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Ukraine Cinema
Top 93 films from Ukraine (out of 93 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods | 2,024 | Jamie Roberts | Documentary, War | 8.3 | 10 | English | A revealing and moving portrait of lives compromised by war, filmed exclusively by Ukrainian soldiers with extraordinary access to a tightly-controlled frontline. |
| Antarctica | 2,025 | Anton Ptushkin | Documentary | 7.9 | 18 | Ukrainian | Scientists live and research in Antarctica, facing isolation and harsh conditions. They study climate change, glaciers, and wildlife while maintaining Ukraine's presence on the continent. |
| Diagnosis: Dissent | 2,024 | Denis Tarasov | Drama, History | 7.9 | 10 | Ukrainian | The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. The script was based on the memoirs of Soviet dissidents who faced the brutality of a totalitarian system that used so-called "punitive psychiatry" as a weapon against free thought. |
| Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 2,023 | Antonio Lukich | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 | 59 | Ukrainian | Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving the country. As a result, they both go to Luxembourg in search of their dad: Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasylii thinks he is a scoundrel. |
| The Guide | 2,014 | Oles Sanin | History, Drama | 7.8 | 37 | Ukrainian | American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine. |
| Stay Online | 2,024 | Eva Strelnikova | Drama | 7.7 | 10 | Ukrainian | Katia, a volunteer from Kyiv fighting against the invasion of Ukraine, uses a laptop donated to the resistance and comes into contact with the young son of the computer’s original owner, who is desperately in search of his missing parents. Her attempts to help the child will see her risk all she holds dear. |
| Sniper: The White Raven | 2,022 | Marian Bushan | War, Action, Drama | 7.6 | 855 | Ukrainian | Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision and gets enlisted in a sniper company. Having met his wife’s killers, he emotionally breaks down and arranges “sniper terror” for the enemy. |
| My Thoughts Are Silent | 2,020 | Antonio Lukich | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 72 | Ukrainian | Twenty-five-year-old Vadym earns a living recording and selling all kinds of different sounds; nevertheless, he’d rather exchange his life in Kyiv for a better future in far-flung Canada. Thus, when he gets a generous job offer which might help him realise his dream, he jumps at the chance; he soon sets off to record the sounds of animals indigenous to Ukraine and also a rare bird native to the Carpathians. The situation proves somewhat more complicated when Vadym’s companion on the trip turns out to be his mother… To the sounds of a synthesized music score, debuting Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich unfolds a visually creative road movie, in which he demonstrates a highly unusual talent for constructing tragicomic situations. |
| Khaytarma | 2,013 | Akhtem Seitablaiev | Drama, History, War | 7.6 | 18 | Ukrainian | The film tells about the tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar people — May 18, 1944 — Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars. The plot of the film — a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amethan Sultan. In May, 1944, a year after liberation of Sevastopol Amethan goes on vacation to his native town Alupka. On May 18 his eyes witness begining of deportation of the Crimean Tatars. |
| December 31st Express | 2,025 | Oleh Borshchevskyi | Comedy | 7.6 | 11 | Ukrainian | December 31st Express was supposed to be an ordinary, quiet rail run, at least that's what conductor Mykola Ivanovych thought. However, a comically chaotic group of passengers including a runaway bride and angry accountant upset a retiring train conductor's peaceful last journey. |
| Hutsul Girl Ksenia | 2,019 | Olena Demianenko | Music, Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 15 | Ukrainian | 1939. A young Ukrainian-American man Yaro comes to the Carpathian Mountains, because his father left him a fortune under the condition that he would marry a Ukrainian girl. There Yaro meets a Hutsul girl Ksenya and has to rethink his plan. |
| Chervonyi | 2,017 | Zaza Buadze | History, Drama | 7.5 | 15 | Ukrainian | Year 1947. Commander of UPA Danylo Chervonyi gets into the terrible slaughter of Stalin's camps, where he must go through hell and inhumane prison conditions, prosecution of criminal leaders, meanness, betrayal and despair. Danylo finds the strength to resist repression of the camp commander and makes a desperate attempt to break free, raising the first rebel in the camp. |
