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Katya and Pasha are a Moscow student couple in their early twenties. They don't care about politics or authorities. They aren't really rebellious, they just want to be left alone and have fun. One day they come to a punk concert at a small club, but two rogue policemen stop the show in the middle of it - there are no formal grounds to do that, but the policemen just enjoy their power. Katya tries to reason with one of the officers, but he reacts in a brutal way, and Pasha has to defend her. Katya and Pasha escape and they hope they're safe. But in Russia, you shouldn't mess with the police, and next morning, the young people learn that they are in trouble. Their only way out is to pay the policemen off, and they embark on a mission of getting the cash - borrowing, begging, doing whatever they can. And they only have several hours to come up with the cash.
The world's first documentary about Siberia's punk rock scene in the 1980s. It was a phenomenon of those times that this music existed thousands of miles away from the movement's epicentres in New York and London.
It's 1989, the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Five 17-year-old secondary school graduates go on a camping trip, which comes as a test of their character and emotional maturity on the threshold of adult life.
'Three Comrades' covers 24 hours in the lives of Gleb, Vlad and Gosha, all three in their mid-twenties. After a day of fighting with the aggressive boss and unscrupulous customers, the three young men decide to have a few drinks and unwind. But what was supposed to be an uneventful night out soon enough turns into unexpected and, sometimes, violent adventure.
Masha and Kyril meet in the train. They are distantly familiar: once they were in the same company. They do not immediately tell each other where they are going: everyone has something to hide from a barely familiar person. He participates in illegal battles without rules. She dances a striptease, and because of the conflict with one of the visitors to the strip club she had problems. In the regional center, Masha should meet with a person who, she thinks, can help. But things do not go as expected, and instead of solving the problem, Masha has new ones. But now Kyril is next to her ...
The film is centered on young people who live in a moral vacuum, with no aspirations or goals in life. The main character, 18 year old Valera, was once a promising footballer, playing under the most sought-after number 10. But an injury eliminated his chances of a professional career. After several years at a major football academy, he returned to his home town. While waiting to enter compulsory military service, Valera is dating Sveta, a girl of seemingly no ambition, who works a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier. But their relations are nearly limited to sex. Valera's only friends in the neighborhood are a couple of hoodlums he once went to secondary school with. Hanging out with them, he eventually slips into crime...
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
A black BMW, a symbol of luxury, is racing along the night streets of Moscow in the 90s. Bad luck turns four friends into criminals and they have no way back. Only the black “bimmer” is reliable in this life without rules, taking the friends farther and farther from Moscow, into the crazy and ruthless wilderness of Russian roads… None of them wanted to kill. None of them wanted to die. But they will have to face their destiny in the end.