Movies and TV shows set in ukraine

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in ukraine ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films and TV shows about / with society, death, blood, danger, family relations, murder, violence, female nudity, soviet and life is a bitch plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in Ukraine, Poland, Soviet Union and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ukraine: The Tribe (2014), Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017), Bitter Harvest (2017), Mr. Jones (2019), Land of Oblivion (2011), Famine '33 (1991), The Rising Hawk (2019), Early Swallows (2019), Import Export (2007), Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (2007).

List of movies set in ukraine

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The Tribe (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, erotic, surreal, art house ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: deaf, boarding school, prostitution, bullying, sign language, mute or deaf, deaf mute, prostitute, illegal abortion, gang, adolescence, youth ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: ukraine, kiev ukraine
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Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 112 min.
Story: ‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand ...
Style: exciting, disturbing, cyber, rough, serious ...
Plot: heroes, death, friends, vengeance, friendship, mentor, conflict, freedom, rebelliousness, soldier, shooting, danger ...
Time: year 2014
Place: ukraine, europe, eastern europe
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Bitter Harvest (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion ...
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hunger, genocide, peasant, life is a bitch, adaptation, couples, brutality, danger, love, society, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, year 1933, year 1932
Place: ukraine
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Mr. Jones (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 141 min.
Story: In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Style: period piece, cult classic
Audience: date night
Plot: journalism, journalist, cannibalism, communism, genocide, hunger, stalinism, female journalist, anti communist, reporter, spy, writers ...
Time: 1930s, year 2019, year 1933, year 1957, year 1934 ...
Place: ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, russia ...
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Land of Oblivion (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Ukraine, Poland, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot: nuclear power plant, evacuation, dealing with death, small town, accident, radiation poisoning, wedding party, dead animal, post apocalypse, tour guide, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1986
Place: ukraine
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 7.5
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Famine '33 (1991)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Plot: dead body, family relations, hunger, death, crime against humanity, communism, starvation, genocide, shot to death
Time: 1930s
Place: ukraine, soviet union
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The Rising Hawk (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ukraine, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. It's armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains.
Style: stylized, captivating, serious, epic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, danger, battles, army, heroes, betrayal, free will, death, escapades, leadership, sword fight, equestrian ...
Time: 13th century, middle ages
Place: ukraine, mongolia
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 8.1
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Early Swallows (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers in a secondary school class. The teenagers struggle with bullying, including the Blue Whale Challenge, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises-a subject that is ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological
Plot: teen suicide, secret, father son relationship, high school, social media, depression, homosexuality, gay son, teenage life, gay teenager, coming of age, gay ...
Place: ukraine
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Import Export (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, bleak, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: illegal prostitution, nurse, immigrant, life is a bitch, starting over, self discovery, job seeking, female nudity, sex, au pair, emigrant, misfit ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: ukraine, europe, austria, central europe, eastern europe
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Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (2007)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, humorous
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: anarchism, revolutionary, revolution, rebel army, anarchist, civil war, historical figure, power struggle, historical character, leadership, soldier, danger ...
Time: 1910s
Place: ukraine
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Winter of The Braves (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 1918 Ukraine. Patriotic students, protagonists of the film, get ready to defend Kyiv and fight heroically in the Battle of Kruty. On this historical background reveals the story of the Savytskyi family - the general of Ukraine's ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, epic, independent film
Plot: relationships, self sacrifice, society, prejudice, university student, life philosophy, tragedy, betrayal, jealousy, death, student, destiny ...
Time: year 1918
Place: ukraine, eastern europe
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 3.8
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School (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: When successful businesswoman Katya's daughter tries to commit suicide, she becomes an economics teacher in order to be closer to her daughter and understand what the kids are up to at school. At the same time, Alex, a new English teacher, ...
Style: romantic, realistic, captivating, sentimental
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teachers and students, first sex, school, high school student, dating, youth, social relations, teenager, teenage life, friendship, manipulation, teenage love ...
Place: ukraine
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Servant Of The People 2 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story: President Vasily Goloborodko is in power for almost half a year. The economic situation in the country had deteriorated: prices are rising and the national currency has depreciated. People's confidence in the President is rapidly falling. To ...
Style: social, humorous, captivating, light, funny ...
Plot: government corruption, corruption, president, politics, society, mentor, parent child relationship, rivalry, dishonesty, love triangle, loneliness, parents and children ...
