The best Juris Pļaviņš’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Juris Pļaviņš’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Juris Pļaviņš.
To Be Unwanted
6.7/10
Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.
Double Trap
6.2/10
A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.
In the Shadow of Death
7.4/10
A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises.
Boys from Liv Island
A group of young Latvian boys enroll to a pioneers movement during the first years after WWII.
In the Shadow of a Sword
Akmens un šķembas
7.4/10
During World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds.
Gifts over the Phone
6.2/10
A man has started an investigation. Suddenly he receives money from some unknown sponsor.
Fronte tēva pagalmā
Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds
6/10
A detective and a militia captain are working together investigating a murder. When their job is done, the feelings do not let them say goodbye.
When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window
6.5/10
The World War II has just ended. Attempt to turn "Forest Brothers" into a serious resistance movement fails.
Egle rudzu laukā
The Weather in August
6.4/10
A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too.
Nocturne of Chopin
A young pianist and a countryside girl fall in love in a village on a Baltic sea shore just days before the beginning of WWII.
