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Bulgaria Cinema
Top 127 films from Bulgaria (out of 127 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Dangerous Charm | 1,984 | Ivan Andonov | Comedy, Thriller | 8.3 | 18 | Bulgarian | He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. Yet, he remains an amiable swindler, an unrealized actor, whose only goal is make his life more interesting. |
| The Big Four: Live in Sofia | 2,010 | Nick Wickham | Music, Documentary | 8.2 | 66 | English | When the 'Big Four' - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax - shared a stage together on 22nd June 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the show was beamed live into over 550 theatres worldwide via satellite in a special HD cinematic event. The Big Four Live from Sofia includes full shows from all four bands as well as behind the scenes and interview footage. The legendary concert from the Sonisphere Festival was one of only 7 shows across Europe when the four monsters of metal shared a stage for the first time. |
| How I Learned to Fly | 2,022 | Radivoje 'Raša' Andrić | Family | 8.2 | 15 | Serbian | 12-year-old Sofija is seemingly facing a boring summer vacation with two grandmothers. However, new friendships, a first kiss, and long kept family secrets will turn this summer on the idyllic Adriatic island of Hvar into a priceless experience and an unforgettable adventure. |
| Gundi: Legend of Love | 2,024 | Dimitar Dimitrov | Romance, Drama | 8.2 | 12 | Bulgarian | The great Bulgarian football player Georgi Asparuhov and his greatest love - his wife Lita go through a number of trials of life, football and the political system. |
| Vacation with Kids | 1,972 | Dimitar Petrov | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 8.1 | 12 | Bulgarian | A funny adventures of a group of children, spending their holidays at the seaside. |
| Exams at Any Odd Time | 1,974 | Ivanka Grubcheva | Comedy, Family | 8.1 | 12 | Bulgarian | Two novels united by common characters and a never-settled problem: the clash between sincerity of children and the heartless pragmatism and ambitions of grown-ups. |
| The Weddings of Ioan Assen | 1,975 | Vili Tzankov | Drama | 8.1 | 11 | Bulgarian | The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it. |
| King for a Day | 1,983 | Nikolay Volev | Comedy | 8 | 12 | Bulgarian | This film is a comedy about a poor man named Purko. Purko always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's. |
| Yesterday | 1,988 | Ivan Andonov | Drama | 7.9 | 15 | Bulgarian | The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers. |
| Time of Violence | 1,988 | Ludmil Staikov | Drama, History | 7.7 | 14 | Bulgarian | In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out. |
| The Central Warmth | 1,978 | Vladimir Yanchev | Comedy | 7.7 | 14 | Bulgarian | A tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end. |
| Heights | 2,017 | Viktor Bozhinov | Drama, History, Comedy | 7.6 | 11 | Bulgarian | One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would liberate the country from the Ottoman occupation. Directed by Victor Bojinov and adapted by Neli Dimitrova, the story follows Gicho a young man in a revolutionary group led by Dimitar Obshti, a real-life revolutionary fighting against the Turks. After a successful train robbery Obshti entrust Gicho with a special mission: to deliver a letter to Vasil Levski, the country's most famous freedom fighter, now considered hero and dubbed The Apostle of Freedom. |
| Stars | 1,959 | Konrad Wolf | Drama, War | 7.4 | 19 | German | Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Then a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. When Ruth, one of the internees, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman, the two form an unlikely bond. |
| Men of Deeds | 2,022 | Paul Negoescu | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 14 | Romanian | Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something - to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious things happen in the village, Ilie only sees what suits him. The moment he gets involved in the village marks the beginning of his collapse. In a vacuum of solutions, he tries to be what he has never been before: the justice seeker who arrests everyone guilty. |
| Paradiso | 2,025 | Ivan Dimitrov | Drama, Horror | 7.4 | 10 | Bulgarian | Inside a cold and rusty bunker, Irina and Georgi endure the aftermath of a nuclear war. Georgi’s heavy radiation sickness and imminent death prompt Irina to repair his old, beloved guitar so he can hear it one last time. |
| Aferim! | 2,015 | Radu Jude | Drama, History | 7.3 | 113 | Romanian | Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife. |
| Glory | 2,017 | Petar Valchanov | Drama | 7.3 | 61 | Bulgarian | When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, the head of PR for the Ministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Petrov’s desperate struggle to get back not only his old watch, but his dignity. |
| Boyka: Undisputed IV | 2,016 | Todor Chapkanov | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 1,424 | English | In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude. |
