Best Kazakhstani movies
A curated collection of popular movies from Kazakhstan.
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
The Eagle Huntress (2016)
The Eagle Huntress (2016)
Follow Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rise to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
The Legend of Tomiris (2019)
The Legend of Tomiris (2019)
This is the story of the life of the great queen of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.
Diamond Cartel (2015)
Diamond Cartel (2015)
A young woman, Aliya, catches the lustful eyes of several powerful men and is thrust against her will into a vast criminal ocean. As passion, violence, and turmoil swirl around her, she finds herself on the brink of death, and only her true love can rescue her.
Sweetie, You Won't Believe It (2020)
Sweetie, You Won't Believe It (2020)
Dastan can no longer stand the constant nagging of his highly pregnant wife and decides to run away for at least one day with his friends. The men go fishing, which would have gone smoothly, if not for a series of unforeseen events.
Harmony Lessons (2013)
Harmony Lessons (2013)
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan’s tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money; he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan.
The Old Man (2012)
The Old Man (2012)
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
Kairat (1992)
Kairat (1992)
Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.
Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe (2012)
Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe (2012)
A universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.
The Crying Steppe (2020)
The Crying Steppe (2020)
In the 1920-30s, 70% of the indigenous population died from the Great Famine created by the Bolsheviks in Kazakhstan. Overcoming the dreadful fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter's family from a Kazakh village in the highlands is trying to stay alive in the midst of the fierce winter and face a moral choice, to die as human beings or to survive at any cost, transgressing the human decency.
My Love (2018)
My Love (2018)
Тrue Kazakh girls don’t marry Russians. This is what grandma Zeinegul believes in. But her beloved granddaughter disobeyed her will. Many years later the girl comes back to Kazakhstan. Her mother drinks, her grandma prays, her father got married again, but she wants to take a picture of her whole family, just like the one they took years ago when she was a child. The picture of the family she loves and hates so much.
The Kazakh Business in India (2022)
The Kazakh Business in India (2022)
Zhomart and his relatives work at the hotel and periodically get into various comical situations.
Districts (2016)
Districts (2016)
Alma-Ata, 1987. The protagonist of the film is 16-year-old Arsen, who moves from the suburbs to the city center and goes to a new school. At the new school, he makes friends with classmates who are active participants in the so-called "District Movements". Along with this, Arsen faces street, teenage hierarchy and violence. And before him there is a choice, to become like everyone else or to remain true to himself.
The Dog (2017)
The Dog (2017)
Heartwarming animated short about the misunderstood behavior of a street dog, and the motivation behind it. But is it too late for the people know the reason why??
Fish broth (2018)
Fish broth (2018)
The film is about a brother and sister who struggle with life’s difficulties. Boys for the health of the mother do what they can. They do not choose the easy way and achieve everything honestly.
Tale of a Pink Hare (2010)
Tale of a Pink Hare (2010)
Provincial guy Yerlan is a 3rd—year student of one of the Almaty universities. He came to the city hoping to succeed in the future. However, the environment of the golden youth, where he got, turned out to be difficult. It has its own laws, its own rules, and in order to preserve its moral principles, many things will have to be relived and experienced.
Yellow Cat (2020)
Yellow Cat (2020)
Ex-con Kermek and his beloved Eva want to leave their crime-infested lives on the Kazakh steppes behind. He has a dream: building a movie theater in the mountains. Will Kermek's love of Alain Delon be strong enough to keep them out of the violent clutches of the mafia?
Steppenwolf (2024)
Steppenwolf (2024)
Tamara is searching for her missing son in a small town consumed by riots and violence. In a desperate attempt to get him back, she decides to offer a reward to an amoral former investigator whose methods prove to be sadistic. Determined, Tamara decides to complete the mission with the nihilistic detective, no matter what the cost.
Salt (2022)
Salt (2022)
The popularity of a cheap synthetic drug, mephedrone, is growing at an alarming rate in the country. The authors of the film will shed light on new forms of drug trafficking, collect a portrait of the consumer and demonstrate how his image is romanticized in modern media among young people.
The Rough River, the Placid Sea (2004)
The Rough River, the Placid Sea (2004)
A modern parable about three brothers whom life has divided as they each went their separate ways. Of their happy childhood and adolescent years together, only a black-and-white photograph remains, capturing the three young men at a table in front of their family home, and memories of the greenhouse that was their father's pride.
Ninety One (2017)
Ninety One (2017)
A drama about formation of famous Kazakhstan boy band 'Ninety One'.
Little Brother (2013)
Little Brother (2013)
Yerken is nine years old and lives alone in a remote village in the mountains. When his older brother returns after a long absence, the young boy’s heart leaps with joy. But it doesn’t last long, his older brother has become a cold and heartless person… Serik Aprymov was born in 1960 in Kazakhstan and studied film at the Moscow Film School (VGIK). Along with other young directors from his country, he became part of the “new wave” of Kazakh cinema. At the Locarno Film Festival in 2004, he presented Okhotnik (The Hunter), in which a young boy suffers the contrast between the traditions of his people now on the decline and the progress of an increasingly urbanized new society.
American Daughter (1995)
American Daughter (1995)
A lonely Russian man is trying to see his daughter, who lives with her mother far away in the USA.
Kazakhs vs Aliens (2022)
Kazakhs vs Aliens (2022)
An alien visited Earth 20 years ago to leave a device for collecting information about the planet's resources. When he returns for the data, his ship crashes in Kazakhstan, where by chance the alien meets Sholpan. She helps him fix the ship, unaware that the alien's true mission is to take over the planet for resources.
Brother or Marriage 2 (2019)
Brother or Marriage 2 (2019)
Gaukhar is pregnant, and Aidar seems to have finally found a common language with his wife's brothers. But everything changes when the main character is faced with an unusual illness. Kuvad's syndrome - an imaginary pregnancy in men - can completely destroy Aidar's plans and even his marriage.
1286 (2023)
Brother or Marriage? (2017)
Brother or Marriage? (2017)
Gaukhar has five overprotective brothers who don't let her marry anyone so she deals with the toughest decision in her life: family (brothers) or marriage?
Dastur (2023)
Dastur (2023)
The father of the family, Nursultan Kopzhasarovich, respected in society, owns the entire farm in the village, so his only son Bolat grows up careless and spoiled, which more than once leads to problems and even criminal liability. At another drinking party, Bolat rapes a local school graduate. The father wanted to hush up the matter again, but the girl’s parents had already filed a statement with the police. The only way out of this situation is a wedding, but the life of the family turns into a real nightmare.