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A list of films produced in Lithuania. For an A-Z list see Category:Lithuanian films
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A list of films produced in Lithuania. For an A-Z list see Category:Lithuanian films
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | ||||||
| Над Неманом/On the River Neman | Vladislav Starevich | |||||
| Жизнь стрекоз/The Life of the Dragonfly | Vladislav Starevich | |||||
| Жуки-скарабеи | Vladislav Starevich | |||||
| 1910 | ||||||
| Lucanus Cervus | Vladislav Starevich | |||||
| Прекрасная Люканида/The Beautiful Lukanida | Vladislav Starevich | |||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | ||||||
| Rūpestingas tėvas | Commercial | |||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| Kareivis – Lietuvos gynėjas | Jurgis Linartas | |||||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Jonukas ir Onutė | Jurgis Linartas, Vladas Sipaitis | Vanda Lietuvaitytė, Vladas Sipaitis, Potencija Pinkauskaitė, Antanas Mackevičius, Stasys Petraitis | Comedy | |||
| 1938 | ||||||
| Storulio sapnas | Stasys Ušinskas | The first Lithuanian sound film | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | ||||||
| Walden | Jonas Mekas | Avant-garde | ||||
| 1972 | ||||||
| Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Jonas Mekas | Avant-garde | ||||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Lost, Lost, Lost | Jonas Mekas | Avant-garde | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||||||
| 1991 | ||||||
| 1992 | ||||||
| Atostogos | ||||||
| Zefiro Torna | Jonas Mekas | Avant-garde | ||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| Avtobus | ||||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| Anna | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| Behind the Threshold | ||||||
| Few of Us | Šarūnas Bartas | Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| The House | Šarūnas Bartas | Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| Elzė iš Gilijos (Elze's Life) | Algimantas Puipa | |||||
| Skrydis per Lietuvą arba 510 sekundžių tylos | Arūnas Matelis, Audrius Stonys | Documentary | On July 1, 2003 the film was declared first Lithuanian film to reach platinum status (more than 10000 DVD and VHS copies sold) in Lithuania | |||
| 2001 | ||||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Utterly Alone (Vienui vieni) | Jonas Vaitkus | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Buss | With Latvia and Estonia | |||||
| Baltos dėmės mėlyname | ||||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| Before Flying Back to the Earth | Arūnas Matelis | Documentary | Best Lithuanian Film 2005 | |||
| Forest of the Gods (Dievų miškas) | Algimantas Puipa | |||||
| Vilniaus getas | Audrius Juzėnas | |||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Aš esi tu/You am I | Kristijonas Vildžiūnas | Screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| Diringas | Ignas Miškinis | |||||
| Zero | Emilis Vėlyvis | |||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| Nuodėmės užkalbėjimas/Witch and Rain | Algimantas Puipa | Rasa Samuolytė, Nelė Savičenko, Kostas Smoriginas, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Remigijus Sabulis, Romualdas Ramanauskas | Awards: Grand Prix and the Best Production Awards at 2007 Kinoshock film festival, Anapa, Russia | |||
| Varnų ežeras/The Lake of Crows | Inesa Kurklietytė | Awards: Olympia Film Festival Award for Best Directing; LUCAS 2007 Festival (Germany), The F.I.C.C. Laudable Mention | ||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Nereikalingi žmonės/ Loss | Maris Martinsons | Valda Bičkutė, Kostas Smoriginas, Andrius Mamontovas, Daiva Tamošiūnaitė-Budrė | Awards: Golden Goblet awards for Best Director and Best Music at 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival | |||
| Ispanų kalba suaugusiems/Spanish for adults | Tomas Tamosaitis | Documentary | Awards: Grand Prix at the 10th International Film Festival 'Crossroads of Europe' in Lublin (Poland), First Prize at the Documentary Film Festival 'Tranzyt 2009' in Poznan (Poland) | |||
| Balkonas/The Balcony | Giedrė Beinoriūtė | Rolandas Kazlas, Elzbieta Degutytė, Karolis Savickis, Saulė Rašimaitė, Dovilė Tarvydaitė, Viktorija Kuodytė, Irmantas Bačelis | ||||
| Perpetuum mobile | Valdas Navasaitis | Dainius Gavenonis, Julija Goyd, Jonas Vaitkus, Ramūnas Cicėnas, Viktorija Kuodytė | ||||
| 5 dienų avantiūra/5 Day scam | Žeraldas Povilaitis | Arvydas Dapšys, Judita Urnikytė, Dominykas Vaitekūnas, Donatas Šimukauskas, Kristina Žaldokaitė | ||||
| Kai aš buvau partizanas/When I Was a Partisan | Vytautas V. Landsbergis | Algimantas Masiulis, Gediminas Storpirštis, Marius Jampolskis, Birutė Mar, Rūta Staliliūnaitė | Best Story Award at Blue November MicroFilmFest 2008, Seattle, United States | |||
| Kolekcionierė/The Collectress | Kristina Buožytė | Gabija Ryškuvienė, Marius Jampolskis | ||||
| Pilotas/The Pilot | Saulius Vosylius | Darius Petkevičius, Antanas Šurna, Albinas Keleris, Lina Budzeikaitė, Vytautas Tomkus | ||||
| Vabzdžių dresuotojas/The Bug Trainer | Rasa Miškinytė | Gediminas Girdvainis | Documentary | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Artimos sviesos | Ignas Miskinis | Road Movie | ||||
| Šokis dykumoje | Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė | Documentary | ||||
| Išpažintis | Oksana Buraja | Short | ||||
| Duburys | Gytis Lukšas | Giedrius Kiela, Oksana Borbat, Yevgeniya Varenitsa, Jevgenijus Jefremovas, Darius Meskauskas, Diana Aneviciute, Jurate Onaityte, Arvydas Lebeliunas etc. | Drama | Nominated at Cairo International Film Festival and Nika Awards. Represented Lithuania at Academy Awards 2009 | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| Back to Your Arms | Kristijonas Vildžiūnas | Drama | ||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Ramin | Audrius Stonys | Documentary | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Conversations on Serious Topics | Giedrė Beinoriūtė | |||||
| Vanishing Waves | Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper | |||||
| 2014 | ||||||
| Redirected | Emilis Vėlyvis | Vinnie Jones, Scot Williams, Gil Darnell, Oliver Jackson, Anthony Strachan | Crime, action, comedy | |||
| 2015 | ||||||
| The Summer of Sangailė | Alantė Kavaitė | |||||
| Peace to Us in Our Dreams | Šarūnas Bartas | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Seneca's Day | Kristijonas Vildziunas | |||||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Wonderful Losers: A Different World | Arūnas Matelis | |||||
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