| A Nameless Band | 1,982 | Lyudmil Kirkov | Comedy | 7.2 | 17 | Bulgarian | Velko, Filip, Pavel and Gosho have different professions but are connected by the love they have for music. They rehearse all year to make it big on the sea resorts in the summer. The head of the cultural center where they play is willing to give them the musical equipment if they replace their singer Maria (Filip's girlfriend) with the attractive but untalented Reni. This is the first, but not the last compromise they have to make on the way to the dream. |
| Fear | 2,020 | Ivaylo Hristov | Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 14 | Bulgarian | Svetla, a widow who lost her job recently is living next to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. There are many cases of refugees in her village due to it's location. One day she meets a refugee from Africa and this changes her life. |
| The Hornet | 1,998 | Gorčin Stojanović | Drama | 7.1 | 14 | Serbian | A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict. |
| The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner | 2,008 | Stephan Komandarev | Drama | 7 | 49 | Bulgarian | The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self. |
| The Peach Thief | 1,964 | Vulo Radev | Drama, War, Romance | 7 | 27 | Bulgarian | The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I. |
| The Hitman's Bodyguard | 2,017 | Patrick Hughes | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 | 6,552 | English | The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time. |
| Mila from Mars | 2,004 | Zornitsa Sophia | Drama | 6.9 | 10 | Bulgarian | Fleeing an abusive relationship, Mila, a teen prostitute, finds herself in a border town, pregnant, alone, and, to her surprise, welcome. The remote village is on a marijuana plantation run by a group of elderly men and women. Not having known much kindness, she goes into emotional hiding, but by the time the baby is born she has a new life and love. Her past, however, is not far behind |
| We Die Young | 2,019 | Lior Geller | Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.8 | 341 | English | Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises. |
| Ága | 2,018 | Milko Lazarov | Drama | 6.8 | 34 | Bulgarian | In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth. Nanook and Sedna's traditional way of life starts changing - slowly, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable deaths and the ice has been melting earlier every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world - and to their daughter Ága, who has left the icy tundra a long time ago due to family feud. When Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook decides to fulfill her wish. He embarks on a long journey in order to find Ága. |
| My Only Sunshine | 2,009 | Reha Erdem | Drama | 6.8 | 32 | Turkish | Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world. |
| Life | 2,023 | Zeki Demirkubuz | Drama | 6.8 | 26 | Turkish | Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the situation and embarks on a long search for her in Istanbul. |
| 6.9 on the Richter Scale | 2,016 | Nae Caranfil | Comedy, Music | 6.8 | 22 | Romanian | A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father. |
| Avé | 2,012 | Konstantin Bojanov | Drama | 6.8 | 19 | Bulgarian | While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with the fleeting Avé. |
| Son of Sofia | 2,017 | Elina Psykou | Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 | 14 | Greek | 11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him. |
| Pari | 2,020 | Siamak Etemadi | Drama | 6.8 | 13 | Persian | Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can't give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother's search for her missing son. |
| Losers | 2,015 | Ivaylo Hristov | Drama | 6.8 | 10 | Bulgarian | Teenage Koko lives in a nondescript town in Southern Bulgaria. His parents moved to Greece where the wages are higher, leaving Koko alone to care for his grandmother, an elderly and unwieldy woman with Alzheimer's. Koko is in love with Elena, an aspiring singer who seems only to care about a famous rock band scheduled to pass through town. On the night of the big event, the social fabric of the teens' provincial lives is thrown into disarray, paving the way for new constellations. |
| Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | 2,021 | Patrick Hughes | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 | 2,508 | English | The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman. |
| The Lesson | 2,014 | Kristina Grozeva | Drama | 6.7 | 49 | Bulgarian | An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin. |
| Mission London | 2,010 | Dimitar Mitovski | Comedy | 6.7 | 32 | Russian | A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare. |
| An American in Austen | 2,024 | Clare Niederpruem | TV Movie, Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 21 | English | Harriet, who thinks that no real man compares to Mr. Darcy, is transported into Pride and Prejudice and gets an unexpected chance to find out. Starring Eliza Bennett and Nicholas Bishop. |
| The Good Postman | 2,016 | Tonislav Hristov | Documentary | 6.7 | 10 | Bulgarian | In a small Bulgarian village troubled by the ongoing refugee crisis, a local postman runs for mayor—and learns that even minor deeds can outweigh good intentions. |
