrade Taya and falls in love with her. But the girl has a boyfriend - a shock-worker, exemplary Komsomol member, captain of the local football team Ivan Mishin. Taya breaks up with Mishin and, together with Karatov, moves to Moscow. Soon Victor is placed on a special investigations unit on the case against the Black Cat.
- Alla lives in the village, she has been married to truck driver Vasya for a long time and is raising her son Yura.
- Polina and her little sister became orphans very early - their parents died in a car accident, and the girls had to survive on their own in the crazy 1990s. Polina, barely twenty years old, fell in love with a submariner, who quickly disappeared, leaving her with two newborn babies. The twins were so active that even Polina's large Moscow apartment didn't stop the dad from fleeing. Polina lived on the verge of poverty, and it could have ended very tragically if one evening her neighbor, a young businessman Pavel, did not hear a baby's cry from behind an open door. Polina was lying unconscious on the floor. Pavel took patronage over his neighbor and her boys, paid for a nanny, a doctor, and thought up a 'business' for her - she painted wooden figures as presents for Pavel's foreign partners. Such touching concern for a neighbor irritated Petrov's secretary - calculating, purposeful Elena decided long ago to marry her promising handsome boss. But Pavel chose this 'ameba' Polina - Pavel has never thought a rejected woman could be a time bomb. Now he can lose everything: Polina, children, friends, and his business.
- Little Glushchevka is an unusual village. There's an anomalous area where compasses collapse, water flows upstream and, according to legend, a priceless treasure is buried.
- The series goes behind the scenes at the famous 'Sklif', the principal Moscow emergency care hospital. The charismatic surgeon Bragin is an emergency care ace, and besides his professionalism, he is also an inveterate womanizer and sometimes a very unpleasant person.
- A wealthy and influential family hires Katya as a nurse for a dying father. Most unexpectedly, the young woman becomes his closest confidant and the only person in his life whom he can trust. Passions run high around Katya as a huge inheritance is at stake. From a modest nurse, whose only task was to care for the sick in the last days of his life, Katya involuntarily turns into an active participant of the family drama with all its hopes, fights and disillusions. It turns out that the seemingly happy and tight-knit family has its skeletons in the closet, and these secrets can come at a price of a human life.
- Lera Gorskaya, aka Lilith, is the star of the popular show. She has incredible abilities and easily solves the most difficult riddles. It is for this that the audience loves her, who unconditionally believe in Lilith's special gift. But the next task in the show turns into a terrible find: in an abandoned well, Lera finds the body of a murdered girl - a student of Professor Molochniy. No one expected such a turn, not even the host of the show himself. The police, led by Captain Roshchin, begin an investigation, and Lera becomes involved in the search for the criminal.
- A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina. The year is 1930. In a small Tatar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer.
- Arina's hit a rough patch. Her father found a young lover and left the family penniless; a former employer extorts a big sum of money from her mother. The girl kills herself working, but with a salary of courier there is no chance to repay the debt. In total despair, Arina decides to forget about her bright dreams and save her family, trading her beauty.
- A young small-town girl Tanya has to go through lots of trials. Living in the village, with an alcoholic mother and a quiet depressed father, the girl always sought to break out of this limited world. In dreams, she is a happy wife of a kind rich man who loves her. The beauty contemptuously rejects all the local guys and waits for her prince charming. Finally he appears - the handsome and wealthy businessman Victor. He immediately takes happy Tanya to the city, not even allowing her to finish school. However joy was short-lived as she turned out in a golden cage. Victor needed only an heir from a 'healthy village girl'. As soon as Tanya gives birth to a son, the husband announces to her that he has another woman and files for divorce, taking the child from her. Tanya is trying to get her baby back, but after beatings and threats she is forced to run away to Moscow. On the way, Tanya meets a trucker Fyodor. He feels sorry for the girl and gives her a key mascot, which once helped him himself. Perhaps this particular keychain helps the girl to survive and achieve much. Having become a famous singer, she goes to her native town to return her son Kolya at any cost. But the ex-husband, drunk and bankrupted, reports that the boy has long fled, and he does not care. Will Tanya be able to find her son and personal happiness if there is no hope for anything but a mysterious talisman?
- Irina Boyarova is an Olympic champion in athletics. She has neither family nor friends - the whole life of the heroine is devoted to sports. Irina has an affair with a doctor Dima at a seaside resort. Both understand that their relationship is serious, but, coincidentally, the lovers part without confessing their love. Soon, Irina realizes that she is pregnant. She comes to Dima's place to tell him good news, but her bright hopes crumble overnight .
