From year to year, Russian series are becoming more and more high-quality, both in the plot and in the acting, cinematography and directorial work. The explanation for this is simple - you need to be pulled up to the level of new products from foreign TV shows, the viewer now goes picky and spoiled by good movies.
We present to you the best Russian TV series of 2019 that have already been released, selected according to the audience rating on Kinopoisk.
10. Rostov (2019 - ...)
Movie Search Rating: 6.2 out of 10
IMDB Rating: not
Genre: history, detective
Producer: Pavel Drozdov
Music: Sergey Dudakov
Series Duration: 45 minutes
Could the well-known recidivist thief Ivan Kozyrev at the beginning of his criminal career have thought that someday he would head the criminal investigation department in the Don capital? But, as they say, man assumes, but God disposes. And the "Trump", which took over Soviet power, returns to his native Rostov to clean the city of bandits.
The hero of one of the best Russian TV shows in 2019 has a real prototype. They were served by Stanislav Neut, nicknamed Kosoy, the first Don detective under the Bolsheviks. During the liquidation of the gang, Neuto shot an employee of the Cheka "undercover". For what he was detained by the KGB, and the further fate of Kosoy is unknown.
9. Homeland (2015 - present)
Movie Search Rating: 6.3 out of 10
IMDB Rating: 4.2 out of 10
Genre: thriller, detective, drama
Producer: Pavel Lungin, Tamash Tot
Music: Alexey Aigi
Series Duration: 45 minutes
At the epicenter of this dark and tough story is Major Alexei Bragin, who has been held captive by terrorists for many years. Now he is a hero, but Anna Zimina, an employee of the counter-terrorism center, suspects that Bragin was recruited by terrorists.
One of the most watched Russian TV shows owes its popularity to the excellent cast (Vladimir Mashkov, Sergey Makovetsky, Victoria Isakova, Maria Mironova). As for the plot, this is tracing paper from the American series of the same name, so if you watched it, you know how events will unfold.
8. Dead Lake (2018 - present)
Movie Search Rating: 6.4 out of 10
IMDB Rating: 6.3 out of 10
Genre: thriller, crime, detective
Producer: Roman Prygunov
Music: Pavel Dodonov
Series Duration: 48 minutes
When the daughter of the omnipotent owner of the uranium mines, Yuri Kobrin, is found dead, the inconsolable father writes out from Moscow the best investigator Maxim Pokrovsky.
Shamanistic rituals, secrets of the Kobrin family, corporate intrigues, bandits, rappers and golden youth - these are not all the components of a truly snake ball that Pokrovsky will have to unravel.
7. Tolya-robot (2019)
Movie Search Rating: 6.5 out of 10
IMDB Rating: not
Genre: comedy, drama
Producer: Alexey Nuzhny
Music: Maxim Fadeev
Series Duration: 48 minutes
The optimism, enterprise and activity of a provincial youth without arms and legs can be envied by many perfectly healthy viewers. Having acquired bionic prostheses, Tolya is ready to challenge the local housing and communal services mafia so that his beloved girl does not leave for Moscow.
The life-affirming and cheerful Cheerleader Tolya-Robot perfectly demonstrates that disability and dilapidated entrances are terrible troubles, but fixable. The main thing is that there should be no devastation in the head.
6. Retribution (2018 – present)
Movie Search Rating: 6.9 out of 10
IMDB Rating: not
Genre: action drama
Producer: Anton Bormatov
Music: Nikolay Anokhin, Sergey Belyaev
Series Duration: 45 minutes
For some people, such as the main character of Retribution, the war does not end in “hot spots”. And after returning from Syria to his hometown, a former GRU commando gets into another battle.
Only the opponents in front of him are not militants, but ministers of the Golden Calf, criminal oligarchs who are ready for the sake of money to expose their wife and children to blow.
5. Foundling (2018 - present)
Movie Search Rating: 6.9 out of 10
IMDB Rating: not
Genre: detective
Producer: Anton Bormatov
Music: Nikolay Anokhin, Sergey Belyaev
Series Duration: 45 minutes
The action of this movie takes place in Leningrad, during the time of the NEP. In the hands of a small felon nicknamed the Foundling, documents of a well-known detective who recently became the head of the UGRO accidentally turn out to be.
At first, the Foundling is not happy with his new role, but when he finds out that there is a warehouse of expensive things in the city, it is quite easy to get into it with the police officer’s “crust”, he plans a bold robbery.
4. Cipher (2018 - present)
Movie Search Rating: 7.0 out of 10
IMDB Rating: not
Genre: detective
Producer: Vera Storozheva
Music: Yuri Potenko
Series Duration: 45 minutes
The protagonists in this espionage drama are four women, former intelligence agents who help decipher German reports. Due to the killing of an officer who owns air defense systems, one of them was under suspicion. And now, together with her friends, she must prove her innocence, and at the same time find the true criminal.
If you are a fan of the Soviet past (and the series takes place in 1956) and retro-style detectives, then you will certainly appreciate the “Cipher”.
3. Better than people (2018 – present)
Movie Search Rating: 7.0 out of 10
IMDB Rating: 7.1 out of 10
Genre: fiction, drama
Producer: Andrey Dzhunkovsky
Music: is unknown
Series Duration: 53 minutes
This series plays on people's fears of perfect non-people - androids. They can be ideal guards, nannies and drivers, help people in all their affairs. But can such creatures be trusted? And do they know feelings of devotion and love? The creators of the series are trying to answer these questions with the help of the main character - a superbot named Arisa (Paulina Andreeva).
The fact that “Better Than People” is a successful series is evidenced not only by a high audience rating, but also by the fact that Netflix acquired the rights to show it. The series will receive dubbing in 25 languages.
2. The Sultan of my heart (2018 - present)
Movie Search Rating: 7.3 out of 10
IMDB Rating: 6.3 out of 10
Genre: history, melodrama
Producer: Kerem Chakiroglu
Music: Ugur Isik
Series Duration: 45 minutes
From the entire list of series that can be watched in 2019, “The Sultan of My Heart” is perhaps the most beautiful in terms of scenery and costumes. And also the most melodic.
This beautiful oriental tale of love of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmoud II and the Russian girl Anna, who, thanks to her intellect and knowledge, became a teacher of the children of the Sultan.
Anna, and therefore the audience, is waiting for palace intrigues, severe Turkish men and beautiful harem inhabitants. And also funny situations, and a spy story that gives the “peppercorn” to the main love line.
It is curious that the "Sultan of my heart" is a joint Russian-Turkish project. And the filming process was in Turkish. Therefore, the leading role. Alexandra Nikiforova had to learn it in just two months.
1. The law of the stone jungle (2015-present)
Movie Search Rating: 7.3 out of 10
IMDB Rating: 7.1 out of 10
Genre: thriller crime
Producer: Igor Chomsky, Ivan Burlakov and others.
Music: Alexander Sokolov
Series Duration: 45 minutes
What could be easier for four young and strong guys than driving a car from point A to point B? And it doesn’t matter that inside is a stolen cargo, because easy money looms ahead.
However, once embarking on the criminal path, turning off it is very difficult. And the burden of his own mistakes begins to put pressure on young heroes more and more.
The creators of the series so far have not managed to cross the fine line between irony and parody and delight the audience with a comprehensive disclosure of the characters' characters, life situations, good humor, and drama where appropriate.
