100 Best Ukrainian Films
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1. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Documentary, Drama, War
'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, Vitali Klitschko, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Votes: 121
2. 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: 8,458
3. Legenda o knyagine Olge (1984)
170 min | Drama, History
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the start of the 11th century.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Les Serdyuk, Ivan Ivanov, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 162
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: 6,407
5. 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
6. Strong in Spirit (2018)
20 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Traveling to a neighbouring country, a remarkable young man becomes a political prisoner: his body and soul are put to test, manifesting the spirit of his nation.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Bohdan Yarychevsky, Maria Tomak, Pyotr Zaikin, Yuriy Yatsenko
Votes: 131
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Mama's Heart. Gongadze (2017)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Most intimate, heartbreaking and inspiring confessions by and about Lesya Gongadze's life and her son's disappearance that prompted a revolution.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lesya Gongadze, Georgiy Gongadze, Lubomyr Husar, Tamila Alexanian
Votes: 545
11. 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
12. 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
13. Myth (II) (2018)
63 min | Documentary, Biography
The film is the remarkable and tragic story of Wassyl Slipak; Ukrainian opera singer whose unique voice and talent brought him world recognition and death on the war.
Directors: Leonid Kanter, Ivan Yasniy | Stars: Orest Slipak, Vasyl Slipak
Votes: 159
14. 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: 12,009 | Gross: $0.15M
15. 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: 209 | Gross: $0.03M
16. In Joy (2018)
26 min | Short, Drama
Olia is a young lonely mother. She falls in love with a fellow but does not have the courage to tell him that she has a son. As their relationship develops rapidly the revelation becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Maryna Roshchyna
Votes: 42
17. Nail (2016)
33 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Story about one family, on one street, in one country.
Director: Philip Sotnychenko | Stars: Emilia von Albertini, Valentina Zabolotna, Anatoly Petrov, Natella Dubashydze
Votes: 29
18. 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
19. 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
20. The First Company (2018)
100 min | Documentary
The Ukrainian Revolution (2013-2014) and the war with Russia in the Donbas are nearing. The film deals with the history of the First Company of the Maidan, which defeated the enemy within ... See full summary »
Directors: Yuri Gruzinov, Yaroslav Pilunskiy, Yuliya Shashkova
Votes: 26
21. Prychynna: The Story of Love (2017)
22 min | Animation, Short
The war separates lovers, but their hearts remain together. The young woman loses her mind, but love gives her strength to wait for her beloved.
Director: Andriy Shcherbak
Votes: 29
22. Shum vetra (2002)
78 min | Drama
Director: Sergei Maslobojshchikov | Stars: Viktor Andrienko, Natalya Dolya, Denis Karasyov, Illya Klymenko
Votes: 19
23. 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
24. 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: 2,672
25. Ivan's Land (2021)
86 min | Documentary
Ivan Prykhodko is one of the last folk artists in Ukraine. He is self-taught, lives in the countryside, and everything that comes from under his brushes is naive and honest art. Ivan's ... See full summary »
Director: Andrii Lysetskyi
Votes: 33
26. Dovbush (2023)
124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the Carpathian mountains, a man becomes an outlaw who helps his people.
Director: Oles Sanin | Stars: Sergey Strelnikov, Oleksiy Hnatkovskyy, Daria Plakhtii, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
Votes: 1,885
27. 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, War
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Director: Mstyslav Chernov | Stars: Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Liudmyla Amelkina, Roman Golovanov
Votes: 20,298
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