- Spouses Irina and Leonid save a little girl who had a narrow escape from a car accident in the mountains. The couple has no children, and thinking the baby's family died, they decide to adopt her and name Nina. As years go by Nina becomes a real beauty. After the tragic death of Leonid, a former climber, Irina devotes herself entirely to her daughter. The only upsetting thing is that the girl is captivated by the romance of the mountains and dreams of following in the footsteps of Leonid - becoming a rock climber - Meanwhile, in faraway Ossetia, the old monk before his death finds Nina's brother Mikhail and confesses that when he was a doctor he gave the surviving girl to strangers to be taken proper care .
- The story of Veronica continues. Having lost her beloved husband, the heroine remains defenseless against the criminals who hunted for her father's invaluable scientific discovery. The only way to save her life is to convey the information to her father's student who lives in Poland. Hiding from the bandits Veronica goes to Krakow in a truck which carries furniture across the border. However the fatal combination of circumstances destroys all her plans: Veronica is forced to flee before reaching the destination, but the worst thing is that someone steals her father's notebook, which she was carrying to Poland.
- Anna is used to make her own way in this world. Denying herself everything, she is the only one in the family who works, takes care of her mother and sister. Anna's sister, Maria, is her exact opposite. Dad's little girl, she is used to getting all the best. Maria easily snatches Anna's boyfriend, Yuri, who is actually not interested in Maria or Anna, but in Moscow registration. But more to come - one day a strange man comes visit Anna saying that he is her real father. The only thing he wants is her forgiveness. He is gravely ill and soon dies. The inheritance left after him bugs Anna's relatives, and the newly made Muscovite Yuri again tries to change one sister for another, breaking Maria's heart now. The suffering of both sisters makes one think that it is better - to earn what we get or to receive gifts of fate? Anna and Maria themselves cannot answer this question until the very end of the story, each dreaming of swapping places with her sister. The main thing is to be in peace and harmony with oneself, not trying to please anyone.
- Everything looks just fine in Natalia's life. The heroine is a school teacher, happily married by a second marriage to a businessman Stas. She also has an adult son Vanya from her previous marriage. However one day Natalia learns that her husband leads a double life and dates with another woman behind her back. The heroine is shocked by the betrayal, but the whole truth literally horrifies her - Stas' lover is the bride of her son.
- Varvara, a young practicing cardiologist at his uncle's clinic, is getting married to her colleague Rodion. But on the wedding day, something goes wrong. Guests are nervous - the bridegroom is late. Meanwhile at the other end of the city, Rodion rushes to the hospital in full swing. His mistress Karina in labor and with complications is sitting next to him.
- 1977. Right after graduating from a pedagogical institute, energetic and inspired Katya goes to work to one of the remote military garrisons. However there is no vacancy for her in the local school. The division commander General Kuzin tries to send her back home. He has already had his hands full - hero pilot Chukin landed the military fighter during a training flight to meet his fiancee Yulia, Kuzin's daughter. Now Kuzin is threatened with dismissal, and the division may be headed by his deputy martinet Prikhodko. However Katya refuses to leave. Then Kuzin offers her to work at a switchboard instead. From this moment, life of the division changes dramatically. And it all starts when a district commander comes to the garrison with a newspaper correspondent. The commander is Kuzin's friend, and is ready to do everything to fix his problems. The correspondent is supposed to make a positive report on the achievements of Kuzin's division. But a fatal error occurs. The article is published with a photo of Kuzin and Katya, where she is mistakenly called his bride.
- It's a story about strong women of the mid 1990s in post-soviet Russia. About the women who had to carry on their shoulders all the hardships of providing for families during the period of «original accumulation of capital».
- A blooming beauty with a rare name Vesna which means 'spring', is a happy wife and mother. Her husband runs his business and cares about the well-being of the family, and their little son adores his parents. But one day a tragedy changes Vesna's life forever. After a terrible attack, the heroine loses her memory and goes missing in a foreign country. Soon they declare her dead and stop searching for her. Two years later Vesna finally returns home, but her former husband and a best friend do not recognize her, call her crazy and kick out of the house.
- Father Matvey and his family arrived at the parish of a small town, hoping for a quiet peaceful life, the silence of small streets with poplars and elms. The place is quiet, outwardly perfect. But peaceful life turned out to be not so peaceful and righteous, and the benevolence of the locals is a skillfully made mask - This small city hides scary, intriguing, insidious and unpleasant secrets that are there along with unconcern and indifference. And all this day by day destroys lives of the people. Father Matvey tries to untie this knot, however gradually becomes more and more entangled in a web of labyrinths of evil. Can father Matthew help people who do not want to accept any help? Can he punish evil or, better, redirect it to the righteous path? What will happen to Father Matthew himself and his family, who are strangers in this place? Will the efforts of a good priest be enough?
