Russian Sci-Fi & Fantasy TV Shows

Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.

Russian scientists have created an android policeman. Perfect in all respects, Captain Anna Nikolaevna Korolkevich goes to serve in a provincial city to see real life and become a human. Colleagues think that Anna Nikolaevna is the daughter of the deputy minister, and nothing portends trouble until humanization goes too far.

The year is 1988. A mysterious object is falling in the vicinity of a small Soviet town located in the area of a powerful missile defense system radar. The most ordinary sixth graders Lech, Tolya and Sema go in search of a meteorite in anticipation of fame and fame. While wandering through the forest, Lech gets lost. His search in the forest by police forces starts a chain of events that lead to the contact of one of the locals with something very strange.

The year is 2140. Society has undergone profound change and is now run as a matriarchy, thus removing its reliance on men. Two Hills is one of the communities founded by this new order. It is a place of perfection, where there is harmony rather than conflict, science and reason prevail and the environment is protected and respected. One of its inhabitants is the history teacher, Rada. On her birthday she takes her students on a guided tour of a special area outside of Two Hills, a place where the so-called “primates” live. The "primates" are men (and a handful of women) who have chosen to live beyond female control. However, the tranquillity of Rada’s perfectly arranged female-centric world comes under threat when she meets the young "primate", Hera. It’s a classic girl-meets-boy story, in a world where the rules have fundamentally changed.

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.

Grandpa Slava is the oldest of the Midland vampire family. They live quietly. They live by the law. They live the unremarkable life of an ordinary Russian family and they never kill humans – ever. Although, of course, everyone knows they drink blood. And when some lifeless corpses are found in a birch grove near Smolensk... their peaceful life falls under threat.

A merciless ghost-killer, capable of possessing his victims, is haunting the city. While everyone around him remains skeptical of the mysticism, ghost hunters take up the case: former investigator Maxim, his strange mute partner, and a 14-year-old teenager named Zhenya, who accidentally joins them.

After meeting a vampire, the Shilov brothers discover superpowers in themselves. Sergey and Lyokha learn that in the city building of the research institute there is a portal between the worlds of people and evil spirits, which periodically drop in to visit. Werewolves, witches, mermaids and other "tourists" from the dark world are looked after by employees of the secret organization "Border of Worlds"

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.

Kirill Andreyev lives in Moscow with his sister and works for a tabloid newspaper "Secret Truth". His life changes one day when a colleague gifts him a magic amulet. The amulet transports Kirill to Altai mountains where folklore and magic are real.

One of the main states of Curtiana is Talig, whose throne was seized by the Ollar dynasty. The legitimate heir takes refuge in the city-state of Agaris, where the head of the local church rules. He dreams of overthrowing the Ollars one day and reclaiming the throne that rightfully belongs to him.

Maxim and Valentina work in the Department for the Distribution of Souls — 24 hours before the death of a person, they must determine where he will go — to hell or heaven. And since both are guaranteed paradise under an employment contract, Maxim is trying to earn extra money and sell a place in paradise to oligarchs, and Valentina dreams of returning her husband from hell.

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The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.

Six stories about life in Russia in the near future and the problems of human interaction with advanced technologies: a girl decides to have a serious conversation with her boyfriend, but encounters his clones; a literature teacher finds an unusual way to interest students in Russian classics; Vsevolod pretends to be a domestic robot; a guy makes confusion in the relationship of his girlfriend's digitized parents; a lawyer is forced to defend the accusedabout the murder of an artificial intelligence coffee machine; after losing his job, a former courier hunts for food delivery robots.

Lyokha, a former police sniper with post-traumatic stress disorder, in the midst of an alcoholic binge learns about the fatal illness of his sister Katya. Katya does not want her daughter to be sent to an orphanage after death, and asks Lyokha to take up her head so that he becomes a guardian for an eight-year-old girl. Lyokha has already lost many close people in his life, so he does everything to help his sister: he picks up old connections and gets a job at the police station. The area turns out to be difficult. The criminals that Lyokha must catch are fairy-tale characters: the Serpent Gorynych, Baba Yaga and other evil spirits. And if the former sniper does not have problems with the capture of villains, then attempts to become a good guardian become a real test for Lyokha.

In the life of the editor-in-chief of the glossy magazine Gosha, a shock occurs after meeting a girl named Karina. Once among the victims, the girl comes up with a rather sophisticated revenge plan and goes to the witch. The next morning, Gosha wakes up and discovers that he has become a woman himself.

Farmer Nikolay has long ago settled on Mars with his family. He leads a peaceful life and tends to his robot-aided farmstead until the Head of a large corporation comes to Mars to get rid of the village and launch a new production line.

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Andrey drives a cab, but he’s no ordinary Taxi driver. All his passengers are dead. His job is to deliver them to the Afterlife, but it’s never straightforward. Andrey’s passengers come from all walks of life and each has a story, they can’t reach their destined afterlife until they face-up to and atone for something from their past. But it’s a rare soul who wants to hold a mirror up to their faults, they need a guide, some encouragement, and so they turn to the only other presence in the taxi, Andrey. Andrey himself is an enigma, a taciturn driver who exists only in the present, and a reluctant guide for lost souls. Each time Andrey successfully delivers a lost soul from limbo, a mysterious number on the taxi-meter counts down one by one. And with each soul’s story a little bit more of Andrey’s past is revealed. Are the Passengers the only souls seeking redemption?

A fantasy drama infused with music and horror fables based on the real story of the 'King and Jester', a cult Russian punk-rock band, enormously popular in the 1990-2000s. The show goes along the band's rocky road to success and tells the story of its polarizing-natured frontman Michael Gorshenev and his tragic death in 2013. Tricksters, evil spirits, noblemen, and other characters of the 'King and Jester' song verse make their way into the lives of Gorshenev and his bandmates.

