Dustre / Դուստրը
Jan 01, 1942One of the few Armenian fictions of the 1940s, this parable about the aftermath of World War II reveals the director's deeply humanistic vision, who finds the epic and the universal in minor and private subjects.
Avet Avetisyan
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Курды-Езиды
Jan 03, 1933The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.
Drama
Զարե
Jan 31, 1926Immediately 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.
Drama
Շոր և Շորշոր
Aug 13, 1926Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
Comedy
Դավիթ Բեկ
Feb 14, 1944The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Drama
Խասփուշ
Jan 31, 1928The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
Drama
Gikor
Dec 19, 1934Village man Hambo, trying to set up his son Gikor, gives him in service of well-to-do merchant Bazaz Artem. Gikor couldn't find neither cordiality, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings.
Հայրենասերների ընտանիքը
Jul 09, 1941Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army
War
Անահիտ
Dec 02, 1947The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.
Drama
Պեպո
Jun 15, 1935A poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.
Drama
Ինչու է աղմկում գետը
Oct 05, 1959Atanes 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.
Drama
Զանգեզուր
May 23, 1938The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
War
Կարո
Nov 01, 1937A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.
Drama
Քաջ Նազար
Jan 01, 1940Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
Comedy
Kikos
Mar 12, 1931A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.
Comedy
Ղուլը
Jan 20, 1928The first banned film of Armenian cinema. The further screening of the film was forbidden in Soviet Armenia because of the scenes in a brothel. The People's Commissariat of Education banned the screening of the film in Armenia, citing the fact that the events depicted in the film are characteristic of the period of Dashnaktsutyun's rule and that in 1927-1928 the screening of such a film cannot play an educational role.
Մորգանի խնամին
Nov 23, 1970About a bankrupt millionaire who dreams of becoming related to the Morgan family. The action takes place after the revolution, in Paris, among Armenian immigrants.
Comedy
Կոլխոզային գարուն
Jan 01, 1929A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.
Drama
Նամուս
Apr 13, 1926Namus (Armenian: Նամուս, meaning "honor") is a 1925 silent film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
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