- Five women. Five lives. And one bank which went bankrupt and destroyed the women's quiet lives--strapping them into a real rollercoaster with steep tuns and an unpredictable ending. 'Girls Don't Give Up' is a story about divorce, weddings, new love, and rekindled old feelings.
- Everything changes dramatically for teen-aged Veronica, when a rich businessman Andrey Kostrov comes to her town. Andrey is a former student of her father, prominent scientist Lev Serov. He has grandiose plans: he wants to implement the professor's genius scientific developments into production; it should bring his business to a fundamentally new level, but also might become a real breakthrough in science and change the course of history. Serov starts working and makes final calculations to complete the main project of his life, but all of sudden gets to the hospital with a heart attack. To the doctors' surprise, his condition gets worse sharply and soon he dies, having asked Andrey to look after his underage daughter. Veronica is shocked by the death of her father, but flatly refuses to leave for Moscow with a man she doesn't know at all. However soon she realizes that she is in serious trouble. The thing is that Andrey Kostrov involuntarily dragged her into a cruel game of big money and power. Kostrov's longtime rival, Konstantin Parmenkov, will stop at nothing to destroy him. To do this, he needs to find a notebook with the latest records of Serov, and only Veronica can help him with it.
- A beautiful provincial girl, Polina waits for her fiance Sergei to return from the army. She believes there is a long happy family life is ahead of them. But when Polina's mother needs an urgent expensive operation, she has to forget about her dreams and marry a man she doesn't love - Burov, the owner of the market and the unquestioned criminal authority.
- Yulya, a graduate of the school, dreams of becoming a designer, but loses everything overnight when her father Yuriy dies. The apartment and bills are arrested for debts. Yulya's mother Alla has to get a job as a waitress to feed her family. In the restaurant, Alla meets a new man, businessman Oleg, on whom she has high hopes.
- Kira, a charming and young-looking woman, marries her adult son and will soon become a grandmother. She is surrounded by good people, and at her job, too, everything is wonderful - In a word, everything is fine, except for personal life.. At the wedding, Kira presents to her son and his wife a week in an elite hotel, but the circumstances are such that the newlyweds are unable to go. As a result a lonely middle-aged lady checks into a honeymoon suite instead of a couple - the good trip can't go to waste. In this romantic atmosphere, Kira has a passionate and light affair herself. And everything would be fine, but having returned home happy Kira, to her utmost horror, discovers that she is pregnant..
- Based on true story of the most famous Soviet counterfeiter.
- Anya Anisimova is a gold medalist who, due to the bias of the examiner, does not enter the university. Anya's mother, Liza, offers her daughter to unwind and go to her grandmother in a small town by the sea.
- The story unfolds in the mid 1980s and centers on three dancers of the famous Russian folk dance ensemble Beryozka. A small town girl Varya lives in poverty with a sick father. She attends sewing school until one day she sees Beryozka's performance on TV and falls in love with dance. Every day Varya trains in her tiny apartment trying to master the 'floating step' technique on her own. The girl saves up some money and goes to Moscow to join the troupe. And Beryozka is ready to accept her... but only as a cleaner. However the purposeful girl doesn't give up and keeps training every day. Eventually the artistic director of the ensemble Nadezhda realizes that she has a real nugget washing the floors! As opposed to Varya, Lena has a perfect life. The girl from the Moscow professorial family dances all her life and is easily accepted into Beryozka. Lena's mother who always dreamt of being a dancer herself now actively pushes her daughter to choose career in dancing. But what does Lena dream about? The third girl, beautiful Edita lies to those around her that she is a daughter of wealthy parents, although she grew up in a remote village in Estonia. Edita was lucky enough to make it through the tough selection test and she will never spoil her chances for a new life. That's how the three heroines get into the same troupe and in the same dorm room also. Each of them will have to pave her own way to the big stage. In the meantime, the ensemble is going through hard times. Beryozka's manager will have to prove by hook or by crook that art has to be supported even during the economic crisis. Beryozka's artistic director Nadezha will have to defend her brainchild against the bureaucratic machine of the Ministry of Culture. At that moment she realizes how valuable is the support of her close friend Anatoliy, who has been in love with her for many years.
