The Magic District (2023)

Their abilities can give the world a chance - or destroy it. Historical fantasy about the power of love and destruction

Danya is coming from the provinces to Moscow. He dreams of conquering the capital and becoming a popular stand-up artist. The young man has nothing but ambitions behind his soul, but he needs to live somewhere right now, and he rents a room from Vyacheslav Sokolov, a grumpy, offended old man. And although the relationship between Danya and Vyacheslav cannot be called rosy, as it turns out, they have more in common than one might assume. By a strange coincidence, Sokolov was a popular Soviet satirist in the past.

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Sasha, 30, is a serial loser trying his best to become a successful business coach. Fate leads him to billionaire Oleg Kalugin, who decides to hire a cheerful dreamer as a coach. However, Kalugin does not need business advice, in which the guy knows nothing, but the secret of his ability to sincerely enjoy life despite poverty and other problems. From this moment on, drastic changes begin in Sasha's life, which show the real price of success. Step by step, he is moving further away from happiness, plunging into a world of deception, betrayal, hatred and really big, but dirty money.

An experienced virologist, Anya Markova, gives up her personal and professional life in Moscow and moves to work at a research center in Novosibirsk. She is clearly trying to escape from some personal pain, but in a new place fate throws the heroine another test - an outbreak of an unknown disease is recorded at the site of an illegal dump of a large meat processing plant in a remote village.

Terminally ill surgeon Kirill finds a job in a clinic where doctors struggle with supernatural phenomena. The only way to survive is to show his best side and convince the new management that the hospital needs him. Kirill plunges into the intricacies of the relationships of people, witches and demons, increasingly doubting that he is able to correctly determine who exactly represents good and who is evil here. The diagnosis is imperfect, and the enemy may be someone who initially did not seem to them. To avoid such mistakes, Kirill and his colleagues will have to spend a lot of time studying the circumstances of patients' illnesses.

The year is 2140. Society has undergone profound change and is now run as a matriarchy, thus removing its reliance on men. Two Hills is one of the communities founded by this new order. It is a place of perfection, where there is harmony rather than conflict, science and reason prevail and the environment is protected and respected. One of its inhabitants is the history teacher, Rada. On her birthday she takes her students on a guided tour of a special area outside of Two Hills, a place where the so-called “primates” live. The "primates" are men (and a handful of women) who have chosen to live beyond female control. However, the tranquillity of Rada’s perfectly arranged female-centric world comes under threat when she meets the young "primate", Hera. It’s a classic girl-meets-boy story, in a world where the rules have fundamentally changed.

1986. Teenagers are killed one by one in the area of the government dachas on Rublevskoye Shosse. Intelligent investigator Valery Kozyrev, his audacious partner from Rostov Evgeny Bokov and very young investigator Natalia Dobrovolskaya begin the investigation, not even knowing how much it will change the fate of each of them. The only witness capable of identifying the maniac - schoolboy Igor, whose parents are not at all happy about his son's contact with the police.

A college student joins the local diving club after meeting some rowdy upperclassmen. New adventures in booze and the ocean await.

In the late 1980s, when “perestroika” was taking place in the USSR and the era of the Soviet Union was about to collapse, life became unstable and very different. The 1980s brought not only freedom, but also waves of crime on the city streets. While some young people began to ‘grow up’ on the streets, others found it difficult to find their place in this unpredictable reality. Andrey, lives with his mother and five-year-old sister. He studies at a music school and often encounters street teenagers who harass him. To protect himself, Andrey makes friends with one of these teenagers, Marat, who introduces him to gang life. Youth groups fight for every piece of territory; they defend their right to live the life, even breaking laws and promises. The only thing that matters to them is the vows they make to their gang members-brothers, with whom they confront the violence and fears of the adult world.