Addicted. Happy End (2022) is a thrilling melodrama that ends the TV series about love between an ex-patient of rehab and a psychologist. Yana and Ilya are trying to stay clean: the boy hasn't drunk for six months, but the girl relapses. The hero is being torn apart by the desires of leaving the addicted one and being with her. Suddenly, Yana gets an opportunity to get her killed husband's inheritance. The impulsive girl seizes the opportunity to better her finances. But it turns out to be not so easy to do. To make money she has to make a personal compromise. You can watch the movie online with Unico Play. The movie is available online.

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Addicted. Happy End

Pyotr, a biathlonist and the hero of The Riot movie (2022), comes back to his hometown with his wife. The place has its peculiar laws. At the first night, the spouses become witnesses of the execution of a local done by the shaman and a local criminal, Vitya the Man-Eater. The neighbors know about the crime, but they accept it obediently out of fear. Only the son of the executed one decides to avenge his father. Having got the boy's word to train hard, Pyotr promises to revenge together. The drama is available online.

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The Riot

Text film (2019) is a Russian social drama about a victim of a frame up case, it is available online. A social drama about a fake case victim is the best Russian film of 2019. Ilya Gorunov went to prison on false charges, but the policeman, Pyotr Khazin, who planted the drugs got a promotion. After his release, Ilya kills a man who denied his future, and takes the victim's phone. The hero chats with Khazin's family, girlfriend, colleagues sinking into someone else's life through the phone's screen.

Text

The Bull (2019) is a crime drama about the severe Russia of the wild 90s. The year is 1997, a small town. Just like many of his contemporaries, Anton Bykov whose nickname is The Bull has to do crimes in order to support his mother and little siblings. This life is not to the hero’s taste, who’s a vulnerable man with understanding heart, but he has no choice. During a regular work, the Bull gets in a real trouble, but Moisey, a local criminal boss, helps him out. But his motto is “a favor for a favor”, and Anton is in a serious debt. The hero finds himself in the eye of criminal peripetia, where his fate becomes connected with the fate of Tanya, a provincial girl dreaming of moving abroad. The movie is available online.

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The Bull

Behind Closed Doors (2022) is the first feature film of Anton Maslov, the director of The Vampires of Midland. The father is waiting for his daughter Kira to come over from school. He works as a firefighter and he hasn't lived with the family for a long time remaining a weekend dad. The girl enters the building, but she doesn't get to the apartment and won't answer the phone. Anton is sure that Kira is in the building. The neighbors don't want to let the stranger in their lives and are not ready to help. Fearing the worst, the man is ready to turn the building upside down to find his daughter. The drama is available online.

Behind Closed Doors

I Am Free (2021) is a drama about an attempt to run away from the traumas of the past. Parents send their hard-to-control teenager to a seaside camp. He isn't eager to get closer with its dwellers. Artyom remains silent, and the roots for it lie in the past, when something bad happened. Unwillingly, he gets in the way between the prettiest girl and a local bully. He also meets Kostya, a boy in a wheelchair, who offers the new guy to build a hang-glider and get the real freedom. This encounter will either cure him or break him for good. The movie is available online.

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I Am Free

A couple in love from Fib the Truth film (2021) are spending their weekend away from the city. The idyll is disturbed by the unexpected visit of the heroine's younger sister. The girls have a lot of reasons to hate each other, and another guest appears in the house — the ex of the elder sister. Each step in this cruel game is unpredictable for everyone: romance or passion, innocent flirt or mortal danger? The psychological thriller unfolding around a love story is available online.

Fib the Truth

The short movie Zarnitsa (2020) is a touching story about growing up based on personal experience of studying in a cadet school. A day before the Zarnitsa game, Alice, a student, faces disappointment: her success is being understated not to scare off her rivals. The insult and disappointment only provokes the girl, and she’s going to win the competition. But the feeling for a handsome and daring cadet gets in the way of her victory. What is going to prevail — the victory or the first love? The teenage drama is available online.

Zarnitsa

Live (2023) is a chamber thriller about the hunger for glory and generation conflict. Yegor, a blogger from the capital, is going to get back his fading fame by a set of posts about testing a new car in the mountains. In the provincial airport, he finds out that the test drive is cancelled. Aleksander, the dealership's representative, offers his apologies and a car tour around the canyon. The muscovite is relaxed; the taxi driver takes them to the foot of the pagan temple where the guide steps on a mine. Without help, Aleksander will die, but instead of calling emergency services, Yegor starts streaming. The movie is available online.

