20 best movies like Soderzanki (2019)

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Markimdb: 4.1
Genredrama
CountryRussia

The modern parable of two brothers, overcoming a complex spiritual path towards each other, unfolds in the center of modern Moscow. Valera Romeev is a young artist who is forced to work as a street portrait painter. Having spent a serene childhood in a mining town in Eastern Ukraine, Valera struggles to find herself in a cruel megalopolis. Hoping for support, Romeev is looking for his elder brother Vadim, a successful businessman who left his father’s house for a long time and lost contact with his family. Strong, independent Vadim, refuses his younger brother to help. Cornered by circumstances, spurred on by jealousy and annoyance, Valery takes a desperate step ...

Markimdb: 4.9
Genredrama, detective
CountryRussia
Duration01:14

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:31

Katya, a young girl from a good family, a student of philology is awarded a grant to study archives in Paris but instead of heading to Paris she travels to the Arab Emirates to start international modeling career…

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:03

A famous movies director tries to understand why his life started to change so drastically.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryRussia, Georgia

In the regional centre Kuznetsky the mayor has been killed in his office. The murderer is Dimur Kavsadze, in charge of commercial construction work for the city administration. A squall of public concern beleaguers the city. Alexander Danilin is an undercover curator, an intermediary between the business and the authorities; he tries to eliminate trouble and return life to normal. The cause of the tragedy was a construction project, which wrapped itself around Kuznetsky like a tumour, and which was a source of profit for the authorities and the local builders. The construction “devours” free land, the souls of people and even what seems beyond the law of profit: the family. Neither the death of people, nor common sense can stop the construction…

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
Duration02:21

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Russia, Ukraine
Duration01:27

After taking a wrong turn in their car, a young gay Russian couple witnesses what they believe is a vicious gay bashing; their quandary over what to do about it propels them into ever more dangerous territory. For Anton, the burden of what they may have witnessed outweighs Vlad's fear of probing too deeply into the incident. When the police prove indifferent, Anton talks his skeptical lover into launching their own amateur investigation into the incident. Their risky search for the truth has unexpected - and grim - consequences in this suspenseful drama that comments on the ongoing mistreatment of LGBT people in Russia.

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Genredrama, adventure, detective
CountryRussia

April 1958. Maria Krapivina, a graduate of the law faculty of Leningrad University, Department of criminal procedure and criminalistics, is assigned to the UGRO of the Central district police Department. Just a girl, an excellent student, the daughter of intelligent parents falls into a team consisting of rough and experienced operatives who have passed the war. On the first day, Masha wants to quit. But she gets her hands on information about a traitor in the Department associated with a large and audacious gang. Masha decides that it is her duty to stay and uncover the "mole". And also to prove that it is worth something. Everyone falls under suspicion, including the head of the Opera Department of the Swedes ,the "uncouth lout", with whom Masha unexpectedly falls in love, and every day more and more..

Markimdb: 3.2
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:45

This story is based on numerous real-life stories of those who chose to stay unnamed. A young provincial girl full of vitality, who is dancing to “My Boy,” doesn’t even suspect that soon, when she goes to conquer the capital, she will meet a man, and that this meeting will put an abrupt end to her dreams. The heroine will turn into “that woman,” the mistress. The one who is being kept. She will have to walk the way. She will forget her bright hopes and lose herself completely for the sake of wealth. Will she nd the strength to escape the never-ending awaiting, emptiness and humiliation? Is she still capable of this step after so many years of being “kept”?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountrySpain, Mexico

Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:00

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration02:14

The 1990s. Empty shelves in the shops, an economic abyss and criminal dramas that unfold literally at every corner. The young leader of a criminal gang Anton Bykov, with the nickname “Bull”, must make money in whatever way to provide for his family. After a local shootout, Anton ends up in the police station, from where he is released at the intervention of Moscow’s crime lords. In exchange, the latter asks Anton for a small, but dangerous service

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Genredrama
CountryRussia

Sveta Vasilkova - my mother's "Firefly" - moves from a tiny village to the city to study at an elite school. The appearance of a strange newcomer in a red cap, who seems too smiling and naive, immediately changes the usual life of the class. The future elite of society is forced to look at themselves from the outside and find not the best features. Not everyone is ready for this, and a split occurs in the group. In order to somehow return the guy's attention, the beauty and leader of the company Zhenya decides to reveal the girl's secret.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:37

    A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

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    Genredrama
    CountryRussia

