Movies and TV shows set in caucasus

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in caucasus ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, captivating, tense and spiritual films and TV shows about / with soviet, caucasian, village, life is a bitch, society, family relations, friendship, love, mountain and sheep plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in Soviet Union, Georgia, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as caucasus: Decision: Liquidation (2018), In Bloom (2013), The Guardian (2012), Prisoner of the Mountains (1996), Earthquake (2016), Vodka Lemon (2003), Tangerines (2013), Teli and Toli (2016), The Other Bank (2009), Hello, That's Me! (1966).

List of movies set in caucasus

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Decision: Liquidation (2018)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The ruthless extremist Bazgaev responsible for terrorist attacks which lead to deaths of hundreds of civilians, among them school children, is planning new actions. A group of security officers is to track and destroy him. Based on a true story.
Style: tense, suspenseful, brutal, sadistic
Plot: resistance, life risking, intelligence agency, hostage, leader, gang, terrorist plot, world war two, sting operation, school, deadly weapon
Place: caucasus
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 7.3
 7K
In Bloom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, transgressive ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, society, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: soviet union, georgia, tbilisi, asia, europe ...
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 7.7
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The Guardian (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After 16 years of imprisonment, 40-years-old Gogliko is released from jail. He doesn't exactly know what he did that deserved 16 years of jail time. A free man, a changed country awaits him. His personal life has drastically altered. His ...
Style: suspense, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating
Plot: political unrest, society, life is a bitch, criminal, changing lives, ex convict, political intrigue, lifestyle change, prison, world
Place: caucasus, georgia, tbilisi
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Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...
Style: realistic, bleak, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: pow, war, hostage, russian soldier, prison, violence, soldier, confined, captivity, poverty, islam, prisoner ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place: chechnya, russia, caucasus, soviet union, asia
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 6.5
 2K
Earthquake (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
Style: psychological, suspense, touching, suspenseful, tense
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, earthquake, catastrophe, survival, rescue, demolished city, humanity in peril, death, human existence, society, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: armenia, caucasus, soviet union, russia, ussr
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 6.7
 2K
Vodka Lemon (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hamo, a handsome 60-year old man, lives alone in a Romenian village with one of his daughters and his granddaughter. He also owns a retirement of seven dollars per month, a closet, an old russian television set and a military costume.A letter from ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, islamic, sentimental ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, couples, parents and children, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, small town, bittersweet, widow, poverty, kurd ...
Time: year 2003
Place: kurdistan, russia, armenia, caucasus
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 8.1
 49K
Tangerines (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Estonia, Georgia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Style: harsh, thought provoking, tense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: anti war, humanity, wartime life, civil war, tragedy, brutality, war, life & death, character study, survival, bullet wound, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2013, year 1992, 20th century
Place: georgia, iraq, middle east, soviet union, europe ...
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Teli and Toli (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: This down-to-earth story that takes place in the mountains of North Caucasus, between two adjacent villages – Ossetian Toli and Georgian Teli – tells us about simple and naïve people that governments try to divide today by an official state ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, captivating, entertaining
Plot: border, village, neighbor, roommate, social satire, society, lifestyle, social relations, satire, caucasian, love triangle, elderly ...
Place: caucasus
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The Other Bank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style: road movie, realistic, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, childhood, life is a bitch, family relations, on the road, estrangement, poverty, single parent, parents and children, journey, search for father, grownups ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, caucasus, georgia
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Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Style: absurd
Plot: worker, european, caucasian, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, manuscript, publisher, office, absurdism, absurd humor, secretary, book ...
Place: soviet union, georgia, caucasus, ussr
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Hello, That's Me! (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the ...
Plot: loyalty, lost love, love, friend, friendship, laboratory, physicist, world war two, cosmology, yerevan, past, red army ...
Place: caucasus, armenia, moscow russia, russia, soviet union
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We and Our Mountains (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Calm of the mountain village is disturbed by the investigation on stray sheep.
Plot: shepherd, mountain, village, countryside, sheep
Place: caucasus, armenia, soviet union
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The Entreaty (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Based on the poems “Aluda Ketelauri” and “The Guest and the Host” by the classic of Georgian literature Vazha Pshavela This film opens Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy (“The Plea”, “The Wishing Tree”, “Repentance”), which discusses ...
Style: spiritual, crying, avant garde
Plot: spirituality, exile, rural setting, tradition, fratricide, fight, mountain, grave, enemy, small community, community, host ...
