Flow

Flow 2024

8.50

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

2024

Squeal

Squeal 2022

4.80

Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and makes him a forced laborer on the farm.

2022

Lotus

Lotus 2024

1

Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets some silent-cinema enthusiasts and learns to use the cinematograph as a tool for healing and self-discovery, as a weapon against her enemies and as a way to create a masterpiece.

2024

Thirst

Thirst 2024

1

An oil-stained motorcycle enthusiast seeks a place in the new world of green energy. His wife, a strong supporter of the philosophy of sustainable development, suffers from kidney failure. The spouses are no longer united by common values, but by the serious illness. Mechanic looking for ways to cover the cost of a kidney transplant gets sucked into the world of crime. At the same time, his wife Anna is developing a radically different view of the world around her. Will the heroes be able to find their way to each other?

2024

River of Fear

River of Fear 2022

5.70

A local guide is asked to lead a group of influencers along the river of a remote valley. As they get deeper into the wilderness, their venture takes a frightening turn.

2022

The Rifleman

The Rifleman 2019

7.30

The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

2019

The Pagan King

The Pagan King 2018

6.40

On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.

2018

Paradise 89

Paradise 89 2018

5.50

Summer, 1989. City girls, Paula and Laura, spend their summer holidays in a small town with their cousins, Maija and Linda. Four girls, left unattended, enjoy freedom, imitate the life of adults, plunge into reckless adventures and get into trouble. Based on true events, nine-year-old Paula’s story of growing up is set against the background of time when Latvia made her first steps towards independence.

2018

XXX

XXX 1989

7.30

1989

The Life of a Mushroom

The Life of a Mushroom 2024

1

A simple but sweet story about a family of mushroom flies who try to keep "their" mushroom from ending up in a hunter's basket by using techniques such as repainting it, covering it with moss, and other tricks.

2024

The Child of Man

The Child of Man 1992

5.80

A six-year-old boy plots to stop his "sweetheart", a grown-up woman in his pre-World War II Latvian village, from marrying.

1992

More Than a Dance

More Than a Dance 2024

1

In the heart of Toronto’s vibrant multicultural landscape, a dedicated group of Canadian Latvian immigrants comes together to preserve the traditions of their ancestors through the art of folk dance. Known as 'Daugaviņa,' this close-knit community of dancers spans multiple generations, each member driven by a shared passion for their cultural heritage. As they prepare for the journey of a lifetime—to perform at the 150th Latvian Nationwide Song and Dance Festival in Riga, Latvia—they are not just rehearsing steps, but reconnecting with the rhythms of their roots. The festival, one of the largest such events in the world, drawing almost three times more participants than the Olympic Games, represents a homecoming for many, and a chance to immerse themselves in the culture their forebears cherished.

2024

Baltic Tribes

Baltic Tribes 2018

6.10

DocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes.

2018

The Exalted

The Exalted 2024

1

Renowned German organist Anna discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal, shaking the foundation of their life together. Can she come to terms with this new reality about her husband?

2024

Duna

Duna 2018

5.00

A young woman gets flashbacks from her previous lives - flashbacks of how she died. Is her fate doomed to repeat itself again?

2018

Nord Express

Nord Express 2024

1

A documentary detective film about the construction of a 870 kilometres long highspeed railway line that started with a dream to connect the Baltic States to rest of the Europe when in 1991 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence from Soviet Union. Filmmaker Kārlis Lesiņš becomes a ‘citizen-investigator’ and goes on the road to find out why after 30 years and with only few years before the intended launch of the Rail Baltica railway line, the construction of this EU-funded project is significantly behind the schedule, over the budget and may never be finished at all. Kārlis follows the trail of Rail Baltica project, trying to get the answers - what has happened and what is happening? Traveling through all the involved countries, he meets officials, military personnel, investigative journalists, people whose land will be expropriated, employees implementing the project and potentially benefiting entrepreneurs, who open up to him with their versions of the story.

2024

Mother, I Love You

Mother, I Love You 2013

6.80

12-year-old Raimonds tries to cover up a bad note at school and starts a spiral of lies, which spins out of control. He has to venture into Riga’s thrilling night-life to save his saxophone, his friendship and his face in front of his mother. An exciting story about the healing power of truth.

2013

My Father, the Spy

My Father, the Spy 2019

5.00

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of events which have their roots over four decades ago. In order to find herself and understand the game she was part of, Ieva sets out on a journey to the past, confronting family secrets, lies and betrayal.

2019

Anna LOL

Anna LOL 2024

1

A coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl who lives through the break-up of her family and her friend’s suicide. The script is based on the diaries of a real high-school senior year student (also the scriptwriter of the film), who wrote about her experiences in 2018-2019.

2024

Defenders of Riga

Defenders of Riga 2007

5.90

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.

2007

Red Chapel

Red Chapel 2004

3.30

This 16 episode Tv soap opera is set in occupied Paris during WWII, with two top agents playing against each other.

2004

Clouds Over the Hill

Clouds Over the Hill 2009

8.10

Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes at 90 minutes each. The first series, with 5 episodes, was broadcast in 2009, while series two and three, each with 4 episodes, were broadcast in late 2010 and 2011. While most episodes were shot in Japan, one of the episodes in series two was shot in Latvia. The TV series is based on the novel Saka no ue no kumo by Ryōtarō Shiba and adopted by Hisashi Nozawa. The theme song of the drama series is titled "Stand Alone". It was composed by Joe Hisaishi, written by Kundo Koyama and performed by British soprano singer Sarah Brightman.

2009

FATI

FATI 2022

9.00

First Latgalian movie made with love and passion of small enthusiast group. Rollercoaster of fun, action and good music. Story about friendship, criminal business and Latgalia.