| The Protégé | 2,021 | Martin Campbell | Action, Thriller | 6.6 | 1,110 | English | Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter. |
| Picture Perfect Royal Christmas | 2,019 | Todor Chapkanov | Romance, Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 6.6 | 36 | English | Amanda is the assistant to a famous photographer. Her boss receives an invitation to photograph the Christmas festivities in the kingdom of Pantrea and Amanda goes posing as her. She will soon fall for Prince Leopold, despite not being a royalty. |
| Blaga's Lessons | 2,024 | Stephan Komandarev | Drama | 6.6 | 16 | Bulgarian | Blaga is a seventy-year-old recently widowed former teacher and a woman of firm morals. When telephone scammers con her out of the money that she had saved for her husband’s grave, her moral compass slowly begins to lose its bearings… |
| Jolt | 2,021 | Tanya Wexler | Action, Thriller, Crime | 6.5 | 1,358 | English | A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend. |
| Kosmos | 2,009 | Reha Erdem | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 49 | Turkish | Kosmos is a thief and a miracle-worker. He appears one morning in a tiny, snowbound border village where he is welcomed with open arms – on account of arriving just in time to resuscitate a small boy who would otherwise have drowned. |
| Darkling | 2,022 | Dušan Milić | Drama, War, Horror | 6.5 | 32 | Serbian | In NATO-occupied Kosovo, a little girl writes an essay for the United Nations about her father who has gone missing. Meanwhile, the girl's grandfather becomes increasingly paranoid of the unseen threats that lurk in the dark. |
| Directions | 2,017 | Stephan Komandarev | Drama | 6.5 | 30 | Bulgarian | A road movie set in present day Bulgaria, a country remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left. At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a cab to make ends meet, discovers the bribe he will have to pay to get a loan has doubled. The ethics board that reviewed his complaint about extortion now wants its share of the action. At his wit's end, he shoots the banker and then himself. The incident sparks national debate on talk radio about how despair has taken over civil society. Meanwhile, six taxi drivers and their passengers move through the night, each in hope of finding a brighter way forward. |
| Love.net | 2,011 | Ilian Djevelekov | Romance, Drama | 6.5 | 18 | English | Follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online. |
| Miracle | 2,018 | Eglė Vertelytė | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 13 | LT | Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers. |
| Black Lotus | 2,023 | Todor Chapkanov | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 | 187 | English | An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate. |
| East/West | 1,999 | Régis Wargnier | Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 69 | French | June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step. |
| The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | 2,025 | Nebojša Slijepčević | Drama, History | 6.4 | 36 | Croatian | 1993. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent. |
| In the Heart of the Machine | 2,022 | Martin Makariev | Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 23 | Bulgarian | Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct. |
| Loving Pablo | 2,017 | Fernando León de Aranoa | Crime, Drama | 6.3 | 1,031 | Spanish | The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart. |
| Thermae Romae II | 2,014 | Hideki Takeuchi | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 35 | Japanese | In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to build a thermae in the colosseum to help gladiators recover from their wounds, but faces difficulties. Thus, Lucius travels again to modern day Japan through the time slip. He meets Manami (Aya Ueto) again, who is now a reporter for a magazine which covers bathroom. With the help of the flat face Japanese tribe, Lucius again designs a new thermae. Meanwhile, Emperor Hadrian (Masachika Ichimura) wants to keep the peace with the thermae, but the Senate wants to extend the land by using force. Emperor Hadrian and the Senate now have a confrontation and Rome becomes divided. |
| Galileo | 1,968 | Liliana Cavani | History | 6.3 | 29 | Italian | A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. |
| Vasil | 2,022 | Avelina Prat | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 26 | Spanish | Vasil is a Bulgarian immigrant who lives on the street in Spain. Intelligent and charismatic, he has an amazing talent for chess and bridge, so much so, in fact, that despite being homeless, he manages to make a name for himself in an exclusive and prestigious club in the city. |
| Tilt | 2,011 | Viktor Chouchkov | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 16 | Bulgarian | TILT is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and immoral social atmosphere thanks to a gang of adventurous friends? |
| Criminal | 2,016 | Ariel Vromen | Action, Crime, Science Fiction | 6.2 | 1,836 | English | CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III. |