| Myrnyi-21 | 2,023 | Akhtem Seitablaiev | War, Drama | 7.5 | 11 | Ukrainian | The story of trust and its absence against the background of events unfolding in Eastern Ukraine in early 2014. The main topic is revealed through the prism of the Luhansk border base, whose fighters the separatists and Russian special services tried unsuccessfully force to betray their country. |
| Rock Paper Grenade | 2,024 | Iryna Tsilyk | Drama | 7.4 | 14 | Ukrainian | A story about relationships between children and adults broken by shaky 1990s in Ukraine. The boy Tymophii befriends a weird man named Felix. He's the veteran of Afghan war, he has PTSD and he loves music. |
| Falling | 2,017 | Maryna Stepanska | Drama | 7.4 | 13 | Ukrainian | A story about the post-revolutionary generation of young Ukrainian people looking for their place in a modern Ukraine. Two bewildered people meet at a crucial moment in their existence and experience a few days of happiness together. |
| Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine | 2,017 | Mark Jonathan Harris | Documentary | 7.4 | 11 | English | The film looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians. |
| Cyborgs | 2,017 | Akhtem Seitablaiev | War, Action, Drama | 7.3 | 61 | Ukrainian | ‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal. |
| The Stronghold | 2,017 | Yuriy Kovalyov | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, History | 7.2 | 232 | Ukrainian | A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage. |
| Foxter and Max | 2,019 | Anatoli Mateshko | Adventure, Fantasy, Family | 7.2 | 112 | Ukrainian | The twelve-year-old schoolboy Max escapes from the house and hides under the bridge. There he finds a spray can of nano-paints, and draw a graffiti of a dog. Unexpectedly painted graffiti comes alive and turns into dog-nanorobot with super powers. And now both of them are hunted by a dangerous criminal who will not stop at anything in order to seize this powerful technology. Guy Max falls into a whirlpool of adventure, through which he finds true friends. |
| Homeward | 2,019 | Nariman Aliev | Drama | 7.2 | 30 | Ukrainian | Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship. |
| Beshoot | 2,019 | Ivan Tymchenko | War, Action, Drama | 7.2 | 13 | Ukrainian | Based on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would-be 'green corridor'. The fighters survive thanks to the help of the locals and manage to break out through the front line to reach the freed territory. Taras Kostanchuk who is playing himself as 'Beshoot' is that same Donbas commander who is the prototype of the story. Half of the actors and extras are real 'Donbas' volunteers who survived the battle. |
| Mavka: The Forest Song | 2,023 | Oleg Malamuzh | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.1 | 833 | Ukrainian | Mavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls for a human, a talented young musician named Lukas. |
| Phosphor | 2,023 | Kostyantyn Linartovych | War, Drama | 7.1 | 41 | Ukrainian | Returning wounded from the war Maksym was overcome by self-doubt, in his physiological state. He is undergoing rehabilitation. He loses contact with his wife. He is tormented by dreams. In one of his dreams Maksym goes to the island to catch a lot of fish, as the paramedic advised him. Maksym takes a boat, net, dynamite from the best man and sails to the island. |
| Famine-33 | 1,991 | Oles Yanchuk | Drama, History | 7.1 | 14 | Ukrainian | The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white. |
| My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 2,022 | Michael Steed | Documentary | 7.1 | 13 | English | David Letterman journeys to Kyiv, Ukraine for a stirring, personal and in-depth conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. |
| Dovbush | 2,023 | Oles Sanin | History, Drama | 7 | 36 | Ukrainian | In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. The two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos - mountain outlaws. But the two brothers become enemies - one cares only about money, the other - Oleksa - fights for his people. The Carpathians are convulsed with a wave of uprisings. The aristocracy uses its military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend. But Dovbush outwits them. The desperate lords devise a devious plan and attack the invincible outlaw's Achilles heel - his love for his childhood sweetheart, Marichka. Who will be the assassin to attack the Opryshko whose immense strength and bravery inspired folk tales? Will the lords' treacherous plan destroy the hero before he can lead his people to freedom? |
| Bad Roads | 2,021 | Nataliia Vorozhbyt | Drama | 7 | 29 | Ukrainian | Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge. |
| Rocky Road to Berlin | 2,024 | Olha Riashyna | Comedy, Adventure | 7 | 17 | Ukrainian | The story of the novice musician Kuzma. Three days before the planned concert he goes with his friend Bard to Berlin for the old car "Pobeda". It is said that there is a collector ready to exchange the yellow beast for the Mercedes-Benz W140 (called as "Mers"). Kuzma promises his girlfriend Barbara to return home in a new car, and the guys from the band - to have time to perform. From the first minutes of the trip, of course, everything goes wrong. However, one thing is certain: the adventure will help the heroes find their true purpose. |
