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Movies: Best Movies in Armenian(հայերեն)

Armenian (endonym: հայերեն (reformed), հայերէն (classical), hayeren, pronounced [hɑjɛˈɾɛn]) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of an independent branch of that language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands, today Armenian is widely spoken throughout the Armenian diaspora. Armenian is written in its own writing system, the Armenian alphabet, introduced in 405 AD by the canonized saint Mesrop Mashtots. The estimated number of Armenian speakers worldwide is between five and seven million. ()

Armenian is spoken in United States of America (USA), Russia, Germany, Australia, France, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Argentina and 172 movies (between 1926 and 2023) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Armenia (88). Popular genres for Armenian movies are Drama (71), Comedy (42) and Documentary (30). Lost and Found in Armenia (2012), Le piano (2011), Baghdasar Divorces from His Wife (1977), Our Yard 3 (2006) and Yearning (1990) are among the best known & most successful Armenian movies.

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Lost and Found in Armenia(2012)

NR
| 1h 40min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A US Senator's son who attempts to forget the break up of his fiancée is forced to vacation in Turkey by his best friends. A para-sailing trip mishap lands him in a small village in Armenia, where he is accused of being a spy. It is there he meets a young woman who helps him to escape from misfortune.

Directed by Gor Kirakosyan - With Angela Sarafyan, Michael Poghosyan, Hrant Tokhatyan, Levon Harutyunyan

Baghdasar Divorces from His Wife(1977)

1h 7min | Music

The end of the 19th century. Constantinople. Having found out his wife's treachery, Baghdasar decides to divorce her. But that's not how it turned out! Instead, the hypocrisy and the mendacious people around Baghdasar make him leave the house.

Directed by Grigori Melik-Avakyan - With Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Laura Vardanyan, Aleksandr Khachatryan, Rafael Kotanjyan, Anahit Tʻopʻchʻyan, Karen Janibekyan, ...

Khaspush(1928)

1h 12min

The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.

Directed by Hamo Beknazarian - With Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Tigran Ayvazyan, Hambartsum Khachanyan, Mkrtich Janan, Mikayel Garagash, ...

Master and Servant(1962)

20min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Manas is hired to work for master Tatos till the spring, "when the cuckoo will call". There is one condition of the contract: if anyone of them gets annoyed with another, he loses everything. Unable to stand the day-and-night work for stingy master, Manas leaves without a pense of salary for months work. Next servant who knocks at Tatos's door is Manas's small brother, smart Simon.

Chronicle of Erevan Days(1974)

1h 45min
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Armen is an employee of the State Archive, an irrepressible young man, who is not indifferent to the grief, injustice, and meanness of other's. Armen feels responsible for solving these problems, even though they have no direct bearing on him.

Directed by Frunze Dovlatyan - With Khoren Abrahamyan, Armen Ayvazyan, Leonard Sarkisov, Gurgen Janibekyan

House on the Volcano(1929)

1h 3min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An old, boring technician remembers a cruelly suppressed strike of oil industry workers in Baku.

Directed by Hamo Beknazarian - With Hrachia Nersisyan, Tigran Ayvazyan, Tatyana Makhmuryan, Mikayel Garagash, Alasgar Alakbarov

Shor and Shorshor(1926)

55min | Comedy

Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.

Directed by Hamo Beknazarian - With Hambartsum Khachanyan, Aram Amirbekyan, Nina Manucharyan, Yeranuhi Adamyan, Avet Avetisyan, Grigor Avetyan, ...

Sons of Sassoun(1975)

1h 48min | War

Sons of Sassoun is the story of the Armenian struggle against the atrocities of Sultan Hamid’s regime.

Spitak(2018)

1h 38min | Drama, Action
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

«Spitak» tells the story of the most devastating and largest (in terms of casualties) Armenian earthquake that happened on December 7, 1988. This day went down in history as the day of a horrible disaster, which claimed the lives of over 25,000 lives and left more than half a million people homeless. The film «Spitak» is the story of Gor, who left Armenia in search of a better life but now returns back after the earthquake in order to find his home. His family. But it's too late. Everything is destroyed by the disaster. and he has to re-learn to love what he destroyed himself. Film-Requiem.

Directed by Alexander Kott - With Lernik Harutyunyan, Joséphine Japy, Dmitry Mulyar, Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Why Does The River Roar?(1959)

1h 30min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of returning to his homeland. During one of night patrols, border guard Armen who is in love with Ghambaryan's daughter Seda, recognizes him on the other side of the river Araks.

Directed by Grigori Melik-Avakyan - With Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Frunze Dovlatyan, Levon Tukhikyan, Verjaluys Mirijanyan, Amalya Arazyan, ...

The Last Inhabitant(2016)

1h 22min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

In an Armenian village, evicted in the result of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, Abgar stays behind all alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who became a witness to her husband's murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a mental disorder. An Azeri named Ibrahim, offers Abgar to work on the construction of a mosque and promises to find and bring Abgar's daughter instead... A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar. Abgar wants to leave the village with his daughter, but his skills of a stonemason are still needed for construction of a new mosque. Abgar realizes that this work in the Azerbaijani village will be endless and realizes that he's been trapped.

