100 greatest Ukrainian movies / 100 найзначніших українських фільмів (Ukraine, 2023)
by IgorBalashov | created - 11 Feb 2023 | updated - 14 Feb 2023 | PublicIn addition to the movies in Ukrainian language some silent movies and movies in other languages are added if filmed and produced in Ukraine by mostly Ukrainian crews
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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: 8,456
2. The Guide (2014)
122 min | Drama, History
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-1930s Soviet Ukraine.
Director: Oles Sanin | Stars: Stanislav Boklan, Jeff Burrell, Boris Georgievskiy, Anton Sviatoslav Greene
Votes: 3,477
3. 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: 12,008 | Gross: $0.15M
4. 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: 6,404
5. 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: 28,002
6. 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: 608
7. 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: 354
8. 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
9. 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: 1,401
10. 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
11. 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: 2,019
12. 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
13. 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: 4,933
14. 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: 7,758
15. Khaytarma (2013)
89 min | Drama, History, War
A story about a tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar nation - 18 of may 1944 -Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Main character of the film - a pilot, twice Hero of the ... See full summary »
Director: Akhtem Seitablaev | Stars: Dinara Avaz, Aleksey Gorbunov, Usnie Khalilova, Andrey Mostrenko
Votes: 835
16. 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: 1,226
17. 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: 4,059
18. 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
19. How Cossacks Cooked Kulesh (1967)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cossacks are trying rescue their captured friend from the Arabs.
Director: Vladimir Dakhno
Votes: 916
And 8 following short animated movies about cossacks (1970-1995) by V. Dahno
20. 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
21. 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: 1,012
22. Son (1964)
91 min | Biography, Drama, History
Young Taras Shevchenko, the author of seditious poems, is summoned for questioning. Instead of explanations, the poet writes new poems, which he dedicates to the unhappy fate of Ukraine.
Director: Vladimir Denisenko | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Yuriy Leontev, Dmitri Milyutenko, Natalya Naum
Votes: 93
23. Famine '33 (1991)
115 min | Drama, History
This film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended ... See full summary »
Director: Oles Yanchuk | Stars: Galina Sulima, Georgiy Morozyuk, Aleksey Gorbunov, Maksim Koval
Votes: 424
24. Stracheni svitanki (1995)
94 min | Drama, History, War
The Communist Russia re-occupies Western Ukraine in 1939, after Communist Russia and Nazi Germany brutally divided Europe in accordance with the secret protocol of The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. UIA fighters are Ukraine's only hope now
Director: Grigoriy Kokhan | Stars: Sergey Romanyuk, Georgiy Morozyuk, Anastasiya Bunina, Vladimir Tereschuk
Votes: 90
25. The Nest of the Turtledove (2016)
102 min | Drama
A Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.
Director: Taras Tkachenko | Stars: Rimma Zyubina, Vitaliy Linetskiy, Mauro Cipriani, Lina Bernardi
Votes: 347
26. 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
27. Stop-Zemlia (2021)
122 min | Drama
Navigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates - a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.
Director: Kateryna Gornostai | Stars: Maria Fedorchenko, Arsenii Markov, Yana Isaienko, Oleksandr Ivanov
Votes: 1,653
28. Pamfir (2022)
107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Pamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Stars: Oleksandr Yatsentyuk, Stanislav Potiak, Solomiia Kyrylova, Olena Khokhlatkina
Votes: 3,320
29. 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: 773
30. 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
31. Carol of the Bells (2022)
122 min | Drama, History
Children who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the trap of the Second World War.
Director: Olesya Morgunets | Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Andrey Mostrenko, Andrey Isaenko, Janina Rudenska
Votes: 1,057
32. 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
33. 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: 428
34. 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: 69
35. 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
36. 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: 1,054
37. 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
38. 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: 5,772
39. 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
40. 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: 2,336
41. 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: 2,623 | Gross: $0.01M
42. Lethal Kittens (2020)
110 min | Comedy
In 2014 Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine turns hot. An engineer, actor, soccer coach and florist volunteer to fight on the front line. Unaware of the pivotal role they will play in the war, they discover the meaning of true leadership.
