Eldar Ryazanov

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes... (imdb)

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other... (imdb)

The hero of the film is an insurance agent who is also a car thief. He steals cars only from various crooks and never from the good people. Then he sells those stolen cars and gives all the money to charity. His best friend is a cop who is working on this case. (imdb)

Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other... (imdb)

A new chief of a "Culture House" (Ogurtsov) is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert. (imdb)

A photo studio worker unexpectedly wins 10000 rubles. His co-workers decide that he must share winnings with them.

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen. Written by Konstantin Dlutskii (imdb)

An extremely rich old lady confesses to her niece Olga that she has hidden all her wealth under a 'lion' in her native city, Leningrad. The conversation is heard by other people and this generates a hunt for the old lady's hidden treasure. (bfi)

The plot takes place in 19th century in a military hussar regiment, which spends few days in a provincial Russian town. A high profile Secret Service agent has a task to investigate if this regiment is loyal to the Tzar. The agent finds an actor who agrees to play a role of a captured rebel. Agent's plan is to test regiment's hussars ordering them to execute (shoot to death) this false rebel. Everything is staged, but hussars think it's a real execution. (imdb)

A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles. (imdb)

Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play "Dowry-less" by A. Ostrovsky. Noble but poor widow seeks to arrange marriage for her three daughters. She maintains "open house" or provincial form of salon hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry for love to a dowry-less. (imdb)

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal Soviet style, the 4 least-well connected members are evicted from the cooperative in a mock vote, losing their entire investment. But one member does the unthinkable. As if taking on the entire corrupt Soviet system, she quixotically locks down the meeting room and throws away the key... (imdb)

All funny adventures of Pashka Gusarov started the moment he fell in love with Katya. (imdb)

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.

Three school boys and one school girl visited their old schoolmarm on her birthday. But their intentions was horrible. (imdb)

...Near one of Moscow's train stations, on a landfill site, a group of vagrants lives. The head of those unfortunate people is "President" - a former party worker Dmitry Loginov, who like his friend Fedor, was in Stalin's camps. One night the President tells his friends incredible news. He allegedly had contact with aliens, who promised to take all those people to their planet - to the place where happiness, joy and peace rule. (wikipedia.org)

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.