A high-quality series is a real gem of modern television. Projects with hackneyed plots and Russian characters are often broadcast on the screen, which only fill up the airtime.
However, from time to time, the creators surprise the audience by deepening the story, asking thoughts and experiencing along with the characters. In our selection, we have collected just such series – works that deserve your attention.
Today there are exclusively new films with main plots and high-quality acting that can hook the viewer and evoke a wide range of emotions.
1. Shogun
Original title: Shogun
Genre: Drama, adventure, military, history, action, film adaptation
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.2 (KinoPoisk) / ⭐️ 8.9 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Fred Tua, Jonathan van Tulleken, Charlotte Brandstrom, Takeshi Fukunaga
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, Fumi Nikaido, Hiromoto Ida, Hiroto Kanai, Yasunari Takeshima, Yuki Kura
About what: At the beginning of the 17th century, the English navigator John Blackthorne completed a shipwreck and found himself in Japan, a country closed to Europeans.
After long journeys and months at sea, his ship became lost and ran aground off the Japanese coast. Captured by the warlord Toranaga, who leads the negotiations for power in the country, Blackthorne emerges from his state of captivity, balancing on the border between life and death, to the attention of his trusted adviser and assistant in military affairs.
Where to see: RuTube
On topic: I watched the super popular series “Shogun” (2024). Critics rejoice, but why?
2. Sugar
Original title: Sugar
Genre: thriller, drama, crime, detective
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.2 (KinoPoisk) / ⭐️ 8.9 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Adam Arkin
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Amy Ryan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Nate Corddry, Alex Hernandez, James Cromwell, Anna Gunn, Massi Furlan, Eric Lange
About what: The plot takes place in Los Angeles. The main character named John Sugar is a private detective. He is investigating the mysterious poisoning of the granddaughter of a famous Hollywood producer.
A girl goes missing, and when events take an unexpectedly dangerous turn, John must face not only the risk of his life, but also personal challenges. Having guessed the detective had enough natural problems and phobias, he had to stay with others while contemplating toxicity.
Where to see: Apple TV
3. Hunt for the killer
Original title: Manhunt
Genre: Thriller, drama, history, film adaptation
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.5 (KinoPoisk) / ⭐️ 7.2 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: John Dahl, Carl Franklin
Cast: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Hamish Linklater, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison, Brandon Flynn, Damian O’Hare, Glenn Morshower, Patton Oswalt, Matt Walsh
About what: The film adaptation of James Swanson’s book Manhunt: 12 Days in the Pursuit of Lincoln’s Assassin chronicles the tense events following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Just as the country was on the brink of a cliff, a massive manhunt began for John Wilkes Booth, the prime suspect in the murder. For 12 days, agents and bounty hunters overcame danger and obstacles in search of Booth, and the future of the entire nation depended on it.
Where to see: Apple TV
4. Ripley
Original title: Ripley
Genre: thriller, drama, crime, film adaptation
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.0 (KinoPoisk) / ⭐️ 8.2 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Andrew Scott, Johnny Flynn, Dakota Fanning, Maurizio Lombardi, Francesca Romana Bergamo, Vittorio Viviani, Kenneth Lonergan, Pasquale Esposito, Eliot Sumner, Bokeem Woodbine
About what: New York, 1960s. A wealthy entrepreneur hires a smart conman named Tom Ripley to work in Italy – finding his son Dickie Greenleaf slyly spending his father’s money while enjoying a carefree life: sailing on yachts and sunbathing at beach clubs.
Tom must convince him to return home. By agreeing to this, Tom begins a path that has led him to a life of deceit, fraud and even murder.
Where to see: RuTube
5. Franklin
Original title: Franklin
Genre: Biography, history, drama, real events
Viewer rating: ⭐️ 7.0 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Timothy Van Patten
Cast: Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Olivier Claverie, Marc Duret, Lily Dupont, Xavier Brossard, Daniel Mays, Assaad Bouab, Ludivine Sagnier, Théodore Pellerin
About what: December 1776. The whole world knows Benjamin Franklin for his revolutionary experiments with electricity.
However, during this period, his skills and passion for science are put in serious trouble when he goes on a secret mission in France. At the same time, the American struggle for independence is on the verge of failure.
Where to see: Google
6. Parish
Original title: Parish
Genre: Drama, thriller, crime
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.3 (KinoPoisk) / ⭐️ 6.7 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Laura Belsey, Sunu Gonera
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Zachary Momo, Ivan Mbacop, Erica Himmel, Dax Ray, Ekow Blade, Patrick Robinson, Kalebumann, T. Joel Smith, Charles R. Edwards
About what: Gray Parish was once part of a criminal gang, but left a radical crime family and created a successful business running a luxury car fleet in New Orleans. But everything changes when his son is brutally murdered. In desperation, Gray returns to his old lifestyle.
He decides to help a dangerous gangster, for whom he previously worked as a driver, in an operation with illegal migrants. This decision does not turn his calm life around, sending it into a sharp fall into the abyss.
Where to see: Amediateka
7. Mode
Original title: Mode
Genre: Drama, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.2 (KinoPoisk) / ⭐️ 6.1 (IMDb)
Country: UK, USA
Director: Stephen Frears, Jessica Hobbs
Starring: Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Grant, Martha Plimpton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Galenne, Patrick Philpott, Michael Colgan, Alasdair Hankinson, Sage Mackay, Jonathan Cass, Rory Keenan, Daniel Webb
About what: In one fictional country, an authoritarian chancellor vows to maintain power at any cost. She is helped by the chief minister and a cruel but loyal soldier who inspires fear in everyone around the chancellor. When she is sent to the prison of the opposition leader, mass crimes begin in the country.
In desperate attempts to maintain her fading authority, the chancellor is developing a plan for some kind of military invasion.
Where to see: RuTube
A few more selections with various films:
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▸ 6 new Russian films this year, which are a hundred times more interesting than foreign ones
▸ 5 great films this year. Goosebumps from what I saw
Source: Iphones RU
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