The con artists Marina, Sveta and Olya successfully pose as mediums until they accidentally receive a real gift from a street witch. Now Marina can hear thoughts, Sveta can see the future, and Olya can see the dead. New abilities turn girls' lives into hell, so the friends decide to find someone who will take these "gifts" for themselves. In search of the perfect candidate, the girls meet an insidious sorcerer-tempter.

Two representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization are sent to Earth to find the missing son of the Emperor and help him complete a secret mission. The aliens mimic humans and pose as an ordinary couple, Anton and Marina. In order not to attract too much attention, they try to do all the same things as others: go to work, communicate with friends and colleagues, engage in everyday life. At first, the aliens have a very difficult time. However, they gradually get used to it, and Anton sees more and more advantages in earthly life and does not want to return to his native planet.

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?

Their abilities can give the world a chance - or destroy it. Historical fantasy about the power of love and destruction

A drug company, attempting to create a perfect human race, releases a virus which proves to be deadly. People are dying by the thousands, but eleven strangers, who wake up in a bunker with no memory of how they got there, find themselves responsible for determining the future of all mankind.

The place of action is Russia. The action time is tomorrow. After a global catastrophe, the nature of which our heroes can only guess, most of the population died. On the mountains of weapons left over from civilization, only the young and strong survived. But they paid in full for the passage to the new world: these people lost their memories, their past, they forgot everything about their former lives. But some people are gradually regaining their memory and human consciousness. Our story is about these few who have partially "woken up" and are trying to find their place in a new world. In his previous life, Ghosh is a polymath and an intellectual to the core. Now he is among those who will have to not only regain their memory, but also rediscover themselves as people. They are opposed by those who use their newfound memory and knowledge to bend the world under themselves.

Only tractor driver Igor knows the truth about the three aliens who landed in the village and took on human form. Precinct officer Sergei Petrovich senses something is wrong, but no one believes him. After all, the new ones quickly fit into rural life: Igor met his beloved in the person of Sveta, the teacher Ira met a kindred spirit in the form of Roma, and the daughter of the district policeman Lyuba met the hero Borya. But hiding the truth is becoming more difficult due to strange events around, including beavers who have started talking thanks to an alien substance trapped in the river.

The story is about the adventures of an ordinary schoolboy Petya and his friend Wolf, who connects the world of people with the world of fairy tales. Petya helps the magical heroes solve their magical problems that require a non-standard approach.

An experienced virologist, Anya Markova, gives up her personal and professional life in Moscow and moves to work at a research center in Novosibirsk. She is clearly trying to escape from some personal pain, but in a new place fate throws the heroine another test - an outbreak of an unknown disease is recorded at the site of an illegal dump of a large meat processing plant in a remote village.

In the near future, life on earth is destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Russian military fights off hoards of remaining humans controlled by aliens and work to prevent a successful invasion by an alien force set on conquering the plant.

Moscow, year 1982. Scientist Matvey Pyotrovsky creates a time machine and conducts a scientific experiment, which divides the apartment in two parts. It's first part is left in the 80-s with the professor, while the second one is transported to year 2020 to a modern family: businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and daughter Kristina. This kind of coliving creates a lot of trouble for everybody, since layering of two times means each of the families has lost access to the other part of the apartment. But problems don't end there: inventor's grandson Pavel, after waiting for 38 years, tries to prevent one tragic incident.

Terminally ill surgeon Kirill finds a job in a clinic where doctors struggle with supernatural phenomena. The only way to survive is to show his best side and convince the new management that the hospital needs him. Kirill plunges into the intricacies of the relationships of people, witches and demons, increasingly doubting that he is able to correctly determine who exactly represents good and who is evil here. The diagnosis is imperfect, and the enemy may be someone who initially did not seem to them. To avoid such mistakes, Kirill and his colleagues will have to spend a lot of time studying the circumstances of patients' illnesses.

The series takes place in a small Russian town where a deadly virus appears. Most of the inhabitants die, only a few people remain alive, who are affected by sleeping sickness: people cannot wake up on their own, and after two hours of sleep they fall into a coma.

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The Russian remake of the American sitcom '3rd Rock From The Sun'

For the last three years police Lieutenant Mikhail Solovyev has been chasing a maniac. The capital is petrified by this scourge of society who is leaving dead bodies in his wake. At the moment of his capture and arrest, a maniac crashes into Mikhail, causing the lieutenant`s death...Soloviev comes back to life after the accident and discovers that he has moved back in time and ended up in 1979 in his father`s body. Understanding nothing about this acci- dent, the lieutenant is trying to adapt to his new life. Coincidently, he works as a soviet police officer at the same time he is discover- ing his chances to get back...

Fyodor is an ordinary guy who discovers a mysterious gift. He is being followed by people in desperate need to find closure from their past. One little inconvenience- they are ghosts. And the only way to get rid of them is for Fyodor to help them find what is holding them off on Earth and help them make a final departure. Things get even more complicated when Fyodor's own father appears on his doorstep. He was only nineteen when he died, and his closure is the fact that he left behind a son that he didn't really get to know.

Former military pilot Shaposhnikov is investigating the case of the disappearance of a passenger plane in 1998. The case unexpectedly develops in the present, when one of the passengers of the disappeared flight gets through to his family. Anna, a journalist, is involved in the case, who knows this mysterious story firsthand.

A small northern town with a secret military facility nearby. There is an ordinary school, hospital and shop here, but any visitor will feel something strange. A girl named Alice lives in this city. She has problems with her mother and at school, and she also has terrible dreams that predict the future. Alice dreams of running away from home with her only friend. But is it possible to get out of a city that has never let anyone go?