Movies set in chechnya
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Movies set in chechnya: Ordered to Forget (2014), Break-through (2006), Desantura. Nikto krome nas (2009), Alexandra (2007), Grozovye vorota (2006), House of Fools (2002), The Search (2014), Prisoner of the Mountains (1996), Checkpoint (1999), Red Sparrow (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Russia

Duration: 86 min.

Story: As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.

Style: compassionate, disturbing, bleak

Plot: war crime, genocide, mercilessness, witness, escape, burned alive, atrocity, deportation, caucasian, persecution, hiding place, village ...

Time: year 1944

Place: chechnya, ussr, caucasus

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Russia

Duration: 208 min.

TV show

Story: War mini series in style of 9th company. Four episodes are focused on the company of 1st Lt. Alexander Doronin, that is detached to Northern Caucasus in 1990s. Group, which partly consist of young, unexperienced soldiers, is ordered to defend the ...

Style: exciting, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...

Audience: boys' night

Plot: heroism, paratrooper, soldier, infantry, military, ex military, self sacrifice, struggle for survival, battles, showdown, battle zone, fight ...

Place: chechnya

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War

Country: Russia, France

Duration: 104 min.

Story: The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have ...

Style: psychological, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, realistic ...

Plot: mental illness, mental institution, schizophrenic, love affair, fall in love, dark humor, military life, war, mental disorder, prisoner, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, psychopath ...

Time: year 2002, year 1996

Place: chechnya, soviet union, russia, afghanistan

Genre: Drama, War

Country: France, Georgia

Duration: 135 min.

Story: A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.

Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, non-linear ...

Plot: life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, war crime, violence, murder, orphan, war violence, war, boy, conflict, world war ...

Time: year 2014, 90s, year 1999, 21st century

Place: chechnya, russia, caucasus

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Russia, Kazakhstan

Duration: 99 min.

Story: Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...

Style: realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious ...

Plot: pow, hostage, russian soldier, drinking, prison, violence, soldier, confined, captivity, poverty, islam, prisoner ...

Time: year 1996, 90s, 21st century

Place: chechnya, russia, caucasus, soviet union, asia

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: Russia

Duration: 85 min.

Story: A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.

Style: serious, realistic

Plot: conflict, civil war, sniper, village, recruit, military base, violent content, woods, death in the family, anti war, battle zone, village life ...

Time: 90s, 20th century

Place: chechnya, germany

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA, Hungary

Duration: 140 min.

Story: Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies ...

Style: suspense, surprise ending, satanic, sexy, rough ...

Audience: chick flick, teens, adult

Plot: spy, female spy, female agent, uncle niece relationship, secret agent, deception, russian spy, female assassin, secret mission, femme fatale, strong female character, spy thriller ...

Time: 2010s, 21st century

Place: russia, budapest, ussr, hungary, chechnya ...

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 128 min.

Story: They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Chechnya. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They ...

Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sexy, bleak ...

Plot: gay, male prostitute, sexual relations, prostitute, gay youth, hustler, disorder, lgbtq, father son relationship, friendship, illegal immigrant, middle aged man ...

Time: year 2013, 21st century

Place: france, paris france, europe, chechnya

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Russia

Duration: 120 min.

Story: During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Style: realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough, captivating ...

Plot: captivity, gang, rescue, ransom, heroes, life is a bitch, military, military officer, interview, drinking, murder, danger ...

Time: 21st century

Place: chechnya, soviet union, russia, moscow russia

Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 87 min.

Story: A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered ...

Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary, natural horror ...

Audience: boys' night

Plot: creature feature, mad scientist, soldier, experiment gone awry, survival, heroes, escapades, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, terrorism, animal attack ...

Time: jurassic, 2000s

Place: chechnya, russia

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Country: USA, Germany, Canada

Duration: 124 min.

Story: When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight ...

Style: suspense, exciting, political, tense, intense ...

Audience: kids

Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, cia, terrorism, nuclear bomb, nuclear explosion, nuclear war, terrorist, secret agent, covert operation, nuclear threat ...

Time: year 2002, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 70s ...

Place: maryland, israel, russia, washington d.c., chechnya ...

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country: China, USA, UK

Duration: 96 min.

Story: Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ...

Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, exciting, tense ...