| Censored | 2,019 | Roman Brovko | History, Drama | 7 | 16 | Ukrainian | This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom". |
| Black Raven | 2,019 | Taras Tkachenko | Drama, History, War | 7 | 15 | Ukrainian | Ukraine 1922. The Russian empire has already broken up, but a new state has not yet been formed. Many tried to create and consolidate their indepen... |
| Olga | 2,021 | Elie Grappe | Drama | 6.9 | 56 | Ukrainian | 2013. Exiled in Switzerland, Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to secure a place in the National Sports Centre. But the Euromaidan revolt erupts in Kyiv, and suddenly her loved ones are involved. While the girl is adapting to her new country and preparing for the European Championships, the Ukrainian revolution makes its way into her life, and nothing will ever be the same again. |
| Felix Austria | 2,020 | Khrystyna Syvolap | Romance, History | 6.9 | 35 | Ukrainian | The plot revolves around the controversial relationship between maid Stefania Chornenko and blueblood Adelia Anger against the backdrop of the provincial Austro-Hungary in 1900. Both Stefania’s parents and Adelia’s mother died during the fire. Adelia’s father adopted neighbors’ orphan. Girls grew up together to become as close as sisters, though Stefania served as the maid. This attachment develops into love-trap: on one hand full of mutual manipulation and jealousy, but equally based on сare and devotion. The illusion of balance is broken when Adelia marries sculptor Petro. Everything gets even more complicated when Joseph, the old love interest of Stefa, returns to town as the priest and married man. Illusions are destined to evaporate and reality comes into focus. |
| Almost Holy | 2,015 | Steve Hoover | Documentary, Drama | 6.9 | 25 | English | After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. In the early 2000s a pastor from Mariupol named Gennadiy Mokhnenko took up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly abducting street kids and bringing them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center—the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. Gennadiy's ongoing efforts and unabashedly tough love approach to his city's problems has made him a folk hero for some, and a lawless vigilante to others. Despite criticism, Gennadiy is determined to continue his work. |
| The Homeowners' Dilemma | 2,024 | Dmytro Shmurak | Comedy | 6.9 | 14 | Ukrainian | Residents of a Ukrainian apartment building gather to discuss the purchase of a common generator for the winter. However, its capacity is not enough for everyone. |
| The Stolen Princess | 2,018 | Oleg Malamuzh | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family | 6.8 | 184 | Ukrainian | This wonderful story happened in the age of valiant knights, beautiful princesses, and battling sorcerers. Ruslan, a wandering artist dreaming to become a knight, met beautiful Mila and fell in love with her; he didn’t even suspect that she is the King’s daughter. However, the lovers’ happiness wasn’t meant to last too long. Chernomor, the evil sorcerer, appeared in a magic vortex and stole Mila right before Ruslan’s eyes to transform her power of love into his own magic power. Without further ado, Ruslan sets out on a chase after the stolen princess to overcome all obstacles and to prove that real love is stronger than magic. |
| Pulse | 2,021 | Serhii Chebotarenko | Drama | 6.8 | 43 | Ukrainian | As a result of a terrible car accident, young Ukrainian athlete Oksana Boturchuk suffers several serious injuries, almost losing her eyesight. However, after long rehabilitation and a returning to incredible training, she is able to conquer a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in Beijing. |
| The Wild Fields | 2,018 | Yaroslav Lodygin | Adventure, Comedy, Western, Drama | 6.8 | 17 | Ukrainian | The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense. |
| The Tribe | 2,014 | Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi | Drama, Crime | 6.7 | 309 | Ukrainian | Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group." |
| Infoholic | 2,017 | Vlad Klymchuk | Comedy | 6.7 | 10 | Ukrainian | Maksim, an investing manager, is too busy reading the news in his social network feeds fails to notice his own problems, until the news really start to influence his own life. |
| Winter of The Braves | 2,019 | Oleksii Shapariev | History, War, Drama | 6.6 | 75 | Ukrainian | 1918 Ukraine. Patriotic students, protagonists of the film, get ready to defend Kyiv and fight heroically in the Battle of Kruty. On this historical background reveals the story of the Savytskyi family - the general of Ukraine's counterintelligence and his two sons, Andrii and Oleksa. |
