Having appeared on domestic television screens in the middle of the two thousandth, the serial film “Liquidation”Gained immense popularity. The picture unfolds in post-war Odessa. UGRO investigator David Gotzman is known throughout the city as an implacable crime fighter. Together with his colleagues and a volunteer assistant and childhood friend Fima, a former pickpocket, he is investigating the impudent robbery of collectors. During the investigation, Gotzman enters a gang of raiders who are mysteriously associated with the fascist underground and a former member of the Abwehr school named “Academician”.
Now the detective will not only catch a gang of thugs, but also figure out this ill-fated Academician, who is masterfully disguised as “his” ...
For all fans of domestic historical series, we present the top 10 films similar to “Liquidation”.
10. Ashes (2013)
Action movie “Ash”Begins in 1938. In a train compartment, a thief Senka nicknamed Ashes and captain of the Red Army Igor Petrov, who is threatened with an imminent arrest, accidentally meet. Suddenly, the Red Army man decides on a daring act: he changes his clothes, documents with Ashes and steals the “common fund” from him.
The ash falls into a difficult position, now he faces reprisals, so he decides to temporarily impersonate Red Army Petrov. Then there will be an arrest, long discussions with a cellmate officer and a rethinking of life values.
Miraculously avoiding being shot, he meets Igor Petrov’s wife and decides to start a new life with her ...
9. Penalty (2004)
Fines For a long time they were a “white spot” in the history of World War II. Fines were thrown into attacks on the most difficult sections of the front. They were not always supplied with ammunition and provisions. Mortality in such battalions was very high. In front of them they were mowed by enemy bullets, from the rear - machine guns of detachments.
This picture tells about the dramatic fate of fines, at the cost of whose lives victory was won in the most difficult period of the Great Patriotic War ...
8. The venue cannot be changed (1979)
The action of the legendary painting “Meeting place can not be Changed”Takes place in 1945. Former front-line soldier Vladimir Sharapov enters the service in MUR. In practice, he has to comprehend all the subtleties of the work of an operative.
His mentor in this matter was an experienced detective and the thunderstorm of the Moscow underworld Gleb Zhiglov. Together they have to unravel the mysterious crime of a young woman, which, by a coincidence, helped them get on the trail of the dangerous gang “Black Cat” ...
7. The Apostle (2008)
Pavel and Peter Istominy are twins. They are similar to each other like two drops of water, but their lives have developed completely differently. After the arrest of his father and the death of his mother in exile, Peter became a professional thief-bear cub who can break any safe.
During the war, he was recruited by the Germans to the Abwehr school, but during the next assignment, with the transfer to the Soviet rear, he was killed by an NKVD officer.
Pavel became an ordinary school teacher. He has a quiet character and is very far from military affairs. But, one day his life will change dramatically when an employee of the NKVD Khromov wants to marry Pavel for the deceased Peter and introduce him to Abwehr’s school as an agent “The Apostle“….
6. Black Wolves (2011)
Action picture “Black wolves”Takes place in Yaroslavl in the early 50s of the twentieth century. The protagonist, a former UGRO investigator, Pavel Khromov, was unjustly sentenced to eight years in prison.
Returning home after the colony, Paul learns that the Black Wolves, a gang that keeps the whole city in fear, are involved in the murder of his sister. At the scene of their crimes, the thugs leave a wolf's head.
Khromov decides to do everything to capture the criminals and regain his honest name.
5. The executioner (2015)
Plot of the film "Executioner”Is based on the real story of the infamous Tonka the machine gunner who executed about 1,500 people during the war.
In the mid-60s, during the celebration of May 9, on the outskirts of Moscow, they find the body of a seventeen-year-old school graduate, Petya Yakovlev - a mysterious killer shoots him both eyes. Experienced MUR investigator Ivan Cherkasov is alarmed by the extreme cruelty of the crime, as well as the fact that this murder was the beginning of a series.
During the investigation, Cherkasov becomes aware that Petya was preparing a surprise for his aunt Raisa, a former partisan. He wrote a note about her in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. In the course of preparing material about her gallant past, the boy looked for her former fellow soldiers and shot them on a movie camera. From this, the detective concludes that the strings of crime stretch during the years of World War II ...
4. Beyond the Wolves (2002)
The plot of the picture “Beyond the wolves”Takes place in the first year after victory in the Great Patriotic War. A former front-line soldier is sent to a provincial town to work in the police.
At this time, local residents are shocked by a series of brutal and mysterious killings. Rumors are beginning to spread that a real werewolf appeared nearby: during the day he puts on the face of a person, and at night - his wolf essence requires new victims. Everything is under suspicion.
3. The Forgotten (2011)
Action picture “Forgotten”Takes place in 1949. Former front-line soldier and investigator Sergei Gastev retires, facing the problem of bureaucratic lawlessness. Attempts to bring them to clean water almost end for him with the dock.
After that, Gastev decides to become a simple teacher of Roman law at the university of a provincial town. On the love front, the hero is also not going smoothly: he has to hide the connection with the Komsomol leader Lyudmila Mishina ...
Suddenly, a small town is shocked by a series of daring crimes. Gastev was involved in their disclosure as a very experienced investigator. As partners, they give him a young rural policeman, Ilya Ropnya.
However, trying to unravel one thing, detectives accidentally attack the trail of another - a massive financial fraud ...
2. Thief (1997)
The action of the cult picture “Thief”Begins in the fall of 1952. Six-year-old Sanka and his young beautiful mother, Katya, met on the train a stately military man named Tolyan. Sanka’s mother and their random acquaintance have an affair, and together they begin to live as one family.
Katya is happy - finally, in this difficult time, she, the widow, will have a husband, and her little son - a father. However, in fact, this handsome and courageous officer turns out to be a seasoned thief, who needs his family only as a cover ...
1. Marina Grove (2012)
MUR employee Konstantin Troshin, returning from the front, finds out that he no longer serves in the police. The reason for this was a conflict with a powerful KGB official. However, Troshin can’t live without service in the organs, therefore he agrees to work as a district police officer in the most criminal area of the capital Maryina Grove. Due to certain circumstances, Troshin settled in a communal apartment, here.
Being in the thick of the criminal world of Moscow and closely converging with its inhabitants, Troshin masterfully reveals the most complicated crimes. However, not the capture of criminals is the main task of Troshin. The hero sets a more ambitious goal: to eradicate the crime itself. Having tried on the role of a simple district police officer, he gradually gets accustomed to the image of an arbitrator ...