Four women are murdered, each knifed and, despite torn garments, remain virtuous. As famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realise that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set a trap.
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Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...
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A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.
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Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.
Based on the stories of A.P. Chekhov.
A film about the chairwoman of the city executive committee, Maria Sergeyevna Poroshina, who sees her happiness in serving the people.
Based on the stories by A.I. Kuprin.
Based on the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
Mathematics teacher Ivan Lunev proposes a new method of teaching children. This innovation has yielded brilliant results. However, there are also those who oppose him...
A play based on the final work of Alexander Ostrovsky, staged by the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Russia’s most renowned playwright, Alexander Ostrovsky, wrote his last play while seriously ill. What final message did he hope to leave behind? Find out in this televised version of the production by the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, directed by Alexander Dunaev. Kseniya Vasilievna returns to Moscow to save her husband, accused of embezzlement at a private bank. But he is more interested in pleasures and sensual distractions. Meanwhile, her sister’s greedy suitor plots to gain their mother’s fortune entirely for himself. Kseniya’s moral purity and selflessness set her apart as a woman not of this world.
Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
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Mathematics teacher Ivan Lunev proposes a new method of teaching children. This innovation has yielded brilliant results. However, there are also those who oppose him...
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This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches). In this version the entire plot of the story Bruce-Partington Drawings was deleted.
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During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
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Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
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While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
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Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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While Aurora "Roe" Teagarden searches for her piece of the American dream, she decides to test the waters of the family business - real estate sales. Only thing is there's a dead body in the first house she shows. When a second body shows up in another home, Roe realizes there's more to real estate than she thought.
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A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery haunting her neighborhood. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues—including a skull, its missing skeleton and a suspicious group of neighbors—and solve the murder before she becomes the unlikely killer’s next victim.
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Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.
A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.
Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical of Russian cinema. And Kruzheva is a good example of that as he illustrates the friendly rivalries between the youths on village in both a very rough and clowning way.
At the amateur talent show the boy, accompanying himself on the accordion, sings a song about Moscow... The plot of the movie is based on the story of the director of the school about how this accordion, once belonging to a cadre worker who died during a demonstration in 1905, has been in many hands before it got to the guys.
In a Kazakh village at the beginning of Soviet power, a wealthy kulak (landowner) voluntarily denounces his opposition to the new regime and hands over his large home to be a new school for the children of the villagers. But three people in the village have difficulty believing that their class enemy is now their friend.
The inhabitants of Chukotka are shown to be cruelly exploited before the revolution. Once Chukotka is visited by the representative of the Kamchatka Revolutionary Committee, Los, and the ethnographer Zhukov. The news of the arrival of the Russians immediately disperses along the coast. Contrary to the pressure of the American Thomson and the local "oligarch" Alitet in Chukotka, fair trade laws are established, as a result of which the Americans and Alitet leave Chukotka.
The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality.
The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
Larisa Ogudalova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry
The forester, at the cost of becoming a thorn in the eyes of everyone, protects his native nature and the cradle:
In May 1808, the fortress, renamed Sveaborg, surrendered to Russian troops and, together with the fleet and fortifications, went to the Russian Empire.
An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.
Peace and prosperity reign in the family of engineer Sergei Shubin. But meeting with Marina changes everything. It seems to Sergei that true love has come to him, and he decides to start a new family. Time passes, but neither Sergei nor Marina feel happy...
