Smile at Last

Smile at Last 1985

5.77

16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.

1985

Tangerines

Tangerines 2013

7.67

War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

2013

A Wish Upon A Satellite

A Wish Upon A Satellite 2021

1

A short film about a little boy Otto, whose parents had promised him a dog for his tenth birthday - before they suddenly passed away. When Otto sees a falling star the evening before his birthday, he wishes upon it one more time, but realises then that the bright object is falling into the forest behind his grandma's house. When the hatch of the rocket opens, a little dog exits with the name Laika engraved on his collar. But knowing that his grandma is wary of dogs, the worried child stays in the forest with the dog.

2021

Tango of Mustamägi

Tango of Mustamägi 2022

1

It is the middle of the 1980s in Soviet Estonia and many people dream of a new apartment with all the comforts in the Mustamäe apartment building. Bartender Illar is no exception. However, fulfilling the dream is not at all easy, bringing with it various machinations involving an emotional lover, a helpful militia and, of course, Illari's great-moustached companion Ats.

2022

At Your Service

At Your Service 2027

1

A young mother and a police officer who finds herself in a predicament when deciding who to save - her family, her career, or herself.

2027

The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter 2011

5.00

A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother Maria is a drunk. Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor Sipra. This week will change everybody's life in unexpected ways...

2011

Aurora

Aurora 2025

5.30

Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, enters into a secret affair that changes her life. She tries to please everyone but when it's time for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration, an uninvited guest arrives.

2025

Somnambulance

Somnambulance 2003

5.30

Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.

2003

Time Capsule

Time Capsule 2020

1

Emeri comes across a map from her childhood - a map that marks the location of a time capsule buried 19 years earlier - and memories come rushing back.

2020

The Dissidents

The Dissidents 2017

5.70

In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.

2017

Ruudi

Ruudi 2006

6.10

A family comedy about a 7-year-old boy, who's a devoted viking fan.

2006

Baskin

Baskin 2012

1

Portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audience (esp women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by ones and cursed by others, has been imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Eino Baskin has established two theatres from the scratch. After a second haemorrhage he was in coma for 47 days but returned. Rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin´s life.

2012

Black Ceiling

Black Ceiling 2007

1

Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute cartoon. Leading actors of the Estonian theater and cinema, as well as the authors of the poems themselves, took part in the dubbing.

2007

Requiem

Requiem 1984

1

When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane come to ask for help at a farm where organ builder Jaan lives with his kids.

1984

The Last Romeo

The Last Romeo 2013

8.00

Romantic country boy Lembo lives in a far away village, where men are drunkards and women are dreaming about the bright city life. Lembo has fallen in love with the village beauty Liisu and decides to propose to her. The story takes an unexpected turn when Liisu's father and the vodka loving dog step in. During one night lives and dreams will change and nothing will be like it used to be before.

2013

Awakening

Awakening 1990

4.50

It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.

1990

The Crossroad Of Rock

The Crossroad Of Rock 1988

1

Documentary film written by music critic Artemiy Troitskiy. It depicts the variety of Soviet and Baltic rock music and offers its viewer an idea that all this forbidden music is not really dangerous for society. Featuring music bands: "Круиз" (Tambov), "In Spe" (Estonia), "Новый мир" (Estonian hard-rock), "Великие Луки" (punk-rock from Tallinn). Moscow music scene represented by: "Тупые", "Нюанс", "Звуки Му". Leningrad music scene: "Джунгли", "Алиса". Also appearing: "Воплі Відоплясова" from Kiev and "Антис" from Lithuania. Not credited: Roman Neumoev with "Инструкция по выживанию" and Oleg Sudakov with "Гражданская оборона".

1988

Buratino, Son of Pinocchio

Buratino, Son of Pinocchio 2009

4.80

Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.

2009

An Affair of Honor

An Affair of Honor 1999

1

Hendrik is a responsible public servant who is deeply in love with his beautiful wife Evelin. Evelin, however, finds their protected life boring; she wants Hendrik to do something more exciting. When he returns from his business trip, Hendrik will find his schoolmate Berg in their balcony and will furiously throw his gloves to Berg's face. Soon it will turn out that this has been the challenge accepted.

1999

True

True 2018

1

In True, five strangers meet in a doctor’s office. In a changing world, even an innocent joke is enough to trigger an avalanche.

2018

Baltic Robinson

Baltic Robinson 1970

1

Baltic Robinson was a popular television show that aired in the Baltic region of Europe from 2000 to 2004 and was the first pan regional edition of Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. During its five-year run, the show was hosted by Emil Rutiku for Estonian, Vytautas Kernagis for Lithuanian and Pauls Timrots for Latvian audience. Due to the show's success, at least one contestant, Kristine Koļadina, was given her own spin-off show which aired and was popular with viewers in her home country of Latvia. The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.

