21 Films & TV Shows Set In Ukraine During The 21st Century
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Outside the Wire
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2030sDefiant by design. — In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
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Princess
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2020sA Story of Addiction and Redemption — When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl.
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My Spy
Illinois Virginia District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2020sAlmost Totally in Control — A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sHow much power can art have in wartime? — Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇼🇸 Samoa California 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sEver since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's ruthless actions threaten the future of humanity, they join forces to defeat him.
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Woman at War
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sHalla is a choir teacher. She's also a saboteur. — Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
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Creed II
New York Pennsylvania Nevada California British Columbia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2010sThere's More to Lose than a Title — Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.
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Donbass
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sIn the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people tries to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.
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Frost
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sRokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.
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The Line
🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2000sThere are borders you cross only once... — Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
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Cyborgs
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010s‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.
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Boyka: Undisputed IV
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sBoyka is back! — In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude
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The Russian Woodpecker
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2010sAs his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.
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Ghoul
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1930s The 2010sGHOUL is a supernatural horror film involving the real life story of the Soviet Union's most violent serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo. Three Americans travel to the Ukraine to film a documentary about the cannibalism epidemic that swept through the country during the famine of 1932. After being lured deep into the Ukraine forest for an interview with one of the last known survivors, they quickly find themselves trapped in a supernatural hunting ground.
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A Good Day to Die Hard
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine New York District of Columbia The 2010sYippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia — Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
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Chernobyl Diaries
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2010sExperience the fallout — A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Illinois District of Columbia 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇭 Cambodia Africa - General The 1960s The 2010sThe invasion we always feared. An enemy we never expected. — The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
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Lord of War
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Workingman's Death
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sA documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living. — Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among the sulphur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with LIONS at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with BROTHERS as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious FUTURE.
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The Sum of All Fears
Maryland Virginia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1970s The 2000s27,000 nuclear weapons. One is missing. — 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 and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
