List of Lithuanian films

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A list of films produced in Lithuania. For an A-Z list see Category:Lithuanian films

Russian Empire[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1909
Над Неманом/On the River Neman Vladislav Starevich
Жизнь стрекоз/The Life of the Dragonfly Vladislav Starevich
Жуки-скарабеи Vladislav Starevich
1910
Lucanus Cervus Vladislav Starevich
Прекрасная Люканида/The Beautiful Lukanida Vladislav Starevich

Republic of Lithuania 1918-1940[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1927
Commercial
1928
1931
, Vanda Lietuvaitytė, Vladas Sipaitis, Potencija Pinkauskaitė, Antanas Mackevičius, Stasys Petraitis Comedy
1938
Storulio sapnas Stasys Ušinskas The first Lithuanian sound film

Lithuanian SSR[]

1945-1989[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1947
Vera Stroyeva , , , , , , Donatas Banionis Drama Shot at Mosfilm Studios, Moscow
1956
Aleksandr Razumny , ,
1957
, , , , , Children's film
1959
Vytautas Žalakevičius , , Juozas Miltinis, Donatas Banionis, , Algimantas Masiulis
1963
Vytautas Žalakevičius Algimantas Masiulis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis, , , Drama
1964
/The Girl and the Echo Lina Braknytė Locarno International Film Festival special prize (1965)
1966
Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas nenorėjo mirti) Vytautas Žalakevičius Donatas Banionis, , , Regimantas Adomaitis, Algimantas Masiulis, Juozas Budraitis,
1968
Jausmai , Regimantas Adomaitis, Juozas Budraitis, , Algimantas Masiulis, , Vytautas Paukštė, , Aurelija Mikušauskaitė Special Jury prize at (1975). Also voted as the best Lithuanian film ever in 1997 survey of film critics
1971
, , Vytautas Kernagis, , Juozas Budraitis, , Algimantas Masiulis
1972
Herkus Mantas Antanas Šurna, Eugenija Pleškytė, Algimantas Masiulis, Stasys Petronaitis, , , , Vytautas Paukštė
Tas saldus žodis - laisvė! Vytautas Žalakevičius Regimantas Adomaitis, Irina Miroshnichenko
1974
, Regimantas Adomaitis, , ,
1975
/The Day or Retribution , Algimantas Puipa
1976
1977
1981
Algimantas Puipa , Liubomiras Laucevičius, , Vytautas Paukštė
1983
, Eimuntas Nekrošius
Algimantas Puipa , Antanas Šurna, , , Povilas Gaidys, Kostas Smoriginas, Vytautas Paukštė Awards: awards for best scenography and best female actress (1984)
1984
Mano mažytė žmona , , Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
1986
Algimantas Puipa
Vytautas Kernagis, Foje, Antis, ,
1989
Arūnas Matelis Documentary
Arūnas Matelis Documentary

Lithuanian diaspora abroad[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1969
Walden Jonas Mekas Avant-garde
1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania Jonas Mekas Avant-garde
1975
Jonas Mekas Avant-garde

Republic of Lithuania 1990-current[]

1990s[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1990
1991
1992
Jonas Mekas Avant-garde
1993
1994
1995
1996
Few of Us Šarūnas Bartas Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
1997
The House Šarūnas Bartas Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
1998
1999

2000s[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
2000
Algimantas Puipa
Arūnas Matelis, Audrius Stonys Documentary On July 1, 2003 the film was declared first Lithuanian film to reach platinum status (more than 10000 DVD and VHS copies sold) in Lithuania
2001
2002
2003
Utterly Alone
(Vienui vieni)
Jonas Vaitkus
2004
With Latvia and Estonia
2005
Before Flying Back to the Earth Arūnas Matelis Documentary Best Lithuanian Film 2005
Forest of the Gods
(Dievų miškas)
Algimantas Puipa
Vilniaus getas
2006
Aš esi tu/You am I Screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Diringas
Zero
2007
Nuodėmės užkalbėjimas/Witch and Rain Algimantas Puipa Rasa Samuolytė, Nelė Savičenko, Kostas Smoriginas, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Remigijus Sabulis, Romualdas Ramanauskas Awards: Grand Prix and the Best Production Awards at 2007 , Anapa, Russia
Varnų ežeras/The Lake of Crows Awards: Olympia Film Festival Award for Best Directing; LUCAS 2007 Festival (Germany), The F.I.C.C. Laudable Mention
2008
Nereikalingi žmonės/Loss Maris Martinsons , Kostas Smoriginas, Andrius Mamontovas, Awards: Golden Goblet awards for Best Director and Best Music at 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival
Ispanų kalba suaugusiems/Spanish for adults Documentary Awards: Grand Prix at the 10th International Film Festival 'Crossroads of Europe' in Lublin (Poland), First Prize at the Documentary Film Festival 'Tranzyt 2009' in Poznan (Poland)
Balkonas/The Balcony Giedrė Beinoriūtė Rolandas Kazlas, , Karolis Savickis, Saulė Rašimaitė, Dovilė Tarvydaitė, Viktorija Kuodytė, Irmantas Bačelis
Perpetuum mobile Dainius Gavenonis, Julija Goyd, Jonas Vaitkus, Ramūnas Cicėnas, Viktorija Kuodytė
5 dienų avantiūra/ , Judita Urnikytė, Dominykas Vaitekūnas, Donatas Šimukauskas, Kristina Žaldokaitė
Kai aš buvau partizanas/When I Was a Partisan Vytautas V. Landsbergis Algimantas Masiulis, , Marius Jampolskis, , Best Story Award at Blue November MicroFilmFest 2008, Seattle, United States
Kolekcionierė/The Collectress Kristina Buožytė , Marius Jampolskis
Pilotas/The Pilot Saulius Vosylius Darius Petkevičius, Antanas Šurna, Albinas Keleris, Lina Budzeikaitė,
Vabzdžių dresuotojas/The Bug Trainer Gediminas Girdvainis Documentary
2009
Artimos sviesos Ignas Miskinis Road Movie
Šokis dykumoje Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė Documentary
Išpažintis Short
Duburys Giedrius Kiela, Oksana Borbat, Yevgeniya Varenitsa, Jevgenijus Jefremovas, Darius Meskauskas, Diana Aneviciute, Jurate Onaityte, Arvydas Lebeliunas etc. Drama Nominated at Cairo International Film Festival and Nika Awards. Represented Lithuania at Academy Awards 2009

2010s[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
2010
Back to Your Arms Drama
2011
Ramin Audrius Stonys Documentary
2012
Conversations on Serious Topics Giedrė Beinoriūtė
Vanishing Waves Kristina Buožytė,
2014
Redirected Vinnie Jones, Scot Williams, Gil Darnell, Oliver Jackson, Anthony Strachan Crime, action, comedy
2015
The Summer of Sangailé
Peace to Us in Our Dreams Šarūnas Bartas
2016
Seneca's Day
2017
Wonderful Losers: A Different World Arūnas Matelis

2020s[]

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