Best Russian comedy series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy shows from Russia, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Kitchen

    The Kitchen 2012

    Maksim "Max" Lavrov wants to become a great chef. But he finds out that the kitchen isn't the place for an easy career. And at restaurant "Claude Monet," this job looks to be harder and much more complicated than just cooking.

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  • Poster for Interny

    Interny 2010

    Witness the life of four young medical interns who experience various hilarious situations every day with their mentor and the hospital staff.

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  • Poster for P. E. Teacher

    P. E. Teacher 2014

    Retired mobster tries to get back in business by making friends with the kid of his ex-boss. To do so, he must became PE teacher in kid's school.

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  • Poster for Masha and the Bear

    Masha and the Bear 2009

    The aim of Masha and the Bear series is simple and urgent at the same time — the series tries to introduce eternal truths to a child in a clear and entertaining way, to present the world in its diversity and to reveal positive features of any situation. The series also tries to explain the logic of actions in various difficult situations and helps to struggle with your own weak points in an unobtrusive way.

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  • Poster for The Vampires of Midland

    The Vampires of Midland 2021

    Grandpa Slava is the oldest of the Midland vampire family. They live quietly. They live by the law. They live the unremarkable life of an ordinary Russian family and they never kill humans – ever. Although, of course, everyone knows they drink blood. And when some lifeless corpses are found in a birch grove near Smolensk... their peaceful life falls under threat.

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  • Poster for Hotel Eleon

    Hotel Eleon 2016

    The new series of CTC, which will continue the story of the hit comedy "Kitchen". Chef Victor Barinov retired and Eleanor Andreevna met the man of her dreams and moved to St. Petersburg - this ended the final season of "Kitchen". But life in the hotel and the restaurant continues: Michael Dzhekovich still responsible for order in the "Eleon" chef Victor restaurant appointed Senya, and her daughter gets an unexpected boost, which is not pleased with the bone. Everything goes on as usual, while the hotel is not headed by Paul - unlucky nephew of former mistress. In order not to disappoint Aunt and save the business, he entices Brussels Supermenedzher Sofia Tolstaya. New management sets its own rules, and now the hotel is waiting for major changes that overturned upside down not only the habitual way of "Eleon", but the characters and personal plans.

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  • Poster for Policeman from Rublyovka

    Policeman from Rublyovka 2016

    The television tragicomic story about a young guy named Grisha Izmailov, who became a policeman and was called to protect peace and order in the most elite area of ​​the city of Moscow and the Russian Federation. The guy has to investigate the cases in which the residents of Rublyovka get involved, and he does this, often exceeding his authority. Grisha is about 30 years old, he is handsome, lonely, rich, cynical, passionate and treats everything with a fair amount of black humor. He takes care of his younger sister Nika, who he is forced to constantly get out of trouble. He regularly mocks his boss, Volodya, who thinks that Grisha was sent to him for all his deadly sins. The main character’s best friend is Mukhich, a colorful, clumsy fat man who has no success with girls. Grisha himself, without exerting effort, knows how to please women, for example, his girlfriend - prostitute Christina, but can never achieve reciprocity from Alena, who has long been in love with.

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  • Poster for Chicks

    Chicks 2020

    Sveta, Marina and Lyuba work as prostitutes in a small southern township. Their friend Zhanna, who got a chance for a better life, comes back from Moscow with a plan — she wants to open a local gym. Together girls decide to abandon prostitution and start legal business, but their dream to become free, happy and independent will come at a cost.

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  • Poster for Realnye patsany

    Realnye patsany 2010

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  • Poster for House Arrest

    House Arrest 2018

    The current mayor of the city of Sineozyorsk, Arkadiy Anikeyev, is caught taking a bribe on an especially large scale, after which, by a court decision, he is placed under house arrest and must stay for a long time at his place of residence in a communal apartment. Arkadiy is abandoned by his wife, to whom all the property was recorded. Once in a communal apartment, Anikeyev runs into Ivan Samsonov, with whom they were neighbors in a communal apartment in childhood. Leaving aside disagreements, Anikeyev decides to help Samsonov become the new mayor of Sineozyorsk, so that he will help to remove all charges from him.

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  • Poster for Zhuki

    Zhuki 2019

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  • Poster for Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum!

    Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum! 2020

    The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the one hand - an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mother and a father who is a docent, on the other - the dangerous world of an Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And there's also the girl Zhenya, whose encounter triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the life of Alex. Running away from hooligans, Alex steals a car of local criminal authority, and in an instant everything changes. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear - life will never be the same again. Not for Alex himself, nor for the whole of Russia.

