In the tape “Consultant”The action takes place in 1990. In a small town, there is a trial of a serial killer who kept the area at bay for terrible crimes for many years. The expert psychologist Vyacheslav Shirokov, who arrived from the administrative center, perplexes both law enforcement bodies and the public with a loud statement. He claims that the wrong one in the dock!
The psychological portrait of the killer, compiled by Shirokov in accordance with the case file, does not suit the defendant. The case is dragging on. With his conclusions, Shirokov is making himself ill-wishers in the person of city residents and investigator Oleg Bragin, who spent the entire 10 years of his life searching for a maniac, so he is confident in his innocence.
Shirokov and Bragin are very different people, but now they will have to work together. Shirokov’s fantastic theory of the “inappropriate psychological portrait of a maniac” is not taken seriously by anyone until another brutal murder occurs in the district.
Introducing the top 10 films and TV shows similar to the “Consultant”.
10. Heart of an angel (2014)
The protagonist of the film “Angel heart”- a corrupt cop who doesn't give a damn about his duty. He does not hesitate to take bribes in order to interfere with the capture of local criminals.
But once he is very close to death. Only a transplant of a donor heart, which doctors successfully perform, can save his life.
There is an opinion that the one to whom a foreign organ is transplanted acquires character traits, memories and feelings of the donor. The hero has to test this theory from his own experience, because he got the heart of an honest fireman ...
9. Execution cannot be pardoned (2017)
Action movie “Execution cannot be pardoned”Unfolds in post-war Leningrad. The Soviet intelligence agent Nina, along with her medical spouse, return home after the terrible war and try to integrate into peaceful life. However, the realities of the post-war city are no less terrible.
Once, Nina’s beloved husband is killed right on the street, and the local police cannot find the guilty. A desperate woman, blinded by grief, begins to take revenge on her own.
In cold blood, destroying thieves and murderers, Nina terrifies the entire criminal world of the city. Boris Granovsky is taken to investigate these crimes ...
8. The Bounty Hunter (2015)
The protagonist of the film “Head hunter"- a very unusual private detective who finds criminals for the appointed fee. The World of Sani Rumyantsev - St. Petersburg, its streets, courtyards, roofs. Here the criminal elements can’t hide from him.
Sanya does not match the image of a tough guy with huge beatseps, but he does not hold optimism and a great sense of humor. He wants to destroy the entire criminal world of St. Petersburg, and the police are forced to cooperate with the guy, as he improves his disclosure.
But Rumyantsev, in turn, needs money and love: he is crazy about his ex-wife Marina, but he is prevented from restoring his relations by the dangerous orders of his clients and stories, in which his fragile partner Tasya always “sticks”.
7. Ascent to Olympus (2016)
Action movie “Ascent to Olympus”Unfolds in the summer of 1980. Moscow is preparing for the upcoming Olympics. All the forces of the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been thrown to ensure law and order in the city. But, despite this, in Moscow there is a series of daring robberies.
Among them is the abduction of an old masterpiece from the Museum of Fine Arts. Investigator Alexei Stavrov will have to find the canvas at any cost before the opening of the Olympics, because the honor of the country is at stake. However, as a result, this case is much more confusing than you might have thought at first ...
6. Rostov (2019)
In the center of the plot of the picture “Rostov”- the life of the former felon Alexei Kozyrev nicknamed Kozyr. Once he traded in robberies to Rostov, but times have changed: after the revolution, Trump believed in the new government and now he wants to eradicate crime in the city.
He is put at the head of the criminal investigation department. Having gathered strong and energetic guys under his command in his team, Trump declares a real war to the thieves' gangs of Rostov ...
5. Idol (2017)
Movie EventsIdol”Take place in Moscow in the 70s. The young star of Soviet football Valery Gusko showed great promise. However, a dizzying sports career violates the murder charge. All the evidence speaks of Gusko's guilt. The suspect's only hope is the testimony of an accidental witness, amateur photographer Kostya Lopushansky.
Kostya and Valera, while still children, played in the same football team, which Kostya's father coached. And now, for the sake of his father, who is very worried about the fate of his beloved student, Kostya decides to provide all possible assistance to the investigation. It is being introduced into the mysterious world of the capital's Farce and Bohemians ...
4. The last article of a journalist (2016)
Action movie “Latest Journalist Article”Takes place at the end of the 80s of the last century. The aspiring correspondent of Pskov Pravda Oleg Verkhovtsev tries to work honestly and objectively, therefore he writes only about what he saw with his own eyes. Therefore, the idea of publishing a report from death row, where few have been from mere mortals, he greets with enthusiasm.
The journalist asks his high-ranking acquaintances to put him on conviction for greater conviction, and after the report is ready, he will be released from prison. However, life makes its own adjustments to the risky plan of an ambitious correspondent and ... Verkhovtsev, miraculously avoiding the execution of capital punishment against himself, really goes to prison for 15 years, and even his beloved wife Polina does not believe in his innocence.
The main character manages to be released only in the mid-90s. Oleg notices how the country and society have changed. But the former journalist must first clean his name and understand who and why put him in jail and why the closest people so easily betrayed him in difficult times.
3. Lighthouse keeper (2017)
In the picture “Lighthouse keeper”Events unfold on the eve of the First World War. Domestic counterintelligence has learned that a major sabotage is about to take place in Crimea. In order to carry out such a grandiose plan, a German spy secretly penetrates the Russian Empire, whose mission is to mine the Sevastopol Bay, destroy the main forces of the Russian fleet and enable the landing of German-Turkish landing.
In order to successfully execute the order, the saboteur uses the Russians he recruited from all walks of life - from military ranks to outright criminals ...
2. Such work (2015)
In film "Such work”The most important responsibility for the servants of the law is the unraveling of serious crimes. For example, murder is not always the work of a serial maniac. The true culprit can be anyone who is capable of taking his life for his own benefit or out of revenge ...
The authors of the film are trying to find out the main motives that guide criminals. Four smart, energetic, and very charming cops are investigating the killings. They have not a single thing left in the archive unsolved ...
1. Personality not established (2017)
In film "Identity not established”The small town is shocked by the event: at one of the local construction sites, police captain Sheregeda liquidates the famous criminal killer Smirnov. The circumstances of this incident raise many questions, and police major Odintsov, who is also a longtime comrade of the suspect, arrives in the city from Moscow to investigate this murder.
Sheregeda’s colleagues are not happy about Odintsov’s arrival in the city, so they try to “cover” the captain in every possible way, and send the visiting investigator in a false trail.
However, all the while confronted with lies and mutual responsibility among law enforcement agencies, Odintsov does not stand his ground and tirelessly moves to the goal. Endangering his life, he tries to get to the truth, as well as to understand what common affairs connect local ministers of the law with the criminal elements of the city and what role the defendant plays in all this ...