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- Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
- A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
- The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.
- A sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.
- Don Juan's sister pretends to be her famous brother. Once in Tallinn, the "legendary Spaniard" experiences increased attention from local ladies.
- A brother and sister called Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while picking strawberries and are captured by an evil forest hag, who uses the two kids as slave labor - Kusti is put to work around the farm, while Iti looks after the hag's mischievous son, whom she names Bumpy due to the horn-like bumps on his head. When a chance to escape arises, the two kids take Bumpy with them. But how will a wild forest rascal like Bumpy adjust to life with Iti and Kusti's family?
- A woman in a factory must heat up the company's sauna, because the bosses want to entertain foreign visitors. The sauna is situated in her ex-husbands village, where her old aunt still lives. In addition to having to face her bosses and guests, she also faces the biggest challenge of her life.
- The story is about an Estonian Don Juan, who actually is a writer, who leaves home in spring and is brought home again in autumn, by his wife.
- Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a weird stranger is saved from the sea who will be the only friend of Arabella. At the same time a rival pirate called Raudpats plans to kidnap the girl. Will she be safe and can she ever live a normal life ?
- The story is about a boy who in his dreams accomplished various feats, but in reality was a lazy person.
- This soviet stereoscopic puppet animation short is a propaganda film condemning imperialist aggression against the freedom-loving peoples of the world.
- A Gestapo officer must find an enemy agent from the asylum.
- A young woman living in a 19th century farming village is accused of being a werewolf.
- Five people who have recently reached their middle-ages are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. But isn't it just weariness of life that bothers the people whose life has gone into a deep routine ? The somber-funny road movie gives a good review of life, people and daily problems in Estonia in the end of the Soviet period.
- A speechless stranger comes to a poor family tearing by partisan's and government's interests.
- An Estonian folk tale about Tõll, the giant hero who lived on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa.
- The animated cartoon tells about adventures three naksitrall look like gnomes.
- A cat is under stress as soon as he wakes up.
- A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his anoying tricks.
- The year is 1921. Lenin and the Bolsheviks have just defeated the White Army and ended the Russian Civil War. However, the valuable diamonds that belonged to the ousted royal family are beginning to disappear. The Cheka have discovered that they are being smuggled out of the country by White sympathizers, and are determined to catch the thieves. Part detective mystery, part spy thriller, and part action adventure, Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is one of the defining Estonian films from the Soviet era.
- The events take place in Estonia in a summer in the 1960s. The Boy and the Girl want to go from mainland Estonia to the island of Saaremaa, but they do not have any money to buy the ticket to the ferry. They manage to hide themselves into a lorry that carries hay. Because they are smoking while they are on the lorry, a fire breaks out. The problem is, that the ferry in the middle of the sea.
- Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
- It has to be said that it's one of the Soviet propaganda movies. But it's not the worst one. Eduard is a high-level violin-player. He is also a convinced communist. He loves his homeland Estonia but unfortunately after the WW-1 bloody burghers rule the country. As Eduard dares to fight for equality and freedom, he will be persecuted by authorities.
- The animated cartoon tells about adventures three naksitrall look like gnomes.
- Characters familiar from "Kevade" are now in their 20s. In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too.
- Writer Veera Saar' s book Ukuaru based movie. Estonian womans drams in their life.
- A man bought a new vacuum cleaner that too zealously began to suck in garbage, and did not want to become disconnected.
- Regina is a wife of a alcoholic. Can she carry on or should she divorce and find herself a new man ?
- After WW-2 the Estonian forests are full of armed groups - the forest-brothers who carry on the fight against communism. Soviet secret police sends spies among them. The spies are sent under top secrecy, so no-one actually knows who is who. This is a game of cat and mouse, waiting a weaker to make a mistake. For remark, this is a Soviet spy film with adequate moral.
- This is a fairy-tale. An old king punishes his young mardy daughter by sending her to a wide world to learn kindness. Alone with her imprudence only she enters the adventures and miracles that will change her totally, help her to find love and become a queen. Chätrin Bagala in leading role is charming !
- A mother released from prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.
- A true but strongly subjective story about the leading communist Viktor Kingissepp and his hopeless fight in the 1920-s Estonian Respublic. Later, during the Soviet regime Kingissepp was made a hero and martyr.
- The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell".
- The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not the peaceful holiday. The manor house has been pillaged during the peasant's revolt. The air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment. Bernhard Laipmann is a tenant farmer whose wife is asking him to leave home since her husband keeps drawing the attention of the authorities. Having doubts about leaving, Laipmann is inspired by endeavoring towards freedom and equality and alarmed by the violence of the revolution. He has not taken part in pillaging the manor house, so he should be found guilty. Nevertheless, Laipmann is captured after being falsely accused and he is ready for the worst. One more time he has to make a choice and now he is not having any doubts. Based on real events, "Christmas in Vigala" is the story of the evolution of consciousness and small revolutionary upheavals.
- A Scientist-physicist created a living atom that here ran on will. Without control he brings many destructions, though follows kind intentions. But a scientist eventually compels him to work on a benefit to the people.
- A passenger on a train is left behind in a small town called Vernanda, where the townsfolk's eccentricity reaches Lynchian proportions.
- The events took place in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Jõnn is a self-made captain ("metskapten") who has just got himself a new sailing ship, "Fortuuna". When the ship is sailing in the middle of the ocean, the wind suddenly stops blowing and the vessel is stuck in the middle of still and salty water with hungry and thirsty crew on board.
- The story of the war film is about paths of the Estonian Shooting Corps (formed by the Red Army) during the WW-2 and how the fight forms an usual man to a loyal soldier. Ideologic aspects of the movie are more hidden than in ordinary Soviet war films but they're still existing.
- A woman puts an advertisement in the newspaper and receives an answer from someone called Hans-Erik. They begin to correspond and even set up a date for marriage. The woman waits for Hans-Erik to arrive.
- Poetic view on the play and fantasy worlds of little Kati.