Place: ukraine
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Donbass (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania, Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the Donbas, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as ...
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, satirical, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: beaten up, journalist, vigilantism, insecurity, real world, military, social satire, chaos, cold war, social criticism, proles, dark humor ...
Time: 2010s
Place: ukraine, eastern europe
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A Night Before Christmas (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Funny story about how on Christmas Eve in the Ukrainian village of beguiled the devil and how mighty Vakula managed to overcome evil spirits, and to take his bride to the king's slippers. A screen adaptation of Nikolai Gogol "The Night ...
Style: touching, sincere, romantic, sentimental
Plot: village, witch, winter, night, blacksmith, countryside, love, demon, wooing, destiny, couple relations, proposal ...
Time: 18th century
Place: ukraine, ussr, st. petersburg russia, russia
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My Thoughts Are Silent (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Twenty-five-year-old Vadym earns a living recording and selling all kinds of different sounds; nevertheless, he’d rather exchange his life in Kyiv for a better future in far-flung Canada. Thus, when he gets a generous job offer which might help ...
Style: road movie, feel good, humorous, touching, comedy drama ...
Plot: mother son relationship, mother and son, remote village, church, animal, joke, single mother, overprotective mother, bird, unwed mother, villager, sanitarium ...
Place: ukraine
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from ...
Style: sentimental, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, fighter pilot, aviation, aerial combat, camaraderie, love, fighter plane, patriotism, friendship between men, life & death, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, ussr, soviet union, russia
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With Fire and Sword (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...
Style: captivating, serious, romantic, mysterious, epic ...
Plot: military, polish, cossack, cavalry, love affair, heroes, rebellion, love triangle, medieval, battles, culture clash, political unrest ...
Time: 17th century
Place: poland, ukraine, eastern europe, europe
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, stylized, emotional, psychedelic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, wedding, medieval, true love, marriage, religion, friendship, rivalry, forbidden love, couple relations, couples, rain ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, medieval times
Place: ukraine, soviet union, ussr, europe
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Hotsunlight (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: war zone, tragic love, couple relations, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, relationships, male female relationship, struggle for survival, sexual abuse, dead body, death, brutality ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
Place: kiev ukraine, eastern europe, afghanistan, ukraine, russia
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 5.7
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Frost (2017)
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, psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: war zone, political conflict, crisis, invasion, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital crisis, road trip, wartime life, war, post soviet, female nudity ...
Place: ukraine, lithuania, switzerland, europe, russia ...
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Bad Roads (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, disgusting, disturbing ...
Plot: sexualized violence, conflict, survival horror, wartime, military, fear, life is a bitch, cultural conflict, integrity, poverty, psychological abuse, violence ...
Place: ukraine, eastern europe, russia
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Stop-Zemlia (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, inspirational
Plot: teenage life, lgbt, youth, school, friendship, teenager, social problems, lifestyle, woman, lgbtq, women, high school ...
Place: ukraine
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Viy (1967)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, witchcraft, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, danger, escapades, evil dead, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: medieval times, year 1967, middle ages
Place: ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
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Chernobyl (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style: dark, atmospheric, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: radiation, nuclear holocaust, radiation poisoning, nuclear power plant, nuclear reactor, disaster, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, scientist, nuclear radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, moscow russia ...
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There Will Be People (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: culture, post war, society, lifestyle, love story, male female relationship, relationships, cultural difference, love affair, russian revolution, russian revolution (1917), world war one ...
Time: 20th century
Place: ukraine
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To Catch the Kaidash (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Modern retelling of a classical Ukrainian family drama. Generations clash as the rural Kaidash family tries to make room for their sons, their sons' love interests and all the predicaments that ensue.
Style: thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological
Plot: sister in law sister in law relationship, mother in law daughter in law relationship, family relations, eccentric family, living together, family conflict, relationship problems, countryside, satire, male female relationship, relationships, conflict ...
Place: ukraine
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Kingdom of Swords (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the story about man who had a great way. His adventures and losses, his life make you to be surprised. We invite you in the middle ages - a times of darkness, of heroes, of big power and of eternity love.
Style: realistic, serious, epic, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: medieval, heroes, leadership, betrayal, battles, danger, death, escapades, sword fight, rage, sale
Time: 13th century
Place: ukraine
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: virus, radiation, survival, tourist, nuclear power plant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stranded, mutant, zombie, vacation, abandoned building, death ...
Time: year 2012
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
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