Movies and TV shows set in eastern europe

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in eastern europe ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, psychological, disturbing, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with murder, society, female nudity, family relations, death, violence, police, nudity, blood and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Sweden, USA, France and other countries.
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eastern europe movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as eastern europe: Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005), Anita: Swedish Nymphet (1973), Landmine Goes Click (2015), Interrogation (1989), Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015), Sniper. The White Raven (2022), Closely Watched Trains (1966), Caliphate (2020), Orca (2020), A Class Apart (2021).

List of movies set in eastern europe

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Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
Style: touching, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: sex trafficking, sex slavery, violence against women, forced prostitution, human trafficking, striptease, sex club, sexualized violence, organized crime, sexploitation, slavery, female bondage ...
Place: eastern europe
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Anita: Swedish Nymphet (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anita is a girl of only 16 years, and while she has developed early physically, to a mature woman, she is psychologically completly ruthless. Her relationship the her parents and her friends is very poor and she is regarded with contempt by the ...
Style: sensual, sexual, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot: nymphet, nymphomania, coming of age, scandinavian girl, nymphomaniac, erotica, voyeur, sexploitation, sexuality, female masturbation, teenage girl, real sex ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe
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Landmine Goes Click (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Georgia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After an American tourist steps on a landmine, he is forced to watch his girlfriend get assaulted.
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: rape, revenge, rape and revenge, trapped, survival, terror, hunter, regret, friendship, tourist, nudity, girlfriend ...
Place: eastern europe
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Interrogation (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, bleak, controversial, thinking ...
Plot: prison, communism, false accusation, humiliation, hopelessness, forced confession, injustice, prison life, society, confined, life is a bitch, cell ...
Time: year 1982, post world war two, 80s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
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Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An aspiring Romanian filmmaker obsessed with Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway goes to shocking extremes to convince Anne to star in his upcoming film.
Style: mumblecore, slasher, meta, mockumentary, suspense ...
Plot: found footage, psychopath, obsession, filmmaking, torture, mental illness, unrequited love, sacrifice, violence, woman in danger, criminal, murder of a woman ...
Place: eastern europe, romania, iraq
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Sniper. The White Raven (2022)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins at Donbass, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot: war zone, international crisis, military, power struggle, crisis, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, woman killed, soldier, battles, vengeance, military officer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: eastern europe, ukraine, europe, russia
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Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, satire, resistance, storytelling, politics, occupation, communism, village life, wartime life, partisan, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1966, 1930s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
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 8.2
 22K
Caliphate (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, tense, slasher ...
Plot: isis, terrorist, hijab, islamic terrorism, suicide bomber, islam, terrorism, police, conspiracy, female protagonist, intelligence agency, muslim ...
Place: syria, middle east, eastern europe
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 6.0
 1K
Orca (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eleven people, isolated from the outside world, communicate via screens. A son wants to hold the hand of his suffering mother. Love grows. A mother has abandoned her family. A therapist finds himself at the edge of ruin. A daughter connects with her ...
Style: tense, psychological, melancholic, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: pandemic, family relations, epidemic, human nature, society, parents and children, friendship, humanity, youth, life philosophy, husband wife relationship
Place: eastern europe
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 5.9
 784
A Class Apart (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: investigation, murderer, uncover truth, boarding school, student, murder, murder mystery, college student, crime solving, crime investigation, murder investigation, nordic
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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 5.8
 429
491 (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A study in forgiveness as oppression and goodness as provocation. Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment where they are assigned to live together in a rundown apartment in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. The six boys ...
Style: grindhouse, crying, banned
Plot: gay rape, homosexual rape, bestiality, gay sex, lgbt, eroticism, gay interest, older man younger man relationship, homosexuality, closeted gay, male rape, closeted homosexual ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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 4.1
 1K
Cry (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: On November 30th (the date when King Karl XII died) there will usually be demonstrations by hyper-national and neo-Nazi groups, and also democratic counter demonstrations. The plot of "West Side Story" is transferred to the Stockholmian ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional
Plot: skinhead, neo nazi, racism, immigrant, racist, gang, police, nationalism, impossible love, immigration, neo nazism, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
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 7.6
 10K
Train of Life (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Style: humorous, sad, surprise ending, art house, twisted ...
Plot: holocaust, train, world war two, nazi, judaism, deportation, great ending, railway, shoah, wartime life, village, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, year 1941
Place: eastern europe, germany, palestine, europe, central europe
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: hotel, prison escape, art theft, mentor protege relationship, murder, luxury hotel, escapades, painting, gunfight, greed, fictional country, mentor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: eastern europe, alps, europe, america, persia ...
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 8.5
