Dovzhenko Centre's Top 100 Ukrainian Films
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1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 8,450
2. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,401
3. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,978
4. The Tribe (2014)
Unrated | 126 min | Crime, Drama
A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi | Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Oleksandr Dsiadevych
Votes: 11,998 | Gross: $0.15M
5. Kaminnyy khrest (1968)
80 min | Drama
The Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories ("The Stone Cross" and "The Thief," both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl Stefanyk.
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Borislav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 260
6. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
153 min | Drama
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko
Votes: 1,404
7. Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
92 min | Drama
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Ivanova
Votes: 1,365
8. Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971)
99 min | Drama, War
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka, Yuri Mikolajchuk
Votes: 607
9. The Long Farewell (1971)
97 min | Drama
A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Yuriy Kayurov, Svetlana Kabanova
Votes: 1,009
10. Vavilon XX (1979)
100 min | Drama
The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.
Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk | Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Les Serdyuk, Yaroslav Gavrilyuk
Votes: 353
11. Atlantis (2019)
108 min | Drama, War
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak, Lily Hyde
Votes: 2,671
12. Propala hramota (1972)
79 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Lidiya Belozyorova, Fyodor Strigun, Zemfira Tsakhilova
Votes: 1,399
13. Brief Encounters (1967)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A maid works for the estranged wife of a geologist who once visited her village and whom she loves.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Kira Muratova, Lidiya Bazilskaya
Votes: 1,051
14. Donbass (2018)
122 min | Drama
In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk, Olesya Zhurakivska
Votes: 4,931
15. In Spring (1929)
79 min | Documentary
In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Kaufman
Votes: 213
16. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Sergey Podgornyy, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev
Votes: 5,771
17. Za dvoma zaytsiamy (1961)
77 min | Comedy, Musical
Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kyiv about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.
Director: Viktor Ivanov | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko, Anna Kushnirenko
Votes: 1,265
18. Adventures of Captain Vrungel (1976–1979)
10 min | Animation, Short, Action
An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.
Stars: Zinoviy Gerdt, Evgeniy Papernyy, Georgiy Kishko, Grigoriy Shpigel
Votes: 2,166
19. Zvenigora (1928)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy
An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Nikolai Nademsky, Semyon Svashenko, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy, Polina Sklyar-Otava
Votes: 1,166
20. My Thoughts Are Silent (2019)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A sound engineer tries to record the song of a rare bird that dwells in the Ukrainian mountains.
Director: Antonio Lukich | Stars: Andriy Lidagovskiy, Irma Vitovska, Iryna Ostrovska, Sergiy Volosovets
Votes: 4,051
21. Krynytsya dlya sprahlykh (1965)
70 min | Drama
The old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Dmitri Milyutenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Feodosiya Litvinenko, Nina Alisova
Votes: 427
22. My Joy (2010)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Gotsdiner
Votes: 2,622 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine (2015)
64 min | Documentary
What is self-organization? How is democracy created? Who decides a punishment? Where are the center and the periphery of the revolution? Where does it start and where does it end? A brief ... See full summary »
Director: Yuriy Hrytsyna
Votes: 29
24. Sovist (1968)
75 min | Drama, War
The story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.
