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Top 54 ET-language films from a catalog of 54, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Lotte from Gadgetville | 2,006 | Heiki Ernits | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family | 8.6 | 12 | ET | Estonia | Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, Lotte's father. His primary rival is Adalbert, whose wife also partakes in the competition. On the eve of the next competition, Lotte and her friend Bruno find a book soaked in the sea, from which Susumu, a gardener from distant Japan, climbs out. Susumu teaches the villagers some judo throws before a big judo competition, which the latter will eagerly use to facilitate their daily lives. |
| Tangerines | 2,013 | Zaza Urushadze | Drama, War | 7.7 | 576 | ET | Estonia | War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in. |
| Truth and Justice | 2,019 | Tanel Toom | Drama, History | 7.7 | 88 | ET | Estonia | Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams. |
| Take It or Leave It | 2,018 | Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo | Drama | 7.5 | 20 | ET | Estonia | One sleepy Saturday morning a 30-year-old construction worker Erik gets some earth shattering news: his ex-girlfriend Moonika who he hasn't even seen for the past six months is about to go into labor. She however is not ready for motherhood and if Erik doesn't want the kid either, the little girl will be put up for adoption. |
| The Class | 2,007 | Ilmar Raag | Drama | 7.4 | 236 | ET | Estonia | An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class. |
| Phantom Owl Forest | 2,018 | Anu Aun | Family | 7.4 | 11 | ET | Estonia | A 10-year old girl's Christmas plans take an unexpected turn after she is brought to a mysterious Estonian farm. |
| November | 2,017 | Rainer Sarnet | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Horror | 7.1 | 172 | ET | Estonia | In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. |
| The Fencer | 2,015 | Klaus Härö | Drama, History | 7.1 | 82 | ET | Germany | Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice. |
| In the Crosswind | 2,014 | Martti Helde | Drama, History | 7.1 | 44 | ET | Estonia | June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland. |
| Zero Point | 2,014 | Mihkel Ulk | Drama | 7.1 | 32 | ET | Estonia | Sensitive and restless Johannes is accepted to an elite school in Tallinn and expects life to go uphill. Instead, he becomes the victim of mental abuse by his classmates. In search of recognition, he goes to his old Lasnamäe friends, who spend their time doing drugs, hanging around, and partying, rather than focusing on schoolwork. At home, Johannes must deal with his mother’s deteriorating mental health. As the tension grows, he finds himself at zero point, where he must completely reset his life to build it up from scratch. |
| Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | 2,023 | Anna Hints | Documentary | 7 | 44 | ET | Estonia | Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood. |
| Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves | 2,019 | Draško Ivezić | Animation | 7 | 11 | ET | Croatia | In this decidedly cheeky and deliriously fun animation, a decent, hard-working wolf must rely on his physical gifts in order to make ends meet for the sake of his family. |
| Life with Herman H. Rott | 2,015 | Chintis Lundgren | Drama, Animation | 7 | 11 | ET | Estonia | Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in. |
| 1944 | 2,015 | Elmo Nüganen | War, Drama | 6.9 | 112 | ET | Estonia | The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones. |
| The Temptation of St. Tony | 2,009 | Veiko Õunpuu | Drama | 6.9 | 39 | ET | Estonia | A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life. |
| The Little Comrade | 2,018 | Moonika Siimets | Drama, Family | 6.9 | 14 | ET | Estonia | In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope that it will bring her mother back. |
| Manivald | 2,018 | Chintis Lundgren | Animation, Romance, Comedy | 6.9 | 11 | ET | Canada | Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out. |
| Melchior the Apothecary | 2,022 | Elmo Nüganen | Thriller, Crime, History, Drama | 6.8 | 18 | ET | Estonia | In medieval Tallinn, a famous knight who is freed from the pirates of the Baltic Sea is murdered. The hero's head is cut off and his mouth is stuffed with coins. The gold chain he bought the same day is missing. The bailiff orders Melchior, an apothecary, to investigate the crime. The clever young man discovers that the slain was looking for a mysterious "Tallinn prisoner" and the traces lead to the Dominican monastery. A fabulous sequence of bloodwork is unleashed - anyone who comes into contact with this secret is in danger of dying. |
| Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter | 1,982 | Peeter Simm | Adventure, Family | 6.8 | 10 | ET | Soviet Union | Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a weird stranger is saved from the sea who will be the only friend of Arabella. At the same time a rival pirate called Raudpats plans to kidnap the girl. Will she be safe and can she ever live a normal life? |
