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Trigger (2020 - 2022)

0 /10

Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2020 - 2022

Director: Igor Tverdokhlebov , Dmitry Tyurin

Producer: Danila Ippolitov

Stars: Maksim Matveev , Roman Mayakin , Svetlana Ivanova , Vladislav Tiron , Viktoriya Maslova , Angelina Strechina

Secrecy of the investigation (2000 - 2022)

0 /10

In the center of the plot is a senior investigator named Masha Shvetsova and her male colleagues. The plot is the most vital, but, like in “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” it is seasoned with a fair amount of humor - otherwise, how can the audience (and the heroes) endure countless morgues, identifications and other “cute” charms of the investigative routine?

Average Episode Run Time: 47` . Year(s): 2000 - 2022

Director: Aleksandr Burtsev , Miroslav Malich , Darya Khudyakova

Producer: Valeriy Vasilyev

Stars: Anna Kovalchuk , Aleksey Komashko , Igor Nikolaev , Aleksandr Novikov , Olga Pavlovets , Vyacheslav Zakharov

Streets of Broken Lights (1998 - 2019)

6.1 /10

Russian detectives unwind the ball of the most intricate and cruel crimes. They are consummate professionals, the best cops in town. Even on the most dangerous missions, this quartet never loses their sense of humor. It is it that helps them find the most incredible ways out of any situation. They uphold the law and emerge victorious.

Average Episode Run Time: 41` . Year(s): 1998 - 2019

Director: Pavel Simonov , Kirill Kapitsa , Vladimir Bortko

Producer: Kirill Kapitsa , Valeriy Vasilyev

Stars: Aleksandr Polovtsev , Oleg Andreev , Mikhail Luchko , Aleksandr Nesterov , Elena Kuprashevich , Boris Cherdyntsev

Russian Affairs (2019 - 2023)

0 /10

Moscow, present day. The city of big money, passion, gorgeous women and wealthy men, receptions and dangerous intrigue. Dasha, an art historian from the province, who came to the capital, dreams of a new, better life, but a mysterious and cruel incident will change everything.

Average Episode Run Time: 38` . Year(s): 2019 - 2023

Director: Константин Богомолов , Konstantin Bogomolov

Stars: Darya Moroz , Marina Zudina , Cengiz Coşkun , Nikita Efremov , Vladimir Mishukov , Nelly Uvarova

Love in Chains (2019 - 2021)

0 /10

Kateryna is beautiful, clever and by the will of her godmother was raised as a lady of noble blood. But for the whole world, she is only someone else’s property, a bondmaid of the richest landowner in Nizhyn – Chervinskyi. Struggling for her freedom and the right to be happy, she will have to endure the deaths of her closest people, become the property of a woman who hates and dreams to kill her, survive the popular uprising, escape while being chased by a maniac and flee from the one who wants to get her above all. What awaits Kateryna at the end of such a terrible and exhausting path to freedom?

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 2019 - 2021

Stars: Sonia Priss , Serhiy Strelnykov , Maxim Radugin , Mikhail Gavrilov , Kseniia Mishyna , Aliaksiej Jaravienka

The Street (2017 - 2018)

8.2 /10

History of residents of one of the streets of the sleeping area of a big city. Schoolchildren and students, housewives and sellers, oligarchs and simple workers - more than 30 characters of different age and social status will meet here, each of them has its own story. There are no main and secondary heroes in the “Universe” of the Street. This is a story about all of us and our neighbors.

Average Episode Run Time: 30` . Year(s): 2017 - 2018

Director: Zhanna Kadnikova

Producer: Vyacheslav Serebrennikov , Dmitry Kondratyuk , Ilya Yeggi

Stars: Olga Baranova , Pavel Savinkov , Ksenia Zhdanova , Ekaterina Sedik , Evgeniy Shevchenko , Nikita Lobanov

Silver Spoon (2014 - 2022)

0 /10

Forced to become an apprentice cop, cocky playboy Igor finds he's got a knack for police work. But his job soon takes him down a dark personal path.

Average Episode Run Time: 49` . Year(s): 2014 - 2022

Director: Konstantin Statskiy

Producer: Maksim Polinsky

Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy , Karina Razumovskaya , Dmitriy Shevchenko , Aleksandr Oblasov , Anna Tsukanova-Kott , Lyubov Aksyonova

Kitchenblock (2021 - 2023)

0 /10

Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2021 - 2023

Stars: Petr Natarov , Daniil Vershinin , Kseniia Treister , Mariya Abramova , Denis Paramonov , Angelina Strechina

The Kitchen (2012 - 2016)

5.6 /10

Maksim "Max" Lavrov wants to become a great chef. But he finds out that the kitchen isn't the place for an easy career. And at restaurant "Claude Monet," this job looks to be harder and much more complicated than just cooking.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2012 - 2016

Director: Pavel Danilov , Vasily Kutsenko , Dimitry Jan

Stars: Dmitri Nazarov , Dmitriy Nagiev , Sergey Epishev , Olga Kuzmina , Viktor Horinyak , Марина Могилевская

Gangster's Petersburg (2000 - 2007)

7 /10

A Russian detective series, based on 8 works of Andrei Konstantinov ("lawyer", "Justice / Attorney-2", "The Thief / Journalist-2", "Writer", "Inventor / Writer-2", "The prisoner "," Cop "," Scavenger ") and four works by other writers.

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2000 - 2007

Director: Andrey Benediktoff , Vlad Furman , Sergey Vinokurov

Stars: Pyotr Zhuravlyov , Evgeniy Sidikhin , Yan Tsapnik , Aleksandr Peskov , Yuriy Itskov , Oleg Chernov

Method (2015 - 2021)

8.2 /10

After graduation our main character Yesenia dreams about work- ing with Rodion Meglin. He is a mysterious, secretive man, a lone investigator with little known about his methods. When Yesenia turns into his trainee she begins to realize that the essence of his method is that Meglin himself – that of a maniac. He feels them instinctively. He is allowed to eliminate some of them, look after others and save their lives. Our heroine who was never meant to work alone will go alone, facing the most horrible crimes of the last decade.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 2015 - 2021

Director: Yury Bykov , Konstantin Khabenskiy

Producer: Aleksandr Tsekalo

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy , Paulina Andreeva , Vitaly Kishchenko , Alexander Petrov , Sergey Sosnovsky , Kirill Poluhin

The Private School (2011 - 2012)

5.2 /10

The action takes place in the Moscow region in an old noble estate, built almost 200 years ago by Scherbatov nobleman. After the October Socialist Revolution and until the end of World War II, the manor was empty. From 1945 to 1953 a special reception center for children of “enemies of the people” was located here. Then from 1953 to 1980, orphanage No. 8 began to work there. After its closure, the manor was again empty for exactly 20 years. At the end of 1999, the building was bought out under a private elite boarding school, in which the action unfolds today. The series tells about the life of students and teachers of the elite boarding school "Logos", located in the old estate of Shcherbatov nobleman in the midst of a gloomy, but picturesque forest. In their closed world, all experiences are much more acute than in ordinary school life. In the story, throughout the series, there are eleven main characters. In the course of the plot, it turns out that each of them has its own secrets and skeletons in the closet.

Average Episode Run Time: 48` . Year(s): 2011 - 2012

Stars: Maksim Vinogradov , Alexandr Molochnikov , Oleg Novikov