19 Films & TV Shows Set In Albania
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Castle Freak
🇦🇱 Albania The 2010sNight has fallen — After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious events begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel the secrets of her family’s history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.
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War Dogs
Florida 🇦🇱 Albania 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sAn American dream — Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
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King of the Belgians
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇦🇱 Albania 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇲🇪 Montenegro 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2010sThe King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.
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The Expendables 2
🇦🇱 Albania The 2010sBack for War. — Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
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Taken 2
California 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇱 Albania 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2010sFirst they took his daughter. Now they're coming for him. — In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
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The Forgiveness of Blood
🇦🇱 AlbaniaAfter his father and uncle kill a neighbor, an Albanian teen (Tristan Halilaj) finds that his own life may be forfeited in a legal blood feud.
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The Albanian
🇦🇱 Albania 🇩🇪 GermanyHandsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000€ bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with the dowry before the baby is born -- and before her brothers take revenge for the dishonor he has brought their family. Fleeing to Berlin without papers, experience or knowledge of the language, Arben soon learns the ways of survival.
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Honeymoons
🇦🇱 Albania 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇮🇹 Italy'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together.
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Time of the Comet
🇦🇱 Albania The 1910sA young man is searching for the war to free his country and establish freedom. Instead of war he finds the love of his life.
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Kolonel Bunker
🇦🇱 AlbaniaEnver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist for nearly 40 years and for a long time Albania was the only Maoist regime and by far the most isolationist society in Europe - politically, psychologically and physically. Colonel Muro Neto was the man Hoxha charged with constructing the bunkers throughout the country which ostensibly protected Albania from its enemies both without and within. He became known as "Kolonel Bunker."
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Ulysses' Gaze
🇦🇱 Albania 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇬🇷 Greece 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 🇷🇴 Romania"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?
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Lamerica
🇦🇱 AlbaniaFiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
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For Your Eyes Only
England 🇪🇸 Spain 🇦🇱 Albania 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 ItalyNo one comes close to James Bond, 007. — A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
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Assault on Agathon
🇦🇱 Albania 🇬🇷 GreeceA deadly mission for Cabot Cain! — CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer.
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The Phynx
🇦🇱 AlbaniaHere come the most super secret agents of all! — A rock band becomes embroiled in foreign affairs when they're sent to go on tour in Albania as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle held by communist enemies of the USA.
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O.K. Yevtushenko
🇦🇱 AlbaniaVine finds himself on the trail of a missing Russian spy and soon finds himself involved in a bonkers plot involving Albanians and the Chinese.
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Lucky, the Inscrutable
🇦🇱 Albania 🇮🇹 ItalyAn American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. His investigation takes him from Rome to Albania, where he gets involved with a sexy Albanian police commissioner.
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Action of the Tiger
🇦🇱 AlbaniaHow a beautiful blonde and a tough smuggler escape the net of Continental conspiracy! — A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson (Van Johnson) to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
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The Knight of Kruja
🇦🇱 Albania The 1930sVenice Film Festival 1940