| Here We Are | 1,978 | Sulev Nõmmik | Comedy, TV Movie | 6.7 | 10 | ET | Soviet Union | On a nice summer day a funny little car rolls over a peaceful farm yard of Muhu island. The family that withdraws from the vehicle is quite odd-looking: an overbearing madam, a henpecked stammering husband and a mystical red-head. They announce that they want to spend their vacation in the farm ... "We are from capital, we will pay". This quiet vacation turns out to be a frantic day with romance, unexpected turns and fisticuffs between suitors. |
| Tyll the Giant | 1,980 | Rein Raamat | Animation, Fantasy, War | 6.6 | 20 | ET | Soviet Union | Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea. Though he was king of the island, Tõll often worked as a common farmer, tending to his crops and returning to his loving wife. He was a good king, often quick to anger but always kind and willing to help his fellow man. Tõll's greatest enemy is the god of the underworld who specializes in sly, cowardly mischief. When war comes to the island, Tõll arrives to aid his dying army, but the devil takes advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on Tõll's home. |
| The Old Man Movie | 2,019 | Mikk Mägi | Animation, Comedy, Adventure | 6.6 | 16 | ET | Estonia | An outrageous road movie about The Old Man and his grandkids in a 24 hour race against time to stop a milky madman hell bent on killing his prized cow to save the world. |
| Bumpy | 1,981 | Helle Karis | Family, Fantasy, Music | 6.6 | 16 | ET | Soviet Union | Brother and sister Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while picking strawberries and are captured by an evil forest hag. They are made to work for her. The hag has a son called Bumpy whom Iti befriends. When they get a chance to escape, they decide to take Bumpy with them. |
| Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost | 2,022 | Elmo Nüganen | Thriller, Crime, History, Drama | 6.5 | 13 | ET | Estonia | In the middle of the night, a drunk town guard happens to meet the daughter of a rich merchant… who drowned herself into a well 10 years ago. Soon after the town guard falls dead from the tower. This is followed by two other suspicious deaths. Doubting the existence of the ghost, Melchior has a hunch that these ‘accidents’ are part of a heinous crime. Tracking down the killer, his path will cross with heretics, old feuds and dark family secrets. |
| Men Don't Cry | 1,969 | Sulev Nõmmik | Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | ET | Soviet Union | A group of sleepless men should be taken into sanitarium for insomnia therapy. They are taken to a lonely island but no sanitarium is in sight. It turns out that the nurses have kidnapped the men and are about to give them the only useful medicine they need - fresh air and work. But the patients decide to disobey. There's only one solution - to escape. |
| Lamb in the Down Right Corner | 1,992 | Lembit Ulfsak | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 6.5 | 10 | ET | Estonia | A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The adventures begin, when a boss of a bunch of criminals finds out about the painting. |
| Spring | 1,970 | Arvo Kruusement | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 31 | ET | Soviet Union | Paunvere parish school students Arno and Teele, Toots and Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik experience feelings during one school winter, the traces of which they carry throughout their future lives - from true friendship and first love to self-discovery and clarifying life goals. |
| The Last Relic | 1,970 | Grigori Kromanov | Adventure, History, Romance | 6.3 | 19 | ET | Soviet Union | A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel. |
| Secret Society of Souptown | 2,015 | Margus Paju | Mystery, Family, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.2 | 27 | ET | Estonia | Four children - Mari, Sadu, Olav and Anton form a secret society to play hide-and seek games invented by Mari's grandfather, a professor at the university. When the city is attacked by a mysterious poison which turns adults into children our gang embarks on a quest for the antidote. |
| Lotte and the Moonstone Secret | 2,011 | Janno Põldma | Animation, Family | 6.2 | 13 | ET | Estonia | Plucky young Lotte embarks on an adventure with her uncle Klaus to solve the mystery of three stones that a pair of hooded figures are attempting to retrieve. |
| Summer | 1,976 | Arvo Kruusement | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 13 | ET | Soviet Union | In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too. |
| Dead Mountaineer's Hotel | 1,979 | Grigori Kromanov | Crime, Drama, Science Fiction, Horror | 6.1 | 54 | ET | Soviet Union | The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening. |
| Dawn of War | 2,020 | Margus Paju | Thriller | 6.1 | 17 | ET | Estonia | A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks. |
| Names in Marble | 2,002 | Elmo Nüganen | Drama, Romance, War, History | 5.9 | 19 | ET | Estonia | Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war. |
| Time Out | 1,985 | Priit Pärn | Fantasy, Animation, Comedy | 5.8 | 23 | ET | Soviet Union | An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown. |
