Post soviet movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant post soviet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, bleak, realistic, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with post soviet, family relations, female nudity, survival, coming of age, life is a bitch, women, relationship problems, dancing and suspense plots mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres shot in France, Germany, Georgia and other countries.
post soviet
TOP 10 movies tagged as post soviet: Tangerines (2013), Pirosmani (1969), Three Days (1991), The Corridor (1995), Few of Us (1996), The House (1997), The White Caravan (1964), Freedom (2000), Fifty-Fifty (2004), The Other Bank (2009).
List of post soviet movies
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:
thought provoking, harsh, touching, tense, dramatic ...
Plot:
anti war, wartime life, civil war, humanity, tragedy, brutality, war, survival, character study, life & death, bullet wound, village ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
georgia (former ussr), israel, europe, caucasus, estonia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Georgia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A dedicated artist from Russian Georgia struggles to get recognition.
Plot:
art, artist, painter, post soviet, painting
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Lithuania
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the ...
Style:
bleak, contemplative
Plot:
post soviet, depression, alienation, female nudity, teenager, smoking, sex, beach, sea, isolation, meaning of life, children in wartime ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown ... A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. (A fragmentary narrative without dialogue and depicts several people in ...
Style:
bleak, silent film, contemplative
Plot:
children, alienation, post soviet, party, fire, dancing, female nudity, smoking, arson, children in wartime, drinking alcohol, shotgun
Place:
lithuania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
Style:
bleak, contemplative, silent film
Plot:
post soviet, survival, alienation, erotica, village, snow, horse riding, reindeer, old man, river, helicopter, drunk ...
Place:
siberia
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589
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania, Portugal, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Abstract, beautifully photographed and nearly silent but for limited narration, this plotless arthouse outing from Lithuanian cult film director Sharunas Bartas pays tribute to a huge, old lakeside manor and Lithuanian culture.
Style:
bleak, contemplative, silent film
Plot:
children, post soviet, murder, mirror, surrealism, house, puppet, nude, perky breasts, dinner, sleeping, chess ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Martia, an experienced shepherd together with others is moving his herd to the winter pastures. The life of the shepherds is mundane and complex to the extent that even a minor mistake is fraught with serious consequences. Martia’s older son ...
Plot:
post soviet, pity, shepherd, boy meets girl, choice, urban setting, death of father, brother brother relationship, girl, father son relationship, storm, mountain ...
Place:
caucasus, georgia (former ussr)
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342
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, stylized ...
Plot:
desert, disorder, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, lizard, sea, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport, Thriller
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A teen involved in the world of underground boxing vows to take care of a dead fighter's family.
Style:
touching, psychological, serious, rough, sincere ...
Plot:
teenage life, kids in trouble, youth, gambling, redemption, tragic love, coming of age, love and romance, underdog, survival, unfulfilled love, fight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, turkey, kazakhstan
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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, estrangement, family relations, on the road, poverty, single parent, parents and children, journey, search for father, grownups ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia (former ussr)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lithuania, Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A thriller about a crook who efforts to get out of the business could cost him his life. Gena is a drug runner who has grown tired of the violence and unpredictability of his life, and he decides it's time to go straight. Gena plans one last ...
Style:
captivating, tense
Plot:
gangsters, murderer, murder, drug smuggling, prostitution, traitor, betrayal, bandit, post soviet, erotica, sex scene, escape ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style:
touching, gloomy, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
elderly, wilderness, golden years, life is a bitch, orphan, isolation, forest, survival, nature, post soviet, coming of age, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Germany, Russia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, entertaining
Plot:
coming of age, single mother, teenage girl, teenager, relationships, teenage life, lifestyle, small town life, love and romance, relationship problems, family relations, love affair ...
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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, serious, captivating, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friends, society, life is a bitch, civil war, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
georgia, georgia (former ussr), caucasus, tbilisi, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot:
prison, prison life, family relations, couple relations, confined, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, woman, post soviet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia (former ussr)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
deportation, world war two, gulag, survival, labor camp, cruelty, grief, politics, political prisoner, life is a bitch, suspense, mother son relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1957, 50s, year 1941
Place:
latvia, russia, siberia, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, art house
Plot:
family relations, family problems, lifestyle change, lifestyle, relationship problems, changing lives, patriarchy, family life, parents and children, suspense, husband wife relationship, woman ...
Place:
tbilisi
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771
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Lithuania, France, Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Monaco
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
war zone, ukrainian, invasion, war, relationship problems, wartime life, road trip, male female relationship, political conflict, suspense, marital crisis, post soviet ...
Place:
ukraine, europe, russia, eastern europe, lithuania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from ...
Style:
touching, realistic, suspenseful, serious, art house
Plot:
rebellious daughter, rescue, blackmail, redemption, independent woman, mother daughter relationship, ransom, money, father daughter relationship, post soviet, sibling relationship, mechanic ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place:
russia, chechnya
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, dancing, lgbt, dancer, gay slur, obsession, rivalry, gay interest, audition, friendship, gay romance, first gay sexual experience ...
Place:
georgia, georgia (former ussr), tbilisi, caucasus, asia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
magic realism, breaking the fourth wall, changing lives, personality change, relationships, memory, love at first sight, switching bodies, secret identity, relationship problems, new identity, body swapping ...
Place:
georgia (former ussr)
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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:
satirical, light, humorous, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
village, border, neighbor, roommate, satire, social relations, social satire, society, lifestyle, friendship, love triangle, elderly ...
Place:
caucasus
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belarus, USA, Germany, Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
Style:
psychological, captivating, brutal, suspenseful, art house
Plot:
countryside, techno music, individualism, following a dream, follow your dream, bigger dreams, suspense, money problems, daydreamer, rape, wedding, social problems ...
Time:
90s
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