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Black Russian Promo: Directed by Chris Barfoot. With Kirsty J. Curtis, Sara Dee, Fabrizio Santino, Mark Chapman. Frank leaves prison to find he's on his own. There's a new Firm, and he will have to join them if he is to survive. Revenge, murder, sex, drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
- The Method. The Method is a Russian crime drama television series which centers on Rodion Meglin (Konstantin Khabensky), a special detective of the Russian police who also is essentially a sanctioned vigilante, hunting down the criminally insane (“maniacs” in Russian) who slip through the cracks of an ill-suited justice and police system.
- The Sniffer. The Sniffer is a Russian-language detective series produced and shot in Ukraine by FILM.UA Television, created, co-written, and directed by Artyom Litvinenko.
- Silver Spoon. Silver Spoon is a Russian crime drama television series produced by Sreda and the first Russian television show to be acquired by Netflix.
- The Road To Calvary. The Road to Calvary is a 2017 12-episode television miniseries based on the eponymous epic of the Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoy directed by Konstantin Khudyakov.
- Open Your Eyes. Julka ends up in an amnesia treatment center after she loses her family. When she begins to have strange dreams that will become too real for her, she wonders if the place where she is, is the one she thought it was so far.
- The Forest. The Forest is a French crime drama television series, created by Delinda Jacobs and directed by Julius Berg. It debuted on Netflix internationally in July 2018 and is one of our favorite crime thrillers for this year.
- The Break. This is a hidden gem: There is a high chance you have not heard of this series but it is the real deal: A police detective mourning a painful loss moves back to his peaceful hometown, only to be drawn into a murder case that dredges up dark secrets.
- The Frankenstein Chronicles. The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television period crime drama series that is designed as a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein.
The series centers on Rodion Meglin (Konstantin Khabensky), a highest level investigator of the Russian police who is also a sanctioned vigilante, hunting down the criminally insane ("maniacs" in Russian) who slip through the cracks of an ill-suited justice system.
- Border. Romance in The Taiga
- Brigade
- Taiga. Survival Course
- Liquidation
- Brief Guide to A Happy Life
- The Thaw
- Dolce Vita
- Method
- Infidelities
- Sleepers
The events take place in the Russian Far East in a small garrison on the Chinese border in the 1970s. A beautiful nurse falls in love with a young lieutenant, but she has a cruel, possessive husband who is determined never to let her go. This love drama, set in a remote marshland, is remembered as the first hit role of Renata Litvinova and for the ...
Rookie drug lords, crafty KGBers, racketeers, corrupt politicians, and fragile maidens with violins who turn into gangsters’ wives. Brigadeis the top TV icon of the 2000s. It tells the story of four Moscow guys who embark on a life of crime and decide that in order to survive they need to scrape together their own influential gang. The creators mak...
A plane crash in the middle of the Siberian taiga forest leads to a desperate struggle for survival. Theseriesis essentially a Russian version of Lost, although it actually came out a couple of years earlier. The protagonists are a motley crew: a crooked-toothed criminal, a couple of lovebirds, a blonde gym bunny, a kindly woman with a pot of jam, ...
The action takes place in post-war Odessa. Stalin and Marshal Zhukov resolve to restore order in a city overwhelmed by crime. The task of chasing down the heavily armed mobsters planning to seize the city falls to two agents of the criminal investigation department. The series, brilliantly done in the style of a Soviet movie, blew the roof off the ...
The daily lives of four women at a recruitment agency, forced to become friends because they work in the same office. Besides work, one thing unites them: they are all unhappy. Life for them is full of indifferent husbands, children who have to be raised without alimony, and dubious ways to find "a man for a long-term relationship." Brief Guide is ...
An attempt to reimagine the 1960s, remembered by many in Russia as a golden age of hopes and dreams, when everything seemed possible. However, the bright-eyed idealism soon comes crashing down in this gritty melodrama, and the popular myth of the idyllic 60s is glimpsed only in the form of news bulletins. Maybe there was no “Khrushchev thaw” after ...
Dubbed the most “immodest” Russian TVseries, this is the story of the less-than-perfect sex lives of the Moscow middle class or, in the words of the slogan, “Aseriesabout love in an age of regression.” Naturally, there is plenty of cussing, nudity, and absurdity beyond the realm of common decency. It is a show about ubiquitous sexual frustration, b...
Gloomy, unhinged lone-wolf detective Rodion Meglin seeks out maniacs and administers his own kind of justice. This criminal thriller-drama resembles Dexter and season one of True Detective, only transplanted to Russian realities. What makes it stand out, however, is the screenplay based on real serial killings in Russia over the past 20 years: one ...
The star of Andrei Zvyagintsev's Leviathan, Elena Lyadova, cast here in the leading role, looks for ways not to die from boredom. She has a job, a tiny apartment, a childhood-friend husband, and two lovers (a third soon appears, 14 years her junior). Their job is to add some emotional swing to her daily routine. Infidelities is perhaps the first Ru...
This eight-part spy drama, which premiered on Channel One, caused a mini-scandal. The action revolves around FSB Colonel Rodionov, who uncovers US sleeper agents and an “Orange Revolution” specialist on a mission in Russia. Opposition bloggers, human rights activists, protest rallies, terrorist attacks, FSB traitors and corruption — it’s all here w...
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Jul 4, 2022 · Here’s my take on the best TV shows out there that you should be watching (not binge watching for the time being may be), if you are into thrillers topped up with bits of action, mystery, drama, romance and horror.
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5 days ago · Vote up the best thriller TV series - whether the thrills come from character drama, gripping action or nail-biting horror. Latest additions: Deceitful Love, The Frog, Lady in the Lake. Most divisive: Revenge. Over 8.2K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 200+ Best TV Thriller Series.