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  • Poster for The Cyberfarm

    The Cyberfarm 2023

    Farmer Nikolay has long ago settled on Mars with his family. He leads a peaceful life and tends to his robot-aided farmstead until the Head of a large corporation comes to Mars to get rid of the village and launch a new production line.

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  • Poster for Difficult teens

    Difficult teens 2019

    The famous football player Anton Kovalev, who spent two years in prison for a drunken rowdy in a cafe, is released. With this misconduct, the former captain of the Russian national team put an end to his successful career. The reputation of the “downed pilot” does not allow him to continue his beloved business and get a prestigious job. Herman, who once raised Anton, the head of the center for difficult teenagers, offers him to return to alma mater in order to prepare difficult children for the local Olympics. Because of hopelessness, Kovalev agrees to the proposal, but does not even imagine how difficult it will be to find a common language with the guys and what important place they can take in his life.

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  • Poster for Happy End

    Happy End 2021

    The series depicts the journey of a young couple who have decided to turn their relationship into a sexual attraction for the whole world through the webcam.

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  • Poster for Olga

    Olga 2016

    Olga brings up two children from different marriages, cares about her alcoholic father and tries to adjust her personal life. The eldest daughter Anya is studying in a vocational school, she thinks that she is the only adequate member of the family, and in her life everything will be different. The younger son Timofey, whose father returned to the first family in Azerbaijan, believes that he is already a man, although he is only 11 years old. Olga's father, Yuri Gennadievich, a former football player, drinks hard and constantly lies, which often leads to scrape. And sister Lena is trying to live at the expense of men - mostly married. Eternally saving relatives from troubles, Olga lives a strange life and rarely thinks of herself until Grisha, a young and positive driver of the “Sable” hearse, falls in love with her.

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  • Poster for Univer. Novaya obshchaga

    Univer. Novaya obshchaga 2011

    The hostel number 3, in which the heroes lived, is being demolished, and three guys (Michael, Anton and Kuzya) are relocated to a new hostel. In the new building they are settled in block number 510 with the girls Christina, Yana and Masha. Kuzya begins to date Masha, and Anton dates Christina. Later Kuzya leaves for Agapovka, the botanist Valentin is settled instead.

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  • Poster for Papiny Dochki

    Papiny Dochki 2007

    A family therapist falls into a rut when his wife and his clients abandon him, forcing him and his five daughters to pull together and establish a new life.

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  • Poster for Univer

    Univer 2008

    The son of oligarch Sylvestre Sergeev, Sasha, fled from the university in London, where he studied finance, and entered the astronomical department of the physics department of a Moscow university. Sylvester Andreevich wants to return his son to his former life, but he wants to live "among the people" and wants to achieve everything in life himself. In parallel with this, many funny situations happen to the heroes of the series.

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  • Poster for Infidelities

    Infidelities 2015

    An incredible story of a young woman who had a husband and three lovers. The series describes what is happening with the fate of people who are cheating and who are being cheated on.

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  • Poster for Grand

    Grand 2018

    Ksenia has ambition, lots of it. She wants to make it big in hospitality. Chasing her goal she comes to Moscow where she meets a new eccentric hotel owner of The Grand hotel. Not someone to let the truth stand in the way of an opportunity, Ksenia presents herself as a professional, ready for a management position. Her lies are caught out and she’s packed off to the rather unglamorous laundry to begin her career in hospitality. Will Ksenia be able to tame her adventurous nature and to fit into the tight-knit hotel team at The Grand? Or will she blow it?

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  • Poster for Call DiCaprio!

    Call DiCaprio! 2018

    The main character is the star of a popular TV series about doctors, actor Yegor Rumyantsev. Having achieved great success, he becomes an egoist and does not notice the feelings and experiences of those around him: he does not come to the shooting, leads a promiscuous sex life and deceives people. One day, Egor finds out that he has HIV. Rumyantsev's brother Lev is a mediocre and unlucky actor who runs a program about useful handicrafts on the cable channel "Ant-TV". Leo has a pregnant wife with two young daughters. He has no prospects for making money and moving up the career ladder until he gets a chance to replace his brother Yegor in the series.

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  • Poster for Comfort Zone

    Comfort Zone 2020

    Yaroslav Kostrov, the boorish and quirky owner of a small transport company in Murmansk, by coincidence ends up in a Norwegian prison, where the comfort level resembles good hotels with all amenities and the Internet. But the only thing that connects Yarik with home is the Skype window, through which he will have to somehow get out of the circumstances, as well as resist the mafia, control his business, try not to lose his wife and raise children who refuse to be brought up by video.