Place: soviet union, caucasus, georgia, russia, chechnya
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style: surreal, poetic, atmospheric, avant garde, psychedelic ...
Plot: poet, surrealism, trippy, writers, poetry, biopic, medieval, magic realism, art, metaphor, death, betrayal ...
Time: 18th century, year 1969
Place: soviet union, caucasus, ussr, russia, georgia ...
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The Tango of Our Childhood (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
Plot: breakup, family conflict, divorce, husband wife relationship, horse, mother, old woman, children, sadness, family relations, world war two
Time: 1940s
Place: caucasus, armenia, eastern europe, soviet union
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The Slap in the Face (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man falls in love with and marries a prostitute, then has to defend her against malicious townsfolk.
Plot: boy, husband wife relationship, brothel madam, bigotry, donkey, adoption, prostitute, girl, dream, brothel, orphan, adoptive mother adopted son relationship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: caucasus, armenia
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, spoof
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: student, corrupt official, couple relations, kidnapping, love affair, social relations, criminal gang, human relationship, love and romance, summer, caucasian, iron curtain ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: orchestra, spirituality, urban setting, drummer, musician, rehearsal, flirting, time, orchestra conductor, friend, soviet, young
Time: year 1972
Place: soviet union, caucasus, tbilisi, russia, georgia
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A Bride from the North (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Popular musical comedy satirising Russian-Armenian relations, featuring Arno Babadzhanyan's hits. Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter ...
Plot: satire, political satire, kidnapping, politics, marriage, village, fiancee, fall in love, family relations, singing, kiss
Place: caucasus, armenia, russia, soviet union
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The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Style: art house, spiritual, contemplative, surreal, poetic ...
Plot: fortress, legends and myths, surrealism, camel, mythology, magic realism, folklore, spirituality, gay subtext, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time: year 1985, middle ages
Place: georgia, ussr, caucasus, soviet union, europe
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 6.8
 3K
The Search (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, non-linear ...
Plot: life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, torture, war crime, violence, murder, orphan, war violence, war, conflict, caucasian ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, year 1999, 21st century
Place: chechnya, russia, caucasus
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The Wishing Tree (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Plot: mental disorder, tragedy, boy meets girl, male objectification, bare chested male, priest, love, christianity, soviet
Time: year 1977
Place: caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
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Road to the Stage (1963)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Despite his parents opposition, professor Yengibaryan's youngest son dreams of becoming clown and making people laugh. That's so simple, Leonid thinks. However, the director of the circus doesn't thinks so, but noticing Leonid's ...
Plot: clown, comedian, artist, actor, circus, yerevan, kiss
Place: caucasus, armenia, russia, soviet union
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A Necklace for My Beloved (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember ...
Plot: circus, mountain, motorcycle, village, adventurer, horse, baby, tradition, brother brother relationship, birth, fiancee, soviet ...
Place: caucasus
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 6.8
 6K
Ali and Nino (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Azerbaijan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight ...
Style: romantic, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot: muslim, couples, turk, world war one, society, impossible love, christian, secret love, family relations, love and romance, friendship, forbidden love ...
Place: azerbaijan, georgia, caucasus
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 8.1
 7K
Mimino (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. ...
Style: feel good, smart, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: aviation, misadventure, pilot, hotel, friendship, helicopter pilot, social relations, disorder, small time, friends, hopes, follow your dream ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, georgia, ussr, russia, caucasus ...
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Father of a Soldier (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in ...
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, military, father son relationship, red army, soldier, dead son, fatherhood, wound, death of son, patriot, spirituality ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, georgia, berlin germany ...
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 5.8
 974
Here (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote ...
Style: captivating, surreal, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot: self discovery, journey, satellite, love affair, on the road, girl, sex scene, male female relationship, society, wilderness, culture clash, road trip ...
Time: 21st century
Place: armenia, caucasus
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 7.1
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Head of State (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Armenia
Story: Grigor is an eccentric young man with every prerequisite to become a great journalist, but he avoids responsibility and blames his every problem on others, circumstances and the Government. But everything changes when he wakes up as the President of ...
Style: political comedy
Plot: politics, demonstration, president, yerevan
Place: caucasus, georgia, armenia
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 7.4
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Adam and Eve (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Bekir, in anger divorces his wife Kheva, which he regrets. Because of Sharia, she can return if she marries another and is expelled by him. Bekir arranges with Adam, to briefly marry and expel her. Neither Kheva, nor Adam want to separate.
Plot: anger, islam
Place: caucasus, russia
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