42 Greatest ex-Yugoslavian movies of all time
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- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsFranjo MajeticMirjana BohanecRelja BasicThe story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, but wants to marry off the aunt. After a couple of invitations to their Zagreb home, the father becomes aware of Fulir's passes at his wife...
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilos SamolovHristina PopovicA homophobic Serbian gangster is forced to make a deal with wedding planner gay activist, to assemble a team which will protect the upcoming Pride Parade in Belgrade, and in exchange his fiancée can get her dream wedding.
- DirectorDragan BjelogrlicStarsMilos BikovicPetar StrugarNina JankovicA story about the Serbian football team that decided to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the first football World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsBogdan DiklicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicPavle VuisicThe Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
- DirectorLjubisa SamardzicStarsNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicIvan JevtovicBelgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicTensions arise in a Gypsy community when a local feather seller falls in love with a much younger girl.
- DirectorSlobodan SkerlicStarsLazar RistovskiNikola DjurickoNebojsa GlogovacOvercome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true indentity and become part of the estabishment.The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge,deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony. Finally, the police arrive ...
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsAleksandar BercekVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicBogdan DiklicRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicBozidar 'Bota' NikolicStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBora TodorovicMira BanjacConvinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsZrinka CvitesicLeon LucevErmin BravoFrom Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar finds a new job working with a community of Muslims. This affects his relationship with his girlfriend Luna as his beliefs begin to change.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsVuk KosticSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicPaulina ManovIgor Gordic was an Olympic Champion in shooting, but now he is a junkie without money and in debts to mafia. Sasa is his younger brother and he is getting ready for the next World Championship. Pressured by hard life in Serbia in the aftermath of the war and disheartened by apparent utter lack of justice and structure in the society, being at an everyday mercy of the mafia, Sasa decides to take justice in his own hands and puts his sharpshooting in practice on the streets of Belgrade, though the toll such action takes on one's psyche and conscience becomes apparent all too soon.
- DirectorLjubisa SamardzicStarsTijana KondicNikola DjurickoAnica DobraSeventeen year old Natasha, a daughter of a murdered police inspector, tries to discover her father's killers.
- DirectorStevan FilipovicStarsNikola RakocevicViktor SavicBojana NovakovicLife is sometimes rude game: one mistake can buy you ticket to hell.
- DirectorMilorad MilinkovicStarsNikola DjurickoSonja KolacaricTara ManicTwo brothers, Lemi and Kiza, having spent all their money, try to relocate their dead grandfather from Belgrade to Vrsac at the lowest cost, but he goes missing along the way.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicStarsBora TodorovicBranislav LecicNatasa NinkovicAfter the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.
- DirectorDarko BajicStarsDragan BjelogrlicSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicAleksandar BercekIn 1999 Belgrade, producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation: The film they're making is under threat; there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied, and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then Mileta, a member of the State Security Service, comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him: arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film, in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works--the State supports the film, and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists and not being patriots. Sergei begins to realize that he has endangered not only the film but the lives of the whole crew. A tragic death provokes a real revolt amongst the crew and some refuse to keep filming. Embittered by their 'unpatriotic' stance, Mileta arrests the protagonists and forces them to continue. Sergei, whose wife and child have now left, and who is accused of collaborating with Mileta by the rest of the crew, thinks up another plan.
- DirectorSnjezana TribusonStarsFilip CuricLuka DragicMirjana RoginaThe adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will left eternal marks on all of their members, but the most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy Frula who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsVojin CetkovicKatarina RadivojevicDragan NikolicThe plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova (Katarina Radivojevic), a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane (Vojin Cetkovic), an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying the son of other rich people, Manulac. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.
- DirectorStipe DelicStarsRichard BurtonLjuba TadicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicIn 1943, 20,000 Yugoslav partisans led by Tito find themselves encircled by 120,000 well-armed Axis troops in the mountains of Bosnia and must break out of encirclement.
- DirectorDarko BajicStarsDragan BjelogrlicAnica DobraSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicIn a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsNikola KojoDragan Petrovic-PeleBogdan DiklicA man awakens from a two-month-long coma with total amnesia and sets out to discover the truth about his identity.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa NinkovicAnica DobraA couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLjubisa SamardzicJakup AmzicNeda ArnericThe Guardian Angel in this harrowing film is the one who doesn't protect gypsy children from being sold into virtual slavery with gangs of organized beggars, pickpockets, and thieves all over Europe. Once "on the job", these young children are treated viciously, and even the mildest disobedience is met with extremely sadistic tortures. However, in this film, even when someone from outside takes an interest in an individual child and tries to help him escape this situation, there is little he can do, because even when the boy is returned to his home village, he is persuaded to sell himself again so his family can eat.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsTom ContiPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMaría CasaresThis tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
- DirectorMiroslav LekicStarsDragan NikolicMaja SabljicBranislav LecicAn aging gambler and womanizer returns home after 20 years, haunted by the suicide of his friend.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsMarko NikolicZarko RadicLjubisa SamardzicThe movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers.
- DirectorPetar PasicStarsNikola PejakovicSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicUros DjuricAngel and the Devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade rocker, that he can't survive in the body of an old punker.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsMija AleksicPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicNikola ZarkovicA boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsZoran CvijanovicDragan BjelogrlicMilorad Mandic-MandaThe story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMirka VasiljevicUros DjuricIn this sequel of "We Are Not Angels", a highly successful Yugoslavian comedy, a former playboy must cope with his daughter's adolescence, as well as numerous boys that keep knocking at her doors. A worried father thinks she may get in type of troubles he used to cause when he was just the age of her wooers.
- DirectorVladimir BlazevskiStarsBojana MaljevicBranislav LecicMiralem ZupcevicA love story between a teenager girl and a small time mob set in Belgrade during the times of great political turmoil.
- DirectorSrdjan KoljevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicAleksandra BalmazovicDragan BjelogrlicAt the dawn of a civil war in Yugoslavia, a chance encounter brings together a color blind truck driver and a free-spirited city girl. Their road trip proves to be fateful.
- DirectorRatiborka CeramilacStarsMaja MandzukaLazar JokicNikola DjurickoA female teenager from a good family enters the world of drug use via her boyfriend-pusher.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica AdzovicIn this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
- DirectorGoran KulenovicStarsIvan HercegIvan DjuricicIvan GlowatzkyThe main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsOlga PakalovicNina ViolicKresimir MikicA lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Initially kind but unaware of their secret, a landlady tries to introduce one of them to his son, but after spying on them through the keyhole, the Pandora's box of hatred and violence has been opened.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJosip KuchanMarko MatanovicIvo GregurevicWistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.