Russian movies about gangs

List of the best Russian films about gangs according to the audience: A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries, Baron, The Last Knight, Alien Girl, Close Enemy, The Silver Skates, Outlaw, Mute Witness, Attraction, Pain Threshold.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:21

Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryRussia, Uzbekistan

One of the most pressing issues of our day - the fight against drugs based disorders and logical solution. Uzbek film between the peoples of the world is a global problem, a broader and deeper look sharp sense of his goals in front of him

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryRussia
Duration02:18

ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. in this parallel universe where characters of russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of the daily life, and arguments are settled with the help of sword ght. Unexpectedly, ivan nds himself in the middle of the battle between the good and evil. He has to nd out why everyone thinks that he should play the main role in the occurring events...

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:49

1990s. Gangster Kiev. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "The Stranger." As the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, her testimony could damage some important people.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:25

Young woman decides to revenge her husband killers.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryRussia

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia

A high school student and a young criminal are trying to get reciprocity from the most popular guy in the school. The general and the dancer in 1985 put their careers and life on the line to be together.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, crime
CountryRussia, Germany
Duration01:35

Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrefantastic, action
CountryRussia
Duration02:09

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryRussia

Four young Muscovites - two boys and two girls - travel to the Altai for a rafting trip on a mountain river. Cut off from civilization, face to face with nature at its wildest our heroes are not able to relax but instead are forced to fight for survival. They ask the help of a group of apparent 'sportsmen-boaters' whom they encounter on the river. These agree, but then our heroes realize that they have been taken hostage by criminals.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration01:31

Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.

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Genredrama
CountryRussia

Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.

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Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:43

Romantic stories of three friends...

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryRussia

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:35

They live in the steppe. A father and a daughter. Nothing may disturb the eternal order. Tomorrow always comes. And every morning the father goes away to work. And she stays alone. To wait for her father. And to feel. Two men are in love with her. She loves everyone. Her love cannot be divided. One day, the decision comes by itself. It comes from where the sun lives.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:02

A successful sculptor and life-loving womanizer Max has never had a serious relationship in his life, until... his right hand gets possessed by the spirit of a young woman who hates his guts. While trying to get out of this predicament, the two strikingly different people are forced to share a body and a life.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia

Hoping to change her life, Marina, a small town girl, embarks on a journey to a life coaching event. But an unexpected delay at a St. Petersburg airport sends her on a 24 hour comedic spree, which may ultimately provide her with the key to her happiness.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryRussia, Sweden
Duration01:47

A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.

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Genrecomedy, family, sport
CountryRussia

Kirill is nearing forty, and he has always managed to avoid any kind of obligations in life. He has never been married, he has no children, he had once won the European championship of mixed wrestling but he is not interested in victory anymore, only going to the ring to earn money. Today is no different from yesterday; disposable dishes at home, disposable women, never a thought about the future. One morning, however, Kirill meets in his kitchen a five-year-old Victoria, daughter of one of his one-night stands. The girl tells him that he is now her father and she will live with him because her mother left her with him. Finding out who the girl is, where she is from and whether she is his daughter, Kirill gradually starts taking care of the girl, feeling responsible to her and finally becomes a grown-up himself - to fight and win.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryRussia
Duration02:15

Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryRussia
Duration02:18

An aircraft designer becomes a ghost after a sudden death. Now he needs to engage a help of seven-grader in order to finish all his unaccomplished tasks.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Russia
Duration01:51

Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him down in order to kill him. But the intriguing father and his "reactionary" lifstyle soon fascinates Andrei which leads to a clash with his gang.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrefantastic, action
CountryRussia
Duration02:15

A twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.

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Genremelodrama, drama
CountryRussia

Masha is determined to jump off the roof, she feels unloved and betrayed. Her last wish is to listen to her favorite song. On this day, the cynical radio DJ Alex is working in the studio. A short call on the radio turns into a long conversation, and it looks like only Alex will be able to save the unfortunate girl before the song ends.

Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
CountryRussia

The popular rapper comes on tour in St. Petersburg. His fans adore and wait, he is at the peak of fame, he is confident in himself. Together with the star, his manager, musicians and a girl come. Suddenly an attempt is made on a musician. He miraculously manages to escape death, but his manager decides to hire a security guard. It turns out that the guard is ... a girl. She is a professional in her field, but in the brutal world of rap, a woman has a difficult time.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

The insecure girl Sasha is lying to her family that she is dating handsome Cyril, although he is just her running coach, with whom she is afraid to even speak. Sister Pasha's husband knows the truth, but he has enough of his own problems - he and his wife have not had sex for a year. Having signed up for running therapy together, Sasha and Pasha decide that they can get away from problems together.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama, military, history
CountryRussia
Duration01:55

October 1941. Thousands of fascists troops are advancing on Kalinin to capture the city and therefore open a direct route to Moscow. There are two thousand people able to defend the city and they are without tanks or artillery. The only hope of holding the enemy off is in the fifth infantry division convoy, who are about to pass through Kalinin station. But saboteurs intend to do everything to keep this from happening. The head of the Kalinin garrison, Major Sysoyev, struggles to keep order and calm in the city, and himself falls under suspicion of involvement with the subversive enemy group.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:41

Catholic nun travels to another country and make spirit revolution.

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Genredocumentary, history
CountryRussia

The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics, animation shows that the business tradition in the region was not interrupted. She manifests herself in different ways in different eras. A key trick used by different types of screen technologies is animation. Monuments to great people, buildings, industrial structures, landscapes of the Volga and Oka, film and photo chronicles are transformed, change in time and space, acquire a different dimension in order to somehow interact with the present, enter into a dialogue with descendants.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:34

When three 18-year-old students at a prestigious University - Mika, Kit, and Swift - dig up dirt on their crazy college principal, the hunt for the would-be blackmailers begins. Fleeing from their pursuers, the three amigos find themselves on the women's snowboarding team bus. They have no choice but to put on the team's brightly colored jackets and blend in with the crowd of snowboarding girls. But the clothes alone won't cut it: as diehard practitioners of extreme sports, they are not about to miss their chance to show off their snowboarding skills. The National Women's Snowboarding Team's trainer Svetlana Nikolayevna spots the new talent and invites the "girls" to join the team for the trials in Sochi. The friends jump at the chance of free rides on Olympic-grade tracks and once and for all evading the college principal's goons.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:33

Andrey lives with his sick mother, suffering serious disease, schizophrenia. Close relatives are tired of dealing with the disease: his father cut loose from his family long time ago, now he has another family; his sister also left home and for several years no one has heard from her. Only Andrey does not give up - day after day he fosters his sick mother, saves money and compiles documents to take her to Germany for treatment. But the fate is merciless to the main character - his mom dies the day before the departure - Andrey's world turned upside down - He hits the road to talk to his sister, to look into his father's eyes, to understand himself... "The Son" is a parable, a dream. The film is based upon a simple story about complicated relationships between a son and his parents and, what is most important, with himself. The relationships that end in tragic outcome.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:19

This film presents a contemporary view on modern Russian upper-class youth. The film genre is a social drama. The main five characters of the movie are financially secured and socially successful - producing, managing and hosting a popular TV show. They are beautiful, happy and satisfied with their lives. They are good friends to each other and the others. The glass world they surrounded themselves by is full of love and smiles... Until one day something happens to the leading character and suddenly they all face the real world. The glass shatters. Their lives are changed forever. They will never be the same

Markimdb: 4.9
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:55

Sasha is a young girl living in a block flat with her family in Moscow. Once she falls in love with Antonin, a bohemian artist and hard drinker. Their short love affair is pulling her down, to the bottom of her subconscious. Overwhelmed with beautiful and frightening visions, she starts to paint - violently, until she can stand on her feet.

