Eastern Europe Movies

A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century to its incarnation as one of the largest empires...

LENIN’S PAWN is a hybrid documentary with dark humor following actor Sergiu Voloc, a modern-day Don Quixote whose lonely fight against Lenin...

A photographer makes a journey to East Europe to document traces of the past, birth of the new, recovery of long forgotten traditions.

Between 1930 and 1945, Eastern Europe experienced mass violence on an unprecedented scale. Hitler and Stalin exploited the vast region for their...

An exchange student in Eastern Europe enters a realm of unsettling phantasm.

On his documentary journey along the Black Sea coast, documentary filmmaker Stanislaw Mucha paints an idiosyncratic picture of the interface between...

We travelled to Georgia, a country living in the shadow of Russia, where many believe they could be next. This film explores what that fear actually...

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard...

Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of...

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in World War II. Spending their...

Branko has been a truck driver for only a few months, a choice that is quite understandable, given that he now earns three times as much as he did as...

Set in the dense forests of 1940s Eastern Europe, this story reveals the supernatural encounters that challenge three soldiers' understanding of life...

Released on the 24th of July, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Experimental animation film, with a visual focus on geometrical shapes and straight lines

We follow the story of a Bulgarian elderly couple living in a stagnant small village called Balabansko. Taking care of the family house passed down...

What does a retired police officer, a dog trainer, the founder of a political party and anti-government protesters have in common? They've all met on...