Director: Volodymyr Tykhyy | Stars: Dmitriy Tuboltsev, Stanislav Bzhezinskyi, Petro Mykytyuk, Vera Klimkovetskaya
Votes: 1,189
43. Black Raven (2019)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Being a full-blooded Ukrainian, Ivan possessed qualities such as courage, and the flow in his veins forced him to support a movement. Being a loving person, he cannot look the other way for... See full summary »
Director: Taras Tkachenko | Stars: Taras Tsimbalyuk, Pavel Moskal, Daniil Mireshkin, Kseniia Danylova
Votes: 615
44. 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
45. I Work at the Cemetery (2021)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Sasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at the local cemetery. His many customers have all experienced personal tragedies, but he is full of cynicism. One day, Sasha's 14-year-old daughter appears to bring him back into her life.
Director: Alexey Taranenko | Stars: Vitaliy Saliy, Wiktoria Gorodecka, Anna Ivanova, Viktor Zhdanov
Votes: 1,562
46. Ivan the Powerful (2013)
89 min | Adventure
"Ivan the Poweful" tells the outstanding life story of Ivan Firtsak who was born in June 1899 in a Ukrainian village Bilky, Irshava district in Zakarpattia Oblast. At 18 he became a ... See full summary »
Directors: Viktor Andrienko, Igor Pismennyy | Stars: Dmytro Khaladgi, Ivanna Sakhno, Vasyl Virastyuk, Viktor Andrienko
Votes: 393
47. Censored (2019)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Brovko | Stars: Dmytro Yaroshenko, Diana Rozovlyan, Evgeniya Gladiy, Miroslava Filippovich
Votes: 876
48. The Wild Fields (2018)
120 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Herman Korolyov, 33, is getting by, working a meaningless executive job in a big city. One day he gets a strange call and learns that his older brother has mysteriously disappeared. Herman ... See full summary »
Director: Yaroslav Lodygin | Stars: Oleg Moskalenko, Vladimir Yamnenko, Aleksey Gorbunov, Ruslana Khazipova
Votes: 1,014
49. Once Upon a Time in Ukraine (2020)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
What if Taras Shevchenko put down his pen and took a samurai sword into his hands?
Director: Roman Perfilyev | Stars: Roman Lutskyi, Sergey Strelnikov, Kateryna Slyusar, Gen Seto
Votes: 659
50. Kapitoshka - Water Bubble (1980)
9 min | Animation, Short
Animation film about a friendship between young Wolfy and Kapitoshka. Wolfy tries to learn how to be scary and threatening. But then he meets a drop of rain, Kapitoshka, which makes him realize that it is not necessary to be scary.
Director: Boris Khranevich | Stars: Bogdan Benyuk, Lyudmila Ignatenko, Evgeniy Papernyy, Elena Slobodyanik
Votes: 178
51. 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: 825
52. ToyKhtoProyshovKrizVohon (2011)
110 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.
Director: Mykhailo Illienko | Stars: Dmytro Linartovych, Vitaliy Linetskiy, Olga Grishina, Ivanna Illienko
Votes: 1,522
53. The Undefeated (2000)
109 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Oles Yanchuk | Stars: Volodymyr Abazopulo, Anatoli Barchuk, Stanislav Boklan, Oleksandr Bystrushkin
Votes: 531
54. 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
55. Zakhar Berkut (1971)
97 min | Drama, History
The film tells about the participation of Carpathian farmers and hunters led by Zakhar Berkut in the fight against the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus.
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Vasyl Symchych, Ivan Gavrilyuk, Antonina Leftiy, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 160
56. Annychka (1969)
89 min | Drama
A romantic melodrama set during the Second World War that follows the clandestine relationship between a young Hutsul girl and a wounded, Soviet guerrilla, lost in enemy territory.
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Lyubov Rumyantseva, Grigore Grigoriu, Konstantin Stepankov, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 102
57. Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)
96 min | Drama
This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Illienko, Mayya Bulgakova
Votes: 208 | Gross: $0.03M
58. 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
59. Oleksa Dovbush (1960)
90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Story about Oleksa Dovbush, a famous Ukrainian outlaw, who became a folk hero, often compared to Robin Hood.