| Breakfast on the Grass | 1,987 | Priit Pärn | Animation | 5.8 | 23 | ET | Soviet Union | Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title. |
| Georgica | 1,998 | Sulev Keedus | Drama | 5.8 | 15 | ET | Estonia | The action takes place in post-World War II Estonia. An old man lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young neglected boy, who has become mute, is banished from the mainland and sent to the island to keep the old man company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about the years before World War I he spent as a young missionary in Africa |
| Smile at Last | 1,985 | Leida Laius | Drama, Family | 5.8 | 13 | ET | Soviet Union | 16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi. |
| Mushrooming | 2,012 | Toomas Hussar | Adventure, Thriller, Comedy | 5.8 | 12 | ET | Estonia | Politician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves from the reputation campaign. They are joined by a voter, penniless rock star Zäk. In order to avoid common mushroom forests, they drive to some countryside at random. Soon the trio discovers that they are lost, at the same time a media scandal breaks out - the investigative press suspects that Kägu has misused state money. The fight for honor, life and death begins, both in the forest and in the city. |
| ...And Plays Tricks | 1,978 | Priit Pärn | Comedy, Animation | 5.8 | 10 | ET | Soviet Union | A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his annoying tricks. |
| The Dissidents | 2,017 | Jaak Kilmi | Action, Comedy | 5.7 | 13 | ET | Latvia | In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be. |
| Love Is Blind | 2,013 | Ilmar Raag | Drama, Romance | 5.6 | 11 | ET | Estonia | 30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a postcard to Villu, a handsome but degenerate village drunk. |
| I Was Here | 2,008 | René Vilbre | Crime, Drama | 5.6 | 11 | ET | Estonia | Living alone in an Estonian slum and unable to afford basic needs, a top high school student reluctantly enters the drug game to make ends meet. |
| Autumn Ball | 2,007 | Veiko Õunpuu | Drama | 5.4 | 31 | ET | Estonia | Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of human companionship, of love, of a ray of light in an ocean of gray. |
| Delusion | 2,016 | Vallo Toomla | Drama | 5.4 | 19 | ET | Estonia | After a heavy decision, Anna and Juhan are unable to move on with their lives. They take time off at their friends' fancy summer house and once there, are forced to offer shelter to another couple caught in the storm. The couple assumes that the house belongs to Anna and Juhan and they do nothing to correct the mistake. Instead, they seize their new roles and start taking their mutual bitterness out on the strangers. |
| Goodbye Soviet Union | 2,020 | Lauri Randla | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 | 17 | ET | Estonia | Johannes, a young Ingrian Finn, grows up in Soviet Estonia with his liberal student mother and pro-Soviet grandmother. The boy's life is revolutionized when he experiences first love and his mother decides to leave for Finland. |
| Disco and Atomic War | 2,009 | Jaak Kilmi | Documentary | 5.4 | 15 | ET | Estonia | A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation. |
| Somnambulance | 2,003 | Sulev Keedus | Drama | 5.3 | 11 | ET | Estonia | Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition. |
| Ghost Mountaineer | 2,015 | Urmas E. Liiv | Mystery, Adventure, Thriller, Horror | 5.1 | 21 | ET | Estonia | An Estonian student hiking group get caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle, becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip and disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. A weird and insane chain of events is unleashed which seems to be orchestrated by the missing Olle. In a foreign land and among people they do not know, the hikers are faced with a task which they at first do not want to undertake and later are unable to tackle. |
| Hell | 1,983 | Rein Raamat | Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Music | 5 | 17 | ET | Soviet Union | Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability. |
| Free Range | 2,013 | Veiko Õunpuu | Drama | 4.9 | 10 | ET | Estonia | After being fired from his job at a newspaper for writing a destructive review of a celebrated movie, Fred, an aspiring writer, learns that his girlfriend is pregnant. |
| The Triangle | 1,982 | Priit Pärn | Animation | 4.7 | 10 | ET | Soviet Union | Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal. |
| Hotel E | 1,992 | Priit Pärn | Animation | 4.4 | 14 | ET | Estonia | A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray. |
| The Adventurer | 1,983 | Kaljo Kiisk | Drama | 4.4 | 11 | ET | Soviet Union | Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looking for the woman of his dreams. He wears a bedraggled white suit but generously pays for any lodging he needs or in one case, even buys a farm. Nipernaadi has a way with words and enchants those he meets with his wild stories about himself. Women find him appealing and the men are entertained as he moves from one locale to the next. |
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