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Comedy “Matchmakers” is considered truly popular. Starting as a full-length story, as a result of its enormous popularity, it turned into a series, a musical and even a cartoon.
And the plot of the picture at first glance is quite straightforward: the young spouses Masha and Maxim decided to take a break from their home routine and go to a resort, and leave their 5-year-old daughter Zhenya in the care of their parents.
Being from completely different families (Masha’s parents are simple villagers, and Maxim’s parents are typical metropolitan intellectuals), they cannot find a common language with each other.
Forced to find themselves under the same roof, the matchmakers begin to clash on various occasions. In addition, each of them has their own views on the upbringing of their granddaughter: the urban ones try to limit her in everything, the village ones allow everything.
Families all the time get into comical stories, from which they have to extricate themselves hand in hand, which undoubtedly brings them closer …
We present a list of the top 10 Russian films and series similar to “Matchmakers”.
10 Plot (2003-2006)
The protagonist of the series is a responsible and hardworking policeman Pavel Kravtsov.
Having quarreled with his wife, he, together with his faithful dog Caesar, confiscated from the oligarch arrested by him, arrives at a new place of service – at area in the village of Anisovka.
As a city person, it takes him a long time to get used to the specifics of the work of a district police officer in the countryside. Here the law gives way to personal relationships, and not always the good intentions of a young defender of law and order resonate in the hearts of local residents.
They keep trying to attribute novels to him, one of these stories even almost ended in tragedy.
But, most importantly, Kravtsov finds out that his predecessor died under very strange circumstances …
9. Matchmakers (2014-2015)
The Mukhin family in full force lives in a three-room apartment. The older generation – grandmothers, matchmakers – also live with their grandchildren and love to teach their lives.
Of course, few people like to listen to lectures from their parents, but the young have nowhere to move, and yet all this, against the backdrop of ordinary everyday bustle, turns family life into some kind of amazing attraction.
8. Love is not a potato (2013)
Panya has lived in the village all her adult life. Her husband died, and there were no children. But she has a nephew who lives in the city. And he began to persistently persuade Panya to move to the city. And all in order to sell her house, and to buy a car for herself with the funds received.
Panya was tired of fighting off her nephew’s importunity and jokingly said that she would soon have a wedding. And there are no grooms standing in the district.
Pani’s friend only decided to advise Panya to take a closer look at the dacha resident – the capital’s artist, because love is not a potato, as they say…
7. Daddy’s daughters (2007-2013)
This funny story happened to a practicing psychiatrist and family relationship problem solver.
All his misfortunes began with the fact that his wife left him, leaving him five daddy’s daughters. Each of them has their own character and outlook on life, but despite the difficulties, they try not only to survive under one roof, but also to be a happy family.
6. Happy together (2006-2013)
Dasha and Gena Bukin, as well as their two children, are an ordinary family from Yekaterinburg, they happy together.
The head of an honest family earns by selling women’s shoes, and his life partner is a housewife.
At first glance, their family can hardly be called happy: Gena suffers from her low self-esteem and professional failures; Dasha does not know how to escape from idleness, because despite the title of “housewife”, she tries to evade household chores in every possible way, and her favorite pastime is eating sweets while watching TV.
Spouses constantly reproach each other, but even in such a destructive environment, all family members somehow manage to coexist harmoniously and be happy.
5. Strawberry Paradise (2012)
After the wedding, the happy newlyweds decided to make repairs in their family nest, turn it into a real one. strawberry paradise, and since during this period they need to live somewhere, they decided to temporarily move to the village, and at the same time take their parents with them.
The lovers did not even think about what matchmakers are in the same territory.
Parents, boasting of their vast life experience, are trying to impose their rules of life on all the rest of the household. Because of this, the ancestors quarrel every day, and as soon as it turns out to calm down some brawlers, a new conflict immediately flared up.
4. Mityaya’s Fables (2011)
The protagonist of the series is a simple village peasant Dmitry Bukhankin, who for many years in his native village of Kuchugury shares with his neighbors not only the secret of making his signature moonshine, but also semi-fantastic stories from his biography. It is sometimes difficult to believe them in the authenticity of these tales, although Mityai assures that everything was so.
Mityai is a negligent neighbor of a large family and an old friend of Ivan Budko, one of the main characters in the film “Matchmakers”. This slacker inventor never loses heart.
Each time, getting into another difficult story, Mityai finds a solution, with the help of his “non-fictional” stories, Mityaya’s fables the whole district knows.
3. Who is the head in this house? (2006)
Nikita is a former footballer who is forced to look for work outside his specialty.
He is a wonderful host, an excellent cook, and just a clean person without bad habits. It is these qualities that help him get a job in the house of a business woman and single mother Dasha.
His duties include performing traditional women’s work, so at first neither he nor Dasha likes this idea very much.
However, Dasha’s mother, a very energetic and extravagant lady of Balzac’s age, persuades her daughter to make concessions …
It is from this moment that all sorts of comical and curious situations begin to occur in Dasha’s house, because now not only a strange male housewife lives here, but also his overly active and precocious daughter, who causes no less problems for the owners …
Finally, the question is:Who’s the Boss?” begins to excite all viewers.
2. Voronins (2009-2018)
This series is about the fact that sometimes relatives are too close …
Convinced bachelors think that life ends after marriage. An example of a noisy family Voronins shows that this is not the case.
Using the example of their eccentric relationship, you can see that when a person has a stamp in his passport and his already large family begins to grow exponentially, you turn from an ordinary layman into a superman.
The Voronin family steadfastly adheres to this very principle – they do not get tired of creating problems, and then solve them together!
1. Between Us Girls (2013-2019)
This story is about the Kuznetsov-Saiko family, which consists of three women – representatives of different generations.
The main characters: a young student Olesya, her mother, a serious and businesslike boss, Elena, and a bohemian nature – grandmother Iraida Stepanovna.
Despite the difference in temperaments and outlooks on life, they are all united by disorder in their personal lives.
Elena’s husband left her many years ago, and the husband of Iraida Stepanovna died. And only Olesya has a beloved Nikita, but it is difficult for her to tell her family about his existence.
For many seriesBetween us, the girls“These women, unlike each other, swear, get into difficult situations, reconcile, argue, but remain the closest people to each other.