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: 7,060
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: 878
3. 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: 5,097
4. Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (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: 412
5. 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: 888
6. 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: 239
7. Vechir na Ivana Kupala (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: 357
8. Krynytsya dlya sprahlykh (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: 329
9. 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: 131
10. 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: 298
11. 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: 160
12. 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: 190
13. 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: 1,170
14. Za dvoma zaytsiamy (1961)
77 min | Comedy, Musical
Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kiev about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.
Director: Viktor Ivanov | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko, Anna Kushnirenko
Votes: 969
15. Blagie namereniya (1984)
82 min | Drama
Director: Andrey Benkendorf | Stars: Marina Yakovleva, Yuri Platonov, Mariya Bolenko, Alyona Mushchitskaya
Votes: 19
16. Kaminnyy khrest (1968)
80 min | Drama
The Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories ("The Stone Cross" and "The Thief," both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl Stefanyk.
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Borislav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 186
17. The Bay of Death (1991)
127 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Directors: Grigoriy Kokhan, Timofei Levchuk | Stars: Oleg Stefan, Igor Krikunov, Bimbulat Vatayev, Oksana Fomichyova
Votes: 37
18. Dama s popugaem (1988)
99 min | Comedy, Romance
A 40-year-old womanizer is resting on vacation by the warm sea. The sea, the beach , beautiful naked women, and it would seem, what else is needed? But a strange woman with a parrot ... See full summary »
Director: Andrei Prachenko | Stars: Aleksey Zharkov, Svetlana Smirnova, Dmitri Kopp, Tatyana Yerisova
Votes: 64
19. Propala hramota (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: 880
20. Forsaken Beach (1990)
69 min | Drama
Director: Nataliya Kirakozova | Stars: Viktor Merezhko, Andrey Ponomaryov, Yelena Vnukova, Aleksey Guskov
Votes: 26
21. 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: 910
22. A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers (1980)
88 min | Drama, Family
A fatherless rebel boy keeps running away from the same special school each time he's caught. Reality mingles with his imagination throughout his odyssey in the look for a home, while wanting ever more to visit his heroic uncle Vanya.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Yura Madzhula, Aleksei Cherstvov, Regimantas Adomaitis, Lyudmila Efimenko
Votes: 34
23. Pervyy paren (1959)
81 min | Drama
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Grigori Karpov, Lyudmila Sosyura, Yuriy Satarov, Valeriya Kovalenko
Votes: 108
24. Annychka (1969)
89 min | Drama
A romantic melodrama set during the Second World War that follows the clandestine relationship between a young Hutsul girl and a wounded, Soviet guerrilla, lost in enemy territory.
Director: Boris Ivchenko | Stars: Lyubov Rumyantseva, Grigore Grigoriu, Konstantin Stepankov, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 80
25. Chyornaya kuritsa, ili Podzemnye zhiteli (1981)
74 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
In the St. Petersburg board for Alyosha life has begun new, without habitual parental attention. Being homesick, the boy has created in the imagination the fantastic world of underground ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Gres | Stars: Vitali Sidletsky, Larisa Kadochnikova, Aristarkh Livanov, Albert Filozov
Votes: 103
26. Odinokaya zhenshchina zhelayet poznakomitsya (1987)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely woman, who is desperately tired of her lonesome, posts a message that she wishes to meet someone. A man answers this message, who seems to have nothing in common with the woman. ... See full summary »
Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich | Stars: Irina Kupchenko, Aleksandr Zbruev, Elena Solovey, Marianna Vertinskaya
Votes: 217
27. 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: 137
28. 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: 197
29. Entering the Sea (1965)
15 min | Short
Director: Leonid Osyka | Stars: Tanya Malysh, Antonina Leftiy, Zoya Nedbay, Gennadiy Yukhtin
Votes: 43
30. Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
88 min | Drama, War
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Olga Reus-Petrenko, Yevgenia Miroshnichenko, Eduard Koshman, Yuriy Gulyayev
Votes: 172
31. Vysokyy pereval (1982– )
131 min | Drama, War
Yaroslava "Slavka" Petryn, avid communist whose family was torn apart by World War II returns to her village as a party leader only to find that her family are among nationalists which terrorize the village.
