John Griffin, made up as black, learns what the life of a black-skinned man in the USA is like.

The Bukovynian peasant Rusnak leaves the poor Bukovynian lands and goes to Canada with his little daughter Orysia - maybe he will be lucky there? And now Rusnak using the services of "Inturist" goes to his land where he was once happy.

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.

Makhonin buys dissertations from people who sell their knowledge and intellect, preparing candidate and doctoral dissertations for false scientists, because to defend themselves, you need connections, and they do not have them. Journalist Prosov exposes a group of adventurers from science.

Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...

The main character of the film is Viktor Bershadsky, a Russian director who emigrated to the United States. His fate and career did not work out either in Russia or abroad. He used to be famous, but now no one remembers him, he hasn't directed a film in 10 years and most likely will never receive a production order again. But fate smiles on him, too, though only for one day. In New York, patrons at the Hilton Hotel organized a charity evening dedicated to immigrants from Russia. Viktor Bershadsky becomes the star of the evening, and in his elegant tuxedo, he is the center of attention. However, this is only for one evening, and in the morning, the fairy tale will come to an end.

The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes. It looks like he is going to succeed…

In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.