Action detective series "Foundling" occurs in the 20s of the last century. A lucky thief and a fraudster nicknamed the Foundling, escaping from the criminal elements deceived by him, ends up in Leningrad.
There, by a strange coincidence, law enforcement officers mistook a swindler for the well-known detective Maxim Antonov, who was appointed to the post of head of the department of the UGRO. The foundling is not going to admit, being aware of what prospects open before him.
The hero has a plan of impudent robbery in his head, but in order to realize it he will have to pretend to be an honest policeman for some time. However, time passes, and the former felon understands that his true calling is not to carry out robberies, but to reveal criminal intentions ...
If you like twisted detective stories in which the main characters fall into a whirlpool of incredible events, then you will like the list of films and series similar to the “Foundling” of 2019.
10. Homeland or death (2007)
Action picture "Homeland or Death" unfolds during the Great Patriotic War on the deep Soviet rear.
A series of clandestine sabotage makes military intelligence arouse. When a large-scale action occurs, as a result of which a train with a particularly important load goes off the rails, the NKVD seriously takes up the search for saboteurs.
During the investigation, they become aware of special orphanages that remained in the territories occupied by the Nazis. There lived the children of the “enemies” of Soviet power. NKVD officers found that the Wehrmacht officers organize special training camps for such children, where they are prepared for sabotage activities.
The calculation of the Germans is not complicated: these guys were oppressed by their own state and it is logical that they would want to get even. However, everything turned out to be not as they expected ...
9. White Night (2014)
1944 year. Under the leadership of Sergei Tumanov, a sabotage group returns from the enemy rear. However, her return is hampered by the fact that two important German “languages” were captured. Realizing that because of these Germans, the entire group could be destroyed, Tumanov decides to release the prisoners.
This act was regarded by the NKVD officers as a betrayal. Realizing that he will be arrested and, possibly, the highest measure, Tumanov decides to escape in one white night…
8. Sorge (2019)
The film describes the fate of the legendary scout Sorge. Particular attention in the picture is paid to the period of work of Sorge at the German embassy in Japan as a resident of Soviet intelligence with the pseudonym “Ramsay”.
He was a member of high society, so he had the opportunity to obtain secret information of special importance. It was Sorge who was one of the first who tried to warn Stalin about the impending attack by fascist troops on the borders of the USSR.
The life of this man was full of bright, and tragic events. He has repeatedly said that he hates both Hitler and Stalin. His mother is Russian, and his father is German, so he considered Germany and the USSR his homeland and. A convinced communist, he helped the Soviet authorities fight the “brown plague”.
7. Moscow Courtyard (2009)
Moscow, 1937 The chief engineer of the plant Nikolai Zotov, the hero of the film “Moscow courtyard” learns that he will soon be arrested. He refuses to believe it, since he is completely confident in his innocence. His wife Lyudmila persuades him to hide.
Nikolai leaves the family, not yet realizing that he is leaving his beloved wife and children for many years. They will have to go through many difficult trials before reuniting again ...
6. Brest Fortress (2010)
Alexander Akimov - an ordinary musical platoon revels in communication with his beloved girlfriend. The bombardment suddenly began Brest Fortress Wehrmacht aircraft. He has to hurry away to the location of the unit and enter into an unequal battle with superior enemy forces.
The fortress fell under the onslaught of the Nazis, but the feat of its defenders helped to restrain the invasion of the invaders, becoming a tangible obstacle for them.
5. Translator (2013)
The main character of the picture is a school chemistry teacher Andrei Starikov, nicknamed "Charlie Chaplin." He lives with his wife and mother in an old house, where people of different nationalities live with him: Jews, Russians, Armenians, Ukrainians.
In this diverse environment, a quiet and shy teacher could never stand up for himself, for which he was regularly subjected to ridicule from beloved women.
But everything changes the war. The Germans came to a small town. To protect his loved ones, Starikov decides to settle down translator to the German headquarters and every day to walk along the blade of a knife ...
4. The Apostle (2008)
The life of a simple mathematics teacher, Pavel Istomin, breaks down in an instant when his twin brother Peter, a cadet of the Abwehr school, sent to the territory of Soviet troops as a saboteur, falls into the hands of the NKVD and dies when he tries to escape.
To save the life of his wife and son, Paul agrees to reincarnate as a dead brother and go to the very den of the enemy. His goal is Otto Geldrich. This is the Russian-speaking head of the intelligence school.
Now, an intelligent and shy teacher will have to become a seasoned felon, whom the Soviet curators call "Apostle"while he needs to save a human face ...
3. Secret echelon (1993)
The main character of the tape “Secret echelon” - a wonderful teacher Olga Yavger. She lives in a small settlement in Western Ukraine.
Three years after the victory, it seemed to her that the worst was over. But one night, NKVD officers burst into her house and forcibly take her out with her family. It turned out that the director of the school wrote a letter to Olga, and now she and her daughter are deported. The woman who did not understand anything fully hoped that everything that was happening was a terrible mistake. As a result, she is sent to Siberia.
Having learned about the incident, Olga’s husband, a former front-line soldier, makes the school principal repent and write a letter to the authorities about his wife’s innocence. He decides to find a family, but the road ahead is not easy ...
2. The Second (2009)
Action picture “Second” takes place in the first months of the war. The Red Army is defeated one after another. To Moscow, the German troops had to go through nothing.
Near the front line, the NKVD officers capture a group of enemy saboteurs who were given the task of eliminating Stalin himself.
The NKVD officers have a lot of questions - how did this saboteurs get reliable information about the route of their goal? Where was the group trained?
For the investigation, two groups are organized. One of them should secretly advance along the rear of the enemy and reach the address indicated by the captive saboteur. The existence of this unit is known only to Mirzoyev and Alyokhin. And the goal of the other group is to move behind enemy lines to divert the attention of German intelligence from the group of the First.
1. Snow and ashes (2015)
Action picture “Snow and Ashes” takes place in 1942. A division of Soviet troops was surrounded by the Germans. A relatively quiet existence will soon end - the enemy is about to attack. The preparation of the alleged offensive among the Soviet troops involved in a dangerous saboteur.
To disrupt the plans of the enemy, the NKVD sends one of its best employees - Major Urusov. He takes three cadets as his assistants. Together they begin an investigation ...