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Top 29 films from Latvia (out of 29 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Kolka Cool | 2,011 | Juris Poškus | Drama, Comedy | 8.4 | 10 | LV | A film that depicts the mentality of the inhabitants of a small village on the Baltic coast. Three guys are trying to fulfill their life's by drinking beer, killing time and picking up fights with neighboring villagers. The main character Andzha is trying to convince his girlfriend to marry him. The sudden arrival of his elder brother Guido starts a series of events where main roles a played by elevated self-esteem, pride and cravings for love that is stronger than death. |
| Flow | 2,024 | Gints Zilbalodis | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family | 8.1 | 2,635 | LV | A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together. |
| Rocks in My Pockets | 2,014 | Signe Baumane | Comedy, Animation, Drama | 7.8 | 26 | English | The personal story of a woman struggling with an inherited illness, as told by Signe Baumane, the Latvian director-animator living in New York City. With humour and courage, the director sets out on a challenging journey to discover her family’s best-kept secret. Featuring five stories about the courageous women in Signe’s family and their battles with madness, visual metaphors, surreal images and director’s narration. |
| Liberation Day | 2,016 | Uģis Olte | Documentary, Music | 7.8 | 20 | English | Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. |
| The Soviet Story | 2,008 | Edvīns Šņore | Documentary, War, History | 7.3 | 37 | English | “The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.... |
| The Rifleman | 2,019 | Dzintars Dreibergs | War, Drama, History | 7.2 | 169 | LV | The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country. |
| Mellow Mud | 2,016 | Renārs Vimba | Drama | 7.1 | 17 | LV | Siblings Roby and Raya after the death of their father and being abandoned by their mother, are forced to live with their dominating grandmother in a small country house owned by their family. Things change after the sudden death of their grandmother. The teenagers have to face a tough choice: either to report the accident and submit themselves to a life in an orphanage or hide the dead body and live as if nothing has happened. |
| My Favorite War | 2,020 | Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen | Animation, Documentary, History | 7 | 10 | LV | Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War. |
| MAN | 2,020 | Yulia Timoshkina | Drama | 6.5 | 16 | LV | A story about several hours, which significantly change the adolescent boy's life. In a small town in Latvia, there is an old Ferris wheel near a bar, in which the protagonist meets a female truck driver, and soon the wheel of fate of the adolescent boy is set in motion. |
| Jelgava '94 | 2,019 | Jānis Ābele | Drama | 6.5 | 11 | LV | Film takes us deep inside the world of Latvian teenagers in 90s: combining the intimate diary of a teenager Jānis trying to find himself by joining a subculture, as well as a skillful, detailed and almost documentary-like depiction of the beginnings of the second independence of Latvia. “Jelgava ’94” is a portrait of a generation in the 1990s who are searching for their own identity and are fans of alternative culture. This is a touching story about us as youngsters, when everybody is against the whole world and tries not to become “one of them”. But can one keep the promise? The story is based on the best seller by Jānis Joņevs set in the 1994 in the Latvian city of Jelgava. |
| Fallen | 2,005 | Fred Kelemen | Drama, Mystery | 6.5 | 10 | LV | One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget her. Driven by a feeling of remorse and the fever of illusion, he roams through the city night and day looking for traces of her existence. This journey through the tumult of his conscience leads him deeper into his own loneliness and the depths of his soul, as he gets more and more entangled in the destinies of the woman and of the people who were attached to her. He finds himself confronted with the pain of yearning and guilt, the cruelty of love and desire, and the search for forgiveness, release and salvation. |
| Away | 2,019 | Gints Zilbalodis | Animation, Drama, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.4 | 107 | LV | After suffering a plane crash on a mysterious island, a young man embarks on an epic journey through forests, deserts and mountains trying to escape the shadow of a huge dark spirit. |
