With Dovzhenko Film Studios (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 6,580
2. Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Gurgen Tonunts
Votes: 815
3. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 802
4. Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
92 min | Drama
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Ivanova
Votes: 1,092
5. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches to newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Sergey Podgornyy, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev
Votes: 4,887
6. The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)
71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman, Dmitri Franko
Votes: 333
7. Return from Orbit (1984)
89 min | Sci-Fi
An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
Director: Aleksandr Surin | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Vitali Solomin, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Tamara Akulova
Votes: 52
8. The White Bird Marked with Black (1971)
99 min | Drama, War
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka, Yuri Mikolajchuk
Votes: 378
9. Tsyganka Aza (1987)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Vasil left his nomadic gypsy life, his mother and his beloved Aza for beautiful Galya, whom he marries and settles down. Galya, in her turn, leaves her fiancee for Vasil. But with time Vasil starts longing for freedom he once had.
Director: Grigoriy Kokhan | Stars: Olga Zhemchuzhnaya, Elena Ponomarenko, Igor Krikunov, Aleksandr Bondarenko
Votes: 21
10. Lisova pisnya. Mavka (1981)
83 min | Fantasy
Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Viktor Kremlyov, Mayya Bulgakova, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 183
11. Vavilon XX (1980)
100 min | Drama
The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.
Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk | Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Les Serdyuk, Yaroslav Gavrilyuk
Votes: 199
12. Alye pogony (1980– )
Stars: Vitali Agarkov, Leonid Bakshtaev, Valentin Chernyak, Seryozha Chesnokov
Votes: 20
13. Novye priklyucheniya yanki pri dvore korolya Artura (1989)
164 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The plane of the American pilot has got lost in time. The pilot has got to an era of the nice king Artur. Here he is fated to meet legendary knights of the Round table and artful to Morgan ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Gres | Stars: Sergey Koltakov, Albert Filozov, Elena Finogeeva, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 96
14. Moi lyudi (1990 TV Movie)
137 min | Drama
Director: Oleg Goyda | Stars: Irina Bunina, Viktor Bortsov, Anastasiya Bunina, Evgeniy Knyazev
15. Khrani menya, moy talisman (1986)
74 min | Drama
A stranger intrudes into life of a lovely couple. It doesn't take a lot of efforts from him to ruin their happiness.
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksandr Zbruev
Votes: 187
16. Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
73 min | Drama, History
Three unconnected episodes united by a common theme: the establishment of the Soviet rule in Russia during the civil war of the early 1920s. Depicts dramatic events in simple lives of peasants and soldiers.
Directors: Genrikh Gabay, Larisa Shepitko, Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Leonid Kulagin, Sergei Volf, Georgiy Burkov, Nikolay Gubenko
Votes: 240
17. Legenda o knyagine Olge (1984)
170 min | Drama, History
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the start of the 11th century.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Les Serdyuk, Ivan Ivanov, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 127
18. Andromeda Nebula (1967)
77 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book "Tumannost Andromedy" by Ivan Efremov.
Director: Evgeniy Sherstobitov | Stars: Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina
Votes: 289
19. The Stone Cross (1968)
80 min | Drama
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Borislav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 171
20. Kha-bi-assy (1990)
83 min | Fantasy
Director: Anatoliy Mateshko | Stars: Elena Korikova, Igor Lyakh, Vladimir Mashkov, Tauras Cizas
Votes: 18
21. How the Steel Was Tempered (1973 TV Movie)
202 min | Drama, History
Fictionalized autobiography of a young Bolshevik fighter taking part in the Russian civil war.
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Vladimir Konkin, Konstantin Stepankov, Fyodor Panasenko, Natalya Sayko
Votes: 134
22. Sudba Mariny (1954)
99 min | Drama
Directors: Viktor Ivchenko, Isaak Shmaruk | Stars: Ekaterina Litvinenko, Nikolai Gritsenko, Tatyana Konyukhova, Aleksandr Serdyuk
Votes: 26
23. The Lost Letter (1972)
79 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Lidiya Belozyorova, Fyodor Strigun, Zemfira Tsakhilova
Votes: 785
24. Bumbarash (1972 TV Movie)
135 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Private Bumbarash is considered dead after air balloon scouting incident gone awry. When he, alive and well, returns home, he has to stay alive and regain the girl he loves in the harsh yet tragicomic circumstances of Russian Civil War.
Directors: Abram Naroditsky, Nikolai Rasheyev | Stars: Valeriy Zolotukhin, Yuri Smirnov, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Votes: 291
25. Ovod (1980 TV Movie)
210 min | Drama
Historical drama about Italian struggle for independence in 19th century, centers around young revolutionaries and the difficult choices they have to make. Very emotionally charged plot.
Director: Nikolay Mashchenko | Stars: Andrey Kharitonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Ada Rogovtseva
Votes: 158
26. A Well for the Thirsty (1965)
70 min | Drama
The old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Dmitri Milyutenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Feodosiya Litvinenko, Nina Alisova
Votes: 302
27. Pod sozvezdiem bliznetsov (1979)
90 min | Sci-Fi
Based on Sci-Fi story by Igor Rosokhovatsky, an artificial brain vanishes from professor's lab causing havoc in the city. It creates an android and appears before the professor, finally taking off on a mission to constellation Gemini.
