Best award winning movies with an epic story from Kazakhstan

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an epic story from Kazakhstan! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an epic story from Kazakhstan, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

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2007-09-20 | History / Adventure

Cast

Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei

Rating

rating icon 6.789
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  1. Ranked #63 for
    like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  2. Ranked #126 for
    violent
  3. Ranked #129 for
    historical significance

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2 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.

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2019-10-01 | History / War

Cast

Almira Tursyn, Erkebulan Dairov

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    historical
  2. Ranked #1 for
    overlord
  3. Ranked #1 for
    illusory

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3 Corn Island (2014)

The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.

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2014-09-17 | Drama / War

Cast

İlyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili

Rating

rating icon 7.276
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #534 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #669 for
    ramshackle house
  3. Ranked #2568 for
    low-key approach

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4 Tulpan (2009)

Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl for miles—his mysterious neighbor, Tulpan.

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2009-03-04 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Askhat Kuchencherekov, Samal Yeslyamova

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #119 for
    plangent sound
  2. Ranked #121 for
    pin-up girl
  3. Ranked #236 for
    unrequited love

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5 Nomad: The Warrior (2005)

The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.

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2005-07-17 | Action / History

Cast

Kuno Becker, Jay Hernandez

Rating

rating icon 5.114
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #564 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #1454 for
    Hollywood blockbuster
  3. Ranked #2037 for
    with Irish spirit

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6 The Fall of Otrar (1991)

A staggering historical epic about the intrigue and turmoil of the East Asian civilization of Otrar, before its systematic destruction at the hands of Genghis Khan.

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1991-12-01 | War / Drama

Cast

Dokhturbek Kydyraliev, Tungyshbay Gamankulov

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1363 for
    mythology extending
  2. Ranked #1568 for
    historical significance
  3. Ranked #2104 for
    bloated

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7 Student (2012)

Spurred by his own postmodern musings and the growing inequality, corruption, and kill-or-be-killed ethic of post-Soviet Kazakhstan, a solitary philosophy student steers his directionless life toward the commission of a violent crime, which leads to growing guilt.

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2012-05-17 | Drama

Cast

Nurlan Baitasov, Maya Serikbayeva

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3660 for
    broke the fourth wall
  2. Ranked #4165 for
    kind of suck
  3. Ranked #4495 for
    Survival Movie

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8 Hell Hath No Fury (2021)

Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for themselves.

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2021-11-05 | Action / War

Cast

Nina Bergman, Daniel Bernhardt

Rating

rating icon 6.484
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    straight to video
  2. Ranked #22 for
    most disappointing
  3. Ranked #35 for
    should be required to watch

Trailer

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9 Schizo (2004)

Fifteen year old Mustafa has a nickname Schizo. He is hired by his mother’s boyfriend to find fighters for illegal fistfights. His life is changed forever when a young man mortally beaten in one of the fights asks Schizo to deliver his prize money to his girlfriend and young son. Schizo takes the money to the woman as promised and falls in love with her. Now he knows for whom he has to make money, no matter what the cost. In fistfights there are no rules… until blood is spilled!

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2004-01-01 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Oldzhas Nusupbayev, Olga Landina

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #999 for
    ramshackle house
  2. Ranked #1345 for
    hard-nosed
  3. Ranked #1676 for
    foster father

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10 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.

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2012-05-03 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Asylkhan Tolepov, Kuralay Anarbekova

Rating

rating icon 7.238
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1732 for
    stopgap
  2. Ranked #2946 for
    mythology extending
  3. Ranked #3795 for
    canonical

Trailer

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