Best Latvian movies
Movies made in Latvia during late 20th and early 21st century.
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- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsLilita BerzinaOlga DregeUldis DumpisThe struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events.
- DirectorVaris BraslaStarsMaris Sonnenbergs-SambergsMadara DislereDace EversaThe Svensson family lives in farm called Katthult in Sweden - father, mother, daughter Ida and son Emil. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him but the results are usually not what he initially wanted.Mischief of Emils
- DirectorJanis NordsStarsKristofers KonovalovsVita VarpinaMatiss LivcansRaimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsSabine TimoteoEdvins MekssIvars KrastsBased on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
- DirectorAndrejs EkisStarsIntars ResetinsKristine NevarauskaElina VaneA light comedy about building relationships - with passion and funny misunderstandings. All characters of this movie are in desire for flirt - be it a swinger's party or sudden encounter of beautiful stranger on the balcony.
- DirectorJanis NordsStarsAlvis BirkovsIndra BrikeRaimonds CelmsJealousy, suspicion and toxic love triangle plays out against a backdrop of three rapid dogs threatening a small Latvian town.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsJanis PaukstelloGalina MaculevicaLilita BerzinaA young worker vigorously goes trough life solving his problems and believing that he himself is able to decide his own fate.
- DirectorAik KarapetianStarsMaija DoveikaKaspars ZnotinsDainis GrubeThe peaceful life of a middle aged architect Francis turns upside down after the street attack.
- DirectorVaris BraslaGunars CilinskisStarsAstrida KairishaGunars CilinskisLilita OzolinaDoctor Rudolfs spends the summer in the countryside where he meets teacher Laura, the mother of two children and whose husband is in prison. Rudolfs falls in love with Laura but she struggles with a sense of duty to her family.
- DirectorRolands KalninsStarsUldis PucitisDina KupleLiga LiepinaPhone technician Cezars Kalnins in his free time composes songs and performs in a band created with his friends. However getting the band to perform in public has to go a long way in getting permissions.
- DirectorIvars SeleckisThe Crossroad Street is a small street in the outskirts of Latvia's capital Riga, and its various inhabitants with their destinies, everyday routines and neighborly relations form the micro-model of society during the Awakening.
- DirectorJuris PodnieksPortrayal of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis AmanisInga AlsinaVilis DaudzinsA story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
- StarsLilita OzolinaJuozas KiseliusRomualdas RamanauskasThe love story of the fisherman's son Arturs and landlord's daughter Marta, dating back to the 1930s, through World War II and until the post-war years. The long and cruel life path for both of them until they meet again in the motherland.
- DirectorOskars RupenheitsStarsLauris KlavinsAndris DaugavinsMaris MicerevskisImants Veide is writing a script about con artists and their schemes. Together with his friend Harijs Kuharjonoks he's trying them out for real for greater authenticity, but gets too entangled in real criminal schemes.
- DirectorAda NeretnieceStarsAndris LielaisAinars CivcsAngelika KrallisaChildren of Varnu Street whose fathers work in nearby factories face the "Tuliana Empire" - a group of boys, children of merchants from the nearby Lauku Street.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsUldis DumpisGundars AbolinsMaija ApineSet in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.
- DirectorArvids KrievsStarsKristine NevarauskaMartins FreimanisJanis VingrisHistorical drama about a love triangle on the background of the Second World War.
- DirectorMaris PutninsStarsIgrida AndrinaIvars AuzinsLevs BirmanisThe elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But they want to be useful and experience something uncommon at the end of their lives. As unusual idea strikes their mind - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last years of their lives. The oldies are wise enough at organizing this event and adventures begin. The culmination of it all is the participation of the old people's army unit in NATO joint maneuvers.
- DirectorLeonids LeimanisStarsVija ArtmaneUldis PucitisLucija BaumaneLate 19th century Latvia. Coachman Edgars is in love with maid Kristina though unable to overcome her mother's resistance. A charming, wealthy suitor arrives with a proposal but Kristina just can't forget Edgars.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis ReinisElita KlavinaGirts KruminsThe First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.
- DirectorAivars FreimanisStarsAkvelina LivmaneIvars KalninsLives of two young people change after they fall in love.
- DirectorGunars PiesisStarsRonalds NeilandsDace GasiunaDzintra KletnieceLittlefinger (Spriditis) is having a hard time living with the evil stepmother and despite his grandmother's and Lienite's attempts to dissuade him, he goes out into the world to find happiness.
- DirectorRoberts KulenkoStarsArmands BergisLeons LescinskisTatjana LukasenkovaA potato farmer connects with the injured alien that crash-landed in his field, much to the chagrin of the local authorities.
- DirectorAlexander HahnStarsMaria de MedeirosDominique PinonOrlando WellsA comedy that follows a group of people immersed in Latvia's summer solstice celebration, the shortest night of the year.