| The Gambler | 2,013 | Ignas Jonynas | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 12 | LT | Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake. |
| Devil's Bride | 2,016 | Saara Cantell | Drama, History | 5.9 | 59 | Finnish | Anna is a 16-year old in a village where women are accused of witchcraft. It's based on the witch hunts on Åland, Finland in the 1600s. |
| Baltic Tribes | 2,018 | Lauris Ābele | Documentary, Drama, History | 5.8 | 12 | LV | DocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes. |
| The Dissidents | 2,017 | Jaak Kilmi | Action, Comedy | 5.7 | 13 | ET | 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. |
| River of Fear | 2,022 | Uģis Olte | Thriller, Mystery, Horror | 5.6 | 59 | LV | A local guide is asked to lead a group of influencers along the river of a remote valley. As they get deeper into the wilderness, their venture takes a frightening turn. |
| Midsummer Madness | 2,007 | Alexander Hahn | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 27 | English | St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern". |
| Van Goghs | 2,018 | Sergey Livnev | Drama | 5.4 | 17 | Russian | Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love. |
| My Love Affair with Marriage | 2,023 | Signe Baumane | Animation, Drama | 5.4 | 15 | English | From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grew older something didn't seem right with the concept of love: the more she tried to conform, the more her body resisted. A story about the acceptance of the inner female rebellion. |
| Paradise 89 | 2,018 | Madara Dišlere | Drama, Family | 5.2 | 15 | LV | Summer, 1989. City girls, Paula and Laura, spend their summer holidays in a small town with their cousins, Maija and Linda. Four girls, left unattended, enjoy freedom, imitate the life of adults, plunge into reckless adventures and get into trouble. Based on true events, nine-year-old Paula’s story of growing up is set against the background of time when Latvia made her first steps towards independence. |
| WarHunt | 2,022 | Mauro Borrelli | Action, Horror, Thriller, War, Fantasy | 5 | 99 | English | 1945. A U.S. military cargo plane loses control and violently crashes behind enemy lines in the middle of the German black forest. Major Johnson sends a squad of his bravest soldiers on a rescue mission to retrieve the top-secret material the plane was carrying, led by Sergeants Brewer and Walsh. They soon discover hanged Nazi soldiers and other dead bodies bearing ancient, magical symbols. Suddenly their compasses fail, their perceptions twist and straying from the group leads to profound horrors as they are attacked by a powerful, supernatural force. |
| Welcome to Mercy | 2,018 | Tommy Bertelsen | Drama, Horror | 5 | 41 | English | When a single mother begins to experience symptoms of the stigmata, she seeks the help of a local priest and nun to help her understand what is seen and unseen. |
| Spider | 1,992 | Vasili Mass | Drama, Horror | 4.8 | 20 | LV | A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery. |
| Swingers | 2,018 | Andrejs Ēķis | Comedy, Romance | 4.6 | 17 | Ukrainian | Ihor, is bored with his glamorous girlfriend Ilona. Meanwhile, Irina, demands sex of Andrew, for which he has neither strength nor desire. Ihor and Irina demand a sexual experiment - a swinger's party. Meanwhile, Sveta, left naked on her lover's balcony when his wife suddenly returns, is saved by Denis the neighbour. But the evening gets more interesting when Edward appears on Denis's doorstep. |
| The Piper | 2,023 | Anthony Waller | Horror, Fantasy | 4.5 | 20 | English | Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children. |
| Tsoi | 2,020 | Alexei Uchitel | Drama | 4.2 | 13 | Russian | 15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed. |
| Swingers 2 | 2,019 | Andrejs Ēķis | Comedy | 4 | 13 | Ukrainian | Meet the crazy continuation of the erotic comedy "Swingers 2" directed by Andrei Ekis. The film is a continuation of 2018 movie, in which the main roles went to the stars Oli Polyakova, Dasha Astafieva and Mikhail Kukuyuk. Married couples in whom passion in an intimate life has long faded away, decided to take desperate steps and exchanged partners. After the events of the first part, time passed. And now Igor has a new problem: he has lost male power. The wife is trying by any means to regain her happiness. What came out of this? |
| Swingers | 2,020 | Andrejs Ēķis | Comedy | 3.7 | 15 | Polish | A light comedy about building relationships – with passion and funny misunderstandings. All characters of this movie are in desire for flirt. |
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