Category: Movies

“The Western Sky” (Persian: آسمان غرب) is an Iranian aerial war film directed and written by Mohammad Asgari and produced by Habibollah Valinejad. This work is a joint production of the Farabi Cinema Foundation and the Soureh Cinema Organization, with the participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army. It was first unveiled at the […]

Moscow Mission (Chinese: 莫斯科行动; Pinyin: Mòsīkē Xíngdòng) is a 2023 Chinese crime action thriller film directed by Herman Yau and starring Andy Lau, Huang Xuan, and Zhang Hanyu. The movie is based on the real-life “China-Russia Train Robbery” that occurred in 1993, when a group of Chinese criminals robbed passengers on the Beijing-Moscow international train […]

Aleksei German Jr.’s 2023 Russian war drama, “Воздух” (literally “Air”), offers a poignant and visually striking portrayal of Soviet female fighter pilots during World War II. Set amidst the battles of the Leningrad Front in the spring of 1942, the film follows a group of young women, fresh from training, as they are thrust into […]

Empty Nets (Persian: تورهای خالی), a 2023 Iranian film directed by Behrooz Karamizade, is a subtle and profound drama that explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the conflict between personal aspirations and social reality. The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it was well received for its narrative sensitivity and poetic […]

“Хитровка. Знак четырёх” is a 2023 Russian crime film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, which combines elements of Arthur Conan Doyle’s literature with the historical realities of Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century. Inspired by the novel The Sign of the Four and the writings of journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky, the film brings to the […]

流浪地球2 is a Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, the sequel to the 2019 film ”The Wandering Earth”. The screenplay was written by Gong Ge’er with Frant Gwo. The main actors are Andy Lau, Wu Jing and Li Xuejian. The film takes place before the events of the first film and focuses on […]

Born from the creative vision of director Vasilisa Kuzmina, Nika offers an unvarnished glimpse into the final years of Soviet child‑poetess Nika Turbina, portrayed by Elizaveta Yankovskaya. Filmed in atmospheric Moscow and Sochi, the movie faithfully evokes late‑’90s Russia through detailed production design—from cassette tapes and analogue TVs to the era’s first McDonald’s—capturing both nostalgia […]

Карамора is a Russian alternative history thriller television series created by director Danila Kozlovsky. It premiered on January 20, 2022 on the video streaming service Start. The film takes place in an alternate history world in pre-revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

悬崖之上 | In the 1930s, four Chinese communist spies, Chuilang (Zhu Yawen), Lan (Liu Haocun), Zhang (Zhang Yi), and Yu (Quin Hailu) infiltrate Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Japanese Empire in northeastern China. The Japanese had bombed a camp in Manchukuo to eliminate any trace of its existence. The four spies’ mission is to […]

“Перевал Дятлов” is a historical thriller based on the real events of 1959, when a group of young hikers mysteriously disappeared in the Ural Mountains. The series, directed by Yevgeny Nikishov, explores a fictionalized version of the events, combining elements of psychological drama, horror, and conspiracy. It premiered on November 16, 2020, and stars Pyotr […]