Russian gangster films from Alexei Balabanov

Brother

A simple man returns from his army service, coming home to St. Petersburg, where he finds his brother is now a contract killer for the Russian mob. Soon, both brothers are in the service of organized crime and they team up to kill a Chechen mafia boss.5/5

Brother 2

The film opens with Danila on a television show with two friends from the First Chechen war One of them suddenly kill Danila knows that at killed there were troubles because of the brother the hockey player playing for the American club mix up wit Russian and American mafias4/5

Dead Man's Bluff

This incendiary and subversively comic action thriller from Russian director Aleksei Balabanov (Brother) follows a pair of sibling assassins employed by sadistic mafia boss Mikhailovich (Burnt by the Sun director Nikita Mikhalkov in one of the film's many cameos). After the brothers bungle a drug deal, they find themselves on the run from their employer, who's not above using brutish torture methods to drive home his point. Weaving through a post-communist world of cops and robbers, the heroes discover that in New Russia, allegiances can get tangled.3/5