The journalist becomes a victim of rape. To take revenge on the rapists, she makes a deal with the criminals. But things are beginning to unfold unpredictably...

The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city, and makes her fall in love with him. Shipowner finds out about this. When the police commissioner shows him the photograph of the rebel sent, he recognizes the sailor, who got a job with him on a ship on which weapons are transported under the guise of oranges.

One day, the elephant—the pride of the zoo—leaves its enclosure and goes for a walk around the city. All attempts by the keepers to bring it back are unsuccessful. Only a five-year-old boy manages to establish contact with the giant animal.

A weak but kind man is gradually drawn into drunkenness, losing his job and family only to eventually commit a crime.

Four years ago, Igor, Olya's father, fell in love with another woman, Tatyana, and left his wife. Tatyana has a son, Dima, whom Igor is adopting. And one day Igor can not meet Olya, and sends Dima instead. Children get acquainted. There is a paradox. Olya hates Dima and his mother, he is friendly. Children have to cross the line of love and hate.

At the institute where the film's protagonist, sociologist Sergei Luzhin, works, an investigation is underway into his misconduct: he left confidential data at the factory where he was conducting a sociological survey. The contents of the data become known to the workshop staff, and a conflict arises when it becomes clear that the official head of the workshop, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, who got her position through nepotism, does not enjoy authority in the workshop and that there is an unofficial leader in the workshop — engineer Uglov.

New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama.

Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers” of zoological rarities (junior children, a scientist from America, an academic zoologist) burst into his usual, measured life, because it turns out that Glazyuk’s animal lives in the Ugryumovsky Nature Reserve...

The holiday season in the mountains is in full swing. The message of the head of the avalanche station that an avalanche could soon descend is not taken seriously: neither by vacationers, nor by the director of the camp site. Reckoning for recklessness comes very soon: an avalanche goes directly to the hotel. Only the experience and courage of rescuers helps to avoid great casualties.

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.