Director: Vladimir Denisenko | Stars: Anatoliy Sokolovskiy, Viktor Malyarevich, Nikolay Oleynik, Nikolai Gudz
Votes: 67
25. Bread (1930)
45 min | Drama
A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with ... See full summary »
Director: Mykola Shpykovskyi | Stars: Fedir Hamalii, Dmitriy Kapka, Luka Lyashenko, Sofia Smirnova
Votes: 97
26. Strogiy yunosha (1935)
100 min | Drama
The characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
Director: Abram Room | Stars: Dmitri Dorlyak, Olga Zhizneva, Yuri Yuryev, Maksim Shtraukh
Votes: 264
27. Arsenal (1929)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman
Votes: 2,335
28. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,049
29. The Rainbow (1944)
87 min | War, Drama
A bitter anti-Nazi film, The Rainbow details of the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Natalya Uzhviy, Nina Alisova, Elena Tyapkina, Valentina Ivashova
Votes: 254
30. Prometey (1936)
83 min | War
Caucasian war goes, squires began to release the serfs, a merchant layer ripens. The rich are rich, the poor are poor. But here already Marks writes the works and the first ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Kavaleridze | Stars: Ivan Tverdokhleb, Polina Nyatko, Aleksandr Serdyuk, Ivan Shtraukh
Votes: 46
31. The Self-Seeker (1929)
75 min | Comedy
An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of... See full summary »
Director: Mykola Shpykovskyi | Stars: Dora Feller-Spikovskaya, Dimitry Kaka, Luka Lyashenko, Ivan Sadovskiy
Votes: 57
32. I and Others (1971)
49 min | Documentary
How independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone ... See full summary »
Director: Feliks Sobolev
Votes: 228
33. Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968)
71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman, Dmitri Franko
Votes: 471
34. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)
74 min | Documentary, War
To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
Director: Iryna Tsilyk | Stars: Danylo Dydenko, Ganna Gladka, Olena Gladka, Olga Gladka
Votes: 768
35. Maidan (2014)
134 min | Documentary
A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 1,214
36. Molytva za hetmana Mazepu (2002)
152 min | Drama, History
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Lyudmila Efimenko, Nikita Dzhigurda, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko
Votes: 231
37. Crepuscule (2014)
61 min | Documentary
Maria, aged 82, and her sick son Sashko live out their days in a remote province. Sashko went blind because of serious illness. He's afraid that his mother is dying, but Maria desperately ... See full summary »
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Mariya Vasyanovych, Olexandr Vasyanovych
Votes: 45
38. Volcano (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
After several strange coincidences, Lukas, translator, who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Bondarchuk | Stars: Serhiy Stepansky, Viktor Zhdanov, Khrystyna Deylyk, Oleksandr Lyakin
Votes: 704
39. Eneida (1991)
69 min | Animation
A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 238
40. Spell Your Name (2006)
PG | 89 min | Documentary
Survivors tell the story of the Babi Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
Director: Sergey Bukovsky | Stars: Polina Bel'skaia, Maryna Chaika, Mariia Egorycheva-Glagoleva, Mikhail Fel'berg
Votes: 149
41. Ya lyublyu (1936)
74 min | Drama
Once a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up a shanty put beginning to miner's settlement of Sobacheevka. Ostap went on the way of father,... See full summary »
Director: Leonid Lukov | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Daniil Vvedenskiy, Vladimir Gardin
Votes: 29
42. Wartime Romance (1983)
92 min | Drama, Romance
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged ... See full summary »
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko, Inna Churikova, Ekaterina Yudina
Votes: 643
43. Bumbarash (1972 TV Movie)
135 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Private Bumbarash is considered dead after air balloon scouting incident gone awry. When he, alive and well, returns home, he has to stay alive and regain the girl he loves in the harsh yet tragicomic circumstances of Russian Civil War.
Directors: Abram Naroditsky, Nikolai Rasheyev | Stars: Valeriy Zolotukhin, Yuri Smirnov, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Votes: 337
44. Zhyva vatra (2015)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary
The snow is starting to melt and spring has announced its arrival. Three Carpathian shepherds, just like their fathers and grandfathers before them, set off with their flock into the mountains on a lonely journey lasting several months.
Director: Ostap Kostyuk
Votes: 172
45. Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse (1956)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.
Directors: Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer | Stars: Nina Ivanova, Nikolay Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev, Valentina Pugachyova
Votes: 1,763
46. Two Days (1927)
60 min | Drama
During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the ... See full summary »
Director: Georgiy Stabovoy | Stars: Ivan Zamychkovsky, Sergei Minin, Valeriy Gakkebush, P. Stroganov
Votes: 76
47. Pervyy etazh (1990)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Serguei, young guardian, falls in love with the sensual Nadia while she is stopped by the militia. They meet again a month later, Nadia leads the shy Sergei to her home and teaches her love... See full summary »
Director: Igor Minaiev | Stars: Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Maksim Kiselyov, Nikolai Tokar, Svetlana Kryuchkova
Votes: 56
48. Koliyivshchyna (1933)
80 min
About the struggle of the Ukrainian poor against the Polish gentry and local feudal lords in the XVIII century.
Director: Ivan Kavaleridze | Stars: Aleksandr Serdyuk, Daniil Antonovich, Ivan Maryanenko, S. Shklyarskiy
Votes: 34
49. Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks (1987)
54 min | Documentary
The first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on the 26 April 1986, focuses on the immediate aftermath of the disaster and the cleanup effort.