| When Nietzsche Wept | 2,007 | Pinchas Perry | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 75 | English | Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair. |
| Zift | 2,008 | Javor Gardev | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.2 | 54 | Bulgarian | Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on a wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world— the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets, and a bizarre parade of characters. |
| The Goat Horn | 1,972 | Metodi Andonov | Drama | 6.2 | 35 | Bulgarian | XVII century, Bulgaria is under Ottoman rule. Four men break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their child, Maria. To protect his daughter and to enact revenge, he raises Maria as a son, teaching her to fight and kill. But as Maria grows up, she longs for a different life. |
| Dogs | 2,016 | Bogdan Mirică | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 33 | Romanian | Roman returns to the land near the Ukrainian border he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land - and their smuggling business - without a fight. |
| 300: Rise of an Empire | 2,014 | Noam Murro | Action, Drama, War | 6.1 | 6,852 | English | Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy. |
| Expend4bles | 2,023 | Scott Waugh | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.1 | 1,812 | English | Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give “new blood” a whole new meaning. |
| Endless Night | 2,015 | Isabel Coixet | Drama, Adventure | 6.1 | 51 | English | Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to the North Pole. |
| Kaymak | 2,022 | Milcho Manchevski | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.1 | 18 | MK | A wealthy young couple has a different lifestyle than a neighboring middle-aged couple, but both face intimate issues that impact their private lives. |
| King of the Belgians | 2,016 | Peter Brosens | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 55 | English | The King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself. |
| The Announcement | 2,017 | Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun | Drama | 6 | 25 | Turkish | May 22nd, 1963. Unhappy with the existing social and political situation in Turkey, a group of military officers has planned a coup d’état to take down the government in Ankara. Meanwhile in Istanbul, their conspirators have undertaken the vital mission of taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement about the coup. But nothing goes to plan. Faced with a number of obstacles, including a sudden rainstorm, the absence of the radio station technician, a betrayal, the lack of feedback from Ankara and their very own inefficiency, the conspirators scramble to keep their plan on track and announce the success of the coup – that is, if the coup in the capital has taken place at all. |
| The Judgement | 2,014 | Stephan Komandarev | Drama | 6 | 11 | Bulgarian | This is the story of Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area, near to the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek Border. Mityo had lost everything that has mattered to him – his wife, his work, the confidence of his son, Vasko. In order to get him back, Mityo has to find forgiveness and pay for his sin, done 25 years ago. |
| Automata | 2,014 | Gabe Ibáñez | Thriller, Science Fiction | 5.9 | 1,756 | English | Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity. |
| Until Death | 2,007 | Simon Fellows | Action, Thriller, Crime | 5.9 | 235 | English | Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right. |
| Pelican Blood | 2,020 | Katrin Gebbe | Drama, Thriller, Horror | 5.9 | 32 | German | Wiebke, a professional horse trainer, faces a unique challenge when she adopts Raya, a five-year-old girl, who is prone to violent outbursts because of her traumatic past. |
| Victor Young Perez | 2,013 | Jacques Ouaniche | Drama, History | 5.9 | 22 | French | Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story. |
| Reign of the Gargoyles | 2,007 | Ayton Davis | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 5.9 | 18 | English | During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles. |
| Blind | 2,007 | Tamar van den Dop | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 17 | Dutch | Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and, along with Ruben, shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness? |
| Balkanisateur | 1,997 | Sotiris Goritsas | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 15 | Greek | Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates. |
| Omnipresent | 2,017 | Ilian Djevelekov | Drama | 5.9 | 14 | Bulgarian | The story of Omnipresent is centered around Emil, writer and owner of advertising agency who gradually becomes obsessed with spying on his family, friends and employees via hidden spy cameras. What starts as an innocent hobby ends up as a total disaster, as in the process he abuses his new power and eventually comes to realize that some secrets should be left uncovered. |
| Which Way Today? | 2,007 | Rangel Vulchanov | Drama | 5.9 | 14 | Bulgarian | During an imaginary actors exam, in order to choose the best, the jury utilizes immoral ways of selection – spying, making conflicts, humiliating the applicants – in short, taking advantage of its power. |
