Life on Call (Seasons 1–3)

Life on Call (Жизнь по вызову, 2022) is a Russian drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Alexander Schmidt runs a high-end escort agency dressed up on paper as a consulting firm. Clients call him Magic, because he can arrange anything. Pavel Priluchny carries the lead.

The whole operation hums along until police kick in the office door. Suddenly everything is at stake — the money, his freedom, and the one thing Schmidt guards above all: his daughter, who has no idea what her father really sells. The show frames itself around a real, hidden corner of the service economy, and that double life is where most of its tension lives. The cast includes Polina Maksimova, Vladimir Sychyov and Yanina Studilina.

Director Sarik Andreasyan is less interested in glamour than in the cost of the mask — the higher the fee, the thinner the line between the role and the man. Worth a watch if you like Russian crime dramas built around a charismatic antihero. Stream all episodes of Life on Call online on iFILM.