Best Russian action series

Liquidation (2007)

The year is 1946. World War II is over, but it doesn't mean that there is no one to fight with. The post-war city of Odessa is ruled by serial killer prison-escapees and former Nazi collaborators. Fallen into disfavor, Marshal Zhoukov is sent to Odessa by Joseph Stalin to handle the situation. Together with the head of the local criminal investigation unit, David Gottsman, Zhoukov begins a special operation cleanup post-war Odessa from crime.

The Penal Battalion (2004)

Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.

Under Military Law 2 (2018)

Autumn 1941. Miraculously escaping from the Kiev boiler, investigators from the military prosecutor's office Rokotov, Mirsky and Elagina arrive in Kharkov, where evacuation is already in full swing. They have in their hands important information about the activities of the German espionage organization. New circumstances force them to linger in Kharkov. Indeed, together with the enterprises being evacuated, under the guise of refugees, further groups of German saboteurs are moving further east, whose purpose is sabotage and sabotage at military factories. Trying to open the channels for transporting scouts to the Soviet rear, Rokotov and Elagina find out that the organization operating in Kharkov is directly related to the Kiev group that they discovered a few hours before the city was surrendered. And the curator of both of these groups occupies a high post in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office.

Under Military Law (2015)

It is July 1941, and the Nazis are advancing towards Kyiv. A special squad is tasked with investigating major cases by acting both at the frontline and in the city itself, where rising criminals are joining German subversives in infiltrating the city, while a number of Soviet government representatives are happily profiting from other people’s misery.

The Turkish Gambit (2006)

Titular Advisor Erast Fandorin took part in military operations during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Being a Serbian volunteer, Erast Petrovich meets a charming young lady, Varvara Andreevna Suvorova, who is heading to the location of the Russian troops to see her fiance. With her help, Fandorin manages to unravel a complex and mysterious espionage case…

The Saboteur 2: The End of the War (2007)

The Black Sea (2020)

Year 1944. Shortly before the start of the Crimean Offensive, the ships of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and the Azov Naval Flotilla are in serious danger: German underwater commandos are preparing a large-scale operation to destroy the main combat units of the Soviet fleet in ports and roads. Aware of the seriousness of the threat, the Soviet command is developing an operation to detect and destroy the main base of the German underwater saboteurs.

20/22 (2024)

A student of the journalism faculty, Danil, goes as a volunteer to the zone of his SMO (Special Military Operation), tired of the hypocrisy of the capital. He is from Sevastopol and knows a little more about the neighboring state than his friends. His anti-war-minded girlfriend Alice, realizing that she is expecting a child, decides to protect her young man from a fatal mistake and goes after him. Finding a loved one in the chaos of war is proving difficult.

Night Swallows (2013)

On 8th October 1941, Stalin issued a secret order forming a female aviation unit.

Convoy PQ-17 (2004)

On June 27, 1942, a caravan of ships, codenamed PQ-17, left Reykjavik for Arkhangelsk. The route of the ships with cargo for Russia lay across the North Atlantic, where they were awaited by chilling winds, stormy seas and deadly attacks by German submarines and bombers.

The Saboteur 3: Crimea (2020)

The Countess de Monsoreau (1998)

Paris 1578, France is in the middle of a struggle for power between king Henri III and his brother Duke d'Anjou. Court intrigues are intertwined with a love story between count de Bussy and a mysterious countess de Monsoreau.

Vtorye (2010)

August 1941. German troops three hundred kilometers from Moscow. On one of the routes followed by the first persons of the state, employees of the Fourth Directorate of the NKVD neutralize a group of German saboteurs, the purpose of which was the physical elimination of Stalin. At the time of the arrest of the group, the saboteurs use an unknown weapon "Panzerknakke", which is similar in strength to a rocket projectile. During the arrest, one of the saboteurs managed to escape, two others were killed, the shooter was detained, but the weapon exploded at the moment of the shot.

Chuzhie krylya (2011)

In June 1941 (2008)

Офицеры (2006)

Blockade (1973)

A mini-series based on Alexander Chakovsky book about the events in Leningrad during 1941-1944.

Bayazet (2003)

Based on the Valentin Pikul's novel "Bayazet".

Strasti po Chapaju (2013)

This is the very first feature to have ever told the story of the Russian revolutionary Chapaev in such a gripping and heart-stirring manner. The series takes us through the thorny days of the national hero as the numerous layers of love and hate, pride and shame, great victory and inconsolable loss unfold. The abundance of action and raw emotion enlighten the viewer about the innumerable twists and turns on the path to the final victory of the Red Army and Chapaev's agonizing solitude.

Bomba (2013)

1941... Young student Ivan joins GRU in order to become a deeply hidden spy in the USA.

Bayazet (2003)

Based on the Valentin Pikul's novel "Bayazet".

The Secret Service Agent's Memories (2012)

Диверсант (2004)

Old Gun (2014)

Военная разведка: Северный фронт (2012)

На рубеже. Ответный удар (2014)

Robinson (2012)

It all starts in 1985. In a small town there are three boys who dream of a career as a naval officer - Sashka Robertson, Leshka Balunov and Vovka Titov. The submarine K-963, on which their fathers serve, is leaving on a secret mission - to the NATO exercise area to find and record an acoustic portrait of the newest, virtually silent American submarine. And the boys, playing submariners in an abandoned factory, fall into a death trap. Years later, when friends Sashka, Leshka and Vovka were finishing school, military service no longer seemed so prestigious to many, values ​​changed, and submarines rusted. Vovka leaves for Moscow, becomes a businessman. Lyoshka goes to the Marine Corps. And only Sashka remains true to his youthful dream and connects his life with the sea - he becomes a submariner.

СМЕРШ. Продолжение (2022)

Fog (2010)

A detachment of young fighters of the Russian Army breaks away from the main formation during a march, in order to shorten the path, runs across, but gets into a fog that takes him back to the past, during the Great Patriotic War. The guys who saw the war only in the movies fall into the clutches of the ruthless events of that time. Everything is on the edge: bravery, fear, love, hate, life, death. And there's no time to ask questions. Live, fight for the Motherland – it is one for all time.

Operation muhabbat (2018)

1984 - USSR is embroiled in a protracted military conflict in Afghanistan. Mitya and Anya are young, in love and have no doubt that they have a long and happy life ahead of them.But Anya's parents decide to emigrate to the USA. Mitya remains in the USSR, desperately trying to find an opportunity to meet his beloved.Neither Anya nor Mitya realize that their feelings will be used in a multi-pass political operation called Muhabbat. Translated from Farsi, this means "love." It is love that turns them into hostages of the dangerous CIA espionage game, aimed to disrupt the Soviet Union's exit from the war. Lovers have to go through difficult trials and find out the real price of loyalty and friendship.