| Atlantis | 2,020 | Valentyn Vasyanovych | War, Drama, Science Fiction | 6.6 | 55 | Ukrainian | A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society. |
| U311 Cherkasy | 2,020 | Timur Yashchenko | War, Action, Drama | 6.5 | 56 | Ukrainian | The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014. |
| The Witch. Revenge | 2,024 | Andrii Kolesnyk | Horror, Fantasy, War, Drama | 6.5 | 37 | Ukrainian | The tale unfolds around an ancient witch from the Ukrainian town of Konotop, who long ago abandoned her extraordinary powers after falling in love with a mortal man. However, tragedy strikes when her beloved is brutally murdered by the russian soldiers as they occupy Konotop in February 2022. Fueled by grief and a thirst for revenge, she reclaims her supernatural abilities, embarking on a blood-soaked quest to mete out justice to her fiancé's killers. |
| How the Cossacks Played Hockey | 1,995 | Tadeush Pavlenko | Animation, Comedy | 6.5 | 15 | Ukrainian | The final episode, released after the fall of the Soviet Union, features the Cossacks as the parents of an entire children’s hockey team. While hosting the Canadian hockey team, they have to thwart their former pirate enemies once again. |
| The Tram #9 Was Going | 2,002 | Stepan Koval | Animation, Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Ukrainian | A morning tram over-occupied with passengers, but more and more people are trying to get in there. Inside, the life fountains. Someone talks about their troubles with children, somebody experiences a personal trauma, others can not stand up to quarrel, neighbors discuss a TV-series... All the events where usually, at least in the days this cartoon was created, common Ukrainians are involved in on their way to job-places is shown in this curious, vivid and witty claymation. |
| Ku... | 2,001 | Serhii Mindlin | Animation | 6.4 | 69 | Ukrainian | In old forgotten place an evil and insidious Koshchiy the Immortal lived. He lived his days among gray mists and vicious howls of unknown animals. There was no longer a magical cat who sang songs and recited poetry, a mermaid died, like many other fairytale characters. There was only him, a miserable old man. |
| The Dragon Spell | 2,016 | Manuk Depoian | Family, Comedy, Animation, Fantasy, Adventure | 6.4 | 31 | Ukrainian | Little Nicky, the son of the Tanner, a famous strongman, has made up his mind, that he can conquer the dragon as his father did long ago. Against prohibition of his father, Nicky has managed to get into trouble and now it depends only on his courage, whether he defeats the resurgent dragon and returns home from the magic world. |
| On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11, Nothing Happened in Irpin | 2,024 | Ania Na | Documentary | 6.4 | 18 | Ukrainian | This short film is a grotesque reflection of the threat of death that could come at any moment from Russian missiles and other weapons. This artistic expression sends a shout-out to John Smith, an English avant-garde director. Film is an embodiment of the idea that a person feels safe when he or she has a sense of control. |
| Hero of My Time | 2,018 | Tonya Noyabriova | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 13 | Ukrainian | When Zhorik moves to Kyiv, he has high hopes to improve his life. But then he encounters the mundane struggles, bureaucracy, and corruption of Ukrainian reality. |
| DZIDZIO First Time | 2,018 | Taras Dron | Comedy | 6.4 | 12 | Ukrainian | Dzidzio is a great artist and a naive child at the same time. All his life he hides one little secret that turns into a huge problem. This time, neither the best mom nor his coolest friend will not be able to help him. Because such a delicate matter Dzidzio must decide for the first time. |
| Once Upon a Time in Ukraine | 2,020 | Roman Perfilyev | Adventure, Comedy, Action | 6.3 | 20 | Ukrainian | What if Taras Shevchenko put down his pen and took a samurai sword into his hands? Akayo samurai enters the territory of Ukraine, seeking revenge on the Japanese Harimoto--a buyer of slaves from a Ukrainian master. On his way, Akayo meets the serf Taras, who is also guided by personal revenge and wants to organize the release of his beloved. |
| Butterfly Vision | 2,022 | Maksym Nakonechnyi | Drama | 6.3 | 17 | Ukrainian | After spending months as a prisoner in Donbas, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself. |
| Call Sign "Banderas" | 2,018 | Zaza Buadze | War, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 15 | Ukrainian | In the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Saienko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur. |
