The 40 most popular russian action & adventure TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Secrecy of the Investigation
2000 · RU
In the center of the plot is a senior investigator named Masha Shvetsova and her male colleagues. The plot is the most vital, but, like in “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” it is seasoned with a fair amount of humor - otherwise, how can the audience (and the heroes) endure countless morgues, identifications and other “cute” charms of the investigative routine?


Suspended Cop
2019 · RU
At the same time, former operational investigator Dmitry Ryzhov, who had served time in prison for abuse of authority, and police captain Arina Gordeeva were arriving in St. Petersburg. Ryzhov got a job in Zhilkomservis in order to earn money, drive his emergency car in his native district and no longer have anything to do with the police. Gordeeva becomes a precinct of the same region. In it, businessman Veniamin Voronov is in charge of everything - he is Venya Voron. Under his "patronage" almost all the hot spots and many enterprises that are covered for a considerable portion by the local district captain Teltsov. Honest and principled Gordeeva refuses to put up with the current state of affairs in the microdistrict and engages in an implacable fight against local crime and corrupt officials. In this, Dmitry Ryzhov helps her. He also does not tolerate injustice, and he also likes Captain Gordeeva. But she is in no hurry to reciprocate .


Streets of Broken Lights
1998 · RU
Russian detectives unwind the ball of the most intricate and cruel crimes. They are consummate professionals, the best cops in town. Even on the most dangerous missions, this quartet never loses their sense of humor. It is it that helps them find the most incredible ways out of any situation. They uphold the law and emerge victorious.


Mukhtar's Return
2004 · RU
No overview available


The Big Game
2020 · RU
Sixteen contestants of a new survival show are taken to the Siberian taiga to compete for the price of one million euros. The rules are simple: no food, personal belongings, electricity, communications and civilization for hundreds of kilometers around. The one remains wins. Soon TV project turns into a deadly game, where LIFE becomes the main prize... What is it? Is it sick TV script? Who is behind this? And who can survive without losing their humanity?


Gangster's Petersburg
2000 · RU
A Russian detective series, based on 8 works of Andrei Konstantinov ("lawyer", "Justice / Attorney-2", "The Thief / Journalist-2", "Writer", "Inventor / Writer-2", "The prisoner "," Cop "," Scavenger ") and four works by other writers.


Sea Devils
2005 · RU
No overview available


Kamenskaya
1999 · RU
Crime has spiraled out of control for law enforcement in Moscow, and Police Major Anastasiya Kamenskaya conducts investigations into criminal activities. Frequently, the crimes she investigates involve or are even linked to influential individuals: politicians, businessmen, heads of major criminal organizations. Adapted from novels of Alexandra Marinina.


Глухарь
2008 · RU
No overview available


Brigada
2002 · RU
A quartet of childhood pals who create a business together find themselves at the core of a powerful Moscow gang in the aftermath of an unplanned murder.


To the Lake
2019 · RU
A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.


Five Minutes of Silence
2017 · RU
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Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
2020 · RU
Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.


Звёзды в Африке
2021 · RU
No overview available


Russians in the City of Angels
2003 · RU
Russians will survive everywhere. And in the desert, and at the bottom of the sea, and in America. They will learn everything and they can teach the Americans a lot ... For example, how to catch criminals. Russian investigator Andrei Somov fell in love with an American dancer and moved with her to America for permanent residence. He wanted to work in the police, but he was not hired. Therefore, he has to wash dishes, look after the sick, clean, wash, walk other people's dogs, cook. But his dream of becoming a detective is coming true: he becomes the best detective in Los Angeles. Each episode of the film has its own plot.


The Island
2016 · RU
Four girls and four guys are planted on an uninhabited tropical island for filming a reality show. Their task is by taking organizers' challengers to fight for the love of the audience: at the end of the winner is waiting for a big cash prize. But after the accident happens on the yacht with the film crew, everything will change radically. Heroes come into play without even realizing that no one is shooting them - they are participants of the show, which is not really there. But they will not know about it right away ... Their life on the island and attempts to return home will lead to a lot of funny adventures and romantic stories.


