Svetlana Khodchenkova
Also Known As: Светлана Ходченкова, Светлана Викторовна Ходченкова, سوتلانا خودچنکووا
Biography: Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, known for her roles in Blagoslovite zhenshchinu (2003) and in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). She was born Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova on January 21, 1983, in Moscow and spent her childhood in Zheleznodorozhny, a small city about 6 miles east of Moscow, Russia. She was raised by a single mother, attended a public school, and once dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. In 1998, at the age of 15, she started a career as a fashion model in Moscow, and also made a few international gigs. In 2000 she began her studies at the Moscow Institute of World Economics, but quit in favor of acting. From 2001 to 2005 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There she attended the class of Nina Doroshina and Alekandr Lyubimtsev, graduating in 2005 as actress. While a student, she starred in films of directors Stanislav Govorukhin, and Viktor Merezhko, and also appeared in popular Russian TV series. In 2008, she earned the best actress award at Gdynya Polish Film Festival, for the leading role in Mala Moskwa (2008). In 2012, she won COFCA Award for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate, actor Vladimir Yaglych, and also took her husband's name, changing her name from Svetlana Khodchenkova to Svetlana Yaglych.The couple married on the 13th on purpose; because all their filming contracts were signed on the 13th, they believed that 13 would keep working as a good number for them. However, their marriage did not last, ending in divorce. Svetlana has been involved in several stage productions of Independent stage project in Moscow. She made stellar appearances in such plays, as "Moulin Rouge Hospital" and "Theatre with and without rules" earning herself much critical acclaim. Outside of her acting profession, Svetlana is skilled in horse-back riding. She is also fond of winter sports, such as alpine skiing: she practiced her downhill at the ski resort of Courchevel, France. Source IMDB, original author Steve Shelokhonov
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: January 21, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Overview: Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-07
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Love and the City
Overview: Three Russian friends work in New York, party hard and chase women. It's great times until they get cursed by a drunken Russian night club owner, who turns out to be Saint Valentine. St. Valentine's curse is simple - the guys lose all their manly powers until they find their true love. It turns out to be harder than it sounds - our boys have a lot of growing up to do. Fast.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-03-05
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Little Moscow
Overview: During the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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Office Romance. Our time
Overview: Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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A Real Dad
Overview: Roman Shilo, a known criminal, suddenly must deal with his fourteen years old daughter and not only with her but with her little stepbrother and stepsister as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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Kilometer Zero
Overview: A young music video director, a ballet dancer and a dolce vita seeker - they come to Moscow to conquer the city, but each of them goes their own way. Sooner or later the three of them realize: to get what you are striving for you might risk many things, but friendship and love.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Love and the City 2
Overview: Our three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for another lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-02-25
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Overview: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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I «Loved» my Husband. The Movie
Overview: Ksenia is an exemplary wife and mother. She obeys her greedy and ungrateful husband in everything, who takes Ksenia's reverence for granted. After learning about her husband's infidelity, Ksenia accidentally kills him during sex. Now the housewife has to hide the body, cover her tracks so as not to go to prison and leave the children orphaned, as well as find a way to make a living, because Ksenia does not have her own money, and she cannot use her husband's accounts without his presence.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Kogda My Byli Schastlivy
Overview: В жизни бизнесмена Глеба все было идеально — и на работе, и дома. Он полностью доверял своему деловому партнеру и даже не думал, что тот может его предать. Но жизнь приготовила ничего не подозревающему мужчине неприятный сюрприз — верный помощник подставил его, и в результате Глеб лишился своего дела. Семья осталась без средств к существованию, и начались проблемы. Отныне супруге Глеба Лене приходится самой заботиться о себе, муже и ребенке. Она, буквально, сбилась с ног в поисках заработка. Между Леной и Глебом постоянно происходят серьезные конфликты — теперь они ссорятся даже по мелочам. Мужчина, измучив себя комплексом вины перед семьей, не находит ничего лучшего, как начать пить. Лена продолжает работать, скрывая душевную боль от посторонних. Но однажды обо всем узнает ее начальник Стас. Он предлагает коллеге свою помощь. Узнав об этом, Глеб приходит в бешенство.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-04-04
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Corporal vs. Napoleon
Overview: Napoleon has decided to declare war to the world. When he approaches Moscow, the Russian military tries to outfox him: they send a beautiful woman to Napoleon who is supposed to seduce him, so he will think about making love, not war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-01-25
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Beremennyy
Overview: The main character of the film Sergey Dobrolyubov is a news anchor of a music channel. Because of his conservatism he looks strange among his progressive colleagues. And his skeptical and negative attitude to all things new and unusual is a constant target of their mockery. He is definitely not a star of the channel. Sergey and his wife want to have a baby but have no success. Only a miracle can help them but Sergey does not believe in miracles till one particular moment. He makes a wish to have a baby, and a miracle happens - he gets pregnant! Now Sergey must prove to everyone - dreams can come true. But his friend Zhora sees a practical side of this situation. He suggests Sergey to use his pregnancy to gain money and glory by launching a new TV show. The Show Pregnant becomes very popular, and the protagonist Sergey Dobrolyubov is a star of it. But it is not easy to be a man in the family way and a TV star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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The Wolverine
Overview: Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-21
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Five Brides
Overview: May, 1945... A young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a bride. And not only to himself but to four his friends as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Mommies
Overview: Every year on the International Women’s Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if because of enormous number of calls telephone network breaks down? What would we do? Someone would wait until network is rebuilt and would congratulate his mom in the evening or even the next day. But others, like the heroes of our movie, would change their plans to congratulate their moms just today ... personally ... as a kid!..
