Movies and TV shows set in armenia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in armenia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out melancholic, captivating, realistic, poignant, emotional and suspense films and TV shows about / with armenian genocide, family relations, genocide, memory, loss, grief, nostalgia, survival, deportation and society plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres shot in Armenia, France, Soviet Union and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as armenia: Ararat (2002), Armenia (2006), No Borders (2015), The Legion (2020), Spitak (2018), Aram (2002), The Lark Farm (2007), Earthquake (1999), Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015), The Cut (2014).
Best films
New films
| The Cut (2014) | 6.3 | |
| Ararat (2002) | 6.3 | |
| The Legion (2020) | 3.3 | |
| Here (2011) | 5.8 | |
| Poker AM (2012) | 6.9 |
List of movies set in armenia
15K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, emotional, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, filmmaking, politics, ethnic, painting, atrocity, war crime, self discovery, haunted by the past, against humanity, family problems ...
Time:
year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1915 ...
Place:
armenia, canada, ottoman empire, middle east, toronto ontario canada ...
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516
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, road movie, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, genocide, physician, road trip, journey, intimate, family reunited, identity crisis, father daughter relationship, self discovery, female protagonist ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.
Style:
romantic, emotional, entertaining, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
love story, love and romance, love affair, satire, humour, couples, family relations, couple relations, relationships, travel, heartwarming, post soviet ...
Place:
moscow russia, armenia, georgia, tbilisi
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, epic ...
Plot:
roman empire, mission, epic battle, ancient rome, barbarian, combat, rivalry, murder, warrior, sword fight, battles, heroes ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
armenia
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528
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
«Spitak» tells the story of the most devastating and largest (in terms of casualties) Armenian earthquake that happened on December 7, 1988. This day went down in history as the day of a horrible disaster, which claimed the lives of over 25,000 ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, emotional, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, tragedy, hopes, grief, loss, disaster, tragic event, destruction, family tragedy, hell on earth, survival, mourning ...
Place:
armenia, russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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608
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
trauma, turkish history, mass murder, assassin, diplomat, genocide, armenian genocide, vengeance, tough heroes, haunted by the past, gangster, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 1915, 21st century
Place:
armenia, france, turkey, paris france, ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, world war one, turkish history, family relations, wartime life, life turned upside down, siblings relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, deportation, great war ...
Time:
year 1915, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire, turkey, middle east
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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, touching, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, catastrophe, survival, rescue, demolished city, humanity in peril, society, chaos and mayhem, human existence, death ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to ...
Style:
sincere, rough, sentimental, disturbing
Plot:
assassination, trauma, trial, execution, hospital, shooting, embassy, dancing, cyclist, ashes, man in a wheelchair, ambassador ...
Time:
year 1915, year 2015, 80s, 70s
Place:
france, armenia, berlin germany, turkey, ottoman empire ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Style:
sexy, exciting, tense, suspense, factual ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, turkish history, refugee, world war one, diaspora, deportation, mute, charlie chaplin, odyssey, mass murder, blacksmith ...
Time:
year 1915, year 2014, 1910s
Place:
ottoman empire, armenia, turkey, north dakota
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5K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
Style:
suspenseful, sad, rough, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, theater, genocide, turkish history, soldier, life is a bitch, memory, memories, society, culture clash, violence, brutality ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire, los angeles, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, ...
Style:
saga, emotional, historical drama, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, biopic, exile, refugee, motherhood, immigration, family drama, survival, mother son relationship, resilience, family relations ...
Place:
armenia, marseille, ottoman empire, france, provence
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
children, deportation, brother sister relationship, search for mother, loss, social issues, family relations, search for father, social misfits, social problems, life is a bitch, travel ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire
Is relevant?
987
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:
surreal, captivating, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, male female relationship, journey, self discovery, satellite, on the road, love affair, society, culture clash, wilderness, road trip, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
armenia, caucasus
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The Vigilante Diaries is a high octane action-adventure film featuring 90's movie heroes, explosive action, and international espionage. The film revolves around a team of black-ops agents turned crime-fighters, led by a brooding anti-hero, ...
