Ukrainian fantasy movies

List of the best Ukrainian fantasy movies selected by visitors to our site: The Stronghold, Mavka: The Forest Song, The Mystery of the Dragon’s Seal, Unforgotten Shadows, The Dragon Spell, The Gateway, The Stolen Princess, Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki, Elephants Can Play Football, Yaariyan.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, adventure
CountryUkraine
Duration01:40

A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage.

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Genrefantasy, comedy, cartoon
CountryUkraine

Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human — the talented young musician Lukas.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryRussia, Ukraine, Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, China
Duration01:54

The Russian Czar Peter the Great commissions Jonathan Green, an English traveller, to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire. Green sets off on yet another long journey, full of unbelievable adventures, which eventually leads him to China. On his way, the famous cartographer makes breath-taking discoveries, meets mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even Lun Van, the King of Dragons, himself. What could be more perilous than looking into the eyes of Viy? Only meeting him again… What will prevail this time — the unflinching scepticism of the scientist or ancient black magic, which has already gained influence over the Far East Lands?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
CountryUkraine
Duration01:49

A young college student and a group of friends find themselves victims of demons unwillingly released during a mishap at a prestiguous University. To reverse the curse and save themselves, they travel to the forbidden mystical forest in western Ukraine. There, they must locate the legendary Molfars that can help rid them of demonic possession and save each of them from certain death. Danger lurks in the forest and personality clashes add to the tension as the young students fight for survival.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUkraine, Andorra
Duration00:59

Little Nicky, the son of the Tanner, a famous strongman, has made up his mind, that he can conquer the dragon as his father did long ago. Against prohibition of his father, Nicky has managed to get into trouble and now it depends only on his courage, whether he defeats the resurgent dragon and returns home from the magic world.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUkraine

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantasy, comedy, cartoon
CountryUkraine
Duration01:56

This wonderful story happened in the age of valiant knights, beautiful princesses, and battling sorcerers. Ruslan, a wandering artist dreaming to become a knight, met beautiful Mila and fell in love with her; he didn’t even suspect that she is the King’s daughter. However, the lovers’ happiness wasn’t meant to last too long. Chernomor, the evil sorcerer, appeared in a magic vortex and stole Mila right before Ruslan’s eyes to transform her power of love into his own magic power. Without further ado, Ruslan sets out on a chase after the stolen princess to overcome all obstacles and to prove that real love is stronger than magic.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, musical
CountryUkraine, Russia
Duration01:31

По мотивам одноименной повоести Н.В.Гоголя. История о всепобеждающей любви Вакулы и Оксаны разворачиваются в живописной Диканьке и в царском дворце в Петербурге накануне Рождества. Кто не бывал в украинском селе во время рождественских праздников? Кому не известно, что такое любовь до умопомрачения? Укротить нечистую силу, слетать в гости к царице, сосватать любимую девушку — и все это за одну ночь! Такое возможно только в сочельник и только на хуторе близ Диканьки. Сказочные декорации и костюмы, колоритные персонажи, захватывающие трюки, великолепная музыка Константина Меладзе в исполнении Ф. Киркорова, Лолиты, О. Скрипки, Ани Лорак, Т. Повалий, дуэта "Виа Гра" и других. Этот фильм - добрая традиция телеканала "Интер" преподносить праздничные сюрпризы своей многомиллионной аудитории. Удовольствие, полученное от просмотра фильма, останется с вами и после быстротечных праздников.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:49

Dmitry is a strong willed, solid guy. He could easily quit the game, if only he knew he was playing.

Markimdb: 2.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia

A college student must win an inter college competition to save his college from being demolished by property builders.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryRussia

In the center of the plot of the film is a young soldier of the Ukrainian army, Andrei Sokolov, who is sent to the combat zone as a driver. Fleeing from the shelling, Andrew finds himself in the basement of a dwelling house, where he meets different people, each of whom dreams of only one thing - so that the war will end as soon as possible.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

Jerome (Adam Deacon) breaks out of his council estate gang and becomes a successful and famous footballer, but he soon learns that his old life isn't as easy to leave behind as he had hoped when his old gang catch up with him and start demanding regular payments.