| Orange Love | 2,007 | Alan Badoev | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 15 | Ukrainian | A sickly man places a classified ad in which he offers a huge downtown loft apartment, utilities, food and eventual ownership of the flat with just one proviso: the couple who moves in must love each other so much that they can remain in the flat all day until the old man’s death. If one of them leaves, the deal is off. Enter the pale and auburn-haired Katya, a cellist who meets photographer Roman, a handsomely muscular young man. |
| The Russian Woodpecker | 2,015 | Chad Gracia | Documentary, History | 6.2 | 37 | English | As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it. |
| Me, You, He, She | 2,018 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Comedy | 6.2 | 32 | Ukrainian | A married couple decides to divorce, but things don't quite go the way they planned. |
| Servant of the People 2 | 2,016 | Oleksii Kyriushchenko | Comedy | 6.2 | 32 | Ukrainian | President Vasily Goloborodko is in power for almost half a year. The economic situation in the country had deteriorated: prices are rising and the national currency has depreciated. People's confidence in the President is rapidly falling. To stabilize the situation in the country Goloborodko needs to get financial assistance from the IMF in the amount of 15 billion euros, which can be provided, if reforms and anti-corruption laws will be introduced in Ukraine. |
| Infernal Guidon, or Cossack Christmas | 2,020 | Mykhailo Kostrov | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 16 | Ukrainian | This fairy tale tells about famous Ukrainian warriors Cossacks, about Paradise and hell, Christmas and evil forces. The Devil makes an agreement with St. Peter. If he can capture the best Cossack warrior and hold him until Christmas night, he will be able to wipe all the Cossacks off the map. The script for the movie is based on Sashko Lirnyk's story "About an old Cossack, a Christmas devil, four horns and a Cossacks". |
| Exchange | 2,022 | Volodymyr Kharchenko-Kulykovskyi | War, Drama | 6.2 | 11 | Ukrainian | How to repay parental debt on the other side of the front line? Why would a doctor kill and when to believe the enemy? How is the war in eastern Ukraine different from any other war in the world? A war drama about the stories of two families, where adult men took up arms and thus crossed their destinies. |
| Stop-Zemlia | 2,022 | Kateryna Gornostai | Drama | 6.1 | 45 | Ukrainian | Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the Ukrainian director composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental. |
| Kingdom of Swords | 2,018 | Taras Khymych | Action, Adventure | 6.1 | 33 | Ukrainian | This is the story about man who had a great way. His adventures and losses, his life make you to be surprised. We invite you in the middle ages - a times of darkness, of heroes, of big power and of eternity love. |
| Reflection | 2,022 | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Drama, War | 6.1 | 10 | Ukrainian | The film centers on Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy, who is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine, and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference toward human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support. |
| The Saratov Approach | 2,013 | Garrett Batty | Thriller, Drama, Action | 6 | 37 | English | An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe release, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually. |
| Firecrosser | 2,012 | Mykhailo Illienko | Adventure, Drama | 6 | 12 | Ukrainian | The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief. |
| The Rising Hawk | 2,019 | Akhtem Seitablaiev | Action, History, Drama | 5.9 | 144 | English | During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against Mongolian invaders. |
| Crazy Wedding | 2,018 | Vlad Klymchuk | Comedy | 5.9 | 30 | Ukrainian | Vasyl Serediuk - head of the local Museum - having sent his daughter Kateryna to a french university, never expected the outcome: a month ago she informed him that she is getting married to a French heart surgeon François. Since then Vasyl’s proud statement spread throughout the whole region: “The Serediuks have made their European choice!". How huge was his surprise when he saw that the cherished European future son-in-law is a Frenchman of African origin. Organizing a wedding so that it never happens seems like a brilliant idea. But when true love stands in the way, the success of such plan is not a given. |
| Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf | 2,022 | Myroslav Latyk | Mystery, History | 5.9 | 16 | Ukrainian | Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects. |
| Evropejskij Konvoj | 2,003 | Andrei Benkendorf | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.9 | 14 | Russian | Three natives of the former USSR commit a daring robbery of a German bank. Having bagged three hundred thousand euros and taken a bank employee hostage, the bandits set off through Poland to Ukraine. The situation is complicated by the fact that at one of the Polish gas stations they have to take another woman hostage. Now the law enforcement agencies of three countries - Germany, Poland and Ukraine - face a difficult task: neutralizing the criminals without harming the hostages. |