2022

The Uninvited Guests

The Uninvited Guests 2023

10.00

Walter Peterson, a well-known small-town actor, was found dead after the party in a remote guest house. Due to the fact that no one is willing to talk about what really happened on the night of the birthday, two investigators from different generations are assigned to the case and discover that all of the witnesses were lying.

2023

Sweetheart Monika

Sweetheart Monika 1999

9.00

Events and misunderstandings in the daily tricks of a real Latvian dangerous housewife in the comedy series "Sweetheart Monika". A bit of an unpredictable hothead and a cheater and always very feminine! Most often she acted and only then thought. Housewife who wanted to be something more - Monika! "Sweetheart Monika"!

1999

The Revengers

The Revengers 2020

6.00

A body of a murdered woman is found. Detectives Frīda and Georgs determine that they're dealing with a serial killer who is after a particular type of women. PA Monta, who fits the type, gets fired from her job and finds herself in the bed of handsome Andrejs. It starts to look like she might be in trouble...

2020

Tunnel

Tunnel 2020

6.00

The storyline of the series is inspired by the events of 1994 in Jelgava, when 89 prisoners escaped from Pārlielupe Prison, tens of thousands of people were involved in their search, and mass arrests continued for ten years. dramas of mutual relations, a massive and enigmatic escape is organized, in parallel with the flourishing of the love of the main character and the daughter of the head of the prison and the hopes for a new, beautiful life.

2020

Pansija pilī

Pansija pilī 2024

1

A miniseries about the events during one summer in a family of a writer who are unexpectedly granted a remote estate with all its unusual inhabitants, and who has to decide what to do with the dilapidated estate. Exciting and comic events in eight episodes in which the future writer Anšlavs Eglītis together with his brother Vidvuds, father Viktors and his wife Hilda Vīka, begin the restoration of the estate, at the same time opening a boarding house, which becomes the intersection and summer stage of the neighbourhood, ghosts of the past, visitors from the city and Latvian intellectuals in Latvia in the 1920s.

2024

The Masked Singer Latvia

The Masked Singer Latvia 2020

1

Balss Maskā (Voice in a Mask) is a Latvian reality singing competition television series based on the Masked Singer franchise, which originated from the South Korean version of the show King of Mask Singer.

2020

Soviet Jeans

Soviet Jeans 2024

1

In the late 1970s – at a time when the fiercest propaganda against Western culture was being waged throughout the USSR – an ardent rock and roll fan sets up a successful and illegal underground jeans factory in a Latvian psychiatric hospital.

2024

Adreses

Adreses 2015

1

With the eyes of ordinary people, Adreses explore successful and less successful or even scandalous examples of architecture and environment building. Martins Kibilds goes to two places or addresses, every time taking a different person with him – without professional experience in architecture, but with a keen desire to explore, think and share impressions with the audience.

2015

Emily. Queen of the Press

Emily. Queen of the Press 2021

8.00

A story about Emīlija Benjamiņa, the “queen of the press” in interwar Latvia, whose wealth and tragic fate have since become folklore. The film’s narrative covers the period from the beginnings of Emīlija’s magazine Atpūta (Recreation), to her arrest and slow demise in a train en route to Siberia. The most prominent clairvoyant of the time - Eugene Fink’s prophecy that Emīlija would die from starvation in a foreign land (which served to be true) weaves through the narrative as a red thread. With this strong woman at the centre of the story, the film shows Latvian society in all its richness and gives the audience the opportunity to meet many well-known historical figures.

2021

Latvian Investigators

Latvian Investigators 2019

6.70

Latvian Investigators is a domestic, no-budget detective comedy series created by Emils Mikelsons, collaborating with Gusts Lankovskis (Emil's friend). The first season, produced between 2019 and 2021, remains private due to its poor quality. However, the second season is widely available on the platform "YouTube"

2019

Agency

Agency 2020

7.00

A Latvian series shot by the team at Jaunais Rīgas Teātris / New Riga Theatre over the course of summer 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. It's a story about a world that once again changes rapidly. About the belief that everything on this planet is subject to manipulation. The series centers around an advertising agency - a classic office where professionalism mixes with boredom, romance and an existential tiredness.

2020

Red Forest

Red Forest 2019

1

A drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take place in 1949 when the British intelligence service MI6 tries to find out about the situation in the Baltic States occupied by the Soviet Union. Wittold (Jekabs Reinis), together with other Latvians, works hard in his daily work, and Velta (Agnese Cirule) is a nurse. They dream of going to the United States, saving money, planning a wedding and arranging the necessary documents because the US carefully selects emigrants. But Wittold decides to take part in the Mission, and the hope of changing history changes his life.

2019

Perfektās kāzas

Perfektās kāzas 2021

7.00

Elsa is getting married. Both she and her mother are sure it will be a perfect wedding, but on the morning of the grand event Elza finds out that her wedding videographer is none other than her first love Henry. But what about the perfectly planned wedding and a future with Jānis, Elsa's fiancé?

2021

Terapeite bez grāda

Terapeite bez grāda 2020

5.00

Sabine announces to her husband Andris that she has a new occupation – online therapy that lasts 3 minutes. She tries to get her husband to agree to be her first therapy “guinea pig”. During this “therapy” Sabine finds out that she’s controlling and although her husband tries to satisfy all her whims, it is never enough for her. Sabine gets her first client – ex-colleague Dainis. Sabine is convinced that Dainis wants to talk about their relationship because he cannot deal with her rejection. But Dainis has an unpleasant surprise for Sabine – he has a girlfriend.

2020