Director: Vladimir Shevchenko
Votes: 62
50. Ostrov Sokrovishch (1988)
G | 72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cartoon adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous adventure novel.
Director: David Cherkasskiy | Stars: Valeriy Bessarab, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Viktor Andrienko, Vyacheslav Dubinin
Votes: 4,340
51. The Sentimental Policeman (1992)
115 min | Comedy
An ordinary post-Soviet policeman finds a baby in the garden and wants to adopt it; this 'adventure' turns his life upside down. After the 'shock therapy' of The Asthenic Syndrome.
Directors: Yevgeni Golubenko, Kira Muratova | Stars: Nikolai Shatokhin, Irina Kovalenko, Natalya Ralleva, Dasha Koval
Votes: 145
52. Yshov tramvay N° 9 (2002)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A morning tram over-occupied with passengers, but more and more people are trying to get in there.
Director: Stepan Koval | Stars: Yevgeniy Shakh, Ruslana Pisanka, Inna Kapinos, Yuriy Kovalenko
Votes: 182
53. Vkhodyashchaya v more (1965)
15 min | Short
Short poetic parable of the beginning of human life. A little girl was playing on the beach, and the sea stretched out in front of her as a free poetic element of life. And on the beach, there was adult life, everyday life, prose.
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Tanya Malysh, Antonina Leftiy, Zoya Nedbay, Gennadiy Yukhtin
Votes: 80
54. Shamara (1994)
105 min | Romance
Industrial Soviet town in 1970s suffering from cholera epidemic. Zina Shamarina nicknamed Shamara is a rebel-spirited woman who lives in factory dormitory and is desperately in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Natalya Andreychenko | Stars: Irina Tsymbal, Denis Karasyov, Tatyana Shuran, Anzhelika Nevolina
Votes: 16
55. Takaya pozdnyaya, takaya tyoplaya osen (1982)
88 min | Drama
The Bukovynian peasant Rusnak leaves the poor Bukovynian lands and goes to Canada with his little daughter Orysia--maybe he will be lucky there? And now Rusnak, using the services of "Intourist", goes to his land, where he was once happy.
Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk | Stars: Pyotr Mikhnevich, Gregory Hlady, Galina Sulima, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 91
56. Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015)
85 min | Documentary
A tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.
Director: Roman Bondarchuk
Votes: 429
57. Sem shagov za gorizont (1968)
69 min | Documentary
Has the capacity of the human brain already been exhausted due to information overload? Sobolev posed this question at the end of the 1960s after a hidden camera recorded the results of a ... See full summary »
Director: Feliks Sobolev | Stars: B. Drozhin, Vladimir Raykov, Igor Shelushkov, Aleksandr Smogul
Votes: 14
58. Order na arest (1927)
84 min | Drama
The psychological torture of a woman ,whose revolutionary husband has fled the city, and who has been left secret documents to guard, during the advance of the White Army in the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution.
Director: Georgi Tasin | Stars: Heiri Emirzade, Nikolay Kutuzov, Alik Litovecky, Nikolai Panov
Votes: 27
59. Dorogoy tsenoy (1957)
98 min | Drama
An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Vera Donskaya, Yuri Dedovich, Ivan Tverdokhleb, Olga Petrova
Votes: 137
60. Homeward (2019)
96 min | Drama
A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
Director: Nariman Aliev | Stars: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barikhashvili, Anatoliy Marempolskiy
Votes: 2,012
61. Koroleva benzokolonki (1963)
78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Thanks to her kindness and optimism, a young girl turns a neglected gas station into a significant landmark.
Directors: Nikolai Litus, Aleksei Mishurin | Stars: Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Andrei Sova, Aleksey Kozhevnikov, Nonna Koperzhinskaya
Votes: 1,818
62. Potseluy (1983 TV Movie)
63 min | Drama, History
Gunners spent the night in the small village. Officers are invited to tea by the local landowner. During solemn tea drinking of the Lieutenant Ryabovich who got lost in the dark in rooms of the old house, the stranger unexpectedly kissed.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Menshikov, Sokrat Abdukadyrov
Votes: 93
63. Tri istorii (1997)
105 min | Comedy, Crime
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel... See full summary »
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Leonid Kushnir, Zhan Daniel, Renata Litvinova
Votes: 824
64. Interpretation of Dreams (1990)
50 min | Documentary
Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view.
