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.

To the Lake (2019)

A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.

Survive in … (2023)

Survive Dubai is a massive show where two teams - the celebrity and the people - will face the two opposite worlds of Dubai. On the one hand, they will have all the pleasures of five-star hotels and the attributes of a "luxury" life, on the other hand, a ruthless desert in which everyone is equal and in which their own laws reign. Tests will show which team will face luxury, and which will face heat and sand. Participants will survive in Dubai for the main prize of 10 million rubles. The hosts of the reality show "Survive in Dubai" are Lyaysan Utyasheva and Pavel Volya.

Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2020)

Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.

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.

Metal Family (2018)

Metal Family follows the daily lives of Glam and Victoria, two metal fans that fell in love and had two children together, Dee and Heavy.

The Penal Battalion (2004)

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

Brigada (2002)

A quartet of childhood pals who create a business together find themselves at the core of a powerful Moscow gang in the aftermath of an unplanned murder.

Chornobyl: Exclusion Zone (2014)

5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chornobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.

The Blackout (2020)

In the near future, life on earth is destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Russian military fights off hoards of remaining humans controlled by aliens and work to prevent a successful invasion by an alien force set on conquering the plant.

The Red Spy (2020)

After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel and the death of an intelligence agent, a new cunning plan is being developed to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent, Elena Golubovskaya, is appointed to this case. In Crimea, Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet. Her task is to eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the white movement, as well as control the operation to steal gold. Her plans are thwarted by Maximilian Ermler, a local newspaper journalist who turns out to be a British intelligence agent.

Kitchenblock (2021)

Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?

Фаворит (2005)

20th of December (1982)

In 1917 Lenin and the communists founded the Soviet secret service - Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB.

Звёзды в Африке (2021)

The Big Game (2020)

Sixteen contestants of a new survival show are taken to the Siberian taiga to compete for the price of one million euros. The rules are simple: no food, personal belongings, electricity, communications and civilization for hundreds of kilometers around. The one remains wins. Soon TV project turns into a deadly game, where LIFE becomes the main prize... What is it? Is it sick TV script? Who is behind this? And who can survive without losing their humanity?

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.

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…

Gogol' (2019)

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.

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.

Глухарь (2008)

CyberSlav (2024)

In Ancient Russia, where there are modern technologies — from cybernetic implants and plasma weapons to exoskeletons and giant robots — a half-breed hero named Cyberslav is trying to unravel a brutal crime in order to find out who was prevented by the princely family — angry people or evil spirits that infested the local forests.

Special Squad (2002)

Spetsnaz is a 2002 Russian TV miniseries directed by Andrei Malyukov.

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

Sergius Against Evil Spirits (2022)

Former priest Sergius, removed from the ministry in the church, became a hunter for evil spirits. In the course of the hunt, he encounters investigator Catherine, who is just about to get acquainted with the world of the supernatural. Sergius and Katya become a team and together they begin to fight against folklore villains - Koshchei, Bayun and others.

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.

The Waves of the Black Sea (1976)

Adventure television series based on first three novels of tetralogy "The waves of the Black Sea" by Valentin Kataev.

Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992)

In turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal Mazarin, asked Queen Anne of Austria to give him the names of four friends who successfully helped her in the fight against Cardinal Richelieu. Under pressure from Mazarin, Queen Anne calls the name D'Artagnan, lieutenant of the royal musketeers. Mazarin calls D'Artagnan and orders him to find Athos, Porthos and Aramis in order to attract them to his service...

Fandorin. Azazello (2023)

The October Revolution hadn't happened, and the Bolsheviks had never risen to power. The year is 2023, and the rule over the Russian Empire is divided between tzar Nikolai III and a forward-thinking PM, Dmitry Orlov. Erast Fandorin, a 20-year-old police servant, has just been hired in the criminal investigations unit at the Petrograd Metro. His job is not that exciting, but the latest news is: right at the heart of the capital, a young and wealthy oil company tycoon has just shot himself in front of dozens of men. His suicide was captured on the patrol robot cameras. Fandorin can't help but suspect that this case is far more complicated than it looks and takes on his very first major investigation

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.