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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Not by Bread Alone
Overview: During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-11-24
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Metro
Overview: Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Bless the Woman
Overview: Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-09-04
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The Lucky Island
Overview: A Pacific liner, a beauty contest and gorgeous ladies in bikinis. Champagne and the blue ocean around... But suddenly a dream becomes a nightmare when an ex-TV star and three finalists find themselves on an uninhabited island. Feeling afraid of the girls' anger, the hero pretends that this was planned ahead making the girls believe that microphones and cameras are hidden in coconuts around the island. While the contestants are competing, the hero is looking for a way to escape from the island...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-12-05
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No Love in the City 3
Overview: Our three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for the third lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood, but this time the kids are grown up...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Champions
Overview: Five real-life stories of Olympic athletes of Russia. Five stories which intertwined love, betrayal, friendship. Each of these victories worth hard work, respect and belief in yourself, in your family and to your country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-23
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The Adventurers
Overview: Katya and her fiancé Andrey - successful young banker fly to Malta on holiday. At the diving center they accidentally meet Max - professional diver, secretly engaged in black archaeology and Katya's ex boyfriend so the adventures start...
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-04-10
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A Diary of a First-grader Mom
Overview: A year from the life of a first-grader and his parents.
Genres: Romance Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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Vasilisa
Overview: A love story set during the Napoleon War in Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Likes or Dislikes
Overview: Aleksey must decide what's better for him - a regular life with his fiancé Alyona or adventurous life with a famous journalist Irina.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Snare
Overview: A box of jewelry belonging to a woman murdered two decades ago is found in a drain pipe. While reporting the story, Vera, the newscaster, begins to have flashbacks. Did she know this woman? Both she and the police want to know.
Genres: Romance Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-12-05
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8 First Dates
Overview: Vera is a famous TV personality who wakes up with Nikita in bed after a hard day of partying. The next day, when she wakes up, the same thing happens.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Lady of Csejte
Overview: Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 1
Overview: Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes. The first part of a two-part film.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-01-01
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Horoscope for Good Luck
Overview: Max falls into the hands of a "happy" horoscope, which he must follow for 30 days, performing all its insane orders to obtain previously unavailable beauty and success. But one day Max's horoscope is replaced...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Viking
Overview: The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-12-29
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Classmates
Overview: Sochi, Russia. The day before wedding Katya finds her fiancé on a date with a hot blonde, so her classmates Vika, Sveta, and Dasha decide to find Katya a new husband. They have one night only. Will they succeed?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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Warrior
Overview: The film tells the dramatic story of two brothers, professional MMA athletes. This is a picture about duty and life values shown through the prism of the lives of brothers and their father – strong and proud people, a film about family, about the insults that we carry for decades, about the pain that we sometimes thoughtlessly inflict, and about forgiveness, which should always have a place in our hearts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Blockbuster
Overview: A wannabe model from a small Russian town robs a local bank to fund her modeling career.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-07-13
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Classmates #NewTurn
Overview: It's been a year since Katya's wedding so now Dasha is getting ready to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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A House for Rent with All the Inconveniences
Overview: Russian comedy drama
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-06-13
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4 Taxidrivers and a Dog 2
Overview: A continuation of a funny adventures of a dachshund puppy and four his friends - taxi drivers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Life Ahead
Overview: Old classmates finally meet each other after 15 years since graduation from school and that's an amazing opportunity to travel back in time. Old secrets and personal vendettas, hard feelings and first loves turn to fever pitch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-10-05
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Dovlatov
Overview: Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-02-27
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Снег
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-07
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Mama Forever
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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Mother
Overview: At the center of the story is the relationship of a young mother with her 14-year-old daughter, who actually considers her mother to be an older sister, and her grandparents - real parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-08-27
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Za toboy
