Balkan movies I've seen
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- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- 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.
- 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 DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- 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.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsBoris BuzancicBozidarka FrajtMarko TodorovicUzice Republic, also known as the "first offensive" is a story about Serbia in 1941 and monitors the emergence and decline of the Uzice Republic. A few months after the German Wehrmacht forced the Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate in April War, Boro, a Spanish soldier and hardened Communist, is tasked to organize an uprising in western Serbia. Organized resistance is turning into a massive uprising against the occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase the Germans from a huge territory, later known as the Uzice Republic. People gather around the partisans and were soon freed from Bajina Basta, Pozega, Uzice, and Cacak. Supreme headquarters of the partisan army comes to the liberated territory. However, forces loyal to the king have some other ideas. Uzice Republic lasted only 67 days, from 24 September to 29 November 1941, when a bloody and tragic battle on Kadinjaca occurred and the entire labor battalion, fell into the hands of the Wehrmacht and the Chetniks, so the partisans, supreme headquarters, and the people had to retreat to the Sandzak.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsBoris DvornikIvica VidovicCharles MillotA party commissioner Ivica is sent to the lowland village in purpose of monitoring the partisan batch, made up of locals. Regardless of disagreements with their leader Dikan, they befriend and plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an Ustasha officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsDrazen KuhnLinda BegonjaIlija IvezicStipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism.
- 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.
- DirectorRadivoje AndricStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicDubravka MijatovicGoran Radakovic1993 Serbia is a place torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his painter friend and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a phone-sex hotline and the two eventually fall in love. Another friend of his is a treasury guard in a bank governed by a shady lady known as "Serbian mother", notorious for cheating the thousands of creditors. The couple plans to rob the bank and run away to a remote sunny island with palms.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsJames FranciscusSteve RailsbackEdward AlbertThis WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
- DirectorDusan MilicStarsBranka KaticSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicDubravka MijatovicAn ex-soldier storms into a supermarket and takes all the cashiers hostage because one of them insulted his grandmother.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicRade MarkovicLjubisa SamardzicA man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDimitrije VojnovLazar RistovskiPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicA 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsBajram SeverdzanSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranka KaticMatko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
- 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.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsBert SotlarVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicMilena DravicThe struggle of the Yugoslav partisans against the Germans.
- DirectorMila TurajlicStarsStevan PetrovicVeljko DespotovicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicWhen history has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves? The collapsing sets of Tito's Hollywood of the East take us on a journey through the rise and fall of the illusion called Yugoslavia. Exploring the ruins of the forgotten film sets and talking to directors, producers, policemen and Tito's projectionist about the state run film studios and Tito's personal love for cinema and it's stars, 'Cinema Komunisto' uses film clips to go back to the film when 'His story' became the official history.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMirjana NikolicPetar BozovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicA young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.