Live

Firefly (2021) is a drama about growing up in the every man for himself world. Sveta came from a village, and arrogant classmates are hostile to her trying to reveal the secret of the new girl. The girl triggers a split in the class. "Elite of the future", who only speak the language of strength, are not ready to see themselves from the other, unpleasant, angle. Sveta brings light and believes in love, but every firefly risks to get burnt in flames. The movie is available online.

Firefly

Milk (2021) is a surrealist parable about the magical power of a mother’s love. Zoya lives in a small town above the Arctic Circle and dreams of having a baby but can't get pregnant. It turns out that fate has prepared a different path for her. On the night on the Northern Lights, Zoya gains the ability to cure people of their emotional wounds. And now she needs to learn how to use her unusual gift. Watch the movie online.

Milk

The Void (2019) is a short movie drama about the instability in life. Waking up, few minutes in silence, and the plan for the day is ready. The young woman's schedule is fully booked: yoga, music class, studying a foreign language, and hip-hop. Her route around the city was created long ago, and it seems like people around don't exist. But her intense day can't save her from troubling thoughts, it seems something worries her. What's going to happen when all the plans are done? Is the heroine ready to meet the great void? The movie is available online.

The Void

The hero of Collector film (2016) makes their victims have a nervous breakdown in an amoral and perfect way. Arthur is an experienced bill collector who works with the most desperate bank debtors. Subtle, but merciless. His ways to make his victims to get a nervous breakdown are immoral and perfect. But once, a cold-blooded pro becomes a victim of bullying himself. Now he has a few hours to find out who set him up and to save his career and life. An intimate psychological thriller shot within 7 days starring one actor. The chamber psychological thriller starring one actor and shot in seven nights is available online.

Collector

Get Ready. Off to the Feast (2021) is a short movie awarded with "Best female director" and "Best short movie drama" by the Hollywood Shorts Film Festival. Maya is a gynecologist from Moscow. The heroine is training the hospital's staff in a small village in the mountains, and then she finds out that a barbarian surgery — female circumcision — is done behind her back. If the doctors refuse to do it, the villagers will do it themselves in unhygienic conditions. In this case, there will be more victims of this ancient custom. Which will Maya choose? The drama is available online.

Get Ready. Off to the Feast

Corrections Class (2014) is a teenage drama about intolerance and first love. After many years of homeschooling, wheelchair bound Lena Chekova is transferred to a corrections class. Here, the girl will have to face the tough world and get her first traumatic experience: from bullying among peers and conflicts with adults to tough relationship and betrayals. The movie is available online.

Corrections Class

Metro (2012) is a Russian disaster movie about how people act during emergencies. Due to the building of new constructions in the center of Moscow, a horrible thing happens: a metro tunnel gets a crack. The water from the river floods two metro stations. A train with dozens of passengers who are in great danger gets stuck in between the stations. Among them is Andrei, a doctor, who got stuck in one car with his daughter and his wife’s lover. Fighting for the woman turns into fighting for survival. The drama is available online.

Metro

A winner of two special awards of the Cannes Film Festival Everybody Dies But Me is a scandalous movie by Valeriya Gay Germanika about teenage problems that was released in 2008. The day before a disco, Katya from the 9th grade says some rude words to the teacher and puts the dances under threat. The girl becomes the school’s number one enemy, and her classmates – Zhanna and Vika – face a difficult choice: whether to support their friend or to keep their authority. The heroines are to face the adult world full of jealousy, betrayal, cruelty, fights, misunderstanding of parents, complete loneliness, and alcohol. The drama is available online.

Everybody Dies But Me

A subtle drama about the difficulties of growing up, Gerda film (2021) won two awards at the Locarno Film Festival. By day, Lera, a student, visits classes and takes care of her mother who suffers from sleep walking after her break up with the husband. By night, the girl immerses herself into strangers' desires by working in a strip club. A vivid and vicious image of Gerda is her only way to escape from the dull reality to the world of fantasies and dreams.The drama is available online.

Gerda

The Pencil movie (2019) is an acute social drama about how not to be indifferent. Antonina is a black-and-white artist from a small town. She moves to province to be closer to her imprisoned husband and gets a job as an ordinal art teacher. A pencil in her hands is not only a working tool, but also a chance to re-write the town’s history the citizens of which forgot about dreams and dignity and are stuck in indifference and violence. The movie is available online.

The Pencil

To Live (2010) is a brutal psychological thriller about a difficult moral choice. Mikhail, an elderly hunter, goes to the woods and becomes a target. A young man who is being followed by criminals gets into his car. This is how they both become prey: Mikhail saves the guy, but finds himself in a great danger. Running away from the chasers, the men are thinking about the sense and value of a person’s life and gradually begin to like each other. Sooner or later, the runners shall meet the “hunters” and shall have to make a terrifying choice. The movie is available online.

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