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HY-Language Films
Top 18 HY-language films from a catalog of 18, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Aurora's Sunrise | 2,023 | Inna Sahakyan | Animation, Documentary, History | 8.2 | 12 | HY | Armenia | The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star. |
| The Color of Pomegranates | 1,969 | Sergei Parajanov | Drama, History | 7.3 | 322 | HY | Soviet Union | The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov. |
| Amerikatsi | 2,022 | Michael A. Goorjian | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 30 | HY | Armenia | In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard. |
| In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam... | 1,984 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation, Family | 7 | 34 | HY | Soviet Union | Musical fantasy based on Armenian fairy tales. |
| Avetik | 1,992 | Don Askarian | Drama | 6.9 | 10 | HY | Armenia | A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin. |
| Spitak | 2,018 | Aleksandr Kott | Drama, Action | 6.6 | 40 | HY | Armenia | «Spitak» tells the story of the most devastating and largest (in terms of casualties) Armenian earthquake that happened on December 7, 1988. This day went down in history as the day of a horrible disaster, which claimed the lives of over 25,000 lives and left more than half a million people homeless. The film «Spitak» is the story of Gor, who left Armenia in search of a better life but now returns back after the earthquake in order to find his home. His family. But it's too late. Everything is destroyed by the disaster. and he has to re-learn to love what he destroyed himself. Film-Requiem. |
| Vodka Lemon | 2,003 | Hiner Saleem | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 39 | HY | Switzerland | In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them. |
| Return | 1,972 | Arman Manaryan | Drama | 6.3 | 563 | HY | Soviet Union | The main character of the film is an outstanding physicist who was invited to Armenia from Russia to head a lab. He comes across many troubles in his homeland, but nevertheless finds his true love there. |
| Life | 1,994 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary | 6.1 | 26 | HY | Armenia | Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning. |
| End | 1,992 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary | 6.1 | 24 | HY | Armenia | Peleshian transforms footage from a train ride into a metaphor for the shape of a life. Early images of faces on the train give way to landscape, a journey through a black tunnel, and a final emergence into pure white light. |
| Hakob Hovnatanyan | 1,967 | Sergei Parajanov | Documentary, History | 6.1 | 13 | HY | Soviet Union | Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century. |
| We | 1,969 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary | 6 | 26 | HY | Soviet Union | Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation. |
| Our Century | 1,983 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary | 5.7 | 25 | HY | Soviet Union | A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem. |
| Mountain Vigil | 1,964 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary | 5.5 | 13 | HY | Soviet Union | Poetic film about the struggle of man's will and muscles against nature, about the rock-climbers who prevent landslides and eliminate their consequences. |
| Parajanov | 2,013 | Serge Avédikian | Drama, Romance | 5.4 | 11 | HY | Armenia | Film director Sergei Parajanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric. His indestructible love for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion. |
| Wind | 1,988 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation | 5 | 10 | HY | Soviet Union | Anti-nuclear cartoon about a soldier at a nuclear test site. Among other things, the mutating effect of radiation is shown in a bizarre form. |
| Honor | 1,926 | Hamo Bek-Nazaryan | History, Drama | 4 | 10 | HY | Soviet Union | Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, the film denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film. |
| The Lesson | 1,987 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation, Science Fiction | 3.5 | 14 | HY | Soviet Union | A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions. |
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