- Last month of summer. The best doctors of the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. Sklifosovsky are sent to visit their former colleagues - Polina and Peter Pastukhov, who moved to the sea a few years ago. The beach, the sea, the sun, happy women and children - isn't this a real vacation? But the best surgeon of the department, Oleg Bragin, would not be himself if he had not found adventures even in his free time. Just relaxing is not the way of Bragin. A lot of interesting things will happen during these three weeks and, of course, there will be a real holiday. Before leaving, everyone will gather together to wish a happy birthday to the best doctor, the favorite of colleagues and patients - Dr. Oleg Bragin.
- Alena is a kind and beautiful young girl working as a sorter in the port. Local guys look at her, but she repels advances and is waiting for true love. One day, the "handsome prince" comes to the port. Ivan - a handsome man and chief mate on the ship. A fairy tale comes into the girl's life: she falls in love and completely loses her head - When the time comes to say goodbye, Ivan leaves Alena a talisman keyring and promises to return. But will Penelope be able to wait for her Odyssey, or is she destined to spend her life alone, sitting on the shore and looking at the sea waves?
- Marina and Dima have a similar problem in the rejection of their lovers by parents. So they try to pretend to be a couple and play the worst bride and groom in the world in front of their parents for solving the problem.
- A young female-thief, Lyubka, helps a criminal gang to steal a suitcase from a better-off Jewish family on a railway station; she often thinks about the well-dressed girl and dreams of swapping lives with her, living in comfort and care. Several years later, in 1952, fate again brings them together, when pregnant Irina, a young doctor, comes with her mother to a distant Ural city. The Irina's mother dies soon and Irina is forced to decide who'll care for her daughter, Sonya, while she's on duty in the hospital. And then she finds a wayward girl who'd just served her term. She is not like the other criminals.
- Major Alevtina Borzova, an experienced criminal investigator and very attractive woman, is forced to take a job in a provincial city after her affair with her Moscow boss's son-in-law goes public. However the new close-knit male team is unwilling to work under the leadership of a woman. Every day the heroine has to struggle to prove her professionalism. But the unshakable and strong-willed Alevtina intends to defend her right to the new position at all costs.
- Beautiful student Irina is in love and happy. Her loved one Yura is also crazy about the girl, and their relationship goes to the wedding. But as ill luck would have it Irina's friend Zhanna, a capricious daughter of influential parents, feeds unrequited feelings towards Yura, and her brother and Yura's friend rich and selfish Sasha is consumed with desire for Irina. The long-standing friendship turns out to be false, and Sasha and Zhanna start a war against someone else's happiness. It's hard to imagine the extent of villainy and cruelty that their jealousy and unlimited possibilities can bring them to.
- In the morning, Yulia had everything: a gently and attentive husband, wonderful daughter, wealth, quiet female happiness. And, of course, a confidence that it will always be this way. However one phone call turned her whole life upside down. The husband died - and the their small precious world was ruined forever.
- The tranquility of Elena's life was disturbed by terrible news: her husband got into a car crash. Sergey miraculously survived, but he was not alone in his car. In horror Elena learnt that the woman who died in the accident was her husband's lover. Three children became orphans, the youngest kid being Sergey's son.
- Beautiful, kind and modest Gulchatay (or Gulya) lives in a small Asian village. The girl is only 17, she dreams of becoming a nurse and helping people. Once the heroine meets charming Pavel - a Russian soldier from a military unit - and falls in love with him. But just at this time, Rustam, a son of the 'the village landlord' returns from the city. Noticing beautiful Gulay, the spoiled guy decides to marry the girl. Suspecting that Gulya might not like this idea, Rustam cunningly brings the girl's father, the poor shepherd, under a huge debt - The only way to pay it is to marry Gulchatay off to Rustam.
- A young Russian widow, who is also a designer, gets the chance to spend a year in Tuscany and restore an old, luxurious villa. She also gets involved with the rich family who owns the villa and their family affairs.
- USSR, post-war time. A huge tragedy happens to little Sima - her parents are declared 'enemies of the people' and repressed, and the girl is forced to leave Moscow. When Sima gets back at 17 to get to the university, she discovers that her room was given to a stranger. It doesn't go well with university either - they refuse to accept her because of the biography of her parents. Fortunately, Sima's landlady, shorthand typist Kira teaches the girl to type and gets her a job at a former party leader who wants to write a book. Soon Sima meets her first love - the girl loses her head over Kira's nephew, a handsome student of a drama school. And she was shocked when the guy robbed his aunt's apartment and disappeared without a trace. To her greater horror, Sima realizes that she is pregnant.