Director: Andrei Zagdansky | Stars: Sergey Yurskiy, Max Amann, Galeazzo Ciano, Sigmund Freud
Votes: 50
65. Decay (1990)
103 min | Drama
1986. Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Director: Mikhail Belikov | Stars: Sergey Shakurov, Tatyana Kochemasova, Stanislav Stankevich, Georgiy Drozd
Votes: 262
66. A Friend of the Deceased (1997)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.
Directors: Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Viacheslav Kryshtofovych | Stars: Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Elena Korikova
Votes: 396 | Gross: $0.15M
67. Skuki radi (1968)
78 min | Drama
An intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch.
Director: Artur Vojtetsky | Stars: Mayya Bulgakova, Vladimir Dorofeyev, Andryusha Makin, Yuriy Mazhuga
Votes: 37
68. Oxygen Starvation (1992)
92 min | Drama, War
One of the first non-state funded films of an independent Ukraine, this study of a Ukrainian soldier dealing with the traditional abuse handed out to new recruits in the Soviet army is ... See full summary »
Director: Andriy Donchyk | Stars: Pyotr Benyuk, Taras Denisenko, Aleksey Gorbunov, Oleg Maslennikov
Votes: 178
69. Pegiy pyos, begushchiy kraem morya (1991)
132 min | Drama
A small group of seal hunters, three adults and a boy, lost their way in fog and find themselves trapped in the middle of the sea.
Director: Karen Gevorkyan | Stars: Bayarta Dambayev, Aleksandr Sasykov, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Tokon Dayirbekov
Votes: 80
70. Podorozhni (2005)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Wayfarers is a series of impressionistic documentary portraits of people in a senior citizen's home and in a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv.
Director: Ihor Strembitskyi
Votes: 138
71. Our Honest Bread (1964)
100 min | Drama
A story about a leader in Communist era, who happens to be so workaholic yet also so lonely.
Directors: Aleksandr Muratov, Kira Muratova | Stars: Dmitri Milyutenko, Oleg Fandera, Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Votes: 61
72. Goodbye, Cinephiles (2014)
67 min | Documentary
This is a story about people in love with cinema, and a country going through its most difficult times. A group of friends, who met sometime ago in a movie theatre, get together to see one ... See full summary »
Director: Stanislav Bytiutskyi
Votes: 16
73. Sergei Parajanov. A Visit (1994)
12 min | Documentary, Short
In November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a ... See full summary »
Director: Anatolii Syrykh | Star: Sergei Parajanov
Votes: 26
74. The Night Coachman (1929)
54 min | Drama
Set in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
Director: Georgi Tasin | Stars: Amvrosi Buchma, Maria Dyusimeter, Karl Tomski, Yuri Shumsky
Votes: 69
75. Nastroyshchik (2004)
154 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Georgiy Deliev, Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Nina Ruslanova
Votes: 1,224
76. Mamay (2003)
80 min | Drama
Mamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild... See full summary »
Director: Oles Sanin | Stars: Viktoria Spesivtseva, Andrij Bilous, Nazl Sejtablaeva, Sergey Romanyuk
Votes: 243
77. Zasyple snih dorohy (2004)
7 min | Animation, Short
An elderly man thinks of his childhood and his youth.
Director: Evgeniy Sivokon
Votes: 53
78. Biryuk (1978)
77 min | Drama
Serf farmer Thomas is assigned to guard the forest. Foma has to catch the same serfs, like himself, who came to the forest without the permission of the master to hunt or chop firewood. In ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Mikhail Golubovich, Oleg Tabakov, Yelena Khrol, Yuriy Dubrovin
Votes: 68
79. No obvious signs (2018)
64 min | Documentary, Drama
What is left backstage of the heroic videos of our warriors in Ukraine? What do they have to face, one on one, in peaceful life, and where does the war stop?