    The Northern Clan of manufacturers in the era of the great matriarchy celebrates the New Year night for several decades — from the last century to the present day. The beloved fiancee of the clan’s main heir dies and chaos comes to the territory of Northern Fields. The fields rot, because the deceased young woman turned out to be an indispensable element that dissapeared so unjustly and early. However, the Northern Clan has an extra hour, the Thirteenth, when they are stronger than death.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryRussia

    She always has a plan. For each his own. For everyone another name. One needs Vera (Faith), another Nadezhda (Hope). And almost all need Liubov (Love). She leaves every one at his own time. She finds a reason. But who knows where deceit ends which people buy only for the sake of money, and when genuine feelings begin? And who knows who she is: just a kept woman in the capital, or an artful swindler, or a talented actress, or a woman who is able only to love? To love them all.

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    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia

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    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    After transferring to a new school, a teenage girl finds her troubled past exposed when she innocently signs up for a singing club.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:45

    A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, China
    Duration02:08

    The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genredrama
    CountryRussia, Israel, United Kingdom

    A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryIndia

    Abhay Singh runs a syndicate of kidnapping greedy grooms, who demand dowry in Bihar’s Madhopur. He then, forcefully marries them off to the girl, calling it a ‘surprise party’. But when his childhood sweetheart Babli re-enters his life, he must choose between love and his long-term ambitions.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:10

    The word "rok" in Russian means both rock music and fate. The film's heroes, who want to conquer the musical Olympus of Moscow, are accompanied by both. This troika is not even a group yet, not a team, and probably not even friends. But that's at the beginning. The further the heroes leave home, the more dangerous their adventures and the people they met on the way become, and the more strongly the children change inside. The film is a journey, a search of the self, where the road to the dream is the greatest, most dangerous and unforgettable adventure in the life of the young provincial musicians.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:50

    By miracle he avoided death and returns to the house where he was born. In the house now lives the love of his life. But the hope for happiness turns sour with a terrible discovery: his beloved is the daughter of his enemy.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    A horrific double murder rocks the lives of two families living side-by-side in isolated rural Scotland. But instead of focusing on the investigation, One of Us explores the fallout for the grieving relatives, and the dark consequences that threaten to shatter their lives.

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    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:00

    В последние годы огромное количество мигрантов приехало в Россию. Рустам и Саня — напарники и работают в «национальном» отделе ГУВД. Каждая серия фильма рассказывает об одном из их расследований. Персонажи криминально-детективных историй — представители разных диаспор: таджики, дагестанцы, вьетнамцы… Авторы показывают, что плохие и хорошие, подлые и благородные люди есть среди всех национальностей. Что бороться надо не с «чужими», не с «этническими преступниками», а с преступностью. С криминалом, не имеющим национальности и мешающем жить и москвичам и тем, кто приезжает в Москву. Рустам — кавказец со связями, Саня — разгильдяй и лютый ксенофоб, которого уже не раз увольняли за пьянки и драки. Расследуя дела, напарники переходят от расистских колкостей к крепкой пацанской дружбе.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    After the accidental death of her rapist, an art student becomes an unlikely vigilante, set out to avenge college girls whose rapists were not charged.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:32

    Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryItaly

    Taurus City, The United States of Europe, 2023. Uly, a disillusioned soldier riddled with amnesia, returns home from a war in the Middle East, knowing only that he must desperately comb the city to find his beloved wife, Penelope. Fate fills this endless night with a series of chance meetings. Whether it be the wealthy Alcyde, the beastly cyclops Popov, Aeo the Gyspy, or Cici the Sorceress, good or evil that they be, each encounter fills in a missing piece of Uly's memory, so that he can finally face his past.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryNorway
    Duration01:32

    A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.

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    Genredrama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:42

    A young man living in a big city visits the countryside and meets a girl living in the forest...

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    Genredrama, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:17

    The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:52

    Based on the '70s UK TV show, The Sweeney is an action-packed British police thriller from the director of Football Factory. Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew aka Plan B) they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.

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    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia

    Ivan Lashin, a young man who lives with his mother in the country and works at home, met director Vitaly Suslin. The young man told the director about his life, they wrote a script together and thus the feature film "Head. Two Ears" was born, in which Ivan played himself as the main character. Russia’s most important festival Kinotavr declared it the best script and the film also received the award of the Russian Film Critics Guild. Now, a few years later, Vitaly and Ivan have made a new film which talks about Ivan’s life after festivals: has he changed, what is he dreaming about?




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