1970

Villa

Villa 2022

1

Villa is the freshest and hottest Estonian reality show that takes 11 people to an exclusive villa in Turkey. It is also a game of wisdom, risk, and luck. They have to put everything on the line because the winner will take home a whopping 30 000€! Who is going to fall in love? Can they handle the pressure? Who is going to be the smartest? Who is going to be the luckiest? Who is going to take home the prize?

2022

Bellingshauseniga Arktikas

Bellingshauseniga Arktikas 2022

1

The sailing ship Admiral Bellingshausen is on its way towards the Arctic to bring the Estonian flag as close to the North Pole as possible.

2022

Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady

Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady 2014

1

In a quiet resort town Haapsalu four kids are spending their summer holidays together. Suddenly they are dragged into events that started in the 15th century in the local bishop's stronghold. The children must solve a difficult mystery of a clock robbery and they have to find a treasure that has been lost for centuries and contains a formula of making gold.

2014

Impulse

Impulse 2023

1

Debate show about current events and controversial topics.

2023

Eesti otsib superstaari

Eesti otsib superstaari 1970

1

Eesti otsib superstaari is an Estonian reality-competition gameshow airing on TV3. It debuted on 11 March 2007 and it has since become one of the most popular shows in Estonia. Part of the Idol franchise, it originated from the reality program Pop Idol created by the British entertainment executive Simon Fuller, first aired in 2001 in the United Kingdom. The program seeks to discover the best singer in Estonia through a series of nationwide auditions. The outcomes of the later stages of the competition are determined by the viewers. Through telephone and SMS text voting, viewers have chosen as winners Birgit Õigemeel, Jana Kask, Ott Lepland and Liis Lemsalu. The format features a panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances. The judges are former recording artist, music critic and journalist Mihkel Raud, singer Maarja-Liis Ilus and singer, actor and conductor Mart Sander. Composer and pianist Rein Rannap and Radio DJ, journalist and TV producer Heidy Purga belonged to the judging panel of the first season. Current judges

1970

The Camp

The Camp 2021

1

When you lose purpose in life, the future seems bleak and you're having a tought time finding reasons to carry on, then its time to turn a new page. "The Camp" is a magical place, where the best life coaches in Estonia will help you find yourself and get back on track

2021

Crazy Radio

Crazy Radio 1970

1

Kreisiraadio was an Estonian comedy act, made up of Hannes Võrno, Peeter Oja and Tarmo Leinatamm. They have been around since 1993 with radio and TV sketch shows. Their sketches have introduced the hazardous sport of stoneball, the character of the arrogant man with a flat hat and that of Alev Ström, the Estonian immigrant in Sweden talking nonsense Swedish much in the same way that their Eurovision Song Contest 2008 submission "Leto svet" (Summer Light) uses nonsense Serbian (along with Finnish and German).

1970

MasterChef Estonia

MasterChef Estonia 2022

1

Three iron judges are going to find out who is the best amateur chef in Estonia: Orm Oja, the chef of Estonia's top restaurants, Õie Pritson, the legend of the bakers, and Mihkel Heinmets, the master of heavenly dinners and flavors.

2022

Ott Tänak - The Movie Series

Ott Tänak - The Movie Series 2020

10.00

What is Ott Tänaku's life in the WRC carousel? In 2018, Tänak joined the Toyota rally team and the team that made him a film traveled all over the world on the man's heels. During the season, 13 countries were filmed and a huge amount of exclusive material that no one has seen and is coming to the public for the first time. The series opens the everyday life of the World Cup carousel and top rally drivers behind the tents.

2020

Across the Atlantic

Across the Atlantic 2025

1

The huge, scary Atlantic calls to the crazy few who dare sail it. An unforgettable, life-shaking adventure awaits.

2025

THE BEST PARTNER

THE BEST PARTNER 2021

1

The TV show "The Best Partner" is a social experiment like no other in Estonia. Nine young people come together for a common goal. They all want to make friends, find love, and they all want to be have better social skills. This is a step into the unknown - a very concentrated quick course, where there is no room for distraction from the social media and the focus is only on direct communication. During the show, all modern means of communication and the outside world will be abandoned and people have to cope in old house from the eighties equipped only by soviet standards. This is like a small time travel to Soviet era. No luxuries, no way out. The two-month adventure is all about themselves, new friendships and unexpected challenges. How do young people cope with isolation and limitations? Who gets into conflicts, who finds friends or love instead?

2021

Bellingshauseniga Arktikas: Loodeväil

Bellingshauseniga Arktikas: Loodeväil 2024

1

The sailing ship Admiral Bellingshausen sets off from Sillamäe Harbour towards the Arctic to take the Estonian flag as close to the North Pole as possible. On the one hand, the team is faced with anticipation for the exotic polar regions; on the other hand, they are fearful since they are embarking on this adventure in the conditions of the pandemic. Expedition leader and host Tiit Pruuli; director and operator Christian Johannes Kask.

2024

Love

Love 2017

1

Love is a Telugu romantic show on Maa Gold. It is the story of love and friendship between eight intern doctors

2017