Gangster's Petersburg (Seasons 1–10)

Gangster's Petersburg (2000–2007) is a Russian crime drama anthology you can watch online on iFILM. Ten films, drawn from eight novels by crime writer Andrei Konstantinov, map St. Petersburg through the 1990s — a city where the collapse of Soviet authority left a vacuum, and organised crime moved in to fill it.

Each film follows different protagonists and different corners of the underworld. The one constant is Lieutenant Colonel Kudasov, played by Evgeny Sidikhin, who threads through nine of the ten entries. Aleksandr Domogarov, Anna Samokhina, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, and Lev Borisov anchor individual storylines across the run, with Vladimir Bortko directing the early chapters that set the series' unsparing tone.

The 1990s St. Petersburg here isn't a backdrop — it's the subject. Criminal hierarchy, political corruption, and ordinary people caught between them get roughly equal weight. Stream all parts of Gangster's Petersburg online on iFILM.