Directed by Jivan Avetisyan - With Aleksandr Khachatryan, Homayoun Ershadi, Sos Janibekyan

An Hour Before Dawn(1973)

2h 10min | War, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Erasmus Alexandrovich Karamyan - With Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Alexander Lazarev, Svetlana Nemolayeva, Nikifor Kolofidin, Natalya Bespalova, Sergey Kharchenko, ...
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Beginning(1967)

10min | War, Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.

Fire(1984)

1h 27min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The house of a village teacher burns down. Out of sympathy the villagers come to rebuild the house. And here come the real troubles...

Directed by Dmitri Kesayants - With Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Henrik Alaverdyan, Armen Hostikyan, Volodya Grigoryan, Verjaluys Mirijanyan, Lusya Hovhannissian, ...

Vodka Lemon(2003)

1h 27min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.

Directed by Huner Saleem - With Huner Saleem, Ruzan Mesropyan, Armen Marutyan, Ivan Franěk, Romen Avinyan

Life Triumphs(1977)

1h 35min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.

Directed by Henrik Malyan - With Sos Sargsyan, Frunzik Mkrtchyan

The Father(1973)

1h 16min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Builder Hovsep Manukyan's big and restless family hosts his old father Poghos who is forced to move from his native village. Many good and bad, funny and sad, important and unimportant events take place in the family of Hovsep, that help the older and the young to share their most valuable experience - culture of life, co-existence and devotion.

Directed by Henrik Malyan - With Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Azat Sherents, Varduhi Varderesyan

Headless Horsemen(2023)

16min

While the post-war country is torn apart by the atmosphere of pessimism and suspense, 25-year-old Satenik has to watch videos of tortured war captives to help find soldiers gone missing during the war. Amongst them is Satenik’s brother.

Avetik(1992)

1h 20min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Hovering between the realms of poetry and history, this stunningly photographed, elegiac work – shot mostly in long takes – mixes cryptic metaphor and fantastic symbolism to tell the story of Avetik, an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin. In sensuous, lyric styling, Askarian employs dreamlike images to reflect the history of his homeland, tranquil childhood memories, images inspired by erotic medieval poetry, and autobiographical shades of his own exile in Germany.

Directed by Don Askarian - With Alik Assatrian, Mikhael Stepanian, Karen Ganibekian, Eduard Saribekian, Geno Lechner

The Color of Pomegranates(1969)

1h 20min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 101 votes)

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Directed by Sergei Parajanov - With Sofiko Chiaureli, Vilen Galstyan, Spartak Bagashvili, Gogi Gegechkori, Medea Japaridze

The Dog and the Cat(1938)

12min | Animation

Soviet cartoon, The Dog and the Cat, from Lev Atamanov.

Directed by Lev Atamanov

An Extraordinary Assignment(1966)

1h 48min | Adventure, Action, History
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

Directed by Stepan Kevorkov - With Gurgen Tonunts, Boris Chirkov, Elsa Lezhdey, Semyon Sokolovsky, Vladimir Kenigson, Vladimir Druzhnikov, ...

Tjvjik(1962)

21min | Comedy

Rich Nikoghos-agha buys some beef liver for Nerses-akhpar's family. Although months have passed, Nikoghos-agha does not hesitate to remind his "charity" to Nerses-akhpar every time they met.

Directed by Arman Manaryan - With Hrachia Nersisyan, Tsolak Amerikyan, Arman Kotikyan, Gevorg Stamboltsyan, Zareh Ter-Karapetyan, Vigen Stepanyan, ...

Autumn Sun(1977)

1h 21min | Drama

Aghun, early married by her despotic father against her will, wages a war against her husband, her family, the village, the world... She couldn't restrain even when the war is won.

Directed by Bagrat Hovhannisyan - With Anahit Ghukasyan, Karen Janibekyan, Zhanna Tovmasyan, Azat Sherents, Nona Petrosyan, Mayranush Grigoryan, ...

White Town(1988)

27min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Akhalkalaki, Armenian-inhabited town in Georgia, is depicted as burlesque and the same time tragic model of a Soviet town.

Endless Escape, Eternal Return(2014)

1h 30min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Between 1988 and the early '90s, three events shook Armenia: a terrible earthquake, the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and the fall of the USSR. As a result, some people chose exile. Khachatryan, a maestro of Armenian cinema, follows the audacious destiny of one of those men who decided to leave their homeland, creating an epic and moving portrait of a tireless narrator.

Zare(1927)

1h 10min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.

Directed by Hamo Beknazarian - With Maria Tenazi, Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Olga Gulazyan, Michael Manvelyan, Nina Manucharyan, ...

Moskvich, My Love(2014)

1h 26min | Comedy

Hamo, an old farmer lives with his wife in a remote village in the mountains of Armenia. The money their son send them from Russia just allows them to survive. But Hamo nourishes a dream of acquiring a Moskvitch, the most beautiful car in the world, the one that had promised the Soviet power and that he never had.

Triangle(1967)

1h 24min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1 vote)

The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.

Directed by Henrik Malyan - With Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Sos Sargsyan, Pavel Arsyonov, Inna Alabina

Life and Fight(2016)

1h 50min | History, War, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Tigran loses the girl he loves, then he participates in the war over Nagorno-Karabakh to overcome his inner fears.

Directed by Mher Mkrtchyan
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