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- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBoris KhmelnitskiyLarisa KadochnikovaYefim FridmanPiotr 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 mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a deal.
- DirectorMykhailo IllienkoStarsIvanna IllienkoDmytro RybalevskyiDmytro LinartovychThe romantic ballad "Toloka" is an adaptation of Taras Shevchenko's poem about three Cossacks who fell in love with Catherine.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsIvan MikolaychukLidiya BelozyorovaFyodor StrigunA 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.
- DirectorTaras TkachenkoStarsTaras TsimbalyukPavel MoskalDaniil MireshkinBeing 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 what is happening in his hometown. He, along with like-minded people, begins a desperate fight for the freedom of his homeland and loved ones.
- DirectorKonstantin ErshovGeorgiy KropachyovAleksandr PtushkoStarsLeonid KuravlyovNatalya VarleyAleksey GlazyrinA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
- DirectorTymur YashchenkoStarsDmitriy SovaEvgeniy LamakhRoman SemysalThe crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
- DirectorGeorgi TasinStarsAmvrosi BuchmaMaria DyusimeterKarl TomskiSet 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.
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyStarsDmitriy TuboltsevStanislav BzhezinskyiPetro MykytyukIn 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.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsAnna StenIvan Koval-SamborskyMikhail NarokovJacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
- DirectorJohn WynnAkhtem SeitablaevStarsRobert PatrickTommy FlanaganPoppy DraytonThe Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains.
- DirectorAleksandr DenisenkoStarsBoris OrlovAnna TopchiyYuriy ShulganFew weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.
- DirectorDmitriy TomashpolskiyStarsAnastasiya YevtushenkoDarya TregubovaSergey KalantayWhen people begin mysteriously disappearing into the water of a hydrotherapy clinic, a talented inspector is assigned the case for investigation, and in turn learns the true horrors of her own identity.
- DirectorMaryna Er GorbachStarsOksana CherkashynaSergey ShadrinOleg ShcherbinaAfter flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
- DirectorMikhail KaufmanIn 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 «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBogdan StupkaLyudmila EfimenkoNikita DzhigurdaA 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.
- DirectorTaras TkachenkoStarsRimma ZyubinaVitaliy LinetskiyMauro CiprianiA Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.
- DirectorTaras DronStarsMaryna KoshkinaOleg ShulgaLarysa RusnakYoung MMA fighter Yuliya has lost her boyfriend in the war in eastern Ukraine. She starts a new relationship to make her life move forward.
- DirectorAksel LundinStarsIvan Kononenko-KozelskiyKolya KopelyanD. LyubchenkoChildren from working class neighborhoods wearing patched-up clothes have fun in Kyiv streets - they slide down showy slopes, walk on the brink of a precipice and even conquer the light ice of the Dnieper river. They can see, how rich people live, only through a gap in the fence. The boy Fedko who is called "a tearaway" because of his naughty and disobedient character comes up with some risky entertainment, and adults often punish him for this while his friends do respect him.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsElena AminovaMikhail DerzhavinNikolay GrinkoA musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials.
- DirectorDziga VertovHow 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.
- DirectorIvan KavaleridzeStarsIvan TverdokhlebVasiliy KrasenkoV. PoddubnyiKavaleridze's silent revolutionary epic Perekop depicts the Perekop-Chongar operation (1920) during the Russian Civil War, in which the Red Army, led by Nestor Makhno's troops, defeated Wrangel, took Crimea, and, according to the axiom of Soviet historiography, ended the civil war. However, according to Kavaleridze, he is not only talking about this: "my film is dedicated to the three Perekop - the military, the destruction of the kulak and the implementation of the five-year plan."
- DirectorArnold KordyumStarsPyotr MasokhaSergei MininLydia Ostrovskaya-KurdyumOn the proletarian solidarity of the French navy with the revolutionary people of Russia. The action takes place in the early years of Soviet power in the coastal city of Russia. The French cruiser Mirabeau threatens the city from the sea .
- DirectorOles SaninStarsSergey StrelnikovOleksiy HnatkovskyyDaria PlakhtiiIn the Carpathian mountains, a man becomes an outlaw who helps his people.
- DirectorBoris KvashnevStarsGalina YatskinaOlga KaboSergei TvyordokhlebovA mother and daughter come to Kiev from the countryside. The daughter has graduated from school with distinction, and her mother dreams of seeing her become a student at a prestigious university. Tanya is preparing for the entrance exams.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsLyubov RumyantsevaGrigore GrigoriuKonstantin StepankovA 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.
- StarsNele SavicenkoBogdan StupkaGregory HladyAnna and Michailo grow up together, attracted to each other since their earliest days. When Anna's father dies, her brothers force her into marriage with the mean farmer Mikola. After years of absence, Michailo comes home, to get her back.
- DirectorIgor ShevchenkoStarsMikhail PakhomenkoAleksandr BaluevMarina StarykhThe middle-aged journalist Kovalev finally gets the chance to become the chief editor of the newspaper. Not wanting to tempt fate, the hero turns to the party organizer for support. And then something unexpected happens - Kovalev is bitten in the ankle by a dog, and he becomes a werewolf. Turning into a terrible dog at night, Kovalev has been prowling around the city ever since and instilling fear in his readers.
- DirectorOleh SentsovStarsSerhii FilimonovEvhen ChernykovYevhen GrygorievThe 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.