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  • Poster for The Ivanovs vs. The Ivanovs

    The Ivanovs vs. The Ivanovs 2017

    Sometimes it seems to parents that their child has been replaced... and two Ivanov families from the south of Russia are simply sure of this: after 16 years, namesakes will find out that their children were confused in the maternity hospital. What if your beloved son is not really your own, but your blood is being raised by strangers? And in a luxury that you never even dreamed of. And how will he accept his new, but painfully poor relatives?

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  • Poster for The No Man Zone

    The No Man Zone 2022

    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.

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  • Poster for Sweet Life

    Sweet Life 2014

    A single mother from Perm, by the will of fate, finds herself in the capital of Russia, where she makes significant changes to the well-established life of six successful 30-year-old Muscovites.

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  • Poster for 80's

    80's 2012

    This story began back in 1986. Perestroika was already underway, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. It was a time when there was no Internet, hypermarkets and even mobile phones, but they drank water from the tap, there were no traffic jams in Moscow, and the keys to the apartment were quietly left under the rug.

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  • Poster for AnnDroid

    AnnDroid 2020

    Russian scientists have created an android policeman. Perfect in all respects, Captain Anna Nikolaevna Korolkevich goes to serve in a provincial city to see real life and become a human. Colleagues think that Anna Nikolaevna is the daughter of the deputy minister, and nothing portends trouble until humanization goes too far.

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  • Poster for Ivanko

    Ivanko 2020

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  • Poster for The Last Minister

    The Last Minister 2020

    When an active loser is appointed the Minister of Planning, no one can imagine what this will lead to. It turns out that the new minis- ter really wants to change people’s lives for the better and for this, together with the team, is actively promoting his own initiatives. True, these initiatives are not always reasonable, and the result is extremely unpredictable.

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  • Poster for My Fair Nanny

    My Fair Nanny 2004

    My Fair Nanny is a Russian comedy television series based on the American television sitcom, The Nanny.

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  • Poster for Mylodrama

    Mylodrama 2019

    In order to bring down the shares of the TV channel, the board of directors decides to put a gas station attendant in the CEO's chair and entrust him with the filming of the series. In a short time, the would-be boss manages to create chaos on the air and establish his own rules in the media business. But suddenly, the series, which was supposed to be the greatest failure, begins to have a tremendous success…

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  • Poster for Inside Lapenko

    Inside Lapenko 2019

    A humorous series, the hallmark of which is that all the characters are played by one person — Anton Lapenko. The bulk of the dialogue is improvisation. The plot is based on the life and adventures of characters from Anton's Instagram. The series is made in the style of Soviet cinema and does not have a clear time reference — it is a kind of Universe in which the 80s and 90s of the XX century intertwine.

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  • Poster for Dropper

    Dropper 2022

    Vanya is an anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist working in a Moscow clinic. A few years ago, his girlfriend Masha died of an overdose, and her mother was paralyzed after such a tragedy. Vanya feels guilty and tries to somehow correct the mistakes of the past - for this it is necessary to raise a large amount of money for the operation to his mother, and the only real way to earn them is to become a "drip" — a person who illegally "pumps out" the rich and famous.

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  • Poster for Voroniny

    Voroniny 2009

    The main characters of the series are an ordinary family. The family consists of the following: Kostya (a sports journalist), his wife Vera (a housewife) and their children: Masha and the twins Philip and Kirill. Right on the same landing, where the apartment of the young Voronin family is located, Kostya’s parents live: Galina Ivanovna (housewife, Kostya and Lyonya’s mother, Vera’s mother-in-law), Nikolai Petrovich (Kostya’s and Lyonya’s father, Vera’s father-in-law) and Lyonya (the major of the police) - Kostya's older brother.

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  • Poster for The Kidney

    The Kidney 2021

    An employee of the fire department - a manipulator and a bribe-taker - is trying to get herself a kidney for a transplant. But this is not easy to do, since she lived her life in such a way that no one wants to help her.

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  • Poster for The Magic District

    The Magic District 2023

    Lyokha, a former police sniper with post-traumatic stress disorder, in the midst of an alcoholic binge learns about the fatal illness of his sister Katya. Katya does not want her daughter to be sent to an orphanage after death, and asks Lyokha to take up her head so that he becomes a guardian for an eight-year-old girl. Lyokha has already lost many close people in his life, so he does everything to help his sister: he picks up old connections and gets a job at the police station. The area turns out to be difficult. The criminals that Lyokha must catch are fairy-tale characters: the Serpent Gorynych, Baba Yaga and other evil spirits. And if the former sniper does not have problems with the capture of villains, then attempts to become a good guardian become a real test for Lyokha.