Style:
intense, suspense, semi serious, tense, f word
Plot:
vigilantism, mission, woman with a gun, vigilante, torture, electric shock, gangster, ex soldier, rescue, terrorism, tough law enforcer, spy ...
Place:
armenia, scotland, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Focuses on a woman and child after the 1988 earthquake that rocked the Soviet state of Armenia. They find themselves listening to telephone wires and call it music. They became close and the little boy decides that he has found the basis for the ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, captivating, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
female protagonist, adopted son, mother love, childhood, motherhood, bonding, mother son relationship, relationships, family relations, child, foster child, adoptive mother ...
Place:
armenia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Armenia, Iran
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Aram, the Iranian Armenian youth who has immigrated to the US in childhood returns to Armenia for the first time to propose to an Armenian girlfriend Aram met and lived with in the US. Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
lgbt, cultural difference, culture clash, love and romance, relationship problems, relationships, family relations, love affair, homecoming, culture shock, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Place:
armenia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Lithuania, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
confession, dishonesty, male female relationship, lie, investigation, murder, journalist, war, society, war correspondent, conflict, wartime ...
Place:
armenia, germany, lithuania
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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 ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, poignant, meditative, existential ...
Plot:
physicist, grief, post war, loss, memory, character study, war trauma, memories, nostalgia, mourning, loneliness, introspection ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, moscow russia, russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
Without Gorky is a personal journey into a powerful family tragedy. At the centre of the film are the conversations between the director, Cosima, and her grandmother, Mougouch. The whole family has been shaped by the legacy left by Cosima's ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, reflective, melancholic, art house
Plot:
family history, armenian genocide, family tragedy, legacy, mourning, grief, intimate, memory, loss, family secret, grandmother, bittersweet ...
Place:
armenia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Armenia
Duration: 111 min.
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:
absurd, romantic comedy, lighthearted, political comedy, whimsical
Plot:
political satire, satire, bureaucracy, corruption, social satire, self discovery, personal growth, irreverent, redemption, conspiracy, wish fulfillment, dark humor ...
Place:
armenia, georgia, caucasus
Is relevant?
144
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, atmospheric, grim, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, loss of innocence, innocence lost, tragedy, social class, poverty, class struggle, injustice, alienation, intimate, bittersweet, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Armenia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh War. Karabakh, which was the territory of the Azerbaijani Republic ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
veteran, conflict, escapades, haunted by the past, dealing with death, shepherd, soldier, peace, friendship, grief, loss, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
europe, armenia, russia, azerbaijan
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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, small time, friends, social relations, disorder, follow your dream, misfit partners ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, georgia, russia, caucasus ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
Style:
poignant, emotional, reflective, period piece, tragic
Plot:
theater, grief, mourning, loss, memory, melancholy, social realism, post war, solidarity, community, social commentary, intimate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
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161
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Style:
poignant, historical drama, melancholic, period piece, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, world war two, sacrifice, memory, nostalgia, tragedy, brotherhood, loss, mourning, working class, coming of age, small town life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia, soviet union, caucasus, ussr
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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, realistic, serious, islamic, sentimental ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, couples, parents and children, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, bittersweet, small town, kurd, poverty, widow ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
kurdistan, russia, armenia, caucasus
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Armenia
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Only the best join Armenia's Special Division, the team created to investigate complex crimes and bring criminals to justice.
Style:
tense, talky, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
murder investigation, partners against crime, police investigation, coworker, friends, evidence, investigation, name calling, testimony, violence, investigator, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
armenia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Calm of the mountain village is disturbed by the investigation on stray sheep.
Style:
pastoral, black comedy, tragicomedy
Plot:
mountain, satire, social commentary, human nature, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, village life, provincial, realism, hunger, isolation, investigation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Georgia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of teenage boys from Tbilisi take a trip to Azerbaijan to buy drugs, and end up fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, when they are captured by Azerbaijani militants, with one subsequently being captured by the Armenians. During the course ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
captivity, teenager, drug dealer, social problems, drug, drug traffic, juvenile delinquency, captive, drug dealing, trauma, loss of innocence, survival ...
Place:
azerbaijan, armenia, tbilisi, caucasus, georgia
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