| La Palisiada | 2,024 | Philip Sotnychenko | Drama | 5.8 | 10 | Ukrainian | Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased. Immersed in the complicated case and long forgotten memories, they create a future where their children have to live, inheriting unrealized aspirations of their parents. |
| Aurora | 2,006 | Oksana Bayrak | Drama | 5.7 | 10 | English | Aurora dreams about becoming a talented ballet dancer one day. However, life is not so simple. 12-year-old orphan Aurora Nedelina lives in an orphanage in Pripyat and accidentally becomes a witness to the explosion at the Chernobyl APP. Having received a critical dose of radiation, she is sent to an American hospital where she meets the rich American Russian, Nick Astakhov--the world-famous dancer who had emigrated from the USSR 15 years prior. Nick is talented, successful, young, yet disappointed in life. Meeting up with Aurora helps Nick turn it all around. However, with each day, Aurora fades away a little more. Only something short of a miracle can save her |
| Ukraine Is Not a Brothel | 2,013 | Kitty Green | Documentary | 5.6 | 16 | English | Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has created a media frenzy across Europe, but before they take the world by storm, these bold and beautiful women must confront the dark and perverse forces that power their organisation. |
| Life After: Chernobyl | 2,016 | Chiara Bellati | Documentary | 5.6 | 10 | English | Thirty years after the worst nuclear catastrophe in history, which sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere, biologist Rob Nelson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota are the first scientists to be granted unlimited access to the Chernobyl exclusion/danger zone to investigate how the environment and the wildlife have been affected after three decades of radiation exposure. |
| The Dam | 2,025 | Oleksii Taranenko | Action, Horror, Thriller | 5.5 | 11 | Ukrainian | The film takes place during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the Kakhovka dam is blown up, a detachment of Ukrainian soldiers led by a female fighter with the call sign Mara finds themselves in a secret Soviet bunker at the bottom of a reservoir where the USSR conducted human experiments during the Cold War. The consequences of these experiments are still in the bunker in the form of the half-living corpses of Soviet soldiers. Now, in order to survive, Ukrainians need to defeat the Soviet zombies, their own fear, as well as overcome internal disputes and trust each other. |
| DZIDZIO Contrabass | 2,017 | Oleh Borshchevskyi | Comedy | 5.3 | 18 | Ukrainian | Growing up near the border, money wasn’t an issue for these men. But suddenly, a pretty woman appears on their way and ruins all their plans. Get ready for the ground-shaking adventures when they risk everything to make their dreams a reality. |
| New Year's In-Laws | 2,011 | Evgeniy Bedarev | Comedy, Family, Music, TV Movie | 5.2 | 15 | Russian | Ivan and Valentina decide to celebrate New Year very modestly, without Christmas trees and festive delicacies, in the native village of Kuchugury. But, their city in-laws come — Yuri and Olga Kovalev with Zhenya, their granddaughter. And the celebrities who are going to corporate parties become stuck in the village because of heavy snowfall and drifts on the roads. The hotel does not have enough space, and in-laws, experienced in this business, offer their services. |
| I'll Be Around | 2,012 | Pavel Ruminov | Drama | 5.2 | 14 | Russian | A 30-something single mother must find adoptive parents for her son when she founds out she has an incurable illness in this family drama. |
| #SelfieParty | 2,016 | Liubomyr Levytskyi | Comedy | 5.1 | 10 | Ukrainian | Four friends wake up in a police station with no memory of anything. They are accused of murdering a dwarf. The heroes collect all the photos and videos to find out what happened last night at the party. |
| Indi | 2,007 | Oleksandr Kirienko | Romance, Drama | 5.1 | 10 | Russian | Arina is young, reach and independent woman. She's married to a wealthy businessman. But deep inside she's still looking for a true love. |
| Unforgotten Shadows | 2,013 | Liubomyr Levytskyi | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 5 | 26 | Ukrainian | A young college student and a group of friends find themselves victims of demons unwillingly released during a mishap at a prestiguous university. To reverse the curse and save themselves, they travel to the forbidden mystical forest in western Ukraine. There, they must locate the legendary Molfars that can help rid them of demonic possession and save each of them from certain death. Danger lurks in the forest and personality clashes add to the tension as the young students fight for survival. |