Overview: Following the tragic death of their parents 20 year old Kira has to look after her 11 yr old brother Danka who suffers from hysterical paralysis. Kira retreats into a world of illusion based on a happier past but suddenly she is faced with a dilemma should she save the life of a child in the street at the expense of her own? Danka has his own crisis and both make decisions which are final.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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The Quiet Family Life
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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The Hero
Overview: Fifteen years ago Andrey graduated from a Secret Service school under the guidance of his father, that trained teenagers to be agents for the Foreign Intelligence Service. When this experimental school is closed, he settles in Europe and cuts ties with Russia. One day his father who was believed to be dead calls him to warn him that some security forces want Andrey dead so he must run and hide. While on the run Andrey finds Masha, his ex-classmate from the Secret Service school. He faces love and betrayal and learns the real scale of the ruthless spy game that he was dragged into against his will.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Another Name
Overview: Liza is a sophisticated woman who lives in a ‘high class world’. Her husband Peter speaks Russian with a German accent, he owns a chocolate factory. They live in a cold world of minimalistic interiors, holding back their emotions. There are no children in their expensive countryside house but there are expensive greyhound dogs. However, Liza can’t stay stone cold calm, as she has a secret from her past that burns her from inside, one that she would be happy to get rid of forever… And somewhere near there is a burnt room, and teenager Ulya has the keys.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-03
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On The Edge
Overview: The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin to fight for supremacy both on and off the arena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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Moscow In Love
Overview: The young man nicknamed "Amur" works as a taxi driver in Moscow. Every day his taxi passes through the entire capital from the outskirts to the center. Areas, lifestyle, people are changing before our eyes. But Cupid will not find his place here. Moscow is just another source of problems for him. But once the capital itself decides to achieve reciprocity from Amur! It turns out to be the “intersection point” of three love stories at once.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Баллада об истребителе
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
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Tell Her
Overview: What is to be a child to whom parents ask the same question every day: whom does he love more? Mom or dad? What should mom do if she madly loves her son, but circumstances force him to take the child away from his father? What should be done to dad if his son is taken to America forever, and he cannot imagine his life without him? This is a story of choice. When deciding for a child, a parent often does as he is comfortable with. The child agrees, afraid to hurt the parent, but time will pass, he will mature and at some point he will decide for himself. Only the parent from this will be much more painful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-05-13
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Surprise me
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Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-01-22
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Love Without Size
Overview: Masha is over thirty. Rented apartment, no husband, no children, no lover. A few years ago, she conquered Moscow and shone on stage, but the years go by, and the body is not getting younger, and the size leaves much to be desired. Fate in the person of the “former” takes her to the foot of Elbrus, where Masha meets old acquaintances and new great feelings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Odinochestvo lyubvi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Access Zone of Love
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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All That Jam
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-10-24
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Escaped to Arizona
Overview: Filmed at the junction of a video blog and the “what if” genre, a reality short film about the travel to the USA of the exuberant Moscow Art Theater star Alexander Molochnikov and actress Svetlana Khodchenkova, who starred in Godunov and Wolverine, but wants to see the Grand Canyon while Molochnikov wants Khodchenkova. Is everything happening - a real story of a relationship or is it just a script? Each viewer decides for himself.
Genres: Documentary Adventure Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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The North Wind
Overview: The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita's extraordinary family in their mansion on New Year's Eve. Margarita believes in the magical 13th hour that can break the eternal circle of repetition, defeat death and bring her much-awaited love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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House Arrest
Overview: David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologise. With the court case drawing ever nearer, does David have any hope of winning this battle against Goliath?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Mom is 17 Again
Overview: As a result of mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Olga from 2005 finds herself in 2024 in the body of herself, but already a thirty-six-year-old single mother. Having no experience of adult life, Olga behaves like a frivolous girl from the noughties, and dreams of returning to a carefree youth. But by the will of fate, she is forced to take responsibility for her high school son and play the role of a school principal, which she is completely unprepared for.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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The Poet
Overview: Alexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young women dream of winning his attention. However, not even his aristocratic patrons and loyal friends, nor his growing fame can keep him from dueling, getting exiled, and becoming destitute. Only when he meets his true love does he find meaning in life, and his genius develops to make him the legend the world knows today.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-02-14
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