 904K
The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, harsh, bleak, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, pianist, nazi occupation, hunger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, persia ...
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Human Trafficking (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 253 min.
TV show
Story: When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, violence against women, slavery, sex trafficking, captivity, forced prostitution, child prostitution, sex slavery, child abduction, prostitute, child rape ...
Place: eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, europe, asia ...
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 5.8
 115
The Ambassador (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story: At the Swedish embassy in Mexico City, the staff tries to do everything to promote the image of Sweden. But for the selfish ambassador Thomas Hofwander, it is mainly about lifting himself.
Style: satirical, captivating, psychological, political, semi serious ...
Plot: diplomacy, diplomat, workplace, politics, political satire, satire, political activism, social climber, job, political campaign, career, political candidate ...
Place: eastern europe
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 2.1
 654
Attila (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When American soldiers inadvertently steal Attila the Hun's secret riches, the wrath of the barbarian is awakened; the mummified warrior will stop at nothing to kill the intruders.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, exciting, scary, rough ...
Plot: monster, barbarian, supernatural, murder, american soldier, mummy, characters murdered one by one, underground, chase, fictional war, soldier, military base ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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 5.0
 223
The Office (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Finnish adaption of the British TV series "The Office".
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, entertaining, witty, captivating ...
Plot: office, employment, employer employee relationship, adaptation, office work, couple relations, relationships, love affair, office romance, office worker, humour, social relations
Time: 2010s
Place: eastern europe, finland
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Root of Darkness (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 65 min.
Story: When out on vacaion, history buff Erland finds remains of an ancient evil which he soon has to fight.
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, psychotronic
Plot: knight, monster, cabin in the woods, married couple, supernatural power, artifact, cursed object, forest, evil, victim, peril, loss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Sea Without Shore (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her soul mate, the surviving lover is drawn into the depths of ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy
Plot: lesbian, tragic love, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, gender, poetry, dancing, lgbtq, lesbianism, dance, psychological drama
Time: 19th century
Place: eastern europe
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 4.7
 543
Marianne (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence.
Style: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, scary, captivating ...
Plot: body horror, family tragedy, psychosis, hallucination, guilt, small town, revenge, broken family, panic attack, social realism, pursuit, cosmic horror ...
Place: eastern europe
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 5.8
 40
The Break-In (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A married couple have dinner and discuss their future, they go to bed but soon they realize that someone is in the house. The crisis that follows this incident brings the couple closer together, but brings the relationship to a clash when reality ...
Style: psychological, unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: relationships, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, criminal heroes, planning, love, thief, heist, hacking, heist gone wrong, hostage situation, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Automatic at Sea (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia, USA, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On a whim, Eve, a young Swedish traveler, accepts an invitation from Peter to vacation on his family's private island off the coast of New England. As a series of unexpected delays prevent other guests from arriving, Eve discovers that she has ...
Style: contemplative, unusual plot structure, light, minimal cast, independent film ...
Plot: female friendship, female protagonist, ambiguity, male female relationship, young woman, nudity, voice over narration, vacation, island, house, beach, goat ...
Place: eastern europe
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 6.2
 117
6A (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story: As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: bullying, school teacher, school, teacher, parents, doubt, mistrust, crisis, friendship, teenager, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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All About My Bush (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Allt om min buske är en sexkomedi i trädgårdsmiljö om oväntade kärleksförbindelser och avgrundsdjup svartsjuka. Det vackra och välbärgade paret Nils och Karin flyttar in med sin dotter Barbro i det exklusiva villaområdet. I huset intill ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot: couples, family relations, couple relations, sexual relations, love affair, suburbs, suburban life, love and romance, lesbian sex, cheating wife, female nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Colorado Avenue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, family saga ...
Plot: family relations, single parent, love and romance, society, hopes, getting home, mother daughter relationship, generation gap, old love, independent woman, civil war, death of husband ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century
Place: eastern europe, finland, colorado
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The Stockholm Syndrome (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973. The Stockholm Syndrome is named after this incident.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: bank, bank robbery, bank robber, money, hostage, twists and turns, heist, true crime, police, water, ambulance, gas mask ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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 7.5
 2K
Enclave (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Serbia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: boy, post war, political conflict, ethnic conflict, military, muslim, teenager, coming of age, child, community, life is a bitch, funeral ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kosovo, eastern europe, balkan, serbia
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 7.5
 16K
Sunshine (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style: costume drama, erotic, family saga, sad, saga ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, fascism, sex scene, nazi, anti semitism, society, political unrest, siblings relations, family life, politics, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
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