| Porn with Murder | 2,018 | Damir Ienaliiev | Comedy | 5 | 11 | Ukrainian | Denis is a small businessman. He owes a large sum of money to a bandit. To pay off the debt, Denis decides to make money on porn. When he starts shooting an adult movie with enthusiasm, he has no idea how to do it. |
| Just Sex, Nothing Personal | 2,018 | Olha Riashyna | Comedy, Romance | 5 | 11 | Ukrainian | When Serhiy asks his girlfriend to marry him, he is met with a sound rebuff and an unflattering critique of his poor performance in bed. Broken-hearted and with his world almost falling apart, Serhiy takes a macho decision to spend the New Year holiday with his friend, Vasyl in Prague. After a fairly dismal night in a strip club, Serhiy meets striptease dancer, Diana, who offers to show him the way to become a sex super hero. But his ex-girlfriend seems to be standing in the way of realising his dream. We follow Serhiy's further hot - and ever hotter - adventures in Prague. |
| Dinner is served! | 2,006 | Maksym Papernyk | Comedy, Romance | 5 | 11 | Russian | The husband decided to celebrate the New year with a young mistress in his country house, converted from a former pig farm, he sends his wife to visit his mother-in-law, and for an alibi invites an old friend… |
| Las Meninas | 2,008 | Ihor Podolchak | Drama | 4.9 | 11 | Ukrainian | This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique. |
| Crazy Wedding 2 | 2,019 | Vlad Klymchuk | Comedy | 4.8 | 20 | Ukrainian | A year after a crazy wedding, another surprise, another daughter and a new son-in-law, they become part of the most crazy adventures showing high-quality Ukrainian humor. |
| Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka | 2,001 | Semen Horov | TV Movie, Comedy, Fantasy | 4.8 | 17 | Russian | In the remote Ukrainian village of Dykanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oksana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the help of some odd characters from the village and the Devil himself. |
| The Pit | 2,006 | Liubomyr Levytskyi | Horror | 4.6 | 16 | Ukrainian | Our days. Five students of the Faculty of History sent to the archaeological practice. Professor, head of the young seekers of Antiquities, tells them the legend that during the war the museum staff had hidden above a statue of the pagan god Perun somewhere in the dungeons outside the city. |
| Gamer | 2,011 | Oleh Sentsov | Drama | 4.6 | 11 | Russian | The boy's name is Alex, but in the world of gamers where he spends most of his time, he is known as Koss. The enormous amount of time he spends at the computer screen starts to pay off: in the games' clubs in his small Ukrainian village, he is the undisputed king of the shooting game Quake, admired by the 'noobs' - the younger and less experienced players he defeats digitally. But there is also a different side. |
| Crazy Wedding 3 | 2,021 | Liubomyr Levytskyi | Comedy | 4.5 | 12 | Ukrainian | Four years have passed since the latest Crazy wedding, and the youngest from Seredyuk family, Zakhar, is now planning to tie the knot. Traditionally for Vasyl’s children, to start a family he chose an exotic match – gypsy baron’s daughter, beautiful Rada. Though his father has sworn not to spoil the wedding this time and does like his future daughter-in-law, a regular celebration would go against Seredyuk tradition. We’re in for a Crazy wedding yet again! |
| Sappho | 2,008 | Robert Crombie | Drama, Romance | 4.3 | 55 | Ukrainian | On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist. |
| The Tomb | 2,009 | Michael Staininger | Horror | 4.3 | 53 | English | Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. |
| The Inheritance | 2,020 | Chad Barager | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 3.5 | 15 | English | A woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret. |
| Summertime in Ukraine | 2,025 | Volodymyr Tykhyy | Documentary, War | 3.1 | 11 | English | The film tells the story of several volunteers, soldiers of the International Legion of the General Staff of the Unified Armed Forces, a unit called Ronin Team. During their service, the soldiers become true friends: they work, study and rest together. However, a time of trials for the courage and skills of the legionnaires comes. The hot summer months are not easy for them. And not all recruits can withstand the high pace of training and service. Meanwhile, troubling news of the Russian offensive comes from the front. |
| Synevir | 2,012 | Vyacheslav Alyoshechkin | Horror | 2.7 | 10 | Ukrainian | Famous lake in Carpathian mountains -- lake Synevir -- is known for its rich history throughout the hundreds of years as a place of mystical unexpl... |
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