| An Affair to Die For | 2,019 | Víctor García | Thriller, Horror | 5.8 | 135 | English | A weekend get-away for two lovers turns into a nightmare of psychological mind games when their infidelity is discovered. |
| Albion: The Enchanted Stallion | 2,016 | Castille Landon | Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 5.8 | 92 | English | A twelve-year-old girl is transported by a magical black stallion to the mystical world of Albion, where she discovers that she alone is the key to saving an entire race of people. |
| Eyes of Crystal | 2,004 | Eros Puglielli | Thriller, Crime | 5.7 | 40 | Italian | While hunting a cultured and vicious psychopath, detective Amaldi faces the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his past. |
| Roseville | 2,013 | Martin Makariev | Mystery, Thriller, Horror | 5.7 | 32 | Bulgarian | In the early autumn of 1985 the police are seeing the consequences of a shocking and mysterious incident that took place in an isolated mountain hut in the Balkan Mountains. The film "Roseville " is artistic interpretations inspired by eyewitness accounts and clues found within the cabin.Vasil ( Kalin Vratchanski ) and Nadia ( Lydia Indjova ) are a young couple who arrive on holiday in "Roseville". There they meet the keeper George ( Plamen Manassiev ) and his best friend Dora ( Elena Petrova ). Later joining the gang is Stephen Court ( David Chokachi ) - an old associate of George. The presence of Vasil unlocked " storm " of unexplained events that will test the sanity of all. Everyone faces the the horror of their own fears and the invisible force that wants to control them, lurking in the dark and quietly knocks on the door to their minds. |
| Cat in the Wall | 2,020 | Mina Mileva | Drama | 5.7 | 16 | Bulgarian | Cat in the Wall tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers. |
| The Story of a Summer Lover | 2,018 | Paul Negoescu | Comedy | 5.7 | 14 | Romanian | Petru is a math professor at the Polytechnic University, who's living an easy life, with no big worries. He is in an open relationship with Irina, who agreed he can sleep with other women from time to time. But when she becomes pregnant, he will be put in the situation to change his lifestyle and be forced to mature at 42 years old. One of his supporting friends decides to write a book based on his story. |
| The Father | 2,020 | Kristina Grozeva | Drama | 5.7 | 10 | Bulgarian | Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Ivanka. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cellphone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to try to contact his wife. His son Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way… Following the internationally successful The Lesson and Glory, Grozeva and Valchanov return with an intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us. As the picture slowly gathers momentum, its story unfolds many of the carefully arranged absurd or comic situations typical for the Bulgarian filmmaking duo. |
| Hellboy | 2,019 | Neil Marshall | Fantasy, Horror, Action, Adventure | 5.6 | 3,646 | English | Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away. |
| The Last Legion | 2,007 | Doug Lefler | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War | 5.6 | 838 | English | As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters. |
| The Contractor | 2,007 | Josef Rusnak | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 | 182 | English | Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl. |
| Once Upon a Winter's Date | 2,017 | Steven R. Monroe | Romance, Fantasy, TV Movie | 5.6 | 28 | English | Katherine endures the worst Valentine's Day date of her life. On her way home a gypsy casts a magical spell on her. The next morning she soon realises she's reliving the day until she finds Mr Right. |
| The Tied Up Balloon | 1,967 | Binka Zhelyazkova | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 5.6 | 11 | Bulgarian | A barrage balloon appears unexpectedly over a Bulgarian village during World War II. The startled villagers decide to knock it down with a fusillad... |
| The Abandoned | 2,006 | Nacho Cerdá | Horror, Thriller | 5.5 | 250 | English | Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier. |
| HDSP: Hunting Down Small Predators | 2,010 | Cvetodar Markov | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.5 | 12 | English | A young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down. A story about love and despair, hope and disillusionment, revenge and revelation. |
| Welcome to Acapulco | 2,019 | Guillermo Iván | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 5.4 | 26 | English | When Matt Booth sets off to meet his fiance for a foreign wedding he couldn't have imagined the dangerous world he was about to step into. Betrayed and set up, Matt finds himself on the run from the CIA and hired mercenaries, all looking for a package that he has supposedly smuggled through customs. Hunted on all sides, Matt is aided by Agent Adriana Vasquez, a femme fatale with orders of her own to follow. |
