To Catch the Kaidash 2020

Servant of the People (2015 - 2019)

6.5 /10

Modest and humble teacher Vasily is caught on camera raging over the miserable situation in his country. When a pupil posts the video on Youtube, it becomes a viral sensation. Everybody loves Vasily’s outrage and people start gathering money for a presidential campaign. Which he wins! Servant of the People follows Vasily’s new life as president; he has no interest in changing his life, he wants to stay the same, live in his flat with his parents, borrow money from his friends at the end of the month and take his bike to work; it’s just that now his work is as the most powerful man in the country.

Average Episode Run Time: 28` . Year(s): 2015 - 2019

Director: Aleksey Kiryushchenko , Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy , Stanislav Boklan , Yevhen Koshovyi , Nataliia Sumska , Viktor Saraikin , Olena Kravets

School (2018 - 2019)

7.2 /10

When successful businesswoman Katya's daughter tries to commit suicide, she becomes an economics teacher in order to be closer to her daughter and understand what the kids are up to at school. At the same time, Alex, a new English teacher, former lawyer, son of the principal, and newly engaged, also comes to the school. As sparks begin between Katya and Alex, the skeletons of the past still haunt them and won't let our heroes go.

Average Episode Run Time: 48` . Year(s): 2018 - 2019

Stars: Anna Trincher

Early Swallows (2019 - 2020)

8.1 /10

The series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers in a secondary school class. The teenagers struggle with bullying, including the Blue Whale Challenge, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises-a subject that is rarely portrayed on Ukrainian television-alcoholic parents, and speech disabilities. In one of the show's main plot lines, the main characters are stalked on the Internet by an anonymous person who pretends to be their friend.

Average Episode Run Time: 40` . Year(s): 2019 - 2020

Director: Yevhen Tunik

Stars: Viktoriia Lytvynenko , Oleksandr Rudynskyi , Oleh Hotsuliak , Taisiya Shchuruk , Oleksandr Begma , Anastasiia Pustovit

Snowdrop (2015)

8.1 /10

The story revolves around the hatred between two step sisters, Nadya & Irina, who are in love with the same man, Igor. Blinded by jealousy and hatred towards Nadya, Irina frames her in a murder and separates her from Igor. However, Nadya returns to expose Irina and win back her love and respect.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 2015

Director: Evgeniya Raukh , Dmitriy Goldman

Stars: Marina Dyakonenko , Ekaterina Tyshkevich , Alexander Davydov , Rymma Zyubina , Malvyna Salvijchuk , Pavel Moskal

Hide and Seek (2019)

5.9 /10

In an ordinary looking apartment, a father and daughter play a game of hide-and-seek. While searching for his daughter, she is nowhere to be found... Later, a video is posted which shows the girl holding a sign with a mysterious set of numbers. But what do they mean? She’s the first of several children who disappear without a trace in a small industrial town. Young detectives Varta Naumova and Maksim Shumov take on the complex case and… their own demons. Varta is a distant person and extremely protective of her personal space, while Maksim comes across as an easy-going sociable guy. Both have experienced trauma in their lives, and this case touches them on a deeper level. They become personally vested in finding the children and apprehending the kidnapper as they face their respective pasts.

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2019

Director: Iryna Gromozda , Oleksandr Protsiuk

Producer: Kateryna Vyshnevska , Viktor Mirskyi , Andrii Ryzvaniuk

Stars: Pyotr Rykov , Yulia Abdel Fattakh , Viacheslav Dovzhenko , Valerii Lehin , Evgeniya Gladiy , Oleksandr Kobzar

I Am Hope (2023)

7.6 /10

The first war drama series the Ukrainian TV channel 2+2 which was filmed during a full-scale war in Ukraine. The lead characters are the emergency paramedics, who were rescuing people of their city under continuous shelling and bombing

Average Episode Run Time: 44` . Year(s): 2023

Stars: Veronika Diupina , Antonina Khyzhnyak , Danylo Mireshkin , Valeriy Astakhov , Iryna Mak , Olena Kurta

There Will Be People (2020)

8.2 /10

The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the changes in their own way through their concept of truth. However, all of them shared fundamental desire to live, love and find their own place in the new era.

Average Episode Run Time: 46` . Year(s): 2020

Director: Arkadii Nepytaliuk

Producer: Valeriia Tkachuk , Serhii Demydov , Liudmyla Semchuk

Stars: Kateryna Hryhorenko , Ostap Dziadek , Viktor Zhdanov , Akmal Huriezov , Oleksandr Piskunov , Olena Borozenets

Ostriv lyubovi (1995)

8.4 /10

The series consists of ten films based on love and erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The films explore love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective slice of the history of society, culture, and art. There are changes in the attitude towards a woman, mother, lover.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 10` . Year(s): 1995

Director: Oleh Biima

Stars: Nataliia Naum , Taras Denysenko , Oleh Savkin , Nonna Koperzhynska , Victoria Malektorovych , Yosyp Naiduk

The New One (2019 - 2020)

6 /10

Vera (16), a girl from a regular family, unwillingly gets into a private school where children of rich and high-profile parents study.

Average Episode Run Time: 46` . Year(s): 2019 - 2020

Director: Yuliya Mishchenko

Stars: Anastasiia Nesterenko , Yehor Kozlov , Yaroslav Shakhtorin , Kateryna Dychka

A Crime with Many Unknowns (1993)

7.7 /10

The plot is based on real events described by Ivan Franko in a series of criminal reports for the newspaper "Kurjer Lwowski" in 1889. The writer used the motives of these events in the story "The Foundations of Society".

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 5` . Year(s): 1993

Director: Oleh Biima , Ivan Franko

Stars: Zinaida Dekhtyaryova , Oleksii Bohdanovych , Yuri Krytenko , Zhan Melnikov , Oleksiy Horbunov , Nataliia Sumska