Director: Viktor Ivanov | Stars: Afanasi Kochetkov, Natalya Naum, Oleg Borisov, Grigoriy Teslya
Votes: 77
60. Lisova pisnya. Mavka (1981)
83 min | Fantasy
Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Viktor Kremlyov, Mayya Bulgakova, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 246
61. When the Trees Fall (2018)
88 min | Drama
The story of a five year old little rebellious girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds ... See full summary »
Director: Marysia Nikitiuk | Stars: Anastasiya Pustovit, Sofia Halaimova, Maksym Samchyk, Mariia Svizhynska
Votes: 719
62. Hero of My Time (2018)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Tonya Noyabrova | Stars: Evgen Bushmakin, Oleh Shevtsov, Oleksandr Yarema, Olexandr Artiomenko
Votes: 314
63. U311 Cherkasy (2019)
102 min | Drama, History, War
The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
Director: Tymur Yashchenko | Stars: Dmitriy Sova, Evgeniy Lamakh, Roman Semysal, Ruslan Koval'
Votes: 1,224
64. Las Meninas (2008)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
A family of four lives in the suburbs household. Through a complex interplay of light and mirrors, it's more art installation than a house. The main character is a son in early thirties who... See full summary »
Directors: Ihor Podolchak, Dean Karr | Stars: Mykola Veresen, Lyubov Timoshevskaya, Anna Yarovenko, Dmytro Chernyavsky
Votes: 109
65. Bad Roads (2020)
105 min | Drama
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
Director: Natalya Vorozhbit | Stars: Igor Koltovskyy, Andrey Lelyukh, Volodymyr Hurin, Anna Zhurakovskaya
Votes: 859
66. Rhino (2021)
101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The history of the film unfolds in the 1990s in Ukraine. The protagonist - a bandit nicknamed Rhinoceros - falls into the grip of the Ukrainian criminal world in the 1990s and begins his bloody path, which leads him not where he expected.
Director: Oleh Sentsov | Stars: Serhii Filimonov, Evhen Chernykov, Yevhen Grygoriev, Alina Zievakova
Votes: 2,057
67. Hutsulka Ksenya (2019)
90 min | Musical
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.
Director: Alena Demyanenko | Stars: Varvara Lushchyk, Maksym Lozynskyj, Vitaliy Azhnov, Olivier Bonjour
Votes: 634
68. Klondike (2022)
100 min | Drama, War
After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach | Stars: Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shcherbina, Oleg Shevchuk
Votes: 1,882
69. Reflection (2021)
125 min | Drama, War
Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy 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 towards human life.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Roman Lutskyi, Stanislav Aseyev, Oleksandr Danyliuk, Vasiliy Kukharskiy
Votes: 628
70. Butterfly Vision (2022)
107 min | Drama
Returning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to ... See full summary »
Director: Maksym Nakonechnyi | Stars: Rita Burkovska, Valivots Liubomyr, Myroslava Vytrykhovska-Makar, Natalya Vorozhbit
Votes: 543
71. 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: 342
72. Falling (III) (2017)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Two bewildered young Ukrainians, part of the post-revolutionary generation seeking their place, meet at a pivotal moment and experience a few days of happiness together.
Director: Marina Stepanska | Stars: Christian Borys, Oleh Mosiichuk, Daria Plakhtii, Larysa Rusnak
Votes: 332
73. Moya babusya Fani Kaplan (2016)
110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Fanny was at the wrong place at the right time, got involved with the wrong people and got punished for believing in them. This is her story.
Director: Alena Demyanenko | Stars: Katya Molchanova, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Ivan Brovin, Aleksey Devotchenko
Votes: 156
74. 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
75. 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
76. 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: 430
77. 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: 397 | Gross: $0.15M
78. A Gentle Creature (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina, Vasilina Makovtseva
Votes: 2,495
79. Viddana (2020)
103 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
Welcome to the kitchen of the perfect maid Stefania Chornenko where she excels in cooking while intoxicating the marriage of her half-sister master Adelia Anger against the backdrop of 1900 small town on the outskirts of Austro-Hungary.
Director: Khrystyna Syvolap | Stars: Marianna Januszewicz, Alesya Romanova, Roman Lutskyi, Aleksandr Kobzar
Votes: 742
80. Fuchzhou (1993)
86 min | Drama
A descendant of Ukrainians immigrants who once emigrated overseas, Orest is being thrown into the Ukrainian village by a fierce wind. In fact, this is the element of history itself that has scattered Ukrainians around the world.