| Royal Blossom | 2,021 | Todor Chapkanov | Romance, TV Movie | 5.4 | 13 | English | Princess Elena has a passion for floral composition, but her hobby has to remain a secret, since it is seen as « not suitable for Royalty ». While in London on a diplomatic tour, she signs herself up in a floral competition using a fake name, and meets Adam, a journalist covering the event… |
| Jet Stream | 2,013 | Jeffery Scott Lando | Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 5.3 | 36 | English | A TV weatherman tries to prove his theory that a series of unexplained catastrophes are the result of powerful winds found in the upper atmosphere coming down to ground level. His claims attract the attention of government scientists, who need his help to control the phenomena before it destroys all life on Earth (Locatetv.com) |
| Eolomea | 1,972 | Herrmann Zschoche | Drama, Science Fiction | 5.3 | 33 | German | Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days, and the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. It’s down to science officer Maria Scholl to find out what happened to them. |
| The Orphanage | 2,013 | Evan Goldman | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.3 | 15 | English | After a fatal accident occurs, Nathan Perry is assigned to the Milwood facility for young adults. During his time at Milwood, Nathan becomes a victim of unforeseen terror and unusual behavior. |
| Alien Hunter | 2,003 | Ron Krauss | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure | 5.1 | 145 | English | Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole. |
| Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment | 1,971 | Konrad Wolf | Drama, History | 5.1 | 14 | German | As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. |
| Getaway | 2,013 | Courtney Solomon | Action, Crime | 5 | 657 | English | Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, taking it and its unwitting owner on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage. |
| McWalter | 2,025 | Simon Astier | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5 | 104 | French | McWalter, a legendary American elite agent, is falsely accused of a series of attacks all around the globe. Determined to clear his name, he goes on the run to solve the mystery, thwart a earthwise conspiracy, and save the world… |
| Touch Me Not | 2,018 | Adina Pintilie | Drama | 5 | 60 | Romanian | Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves. |
| Bullets of Justice | 2,020 | Valeri Milev | Action, Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction, War | 4.9 | 53 | English | During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in order to create super soldiers by inbreeding humans with pigs. 25 years later the hybrid Muzzles have occupied the top of the food chain, eating and farming humanity. Ex-bounty hunter Rob Justice works for the last line of human resistance - a group of survivors hiding in a nuclear bunker deep underground - and his mission is to search and destroy Muzzle Central. |
| Crystal Skulls | 2,014 | Todor Chapkanov | Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery | 4.9 | 25 | English | A millionaire philanthropist collects the famous Crystal Skulls trying to tap into their ancient powers. It is up to a team lead by a college professor whose father disappeared searching for the 13th skull to save the world when the first 12 skulls are united and reek havoc on the earth without the control of the 13th skull. |
| Refuge | 2,023 | Renny Harlin | Horror, Action, War | 4.9 | 14 | English | Sergeant Rick Pedroni comes home to his wife Kate changed and dangerous after suffering an attack by a mysterious force during combat in Afghanistan. |
| Osceola | 1,971 | Konrad Petzold | Drama, Western | 4.9 | 10 | German | Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida, they live a simple horticultural life. But white plantation owners, angry at the increasing numbers of black slaves fleeing to Seminole protection, want to take their land. Plantation owner Raynes, in particular, has convinced the military to wipe out the Seminoles. His rival Moore, a sawmill owner from the North who has a Seminole wife, is against slavery and considers it unprofitable. Chief Osceola sees the coming danger; he tries to avoid provoking the whites, but cannot prevent the war that breaks out in 1835. |
| The Legend of Hercules | 2,014 | Renny Harlin | Action, Adventure | 4.8 | 1,392 | English | In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action-packed epic - a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit. |
| The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake | 2,009 | David Flores | Adventure, Fantasy, TV Movie | 4.7 | 17 | English | Sir Francis Drake goes on a quest to find the legendary Tree of Life, battling the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, sorceress and his bitter nemesis Captain Don Sandovate on the way. |
| Code Red | 2,013 | Valeri Milev | Action, Horror, Science Fiction | 4.6 | 36 | English | A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies. |
| Manticore | 2,005 | Tripp Reed | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 4.6 | 26 | English | During Operation Iraqi Freedom, a US Army Squad is sent to a small Iraqi town to locate a missing news crew, only to find the residents of the town dead and a living weapon of mass destruction, a Manticore, awakened from its long slumber by a terrorist leader wanting to rid his land of the American invaders at any price. |