Director: Alina Gorlova | Star: Oksana Yakubova
Votes: 63
80. Heat Singers (2019)
64 min | Documentary
For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union ... See full summary »
Director: Nadia Parfan
Votes: 327
81. The July Storms. Strike (1989)
82 min | Documentary
The July Storms is a dilogy about the first mass protests in Soviet Ukraine in a long time. The parts of the dilogy, Strike and Outburst, are dedicated to two waves of miners' strikes in ... See full summary »
Directors: Anatolii Karas, Viktor Shkurin
82. The July Storms. Outburst (1991)
75 min | Documentary
The second film of The July Storms duology starts with an accident at the Pochenkov Mine in February 1990, which caused the death of 13 miners. Since the summer protests, the real situation... See full summary »
Directors: Anatolii Karas, Viktor Shkurin
83. Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017)
TV-14 | 112 min | Action, Drama, War
It is a story of a several-week-long military duty in September 2014. A group of military volunteers comes to Donetsk Airport for the first time - the Airport has been held by Ukrainians for more than four months of war.
Director: Akhtem Seitablaev | Stars: Makar Tikhomirov, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko, Andrey Isaenko, Viktor Zhdanov
Votes: 7,752
84. Gamer (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Oleh Sentsov | Stars: Zhanna Biryuk, Alexander Fedotov, Vladislav Zhuk
Votes: 579
85. How Cossacks Cooked Kulesh (1967)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks are trying rescue their captured friend from the Arabs.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 915
86. Yak kozaky v futbol hraly (1970)
18 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 1,495
87. How the Cossacks Rescued Brides (1973)
19 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks rescue the brides from the pirates.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 1,102
88. Yak kozaky sil kupuvaly (1975)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks engage in confrontation with a bunch of raiders in order to return stolen salt supplies to the local market.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 1,227
89. How the Cossacks Became Olympians (1978)
16 min | Animation, Short, Sport
The story of how three friends were very fond of physical education.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 510
90. How the Cossacks Helped the Musketeers (1979)
18 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Cossacks help the French musketeers to deliver the portrait of daughter of the Turkish sultan to the Dutch prince, that could marry her. Insidious cardinal Richelieu wants to blow off the plans of queen and equips pursuit.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno | Star: Eduard Nazarov
Votes: 447
91. How the Cossacks Feasted on a Wedding (1984)
20 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In search of shoe for the beloved a cossack gets on a shabbash to the forest devils that want to steal his soul. True friends rescue a cossack ingeniously.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 471
92. How the Cossacks Met Aliens (1987)
18 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Cossacks travel throughout Europe to find a proper fuel for the friendly aliens that have crash on them.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 444
93. How the Cossacks Played Hockey (1995)
18 min | Animation, Short, Sport
The Canadian hockey command arrives on Ukraine, to conduct a match with cossacks.
Directors: Vladimir Dakhno, Tadeush Pavlenko
Votes: 339
94. My Father Is My Mother's Brother (2018)
76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
My father is my mother's brother is a portrait of one family. It moves between the social bottom and the depths of bohemian life. The artist and singer Tolik, his sister Anya and his niece ... See full summary »
Director: Vadym Ilkov | Star: Anatoliy Belov
Votes: 45
95. The Strayed (2017)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
A grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter - three women, three generations, constituting a small family. Their hard, lonely and miserable lives have become closely intertwined with love... See full summary »
Director: Arkadiy Nepytaliuk | Stars: Dmytro Homyak, Nina Naboka, Zakharii Novytsky, Yakov Tkachenko
Votes: 341
96. Tsvitinnia kulbaby (1992)
73 min
Yuras, a young man who has served eight years for a minor crime, is released from prison. He finds himself in his village, already in independent Ukraine. On the radio is heard a voice of ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Ignatusha | Stars: Aleksandr Mironov, Liga Garnaka, Anatoliy Dyachenko, Aleksey Gorbunov
Votes: 25
97. Efekt prysutnosti (2004)
115 min
Director: Leonid Pavlovsky | Stars: Boris Barsky, Georgiy Deliev
98. V.Silvestrov (2020)
143 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The documentary film dedicated to the prominent Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov. It is an observation, a confession and, most of all, a story of great talent set against the backdrop of uncertain times.
Director: Sergey Bukovsky | Star: Valentin Silvestrov
Votes: 34
99. Skvoz slyozy (1928)
95 min | Comedy
Mothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at ... See full summary »
Director: Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower | Stars: Ivan Kaveberg, Anna Goricheva, D. Cantor, Mariya Sinelnikova
Votes: 22
100. Izgoy (1991)
92 min | Drama
Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Director: Vladimir Savelev | Stars: Yossi Pollak, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Margarita Vishnyakova, Borislav Brondukov
Votes: 30
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