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Genredrama
CountryRussia, Netherlands, Czech Republic

Writer and expatriate Marina receives an invitation to meet graduates. Resigned to the nostalgic impulse, she flies from Europe to Novustoinovsk - a district city in the middle of the country, which has long ceased to exist. There, in the provincial hinterland of the past, her memories and old friends live, all of them ephemeral as television programs from another life. This is a life story about fate of ordinary people, about quarrels, spiritual growth and decline, about hope and changeable memory.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryRussia, Republic of Ireland
Duration02:02

The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:26

A swindler on the lam uses his impersonating skills to pose as a grandmother in a nursing home, where his disguise complicates his love life.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genredrama
CountryRussia

With her the husband and her mother Katya lives in a small provincial town and works at the local factory. The mother suddenly falls ill and decides to transfer her property to her son, Katya’s brother. Katya feels this decision to be unjust, and begins to fight for her inheritance. In pursuit of imaginary material well-being Katya decides on a most desperate act.

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Genredocumentary
CountryRussia, Estonia
Duration02:42

An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”, later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns and hotel beds, protest rallies and office routine, train compartments and courtrooms, night walks and police vans – you have never seen any politician so close. This is a story how a journalist assignment turns into a genuine friendship.

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Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryRussia

One of the deputies of a certain city, after the curse of the deprived old woman, becomes physiologically incapable of taking bribes.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama
CountryRussia

A young couple Andrei and Nadya get lost in a deep Siberian forest. It’s where they start their thorny way of fighting inner fears and working on the mistakes they made in the past. The forest is a metaphor of life where this couple has gone astray. Or maybe it’s the garden of Eden to which the persecuted have finally found their way back.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

Tolya Sidorov is a simple worker of early retirement age from some remote place in Russia. Unexpectedly he discovers his artistic talent and becomes a sensation in the world of modern art. And all this because the creation of his masterpieces happens at a very intimate moment... The fame of the unusual artist spreads across the Internet, and even experts from Moscow come to visit an exhibition of Anatoly’s urinary painting. And like in the Russian fairy tale, the hero is miraculously showered with recognition and money. But Tolya prefers to stay incognito, trying to understand whether his work is real art. And the men from the factory would laugh at him if they found out.

Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama
CountryRussia

A young man arrives in a village on the White Sea. He comes in search of a girl who ran away from the city without saying goodbye. An old man from among the locals offers to show him the way. Neither the young man nor the old imagine what trials await them along the way.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genremelodrama, crime, sport
CountryRussia
Duration02:12

Matvey: a simple guy from a small province. What differentiates him from others are his physical attributes such as his strong legs, powerful lungs and an incredible endurance. He uses these talents to help his team win football matches but also takes advantage of his skills when it comes to small criminal adventures. This worries Dasha, his girlfriend, who tries to endlessly protect Matvey, whilst her friends are hopelessly attempting to persuade her to leave. After all, there are better options out there... Especially Vadim. Suddenly, Matvey receives an incredible offer: to go audition for a Premier League football club in Moscow. Not wanting to leave Dasha behind, he realizes he needs to obtain money for them to travel together.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryRussia

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:26

Рафшан и Джумжуд, гастарбайтеры из Нубарашена, нелегально приезжают в Москву, где бригадир Леонид получил у одного олигарха заказ на супердорогой ремонт. Потеряв в столице «нацайника», Рафшан и Джумжуд пытаются найти и спасти его, сея повсюду разрушения и хаос. Но в самой безнадёжной ситуации судьба поворачивается к гастарбайтерам лицом — Рафшан и Джумжуд узнают страшную тайну, которая изменит всё…

Markimdb: 3
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:36

The remake of the soviet classic with a modern setting. Troshkin, a children's party entertainer, uncannily resembles the notorious criminal "Smilik". After the thief steals a valuable artifact, Troshkin is forced to act as his dead ringer in order to restore his reputation and good name.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:53

A very busy Moscow day can drive anyone crazy...

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreadventure, family
CountryRussia
Duration01:56

A continuation of the adventures of Mishka, Dimka and Lenka - this time in a summer camp.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:23

Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, family
CountryRussia
Duration02:40

A whole Bobrov family suddenly become superheroes...




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