Best Russian thriller series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch thriller shows from Russia, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Lapsy 2018
Two epidemiologists are dispatched to a far-flung corner of Russia where a strange infection has suddenly killed several people. When they arrive, they discover a reality that is much more unusual than what they had imagined. An astonishing and metaphorical fantasy from Russia.
55Grach (Posrednik) 2013
Detective Sergey Grachev 'Grach" gets an ability to see and talk to dead people after being wounded to his head.
26Operation 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.
10Rebellious 2017
1970s. THE USSR. 16-year-old Sonya living, as a large part of the Soviet youth, and believing in ideals and a bright future, suddenly faces the dark side of life. She falls in love with a young man named Sergei, who introduces her to a different law, not the Soviet one, but the one of thieves. Thieves' law makes Sergei betray their love with Sonya. This law takes away Sonya’s father, ruins her mother, her brother... Sonya herself miraculously remains alive after Sergei buries her alive in a cemetery. Sonya was saved, but now she is driven by an indomitable desire to exterminate this damned thieving law. And she begins with Sergei ...
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