While digging one of the many tunnels for the Moscow metro, Soviet workers unearth ruins of a dungeon. The site is closed, the metro tunnel is diverted, and amidst the bustle no one notices the tunnel workers’ foreman pocketing a little ‘souvenir’ – a book-sized frame made of precious metals featuring an inscription in an unknown language. Decades later, the foreman’s grandson Ilya, who works as a courier, discovers the ancient relic in a pile of old junk. Oblivious to the true value of the family heirloom, he soon learns about it from a mysterious stranger. The relic is the key to the secret location of the priceless ancient library that belonged to Ivan the Terrible. What Ilya doesn’t know is that the search for the lost library has been going on for centuries, and now very powerful people are after him. Ilya and the mysterious stranger decide to try their luck in finding the library.
A 13-year-old girl grows up between a boxing ring and the street. Her friends are guys who kill and rob. In the 1990s the whole city hates them, but for Masha they are the best people in the world, who love and protect her. She sings them jazz and dreams of becoming a singer. But one day Masha learns who they actually are and what they have done to her life and family. She matures, leaves the small city for Moscow, trying to break with her past. But one day the past stands directly before her.
Joker
Nikita, un ex agente ruso de la Spetsnaz, es contratado para neutralizar a la gran fuerza de seguridad privada en una fábrica local para que su turbio empleador pueda extorsionar al dueño de la fábrica para que le haga el negocio. Pero Nikita y su grupo de combatientes altamente entrenados obtienen más de lo que esperaban cuando resulta que la fábrica es propiedad de un peligroso señor de la guerra relacionado con el ejército ruso. Para cuando se completa la 'toma de posesión hostil', Nikita revela que ha orquestado su propia misión secreta para vengarse personalmente del hombre más peligroso de Rusia.