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Bulgarian-Language Films

Name: Bulgarian-Language Films
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Top 42 Bulgarian-language films from a catalog of 42, ranked by TMDB rating.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Country↕	Overview↕
Dangerous Charm	1,984	Ivan Andonov	Comedy, Thriller	8.3	18	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Gundi: Legend of Love	2,024	Dimitar Dimitrov	Romance, Drama	8.2	12	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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.
Paradiso	2,025	Ivan Dimitrov	Drama, Horror	7.4	10	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Glory	2,017	Petar Valchanov	Drama	7.3	61	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
A Nameless Band	1,982	Lyudmil Kirkov	Comedy	7.2	17	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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 World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner	2,008	Stephan Komandarev	Drama	7	49	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.
Mila from Mars	2,004	Zornitsa Sophia	Drama	6.9	10	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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
Ága	2,018	Milko Lazarov	Drama	6.8	34	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Avé	2,012	Konstantin Bojanov	Drama	6.8	19	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Losers	2,015	Ivaylo Hristov	Drama	6.8	10	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
The Lesson	2,014	Kristina Grozeva	Drama	6.7	49	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.
The Good Postman	2,016	Tonislav Hristov	Documentary	6.7	10	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Blaga's Lessons	2,024	Stephan Komandarev	Drama	6.6	16	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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…
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World	1,988	Waris Hussein	Drama	6.6	14	Bulgarian	Spain	Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
Directions	2,017	Stephan Komandarev	Drama	6.5	30	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
In the Heart of the Machine	2,022	Martin Makariev	Drama, Thriller	6.4	23	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Eastern Plays	2,009	Kamen Kalev	Drama	6.3	33	Bulgarian	Sweden	Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.
Tilt	2,011	Viktor Chouchkov	Drama, Romance	6.3	16	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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?
Zift	2,008	Javor Gardev	Thriller, Crime, Drama	6.2	54	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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.
Whose Is This Song?	2,003	Adela Peeva	Documentary, Music	6.1	10	Bulgarian	Belgium	Adela Peeva explores the national origin of a song common amongst a set of countries, and finds that the answer is not as simple as one might think.
The Judgement	2,014	Stephan Komandarev	Drama	6	11	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Omnipresent	2,017	Ilian Djevelekov	Drama	5.9	14	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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	Bulgaria	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.
Roseville	2,013	Martin Makariev	Mystery, Thriller, Horror	5.7	32	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
3/4	2,017	Ilian Metev	Drama	5.7	17	Bulgarian	Germany	Mila, a young pianist, tries to prepare for an audition abroad but her brother, Niki, keeps distracting her with his annoying talent for the absurd. Todor, their astrophysicist father, seems unable to deal with his children’s anxieties. A family portrait during their last summer together.
Cat in the Wall	2,020	Mina Mileva	Drama	5.7	16	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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 Father	2,020	Kristina Grozeva	Drama	5.7	10	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
The Tied Up Balloon	1,967	Binka Zhelyazkova	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy	5.6	11	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	A barrage balloon appears unexpectedly over a Bulgarian village during World War II. The startled villagers decide to knock it down with a fusillad...
Godless	2,016	Ralitza Petrova	Drama	4.5	17	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Women Do Cry	2,022	Vesela Kazakova	Drama	4.5	11	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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.
Viktoria	2,014	Maya Vitkova	Family, Drama	2.1	10	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	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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