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  • Poster for Makarov and The Girls

    Makarov and The Girls 2021

    The head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Butovo region, Makarov, is completely replaced by the personnel as a result of a conflict with the leadership. Instead of experienced male cops, four young students are singled out.

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  • Poster for Unprincipled

    Unprincipled 2020

    Collection of satirical sketches, telling about the decent inhabitants of the Patriarchal Ponds and their obscene stories. The series includes touching, outrageous and full of love intimate stories that are not accepted to speak out loud.

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  • Poster for How I Became a Russian

    How I Became a Russian 2015

    A journalist of "American Post" Alex Wilson wrote a scorcher of a critique on unreachable “American dream” and "won" a termless business trip to Russia. At first he is terrified by thinking of the homeland of balalaika, vodka, and bears, but later he is inspired with love and respect for the foreign country.

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  • Poster for The Kitchen. War for the hotel

    The Kitchen. War for the hotel 2019

    Having suffered a fiasco in the hotel business and saying goodbye to the Eleon Hotel, Eleanor retreats to Tuscany. Everything changes when the ex-fiance Dmitry Nagiyev, who is guilty of her bankruptcy, begins construction of the grandiose Resort complex in Sochi. To take revenge on the showman for all the insults, Eleanor buys a hotel that Nagiyev has his eye on, hires her ex-husband, chef Viktor Barinov, their daughter Katya and manager Mikhail Dzhekovich.

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  • Poster for Ms. Sweet

    Ms. Sweet 2019

    Vera's life was like a fairy tale with a loving husband, smart and beautiful daughter, caring father, and her favorite hobby, baking desserts. When her husband cheats on her with her young neighbor, she decides to leave him and turn her baking hobby into a business.

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  • Poster for Happy Together

    Happy Together 2006

    The ordinary life of an ordinary family from the province: a couple, 2 children, a dog and neighbors. Dasha is a housewife who loves to watch TV shows and go shopping. Her husband, Gena, is a shoe store manager, likes to hang around in the garage and watch football with friends. Their daughter Sveta is a student of high school, changes the guys every week. And their son Roma is playing computer thew whole day and intrigues sister. Bukins quarrel at least once a day - so they have fun. They have been together for 16 years and still love each other. This is the happiest family in the world.

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  • Poster for Deffchonki

    Deffchonki 2012

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  • Poster for Psychologirls

    Psychologirls 2017

    Graduates of the psychology faculty Vika, Tanya and Alina know firsthand what "cognitive helplessness", "impostor syndrome" and "demon of jealousy" are. However, after meeting ten years later, the girls realize that Freud and other luminaries of psychology do not save their personal lives. Alina starts fleeting affairs, Vika has become a tyrant in her own family, and Tanya has acquired a baggage of complexes. The friends got close again to help each other with professional advice when the diagnosis should be made not to the patient, but to herself.

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  • Poster for Our Russia

    Our Russia 2006

    Nasha Russia is a Russian sketch show created by Comedy Club Productions. It was written by former KVN player Semyon Slepakov and producer Garik Martirosyan.

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  • Poster for Londongrad

    Londongrad 2015

    Russian comedy detective series centres around a ‘fixing’ agency set up to troubleshoot problems for rich Russians in London.

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  • Poster for Rodkom

    Rodkom 2020

    The story is about a father who, after learning about his wife's infidelity, decides to take his twelve-year-old son and raise him on his own. In order to increase his chances of leaving a child in a divorce, he embarks on the path of becoming a demonstrative father – he joins the parent committee of the class. There he meets his former classmate, Sveta Surkova, who has changed a lot in twenty years. She turned from a gray nerd into a purposeful and self-confident woman who harshly directs moms from the parent committee, and even the school principal is afraid of her. Only one thing remained unchanged – her dislike for Shmelev, who did not give her a quiet life as a child. To stay on the parent committee, he must find a common language with Surkova and the rest of the moms.

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  • Poster for The Big Moment

    The Big Moment 2021

    Estranged ex-lovers, Kostya and Kira are unexpectedly thrown together again when they're asked to collaborate as script-writers on a love-story set in a music school. The script focuses on teachers Rostislav (Dmitry Lysenkov) and Arina (Evgeniya Borzykh), who are caught-up in a difficult situation, made more complicated by Arina passing off a new colleague as her boyfriend to placate her demanding mother. The real and phoney relationships, both on and off-paper (or in reality or in the script), test all the characters, and examine themes of love, trust, sex, infidelity, friendship, responsibility as well as compatibility.