Director: Mykhailo Illienko | Stars: Taras Denisenko, Ivan Ilenko, Nina Maslova, Lev Perfilov
Votes: 184
81. 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
82. Tayemnyy shchodennyk Symona Petlyury (2018)
123 min | Biography, History
The Secret Diary of Simon Petliura takes an unprecedented look at the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, which declared an independent Ukraine in 1918, and the later assassination of ... See full summary »
Director: Oles Yanchuk | Stars: Sergey Frolov, Irma Vitovska, Victoria Yanchuk, Oleg Trepovskiy
Votes: 211
83. Escape from Stalin's Death Camp (2017)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison ... See full summary »
Director: Zaza Buadze | Stars: Mykola Bereza, Oleg Shulga, Aleksandr Mavrits, Lubov Tyshchenko
Votes: 1,291
84. Beshoot (2019)
120 min | Action, Drama, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Tymchenko | Stars: Taras Kostanchuk, Oleg Drach, Aleksandr Mavrits, Istan Rozumny
Votes: 610
85. Such Beautiful People (2013)
94 min | Drama
They ran out from cities, they escaped civilization. They live on a sea-shore, they fish. They make home performances. They read Japanese literature. They enjoy their lives. But one of them lacks a man to love.
Director: Dmytro Moiseiev | Stars: Polina Voynevich, Oleg Stefan, Konstantin Danilyuk, Alla Bineeva
Votes: 124
86. Pulse (I) (2021)
100 min | Drama, Sport
The film's plot is based on a real story of Oksana Boturchuk, a Ukrainian track-and-field athlete and Paralympic champion of 2008, five-time silver and bronze winner at Summer Paralympics of 2008, 2012 and 2016.
Director: Sergii Chebotarenko | Stars: Nataliya Babenko, Stanislav Boklan, Sergiy Luzanovsky, Viktoriya Levchenko
Votes: 390
87. Zvychayna sprava (2012)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance... See full summary »
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Taras Denisenko, Lesya Samaeva, Vitaliy Linetskiy, Semyon Furman
Votes: 149
88. Toloka (2020)
116 min | Drama
The romantic ballad "Toloka" is an adaptation of Taras Shevchenko's poem about three Cossacks who fell in love with Catherine.
Director: Mykhailo Illienko | Stars: Ivanna Illienko, Dmytro Rybalevskyi, Dmytro Linartovych, Konstantin Voytenko
Votes: 167
89. Infernal Guidon, or Cossack Christmas (2019)
110 min | Family, Fantasy
It is a fairy tale for children and adolescents. It tells about famous warriors Cossacks and their families. It's about the Paradise and the Hell, Christmas and evil powers. The Devil ... See full summary »
Director: Misha Kostrov | Stars: Aleksandr Pozharskiy, Kostyantyn Linartovych, Hryhorii Baklanov, Diana Rozovlyan
Votes: 326
90. 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: 179
91. Call Sign Banderas (2018)
113 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Sayenko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur.
Director: Zaza Buadze | Stars: Oleg Shulga, Yuliya Chepurko, Sergey Lefor, Oleg Oneshchak
Votes: 948
92. Shlyakhetni volotsyuhi (2018)
103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A funny story of Lviv batiars (noble tramps) who live with the slogan: "To love Lviv, women and jokes". To make their life bright, they resort to various adventures, while remaining ... See full summary »
Director: Oleksandr Berezan | Stars: Yaroslav Bezkorovayny, Mikhail Fedorchenko, Iryna Hryshak, Yuriy Khvostenko
Votes: 258
93. OrAngeLove (2007)
92 min | Drama, Romance
(Russian with English subtitles) A stunningly beautiful story of two young lovers drawn by chance into a passionate and destructive romance.
Director: Alan Badoev | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Olga Makeeva, Aleksey Vertinskiy, Vyacheslav Burlachko
Votes: 1,153
94. Moustache Funk (2020)
73 min | Documentary
A history of Ukrainian pop music in the 20th century. From State-approved ensembles to smuggled vinyls. From traditional Ukrainian folk songs to funk rhythms.
Director: Oleksandr Kovsh
Votes: 146
95. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky | Stars: His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Said Ismagilov, Bishop Agapit, Archbishop Petro Malchuk
Votes: 20,638
96. 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
97. 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
98. 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: 214
99. 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
100. 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
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