In 2024, Russian cinema will delight you with new interesting films and TV series. Among them you can find gems that are worth seeing.
There are exciting dramas, comedies with deep meaning, and exciting stories full of magic and adventure. We’ve collected all the newest and most interesting things!
1. First issue (2024)
Genre: series, drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.9 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Klim Kozinsky
Starring: Evgeny Tsyganov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Pavel Derevyanko, Ravshana Kurkova.
About what: The formerly popular writer Konstantin Inozemtsev is retiring. Debts accumulate, a novel is not written, double standards are powerless, and even she gets married for the rest of her life – but not because of him.
Suddenly he has the chance to relaunch a magazine that is approaching closure due to the loss of Western publishers. The magazine staff is against his appointment, but Kostya doesn’t care. He is used to living by his own rules and intends to find for himself, the world and his beloved, something else that is worth something.
Where to watch: KION
2. Love of the Soviet Union (2024)
Genre: drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Nikita Vysotsky, Ilya Lebedev, Dmitry Iosifov
Starring: Angelina Strechina, Roman Vasiliev, Kirill Kuznetsov, Roman Madyanov, Alexander Ustyugov
About what: The story of a generation of brave and beautiful, who did not see the ruined revolutions and chaos. Civil War, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, only incredible love, opening the way for them to great achievements and discoveries.
About the exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth, about the time of immense trials that befell their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.
Where to watch: Okko
3. Fedya. People’s Footballer (2024)
Genre:
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.4 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: sports, drama, biography
Starring: Stanislav Rumyantsev, Nikolai Fomenko, Boris Shcherbakov, Igor Petrenko.
About what: The people’s favorite, the country’s best football player Fyodor Cherenkov, is not going through a period in his best life. The only thing that keeps him from despair is his dream of competing at the World Championships.
But the head coach of the national team unhooks him from the team at the last moment. Fedor is seriously thinking about retiring from his career, but for the sake of his family and fans, he returns to lead his club to the championship and become the best again.
Where to watch: Okko
4. One day in Istanbul (2024)
Genre: comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.6 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Avet Oganesyan
Starring: Leonid Barats, Kamil Larin, Rostislav Khait, Alexander Demidov
About what: Four friends fly to Istanbul to spend the weekend on the yacht of their friend, businessman Vadim. But immediately upon arrival it turns out that he died. Vadim’s assistant offers to remember the boss on an already booked yacht during a walk along the Bosphorus. A mournful event for Vadim’s old friends. The characters joke, have a snack, and remember all of Vadik’s girls.
Not the most pleasant memories also emerge… One thing is clear: he understood the life of each of those gathered.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
5. Flint (2024)
Genre: fantasy, adventure
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.9 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Alexander Voitinsky
Cast: Roman Evdokimov, Irina Starshenbaum, Antonina Boyko, Vitaly Khaev, Mikhail Trukhin, Yan Tsapnik
About what: In a fairy-tale kingdom, soldiers on their way home accidentally find a magic flint and free the little girl Dasha, who was kidnapped and bewitched by the evil Likhodey, who was locked in a little girl.
To break his spell, the soldiers must go on a dangerous journey.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
6. 13 clinical. Inception (2024)
Genre: series, drama, fantasy, detective
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Ilya Ermolov
Cast: Irina Starshenbaum, Sergei Gilev, Pavel Priluchny, Victoria Isakova
About what: The 13th clinical hospital still does not exist, and the creature is just beginning to come into contact with supernatural phenomena. To get ahead, in the USSR start looking for doctors who are ready to go beyond conventional medicine.
One of these doctors is Yana, a neuropsychiatrist who is going through a family drama. Arriving at the hospital to save a girl after a fatal contact with a demon, it suddenly turned out that her son was being held hostage by Brecifer. Now she has to not only rescue her child, provide a vessel for the demon, but also take on the role of the head physician of the world’s first mystical hospital. This is how the 13th clinical clinic begins its work.
Where to watch: Evie
7. Prometheus (2024)
Genre: series, detective, thriller, fantasy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Maxim Sveshnikov
Cast: Philip Yankovsky, Lyubov Aksenova, Dmitry Chebotarev, Alexander Alyabyev
About what: Former intelligence officer Shaposhnikov is investigating the poisoning of a passenger plane in 1998. It’s time to find echoes in the present, when one of the passengers on the missing flight calls his family.
Journalist Anna, accustomed to noticing details that others trigger, is brought into the case.
Where to watch: Kinopoisk
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Source: Iphones RU
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