Movies Similar to In the City of Ordzhonikidze

Architects of Denial(2017)

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the mainstream media and not on the radar of many average Americans, it is a subject that has gotten far more attention in recent years.

Melodies of the mountains(2006)

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

Salam Aleikum, Ingush people!(1993)

Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.

Live, song, live!(2022)

The film tells the story of ancient Ingush lullabies - Ingush women and men tell the lullabies of their families and the stories associated with them: love, friendship, blood feud.

Carriage(2016)

In the capital of Ingushetia, at the memorial, there is a carriage. This is a carriage from the 40s, a carriage of memory. One of those in which the Ingush were transported back in 1944 to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. February 23 is the day when the whole country celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day; mourning takes place in Ingushetia. And on this day, the old people gathered in this carriage to remember and tell each other how it was.

Caucasian Gates(1929)

Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century

The Udi people(1993)

The film is dedicated to the ethnogenesis of a small people, preserving their traditions and language, the Udi people

Labor rhythms of Checheno-Ingushetia(1972)

Documentary film about the labor activity of residents of Chechen-Ingush ASSR

Outliving Shakespeare(2025)

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakespeare. Yet loneliness lingers beyond the theater’s doors, until drama begins to blur with reality.

Traces: People of the Peacock(2016)

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

45 Days: The Fight for a Nation(2021)

A feature documentary presented and directed by former Royal Marines Commando Emile Ghessen. The documentary tells the story of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh. In the fall of 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a brutal bloody war. Azerbaijan won, decisively. The feature documentary 45 Days: The Fight for a Nation tells the story of this conflict, from the Armenian perspective, focusing on the human cost of war and its impact on the large Armenian diaspora.

Be well, Caucasian gray!(1958)

A documentary film about the expedition of Czechoslovak mountaineers led by Vladimír Procházka to Mount Elbrus in 1958.

axiom

An auteur-director who wishes to make a documentary about Armenia imagines a fictitious character that has the ability to travel through bodies. The latter will alternatively embody: a young farmer that dreams to flee from the countryside to more urban spheres, a prostitute who is a survivor of rape, a narcissistic client, a fallen artist and finally, a resisting deserter.

Transplant(2024)

2D animation sci-fi/drama about a world that has become a toxic place, and how one girl confronts it

Prémonition(2013)

Deep Rivers(2018)

The youngest son returns home to help his father and brothers meet the targets for a profitable order on cut wood. During his absence nothing has changed: the same back-breaking toil for the sake of a piece of bread, the same resistance from the neighbouring settlement, the same inability of the family members to express their love and understanding for their kin. And the river, which may rise at any time and wash away the parental home that stands on its banks.

Maia Tskneteli(1960)

A young girl named Maia disguises herself as a boy in order to fight against the enemies of her country.

The Summit(1976)

Georgian and foreign alpinists make an effort to ascend a high mountain. The weather is inclement making their effort extremely perilous. Every step on the snow-covered trail is precarious. Professionalism, firmness and compassion have far more value than the physical ability.

Lost in Karastan(2014)

Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an eccentric and corrupt dictator. When down and out Academy award winning British film director Emil Miller receives an invitation to the Embassy of the Autonomous Republic of Karastan, little does he know that he will be embarking on one of the wildest journeys of his already diverse and colourful career.

A Chef in Love(1996)

The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.