Audience: boys' night, family friendly, chick flick

Plot: prison, prison escape, teamwork, prisoner, conspiracy, martial arts, hostage, hi-tech, betrayal, survival, security system, danger ...

Time: 2010s

Place: chechnya, shanghai, bangkok thailand, atlanta georgia

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Country: Germany, USA

Duration: 127 min.

Story: Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...

Style: touching, romantic, captivating, sincere, sentimental ...

Audience: date night

Plot: charity, unfaithful wife, un, war, abroad, love, brutality, corruption, survival, starvation, surgery, life & death ...

Time: 80s, year 2003, 90s, year 1988, year 1989 ...

Place: africa, cambodia, london, england, europe ...

Genre: Action, War

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to ...

Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious

Audience: boys' night

Plot: terrorism, marine, military life, rivalry, danger, military, conflict, soldier, violent content, battles, heroic mission, escapades ...

Time: 21st century

Place: eastern europe, chechnya

Genre: Thriller

Country: Georgia

Duration: 121 min.

Story: A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of Nikolay, whose ancestors on his mother's side are Georgian, ...

Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful

Plot: investigation, war veteran, murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, revenge, brutality, murderer, hitman, conflict, bathhouse, mistaken identity ...

Place: chechnya

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Russia

Duration: 159 min.

Story: A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury ...

Style: serious, realistic, sincere, intercultural, suspense ...

Plot: jury, courtroom drama, racism, court case, murder, life is a bitch, social differences, teenage life, family relations, society, hopes, heroes ...

Time: year 2007

Place: russia, soviet union, chechnya, caucasus

Genre: Drama

Country: Russia

Duration: 118 min.

Story: 1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from ...

Style: touching, realistic, suspenseful, serious, art house ...

Plot: rebellious daughter, rescue, ransom, mother daughter relationship, independent woman, blackmail, redemption, money, father daughter relationship, caucasian, post soviet, peace ...

Time: year 2017, 90s, year 1998, 20th century

Place: russia, chechnya

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Russia, Bulgaria

Duration: 80 min.

Story: The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war.

Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, crying

Plot: kidnapper kidnapped relationship, caucasian, wartime, homosexual subtext, captive, pow, soldier, captivity, defector, kidnapping, abduction, conflict ...

Place: chechnya

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: USA

Duration: 110 min.

Story: When the identities of secret agents from Control are compromised, the Chief promotes hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart and teams him with stylish, capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the ...

Style: humorous, action comedy, entertaining, spoof, exciting ...

Audience: chick flick, kids, date night, girls' night, teens ...

Plot: spy, espionage, secret service, spy spoof, unlikely partners, goofy hero, secret agent, chases and races, save the day, treason, government agency, danger ...

Time: year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century

Place: los angeles, usa, chechnya, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 124 min.

Story: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a ...

Style: suspense, exciting, political thriller, action drama, cult classic ...

Audience: boys' night

Plot: terrorism, military, secret service, train crash, terrorist, nuclear bomb, car chase, espionage, nuclear explosion, cold war, die hard, disaster ...

Time: 90s, 20th century

Place: new york, russia, bosnia, usa, manhattan new york city ...

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Bulgaria

Duration: 88 min.

Story: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years ...

Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, fast ...

Audience: boys' night

Plot: espionage, friendship, rescue, escapades, dishonesty, danger, political intrigue, cia, spy, covert operation, conflict, secret agent ...

Time: 21st century

Place: bulgaria, europe, chechnya

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: USA

Duration: 96 min.

Story: A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.

Style: exciting, teen, entertaining, ironic, semi serious ...

Audience: teens, chick flick

Plot: teenager, youth, high school, female spy, teenage life, female agent, mission, assassin, tough girl, high school life, danger, adolescence ...

Time: 21st century

Place: moscow russia, berlin germany, usa, chechnya

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country: USA, Canada

Duration: 88 min.

Story: David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a ...

Style: entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, teen, serious ...

Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teen drama

Plot: teleportation, youth, chase, supernatural ability, super powers, good versus evil, presumed dead, double life, supernatural, young heroes, adolescence, danger ...

Time: year 2008, 2000s, future, 20th century, 21st century

Place: egypt, himalaya, michigan, mount everest, italy ...