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Vsevolod Gavrilov, Gennadi Shkuratov, Boris Belov, Gulcha Tashbayeva
Votes: 21
28. Kashtanka (1976 TV Movie)
60 min | Adventure
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Vyacheslav Borisov, Lev Durov, Sergey Shvartszoyd, Oleg Tabakov
Votes: 62
29. Lone Wolf (1978)
77 min | Drama
Director: Roman Balayan | Stars: Mikhail Golubovich, Oleg Tabakov, Yelena Khrol, Yuriy Dubrovin
Votes: 41
30. Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
88 min | Drama, War
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Olga Reus-Petrenko, Yevgenia Miroshnichenko, Eduard Koshman, Yuriy Gulyayev
Votes: 162
31. Letayushchiy korabl (1960)
60 min | Fantasy
Ukrainian folk tale. The hero of the story, Kotigoroschko sets off on an arduous journey to find his sister Olenka, who has been kidnapped by an evil dragon.
Directors: Artur Vojtetsky, Mikhail Yuferov | Stars: Igor Yershov, Susanna Jurtschenko, Larisa Gordeichik, Ada Rogovtseva
Votes: 21
32. Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1977)
87 min | Drama, War
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Vladimir Konkin, Elena Shanina, Leonid Bakshtaev
Votes: 883
33. Flower on the Stone (1962)
71 min | Drama
Set in a mining town in the Donets Basin, it centers on a clash between the political establishment and a religious cult which infiltrates the community.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Inna Burduchenko, Lyudmila Cherepanova, Boris Dmokhovsky, Dmitri Franko
Votes: 112
34. Lisova pisnya (1961)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Mavka loves Lukash,. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses Mavka.
Director: Viktor Ivchenko | Stars: Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Volodymyr Sydorchuk, Pyotr Vesklyarov, Vladimir Rudin
Votes: 32
35. Tronka (1971)
76 min | Drama
Director: Artur Vojtetsky | Stars: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Margarita Kosheleva, Ivanka Mikolaychuk, Helmuts Kalnins
36. Svadba (1973)
R | 91 min | Drama, War
Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Director: Radomir Saranovic | Stars: Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Vladimir Popovic, Zurab Kapianidze, Valentin Nikulin
Votes: 39
37. Imitator (1990)
96 min | Comedy
Director: Oleg Fialko | Stars: Igor Sklyar, Natalya Lapina, Aleksey Zharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko
Votes: 70
38. Duma o Kovpake: Buran (1976)
99 min | Biography, War
The second film of trilogy is called "Buran". About the raid into the enemy rear in 1941-1942, in the battles during the crossing of the Dnepr and Pripyat, the famous operation near the ... See full summary »
Director: Timofei Levchuk | Stars: Konstantin Stepankov, Valentin Belokhvostik, Mikhail Golubovich, Yuriy Sarantsev
Votes: 83
39. Pilgrim's Captain (1987)
119 min | Adventure
Director: Andrei Prachenko | Stars: Vyacheslav Khodchenko, Nodar Mgaloblishvili, Albert Filozov, Tatyana Parkina
Votes: 63
40. Bereg nadezhdy (1967)
75 min | Drama
Director: Nikolay Vingranovskiy | Stars: Yuri Leonidov, Boris Bibikov, Nikolay Vingranovskiy, Vladimir Zeldin
41. Blagie namereniya (1984)
82 min | Drama
Director: Andrey Benkendorf | Stars: Marina Yakovleva, Yuri Platonov, Mariya Bolenko, Alyona Mushchitskaya
Votes: 18
42. Naperekor vsemu (1973)
86 min | Drama
Trials and tribulations of Petar I Petrovic, the man who united Montenegro in the 18th century and led them in the Battle of Krusi against a huge Turkish army to return victorious and pave the first path towards economic development.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Vladimir Popovic, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Boris Khmelnitskiy
Votes: 90
43. Pervyy paren (1959)
81 min | Drama
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Tamara Alexeeva, Andrei Andrienko-Zemskov, Varvara Chayka, Grigori Karpov
Votes: 101
44. Dachnaya poezdka serzhanta Tsybuli (1979)
77 min | Comedy, War
In Summer 1943 Red Army Sergeant Tsybulya , is sent behind enemy lines with the mission to deliver anti-transport mines to partisans and help them to destroy the guarded railway bridge.
Directors: Nikolai Litus, Vitali Shunko | Stars: Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Alekseyenko, Mikhail Kokshenov, Nadezhda Smirnova
Votes: 88
45. Sovist (1968)
75 min | Drama, War
The story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.
Director: Vladimir Denisenko | Stars: Anatoliy Sokolovskiy, Viktor Malyarevich, Nikolay Oleynik, Nikolai Gudz
Votes: 29
46. Forsaken Beach (1990)
69 min | Drama
Director: Nataliya Kirakozova | Stars: Viktor Merezhko, Andrey Ponomaryov, Yelena Vnukova, Aleksey Guskov
Votes: 23
47. Proshchayte, golubi (1961)
82 min | Romance, Drama
Genka Sakhnenko, a seventeen-year-old boy, has been passionate about pigeon breeding since childhood. But he begins to make a living, falls in love with the girl Tanya and realizes that it is time to leave his childhood hobbies.
Director: Yakov Segel | Stars: Aleksei Loktev, Svetlana Savyolova, Valentina Telegina, Sergei Plotnikov
Votes: 49
48. Yunga so shkhuny Kolumb (1964)
77 min | Adventure, Family
Director: Evgeniy Sherstobitov | Stars: Irina Mitsik, Vladimir Kislenko, Viktor Miroshnichenko, Ivan Ryzhov
Votes: 18
49. Olesya (1971)
81 min | Drama
The movie is based on Aleksandr kuprin's novel in the movie a girl named olesya who externmented from the city by the society because they assumed she is a witch and her existence is not ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Lyudmila Chursina, Gennadi Voropayev, Borislav Brondukov, Anatoli Barchuk
Votes: 86
50. Sumka, polnaya serdets (1964)
79 min | Drama
Director: Anatoliy Bukovskiy | Stars: Liliya Drozdova, Olga Kusenko, Sofiya Giatsintova, Elena Ponsova