- In the small distant village, happy Angelica is preparing for a wedding. She is the first beauty for miles around, she realizes this well and is sure that there is only happiness ahead. Everyone who knows her would be glad to be in her place. However a week before the wedding, a group of visiting musicians lures the girl into their car, rape her and disappear from the village. Disgraced Angelica overnight loses her beloved fiance and friends and becomes an object of ridicule for the whole neighborhood, and the girl soon realizes that she is pregnant. After much hesitation, she decides to keep the baby and leaves for Moscow to find her offenders and take revenge. In Moscow, the heroine will face new challenges: she will have to learn how it is to be a toy in someone else's criminal game and how much people can hate, envious of beauty. Despite all the pain, she will again be able to believe and love, and again cold calculation and betrayal will be the answer - Will Angelica manage to break this vicious circle?
- Nadia's fiance Alexei decided to get a military contractor job. Nadia tries to dissuade her beloved from this dangerous step but in vain - the stubborn guy doesn't want to live in poverty and leaves despite of everything. But the girl's heart ached for a reason. Soon Nadia receives a scary news - Alexei went missing..
- Three generations of women live in one large house, under one roof. All are single; not one has a personal life. Women close in blood are not friends, but simply forced to live together. Partly because they have nowhere to go, but what is most important is that Kira, the head of the house and a doctor in a private clinic, wants them so. An indisputable authoritarian, Kira arranges daily briefings, interrogating and instructing her daughters. The hollow piece in the Maltsev family collapses after Kira's mother disappears, having written off all the property to a strange woman and the priceless Van Gogh painting to the Museum of Arts. The issue of the will and the picture, the proceeds from the sale of which could have freed each of them from the 'family ties', will set the women of the big house at odds once and for all.
- 1957. The story takes place in a small military town. Colonel Podolsky and his wife are an exemplary family of strict rules. Their 16-year-old daughter Lera, an excellent pupil and the pride of her family, is preparing for the final exams - a gold medal and a prestigious institute is waiting for her. Her parents have already had a posh candidate for a husband. Meantime the family of Lieutenant Colonel Kuznetsov is transferred to the city. His son Yura, an early-grown handsome guy from Moscow, provokes some juicy gossip in the graduation class. Lera looks at the new classmate with condemnation, but not for long - he easily charms her. First love overwhelms the girl with such force that Lera forgets herself. Soon Yura gets tired of playing love, and Lera does not know how to tell her parents that she is pregnant.
- TV SeriesWhen Lida was a child she was tormented by one big and unrequited love. The girl was raised by her grandmother as the cuckoo mother dropped off her daughter and fled to Moscow in search of happiness. And Lida has been waiting for years for attention and love of her mom - Many years later, the wounded child turned into an angry adult with a cold heart. All Lida's attempts to build a family of her own failed. Men slip away from her looking for warmth and happiness on the side, and this even more harden the girl. In addition, she cannot forgive her mother. Lida indifferently accepts the news that she got in trouble. But one day Lida decides to change her life. As if walking in her mom's footsteps, the daughter leaves for the capital and gets a job at the theater diva, nicknamed Queen, who her mother worked for. After provincial boredom, Lida plunges into another reality. But in the Queen's boudoir, everything is perfect only at first glance. Troubles and vices hide behind luxury and adoration. And to find love here is even more difficult. Trying to escape from herself, Lida only puts her happiness off, because the same icy heart beats in her chest. Is there a flame that can melt this ice?
- Lyuba is a simple, modest girl, who has long been hopelessly in love with a handsome spoiled Rodion, who in turn falls for local beauty Aella. But Lyuba believes one day they'll be together. Her dream comes true Rodion marries her - but not because of his love to her, but by compulsion..
- Anya, a kind industrious girl, lives with her mother Irina in the small village. All her life Irina works hard to ensure a better future for her daughter, but the family is barely making ends meet. Once a son of the head of the village administration - spoiled and self-willed Gleb comes to attend a local holiday. All the girls are crazy about him, but he looks only at Anya, whom he never noticed before - But Anya's romantic dreams suddenly go to the background when the family gets into trouble. Irina, defending herself from the harassment of a bandit, accidentally kills him.
- Masha, a native Muscovite, sells her apartment and gives up work to get her beloved husband out of prison. After his release, the couple remain penniless. To make matters worse, it's impossible to get a job with a criminal past. In search of a way out, the family leaves Moscow for a remote village where Masha's old friend lives. But will the intellectuals from the capital be able to live in new conditions where no one cares about their qualifications and manners? Will they cope with such seemingly simple life?