Courier / Kuryer / The Messenger (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.
Starring: Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili, Inna Churikova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears / Moscow Distrusts Tears / Moskva slezam ne verit (1980)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.
Starring: Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Aleksey Batalov, Raisa Ryazanova, Aleksandr Fatyushin
Director: Vladimir Menshov
Gorod Zero / City Zero (1989)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Very Kafkaesque and absurdist Russian satire. An engineer arrives at a town to fix their air conditioner, comes up against a wall of beaurocracy and things that don't work and soon finds he cannot leave. Strange things happen, like a nude secretary, and being offered a pastry in the shape of his head by a suicidal chef, and then he somehow gets entangled in a local fight between Soviet traditionalists and people that want rock'n'roll.
Starring: Leonid Filatov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Day Watch / Night Watch 2 / Dnevnoy dozor (2006)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
A man (Konstantin Khabensky) who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event. The second installment of a trilogy based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko, entitled Night Watch, Day Watch and Dusk Watch.
Starring: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Maria Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Victor Verzhbitsky
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Night Watch / Nochnoy dozor (2004)
Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Ancient prophecy foretells that one day a "Great One" will arrive who can end the apocalyptic battle between Light and Dark conclusively. That time has arrived in Moscow – but which side will the Great One choose? The first installment of a trilogy based on the best-selling Russian sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko (which also include Day Watch and Dusk Watch).
Starring: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tyunina, Victor Verzhbitsky
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Generation P (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
A chronicle of the rise of the advertising industry in Post-Soviet Russia.
Starring: Vladimir Epifantsev, Mikhail Efremov, Andrei Fomin, Sergey Shnurov, Vladimir Menshov, Oleg Taktarov
Director: Victor Ginzburg
