Maria Bakalova
Also Known As: Μαρία Βάλτσεβα Μπακάλοβα, 마리아 바카로바, 瑪莉亞·巴卡洛娃, มาเรีย บาคาโลวา, ماریا باکالوا
Biography: Maria Valcheva Bakalova (born 4 June 1996) is a Bulgarian actress. She is best known for her role as Tutar Sagdiyev in the 2020 mockumentary Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. For her performance in the film, she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Born and raised in Burgas, Bakalova began her career in Bulgarian cinema by starring in film productions while attending the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She appeared in films such as Transgression (2017), The Father (2019), Last Call (2020) and Women Do Cry (2021). Since her international breakthrough in 2020, she has been a part of several American productions including Judd Apatow's The Bubble (2022) and the A24 horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Burgas, Bulgaria
Birthday: June 04, 1996
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Gender: Female
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The Honeymoon
Overview: Englishman Adam and his American bride Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. But when the newlyweds’ trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s excessively needy best friend, Ed, it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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Floodplain
Overview: A man who must return to his hometown to help prevent catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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Untitled Spy Comedy
Overview: A failed double agent becomes an unlikely success.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
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Birdseye
Overview: An impoverished young Russian woman is drawn into Putin's crusade to re-fight the Cold War and thrives as a high-level "swallow" spy in Washington, until her childhood love, now a merciless assassin, is sent by Mother Russia to kill her.
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Original Language: en
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I Don't Like You
Overview: Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and goes to jail. There he meets The Boss - Koko. The friendship between them changes both their destinies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2022-03-16
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Branded
Overview: Tells the origin story of organized crime gangs in America’s prison system.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Overview: Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-03
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My Masterpiece
Overview: It follows a hitwoman hellbent on dismantling an unfair system within her industry, but she gets stuck on the second floor of an office building after she takes vengeance on a corporate overlord. That means she has to fight her way through fellow murderers and her past to ensure justice prevails. If all goes well, this might just be her masterpiece.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
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God's Country
Overview: A young woman travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé. What she uncovers is something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into a nightmare of biblical proportions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Unfrosted
Overview: In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-30
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Fairyland
Overview: A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad, activist and author Steve Abbott.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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The Apprentice
Overview: A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-09
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Triumph
Overview: A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarked on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2024-09-08
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Electra
Overview: A journalist travels to Rome to interview a famous musician, only for his trip to end in deceit, betrayal, and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Overview: On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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Dirty Angels
Overview: During the United States' 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of female soldiers posing as medical relief are sent back in to rescue a group of kidnapped teenagers caught between ISIS and the Taliban.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Overview: Join visionary director James Gunn and superstars such as Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldaña as they recount how “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” was conceived, shaped, and delivered to the world. And stand alongside the cast and crew in the emotional final moments of the shoot as they bid farewell to each other, and close this chapter in the saga of Peter Quill and his loveable band of misfit-warriors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-12
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Juego de sombras
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Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-03-19
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O Horizon
Overview: Abby, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abby meets a programmer, Sam, who has created a technology that reconnects Abby with her beloved father. Her relationship with her digitized dad then forces her to re-examine everything from her romantic relationships to her life’s work.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-08
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Mayday
Overview: Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in Russian wilderness while evading capture or rescue.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
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Transgression
Overview: TV talk show hosts bait young Yana into confessing her unusual relationship with an aging rocker. This leads to a chase by a vigilante group of hunters and other complications.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2018-08-28
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Last Call
Overview: A girl must be saved from comitting suicide through the power of love. And all that cannot happen without a series of comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2020-08-22
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Angels
Overview: Two men named Angel and one woman Angela meet high in the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Overview: 14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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XIIa
Overview: The movie XIIa is the sequel of the super successful XIa. In XIIa the journey continues. After two years break, Lina is back to school to teach a new class - a new class, new problems. At home, the situation is also not better. Lina is separated with her cheating husband and her dominating mother is constantly bullying her, Lina's son is maltreated by classmates - at times the tension reaches extreme limits and Lina is about to collapse. Fortunately, she finds support in the sports teacher, a former boxer. The school director is also on her side, so are some of the students. Though the problems with the new class, especially with the beautiful and difficult Megan and between Lina and one of her colleague teachers deepen more and more. The prom is getting closer, the situation is about to escalate
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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The Father
Overview: Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Ivanka. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cellphone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to try to contact his wife. His son Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way… Following the internationally successful The Lesson and Glory, Grozeva and Valchanov return with an intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us. As the picture slowly gathers momentum, its story unfolds many of the carefully arranged absurd or comic situations typical for the Bulgarian filmmaking duo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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The Bubble
Overview: Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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Bodies Bodies Bodies
Overview: In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-05
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Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed “Sub-Acceptable” by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision
Overview: Never before seen footage from the award-winning movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-25
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Women Do Cry
Overview: A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman applies make-up to two kittens. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar. These events are commonplace for this seemingly normal family, revealing the fine line they live between fragility and absurdity. In the meantime, their country Bulgaria is shaken up by anti-gender and anti-equality protests with an undercurrent of violence. These women are united by a shared trauma, but now they are ready to confront their father’s troubling past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2022-03-09
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Showdown in Manila
Overview: The film unfolds in Manila, Philippines, and in the jungles of the island of Boracay on a tropical island in the privacy of living Russian middle-aged man (Alexander Newsky). But the quiet life interrupted by the murder of one of the locals. In order to protect the daughter of the slain Filipino bandits Russian guy have to remember the past, he tried to bury.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-18
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All Night Wrong
Overview: Gary and Ell (a married man with an inferiority complex, and a grieving young widow) meet on a blind date only to wind up stealing a killer's car along with a dead body and $40,000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Bad Guys 2
Overview: The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
Genres: Animation Family Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-30
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