Markimdb: 8
Genremelodrama, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration01:00

Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular and genuinely cheerful classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a pancreatic illness and only has a limited time left. It is at this moment that she gains just one more person to share her secret. Trying to maintain a normal life as much as possible, Sakura is determined to live her life to the fullest until the very last day. As her free spirit and unpredictable actions throw him for a loop, his heart begins to gradually change.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, music
CountryArgentina
Duration01:31

In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he must contend with a dead-end factory job and an ex-wife who worries about how his obsessive behavior affects their young daughter, Lisa Marie. Feeling more connected to his persona as the King than to his own family, Gutiérrez retreats from reality until a tragic accident interrupts his plans and forces him to grapple with his real-world responsibilities.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

    A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:40

    The film follows a romantic liaison between a young woman from Kiev, who is a supporter of the pro-European Maidan uprising, and a man from Sevastopol who joins the pro-Russian resistance in the aftermath of Maidan’s success in Kiev.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military, music
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:40

    Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Sam Witwicky takes his first tenuous steps into adulthood while remaining a reluctant human ally of Autobot-leader Optimus Prime. The film centers around the space race between the USSR and the USA, suggesting there was a hidden Transformers role in it all that remains one of the planet's most dangerous secrets.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryCanada

    Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredocumentary, biography, sport
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:58

    Klitschko tells the captivating story of the boxing worlds most famous brothers: Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko. From the socialist drill of their childhood in the Ukraine, and their first successes as amateurs, to their move to Germany and subsequent rise as international stars on the verge of holding the championship titles of all five boxing federations (Wladimir secured this with his unanimous World Boxing Association win against David Haye on July 2nd, 2011). Along the way they experience defeats and setbacks, low points and triumphant comebacks as well as conflicts with each other. Exciting conversations with companions and opponents, including the very first with the Klitschkos parents, give insight into their personal lives, plus never-before-seen footage of the draining preparations for a fight, and the spectacular boxing matches. Director Sebastian Dehnhardt composes an intimate and fascinating portrait of two exceptional athletes who are, before all else, brothers.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:28

    Москва. Наши дни. В центре города из машины двое воришек крадут сумку с миллионом евро, думая, что им, наконец, повезло, и даже не представляя, во что, на самом деле, они ввязались. За деньгами начинается настоящая охота. Перед искушением не может устоять никто. Сумма в виде двух пачек денег по полмиллиона евро делает абсолютно разных людей одинаковыми в своих поступках и желаниях: А началось все с того, что "миллионщик" Григорий не захотел честно платить налоги.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music, history
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:33

    ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:01

    This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration03:37

    A spinoff of The Fate of the Furious, focusing on Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham's Deckard Shaw.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, short
    CountrySoviet Union

    The day comes when an old watchdog becomes useless but the masters being kind don't decide to drive him away. However they turn exasperated when the Dog stays indifferent during a home theft. The Dog leaves for the forest, where he meets the Wolf, his old enemy.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama
    CountryIsrael
    Duration01:30

    After Ivan lost a lot of money to the criminal boss Franco he must work for him. First task is to guard the apartment where young girl Nika from Ukraine is forced to work as a prostitute.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Canada

    Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genredrama, history
    CountryRussia
    Duration02:08

    The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:49

    1990s. Gangster Kiev. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "The Stranger." As the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, her testimony could damage some important people.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom
    Duration02:10

    Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Steele realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.

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    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia

    A successful top manager of an investment company, Ivanov, is fleeing the harassment of security officials from Moscow to Kiev, a city without rules, and is trying to find a place for himself there. He discovers the opportunity for easy money, as everything around can be stolen. In Kiev, Ivanov, with his friend and business partner Spitsin, goes to night clubs, visits the gallery of modern art and prepares a deal to buy shipwrecks from a local scam. "Ivanov", shot in Kiev before the Maidan, is based on real events, it is a strange and bewitching tragicomedy about corruption, infidelity and loneliness.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:59

    A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryHungary, Soviet Union

    The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryPoland, Soviet Union
    Duration03:24

    In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II, in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryAustria, France, Germany
    Duration02:15

    A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life..

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryYugoslavia, USA
    Duration02:02

    Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stow away on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountrySweden, Russia
    Duration01:38

    Vampires terrorize a city in Norrbotten, Sweden.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountrySoviet Union

    In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:53

    In this heist film turned horror fest, director Álex de la Iglesia's love of mayhem is on full display as a gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual -- and in need of a sacrifice.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy
    CountryUSA, Russia

    A motion comic follow-up to a chapter from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter novel where Abe's friend, Edgar Allan Poe, tells him the tale of historical Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, often tied to vampire legends due to her brutality.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:23

    After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genrefantasy, cartoon
    CountryUSA

    Aura is gifted with magical abilities; she and her friends have many exciting adventures at the academy, but soon Aura learns that the school hatches many dark secrets that she must uncover. Will she be able to unveil the truth?

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, cartoon
    CountryUSA

    An anthology of DC Showcase stories consisting of a new Superman/Shazam feature and extended versions of older shorts.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryUSA

    A man haunted by the mysterious death of his 4-year-old sister brings her back to life thirty years later as an adult woman, with dire consequences.




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