Stars: Natalya Naum, Konstantin Stepankov, Lyubov Bogdan, Taras Denisenko
Votes: 14
32. 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: 34
33. Odnazhdy letom (1936)
Comedy
Young motor-car provincials-enthusiasts - Telescope and Zhora are dream to become professional motorists. Collecting a car from worthless materials, heroes set forth to Moscow and soon meet... See full summary »
Directors: Igor Ilyinsky, Khanan Shmain | Stars: Igor Ilyinsky, Leonid Kmit, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, B. Movchan
Votes: 32
34. Kaminna dusha (1989)
103 min | Drama
Director: Stanislav Klymenko | Stars: Anatoliy Khostikoev, Marina Mogilevskaya, Yuliya Tarkhova, Aleksey Gorbunov
Votes: 20
35. Gadyuka (1965)
105 min | Drama
Director: Viktor Ivchenko | Stars: Ninel Myshkova, Boris Seidenberg, Aleksandr Movchan, Sergei Lyakhnitsky
Votes: 62
36. Oleksa Dovbush (1959)
90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Story about Oleksa Dovbush, a famous Ukrainian outlaw, who became a folk hero, often compared to Robin Hood.
Director: Viktor Ivanov | Stars: Afanasi Kochetkov, Natalya Naum, Oleg Borisov, Nikolai Muravyov
Votes: 54
37. 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: 93
38. Taynik u krasnykh kamney (1972)
Family
Director: Grigoriy Kokhan | Stars: Aleksandr Bystrushkin, Aleksandr Korotkevich, Valeri Obodzinsky, Sofiya Rotaru
Votes: 16
39. 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: 119
40. Takaya pozdnyaya, takaya tyoplaya osen (1982)
88 min | Drama
The Bukovynian peasant Rusnak leaves the poor Bukovynian lands and goes to Canada with his little daughter Orysia--maybe he will be lucky there? And now Rusnak, using the services of "Intourist", goes to his land, where he was once happy.
Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk | Stars: Petro Mikhnevych, Gregory Hlady, Galina Sulima, Ivan Mikolaychuk
Votes: 49
41. Duma o Kovpake: Nabat (1974)
97 min | Biography, War
The first film is called "Nabat". About the emergence at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of a partisan detachment of twelve people and its development to a powerful military ... See full summary »
Director: Timofei Levchuk | Stars: Konstantin Stepankov, Valentin Belokhvostik, Mikhail Golubovich, Viktor Pivnenko
Votes: 91
42. Preodoleniye (1982)
77 min | History
Directors: Nikolai Litus, Ivan Simonenko | Stars: Yelizaveta Dedova, Boris Tokarev, Aivars Silins, Vladimir Talashko
43. 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: 41
44. 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: 301
45. Kha-bi-assy (1990)
83 min | Fantasy
Director: Anatoliy Mateshko | Stars: Elena Korikova, Igor Lyakh, Vladimir Mashkov, Tauras Cizas
Votes: 20
46. Razvedchiki (1969)
80 min | Adventure, War
Command charges group of scouts to get the germans cards mined plots, the Danube.
Directors: Igor Samborsky, Aleksei Shvachko | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Leonid Bykov, Konstantin Stepankov, Andrei Sova
Votes: 69
47. Prazdnik pechyonoy kartoshki (1978)
94 min | Comedy
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Lyudmila Efimenko, Roman Gromadskiy, Leonid Yanovskiy, Viktor Panchenko
Votes: 31
48. Vidma (1990)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.
Director: Galina Shigayeva | Stars: E. Pokrovskaya-Urakcheyeva, Bogdan Benyuk, Lev Perfilov, Galina Kovganich
Votes: 14
49. Voyna na zapadnom napravlenii (1990– )
465 min | War
The film is based on the famous work of I. Stadnyuk. The screenwriters set out their version of the role of the Soviet leadership and Stalin personally in the defeats of the summer of 1941,... See full summary »
Stars: Viktor Stepanov, Archil Gomiashvili, Mikhail Ulyanov, Oleg Savkin
Votes: 46
50. 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: 53