Vysokie stavki (Seasons 1–2)

Vysokie Stavki (High Stakes, 2015) is a Russian crime drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Kirill Borzov is a thirty-year-old from the provinces, in Saint Petersburg for barely a week, when he accidentally steps between a hitman and the target — Yuri Sergeev, who runs an underground casino network across the city. Borzov pulls Sergeev out of harm's way, and Sergeev's gratitude comes in the form of a job offer: a spot on his security team.

Starring Alexei Nilov and Sergei Gubanov, the series shows what Borzov sees every night on the casino floor — the debts, the obsessions, and the slow unraveling of people who came to play and could not stop. Watch Vysokie Stavki online on iFILM.