Survive in …
2023 · RU
Survive Dubai is a massive show where two teams - the celebrity and the people - will face the two opposite worlds of Dubai. On the one hand, they will have all the pleasures of five-star hotels and the attributes of a "luxury" life, on the other hand, a ruthless desert in which everyone is equal and in which their own laws reign. Tests will show which team will face luxury, and which will face heat and sand. Participants will survive in Dubai for the main prize of 10 million rubles. The hosts of the reality show "Survive in Dubai" are Lyaysan Utyasheva and Pavel Volya.


Kitchenblock
2021 · RU
Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?


Монтекристо
2008 · RU
No overview available


Black Raven
2001 · RU
Two women who bear the same name and born of the same father, but do not know each other and do not suspect their kinship. However, their meeting is predetermined...


The Ciphers
2019 · RU
Moscow, 1956. Four women who are tied by the military past: work in the special department of the GRU, 11 years later converge again to conduct investigations and help the investigating authorities in especially complicated cases. With phenomenal analytical skills, Irina, Anna, Sophia and Katerina risk themselves, as well as the well-being of their own families, in order to get on the trail of criminals who threaten the lives of ordinary people and the whole country. Cipher is a Russian television detective based on the British mini-series The Bletchley Circle. The working title of the series is "The Ciphers". The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, Lean-M and the Pobeda Production Association. The premiere of the television series took place on March 11, 2019 on Channel One.


The Last Cop
2015 · RU
No overview available


Killing Power
2000 · RU
No overview available


Ронин
2025 · RU
No overview available


Chornobyl: Exclusion Zone
2014 · RU
5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chornobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.


Island of the Unwanted
2012 · RU
A group of thirteen tourists, including Lisa and Andrew, arrives to an Asian country, but instead of exotic travel they get into ordeal. Shipwrecked, they must survive ona desert island.


Сокровища императора
2024 · RU
No overview available


The Penal Battalion
2004 · RU
Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.


Закон и Порядок. Преступный умысел
2006 · RU
No overview available


Закон и порядок: Отдел оперативных расследований
2006 · RU
No overview available


Глухарь. Продолжение
2009 · RU
No overview available


Sherlock Holmes
2013 · RU
The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».


Горячая точка
2020 · RU
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Следственный комитет
2011 · RU
No overview available


Dinosaur
2018 · RU
The elderly criminal authority Semyon Timofeevich Babushkin, about whose thieving talent legends were made up at the time, has not left prison for the last 35 years, preferring it to freedom, where he has no friends or relatives left.


Пятницкий
2011 · RU
No overview available


Truckers
2001 · RU
At any time of the day, in the heat and in the bitter cold, they travel the roads of our country, doing difficult and sometimes very dangerous work. Truckers, for them, every flight is not only a destination, but also new meetings, unexpected difficulties, unexpected joys, risk and luck, and of course — new stories, true and incredible!


The Red Spy
2020 · RU
After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel and the death of an intelligence agent, a new cunning plan is being developed to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent, Elena Golubovskaya, is appointed to this case. In Crimea, Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet. Her task is to eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the white movement, as well as control the operation to steal gold. Her plans are thwarted by Maximilian Ermler, a local newspaper journalist who turns out to be a British intelligence agent.


Under Military Law
2015 · RU
It is July 1941, and the Nazis are advancing towards Kyiv. A special squad is tasked with investigating major cases by acting both at the frontline and in the city itself, where rising criminals are joining German subversives in infiltrating the city, while a number of Soviet government representatives are happily profiting from other people’s misery.


The Cop
2012 · RU
No overview available
Russian television leans heavily on historical epic and crime serial, often working at a scale and production length uncommon elsewhere.
Action and adventure television has to sustain across seasons what a film delivers in two hours, so the best of it builds serialized stakes around the set pieces. Streaming budgets have narrowed the gap with film considerably.