| Harpies | 2,007 | Josh Becker | Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 4.6 | 15 | English | Jason Avery is an ex-cop now working as a museum security guard. Armed thieves break in intent on stealing a priceless obelisk that's stored within this vault-like stone structure. The scientist behind the theft talks of the obelisk giving him the power to control harpies, demonic winged female monsters of classic mythology. Through a series of contrived events, the obelisk opens a time portal that Jason promptly falls into, crash landing over a thousand years in the past in a land threatened by evil harpies. |
| Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness | 2,012 | Gerry Lively | Drama, Adventure, Fantasy | 4.5 | 69 | English | A noble warrior must battle dragons and demons while upholding his moral code as he covertly joins a group of villains to rescue his kidnapped father from Shathrax, the Mind Flayer, who threatens to destroy the world. |
| Godless | 2,016 | Ralitza Petrova | Drama | 4.5 | 17 | Bulgarian | A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment. |
| The Island | 2,011 | Kamen Kalev | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance | 4.5 | 12 | English | In Paris, Sophie and Daneel make a solid couple. Nothing, it seems, can separate them - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has organi... |
| Women Do Cry | 2,022 | Vesela Kazakova | Drama | 4.5 | 11 | Bulgarian | A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman applies make-up to two kittens. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar. These events are commonplace for this seemingly normal family, revealing the fine line they live between fragility and absurdity. In the meantime, their country Bulgaria is shaken up by anti-gender and anti-equality protests with an undercurrent of violence. These women are united by a shared trauma, but now they are ready to confront their father’s troubling past. |
| Lightning Strikes | 2,009 | Gary Jones | Science Fiction | 4.4 | 23 | English | A rural sheriff (Kevin Sorbo) faces a seemingly impossible battle when he is forced to defend his small town from a demon riding bolts of lightning and causing mayhem. |
| Sense and Sensibility | 2,024 | Roger M. Bobb | TV Movie, Romance | 4.3 | 12 | English | A period adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. After a change in circumstances, Marianne is torn between two men, while Elinor longs for a man beyond reach. |
| The Hijacking of 'Savoy' | 1,979 | Venyamin Dorman | Adventure, Family | 4.3 | 12 | Russian | Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf. |
| Viking Quest | 2,014 | Todor Chapkanov | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, TV Movie | 4.2 | 42 | English | Erick, a young Viking warrior, joins forces with a rival clan in order to rescue a kidnapped princess from the great Midgard Serpent. It's a perilous task with a risk far greater than merely their own lives; by rescuing the princess, they might cause Ragnarök - the end of the world. |
| Nightmare City 2035 | 2,007 | Terence H. Winkless | Science Fiction | 4.1 | 18 | English | The future. The corrupt regime broadcasts the illusion of a beautiful city to the chip in your head, when in fact the city is in ruins. The rebels know the truth and seek to foment revolution. |
| Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault | 1,999 | Mark Roper | Action | 3.8 | 22 | English | When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of. |
| Grendel | 2,007 | Nick Lyon | Fantasy, TV Movie | 3.6 | 19 | English | King Higlack of the Gauths entrusts prince Finn and a fire ball weapon to his champion, slayer Beowulf. They lead twelve men on a mission to help king Hrothgar of the Danes, whose once glorious realm is terrorized by the undefeated monster Grendel. The task is made more difficult as Hrothgar kept gruesome secrets. |
| The Killing Grounds | 2,007 | Ivan Nitchev | Action, Thriller | 3.4 | 15 | English | Set against the backdrop of a violent gang war, the police commissioner must find who is killing young children before the next innocent victim dies. |
| Deadly Descent | 2,013 | Marko Mäkilaakso | Fantasy, Horror | 3.2 | 25 | English | Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature. |
| Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films | 2,011 | Ezio Greggio | Comedy | 2.9 | 249 | Italian | An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code". |
| Captive | 2,008 | Alexei Uchitel | Drama, War | 2.8 | 11 | Russian | The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during a war between Russia and Chechnya. |
| Viktoria | 2,014 | Maya Vitkova | Family, Drama | 2.1 | 10 | Bulgarian | Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, curiously missing a belly button, and is declared the country’s Baby of the Decade. Pampered by her mother state until the age of nine, Viktoria’s decade of notoriety comes crashing down with the rest of European communism. But can political collapse and the hardship of new times finally bring Viktoria and her reluctant mother closer together |
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