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  • Poster for The Street

    The Street 2017

    History of residents of one of the streets of the sleeping area of a big city. Schoolchildren and students, housewives and sellers, oligarchs and simple workers - more than 30 characters of different age and social status will meet here, each of them has its own story. There are no main and secondary heroes in the “Universe” of the Street. This is a story about all of us and our neighbors.

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  • Poster for Projectorparishilton

    Projectorparishilton 2008

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  • Poster for Overheard in Rybinsk

    Overheard in Rybinsk 2025

    A journalist of a small provincial newspaper Yura has been writing unremarkable news of his hometown all his life. But suddenly an event happens to Yura that turns his whole life upside down — visions come to him that predict murders secretly and unnoticeably taking place in Rybinsk. Soon the situation is complicated by the fact that in one of the cases Yura becomes the main suspect.

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  • Poster for Doomsday

    Doomsday 2022

    In the Chertanovo area, known for periodic invasions and attractions, the Prince of Darkness himself suddenly appears. He has grandiose plans, but to implement them, he needs the help of his son, a supermarket cashier, who has a lot of questions for his father from hell. The all-powerful Prince of Darkness will have to build relationships with earthly relatives in order to carry out his plans and teach humanity a lesson.

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  • Poster for Daddy's Daughters. New

    Daddy's Daughters. New 2023

    The curse of the Vasnetsovs overtakes the already grown-up daughters of a family psychotherapist. On the eve of the next wedding anniversary, Dasha runs away from home, leaving the workaholic Veniamin a farewell letter, an engagement ring and four daughters. Now Veniamin, just like his father-in-law once, is forced to become father, mother, and friend for his children. And the resilient Vasnetsov family will help him in this.

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  • Poster for Комбинация

    Комбинация 2024

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  • Poster for Глухарь

    Глухарь 2008

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  • Poster for Youth

    Youth 2023

    Top blogger Alex Go loses all contracts, offending fan Mitya Lipkin. To save his career, the guy becomes a counselor at a pioneer camp where the boy is resting. And now his fate depends not on subscribers and producer Gosha, but on the children and the director of the camp, a retired military Starostin.

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  • Poster for Громкий вопрос

    Громкий вопрос 2021

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  • Poster for Hello Again!

    Hello Again! 2022

    Animated comedy with Andrei Merzlikin about the adventures of the bandit Boris who rose from the dead. He awakens in the morgue and decides to reveal the secret of his own death, enlisting the help of a young medical trainee Artem. What is the avenger capable of, who has been in the other world and is eager to punish the killers? Boris is capable of a lot.

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  • Poster for Patriot

    Patriot 2020

    Returning to his small town, after the army, Sanya Kuchin is trying to integrate into a peaceful civilian life: he gets a job as a security guard in the convenience store "Dream", achieves the heart of his former classmate and ... fights with the bourgeoisie, slovenliness, drunkenness and indifference of the local inhabitants. But real life is not an army in which everything is arranged clearly according to the charter, and very soon Sana will have to understand this ...

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  • Poster for What the Family

    What the Family 2023

    Meet one big family: Father, Mommy, Sonny, Grandpa and Granny. They have a small entertainment show on YouTube. But when adventurous Grandpa signs a contract with A Big Streaming Service and their family life is to become a reality show, they find themselves entrapped. From now on, the terms of the contract prohibit them from growing old or dying, and they are obliged to live in the same apartment and answer all the questions Sonny asks them. And topics Sonny is interested in become more and more serious.

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  • Poster for League of Cities

    League of Cities 2023

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  • Poster for Хутор

    Хутор 2025

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  • Poster for Manyunya

    Manyunya 2021

    Armenia, 1979. Mountains, sun, beautiful green meadows and a sense of celebration. After a funny episode at school, the girls Narine and Manyunya become best friends. Narine was very afraid of strict granny Manyuni, but during their acquaintance it turned out that Ba bakes cookies melting in her mouth and a delicious apple pie. There are a lot of adventures waiting for the fidget girls.

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  • Poster for Natal Chart

    Natal Chart 2023

    In which the hosts analyze the guest’s natal chart. Olesya very much believes in this, but Dima very much doubts it. Who is right is up to the guest to decide.

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  • Poster for Big Game

    Big Game 2018

    There is a year left until the World Cup. After another loss to the national team, the fans decide to choose a new coach from among their own. And now the humble chef Dima faces the most difficult task: not only to assemble a team of the best players and work out winning schemes, but also to reach the World Cup playoffs for the first time in the history of Russian football. And if legendary football players can help him in this, then everyone is ready to put sticks in the wheels, starting from sports officials and ending with his subordinates who do not take self-taught seriously.

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